Roasted Tomato Gazpacho

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The classic cold summer soup, with extra depth from roasted tomatoes.

Roasted Tomato Gazpacho / Katie Workman / themom100.com
Roasted Tomato Gazpacho / Katie Workman / themom100.com

I could eat quarts of gazpacho all summer long. When I set about making this version, the goal was a gazpacho with great fresh tomato taste, but even deeper flavor. The solution was simple: roast the tomatoes first. The sweet, layered result is well worth the slight extra hands-off time it took to bake them. If you feel like your tomatoes are end-of-summer perfect, then skip this step and get right to the chopping.

You can use all one color pepper, but the blend of colors in the final soup won’t be so varied. You can also swap in a green pepper for one of the others, which has a slightly more bitter flavor, which some people love.

The goal: a gazpacho with a great, fresh tomato taste, but even deeper flavor. The solution: roast the tomatoes first.

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In a perfect world all of the vegetables in a gazpacho might be finely diced and look pretty and symmetrical. I don’t happen to live in a perfect world, and I happen to love my food processor, so I just use that to pulse the vegetables in batches, so they chop evenly. Is it as pretty as dicing? Nope. Does it taste as good? Yup.

What to do with all of that extra time? I’m sure you’ll find something good.

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5 from 1 vote

Roasted Tomato Gazpacho

The classic cold summer soup, with extra depth from roasted tomatoes.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 40 minutes
Chilling Time: 2 hours
Total Time: 2 hours 55 minutes
Servings: 8 People

Ingredients 

  • 12 plum tomatoes
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 2 seedless cucumbers skin on, cut into 1-inch chunks
  • 1 red bell pepper cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 1 yellow bell pepper cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 1 red orange pepper cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 1 red onion cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 6 scallions trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces
  • 2 to 3 cups tomato juice
  • 3 tablespoons white wine champagne, or white balsamic vinegar
  • Hot sauce to taste

Instructions 

  • Preheat the oven to 400°F. Spray a rimmed baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray, or lightly oil the sheet.
  • Cut the tomatoes in half lengthwise, and place them cut side up on the prepared baking sheet. Drizzle them evenly with the olive oil and the vinegar, then sprinkle them with the sugar and salt. Roast them for about 45 to 50 minutes, until they are lightly caramelize and starting to collapse.
  • Add half of the tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, onion and scallion into the food processor. Pulse to chop the vegetables as finely as you would like them in the finished soup. Turn the chopped vegetables into a bowl, and repeat with the remaining vegetables. Remove half of this batch of chopped vegetables to the bowl, and then let the food processor run for about 20 seconds until the remaining couple of cups of vegetables are pureed. Add those to the bowl.
  • Add the tomato juice and vinegar, as well as hot sauce to taste. Stir and adjust the salt and pepper as desired. Refrigerate the soup for at least 2 hours, and up to 2 days. Serve chilled.

Notes

You can use all one color pepper, but the blend of colors in the final soup won’t be so varied.  You can also swap in a green pepper for one of the others, which has a slightly more bitter flavor, which some people love.

Nutrition

Calories: 99kcal, Carbohydrates: 15g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 4g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Sodium: 307mg, Potassium: 609mg, Fiber: 3g, Sugar: 9g, Vitamin A: 2178IU, Vitamin C: 94mg, Calcium: 39mg, Iron: 1mg
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About Katie Workman

Katie Workman is a cook, a writer, a mother of two, an activist in hunger issues, and an enthusiastic advocate for family meals, which is the inspiration behind her two beloved cookbooks, Dinner Solved! and The Mom 100 Cookbook.

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