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Turning Pico into Salsa, any tips? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/cooking@lemmy.world
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I think my produce was contaminated with something, because this is the first time I’ve ever had food poisoning and my Pico was obviously uncooked. I also cooked beans with juice from the pico.

Two questions:

  1. Am I a dumbass for trying to salvage what I think is contaminated? I don’t wanna waste food and I’m under the impression that cooking it will fix it. My symptoms aren’t life threatening, and I wouldn’t mind confirmation it was the pico.

  2. If I can dump the pico into a pot and cook it safely, is there anything special I gotta do? Recipe below so you know what I’m working with.

Pico recipe:

  • 8 Roma tomaotes
  • cilantro, 1 bunch
  • 1 red onion
  • 2 jalepenos, roasted
  • garlic, minced
  • salt, tbs
  • 1 lime, juiced

Chop and stir together. Let sit overnight for the flavors to blend properly. Seriously, it doesn’t taste good til the next day.

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[–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Unless you know exactly what it's contaminated with, there's no safe way to turn it into something edible.

I doubt you'll want to perform all the lab tests needed to find out if it's something that can be killed by cooking it.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Yeah I was worried about that

    I think if it were bacterial based I could probably cook it to death, but idk if the bacteria release other toxins that cooking doesn’t kill

    I’ll see what happens if I just eat my rice and beans. It sucks not knowing what the exact cause is!

    Inb4 it’s the rice

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