Salsa Roja la Mananera

Name: Salsa Roja la Mananera
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 2 cups (480 ml)
Cuisine: Latin
Ingredients: 2 Roma (9.2 oz/261g), cored Tomato; 3 (7.4 oz/211g), husked and rinsed Tomatillo; 1/4 medium white (3.1 oz/89g) Onion; 6 fresh or dried chiles de arbol (0.2 oz/6g), stemmed and chopped Dried Chile; 1 clove, peeled Garlic; 3/4 cup (for simmering) (180 ml) Water; 1 1/2 tsp Diamond Crystal kosher, plus more to taste Salt

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Rick Martínez recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Rick Martínez.

TABLE SALSA · TAMALES & TOSTADAS & HUARACHES

In the published recipe, this is the table salsa for Salsa School.

Martínez's salsa roja la mananera.

On the jar

SALSA ROJA

Method: stove
Yield: about 2 cups
Ingredients: 7

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Water 180 ml

Ingredients

Tomato2 Roma (9.2 oz/261g), cored
Tomatillo3 (7.4 oz/211g), husked and rinsed
Onion1/4 medium white (3.1 oz/89g)
Dried Chile6 fresh or dried chiles de arbol (0.2 oz/6g), stemmed and chopped
Garlic1 clove, peeled
Water3/4 cup (for simmering) (180 ml)
Salt1 1/2 tsp Diamond Crystal kosher, plus more to taste

Method

This sauce is cooked on the stove. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Cook ingredients gently according to the published technique, adapted here as pantry quantities only.
Finish off heat; adjust seasoning.

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Provenance

Recipe developer and former Bon Appétit senior food editor based in Mazatlán; his cookbook Mi Cocina won a 2023 James Beard award.

Originally published as Salsa Roja La Mañanera.

Adapted from a recipe published by Rick Martínez in Salsa Daddy via Rick Martinez's Sazon Substack (Salsa School).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Salsa Daddy via Rick Martinez's Sazon Substack (Salsa School) (published as “Salsa Roja La Mañanera”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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