Pico de Gallo

Gather your ingredients.

Slice the tomato into wedges. Slice off the core and scoop out the seeds. Slice the wedges into thin strips, then rotate the strips to slice to a dice.

How to Deseed and Dice Tomatoes

A simple, neatly diced tomato can perk up a lot of different dishes.

This is much easier with a sharp knife. Halve and peel the onion. Slice off some of the stem end of the onion to leave a flat face that looks like a little onion rainbow. Slice a hatch pattern into that face. Then slice from the top to a fine dice.

How to Dice An Onion

This is much easier with a sharp knife.

Wash and dry the cilantro thoroughly. Cilantro tends to collect clumps of mud. Gather cilantro together and chop roughly. Include some of the stem for texture.

Put the diced tomato in a large mixing bowl.

Add the finely diced onion.

Add the chopped cilantro.

Squeeze in the juice of half a lemon. Mix it all up.

Season as needed with salt and pepper.