Salsa

Also called sauce

Salsa is a sauce used as a condiment. Cooks use it raw, as a dressing or marinade, or in paste blends, and pair it with tortilla chips.

In the kitchen

How to use salsa

Mexican salsas can be made with a molcajete or a blender.

Around the world

2 dishes in the catalogue use salsa. Here is where they come from.

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list salsa among their ingredients.

The 1980s
Tomato-based Mexican-style salsas became more popular in the 1980s.
The 2000s
Since the 2000s, sweet fruit-and-pepper salsas have become more popular.

On the table

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include salsa.

Family

Around the world

Names in 57 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
Salsas de la gastronomía mexicana · Salsas de la cocina mexicana · Salsas de México
French
sauce salsa
Italian
salsa
Portuguese
salsa
German
Salsa
Dutch
salsa
Turkish
salsa
Russian
сальса · соус сальса
Polish
Salsa
Arabic
سالسا (طعام)
Persian
سس سالسا
Hebrew
רוטב סלסה

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Wikidata item: Q249114