For the best tomatillo salsa verde, we turned an executive chef to share his top culinary wisdom on the vibrant, fresh sauce.

Salsa verde is a good way to introduce tomatillos to your table, but they add their tangy flavor to all sorts of Latin dishes.

Sidebar -- "Salsa Without Tears", October 1996 Essential Roasted Tomatillo-Chipotle Salsa Salsa de Chile Chipotle y Tomate Verde T HESE ARE THE MOST attractive salsa flavors I know: tangy (almost ...

Roasting adds some depth of flavor but doesn’t take away from the farm-fresh taste of this salsa. It’s a bright note with a little bit of a backbite from the hot pepper (any kind of pepper will do, ...

This creamy guacamole salsa adds a flavorful twist to your Mexican food favorites. A perfect blend of avocados and tomatillos, the salsa is ideal as a dip or as a topping for tacos, nachos and more.

When roasting, halve the tomatillos crosswise and broil, cut side down (or grill skin-side up) to get a light char on the skins. You want those skins in the salsa for the extra flavor.

I, for example, went a little too hard with the roasting, and my salsa was slightly too sweet. If I were to do it again, I’d roast about half of the ingredients, and leave some tomatillos and ...

A classic variation of salsa utilizing tomatillos instead of tomatoes, this sauce dates to the Aztec Empire.