Try This Refreshing Cold Cucumber Soup Recipe | Jacques Pépin Cooking at Home | KQED

Jacques Pépin's recipe for mint and cold cucumber soup is a refreshing summertime dish. Jacques pulls most of these ingredients straight from his garden. Heat will depend on individual tastes and there is plenty of room to experiment with this one.
What you'll need:
1 cup mint leaves, 2 - 3 cloves of garlic, 1/2 - 1 whole jalapeno pepper, 2 1/2 lbs cucumbers, salt, 1 cup Greek yogurt, 2 tbsp olive oil, tabasco (optional), dash of sugar (optional). Garnish with mint.
Jacques Pépin Cooking At Home: Cold Cucumber and Mint Soup
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[@johnlord8337]

Cold cucumber, cold squash, and cold zucchini soups - all good. One could even think about cold pumpkin and gourd soup as well.

[@johnlord8337]

One might even wonder about lettuce, celery, celeriac, (fennel), cabbage, kale, tree kale, collard, tree collard, brussel sprout, broccoli, broccolini, cauliflower soups - all yum in the hot times. Don't forget the root vegs - carrot, salsify, beet, mangel, turnip, rutabaga (swede), jicama, potato, sweet potato, and yam root soups. Back to nature. Back to healthy eating.

[@TheMastiffprince]

Pumpkin is a type of squash same as gourd

[@worldcitizeng6507]

Will only eat/ drink cucumber 🥒 raw. Everything else must be cook for me

[@southernpaganprincess7739]

I love cold butternut!

[@johnlord8337]

@@southernpaganprincess7739Thats what she said ....

[@MaggieD0123]

I love how every food snob says you need to use a super expensive VitaMix blender and here is the greatest living Chef creating a masterpiece with an out of production Braun blender. I love him so much.

[@cironicholas526]

All my mom's kitchen tools and appliances from the 60s and 70s are so working. Meanwhile, nothing I bought 10 years ago still works.

[@gloriarangott8803]

Me too...♡♡♡

[@gloriarangott8803]

@@cironicholas526 It's called PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE!!! It's how rich corporations keep getting richer

[@taylorj.1325]

Yep

[@jonautry]

Old Braun stuff is particularly good in my experience. Their newer immersion blenders are good too. That said, I got a vitamix last year and I love it! I love how simple, robust, and easy to repair (if necessary) they are.

[@jean-marcknight8816]

The bright side of internet give us a chance to be in the kitchen with such a lovable chef as Jacques Pépin

[@01hZ]

it's incredible to me that Jacques Pépin, known for being a world class chef, ultimately finds enjoyment in a dish as simple as cucumber soup. there is both beauty and a lesson in that

[@johndemore6402]

Yeah the lesson is if you have cukes going in the garden you gotta use them

[@bt9816]

When I grew up there were 3 TV stations and PBS. From kindergarten I watched sesame street and then the Galloping Gourmet then Julia Child and that is where I was introduced to Jacques. I'm 60 now and about to retire as a chef. I will forever be grateful for PBS and my Jacques Pépin the teacher who taught me many things including how to create meals for all of my guests. Thank you!

[@juliettekaplan687]

Please tell me that that is a Costco rotisserie chicken in the background. Jaques Pepin is the absolute best.

[@jamesmorrison7847]

This man may be French but he's a national treasure for us.

[@planetX15]

International*

[@PamelaConick]

Love this treasure of a chief, so humble. I never get tiered of watching him. I watched him as a teen with my mother when Julia had her show. What fun they were to watch having fun cooking ❤️ 😊

[@richardcorsillo9819]

You all have great microphones. Those garlic cloves sounded like diamonds dropping into the blender. Thanks for this perfect warm month recipe

[@joannaedwards6325]

And the sound of the peeling of the cukes was startling.😊

[@Kingfisher1215]

I make this often and it’s everything he says. I also can substitute cantaloupe for cucumber and serve for desert. Other melons work too.

[@rustybearden1800]

A bottle of chilled chenin blanc, some cold seafood and maybe lox or smoked salmon and sorbet and fresh fruit to finish - delicious and refreshing!

[@jorgeleblanc3659]

one of my most favourite chefs of all time. Huge inspiration

[@kasondaleigh]

He makes cooking look natural and easy. Love it.

[@RobertLinthicum]

That is a cook's kitchen.

[@MottiShneor]

The authentic cold cucumber soup is from the east mediterranean, and goes by many names. In Bulgaria they call it "Tarator". There are dozens of greek and Turkish variations of the same thing. I think most of them use dill and not mint, Usually no water (as cucumbers are watery enough) and you use strong lamb yogurt. One thing - we never do it in the electric blender of food processor - always hand grit the cucumber, and so you have "something to byte" in your mouth-fulls of soup. We also cool it long time in the fridge before serving - it is really marvelous when it's very hot outside. Very refreshing.

