Easy Gazpacho Recipe
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- September 14
This is an easy gazpacho recipe that makes for a refreshing bowl of raw soup - perfect for when the tomatoes are ripening in the hot late summer sun.
I added a hot pepper (something I don't often do in my healthy vegan recipes because I'm a spice wimp) that didn't taste too spicy when I tasted the tip, but wound up making a very spicy pot.
I gave some tips on dealing with hot peppers in the video, but I mentioned it to my sister-in-law after, who eat lots of hot peppers, and she gave me a couple more.
She said the the bottom tip of the pepper is the least spicy, and the top part where the pith and the seeds grow is the most spicy - so my first taste was the mildest.
She also said that it was lucky I didn't rub my eyes afterwards, since the spicy oils hang on to your skin for quite a while and they burn your eyes like crazy.
Of course, after she said that I washed my hands thoroughly with soap and then had an itch in my eye so I rubbed it. ouch!
The good news, for anyone who's not a fan of hot peppers, is that this recipe is absolutely delicious without any at all!
And the 2nd day we ate this, I added some pureed avocado and some cooked chickpeas to counter the spice a little bit. Not in the true gazpacho-ly spirit of using stale bread, but yummy and healthy!
Easy Gazpacho Recipe
Prep time: 20 minutes (or 5 if you use a food processor)
Makes 4-6 bowls of soup
Ingredients
- 8 cups fresh tomatoes
- 1 large cucumber
- 2 bell peppers (any color)
- 1/4 cup shallots or sweet onion (or another 1/4 cup chives or green onion)
- 2-3 cloves garlic, pressed
- 1 lemon or lime, juiced
- 1/4 cup fresh basil
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley
- 1/4 cup fresh chives or green onion
- 2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
- Pinch sea salt and pepper
- 1 small hot pepper (optional)
Easy Gazpacho Recipe Directions
- If you're making the soup by hand, chop all the veggies up fairly small, and put them in a large soup pot with the seasonings.
- If you have an immersion blender, you can puree until it's chopped up finely but not totally smooth.
- If you want to make this really quickly, put everything in a food processor or blender and pulse until you get the consistency you like.
I hope you like this easy gazpacho recipe, and check out some more of my healthy vegan recipes.
