Pineapple, Cucumber and Sweetcorn Salsa

I'm not a big fan of the fresh tomatoes we get in the UK...even the vine ripened ones taste too tomatoey for my liking! I will eat those big, sweet juicy (and ugly) tomatoes you get abroad and can't get over here though....for some reason, our supermarkets won't sell ugly but great tasting fresh produce, but that's another story. 

Anyway, the reason I came up with this recipe was to find something to replace fresh tomatoes in a salsa. When I googled, I couldn't believe how many different salsa recipe there were, made up with all sorts of different fruits instead of tomatoes. I love fresh pineapple, so decided to go for a pineapple salsa and bung in various left over ingredients I had in the fridge.

• 1 cup fresh pineapple, diced
• ½ cup drained tinned sweetcorn (or fresh cooked sweetcorn)
• ½ cup cucumber, diced
• ½ small onion, diced finely
• 1 tbsp picked jalapeño peppers, de-seeded and chopped
• Fresh chopped coriander/cilantro leaves or flat leaf parsley to taste
• Juice of half a lime
• A dash or two of hot chilli sauce (optional)

Mix all of the ingredients together, adding hot chilli sauce and chopped herbs to taste.
Serve with veggie burgers/sausages, Mexican food, barbecued food or with tortilla chips for dipping. Pin It