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This flavorful and zesty avocado lime salsa verde is so easy to make, using just a handful of fresh ingredients!

I’ve talked before about how much I love my garden, but this year it’s off the charts! My plants are enormous and bursting with produce, and it is such a joy to go out every day and harvest the bounty. A lovely friend gave me about a dozen tomato starts at the beginning of the season, and they have grown into huge beautiful plants. Hidden among them was a tomatillo plant, which I didn’t discover until it had already been growing for several weeks. I’ve never grown tomatillos before, but my plant has been producing like crazy. There are dozens (if not hundreds) of tomatillos in various stages of ripeness. With my first tomatillo harvest, I wanted to make something special, and this avocado lime salsa verde is it!

Since I’ve never grown tomatillos before, I asked around for some good recipes to let them shine. My niece recommended an awesome recipe from Rick Martinez, but I didn’t quite have the ingredients I needed to make it. I used what I had on hand (jalapeño instead of Serrano chiles, sweet onion instead of white onion, etc) and it turned out totally amazing! I’ll still give the original recipe a try sometime soon (especially because I’m bound to have tomatillos coming out of my ears soon) but my version came out super delicious. It’s fresh and flavorful, with just the right amount of acidity, and the creamy avocado blends everything together. It’s perfect on tacos or burritos, or as a side dish with tortilla chips.

Because of the fresh avocado, it’s best to use the salsa within a week or so, but it’s so tasty you’ll want to put it on everything! It is definitely a new staple at our house.