Chipotle with roasted tomatillo and garlic. The flavors danced across my tongue the first time I tasted this salsa in the spotless Veracruz market—the sweet, smoky sizzle of chipotle chiles, zesty tomatillos and mellow roasted garlic.

Tomato with cilantro and New Mexico chile.
These are the bright flavors of Mexico. Sweet roasted tomatoes and fresh cilantro laced with a touch of earthy red chile and sparkling orange.

Habanero with cilantro and key lime.
Burned into my memory is a market lunch of roasted suckling pig piled on crushed bread and dolloped with spoonfuls of roasted habanero salsa—chunky with the sweetness of the fire-roasted tomatoes, mellowed with slow-cooked garlic, jazzed with cilantro.

Jalapeño Cilantro with roasted tomato and garlic.
I can still feel the first lava rock mortar I used to crush roasted garlic and jalapeños in a little Mexico City kitchen.  And I can taste the ripe tomatoes, roasted over the flames that give those spicy aromatics the sweet breath of life.

Tomatillo with roasted Serrano and cilantro. The tang of sweet roasted tomatillos, aromatic cilantro, slow-cooked garlic and lively serrano chiles makes a salsa beloved throughout Central Mexico.

Chunky Tomato with cilantro and mild green chile. Pop open the lid of this salsa for zesty blend of roasted tomatoes, mild green chiles, roasty garlic and cilantro.

Chunky Tomato with roasted garlic and jalapeño. Bright jalapeños and roasted garlic add dazzle to this medium-spicy blend of roasted tomatoes and cilantro.

Mango Key Lime with roasted tomato and habanero. Mexico's Yucatan embraces it all, from luscious tropical fruit to sweet roasted tomatoes and tongue-tingling habaneros, which inspired this thrilling ride of a salsa.

Red Pepper & Garlic with tomato and arbol chile. It's the luscious rich textures of earthy, roasted red peppers that's captured here- perfumed with roasty garlic, charged with tomatoes blistered over open flames.

Guajillo with roasted garlic and tomatillo. This is pure Mexican flavor-tangy tomatillos and sweet roasted garlic, all engulfed in the slow smolder of earthy red guajillo chiles.

Corn & Poblano with roasted garlic and tomato. A salsa that's all about natural affinity—rustic fire-roasted tomatoes and poblano chiles shot through with sweet bursts of corn.

Double Roasted Tomato with roasted onion and jalapeño. Rich, complex, thrilling—those are the classic flavors packed in this jar… sparked with a little jalapeño.

Spanish Olive with roasted tomato and garlic. It was a great marriage when Spanish olives joined Mexico's traditional blend of roasted tomatoes and chiles.