Garden Pico De Gallo

Our garden is bursting with tomatoes and peppers: it's pretty cool. Today, I got a request from Troy to make Garden Pico De Gallo. I hope you enjoy it as much as he does.

I made a massive batch of it, since we were invited to an impromtu bbq this afternoon.

First gather together your ingredients:

tomatoes, peppers, chives or cilantro, corn, onion, salt, and pepper

I started by cutting up about 48 Roma tomatoes. Plan on about 2 Roma tomatoes (or one large tomato in another variety) per serving.

Slice a tomato in half.

Slice each half into three or four sections.

Turn the sections and slice into little pieces.

Repeat with remaining tomatoes.

This is how much 12 tomatoes looks like, diced.

Put the tomatoes into a large bowl.

Get your herbs. I ususally use cilantro, but my puppy ate our plant. Chives work great.

Put them in a bundle,

and chop. Add them to the bowl.

Now get your peppers. I used a variety of 4 little bell peppers, 2 Anaheim chili peppers, and 1 banana pepper.

Cut the top off the pepper.

Remove the seeds and membranes.
Slice into strips.

Rotate the strips, and dice the peppers. This is how much one bell pepper was after it was diced.

Add them to the bowl with the tomatoes.

Now get your onion. It really doesn't matter too much which variety you use. This is a yellow onion, so it'll have a bite to it. Other varieties that are a bit more mild are the purple onion, white onion, or the Walla Walla. Use whatever kind you like.

Chop off the top and the bottom.

Slice the skin and top layer.

Peel off the skin and top layer.
Slice your onion in half.
Make long slices like this,

then rotate and chop.Put your onion into the bowl.

Grab and ear of corn, and husk and rinse it.

Stand it up, and cut the kernals off.

Toss them into the bowl.

Get three garlic cloves. Peel and clean them.

Use your garlic press to add them into the bowl. If you don't have a garlic press, just dice them; then buy a garlic press. You'll love it.
Salt and pepper to taste.

Now, if you've made a massive batch, you may want to transfer the ingredients into a giant bowl. This will make it easier to stir the ingredients all together.

After stirring, put your Garden Pico De Gallo into your serving bowl.

Enjoy!

Note: Sometimes I like adding in extra things like fresh lime juice, finely chopped dried or fresh apricots, chopped dried cranberries or mango, and drained black beans. Once you get the main pico recipe down, have fun adding things to make it your own!