Watermelon Gazpacho
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Seasonal fruits are here and the search for new recipes begins. Having made the watermelon juice so many times, wanted to make some not so sweet . When I told my daughter that I would be making the watermelon soup today, she was surprised ,She must have assumed that it was a hot soup:-)…Gazpacho is a tomato based cold vegetable soup originally served in spanish cuisine .This cold soup is a welcome change for this summer from the regular soups
INGREDIENTS
Watermelon cubes 4 cups
Cucumber 1
Red bell pepper 1
Minced shallot 3 tbsp
Parsley 1/4 cup(optional)
Mint 2Tbsp
Olive oil 2tbsp
Salt 1/4 tsp
Pepper powder 1/2 tsp(optional)
PREPARATION
Cut the watermelons, shallots, parsley,Mint, Bell pepper into very small cubes.
Mix all these with salt, pepper powder and Oil
Blend 3/4 of this mixture until smooth
Transfer to serving bowls
Top it with 2 tbsp of remaining fruit vegetables mixture
Serve cold
It is truly a very refreshing Cold soup
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Great recipe. Please do send it to my "Healthy Me & Healthy Us" event (read the rules).
I always wante dt o try gazpacho but the main determent was will anyone eat it. Now with your post I know if that even if no one eats it I will. 🙂 Si Si this will feature in my kitchen.
Wow.. what colorful and tasty bowl with watermelon gazpacho
wow this looks so tempting and delicious and beautiful clicks and presentation..
Lovely soup, refreshing in summers….
have read about a lot about gazpacho but somehow not comfortable with the idea of a 'cold' soup! But if you say so, it probably will make for a good summer soup. Looks very very nice
A delicious and prefect summer soup,love to finish that bowl.
ah your are making me crave…
what an innovative use of watermelon
This is so interesting!
Perfect soup for summers.
Watermelon gazpacho is innovative indeed!
perfect for the summer looks superb…
looks so refreshing and perfect soup for summer….
Looks very nice Veena, until you said I never imagined it to be a soup!..I am not much of a soap person, so cold soup never came to mind…good that you guys enjoyed!
I have never heard of watermelon in this form. BM is opening my eyes to a lot of things 🙂
Very refreshing and light summer meal.
Nice summer soup….
Before I start to read I thought its going to be a drink, Its a soup nice one for hot summer.