Friday 22 August 2008

technicolour gazpacho

technicolour gazpacho
the ultimate speedy leftover soup marvel ... i usually don't believe in soup, but this cold multicolour version is pretty damn good on an almost-sunny day.

Ingredients

You can be quite adventurous with gazpacho - make it red with tomatoes, or white with almonds, or, like i did, go with whatever's lurking fridgewise. i reckon the essentials to make it gazpacho, as opposed to just whizzed up squish, are: bread, garlic, vinegar and olive oil. For mine, i used some acidic capers and jalapenos with lemon juice instead of vinegar, and randomly bunged in some tahini for nuttiness.
  • handful cherry tomatoes
  • a few slices red onion (i toned down the rawness by bunging them in the microwave for a few mins)
  • couple of small slices oldish bread (i would have used brown but my Carnivorous Other Half bloody snaffled it all - and he doesn't even like brown bread)
  • a few glugs olive oil
  • 2 sticks celery
  • handful of parsley
  • teaspoon capers
  • teaspoon jalapenos
  • 2 teaspoons tahini
  • clove garlic, chopped (mmm, raw garlic)
  • small glass water
  • lemon juice to taste (a few slooshes)

Method
  1. Bung everything in the liquidiser and turn it on. If you don't have a liquidiser, you could chop it all up and mix it together after soaking the bread in the water, but it's a bit of a faff. Looks less pukey chopped rather than totally blitzed, though, so if you want to impress someone, chopping's probably the way forward ;).
  2. Add more water if you want a thinner consistency.
  3. Add salt and pepper if you want - i try and steer clear of additional salt so i didn't bother.
  4. Enjoy :).

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