HOMEMADE SOUP THE ULTIMATE “TOMATO” GAZPACHO Made by: Kate from cookieandkate.com SERVING TIME DIFFICULTY 4 PERSON 25 MINUTE EASY INGREDIENTS INSTRUCTIONS • 2 ½ POUNDS RIPE RED TOMATOES (ABOUT 4 1. Place your blender bowl, a between the blender and medium serving bowl, and the serving bowl. LARGE OR 9 SMALL) a small bowl on the counter. 3. To the blender, add the • 1 SMALL VIDALIA OR SWEET YELLOW ONION Core the tomatoes and cut basil, garlic, olive oil, them into rough 1″ chunks. vinegar, salt and about (½ POUND), PEELED AND CUT INTO ROUGH Reserve about ¼ cup of 10 twists of black pepper. 1″ CHUNKS the juicy tomato seeds and Securely fasten the lid place them in your small and blend, starting on low • 1 SMALL CUCUMBER (½ POUND), PEELED bowl (we’ll use them as a and increasing to high AND SEEDED garnish later). Add half of speed, until the mixture is the tomato chunks to the completely smooth, about • 1 MEDIUM RED BELL PEPPER, CORED AND blender, and the other half 2 minutes. SEEDED to your serving bowl. Add 4. Pour the remaining chunks of all of the onion chunks to tomato, cucumber and bell • ¼ CUP FRESH BASIL LEAVES, PLUS EXTRA the blender. pepper) into the blender. FOR GARNISH 2. Cut off about 1/4 of the Fasten the lid and blend cucumber. Finely chop for just 10 to 20 seconds, • 1 LARGE GARLIC CLOVE, PEELED that piece and place it in until the ingredients are • ¼ CUP EXTRA-VIRGIN OLIVE OIL the small bowl. Slice the broken up into small pieces. rest of the cucumber into Stop there, or blend a little • 2 TABLESPOONS SHERRY VINEGAR OR RED rough 1″ chunks, and divide longer if you prefer smaller WINE VINEGAR them between the blender pieces. and the serving bowl. Cut 5. Add a small pinch of salt to • ¾ TEASPOON FINE SEA SALT off about 1/4 of the bell the small bowl of garnishes, • FRESHLY GROUND BLACK PEPPER pepper, finely chop that stir, and store it in the fridge. piece, and add it to the Chill the soup for at least 2 small bowl. Slice the rest of hours, or up to 24 hours. the bell pepper into rough 6. Can be refrigerated, for 3 1″ chunks and divide them to 4 days HOMEMADE / SOUP 01.