This week’s Friday Foodie is Nicole C. who suggested this most delicious salsa from one of my favorite food websites:

Salsa ingredients

www.epicurious.com.   If you haven’t checked epicurious out, you can type in a main ingredient and come up with a list of recipes that incorporate your searched ingredient along with excellent reviews and ratings.  It is an un-abashedly flavor first, damn the calories website, so it is wise to be calorie wary when surfing their delicious recipes.

Simple and delicious, the original recipe adds more olive oil than we would without sacrificing flavor.  That said, we’ve tweaked the recipe with 1/2 the olive oil (subtract roughly 200 calories) and we strongly suspect that 1/4 the olive oil (1T) would be un-noticeable.  Here’s our take:

Avocado Salsa:

• 2 large tomatoes, seeded, diced
• 1/2 red onion, chopped
• 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
  

  Avocado Salsa

• 2 tablespoons olive oil (try 1 tablespoon, it’s probably plenty and you can always add more)
• 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
• 1 to 2 large jalapeño chilies, seeded but not deveined, minced
• 1 large avocado, diced

Mix well and serve!  Enjoy with friends to savor the fresh wonder of this simple recipe.  -XO