SALMOREJO

Salmorejo is a delicious creamy soup, that is served cold and made only by a few ingredients: tomatoes, bread, garlic, olive oil,  and salt.

Salmorejo is similar to gazpacho but thicker and creamier in texture because of the bread.

It is served as a starter or first meal and accompanied with chunks of iberico ham and crumbled hard boiled eggs on top.

This recipe  is full of vitamins(vitamin C), antioxidants(selenium) and minerals because of the nutrient dense of tomatoes.

You can enjoy also salmorejo as a sauce preparing a toast with iberico ham on top, love it!!!

For this easy recipe we will need:

INGREDIENTS

Serves 6

• 2 pounds(1 kg) ripe tomatoes
• 7 oz (200g) stale bread
• 9 oz (150ml) spanish olive oil
• 1 clove of garlic
• salt to taste
• 2 boiled eggs
• sliced iberico ham

PREPARATION

1. Wash tomatoes and blend them using a food processor or a blender.
2. Use a colander to remove some peel from tomatoes and seeds.
3. In a bowl put the "guts" of the bread and cover with the tomatoes puree for at least 10 or 15 minutes.
4. Add the clove of the garlic and blend all the ingredients(tomatoes, bread and garlic).
5. Add olive oil, little by little, and emulsify using the blender.
6. Add salt and taste it.
7. The result needs to be creamy and thick, with a beautiful orange color(taste the final result and add more olive oil or salt if it needs it).
8. Serve cold and garnish with diced boiled eggs and iberico ham on top.
9. Enjoy!!!.