Lunch: Roasted Tomato–Cashew Salsa

Recipe by Rick Martinez If we had to give this salsa a heat index rating, it would get three out of five chiles.

Ingredients

1/3 cup cashews
6 dried cascabel chiles or 3 pasilla chiles, seeds removed
2 morita chiles
4 large tomatoes, cored
2 garlic cloves
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
2 teaspoons kosher salt

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 °F. Arrange cashews on one side of a rimmed baking sheet and chiles on the other. Toast until chiles are fragrant, about 5 minutes. Remove chiles from baking sheet, then continue roasting nuts, tossing once, until golden brown, 8 –10 minutes. Let cool. Remove and discard stems from chiles.
Increase oven temperature to 450 °F. Roast tomatoes on a clean rimmed baking sheet until skin is browned and beginning to separate from flesh, 30 –35 minutes. Transfer to a blender and add garlic, lime juice, and salt; blend until smooth. Add chiles and blend until coarsely chopped. Add cashews and pulse until coarsely chopped, about 5 pulses.

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