pico de gallo


pi·co de gal·lo

P5315000 (pē′kō də gä′yō)n. A relish made of raw, chopped tomatoes, onions, hot chili peppers, and cilantro with lime juice, used in Latin American cuisine.
[American Spanish, from Spanish, rooster's beak (perhaps from the resemblance of the chopping of the ingredients to the pecking of a rooster as it breaks food into pieces) : pico, beak; see pico- + de, of (from Latin , from, off; see de—) + gallo, rooster (from Latin gallus; see gal- in Indo-European roots).]