One delicious daily dose of veggies in a cup 🙂
1 tomato
1/2 bell pepper
1 small garlic clove
4 basil leaves
1/2 teaspoon dried Italian herbs
1 sundried tomato
1 date
1 tablespoon of sunflower or pine seeds, or nuts
Salt
Extra virgin olive oil
Lemon juice
Simply blend everything together with about 1/3 the volume of water, add salt, extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice to taste… enjoy!
If you think this soup looks pale, you’re right. It did! However i’m sure it will give you a healthy blush, for it’s packed with vitamins and fibers.
One could say this is a gazpacho… yes, let’s call it that. But with a surprising fruity twist!
Now i’ll be quick and get this recipe out. After all, it only takes one minute to make. The blogpost should hardly take longer.
In a blender, combine:
Blend until smooth and serve. My vegetables came from the fridge and so the soup was at perfect temperature. Should be fresh but not very cold.
This a nice and quick starter for a summer evening dinner. Some green herbs would have been nice. Mint or basil and parsley, probably. That’s for next time. I love these little experiments.
You know that camping feeling? Living with little, in a tent or caravan, wearing flip flops to the toilet, wet grass tickling your toes… That’s me right now! Not because i’m on holiday, but just because i CAN.
Well, and because my relationship broke up.
I went to live somewhere i can be with my feet on the ground: in a friend’s caravan (thank you!) on the premise of another friend thank you too!).
Now that i am processing and waving bye to nine years of love and also some mutual pain, too much pain in the end, many things are shifting. Sadness, incomprehension and especially: all the more love. Everything is open. And what happens? A world of new opportunities, new possibilities and new encounters is appearing. Wow. And yes: outch :(.
As i’m embrazing the raw truth, much of my food here is also raw. It’s full of life and has all sweet and bitter tastes life has to offer. Every morning i wake up in my caravan, make a nice pot of tea and then blend a smoothie of vegetables, fruits and other healthy ingredients (check this one, for example: Morning glory power smoothie). Quick and easy, beautiful start.
Raw is also the soup i’m sharing today: gazpacho with carrot. Throw all ingredients in the blender together en put itin the fridge for a while. So make sure to use clean ingredients; the carrot used in the soup was cleaner than the one in the picture. (My friend who saw the pic wanted you alt to know that. So now you do ;).)
(cold tomato soup)
serves four plates
Blend
4 large tomatoes
one half bell pepper
one half onion
one carrot
handful of basil
small handful of celery leaf
one garlic clove
two tablespoons tomato paste
some water
Add pepper, salt and herbs to taste. You may also want to add some sweetener.
Cool in the fridge while preparing the rest of the meal.
Enjoy!
