{"id":2531,"slug":"pico-de-gallo","title":"Pico de Gallo","description":"Pico de Gallo has two meanings in Mexican cuisine. The most familiar to North Americans is a fresh, tomato-based salad. It is what North Americans usually mean when talking about 'ensalada' or 'tomato ensalada'. This ensalada is never cooked.","ingredients_raw":["2 cups chopped fresh, seeded tomato","½ cup chopped white or yellow onion","2 tablespoons chopped cilantro","½ teaspoon salt","2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lime juice","1 teaspoon ground black pepper","1 ½ tablespoons stemmed, seeded, and minced jalapeño or other chiles","1 small clove of garlic, minced","Hot sauce, to taste"],"ingredients_norm":["fresh","white or yellow onion","cilantro","salt","squeezed lime juice","ground black pepper","tablespoon","garlic","hot sauce"],"steps":["Wash vegetables and cilantro.","Combine vegetables, mixing well.","Add salt, pepper, chiles, lime juice, and garlic.","Add hot sauce as desired.","Let stand 30 minutes to allow flavors to meld."],"categories":["Mexican recipes","Tex-Mex recipes","Recipes for salad","Recipes using tomato","Recipes for salsa","Recipes using chile","Recipes using cilantro","Raw recipes","Recipes using garlic","Recipes using jalapeño chile","Recipes using lime juice"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"very easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Pico_de_Gallo","source_ref":"4518154","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Pico_de_Gallo&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"0e3fd021e25e5a1031b96e5e41cb10ec13fcd0e71b57f092d8d4c0eb600e4eca","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:14Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:14Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/pico-de-gallo"}