How to correct bitterness in blended homemade salsa?

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Anybody know what might work to correct the bitterness I got from Blendtec blending fresh tomatoes, onion, jalapeño, cilantro, and garlic salsa?

Are your ingredients fresh or cooked? Could you tell us how much of each you used? — Catija, Aug 07 '17 at 23:17
The Jalapeno seeds and membranes could be the culprit, depending on how many you used. — GdD, Aug 08 '17 at 07:46

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 08 '17 at 01:44

If the problem is just a little bitterness on the tongue, salt is usually the best foil. If you can find out where the bitterness came from by sampling other pieces of your raw ingredients, you can try upping the ratio of other ingredients to temper it.

Advice more specific than that would require a crystal ball, I'm afraid. If it's really quite noticeable, then you're probably better off making a new batch with new ingredients.

Good luck!

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 08 '17 at 19:01

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Maybe a bit of sweet. Experiment with sugar, honey or applesauce.

answered Aug 08 '17 at 19:01

Matt Vee

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This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, leave a comment below their post. - [From Review](/review/low-quality-posts/52666) – Divi Aug 08 '17 at 21:44
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@Divi The sated question is how to correct. How is this not an answer? – paparazzo Aug 08 '17 at 23:05
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@Paparazzi it's a guess. Answers need to *actually* answer the question. If the OP would like to rephrase their answer as a statement and support it with some personal experience, that would be an answer. As it is, it's a guess. – Catija Aug 09 '17 at 16:05
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@Catija Since Matt does not have the salsa in front of him to try so all he can do is guess. – paparazzo Aug 09 '17 at 16:09
@Paparazzi: As Catija commented, this seems more like a commentary, if it could be rephrased a bit with some possible solutions instead of leaving it to the OP to experiment , it could be a proper answer. – Divi Aug 09 '17 at 22:16

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 12 '19 at 18:22

Assuming that's all fresh raw ingredient, don't blend it, chunk it.
You have almost all the ingredients for a classic pico di gallo there - which isn't traditionally blended, it's left in small cubes/chunks.

If it tastes better, then you were probably over-blending seeds from either the tomatoes or chillies.
If it still tastes bitter, change your supplier.

I'd also squeeze half a lime into that mixture & a good hit of salt too, which will either just give some zing if you eat it now, or help soften the textures & mellow the flavours after a few hours.

Ratios for pico di gallo would be approx
4 tomatoes
1 onion
1 clove garlic
1-2 jalapeños
½ lime
cilantro [coriander] …'a small bunch' - kind of hard to weigh or otherwise accurately measure. I work by sight, add until the 'colours weigh the same' [red against green against white] not the actual quantities.
salt 'to taste' - no-one can gauge this for you, but I find people tend to under-salt things these days because they think it will kill them ;)

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 08 '17 at 21:06

My guess would probably be the garlic, if it's a fresh salsa. That's going to impart a certain amount of bitterness if everything is left raw.

A couple suggestions (I'm just spit-balling here) - maybe roast the garlic and add roasted garlic paste, instead of raw garlic (also, garlic carries botulism bacteria, which is why it is not recommended that people make homemade garlic-infused oils).

Another might be to leave out the garlic altogether. People rave about my fresh salsa, and it's just cilantro, lime juice, salt, jalapeno, sweet onion and tomato.

How to correct bitterness in blended homemade salsa?

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