Salpicon (seafood gazpacho with sherry vinegar)
1 servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dressed cooked crab; (at least 4oz white | |
| ; meat) | ||
| 1 | pounds | Large cooked prawns |
| 4 | Jumbo prawns for garnish; (4 to 6) | |
| 1 | Green pepper | |
| 1 | Long green chilli | |
| 1 | pounds | Large red ripe tomatoes; seeded and chopped |
| ½ | Long ridge-type cucumber; peeled, seeded and | |
| ; chopped | ||
| ½ | medium | Spanish onion; peeled and chopped |
| 1 | Garlic clove; peeled, chopped and | |
| ; pulped | ||
| ¼ | teaspoon | Finely grated fresh ginger |
| 1 | tablespoon | Sherry vinegar |
| 1 | tablespoon | Extra virgin olive oil |
| 1 | 1/4 pint thi premium tomato juice | |
| ¼ | pint | V8 vegetable juice |
| ½ | Lemon; juice of | |
| 1 | tablespoon | Fresh white breadcrumbs; about |
| 1 | large | Pinch sea salt |
| Freshly ground black pepper | ||
| ½ | teaspoon | Hot chilli sauce; (to taste) |
| Shredded crab | ||
Directions
Roast the pepper and chilli in a hot (220C/425F/gas 7) oven to blister and remove the skins (or blister over an open flame). Peel them, seed and core and chop into fine dice.
Rest all the vegetables, cooked prawns and ginger in a bowl with the sherry vinegar and olive oil for a couple of hours in the fridge. When ready to serve, blend everything together in a processor, using the tomato and V8 juices to ensure all the chunks are evenly broken down. Add the lemon juice, breadcrumbs and seasonings and whizz around for another few seconds and then taste.
Add the hot sauce, gradually so as not to overdo the heat. Try not to process the soup so fine as to render it like a puree. Leave the texture slightly coarse or, alternatively, process half or two-thirds of the mix very smooth and add the coarser part last to give some texture.
Keep the soup chilled until needed. Serve in chilled bowls and scatter some shredded crab meat with a couple of jumbo prawns for garnish. Some people add a cube or two of ice, but don't bother. It dilutes the soup and is only really there for effect. If the soup is well made and well chilled it won't be in the bowl long enough to get warm! Converted by MC_Buster.
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