Now we are in summer, one of the most favorite seasons of the year for many people. Since summer is a very hot time, you want to eat something lighter and refreshing, because you have no appetite for heavy fatty foods. This is why we want to share with you one incredibly easy, interesting and healthy recipe for cold Spanish soup - Gazpacho. This soup is one of the favorite dishes of vegetarians, as it does not contain animal products. This soup is as easy to prepare as it tastes. Gazpachois prepared really very quickly, since it does not need to be boiled, but only chopped with a blender, but we will talk about this a little later.

To prepare this Spanish dish you will need: tomatoes, cucumbers, red bell peppers, onions, garlic, lemon juice or apple cider vinegar, water, salt, pepper. We begin our preparation by preparing vegetables for the soup, here we have several stages. First, we need to bake the sweet peppers a little to make it easier to remove the skin. Add a little olive oil to a baking sheet, place the whole bell pepper on it and sprinkle a little more oil on it. You can add a little salt to the pepper. This method of preparing bell peppers not only helps us peel the skins more easily, but also ensures a richer pepper flavor in the dish itself. Next we need to peel the tomatoes, for this we need to use the blanching technique.For those who don’t know what blanching is, it’s a process of processing food with boiling water. As a rule, it’s a fairly short-term process, but it all depends on the product itself. It is enough to blanch the tomatoes for no more than four minutes; after this manipulation, the skin of the vegetable is removed very easily and quickly. Cucumbers should also be peeled. Cut all the prepared vegetables into large cubes and place them in a blender bowl for blending. You need to beat until smooth. Add chopped onions and garlic to the chopped vegetables, add salt, vegetable oil and apple cider vinegar or lemon juice. By adding lemon juice you get a more refreshing aroma and light sourness.When all the ingredients of our soup have been brought to a homogeneous consistency, you can strain the entire soup through a strainer so that there are no large particles of vegetables in it that have not been completely mixed..

Gazpacho is served cold with slices of fresh cucumber or croutons. The croutons for this soup are usually made from white bread. And they are prepared very, very simply: cut white bread into cubes, sprinkle with olive oil, add spices (Suneli hops work well here, for example) and fry in a frying pan over low heat.