Salsa Macha With Mixed Nuts

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This salsa mightiness go your caller favourite condiment, arsenic its spicy-sweet-tart spirit and chunky texture tin marque immoderate crockery shine. This look is ripe for experimentation: As cookbook writer Pati Jinich writes, “Choose the dried chiles and nuts that you like, navigator successful lipid until the ingredients alteration colour and odor toasty, past play with vinegar and your favourite sweetener.” Jinich likes to see tiny amaranth seeds, which are fashionable successful Mexican sweets, but if you can’t easy find them, usage sunflower oregon sesame seeds instead. Apply the salsa beauteous overmuch anywhere, but it’s particularly stellar connected guacamole oregon avocado toast (see related recipe), hummus, soups, eggs – adjacent crystal cream. Note that the spirit continues to make and deepen with time, truthful portion it’s large immediately, it’s adjacent amended aft a time oregon two.

While accepted recipes for salsa macha suggest refrigerating for up to 1 period oregon more, food-safety experts urge refrigerating this for nary much than 1 week oregon freezing for up to 6 months. (Tip: Freeze what you're not going to devour successful wrong 1 week, and thaw 1/2 cupful to 1 cupful astatine a clip to past usage wrong a week.)

Most well-stocked supermarkets transportation a bully enactment of dried chiles, but you tin find an adjacent wider enactment successful Latin oregon planetary groceries. Amaranth seeds tin beryllium recovered successful earthy foods stores oregon Latin oregon planetary groceries.

Ingredients

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Servings: 24 (makes astir 3 cups)

1 cupful extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 cupful neutral rootlike oil, specified arsenic sunflower
5 dried ancho chiles, stemmed, seeded and chopped with scissors into tiny pieces
4 to 5 dried chiles de arbol, stemmed and chopped with scissors into tiny pieces (with seeds)
6 ail cloves, sliced
1/3 cupful earthy unsalted walnuts
1/3 cupful earthy unsalted pistachios
1/3 cupful earthy unsalted conifer nuts
1/4 cupful pome cider vinegar, positive much to taste
1 tablespoonful acheronian brownish sweetener oregon grated piloncillo, positive much to taste
1 spoon good salt, positive much to taste
1/3 cupful hulled earthy unsalted pumpkin seeds (pepitas)
1/3 cupful amaranth seeds (may substitute sunflower oregon sesame seeds)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (2 tablespoons)

Calories
197
Fat
19 g
Saturated Fat
2 g
Carbohydrates
6 g
Sodium
100 mg
Protein
2 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Treasures of the Mexican Table” by Pati Jinich (Harvest, 2021).

Tested by Joe Yonan.

Published February 12, 2022

Updated March 17, 2026