This fresh pineapple salsa recipe is sweet, zesty, slightly spicy, and bursting with juicy tropical flavor. Made with fresh pineapple, jalapeño, cilantro, lime juice, and crisp peppers, it’s the perfect salsa for chips, tacos, grilled chicken, seafood, and summer BBQs.

It only takes a few minutes to make, but somehow tastes like the kind of thing you’d order at a beachside restaurant on vacation.

We used to think homemade salsa was too much work until we finally found a few fresh salsa recipes we absolutely loved. Turns out, once you start making salsa at home, it’s hard to go back to store-bought.

Now we keep this pineapple salsa on repeat all summer long alongside our restaurant-style salsa, authentic salsa verde, and mango salsa.

This pineapple salsa is especially delicious for taco night, grilling season, pool parties, and easy summer appetizers.

What Does Pineapple Salsa Taste Like?

Pineapple salsa is sweet, fresh, tangy, slightly spicy, and incredibly refreshing. The juicy pineapple balances perfectly with the jalapeño, lime juice, cilantro, and crisp vegetables.

It’s especially delicious paired with smoky grilled meats and seafood.

Ingredients You’ll Need

Here’s what you’ll need to make this pineapple jalapeño salsa:

• Fresh Pineapple: The sweet juicy base of the salsa. Fresh pineapple gives the best flavor and texture.
• Red Onion: Adds sharp savory flavor and crunch.
• Fresh Cilantro: Adds bright fresh flavor that balances the sweetness.
• Green Bell Pepper: Adds freshness and crisp texture.
• Red Bell Pepper: Adds sweetness, color, and crunch.
• Jalapeño: Adds fresh heat and balances the sweetness of the pineapple.
• Cumin: Adds warm earthy flavor and gives the salsa a subtle smoky depth.
• Sea Salt: Enhances all the fresh flavors.
• Lime Juice: Adds bright acidity and keeps the salsa tasting fresh.

How to Pick a Ripe Pineapple

• Color: Look for golden yellow color on the outside.
• Smell: Smell the

This Slow Cooker Mexican Shredded Chicken is one of those recipes where you toss everything in, walk away, and come back to a kitchen that smells so incredible your family will think you’ve been cooking all day. We’re talking about tender, juicy, perfectly spiced shredded chicken swimming in a sweet and savory pineapple salsa verde sauce that is just perfect. You have to taste it.

It works in tacos, burritos, enchiladas, burrito bowls, Cafe Rio-style salads, or honestly just on its own with a good side of guacamole and a fork. It is endlessly versatile and absolutely delicious, and I need you to make it as soon as possible.

This Instant Pot or Slow Cooker Pineapple Mexican Shredded Chicken is definitely one of my new favorites, but it’s also a result of being totally lazy, so ya know, there’s that too.

I’m just being totally honest with you. I was feeling a bit worn out and needed a quick and easy chicken recipe. Oh, and because I know some of you are Instant Pot people and some of you are slow cooker people, I’ve got you covered both ways. No matter which you reach for, this Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken delivers every single time.

Ingredients For Slow Cooker Mexican Shredded Chicken

Here’s the thing about this Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken, the ingredient list is short, but every single one of these things is pulling its weight in a big way. Here’s what you’ll need and why it matters:

• Chicken Breasts: Boneless, skinless chicken breasts work best.
• Salsa Verde: Brings a bright, tangy, slightly spicy base that makes this chicken taste like it came from your favorite Mexican restaurant. Use whichever brand and heat level your family loves best!
• Crushed Pineapple: Don’t skip this! The pineapple adds the most wonderful subtle sweetness that balances the heat of the salsa verde and makes this sauce completely unique and totally addict

7 Min Crispy Air Fryer Salmon Bites w/ Mango Salsa

This easy 7 minute Air Fryer Salmon Bites recipe with Strawberry Mango Avocado Salsa are so crispy and so good! Crispy on the outside, tender inside, our salmon bites are an easy recipe, with healthy salmon tossed in a smoky-sweet spice blend with a vibrant mango, strawberry and avocado salsa!

In under 10 minutes you can be eating this air-fryed to crispy perfection salmon recipe, because we all know hangry happens.

Listen, fish isn’t for everyone, previously myself included, but I’m working so hard to change that and it’s slowly becoming one of my favorite proteins! It’s light and flaky, always tender, and cooks SO fast. I thought I had a few good salmon recipes, but this is the best salmon I have literally ever had.

