Help! Tomatillo salsa recipe, quick!

[womble]

I need your best tomatillo recipe in the next couple of hours please.
I haven't got any cilantro leaves which all the recipes I find on line use.
Its going to be to added to mexican wrap thingys and I'm off in a couple of hours to take it to my inlaws.

Do you eat it cold or hot (sorry never made a salsa before, or eaten it apart from with crisps)

Oh, I've got green tomatillos, fresh tomatoes and chillis to use.

[Rhona]

Just leave out the coriander if you don't have any. Maybe add another green herb though - sure parsley or basil wouldn't kill it, and the green would look nice. Maybe zest the lime a bit too?

This one looks nice: just pulse through the food processor, or chop by hand and leave for a bit in the 'fridge.

2 chile peppers, roasted, peeled, and chopped
1 pound fresh tomatillos, peeled, stems removed, about 10 to 12
2 fresh chiles, cut in half
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 medium clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 teaspoon lime juice
1/4 teaspoon salt

[womble]

I don't think I've planned this very well, I don't have any lime juice (although I do have a fresh lemon) and the only fesh herbs I have are chives and rosemary.

So you use it cold then?

[womble]

Oh and I have fresh basil as well. I need a talented cook, who can tell me what will go with what....... cos unfortunately all I have here is me and I'm not that much cop.

[Rhona]

Yep - use it cold. A lemon will be fine. Forget the recipe and just work with what you've got. Tomatillos, tomatoes, garlic, onion, lemon, basil, chilies. That's a salsa! Chop it up and chill - it will taste great on hot wraps. The contrast is what you're after. Try to pick up some sour cream on the way over to your in-laws too!

[Rhona]

p.s. add some olive oil too and go for a "fine dice" - not big bits but not too small.

[womble]

Thankyou so much, I've just done all that.

If I tell you that my eyes were streaming just smelling it, you can tell how hot it is and I just tasted a tiny bit that fell on my hand.......... my god, it is hot! I knew I put too many different chillis in

[Hilary B]

In general terms, if it contains tomatoes, basil will 'go'....

[Don Vincenzo]

Tomatillo

Hello everybody!!
I am having a good crop of tomatillo. Tried one raw and tastes horrible...is this normal?. Do I have to cook them in order to make them palatable? suggestion please!!
Regards
Don Vincenzo

[Two_Sheds]

Green tomatillos are unripe, yellow ones are ripe. I think you need to cook them & put them with other ingredients to make them palatable: Veg Box Recipes • Tomatillo Salsa Verde Receipe

spot the deliberate mistake in that recipe - ripe or unripe tomatilloes?

[Two_Sheds]

Oh man. Hundreds of tomatillo recipes here: Tomatillo Recipes from the Household Management Recipe Collection

[Don Vincenzo]

Hello TwoShed
Many thanks for your links, one thing which puzzles me is that my tomatillos are turning from green to purple and no yellow. Perhaps i will leave them alone and see what will happen.
regards
Don Vincenzo

[womble]

There are 2 types as far as I am aware, one goes green and one goes purple.

Thanks to Rhona btw, the salsa went down a treat, I did make it way too hot though and you couldn't really taste that much else in the salsa