Gazpacho with Cucumber

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

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

Drinks
Starter
Soup

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