Keto Salsa Verde - Easy Homemade Tomatillo Salsa (2024)

Making homemade keto salsa verde from roasted tomatillos and chili peppers is both easy and delicious! Once you try making tomatillo salsa at home, you’ll never go back to store-bought again!

Is this your first time hearing about keto salsa verde? If so, I’m excited to introduce you to it!

Salsa verde is a Mexican condiment made with tomatillos, chili peppers and cilantro – it’s very keto friendly because of the low carb ingredients.

Every year I make my own and preserve jars of it, but inevitably I run out within a few months and have to start buying it. When I do, I literally buy 5 jars of salsa verde at a time because I use it so often.

This keto salsa verde is hands down my favorite condiment – I put it on eggs, in my jalapeno poppers, green enchilada meatballs, chorizo egg bake – you name it and I will probably eat it with salsa verde on it.

Salsa verde ice cream? Let’s just say I’m not repulsed by the idea.

This year, I decided that for the first time I was going to grow my own tomatillos. I had grand plans people. I started my own purple variety from seed, and also bought some already established plants of the standard green variety. I imagined huge plants, loaded down with fat tomatillos that I would roast and make GALLONS of salsa verde with.

Well THAT didn’t happen. It wasn’t a total bust, I did get some tomatillos, but nowhere near the bumper crop I was hoping for. Maybe next year.

I did have a great crop of chili peppers this year – habaneros, jalapenos and cayenne peppers seemed to be multiplying overnight throughout the season. I decided to put the jalapenos and habaneros to good use by roasting them under the broiler along with these tomatillos to make a super spicy keto salsa verde like the one my favorite taco truck makes. I’m not sure this was quite as good as theirs, but it’s as close as I’ve gotten so far.

You might be surprised to note a lack of garlic in this keto salsa verde recipe.

I realized last time I ate my favorite taco truck’s salsa salsa verde that it didn’t taste garlicky, so I did some research and a lot of authentic salsa verde recipes don’t use garlic. That may have been where I was going wrong before.

This keto salsa verde recipe is super simple to make, and other than the salt and pepper it only has 4 ingredients!

If I was making this low carb salsa verde in giant quantities I would can it, but since this was a smaller batch I experimented and froze some instead. It worked like a charm! And it’s so good that I already ate most of it. In fact I just defrosted the last little container of it last night. Guess I’ll have to score some more tomatillos at the farmers market while I still have peppers ripening outside!

I hope you guys like this keto salsa verde recipe – it’s so much better than store-bought and cheaper too! To manage the heat, just use milder chilis or less of them!

If you’d like to make larger batches of salsa verde for canning, check out my Easy Salsa Verde Canning Recipe with canning instructions in a water bath.

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