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I first came across this garlic lovers salsa at Zest Fest 2006 while chatting with the Salsa King & Queen. The 2006 Scovie award winning salsa could be my favorite Salsa King product if they didn’t also make excellent stuffed olives and a mean El Diablo Habanero Salsa – too many excellent products to choose from!
Jar Description: All Natural – No Trans Fat. Flaming Green Garlic Passion Salsa is packed with oven roasted garlic and fiery jalapenos! Incinerate those vampires!
From theHot1.com: Roasted garlic has a natural sweetness to it as the sugars in oven roasted garlic caramelize. That wonderful sweet garlic is the perfect accompaniment to the gentle heat of Hatch jalapenos. This new salsa is thick with oven roasted garlic, and has a nice high medium heat level from lots and lots of jalapenos grown in Hatch New Mexico, the chili capital of the world. For those that love garlic, and those that love great jalapeno salsas, then this stuff is for you. Try is with chips of course, but this stuff is a great cooking salsa. Pour some over pork chops and simmer for 20 minutes, remove the garlic infused chops and stir in some half and half for a fantastic garlic gravy to go over those chops and some mashed potatoes. Or mash some into an avocado for great Garlicamole!!!!!
Ingredients: Tomatillos, Oven Roasted Garlic, Jalapeno Peppers, Onions, Lime Juice, Spices & Olive Oil.
If you don’t like garlic, steer clear of this salsa. In fact, stay at least 5 feet away from an open jar. As soon as the jar opens, the smell garlic and peppers fills the room. Any good garlic lover will immediately begin salivating and looking for the nearest tortilla chip.
I first opened this jar on a Monday night for Monday Night Football – by half time the group had all but licked the jar clean.
Flavor over fire The salsa has a little bit of heat, just enough to make the average chileheads lips tingle and mouth water for more. The jalapenos won’t make you break a sweat but that’s not the purpose of this salsa – the goal here is flavor over fire.
While the garlic smell is a bit overpowering, you will find that the typical harsh garlic flavor is a bit muted by the oven roasting. The tomatillos add a mellowing sweetness which is enhanced by the heat of the jalapenos.
Overall this salsa has a wonderfully fresh taste and is clearly well deserving of it’s 2006 Scovie Award. Any garlic lover will find this salsa impossible to put down. Get yourself 2-3 jars, unless you are willing the share…
Lorena and Roy Marshall
The SalsaKing Fine Southwestern Foods
SalsaQueen@thehot1.com
www.thehot1.com
877-THE HOT1 (843-4681)
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Chilehead Comments: 8 Comments
Posted by: Nick Lindauer - Categories: Uncategorized
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8 Comments
Lorena and Roy, great review. We are very close to you, here in Mesa AZ. I will have to get some of this great looking salsa, and would love to visit if at all possible !!!
AJ
Sounds awesome to me. Uncle Big loves garlic!!
Take care
-Big
Still need to contact the King!!
Sunday morning, lazy ‘cuz we have the day off! Whew, not many of those, and it has been freakishly busy lately. Thanks for the great review of OUR NUMBER 1 selling product. AJ, call us, Uncle Big, call us 877 THE HOT1, we would love to talk to you both. And to everyone else that loves garlic salsa. Last weekend I was selling at a show at the Cardinal’s Stadium and was approached by this guy who told me he loved our stuff and wanted to put our products into his catalog. Turns out he works for Arizona Highways Magazine and the catalog is a twice yearly addition to the no advertisiing magazine. I didn’t think anything about it until Wednesday when I spoke with John from Cactus Candy, the guy that co-packs 6 of our salsas and a couple of other things for us. I was a bit green as he told me that they have been attempting to get into the AH catalog for over 5 years now. He also told me that they only order truckloads. Lorena and I sort of freaked on that one. Been going crazy ever since. But it’s a good crazy!
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The SalsaKing on 11/5/2006 at 1:55 pm said:
Sunday morning, lazy ‘cuz we have the day off! Whew, not many of those, and it has been freakishly busy lately. Thanks for the great review of OUR NUMBER 1 selling product. AJ, call us, Uncle Big, call us 877 THE HOT1, we would love to talk to you both. And to everyone else that loves garlic salsa. Last weekend I was selling at a show at the Cardinal’s Stadium and was approached by this guy who told me he loved our stuff and wanted to put our products into his catalog. Turns out he works for Arizona Highways Magazine and the catalog is a twice yearly addition to the no advertisiing magazine. I didn’t think anything about it until Wednesday when I spoke with John from Cactus Candy, the guy that co-packs 6 of our salsas and a couple of other things for us. I was a bit green as he told me that they have been attempting to get into the AH catalog for over 5 years now. He also told me that they only order truckloads. Lorena and I sort of freaked on that one. Been going crazy ever since. But it’s a good crazy!
I’ll call tomorrow !!! LOL, need another employee?
Thank you Nick for that wonderful review. When I created this salsa last year I had no idea how popular it would be. When I was young I was allergic to onions so my Nana made special batches of salsa with roasted garlic and jalapenos just for me. So I based the recipe on that and it truly is wonderful! Now that I’m not allergic to onions it really helps the cooking situation.
The World’s Best Pork Chop Recipe that my hubby came up with is THE CATS MEOW! It is also good on any kind of potato and makes AWESOME garlic mashed potatoes along with some easy and delicious Chicken Enchiladas. It truly makes great meals fast and DELICIOUS!
Thanks Arizona Jack. It would be great to see you. You are welcome to come on by. Our garage is our warehouse. Give us a call and we’ll set something up.
I hope everyone tries this salsa. It is truly incredible even if you are not a HUGE GARLIC LOVER, the recipes I mention tone the garlic down a bit too but if you just can’t get enough of the garlic, then just pour more on.
Thank you everyone! You guys are great!
Lorena
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This does sound good! I always say the more garlic the better!