Pico de Gallo

Fresh Tomato Salsa

Preparation info
  • Serves:

    8-10

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
To Life!: Healthy Jewish Food

By Judi Rose and Jackie Rose

Published 2020

  • About

Pico de gallo (pronounced peeko day guy-o) means “rooster’s beak” although no one’s sure how this refreshing salsa fresca, or fresh salsa, got its name. Relished throughout the American Southwest, and perfect with fajitas, pico de gallo is quite different from the supermarket salsa sold in jars, and more like a juicy version of chachumber, the Indian onion and tomato relish often served with poppadoms. Tomatoes help lower blood pressure and your risk of heart disease. Chillies flight inflam