We find salsa everywhere around us. There are so many variations of salsa sauce recipe but most of them are simply great for sauce. The basic salsa recipe would be a combination of tomatoes, chilies and other spices to enrich the taste. The salsa recipe has been great companions for generations and we never get bored of dipping our favorite chips to the salsa sauce. But do you know exactly the history of the sauce?
While most people know that salsa sauce is originated from Mexico and therefore the sauce is quite spicy, the truth is, the sauce came from the Inca people. If you know the history of Incas, Mayans, and also the Aztecs, you will find the sauce that are made of the salsa ingredients have been used as condiments at that time. The sauce is paired with different dishes like the fishes, lobsters, venison, and also turkey. As the tomatoes were originated from Peru, of course it would only make sense that they became the first users of the tomatoes and that they have been able to process the fruit into so many dishes while the whole world had not have a clue on the wonder fruit.
Somehow, then the salsa recipe lives on until it was found in Mexico in the 16th century. Then when the Spanish conquer Mexico they found out about the recipe as well as the fruit of wonder, tomato. This is the start of the spreading of salsa sauce, a sauce that survived centuries and never cease in popularity ever since. It has become so popular that it is almost impossible to imagine the world without salsa sauce. It may be like thinking that about the world without fried chickens, hamburgers and pastas.
Among the first tomato salsa recipe that had ever been published are the recipes in the Spanish cookbook back in the 1898. So many of the copies were sold in the United States and this marked the spreading of the recipe to the State. The book contained two recipes of Salsa Fresca or Fresh Sauce. At the same year, other Spanish cookbooks were published and they too have the Sasa de Chili Verde and Salsa Ocante de Chili Colorado recipes. Making the salsa sauce even more popular than before. But it was not until the 1916 that there was canned salsa. The manufacturer was non other than Charles E. Earth. However, the sauce is not really salsa as it is a pepper sauce and cannot be used as dips because of the fact that it is too thin.
