Eva Longoria's 15-Minute Sauce Adds Flavor to Her Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

If you're looking to add some spice to your summer meals, take a note from Eva Longoria. The actress, producer, and longtime Allrecipes.com user has a 15-minute tomatillo salsa verde recipe that tops off her every meal from breakfast to dinner.

Longoria, who we got the chance to talk to as she partners up with Kellogg’s for the launch of her Breakfast for All Bundle, told us about her love for Mexican cuisine and how she centers most of her meals around one signature sauce. "You know, we're a Mexican household, so first of all, it's loud. But there are staples in our household," Longoria said. 

One of them is the flour tortillas that she makes every single day. "My son understands, he's only four, but he understands the difference between a packaged flour tortilla and mine," she added.

But the star of Longoria's kitchen is her tomatillo salsa verde, a fridge staple her family would be lost without. She said her recipe was “born in her head,” and it's just as baseline (and essential) as a vinaigrette.

She whips up her sauce on Sundays when she does all her meal prep, but it rarely lasts throughout the week. How long the sauce lasts depends on how much of it her family eats and if the tomatillos are in season, but usually after about 3 days, she usually has to make another batch.

How to Make Eva Longoria's Salsa Verde

There's no real recipe to follow because, as Longoria puts it, "every Mexican knows how to make green salsa,” but the steps are simple: roast your tomatillos, onion, garlic, and Serrano peppers then blend them with some salt and cilantro. As you can see in her TikTok video, she changes up the spice level depending on her mood.

The final, and most important step, is moving the salsa to the stove to cook it down for about 5 minutes. This step, she emphasized, is the key to her favorite flavor and consistency.

Some people don’t, she explained. “If you ever go to a taqueria and see a bright green tomatillo salsa, that usually means they didn’t cook it,” she said.

But that vibrantly-colored, raw salsa tends to have a slap-you-in-the-face kind of spice. Cook it down, and the flavors have a chance to meld together and mellow out. There’s a time and place for both versions, but in Longoria’s kitchen, she prefers a rounded-out spice. 

How to Use Eva Longoria's Salsa Verde

Longoria's tomatillo salsa verde is so versatile that it goes with almost anything. "Everything—it goes over everything," she said. "I make my chicken tacos with it. It goes over eggs, it goes over avocado, it goes over chilaquiles."

She loves it on her breakfasts (“Mexican breakfast is the best in the world," she said) from huevos rancheros to molletes to huevos divorciados. You can use it to flavor roasted veggies, season chicken soups, or finish off grilled meats. We're pretty confident this salsa verde will give any dish some delicious Mexican flair.