How to pronounce “tomatillo” in English

The watermelon and tomatillo salad.

It was just boiled tomatillos and chopped up serrano chili and cilantro.

I grew up with tomatillos and avocados and chiles every day.

I'm going to pass around a tomatillo.

I was going to say the tomatillo, which I'm passionate about, it is just such a gorgeous fruit.

It's very rare to find the tomatillo used raw.

You could get some char on the tomatillos and then do that.

There are some recipes that they're just tomatillo and a chili, and that makes a salsa.

In Mexico, tomatillos are mainly used to make a salsa verde, a cooked salsa verde.

How long are tomatillos in season for?

One of my favorite recipes in the book is a green fish stew that uses tomatillos.

It's a mole made with pumpkin seeds and lettuce and parsley and cilantro and tomatillos, delicious, stuffed with pork tenderloin.

But not many people know that all you need is a pound of those tomatillos that come covered in that husk.

So while those are cooking, I'm going to throw together a tomatillo salsa.

And you can look under that little paper-like lantern and you'll see the green tomatillo.

And we don't get this, we don't get tomatillo, so this is what I use.

In a pinch, you can substitute, but a tomatillo's a tomatillo.

This is what we're going for, where there's still some texture to the tomatillos.

And we're going to make the unsung vegetable-- in addition to collard greens-- that we're using in that recipe, is the tomatillo, which has its own chapter in the book.

Right And probably start exploring with that one, and then just change the chilis and using the same tomatillo ingredient or tomato, just to get familiar

Now when I found them in the Latino aisle of a store, or a little Asian store, I would go, oh my god, the tomatillo

Jicamas, chayote squash, all different kinds of tomatoes, and the tomatillo.

They're tart-- uniquely tart, because you can find nothing too match that flavor of the tomatillo.

So I was telling my mom all about this salad one day, and she's like, Pati, raw tomatillo?

And the green is green from fresh herbs, and chiles, and tomatillos, and spinach.

Or a salsa-- you know, we've done all sorts of things with that, mixed with tomatillos and doing a whole green theme.

And so try to share, you know, you're going to bring the tomatillos into your house.

And I thought, oh my god, the perfect thing would be the tomatillos.

And then, they make this amazing salsa out of raw tomatillos that they blend with a little bit of cilantro and green chili.