Our Top Pick Of The Week, which will be posted tomorrow, features salsa verde.

Spanish for “green sauce,” salsa verde is made from a base of tomatillos, seasoned with chiles, cilantro and spices. A salsa verde can be fresh or cooked. It is typically much thinner than a tomato-based salsa roja.

In this video, you’ll see how easy it is to make salsa verde:

Tomatillos are not small, green tomatoes. They’re only distantly related to tomatoes.

Here’s the difference between tomatoes and tomatillos.