In summer, you really want to have cold soups and one of the most popular soups is always gazpachos. This time we are going to talk about a different recipe, it is strawberry gazpacho.
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Strawberry gazpacho, a different gazpacho
Gazpacho is a purely Mediterranean cold soup and very popular in Andalusia. The base of these recipes is always tomato , pepper and garlic, essential ingredients in our kitchen. In addition, these recipes admit the incorporation of different fruits and vegetables.
Trying different foods is always fun. Similarly, when the recipes include different foods with nutritional properties that are beneficial to our health, even more so.
Benefits of strawberry gazpacho
When we talk about the original recipes that we have all made in our kitchens, we talk about a fantastic cold soup with bread, cucumber and tomatoes that is delicious.
Fruits and vegetables can never be missing in our kitchens. These ingredients provide our recipes with a very beneficial nutritional value for our health.
In addition, as we already know, the strawberry is a delicious fruit that not only falls in love with its flavor or its appearance, but also because of its benefits.
They provide few calories for which it helps us to obtain a lighter preparation. They also provide carbohydrates such as fructose, glucose and xylitol. In addition, they are rich in vitamins C and E that are powerful antioxidants. Likewise, they provide us with different minerals such as potassium and it is a fruit rich in fiber.
We find a delicious cold soup of different fruit with excellent properties, ideal for our diet, if we add the benefits of the original result to the properties of the strawberry.
Strawberry gazpacho: recipe
Summer is an ideal time to have a delicious gazpacho. It is the season of cold soups and we bring you a delicious variation by adding strawberries.
In these recipes we are going to ignore some of the original ingredients such as cucumber and optionally bread. However, we will add other very healthy and special ingredients, they are about fruits. They can never be missing in our kitchen because in addition to flavor, it adds joy to our recipes.
If you are tired of always having the same original recipes, try the delicious strawberry gazpacho.
We have already mentioned that botanically the tomato is considered a fruit, so it combines perfectly with the strawberry. This combination results in a much lighter dish resulting in a sweeter refreshing cold soup that is very popular, especially by children.
Strawberry gazpacho
In summer, you really want to have cold soups. Try a different recipe, it is the strawberry gazpacho.
Recipe type | Gazpacho, Cold Soup |
Recipe type | Mediterranean |
Main fruit | Strawberry |
Preparation time | 15 minutes |
Total time | 15 minutes |
For how many people? | 4 Personas |
Ingredients
- 500 grams strawberries or strawberries can be frozen
- 500 grams ripe tomatoes
- 1 unit pepper red
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 cucharada vinagre de vino
- 1 pizca sal
- 50 ml aceite de oliva virgin extra
Recipe preparation
Wash all food well.
Remove the seeds from the pepper, the green part from the strawberries and tomato.
Peel the garlic well and remove the core so that it does not repeat itself.
Put the ingredients in a blender glass and beat well.
Finally add the salt, vinegar and oil and finish mixing.
Recipe Notes
You can vary the amount of extra virgin olive oil, vinegar and salt, according to your taste.
Advice
It is also optional but advisable to go through the Chinese, an essential kitchen utensil, to leave a smoother and finer texture.
Serve very cold and with pieces of fruit to accompany, although I don’t like adding it. You can add bread crumbs to this recipe if you like a thicker texture.
To conclude, enjoying fruits in our recipes is a contribution of nutritional and flavor benefits that will bring many benefits to our diet. I hope this strawberry gazpacho is to your liking.
My name is Ellie Lauderdale, MD and I am USA based professional Nutritionist .
I am a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and board certified specialist in sports dietetics who is trained in integrative medicine. I have worked with hundreds of clients, from those suffering with chronic disease to professional and olympian athletes. My goal is to help optimize you from the inside so that you can feel, perform, and look your best on the outside.