Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Salsa is the Spanish word for sauce. In English-speaking countries it refers to a variety of sauces usually made with tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, onion, garlic and cilantro, similar to the salsa roja (red sauce) used as a condiment in Mexican and southwestern cuisine. Also common in and unique to those cuisines is the salsa verde (green sauce) made with tomatillos. Other salsas exist; for instance, some of them are made with mint, pineapple, or cantaloupe. See also Salsa (music), Salsa (dance) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.