Chilled Tomato Soup with Cucumber

• 1 large cucumber, peeled and seeded, cut in pieces
• 1 kg very ripe, red tomatoes, skinned and roughly chopped
• 2

Peel the cucumber and cut it in half. Remove the seeds from one half and put the flesh in the bowl of a food processor. Add the tomatoes and their juice, the garlic and the onion and pulse until all is thoroughly liquidized. Push the mixture through a wire sieve into a bowl, using a wooden spoon or a pestle to extract every bit of liquid.

Season and leave covered in the refrigerator to