Refreshing Cold Soups for Hot Summer Days

[@Ana_Cr]

Hello chef! I really liked your version of Gazpacho. Here in Spain, what we do is put the tomatoes, cucumber, green pepper, salt, olive oil and vinegar all in the blender until it is liquid. For example, I put it in bottles and we drink it in a glass as if it were a cold drink;but other people chop the pepper and cucumber mix it with the gazpacho and eat it as a soup. Thank you very much for your recipes. They look delicious

[@enric5522]

Te falta el pan viejo.

[@a.s.6685]

​@@enric5522 Nunca le pongo pan, no hace falta

[@melenatorr]

@@a.s.6685 That's correct at least in our family. We make gazpacho the way Ana does: tomato, cucumber, sweet pepper, garlic and onion. All in the blender with water and olive oil (we like variation in our acid, so we add that tableside). If it's made with bread to thicken it's actually not gazpacho but porra. And there is also a simple tomato and garlic cold soup thickened with bread and that is salmorejo.

[@a.s.6685]

@@melenatorr If you look up the origins of gazpacho, bread is actually the first and key ingredient, even before it ever contained tomatoes, which had not yet been introduced in Spain. In Andalusia most people still include bread in gazpacho, but I don't, and when there is no bread, there's no need to thin it out with water either.

[@jiang311]

Hello chef, I not only like your cooking videos but also like your commentary like singing. I am from Asia, but I like learning how to cook European and American dishes. Thank you for your videos for giving me the opportunity to try more dishes

[@TheTinkerersWife]

Store bought tomatoes taste like disappointment. 😉 Gazpacho Verde looks gorgeous. And you are correct, they can't make that at the paint store. *Passing my bowl* please 😊

[@jezbraun]

Nice Roots and Refuge quote!

[@lesfleurs9781]

Polish cuisine has many summer cold soups that are relatively unknown outside the country that are incredibly delicious.

[@aarong.4691]

Any ones that you can name that you really like? Might have to make some myself!

[@Rob-xw6dr]

@@aarong.4691 i've had cold creamed borscht

[@kirbyculp3449]

Cherry soup

[@alvarortega2]

I am going to call these, Italian Gazpacho 1 and 2, Georgia Gazpacho (peaches), and Vichyssoise Ajo Blanco :) I am from Spain, so it'll be fun to try out all of these variations.

[@jeffpribyl6488]

Take any one of these recipes add a little more water and a healthy splash of a good vodka... Cheers chef John 🍻🇨🇦

[@jenniferrice5877]

"Not those pink supermarket abominations; crime against natures" 😅🤣😂👍

[@jillhumphrys8073]

Wow that gazpacho could be eaten after you diced and seasoned it! Just like a cucumber tomatoe salad. lol

[@NicoleJacksonnoj100]

I always wanted to try cold soups. This is perfect.

[@greenleavesofsummer9673]

Try it w strong sour dough bread, toasted❣️Heavenly👍🏻 Try Champaign vinegar for its mildness😍

[@donnaherring2355]

I loved your approach to gazpacho sounds wonderful and can’t wait to try it

[@coolcat8b]

Perfect timing! It's pretty hot where I live (Montreal) and cold soup is the perfect light lunch. I will try some (maybe all) of those for sure. Thank you for those Chef! 🥰 I only wish I knew what to do with the leftover fibres. Cause fibres are good for the body, it's a shame to toss them. I suppose I could add them to some pasta sauce?

[@RogerC68]

Yes, from Ottawa and this summer is so hot! Will definitely be trying a couple of these for sure! Thanks John, once again.

[@missmayflower]

Compost

[@marianlincoln9008]

@@missmayflower EXACTLY... Then nothing goes to waste... It just gets recycled.

[@xxaos0]

Cilantro in gazpacho? Not very common at all! In spain we dont use cilantro. Maybe you mistake us for mexico... The rest of the recipe is very accurate! well only if u switch the balsamic for vinager, if posible vinagre de jerez.

[@figmo397]

Those soups all sound wonderful, but I can't eat cucumber (you don't want the details of what happens when.I do). Is it possible to substitute something like zucchini for the cucumber?

[@jonlava173]

Since it’s been such an extreme dry-hot summer, I can imagine using the gazpacho recipe quite often. 🥵.

[@brainwashingdetergent4322]

I think you work for Big Cayenne!

[@alexanderburawa9307]

I'm surprised and a little disappointed by the fact that you didn't include what I consider to be the greatest cold soup of all time (ahem, my personal preference): classic rich and creamy--and decadent-- vichysoisse. My fist taste of this delightful soup was in 1956 (yes, I'm very old and somewhat tradition-bound when it comes to food and very much so when it comes to provincial French cuisine). I've been making and delighting in vicysoisse for 66 years and will continue doing so until... It's that good.

[@beluch2768]

I was hoping you would make Vichyssoise. My Mom used to make it from Louis Diat's recipe. Such a delicious cold soup.

