Real Spanish Gazpacho

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 4 -5 large mature and juicy tomatoes
• 1 cucumber
• 1 italian pepper (red is preferred as it gives a more vivid colour to the gazpacho)
• 1 garlic, glove
• 1 loaf bread
• 3 -4 tablespoons olive oil (to taste)
• 1 -2 tablespoon wine vinegar (sherry vinegar is preferred)
• salt and pepper
• minced hard-boiled egg (optional)
• minced cured ham (optional)
• toasted crouton (optional)
• cucumber, cubes (optional)

Recipe

• 1 the first thing to do (after washing your hands lol) is to peel and deseed the tomatoes, garlic, pepper and cucumber.
• 2 wet the bread with some water and put all the ingredients in a food processor. and that's it!
• 3 you can add water if you want your gazpacho more liquid, but i recommend you not to add too much. also you can add some onion or/and more garlic to taste.
• 4 refrigerate and serve cold (you can add ice instead of water).
• 5 this is the gazpacho recipe but it is usually eaten with toasted breadcrumbs,or/and minced boiled egg and minces cured ham, or even with some cucumber cubes.