This copycat Chili’s salsa recipe is just like the restaurant favorite! It’s easy to make at home, just blend, chill and enjoy this game day or party appetizer with tortilla chips.
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Why I Love This Restaurant Copycat
- Chili’s restaurant salsa recipe: Is easy to make at home! Add some corn tortilla chips, Chili’s skillet queso and southwestern egg rolls and it’s like at the restaurant.
- Fresh Tex-Mex flavor: This copycat Chili’s salsa is smoother than a chunky pico de gallo and perfectly balanced with tangy tomatoes, onion, and mild heat.
Ingredients for Copycat Chili’s Salsa
Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements below.
Ingredients for this copycat Chili’s salsa recipe are simple and easy to find.
- Diced tomatoes
- Rotel (original diced tomatoes with green chilies)
- Diced jalapeno peppers
- Onion
- Garlic powder, sugar, salt and cumin
- Fresh cilantro
- Lime juice
How to Make Chili’s Salsa Recipe
Add all copycat salsa ingredients to a blender or food processor. Blend just until combined, you want it smooth but with a little texture, not puree. Pour into a large container, cover and chill for at least one hour. Serve.
Recipe Tips
- If you love salsa with some heat and spice, leave the seeds in your jalapeno peppers.
- Chill for at least an hour so the flavors meld and taste even more like the Chili’s salsa restaurant favorite.
- Served traditionally with chips and salsa, you can also use it with crockpot salsa chicken, add to taco salad or spoon over fish.
- While a batch of fresh homemade salsa is served within a day, you can store it in the fridge in a mason jar or covered container for up to a week.
Homemade salsa recipes are some of our favorite appetizers! Other favorites include restaurant style salsa, this easy salsa verde recipe and fruit salsa.
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Chili’s Salsa
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Ingredients
- 14.5 ounces petite diced tomatoes (one can)
- 10 ounces Ro*Tel diced tomatoes and green chiles (one can)
- 2 teaspoons diced jalapeno peppers (If you like spicy salsa, leave the seeds)
- ½ small yellow onion , sliced
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- ¼ cup chopped cilantro , or 1 tsp dried cilantro
- 1 Tablespoon lime juice
Instructions
- Blend all ingredients: Add all ingredients to a blender or food processor. Process for 20 seconds or until it's the texture you desire.
- Pour and chill: Pour salsa into a quart sized jar or bowl, cover, and place in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour before serving.
Last step: Please leave a comment and rating after you make the recipe.
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Nutrition
Nutrition provided is an estimate. It will vary based on specific ingredients used.
Michelle
A+++++!! My daughter and I go on lunch dates frequently and she always requests Chili’s because she loves the salsa – well, we all do… This recipe is absolutely perfect! And it is so easy to make and doesn’t require fresh tomatoes which is perfect for us here in the Midwest. Thank you so much!! We’ll keep making this over and over!
Sarah @IHeartNaptime
Yeah for copycat Chili’s salsa at home! It’s so good!
Dixie
When I saw this recipe this morning, I knew I needed to make it, because I was serving tacos to a hungry group working on my yard. When I went to make tacos I realized I was out of taco sauce, I used your salsa, I heated it with the taco meat, it was so delicious. I will use this instead of my bottled taco sauce from now on. Everyone loved it.
I have substituted several ingredients this last week In preparing meals, because I stock my pantry according to the season, which I need to do this week.
I am looking for a home made enchilada sauce, do you have a recipe that you could recommend?
Our family is enjoying your recipes, thanks for sharing, Dixie
Sarah @IHeartNaptime
So glad that the Chili’s salsa could help out in a pinch and that you loved it! Here is our enchilada sauce recipe, enjoy!
Heather Van Der Male
Oh my gosh! The BEST salsa ever! My whole family has very different tastes in foods and textures, but Chili’s salsa is something we actually all agree upon, so this recipe was something I was really looking forward to trying. It did NOT disappoint! I made a double batch and only changed it super slightly by adding a touch of olive oil (just felt like it needed a little fat). We all went crazy over it! I’m planning on making a ton and canning it so we can use fresh cilantro from the garden this summer and enjoy the salsa through the colder months (if it lasts that long)! Thanks for the amazing recipe!!
Sarah @IHeartNaptime
So glad you and the family loved the Chili’s salsa!
Kate
This salsa is perfection! I love Chili’s salsa, but have never been able to find a copycat recipe. I came across this recipe while on your site and I’ve made it twice in the last week. You nailed it! My family loves it too!
Sarah @IHeartNaptime
So happy to hear that you love it! Huge fans of Chili’s salsa over here, so we knew the copycat had to do it justice! Thanks for the review.
Whitney
Chili’s has the best salsa! It’s the only reason I ever go there lol. Great copy cat recipe!
Sarah @IHeartNaptime
Agreed! So glad you enjoyed it!