French Market Recipe 2026 01 Gazpacho Chilled tomato soup

French Market Recipe 2026 01
Gazpacho
Chilled tomato soup

Ingredients for 4 servings

• 500ml tomato juice
• 4 large tomatoes
• 1 English cucumber
• 1 small red pepper
• 1 garlic clove
• 1 onion
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin Olive oil
• Edmond Fallot traditional Burgundy mustard
• 50ml Crème fraiche (optional)

Directions:

1. Wash all vegetables
2. Prepare a bowl of cold water with some ice
3. Boil water and pour into a separate bowl
4. Drop whole tomatoes into the boiled water, remove after 1 minute
5. Drop tomatoes into the chilled water then remove from water, pat dry
6. Peel skin off tomatoes.
7. Cut in half and remove and discard seeds, chop tomatoes
8. Peel and slice onion
9. Peel garlic and cut in half and crush
10. Peel the cucumber and chop up
11. Cut pepper in half, remove seeds, and chop up
12. Place all vegetables in a blender including the mustard
13. Reserve a few pieces of the chopped veg to use as décor
14. Blend rest of the vegetables, tomato juice, 1 tablespoon mustard. If mixture is too thick add a little water.
15. If mixture is too thin, blend in a piece of dry bread
16. Taste and season with salt and pepper as required
17. Place soup in fridge to chill
18. To serve, drip a few drops of olive oil into each individual soup bowl
19. Ladle the soup into the bowls
20. Decorate with small amount of chopped veg
21. Add teaspoon of crème fraiche with a tiny spoonful of Fallot mustard on top of the crème fraiche

Serve the soup chilled with some crunchy croutons. Serve with a glass of Tio Pepe Fino Sherry available at our French Market shop or order online at www.frenchmarket.co.za.

Bon Appétit