[@xanav1693]

Soy española. El gazpacho no es tan complicado como lo hacéis.

[@a.s.6685]

Gracias, tienes toda la razón 🙏

[@DeForestRanger]

Ooooooh, I love gazpacho, but I never thought to put woostershesterscheister sauce in it! Tomorrow lunch...yep!

[@a.s.6685]

And you shouldn't 😅

[@manifestingbeautifullife2187]

Excellent idea!! Thank you❤️

[@MottiShneor]

Wonderful collection of Gazpacho recipes. Thank you!

[@susananderson9619]

The sugar snap pea soup is the one that I will make. Gazpacho ,I'm afraid I will confuse my taste buds that it's funky tomato soup.

[@kevinlott9626]

"Salad on a spoon"... !! You're GREAT, Chef John..😂🙂

[@ricktssf]

Chef John, thanks for inspiring us to once again to make gazpacho. We used pounds of Cherry tomatoes... We used a friend's hybidcus vinegar and for the first time strained into that red silk. Excellent

[@marianlincoln9008]

I love how described the hot house grocery store tomatoes... You can always tell the difference in taste. When I was a child, we'd spend the summer on my GRANDPARENTS farm.. GRANDMA would send us out to pull weeds .... With a salt shaker in our pocket.. She said she didn't care how much we ate out of the garden, corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots so long as we pulled weeds...

[@sdm031]

what a blessing

[@marianlincoln9008]

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[@cherylbishop7657]

I love cold soups, hay chef how about showing us how to make our own amazing seasonings with our leftovers from our soups.?....Times are a getting" tuff " for some of us. GOD BLESS

[@carriemartinez2933]

Chef, I cannot wait to make all of these GORGEOUS gazpachos!!! I'm going to the farmers market this week!!! I'm also going to make the tomato soup you made a while back as well!!! You inspire me Sir!!!!!

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[@Pitmirk_]

Had cold peach soup in budapest, it was excellent

[@shellydesormier4646]

That sounds wonderful, I’ve been toying with the idea of a cold honeydew type soup? It’s snowing now so I have a few months to work it out in my head and get some ideas. The peach sounds fantastic.

[@kathrynlundgren7618]

I tried making a watermelon gazpacho recipe this Summer and wow was it wonderful and so easy. Thanks for your cooking tips especially how to chop vegetables.

[@sapphy2]

Can't wait to make these

[@behvylannatrumananassan2826]

I don't use Cuccs or Cheese for green gazpacho. Tomatillos and gold currants/Sultanas, fresh Mexican oregano. Soup is reliably more filling and I pair it with blue 🌽 corn dumplings.

[@h1r086]

I was literally just talking about gazpacho a couple days ago and considering the question of "is cereal soup?". I dismissed temperature as a defining characteristic of soup due to gazpacho.

[@a.s.6685]

It's not technically a soup, as it's just blended RAW vegetables.

[@sminthian]

I might have to try that last one. My sugar snap pea plants are starting to make a bunch of peas, and it's getting a little boring eating them the same all the time...

[@Rob-xw6dr]

sherry vinegar is the magic ingredient. put everything in the cuiz. skip the manual chopping. Good quality Italian canned tomatoes work if you can't fine good, ripe toms. The rest of the recipe is OK.

[@iryanmadayana1904]

Hmm, I wonder if ginger would go well in gazpacho. Obviously not authentic, but just in terms of flavor I feel like it might work nicely!

[@Harry777]

I just adopted a kitty named Gazpacho and I've been wanting to make it for him!!

[@susanaescriba977]

🤗😍

[@SSS-sd1cf]

Is it okey to say that this is almost like making smoothie? I love cold soups which is absolutely not a part of my culture. Always good to learn things new.

[@lovewillwinnn]

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[@barbatloosenutproductions2027]

"For all you cayenne freaks"? Boy! The pot just called the kettle black! 🤣🤣🤣👍

[@rasmuschristoffersen1461]

In really confused....???? Which way to turn a lime or lemon in the squezer?

[@greedybeastie9828]

I like cold soups but I end up chugging them like smoothies. Too greedy for my own good.

[@a.s.6685]

No problem, they're the healthiest.

[@a.s.6685]

@@greedybeastie9828 I'm sure there are worse things

[@bullgrim]

Gazpacho is made with vinegar, not lemon juice.

[@a.s.6685]

And that's only one of the many differences :-) Viva el vinagre de Jerez!

[@bullgrim]

@@a.s.6685 Viva!!!!

[@johannebeerbaum1546]

I am with you on the leeks….they are expensive and I use them the way Pepin teaches to use….

[@boredmom3287]

Love your recipes! Thanks again!

[@lyxgoz248]

I have no idea why I thought the green gazpacho was going to be made with tomatillo’s lol

[@SARGENTO007A]

The worcestishishisire sauce bit had me in stitches.

[@brainwashingdetergent4322]

I NEED TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT!

[@jazzy_taste]

Lots of good ideas for light and refreshing foods during the hot summer!

