Pico De Gallo and Salsa

[Puggles]

From what I understand, Pico is a "less liquidy" salsa and when I make mine, it's delicious. You can use it as a "salsa."

 

[GadgetGuy]

The question that I was trying to find the answer to is how are they made. one is a bit different from the other. Looking at them both, you know the difference. At lest, now I know how to spell them. I've never made it before. How was I supposed to know?

 

[SoCalZone10]

By hand with a knife for Pico de Gallo. I have mine more chunky.

For salsa here is a recipe, roast and using a blender

Salsa Mexicana | Mexican Food Journal

 

[Barriehie]

Mine just gets as chopped or blended as I can stand messing with it then it goes in the fridge overnight.

 

[Z-Cook]

Many salsa variations

Special Sauce: Varieties of Mexican Salsa

Stewed Beans With Pico de Gallo (Frijoles de la Olla)

 

[karadekoolaid]

Don't even know if I'm spelling them right, but has anyone made either of these?

A typical Mexican pico de gallo will have tomatoes, onion, jalapeño (usually green jalapeño), lime juice and cilantro.. Pico de gallo ( Rooster's beak, in translation) is a raw sauce, or small salad. If you go to a bar or a popular restaurant in Mexico, you'll probably get 3, or maybe more, "salsas" - one of which will be pico de gallo. There's a Yucatan version called ixnipec (ISH - nee-pec) which uses tomato, red onion, habanero chile and orange juice.
Salsa simply means sauce in Spanish .Salsa can be raw or cooked. If you go to a taco place or bar in Mexico and ask for food, they'll usually bring out 3 "salsas": a mild one (often like guacamole), a medium one and a hot one, made with habanero.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Pico is a "less liquidy" salsa

It's just chunks of tomato/onion, rather than being blended.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Here are some of the salsas we had in San Miguel de Allende. Peanut, habanero and serrano:

 

[Z-Cook]

The question that I was trying to find the answer to is how are they made. one is a bit different from the other. Looking at them both, you know the difference. At lest, now I know how to spell them. I've never made it before. How was I supposed to know?

They can sometimes be very different from one another. Do you like reading about food/travel and recipes? If so there's some interesting reading on salsas and Mexican cooking and cuisine which is where the salsas come from.

Special Sauce: Varieties of Mexican Salsa
This is about different salsas from those geographical regions and gives a broad idea of how different they can be and why. You might also find something you'd like to try out.

 

[karadekoolaid]

The question that I was trying to find the answer to is how are they made. one is a bit different from the other. Looking at them both, you know the difference. At lest, now I know how to spell them. I've never made it before. How was I supposed to know?

On a positive note, you learn something new on here every day! You weren't supposed to know; you just asked a really interesting question.
The second time I was in Mexico City, my son made us chilaquiles, which is actually a super-easy breakfast dish: totopos (which are like nachos or doritos, but without flavour), salsa, an egg or three, maybe bacon, and sour cream.
His recipe for the salsa came from a Mexican friend's grandma.Salsa verde (Mexican Green sauce). If you change the tomatillos for tomatoes, and change the (green) jalapeños/serranos for red chiles, then you get a salsa roja (red sauce).