What is the Spanish dish gazpacho?!

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Gazpacho, not unlike Vichyssoise, is a vegetable-based soup served cold, typically during hot weather

Making Gazpacho is not hard, but preparing the ingredients can be a bit time-consuming.

I devised this recipe to make it easy to prepare, it also allows you to puree the base and keep whatever vegetables you might like with some texture, kept in a nice dice

Sometimes I like to serve cooked and cooled crab in this soup but that is not traditional

Forget dicing vegetables until each finger is bleeding and you have cramps running up your arm. The veggies here only need a rough chop and a whirrrr through the blender to make a smooth-as-silk [yet low in fat] ice-cold gazpacho that you can serve at your summer parties. Elevate their status [and serve-ability] by serving this cold soup in Margarita glasses.

This is best with overnight refrigeration, but you could chill it 4 hours and then serve.

Ingredients
4 large red bell peppers, roasted, peeled and seeded
2 garlic cloves, peeled, crushed, chopped
1 small English cucumber, peeled, chopped
1/2 small yellow bell pepper, stemmed, seeded, quartered
1/4 cup diced red onion
1/2 large red tomato, seeded and quartered
1/2 jalapeno pepper, seeded and quartered
2 to 3 cups V8 vegetable juice
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
Cayenne pepper [to taste]
coarse salt
freshly ground black pepper
1 Meyer lemon, cut into wedges for garnish, optional

Method
Puree the vegetables in a blender or food processor, adding V8 until the desired consistency is obtained. With the motor running, add olive oil, vinegar, cayenne, salt and pepper. Chill overnight. Serve in chilled Margarita glasses; garnish with lemon wedges, if using

Gazpacho is a cold Spanish tomato-based raw vegetable soup

Wonderful cold soup full of fresh Mediterranean vegetables

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazpacho

http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/gazpacho/D…

I have made it. It's yummy. I bet there is a short cut, the dicing of veggies takes a lot of time. Maybe look for an easy gazpacho recipe. It is very good cold soup.

Best to prepare in spring or particularly on a hot summer aftn or evening. The others have provided you with very good detailed info.