Easy Pineapple Salsa

An easy recipe for Pineapple Salsa. Loaded with plenty of fresh pineapple, tomatoes, red onion, jalapeños, and cilantro, this is your answer to spring and summer snacking! It’s perfect with chips or on your favorite grilled meat, and it’s good for you!

I’ll never forget the first time I got my hands on this Pineapple Salsa recipe: After devouring a huge bowl at my brother’s house, he promised to track down the original source and email me a copy.

Later that day, an email arrived. Attached was a scanned PDF of a hand-written – no, hastily-scrawled – recipe titled: Benny’s Pineapple Salsa.

Who is Benny? How did he come to make such amazing Pineapple Salsa? Did I ever meet him? These questions and more are unanswered, while one truth remains: This salsa was worth tracking down.

Dramatic overtones aside, this Pineapple Salsa is the answer to all your Warm Weather Eating questions.

You want something:

• Healthy and Fresh
• Interesting
• Sweet and spicy
• Safe for swimming suits

You want a snack.

Or you’re having a party.

Or it’s REALLY HOT outside.

Pineapple Salsa helps in all these instances, and more.

Want to cut some corners? You can buy a 2-pound package of pineapple spears, all peeled and sliced and nice.

You’ll still have to dice them up, but it’s a handy shortcut if you’re short on patience.

Easy Pineapple Salsa

An easy recipe for Pineapple Salsa. Loaded with plenty of fresh pineapple, tomatoes, red onion, jalapeños, and cilantro, this is your answer to spring and summer snacking! It's perfect with chips or on your favorite grilled meat, and it's good for you!

5 from 16 votes

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Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 35 mins

Total Time 55 mins

Servings 12 servings

Course Appetizer

Cuisine American, Mexican

Calories 54

Ingredients 

US CustomaryMetric

• ▢ 2 pounds pineapple diced
• ▢ 10 Roma tomatoes cored and diced
• ▢ 1 bunch cilantro finely chopped, about 1 cup
• ▢ 1 cup red onion finely chopped
• ▢ 3-4 jalapeño peppers seeded and finely chopped (about ½ cup or more to taste)
• ▢ 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice from 2 limes
• ▢ Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• ▢ Hot pepper sauce to taste, optional
• ▢ tortilla chips for serving

Instructions 

• In a large bowl, combine pineapple, tomatoes, cilantro, red onion, and jalapeños. Add lime juice and toss to coat.
• Season to taste with salt, pepper, and hot pepper sauce, if using. Allow flavors to blend at room temperature for 30 minutes, or chill until serving time. Serve with tortilla chips.

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Nutrition

Calories: 54kcalCarbohydrates: 14gProtein: 1gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 4mgPotassium: 239mgFiber: 2gSugar: 10gVitamin A: 558IUVitamin C: 49mgCalcium: 19mgIron: 1mg

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