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avocado and cucumber gazpacho

Cucumber Avocado Gazpacho With Left Over Salad

This avocado and cucumber gazpacho uses left over vegetables from your fridge to yield a refreshing and bright chilled summer soup!
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Chilling time 15 minutes
Course Appetizer, lunch
Cuisine American, Vegan, vegetarian
Servings 2

Equipment

  • Blender

Ingredients
  

  • 1 large cucumber, peeled or with the skin on (I peeled half of mine and left the skin on half)
  • 1 ripe avocado
  • 1 garlic clove
  • 1/2 cup water (or vegetable broth for extra flavor)
  • 1 cup left over salad or vegetables (see notes)
  • 1 tsp cumin (you can use any spices you like, but I truly enjoy the flavor of cumin in this)
  • 1/2 tsp garlic powder
  • the juice of 1/2 of one lemon (any citric fruit will work, see notes)
  • salt, to taste ( I didn't add any, but that is personal preference)

Instructions
 

  • Prepare your cucumber and avocado. Peel cucumber, if peeling. Chop into pieces (no specific size since it is going to be blended) and add to blender. Carefully cut open the avocado, remove the pit and spoon the insides of the avocado into the blender, discarding the skin and pit.
  • Add the rest of the ingredients into the blender. Note that if you have any water based vegetables that you need to use, now is the time to use them! Toss them in!
  • Put the lid on the blender and blend until fully blended and soup-like consistency. Taste and season with salt/pepper.
  • Chill for at least 15 minutes until cool. Scoop into bowls and garnish with chopped nuts, parsley, greek yogurt, or whatever you like! Enjoy!

Notes

Tips: 
  • This recipe yields two servings.  If you are serving more people, simply double or triple the recipe!  
  • The best part about gazpacho is that you can add just about any vegetable you have laying around the house into the blender.  I added left over take out salad to mine, which was mostly comprised of iceberg lettuce.  Check your fridge for some rouge celery or tomatillios! The juicier and the higher the water content, the better.
  • You can also opt for any citric juice you have available. I use lemon, but orange or lime juice works great as well!
Keyword avocado, cheese soup, chilled, cool, crispy garlic chicken, cucumber, cumin, easy, fruit salad, gazpacho, quick
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