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Make the best Homemade Salsa in only 5 minutes with this easy restaurant-style recipe that uses canned tomatoes, Rotel, fresh cilantro, and lime juice. This quick salsa recipe is perfect year-round, costs less than store-bought, and makes 6 cups. Bring it to a party or share with friends and neighbors.
The Only Salsa Recipe You'll Ever Need
The Only Salsa Recipe You'll Ever NeedI know this is a bold statement, but this is the BEST and EASIEST Homemade Salsa. I can whip up a huge batch in literally 5 minutes, using ingredients already in my pantry (and no waiting for high quality fresh tomatoes to be in season!). It tastes like authentic restaurant salsa and no one would guess how easy it is.
I love to give salsa as gifts to friends and neighbors and even made a free label for salsa (and a holiday label for salsa). I use these sticker labels and half pint mason jars or these cute containers.
Try my other salsa and dip recipes, like Mango Salsa, Street Corn Dip, Pico de Gallo, Spinach Artichoke Dip, Cheese Ball, Pepper Jelly, and Cowboy Caviar!
How to make Easy Homemade Salsa:
Combine Ingredients: Place all ingredients in a food processor and pulse a few times until no large chunks remain.
Taste & Refrigerate: Adjust seasonings if needed, to taste. Refrigerate for at least 1-2 hours before serving.
Serve with my favorite store-bought tortilla chips, or make your own! Make extra and gift to your neighbors and friends with these free cute printables, or these ones for Christmas! These plastic containers or jars work perfectly!
Use this Easy Salsa on:
- Taco Salad
- Baked Tacos
- Breakfast Casserole
- Chicken Taquitos
- Fajitas
- Huevos Rancheros
- Chicken Quesadillas
- Mexican Tamales
- Tostadas
- Homemade Taquitos
- Chicken and Rice Enchiladas
- Breakfast Quesadillas
- Egg and Sausage Breakfast Taquitos
Easy Homemade Salsa
Equipment
Ingredients
- 28 ounce can whole peeled tomatoes, , slightly drained
- 2 (10 oz) cans diced tomatoes with green chiles, , undrained
- 1/2 cup fresh cilantro
- 1/4 of an onion, roughly chopped
- 1 small lime, , juice from
- 1 clove garlic, , minced
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt, , or more, to taste
- pinch granulated sugar
Instructions
- Add all ingredients to a food processor and pulse a few times until no large chunks remain.28 ounce can whole peeled tomatoes, 2 (10 oz) cans diced tomatoes with green chiles, ½ cup fresh cilantro, ¼ of an onion, 1 small lime, 1 clove garlic, ½ teaspoon ground cumin, ½ teaspoon sea salt, pinch granulated sugar
- Taste and adjust seasonings, if needed, to taste.
- For best flavor, refrigerate salsa for at least 1-2 hours before serving. Store in the fridge for up to 1 week.
- This recipe makes a little less than 6 cups of salsa. I like to fill 3 pint jars and and share with friends and neighbors.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I originally shared this recipe December 2018. Updated August 2022 and December 2025.
No, no, no! “Homemade” salsa is made with fresh Roma tomatoes. Once (and only once) I made salsa with canned tomatoes as I had a craving and the weather was too lousy to go to the store. There is absolutely no comparison between fresh tomatoes and canned! What happened to taste better from “scratch”?
This recipe is for an easy, quick salsa anyone can make with pantry items. Perhaps you would enjoy our Fresh Homemade Salsa recipe with fresh tomatoes: https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/fresh-homemade-salsa/.
This is the best Salsa and so easy to make
I have made my own salsa from scratch to have enough to feed the wife and kids, for years.
This is the ticket!
I have been making this recipe for a couple of years, and the family loves it. I now add one can of Fire Roasted Rotel tomatoes and One can of Original Rotel tomatoes, and then I add a couple of tablespoons of sliced jalapenos from a jar with a bit of juice. It is so delicious!
Amazing salsa!!! Used canned tomatoes like you recommended and I couldn’t believe how much better it is than fresh! You nailed it with this recipe. So quick and easy and flavor is fantastic! ❤️
So easy to make, but mega delicious! We used it with home-made empanadas, and couldn’t stop eating them!
Made this yesterday with fresh chopped jalapenos, destemed, deseeded. Leaves a bit of an afterbite, but maybe a 2nd chopped jalapeno for a little more heat. But still excellent. Putting it on my homemade tamales using your recipe for the tamales and the red chili sauce with pork filling. Finishing up my third batch tomorrow in less than a week, and have a pork shoulder to start a fourth batch Sunday or Monday. Taking jars of this salsa, along with a jar of your Pico de Gallo, which is excellent, along with a dozen homemade tamales each for my attorney and his assistant on Monday. All excellent…even getting better at wrapping the tamales. Practice makes perfect, well maybe not perfect, but heading in that direction with more sequential batches.
This is scrumptious … fresh and vibrant tasting, and so easy to make!
We made this recipe yesterday. We moved away from Texas and have been unable to get our favorite jarred salsa for so long. BUT THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER. Hands down! It’s the perfect combination of spices. My husband who is very particular about his salsa couldn’t stop eating it. He even asked me to show him how to make it. You mentioned you divide it up and share with friends.…um, I’m sorry, but there’s none leftover! Thanks for this awesomely delicious salsa recipe.
This salsa is so easy to make and it is so wonderful that it is hard to stop dipping a chip into it! I use the same ingredients but I use canned chipotle peppers instead of the jalapenos. For years I used jalapenos until a mexican friend told me about chipotle peppers. It adds to the flavor! You will love it!!!!!