Roasted Zucchini Salsa

One of our favorite hometown restaurants, Local Lime, has an amazing zucchini salsa that I’ve always wanted to take a stab at. After recently making avocado salsa and smoked salsa, I found myself fully in salsa mode and ready to tackle the project.

What we’re looking at is oven roasted zucchini with a blend of jalapeño and serrano peppers, onion, cilantro, lime juice and apple cider vinegar, and pepitas.

How to Make Zucchini Salsa

The star ingredient is obviously roasted zucchini. It’s a pound and a half of zucchini, so I recommend the oven unless you have a large air fryer. My air fryer veggie enchiladas, for comparison, air fry eight ounces of zucchini with half an onion and two peppers.

It might be a tight squeeze, but you could always do it in batches and still might come out ahead on time.

Once you have roasted zucchini, the rest is a breeze. Just throw it in a food processor with some fresh ingredients and blend until you have your ideal salsa consistency. I like to keep mine slightly chunky for dipping tortilla chips in or very fine for drizzling over tacos and other dishes.

A key tip for making blended salsas is to avoid going above medium speeds. The lower the speed, the better. This prevents too much air from being incorporated into the salsa.

We’re still a couple months out from peak zucchini season, but thanks to modern farming we can get our hands on decent zucchini squash year round. Here are a few tips for picking the best zucchini from The Kitchn:

• Smaller zucchini tend to have more flavor.
• Color is flavor. Look for vibrant green zucchini.
• Don’t store it in plastic bags, as it can make the zucchini slimy.

What to Serve with Zucchini Squash Salsa

This salsa is great warm straight out of the food processor or chilled. With the added texture from pepitas, it’s best as a dipping salsa with tortilla chips. Keep it Kinda Healthy with baked tortilla chips.

Here’s a handful of my favorite pairings:

• Pulled Beef Tacos
• Chicken Chorizo Tacos
• Air Fried Chicken Quesadillas
• Bistec Tacos
• Pulled Chicken Tacos
• Mexican Smoked Chicken Breast
• Smoked Beef Tacos
• Traeger Steak Fajitas

You can’t go wrong with any of your Mexican and Tex-Mex favorites.

I can’t wait to hear what your feast looks like. Be sure to let me know about it and how this zucchini salsa turned out in a recipe review on the recipe card below. I hope you love it!