Description
"Gazpacho" is the name of a group of soups based on three ingredients: bread, garlic and olive oil. Initially it was a food of the Spanish peasants, who, working in the field, received a portion of bread and olive oil. The bread was soaked in water and then crushed to mush together the garlic, oil, vinegar and salt. Thus, it turned out a nutritious dish that was eat, drank, and made up for the reserves of salts and minerals that are necessary to work in field under hot sun. The rest is decoration. But what a beautiful ornament! Gazpacho is a celebration of summer vegetables: tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and peppers.
Ingredients
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Bread
50 г
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Red sweet pepper
2 шт
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Tomato
1 кг
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Cucumber
2 шт
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Garlic
3 зуб.
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Red onion
2 шт
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Olive oil
150 мл
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Vinegar
4 ст. л.
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Salt
по вкусу
Cooking
In the summer all the veggies needed for this soup is quite affordable.
1. Put the tomatoes in a large bowl and cover with boiling water. Drain the water after 10 seconds and when the tomatoes are cool, remove the skins. 2. Put the bread in a bowl and cover with room temperature water. Leave the bread to razmeshivatsya while you are doing your vegetables.
3. Cut the tomatoes in half, remove the seeds from the halves and put them in a colander sitting over a pan to collect the juice. With a spoon press the seeds to a colander to squeeze out more juice. 4. Peel the cucumber from the skin, a teaspoon remove the seeds. 5. Knife for cleaning of vegetables, remove the skin from the peppers, remove the seeds and membrane. 6. Peel the onions and garlic.
7. Cut vegetables into medium pieces.
8. Put half of the vegetables, bread, olive oil, vinegar and juice from the tomatoes in a food processor or blender, add salt and freshly ground black pepper and blend everything to obtain a homogeneous thick soup. Repeat with remaining ingredients. Pour the soup into a saucepan and put in the refrigerator to cool for about 2 hours.
9. Clean the vegetables for garnish and cut them into small cubes.
10. Pour soup on plates, top lay a little bit of all vegetables from side dish and drizzle with a little olive oil. Bowls with a side dish, serve separately so that everyone can put supplements.
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