[@martinstoychev4262]

As a Bulgarian, I agree with the above. Although we don't put mint in the tarator, I kind of like the idea. I'll give this one a try in a month :)

[@joannaedwards6325]

As a person who can't stand mint in my food I LOVE YOUR DILL SUGGESTION. thanks

[@imrankhanpathan1470]

​@@martinstoychev4262 in a month? I'd like to take a good look at your calendar 🗓️ please

[@WinstonSmithGPT]

“The authentic” lmao 😂

[@MetaWander]

Another winning recipe! As always, simple and delicious! This base (cold yogourt/milk/water/chicken broth or combination) is also delicious with cucumber+radish. Comme toujours, merci, Monsieur Pépin, à votre santé, et bon été ! 🐞🌼Thanks KQED! :)

[@chaddawgpanisi294]

masters of chef Jacques Pepin 👍🇺🇲 2024

[@marymccluer1630]

Jacques, I love your kitchen! It is well-organized and obviously thoroughly used. So many cooking channels feature kitchens that look like they are built just for show.

[@kqed]

Keeping it real.

[@sadikalsayedi5369]

In Yemen, we eat this soup everyday during the fasting month of Ramadan. We add this soup onto layers of crepes. Thanks for the video!

[@kqed]

Thanks for watching

[@oldcrowcreations]

Looks delicious! You could use dill as well, but I do like the idea of fresh mint. Especially if you have it in your garden. I’ll be experimenting with this this summer. 💕

[@julijakeit]

best to add mint before it's bloomed. after my mind blooms I do not like how it tastes anymore.

[@Kingfisher1215]

Dill and cucumber? Not a combo I like, but to each their own

[@dicksdiggers]

@@julijakeit true. remember to pinch off any flowers when they appear, this will mostly prevent the taste from changing.

[@gloriarangott8803]

I've already done beets with Greek yogurt, pureed cucumber and dill...yummy on hot hot summer days.

[@DovahVokuna]

I use lime.

[@ericmgarrison]

This is so much easier than the version I have that requires me to cook my cucumbers in chicken stock before chilling and adding yogurt and dill. I’m tossing that recipe of 40 years for this one!!!

[@patriciagrier282]

Yes Chef❤. It looks pretty with the olive oil on top. It's ok you forgot ❤

[@mrlafayette1964]

I'll try this. A southern tradition is thinly sliced cucumbers, salt and peppered but pepper 2 to 1 over the salt and just vinegar poured over them .

[@generic53]

Jack makes it look so effortless. G.O.A.T.

[@debbiezullo7056]

Jacques I love it this is first time I’ve seen this video and that’s exactly how I do my cucumber soup. From Southern California with much love💋

[@amirlin1]

Looks great!

[@examoseley2]

Definitely going to try this this week. Summer in Florida is hot! This will be refreshing 🥰

[@southernpaganprincess7739]

You can do this same thing with avacado too. Totally love how simple he made it ❤

[@worldcitizeng6507]

Guacamole soup??? I think the amount of avocado 🥑 will make me run into the bathroom the next day? I like it raw or as guac

[@bettyblue2089]

I can smell the fresh cucumbers mmmmmmmmmmmm

[@CraigArndt]

Bless Chef Pépin, just a huge inspiration to me. Learned my knife skills from him.

[@yusufg2188]

This guy makes me want to smoke a joint and watch him cook all day also listening to Jazz at the same time

[@yusufg2188]

@@historyraven99 Yeah how old are you if you don't mind me asking

[@perseus9428]

Funny… He makes most people want to cook.

[@perseus9428]

@@yusufg2188He’s of the generation that doesn’t believe they should produce anything.

[@L.Spencer]

I will try this, it looks delicious! Never had anything like that before.

[@sapete1936]

Absolute legend.

[@tlemon1950]

Thank you, sir, for your many years of instructing and amusing us, I look forward to trying this recipe, I love tzatziki, this sounds wonderful.

[@lees5073]

I'm making this in about a week when my cukes are ready. Thank you Chef!

[@ThatsTheCombinationOnMyLudgage]

He is the best chef.

[@annettefournier9655]

I use dill instead of mint and no jalapeño but chopped green onion on top.😊

[@francinecorry633]

Can`t wait till we harvest our cukes so we can give it a go.

[@brontiq]

I loooove soups and eat them all the time. In summer is a bit of a struggle though. This will be perfect for me and looks delicious

[@foxdylan9536]

This looks amazing, perfect for summer, Merci jacques 🙏

[@kikaburra]

That was so quick!! Normally additional courses intimidate me because of the extra time but not this one!

