Tomatillo

Mexican Fruit

Tomatillo

Tomate verde / miltomate (Spanish)

Also called Mexican husk tomato · Tomate verde

Bright, tart and citrusy with a faint herbal sweetness; cooking rounds it out.

What it is

The small green husk fruit that makes every Mexican green sauce green.

How it tastes

Bright, tart and citrusy with a faint herbal sweetness; cooking rounds it out.

  • Sour/Tangy
  • Aromatic/Herbaceous

How to use it

Husk, rinse, then boil, roast or char and blend with chilli, onion, coriander and garlic for salsa verde; simmer into chile verde. Available canned when fresh is not.

  • Base/Stock
  • Dipping/Condiment
  • Cooking/Stir-Frying

Where it comes from

Cultivated in Mexico since before the Aztecs and unrelated to the tomato despite the name. Salsa verde, enchiladas verdes and chilaquiles verdes all depend on it.

Tasted and scored by us · the same axes as every product page How it tastes · four axes

Sweet
Little
Heat
None
Salt
None
Sour
Bright, citric

Salt is a formulation property; on a raw ingredient it is read from the ingredient itself.

Across cuisines · not a substitute

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Products that contain it

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