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Quick and easy peach salsa is sweet, savory, spicy, zingy, refreshing, and perfect for enjoying all summer long with vegan chips, tacos, and grilled proteins/veg! Plus, it’s ready in just 10 minutes!
Why You’ll Love This Peach Salsa Recipe
The sun is shining, and my seasonal fruit addiction has risen approximately 2000%, meaning I’m ready to enjoy a long summer of healthy watermelon popsicles, fresh strawberry lemonade, mango cucumber salsa, and plenty of peaches. Today, let’s talk about this fresh and juicy peach salsa!
This recipe for peach salsa with tomatoes requires just 7 simple, inexpensive ingredients and a few minutes to throw together. The addition of peach adds sweet juiciness to a fairly typical Pico de Gallo-style fresh salsa of juicy tomatoes, crisp bell pepper, robust red onion, tangy lime, fresh cilantro, and spicy jalapeno.
The combination of ingredients is a perfect balance of flavors and textures and a great addition to your summer table. If you have any leftover peaches, try easy roatsed peaches, blueberry peach muffins, peach mango pie, and/or vegan peach crumb pie.
Ingredient Notes
Refer to the recipe card for the full list of ingredients, substitutes, and quantities.
Recipe Variations
There are several tasty ways to adapt this peach Pico de Gallo style salsa, including:
- Other fruits: Replace a portion of the peaches to make flavorful blends like mango peach salsa, peach pineapple salsa, or strawberry peach salsa.
- Corn: Add fresh or grilled corn for a super tasty, summery peach corn salsa.
- Cucumber: For an extra refreshing crunch, add some finely diced cucumber (thin peel, low-seed varieties like Persian and English cucumbers work best).
- Avocado: Add 1 avocado, cubed, for creaminess, antioxidants, and heart-healthy fats to the fresh peach salsa. Check out this guide to avocado for some tips!
- Legumes: Add black beans, pinto beans, or haricot beans for a heartier salsa.
- More spice: Add a dash of chili powder/ cayenne powder.
How to Make Peach Salsa
Step 1: First, rinse and finely dice the bell pepper, tomato, onion, and peaches and add to a large bowl. Then, zest and juice one lime, de-rib and seed then mince the jalapeño (if using), and finely mince the cilantro, adding them (start with less jalapeno if preferred and adjust to taste) to the large bowl and mixing well. Finally, taste and season with salt and pepper, adding more lime if preferred.
For more spice, leave some of the jalapeno seeds in the salsa.
For the best flavor, leave it to marinate for 20-30 minutes refrigerated before serving. Enjoy!
FAQs
Sure, if you want to make an easy peach salsa out of season, tinned/canned peaches should work fine.
You can if preferred. The easiest way is to score an x at the base of each peach and blanch them in boiling water for 30 seconds. Transfer to an ice bath, and then easily peel the skins right off.
Feel free to add a drizzle of agave syrup or maple.
Pro Recipe Tips
- Choose fresh, ripe peaches: They should be slightly soft but not mushy for the best flavor, sweetness, and texture.
- Leave it to rest: 20-30 minutes before serving allows the flavors to meld for an overall better tomato jalapeño peach salsa.
- To adjust texture: Simple change how finely you chop the ingredients. A fine dice means you get every flavor in a single bite. Chunkier peach bits help them take a more ‘forward’ role in the salsa, etc.
Serving Suggestions
Peach salsa is typically served alongside grilled meats and fish, meaning it works great with vegan alternatives (like grilled tofu steaks or vegan tempeh kabobs), as well as:
- With chips: Pita/handmade flour tortilla chips or over vegan nachos.
- Hearty salads: Southwest quinoa salad, summer pasta salad, veg couscous salad.
- In Mexican-inspired ‘bowl’ meals: Like a taco/burrito bowl, sweet potato quinoa bowl, rice bowl with tofu fajitas, etc.
- Stuffed veg: Southwest stuffed peppers, tex-mex zucchini boats, and healthy stuffed avocado boats.
- Vegan tacos and quesadillas: Tofu tacos, cauliflower tacos, vegan black bean tacos [2 Ways] vegan bean quesadillas, etc.
- Wraps: Like rice and bean burritos or black bean lettuce wraps.
- Alongside vegan burgers: Like vegan black bean and blugar burgers, sweet potato jalapeno burgers, or spicy red bean burgers.
Storage Instructions
Fresh salsa is generally best within the first 24 hours, as it becomes watery over time.
However, leftover tomato peach salsa can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days. If preferred, add a little more lime between servings.
Easy Peach Salsa
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 ripe peaches pitted and diced
- 1 Roma tomato diced
- ½ red onion finely diced
- 1 small red or green bell pepper finely diced
- ¼ cup of cilantro minced
- 1 to 2 limes zest and juice
- 1 jalapeno minced (optional)
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Add the peaches, tomatoes, onion, bell pepper, cilantro, juice and zest of one lime, jalapeno, and salt and pepper to taste in a bowl. Mix well and adjust the lime, salt, or pepper levels. Serve at room temperature or chilled.
Notes
- Choose fresh, ripe peaches: They should be slightly soft but not mushy for the best flavor, sweetness, and texture.
- Leave it to rest: 20-30 minutes before serving allows the flavors to meld for an overall better tomato jalapeño peach salsa.
- To adjust texture: Simple change how finely you chop the ingredients. A fine dice means you get every flavor in a single bite. Chunkier peach bits help them take a more ‘forward’ role in the salsa, etc.
- to save time: If you have a food chopper, use it.
Nutrition
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Absolutely fresh and delicious! Made for friends and they loved it! Thank you!
So glad everyone enjoyed this yummy salsa! It’s the best!
Love this salsa!