A traditional Gazpacho recipe contains these raw ingredients: tomatoes, garlic, bread, olive oil and vegetables (onion, red and green pepper and cucumber). Refreshingly raw and easy to make.
Traditional Gazpacho Recipe
During the summer months, you’ll find Gazpacho and Salmorejo popping up on bar menus all over Southern Spain and the Mediterranean. It’s the go-to starter of the summer.
Refreshingly raw cold tomato soup
And why not? Easy to make, healthy, low calorie, tasty and refreshing – this is one cold soup that has a lot going for it.
Gazpacho ingredients at the ready
What’s more it is quick to make. Get your ingredients ready and equipment out and you can have your lunch blended in under ten minutes.
What is Gazpacho?
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Making a traditional tomato Gazpacho
To speed things up, and have your Gazpacho drink blended in no time at all, make sure you have the correct kitchen equipment to
Checklist: Kitchen equipment for making Gazpacho
What should a classic Andaluz Gazpacho taste of?
Freshness! You should taste fresh tomato with a refreshing backdrop of green pepper, cucumber and a touch of garlic – this is a classic Andaluz Gazpacho.
Gazpacho ingredients
To get the taste all your ingredients should be in season, ripe and tasty. Especially the tomato and the olive oil.
How to choose the best Gazpacho ingredients?
Choose ripe, juicy tomatoes
Choose ripe, to over-ripe juicy tomatoes. Tomatoes range from being acidic and tart to sweet and delicious. In Gazpacho you want some acidity but not too much.
Plum tomatoes are a great choice. Balanced, neither too acidic or too sweet, and with fewer pips and greater yield. But if you can’t find those, choose a tomato you enjoy eating.
Choose a Mellow Olive Oil
Buy a good quality, mellow olive oil like an Arbequina. You will be drinking it – so opt for one that tastes fresh and young – not from that old bottle you’ve have had in your cupboard for over a year!
How to make Gazpacho in under ten minutes
Traditionally the ingredients are chopped up, and left to macerate overnight to improve the flavour. Feel free to do this (it takes only a few minutes), but know you can skip that stage altogether and, unless you have invited Ferran Adria to your house for lunch, no one will be any the wiser.
Simply blitz all the ingredients in a blender, adding the olive oil last of all, and then pass through a sieve.
Chilled fruit soup recipes
This classic tomato Gazpacho recipe can be easily turned into a Fruit Gazpacho to use up summer fruits. See this Cherry Gazpacho Recipe and Apricot Gazpacho Recipe.
Sopa fria
What will make your soup taste so much better is chilling it down. It is a sopa fria, a cold soup after all! Let it chill in the fridge overnight (in an airtight container) or at least for two hours.
How long can you keep Gazpacho?
Gazpacho will keep in an airtight container in a fridge for 3-5 days, during which time the flavour
Dress to Impress
How to garnish a Gazpacho? Simply, add diced cucumber, a drizzle of olive oil and some croutons.
Discover more about the origins of Gazpacho.
