Come late summer, gazpacho is the answer for everything. Can’t get rid of your garden’s zucchini harvest? Gazpacho! Feeling sugar overload from ice cream and berry desserts? Gazpacho! Too warm to eat hot food? Gazpacho!
The beauty about this dish is that you can pretty much take any produce you have on hand and create something fresh and light from it. The recipe below is an approximation; substitute your own veggies if you don’t have the exact ingredients. The key is to keep the tomato juice, lime juice, garlic and olive oil to ensure that it’s a soup and not a salsa.
Garden Gazpacho
- Juice of 2 limes
- 3 cups tomato juice
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 4 tomatoes
- 2 medium zucchini
- 1 bell pepper
- 1 onion
- 1/4 cup cilantro, roughly chopped
- Salt and pepper
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the first four ingredients and set aside
- If you have a food processor, use it to roughly dice the remaining ingredients and add them to a large bowl when done. If not, just dice them by hand and add to a large bowl and stir to combine.
- Stir the juice mixture into the vegetable mixture. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve chilled with bread.
Variation 1: To make the gazpacho more filling, add a cup and a half of cooked and chilled shrimp.
Variation 2: Get a little crazy by adding summer fruit, such as a nectarine, peach, plum, or berries.
Variation 3: Add some bite by incorporating a seeded jalapeno to the vegetable mix.
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