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Picante sauce

Picante sauce is a member of the salsa family, but it’s a lot thinner than it’s chunky, tomato-based brethren.  Some people might think it’s not salsa because of its consistency.  What they don’t realize is that it’s still definitely a salsa.  It has all the ingredients you would find in a salsa, except this version is blended a little longer.  This gives it a creamy texture, which turns it into more of a sauce than a thick dipping dish. 
Eating picante sauce has its advantages because of its versatility when it comes to how it can be spread over food.  It might not be the best dipping sauce because it’s so thin, but it’s perfect for people who don’t want the chunkiness of their salsa to overpower the food they’re eating.  You could say that it’s similar to enchilada sauce with the only difference being that enchilada sauce is a little creamier.
Picante sauce is also ideal for cooking because it’s smoother than salsa and has a perfect balance of zesty sauce and vegetables.  David Pace created the sauce 60 years ago to serve as a great cooking sauce.  An excellent recipe that uses picante sauce is chicken with picante black bean sauce.  It’s a tasty dish from the Pace Foods kitchen that showcases the versatility of the sauce.
We continued to look for other recipes throughout the Internet and had no trouble finding hundreds of them, if not thousands, in the areas of meat, vegetables, pasta, rice, and many other kinds of dishes.