I love that it’s high in protein and when baked in the air fryer it’s texture is heavenly! One of my new FAVORITE recipes for salmon is our smokey salmon bites with a fresh mango salsa! They are perfectly tender and caramelized bite-sized salmon pieces. So GOOD! I could eat these salmon bites every day!

Two Years of Testing…

I’ve been testing our air fryer salmon recipe for over 2 years now and I’ve discovered the absolute best dry rub recipe that takes this salmon from delicious to down right addicting. In fact, it is the best easy summer dinner recipe ever!! Yes, it is possible to make salmon in the air fryer without drying it out and yes, even our kids, the seafood haters love it!

Fresh Strawberry Mango and Avocado salsa

Our fruit salsa takes a regular salmon rice bowl from good to amazing!

This fruit salsa is the kind of sweet topping even picky eaters love!

No oven, no mess, and totally weeknight-friendly! This is a quick, healthy dinner that doesn’t feel like just getting something on the table.

Ingredients for Salmon Bites

All you need are simple pantry staples to make this dry rub for salmon.

In the next section, you can see all the ingredients you will need for the mango salsa– you will want to hit the produce section for those ingredients. Here is everything you will need:

For the Salmon

• Salmon– Look for skinless salmon filets to save yourself time on skin removal then just cut them into evenly sized, small cubes !
• Brown Sugar– A hint of sweetness, but it also helps to caramelize into a mouthwatering crust on the salmon.
• Spices– Smoked Paprika, Chili Powder, Garlic Powder, O

Sweet berries, spicy jalapenos, onions, cilantro, and a squeeze of lime combine to make this strawberry salsa. This comes together in about 15 minutes and the salsa disappears almost faster than that every single time I make it.

Strawberry Salsa

You may be wondering what you serve this with. The truth is that we usually descend on a bowl of this and it never gets eaten with anything other than a handful of tortilla chips.

Each time I make it, I think that strawberry salsa would be awesome on chicken or fish. However, it has never lasted long enough for me to actually test that. Somebody let me know if you try it.

Between this salsa and my pineapple salsa, I just can’t stop making fruit salsas this summer! They’re hard to resist and there’s no good reason to resist them, anyway; they’re great for you!

Strawberry Jalapeno Salsa

To whip up this fantastic fruit salsa, you’ll need the following ingredients:

• strawberries
• jalapenos
• green onions
• cilantro
• limes
• salt
• pepper

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The Best 5 Minute Restaurant Style Homemade Salsa Recipe

This is the best 5 minute restaurant style homemade salsa recipe! It is fresh, flavorful and easy to make. You’ll never buy salsa again and you might find yourself eating it every night!

Best Homemade Salsa Recipe

This post has been a long time coming. It’s no laughing matter to set out to make the Best Homemade Salsa Recipe. It all started years ago when my friend, Krysta, made the most delicious homemade salsa EVER.

What’s the key? Oh, friend let me tell you…

Restaurant Salsa Recipe

A restaurant salsa is not big and chunky, that’s a pico de gallo. No, this easy salsa recipe is actually more similar to what you’d pour out of a jar with 100% better flavor.

What makes it a restaurant salsa? Two things:

1. Canned Fire Roasted Tomatoes
2. Blending versus strictly chopping the ingredients.

Oh Sweet Basil Pro Tip

If you live anywhere like we do, fresh tomatoes might not be super easy to get all year round, however they do make for the best salsa.

Let’s break it down even more so that you can be successful whether at the grocery store or at the farmer’s market.

Which Tomatoes are Best for Salsa?

When making a homemade salsa like our chunky tomato salsa you can use a variety of tomatoes, but for a restaurant style salsa you’re going to want to stick to Roma Tomatoes.

How to Pick Good Tomatoes

• Tight Skin- Look for tomatoes with really tight, smooth skin, no wrinkles as that’s a sign of withering from age.
• Coloring- Even coloring without yellow or orange or green marks means it ripened on the vine as it should.
• Weight- The heavier the tomato the better! This is the most important of all. Pick it up and resist squeezing it. The more often you feel tomatoes the better you’ll get at feeling the weight.

Should You Add Sugar to Salsa?

A dash of sugar is used to balance the acidity of the tomatoes which often comes from using store-bought vs garden tomatoes.

Salsa Ingredients

While you can use all canned items (not the onion) for salsa, I’ve found that a combination of fresh and canned works the best for a copycat Mexican restaurant salsa recipe. I think that’s because the canned tomatoes add a more thick and saucy salsa versus a pico de gallo like salsa.

Here’s what we use for Mexican Salsa:

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