Fresh Pico De Gallo!

Ingredients (for individual portion:

• 1/2 Roma Tomato
• 1/4 Jalapeño
• 1/8 Small White Onion
• 1/8 Lime
• Cilantro
• Pinch of Kosher Salt

Tools Needed:

• Bowl
• Cutting Board
• Chef’s Knife

Cooking Instructions:

• Cut Ends off Tomatoes
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• Remove Seeds and Soft Insides of Tomato
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• Dice tomato by first cutting into matchsticks
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• Then gathering the matchsticks together and dicing into squares.  Make each piece about 1/4 inch or so
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• Place tomato pieces in bowl.
• Cut the end off your hot pepper
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• Cut pepper in half
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• Remove inner membrane and seeds
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• Dice pepper like the tomato.  First cut into matchsticks
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• Then turn and dice into small pieces.  The jalapeño pieces should be smaller than the tomato pieces.  
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• Place the jalapeño pieces in the bowl with the tomato
• Cut the ends off the onion
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• Cut the onion in thin strips 
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• Turn the onion and cut perpendicular to your first cuts
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• Place onion pieces in bowl with tomato and jalapeño 
• Cut a small piece of lime
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• Squeeze lime into bowl (try not to get lime seeds into bowl!)
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• Pull off a few leaves of cilantro
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• Bunch the leaves on the cutting board
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• Then chop leaves
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• Sprinkle a pinch of salt
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• Stir with a spoon
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• You are ready to eat!
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