Look, I’m not here to judge your shortcuts. In fact, I encourage them. Canned fire-roasted tomatoes are the cheat code of homemade salsa. They taste like summer kissed a campfire.
I once made a salsa at 11 p.m. with nothing but a can of fire-roasted tomatoes, a clove of garlic, and some leftover cilantro. My roommate called it “miraculous sludge.” It was gone in five minutes.
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Just drain them a little first. Nobody wants canned juice swimming in their bowl. Trust me on this—I learned the hard way, and my chips are still in therapy.
