Gazpacho is a traditional Spanish soup, made with tomatoes, cucumbers, garlic, basil and olive oil. It’s a very simple dish and as you can imagine it’s easy to make. It goes well with crusty bread and makes a light lunch to enjoy on hot days.
Gazpacho Soup Recipes
Gazpacho is a popular Spanish cold soup that is often served as a starter or as a light lunch in Spain. It consists of tomatoes, onions, garlic, peppers, and cucumbers. Gazpacho is traditionally made with fresh tomatoes and cucumber, but canned ones are widely used. The soup’s main flavor comes from the sliced and blanched peppers. To prepare gazpacho, you need to peel the vegetables and remove the skins from the peppers. Cut them into small pieces and then chop them finely with a knife or food processor.
Traditionally, the ingredients would be pound into a pulp using a pestle and mortar, but today they are more likely to be blended using a food processor.
We often vary the proportion of ingredients depending on the season and availability.
Here are some of our favourite gazpacho recipes 🙂
Spanish Gazpacho Recipe from Omar Allibhoy
Spanish chef Omar Allibhoy shows how to make traditional Spanish gazpacho with just a few key ingredients – and of course a food processor.
Watermelon Gazpacho Recipe
Watermelon gazpacho? Yes, this is a light and refreshing take on the traditional gazpacho recipe. It looks pretty and is surprisingly tasty.
Traditional Spanish Gazpacho Recipe
This recipe is in Spanish but it has English subtitles. This tells us how to make an authentic Spanish gazpacho.
More Gazpacho Soup Recipes
And there are plenty more gazpacho soup recipes we enjoy including:
Gazpacho Recipe Using Canned Tomatoes
This recipe uses canned tomatoes which is a handy alternative if you don’t have fresh tomatoes to hand or don’t fancy peeling and preparing them. This recipe also shares some interesting history of gazpacho.
Image credit: VisitSouthernSpain.com
Best Ever Gazpacho Recipe
This is described as the ‘best ever’ gazpacho soup – and it just might be!
Image credit: PARK FEIERBACH/Delish
Green Gazpacho Recipe
This is a variation on the traditional tomato gazpacho recipe – with spinach used as a key ingredient. The flowers frozen inside the ice cubes makes a nice garnish.
Image credit: BBC GoodFood
What is Gazpacho Soup?
Gaspacho is a summer vegetable soup made from tomatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, garlic, onions and spices. There are many different types of gazpachos made in different regions.
Every region of Spain produces a distinctive variety of gazpacho, whether it’s the green, autumnal leaves of Andalusia, the sweeter flavors from Catalonia or the tart and tangy flavors from Valencia.
