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Tomato Gazpacho Soup Recipe

Chilled Tomato Gazpacho Soup

Emma Kershaw
Tomatoes, peppers, onions, and more blended together. You will need a good blender, a sieve and some patience but otherwise, this is such an easy recipe. No cooking required!
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Course Soup
Cuisine French, Provencal
Servings 10 people

Equipment

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kg Ripe Tomatoes stalks removed and roughly chopped
  • 1 Red Pepper seeded, pith removed and roughly chopped
  • 1 Red Spring Onion
  • 2 large Garlic Cloves
  • 1/2 small Cucumber peeled if the skin is tough
  • 1 large handful of Fresh Basil
  • 2 tbsp Sherry Vinegar
  • Olive Oil
  • Salt and Pepper
  • Ice and Water

Instructions
 

  • Wash and roughly chop all the vegetables, make sure you remove any bad bits as they will be noticed in the final soup. Pop into the blender and blitz.
  • Add the vinegar, oil, seasoning, basil and salt and pepper (you will need a good pinch of salt as you tend to need more salt when serving things. Blitz again.
  • Add a handful of ice and water to loosen it, blitz and taste. Adjust seasoning and vinegar to suit your taste.
  • When you are happy with the flavour, sieve the soup into a jug. This is a slow process but essential, there is something about the sieving and removing of the fibrous parts of the vegetables that brings out the aromatics and makes the gazpacho 'sing.' Leave this stage out and you will regret it! I do this first thing in the morning, multi-tasking, alternately letting the soup filter on its own and pushing it through with a wooden spoon.
  • You can usually add another glass of cold water through the mashed vegetables in the sieve and not lose any flavor. Once done decant into a bottle: a cleaned out juice bottle works and refrigerate.
  • Serve in small glasses, I have a stack of glass yogurt pots that work. Serve, with a swirl of punchy olive oil and a basil leaf. It is traditional to add a teaspoon of chopped vegetables, a combination of tomato, red pepper. cucumber and avocado. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Often I find just sipping it as is without anything in the way or the need for cutlery, rather delightful.
Keyword Soup, Summer Recipes,, Tomatoes
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