Tasty Homemade Pico de Gallo

I made chicken tacos for dinner the other night and since I'm used to making regular tacos I was kind of stumped as to what to chop up to put on them. I thought Pico would be a pretty good way to spice up these tacos so here's how I made my pico. I bought some from the store a while back and was looking at the ingredients thinking 'I could totally make this on my own.' This is something I just threw together, so feel free to make adjustments as needed for your taste or family size. This fed my family of 4 for taco toppings and there's leftovers in the fridge.

This is my Pico de Gallo.

(sorry for the terrible picture, it's from my phone)

*A tip before we begin: I've made this twice. The first time I used my food processor for the onion, bell pepper, and jalapeno. For some reason they produced a kind of juicy foam that didn't look very good. (I don't know if that's normal or not) The second time I chopped all my veggies by hand (as shown in the picture) and it turned out very tasty and pretty. So my tip is, altho it takes longer, chopping your veggies by hand makes better pico.

You will need:

1/2 of a medium purple onion, cored and finely chopped

1 green bell pepper, cored and finely chopped

1 large slicing tomato, chopped

1 Jalapeno, cored and finely chopped

Cilantro, finely chopped

2 pinches ground black pepper

2 pinches Garlic powder

1/2 of a lime, cut into wedges

After you've chopped all your veggies drop them into a medium glass bowl and mix them together with a spoon. Make sure that your Cilantro is very finely chopped and add that and stir again.

Squeeze the juice of half your lime wedges into the bowl and mix it together again. This helps the spices stick to your veggies so they can soak in better.

Add your pepper and garlic and stir, then juice your remaining lime wedges directly into the bowl and stir one more time. Take a look at your fresh Pico de Gallo! Looks great doesn't it? And not very hard either!

I served this on Mission brand White Corn Tortillas covered in shredded chicken breast. This would also be good as a salsa type topping for nachos or just to eat plain with chips. Enjoy :)