Bowls Of Goodness: Gaz's Super Green Gazpacho
Sometimes, the best vegan food is the food you don't even know is vegan. Join YouTube star and vegan chef Gaz Oakley and revitalize your veggie game like never before. Grab your phone and prepare to Instagram the brightest, healthiest bowl of green soup you've ever seen, like this avocado-accented green gazpacho.
So vibrant, bold, refreshing and peppery, this is one of the simplest summer soups to make but it's important to season it properly. Keep checking the taste until it's powerful. The rose-petal ice cubes will take your gazpacho to the next level and really impress your guests. They are the simplest things to make but they just look so beautiful and they add a great floral note. The gazpacho is best served straight-out-of-the-fridge cold, so make it at least an hour before serving.
- 4 handfuls spinach
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 cucumber
- 1/2 green chili
- handful fresh mint
- handful fresh parsley
- handful fresh basil
- 1 over-ripe avocado
- 5 spring onions
- 5 tablespoons coconut yogurt
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
- 4 cups filtered water
- Pinch salt and pepper
- A little lemon juice
- dried rose petals
- cherry tomatoes
- sugar snap peas
- watercress
- Avocado roses
- First up, ahead of making the soup, make the spectacular rose-petal ice cubes. Fill an ice-cube tray up with water and drop 3–4 rose petals into each cube. Place in the freezer to freeze solid.
- Put all the soup ingredients, except the water and seasoning, in a blender – you will more than likely have to do this in stages as not everything will fit into the blender in its solid form. Once everything is in the blender and half blended, pour the water in. Keep adding the water and blending until you’ve reached a smooth, soupy consistency.
- The key with gazpacho is to make sure the soup is super-smooth. There should be no bits, so if your blender isn’t very powerful and doesn’t completely blend the soup, just pass it through a sieve.
- Pour into a container and check the seasoning. This is really crucial: be generous with the salt and pepper as you want to really bring out the flavors. Add lemon juice instead of additional salt if you prefer. This will also make the flavors pop.
- Chill the soup in the fridge until you’re ready to serve; it’s as easy as that!
- To serve, pour the soup into your serving bowls. Top with 3 rose-petal ice cubes per person, a few cherry tomatoes and sugar snap peas, some watercress and an avocado rose (if you really want to wow your guests). To find out how to make an avocado rose, check out my first ever YouTube video (when I was kind of shy!).