Name: Gazpacho with Cucumber
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 3 thick slices sourdough bread; dash of Tabasco; 4 cooked prawns (optional); 6 ripe tomatoes; sea salt; 2 tbsp diced cucumber; 1 garlic clove, peeled; 2 tbsp diced sweet red pepper; 1 small onion, peeled; 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 2 sweet red peppers, cored and seeded; 1 cucumber, peeled and seeded; freshly ground black pepper; 2 tbsp sherry vinegar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Simple Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 2002

About

This isn’t so much a cold soup, as a fresh and healthy vegetable smoothie. If you’re feeling flash, drop a cooked prawn into each bowl, as a surprise bonus.

Ingredients

6 ripe tomatoes
1 cucumber, peeled and seeded
2 sweet red peppers, cored and seeded

Method

Roughly chop the tomatoes, cucumber, peppers, onion and garlic, and combine in a blender.

Cut off the crusts from the bread and discard. Place the bread in a bowl with just enough water to cover, then immediately squeeze out the water and roughly tear the bread into pieces.

Add the bread to the blender with the sherry vinegar, olive oil, Tabasco, sea salt and pepper. Whiz for a