sucks ☐ / passable ☐ / great ☐ / perfect ✓
Even though I don’t normally have opinions one way or another on gazpacho1, this recipe is so good that I have reconsidered my whole worldview on the matter…
1/4 cp finely diced red onion
1/2 large red pepper, diced very fine
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 1/2 cans muir glen tomato sauce ←important!2
a handful of shrimp3
1/2 to 3/4 of a minced jalapeño4
juice of half a lime
1 tsp evaporated cane juice sugar
1 tsp salt
a few grinds black pepper
1/4 cp fine olive oil5
small handful of cilantro, choppedjust mix together! serve cold or lightly heated to room temperature, with Garden of Eatin’ yellow corn chips. Garnish with olives & chopped avocado.
so what makes this gazpacho really great to me is the way it uses tomato sauce as a base. it’s smooth (and I don’t like chunks of tomatoes!) and just a tiny bit sweeter instead of acidic. to me, that adds something amazing to the whole dish (& means that I actually like it). the taste just…. it’s incredible. :) so tasty, and not too complicated to make either.
***general disclaimer. check certification & ingredients, use your judgment. not everything I link to is certified
in practice it reminds me of a restaurant i went to once as a kid where i was baffled and surprised at the idea of cold soup. it seemed fun and interesting at the time and I really *tried to* like it… [it was one of those “Events” where you don’t get to choose what the food’s going to be.] well fortunately THIS soup is much better.
if you don’t use the right tomatoes, and your tomatoes taste disgusting, you will unfortunately ruin the entire dish! so make sure to use this brand or another one that you know tastes amazing!
or other seafood you want to add
depending on how spicy your jalapeño is
you know! like a good one!
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