[@Gwalion]

I am so trying this! Thank you.

[@oleandergarden]

Every time it turns so amazing! Thank you!!!

[@Shaikha977]

God bless you

[@dannyfrog]

He could make ketchup popsicles and sell them like they're gourmet. He's just that good!

[@barb.gerhard9501]

I will try tis method next time with the butter milk I will add a little of the halopenos, tabasco, as well. I have always diced my cucs but I have a smoothy maker, I have made broccoli soup with it, and that turned out very good, but try making it next time with the butter milk it is somewhat simpler with less ingredients i only add green onions, but this one looks good as well.

[@gloriarangott8803]

Yogurt has better protein

[@myrsinichondrou7284]

I will definitely try it!

[@sabrina3734]

Ah, M. le chef, intéressant comme d'habitude 😊 Je dirais que cela ressemble à chutney ou à raita. D'ailleurs, on pourrait laisser la chair du concombre dans la soupe. Ça serait meilleur qu'ajouter de l'eau et l'on ne gaspille pas de matières mangeables. Que diriez-vous? 🍵🥄

[@LightninSharples]

well done

[@JIM-fj2dy]

Great recipe Thank you

[@tgh965]

❤

[@ARIZJOE]

With the cucumbers and mint coming out of Jack's garden, it's gonna taste much better than ours. Ingredients make a huge difference!! Cold soups are underappreciated - a good idea for the summer. But some people have an aversion to the idea of cold soup.

[@peternicholson233]

Some people don't like brains either. I love cold soups, and Chef Pepin and the suggestions here have me planning my garden for next summer.

[@Yalicapkini1900]

Jacques made our tzatziki a soup. Well done 😂

[@leba51able]

superamazing!

[@rjames808]

Fancy!

[@JP1989-l9h]

Great dish, ill try it, by the way, are these videos new or old.

[@joannaedwards6325]

KQED told me they are from last year.

[@thefeldgeister2961]

It dawned on me while watching this that a lot of the concoctions we call "smoothies" are really soups.

[@gloriarangott8803]

In essence, yes...fruit soups veggies soups and more meat and fishsoups

[@Kent-qo6xp]

Thanks Jacques, better than Louis Diatt

[@gillesdhaenens6323]

‘My wife would peel it, it’s pain in the neck to Peel’ gotta love this guy

[@flybyairplane3528]

There was a peanut soup,I used to make,it came from the 64/65 NY WORLDS FAIR,but forgot how to make it, I never made my cucumber soup with mint, worth a try,if I could find some , ,,🇫🇷🇫🇷🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@cscmolts77]

❤❤❤❤

[@antoniobaracco9680]

when the cucumbers start coming, they come all over the place! lololol

[@christopherpeninger324]

I wonder if adding some green tomatoes and some white wine vinegar would work in this???

[@tomaslongoria2449]

🤯❤️🤟🏽🤤

[@vearsan]

Good soup. What did he do with the rotisserie chicken in the background?

[@gloriarangott8803]

That's another cooking show

[@williampalchak7574]

Some sweet or white of the green onion would be welcome.

[@nickgleason6654]

when was this filmed?

[@u.e.u.e.]

😃👍 😋

[@worldcitizeng6507]

Why don't i see this when i had a ton of cucumber last months? I eat it with humus

[@Super3xOG1999]

This is what they ate at Aunt Josephines house.

[@vidinfoful]

I never heard of such a thing as cucumber soup. No! With yogurt? No! Try cucumber(as it is) with miso, gochujang, garlic, and sesame oil dip. I never heard of such a thing as blending a cucumber. But then, I am not Pepin and never had a French dish. Well, bon apetit!

[@kqed]

Both sound good!

[@MCPanda6969]

love the recipe, but why do the garlic cloves sound like teeth

[@cronano]

hahaha i was wondering the same thing, must be something with the audio

[@MrRandallia]

They're frozen.

[@willemruytenburch]

just like Turkish cacik.

[@PosauneundPapier]

You can't grubhub this!!!

[@theayatollahofrockandrollah]

I'm just a simple guy I guess...but I think I need my soup to be warm..

[@sogorgeous2257]

Then you wouldn’t like vichyssoise or gazpacho either. Quel dommâge!

[@leesagrrl]

Jacque is wonderful. I love these. Working in some Restaurants, I learned to leave a few strips of the green skin on a cucumber. It gives it a slightly acidic flavor. With Salt and Pepper that's delicious.

[@danf4447]

good tip

[@leesagrrl]

@@danf4447 I think mostly, most Chefs that do this just like the Colorful Look... and like I said, it adds a little bitterness that i like.