Beat the Heat With Gazpacho

This raw, chilled vegetable soup makes a wholesome summer refresher.
Beat the Heat With Gazpacho
This recipe can be blended smooth or left chunky. Lynda Balslev for Tastefood
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When the temperature soars, it helps to enjoy a meal that is cool and, well, liquid. In other words, it’s time for gazpacho.

Gazpacho is a raw, tomato-based soup swimming with chopped vegetables. Many versions call for blending or partially blending the soup, but I prefer to keep it chunky. You could call it a liquid salad. As salads go, it’s certainly healthy, and it’s also remarkably satiating, thirst-quenching, and refreshing to eat—or slurp.

Lynda Balslev
Lynda Balslev
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Lynda Balslev is a cookbook author, food and travel writer, and recipe developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her Danish husband, two children, a cat, and a dog. Balslev studied cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris and worked as a personal chef, culinary instructor, and food writer in Switzerland and Denmark. Copyright 2025 Lynda Balslev. Distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication.
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