Roasted Tomatillo Salsa

Recently we were shooting for our TV show in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It was there, in the wonderful vegetable gardens of farmer André, that I suddenly spotted them: towering plants brimming with tomatillos. How nice! I’d never seen these exotic fruits on a plant before, and here they were, in the Netherlands, of all places. The tomatillo is a fruit that somewhat resembles the Cape gooseberry (they’re both called Physalis) and the green tomato. They originally come from Mexico and wer