Thick, chunky, and closer to a side dish than a dip. Crushed tomatoes, whole kernel corn, black beans, onion, bell pepper and jalapeño — you can see every one of them.
Mild. The beans and corn buffer the jalapeño, so there's warmth without any real bite.
This is the jar to reach for when you want salsa to do more than get eaten with chips. Spoon it over smoked chicken, fold it into rice, or put it on a brisket taco where a thin salsa would just run off. It has enough body to stay where you put it.
Clean ingredients — tomatoes, corn, beans, onion, pepper, garlic and cilantro.
Milder and sweeter: Peach. A step up in heat with a tart edge: Tomatillo.