Citrus Gazpacho With Honey Lime Cream Recipes

GAZPACHO

Steps:

• In a blender or food processor, combine tomato juice, onion, bell pepper, cucumber, tomatoes, green onions, garlic, lemon juice, red wine vinegar, tarragon, basil, parsley, sugar, salt, and pepper. Blend until well-combined but still slightly chunky. Chill at least 2 hours before serving.

HONEYDEW MELON GAZPACHO

Steps:

• Roughly chop the melon and add to the bowl of a food processor, reserving some for garnish. Chop the cucumber and halve the grapes and add to the food processor. Top with the spinach, basil, scallions and serrano. Splash in the olive oil, champagne vinegar, lime juice and honey. Process until the ingredients are combined, about 1 minute. Add half the avocado and process again until the avocado has been completely incorporated, about 30 seconds. Season to taste with salt and pepper and thin with ice water if necessary to reach desired consistency.
• Transfer to a bowl, cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
• To serve: Ladle the soup into bowls and top with the diced honeydew, sliced avocado, and cilantro leaves. Serve with wedges of lime on the side.

CITRUS GAZPACHO WITH HONEY-LIME CREAM

Steps:

• Place citrus salad in large nonmetal bowl. With fork, break up fruit into small pieces. Add salsa, bell pepper, cucumber, tomato juice, broth and oil. Reserve2 tablespoons cilantro. Add remaining cilantro to mixture in bowl stir to mix.Grate the peel from 1 lime set aside. Squeeze juice from lime into small bowl. Add to fruit mixture in bowl mix well. Refrigerate at least 2 hours to blend flavors.In small bowl, combine sour cream, honey and grated lime peel mix well. Refrigerate until serving time.To serve, cut remaining lime into thin slices quarter each slice. Ladle gazpacho into individual shallow bowls. Top each serving with sour cream mixture. Sprinkle with reserved cilantro. Garnish with quartered lime slices. Store in refrigerator.Nutrition Per Serving (1 3/4 cup): Calories 380 Protein 8g Carbohydrate 61g Fat 12g Sodium 1570mgFrom "Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off® Cookbook." Copyright 2004 General Mills. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

HONEY LIME GAZPACHO

Steps:

• In a large bowl combine tomatoes, cucumber, orange sweet peppers, jalapeño, and garlic. In a food processor process mixture, half at a time, with several on/off turns until you have large chunks. Place all of the mixture in the food processor bowl. Add lime juice, honey, cilantro, ginger, and 1/4 teaspoon sea salt. Cover and process with several on/off turns until the mixture is just a little chunky. If desired, season to taste with additional sea salt. Can add a small amount of V-8 juice if your soup is too dry.
• To serve, place 2 to 3 ice cubes in each of four shallow bowls; ladle soup over ice. Serve with lime wedges and green onions.

CITRUS GAZPACHO SOUP

Steps:

• Peel, section and seed grapefruits and oranges.
• Coarsley chop and place in bowl.
• Add all remaining ingredients.
• Chill for 4 hours.

WHITE GAZPACHO WITH PRESERVED LEMON

Steps:

• Cut 3 of the cucumbers, 3 of the zucchini and 3 of the scallions into large pieces. Finely dice the remaining cucumber and zucchini and thinly slice the remaining scallion; set aside.
• Place the large pieces of cucumber, zucchini and scallion in a blender with half the onion and all the garlic. Blend until smooth, stopping to scrape the sides of the jar. Add the bread, slivered almonds, lemon juice and salt and blend until smooth.
• Scrape the mixture into a large bowl and stir in the remaining cucumber, zucchini, scallion and onion and the preserved lemon. Refrigerate until cold. Divide the soup among 4 bowls and garnish with the lemon zest, mint and almonds. Serve.

TOMATO GAZPACHO WITH VANILLA CREAM

Steps:

• For the gazpacho: Depending on the size of the blender, the gazpacho may be prepared in one or two batches; if desired, divide the ingredients in half and blend one batch at a time.
• In a blender, combine tomatoes, cucumber, tomato paste, crème fraîche, lemon-flavored Perrier and sugar. Blend on medium speed for 2 minutes. With motor running, slowly add olive oil until mixture is emulsified and smooth. Season with fleur de sel to taste.
• For the vanilla cream: Whip heavy cream until stiff. Fold in vanilla pulp just until mixed.
• To serve, ladle gazpacho into four soup bowls and garnish each with a dollop of vanilla cream.