[@bigfatchubbybritboy9445]

Mint would work even better with raw cucumber than basil, especially so in a soup.

[@missmayflower]

Gorgeous. Thanks for all of these recipes.

[@brainwashingdetergent4322]

Souper easy!

[@DeltaDemon1]

You know what makes traditional gazpacho really good...Cook it and serve it hot.

[@a.s.6685]

Done that. It's most dissapointing, especially given how delicious the real thing is.

[@TheSlavChef]

You should try Tarator, Chef John. It is a great yogurt, cucumber, garlic summer soup, served cold with some ice.

[@martinraboy5971]

Wow… Made this last night. Was a hit, as well as the cheese. Will make this again.

[@KFrost-fx7dt]

Leave out the olive oil and that first one is bloody mary mix.

[@skakee]

“Not those supermarket abominations” …I’m not a farmer nor have other means to grow tomatoes. Guess out of luck. Oh well…

[@SaccharinSweet123]

Even in the middle of winter you can find good plum/cherry tomatoes. Get a package of those and bulk the recipe out with lesser quality, larger tomatoes. Add some tomato paste if necessary. Adaptive thinking and creative problem solving are paramount to amazing home cooking.

[@ewanmee9877]

Thank you most sincerely.

[@leeeakin936]

Did you mean, “It would be insoupid “?

[@NC-qc7wd]

I was just in Ibiza, the weather was about 99F almost every day, and every day I had Gazpacho and different places, your Gazpachos look awesome too!

[@АнтонК-х1ж]

Auktsa and okroshka, are very nice in the summer

[@susananderson9619]

What about that French cucumber soup starts with a V

[@a.s.6685]

Vichyssoise is made with leeks

[@susananderson9619]

I tried numerous times to spell it but gave up

[@a.s.6685]

@@susananderson9619 It's a normally cooked soup, only served cold. No cucumbers.

[@dtemp132]

I've made the Golden State Gazpacho every week for several years now. It's a vehicle for me to consume huge amounts of vegetables. I'm sure I'm healthier for it.

[@victormillen8393]

I'm just gonna call it Italian smoothie

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[@sO_RoNerY]

First recipe I use watermelon.

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[@lizzfrmhon]

Chef can you freeze these soups?

[@aintmisbehavin7400]

Chef John, I really like the change to the cadence in your presentation and voice in these. Great stuff!

[@Jockerisas]

Good day, John! I advise to try out the Lithuanian cold beetroot soup. Delicious.

[@soaringkite2673]

No Sherry for the gazpacho?

[@Rincenso]

Ohh, Gestapo soup. :P

[@pineconey]

Beautiful soups!

[@ludmillamiller7323]

All the recipes by Chef John that we've tried so far are absolutely delicious!

[@catherinedsouza854]

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[@nansanfilippo7035]

Fun and delicious

[@MadScientistSoap]

Cold soup is just a vegetable smoothie.

[@a.s.6685]

Only if the vegetables are not cooked first

[@donaldtucker5964]

Cold Soup belongs in a glass ! They call it " JUICE "

[@Evolutionistz]

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[@jizzus3445]

Thank you chef

[@karenburrell5188]

I’ll have to try this with my homegrown tomatoes cherry and regular

[@adama6441]

roy donk from the colgate comedy hour would love this soup

[@richardbuckner4400]

Your classic gazpacho recipe is great!

[@flavoi1]

Has anyone tried adding some fresh peppermint to gazpacho verde? Peppermint is great for cooling down the body on a hot day, and I think it might go well with this soup flavor-wise.

[@marilynsnider8183]

You forgot cold potatoe soup. Very good.

[@Me-td8eo]

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[@theveganmenu8571]

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[@roeboatwade]

American Gazpacho is V8.

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[@kathrynlundgren7618]

😂

[@susanboonsodakorn6388]

Absolutely love it !

[@MK-yl1kl]

First 🥇

[@a.s.6685]

I'm sure your tomato gazpacho is very tasty, but it cannot be called classic. For the traditional gazpacho : no onion, no cumin, no oregano, no hot peppers, no Worcestershire sauce, only ripe tomatoes, cucumber, red and/or green bell pepper, garlic, salt, pepper, Jerez vinegar and Spanish (Andalusian) EV olive oil. No need to peel the tomatoes or to chop finely, as you blend all the vegetables and then strain them. No basil and definitely no coriander. Serve chilled, sprinkled with little dices of tomatoes and cucumber.

[@richardbuckner4400]

May not be classic but it is delicious

[@CreggLund]

Cold soup makes as much sense as heated ice cream.

[@jaclo3112]

OMG fried ice cream is so good.

[@CreggLund]

@@jaclo3112 I agree. But the ice cream is still cold.

[@marinalizardo4973]

Delicious 😋

[@emmarose6590]

It’s a no for me

[@ЛюдаБурцева-й7с]

😋😋выглядит так вкусно ! ❤looks so delicious! 👍👍

[@patappleton6285]

Yum.