Friday, April 27, 2012

Cazpacho soup

Nice cold soup that will cool you down on a hot day. Popular in Spain

You'll need: 
2 garlic cloves
100 gr bread-torn
100 ml olive oil
250 gr tomatoes-chopped
125 gr cucumber-chopped
100 gr green pepper-chopped
50 ml vinegar
1 tsp cumin seeds
ice
Garnish:
crutons- optional
50 gr diced onion
50 gr diced cucumber
50 gr diced green pepper
50 gr tomato concasse*
Method: Soak the torn bread with garlic, olive oil and tomatoes. Add the cucumber, green pepper, vinegar, cumin seeds and ice. Place in a food processor and liquidise until smooth.
Garnish with crutons, onion,tomatoes,cucumber and green pepper.

* tomato concasse is peeled,de-seeded and chopped tomato. Easiest way to peel tomato is to put them in the boiling water for 10-15 seconds and then cool them down in ice water. Before you put the tomatoes in the boiling water, make an X on top of the tomato and also remove the stem spot.

Soup is more flavoursome if you leave it soak over night and blitz it next day.

Enjoy :)

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