How to make gazpacho with tomatoes, cucumber, jalapeño, garlic and sherry vinegar. Gazpacho is fresh and delicious. It also keeps well and gets better as it sits in the refrigerator — this is perfect for making ahead of time!
Related: If you love tomato soups, try our highly rated roasted tomato soup!
How To Make Gazpacho aka Really Delicious Chilled Tomato Soup
Gazpacho is a chilled tomato soup and generally is left uncooked. It’s important to use the best ingredients, especially when it comes to the tomatoes. Since we don’t always have access to the best tomatoes, we turn to roasting.
By roasting about half of the tomatoes, the sugars and flavor of the tomatoes intensify. Roasting is up to you — if you have amazing tomatoes, don’t roast and just use them raw. We also roast tomatoes when making this slightly updated gazpacho recipe.
Even more flavor comes from fresh basil, onion, lemon, cucumber and a little sherry vinegar. The soup really pops and is perfect served cold in warm weather. It’s also delicious served warm in cool weather.
Roasted Tomato Gazpacho
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Traditional gazpacho uses all raw ingredients. This recipe takes advantage of roasted tomatoes in order to add an extra touch of sweetness. If you prefer, skip the roasting and use all ingredients in their raw form. If you do this, we suggest reducing the amount of garlic and possibly the amount of jalapeño since roasting would have toned them down a little.
You Will Need
1 ½ pounds vine-ripened tomatoes, halved, cores and seeds removed
1 small jalapeño
3 medium, garlic cloves, unpeeled
1/2 cup chopped red onion
1 cucumber, halved, seeds removed and peeled
3/4 cup tomato juice
1/4 cup lightly packed basil leaves
5 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Half a lemon, juiced
2 teaspoons sherry vinegar
1 teaspoon sea salt, or to taste
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper, or to taste
Directions
1Heat the oven to 425° Fahrenheit.
2Arrange half the tomatoes, jalapeño, and unpeeled garlic cloves in a pan with sides, cut sides up, in a single layer. Drizzle with one tablespoon of olive oil and sprinkle with a pinch of salt. Roast for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven.
3Place the jalapeño into a bowl covered in plastic wrap or a re-sealable plastic bag for 10 minutes, peel, remove seeds, and roughly chop.
4Add the roughly chopped jalapeño, roasted tomatoes, and any juice from the baking sheet to a large mixing bowl. Squeeze the garlic from the garlic peel and add to the roasted tomatoes.
5Add the uncooked tomatoes, cucumber, red onion, tomato juice, basil leaves, olive oil, lemon juice, sherry vinegar, salt and pepper and stir to combine.
6Transfer the mixture to a blender or food processor and puree for 15 to 20 seconds on high speed, then add to a separate large bowl. Cover and chill for at least 2 hours.
Adam and Joanne's Tips
- Make Ahead: Gazpacho gets better over time. Make this up to 3 days in advance.
- This recipe was originally shared with maché magazine and we are happy to be able to share it with you!
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Recipe updated, originally posted August 2011. Since posting this in 2011, we have tweaked the recipe to be more clear. – Adam and Joanne
Thanks for the great recipes.
I was searching for a roasted gazpacho recipe and came across this and your wonderful site. It appeared to be the best recipe I found in my search. I prepared it (but used a different kind of chili pepper)and it was amazing! Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to strolling through other recipes here! 🙂
It is just in this past year that I have come to enjoy chilled soups. I have yet to make Gazpacho but this looks so good. Thanks for sharing your gorgeous photos and recipe.
Nice recipe and gorgeous pic – I really like gazpacho and this is a reminder to make it more often.