cold soups

Ingredients: 350 gms leeks, white part only ½ tsp dried sage 4 spring onions (green onions), green parts reserved for garnish 400 gms carrots, diced ¼ tsp turmeric powder 1 medium onion, diced 350 gms potato, diced 1,2 lts water 50 mls olive oil 2 tbsps double or non-dairy cream Salt and pepper...

Ingredients: 2-3 large avocados 1/2 small onion, diced 1 clove garlic, crushed 1-2 tbsps lime juice (or lemon juice) 1 lt vegetable stock 1 tsp sugar 2 tsps white wine vinegar ¼ tsp chile powder Salt and black pepper to taste 1 tbsp fresh coriander to garnish Method: Peel and dice the avocado...

Ingredients: (serves 4-5) 450 gms (1 lb) cooked beetroot, diced 200 gms potato, peeled and diced 1 medium red onion, chopped 1 tbsp olive oil or vegetable oil 1,2 lts (2 pints) stock 1 Tbsp red wine vinegar 1 Tbsp fresh dill Salt and white pepper to taste Method: In a large pan, heat the oil...

I have adapted this recipe from one i find online at Gazpacho Ingredients (serves 6) 1kg very ripe tomatoes 1 English cucumber 1 red pepper, cored and quartered 2 scallions, 4 garlic cloves 200g fresh or stale bread 1-2 tbsp sherry vinegar 1 tsp smoked paprika 1 tsp salt 4 tbsp olive oil...

A cold soup from Andalusia, it is a very thick soup made of tomatoes, bread, olive oil, garlic and vinegar. Cold it is sometimes called porra fría, hot it is known as porra crúa and eaten in winter. It is also accidentally vegan. Ingredients (serves 4-6) 300g day old bread 1kg very ripe...

What cold soups do you know or eat? I'm after some new recipes and ideas, that are designed to be eaten cold. Some regional soups one i know are Ajo Blanco is accidentally vegan. Obviously Gazpacho is another, with various version or variants. These are the ones I know - cold soups list by tag.

I came across this recipe by chance. Apparently it's a tradional Swedish recipe, though I'm uncertain because neither ginger nor lemongrass are traditional Swedish ingredients, but either way, it's a recipe that grew on us and the more we ate, the more we liked it. We'll happily make it again...

I came across a recipe in the vegetarian times for this recipe. www.vegetariantimes.com/recipes/strawberry-gazpacho-with-lime-cilantro-cream/ . As always I've adapted the recipe. I'm uncertain that the olive oil in the original recipe is required, so I'm omitting totally. I've not made much...

The heat is increasing every day and the body demands something refreshing. And, on top of this, is tomato season right now. Can you think in anything better than this? INGREDIENTS (SERVES 2) Tomatoes (1 kg / 10 medium) Bread baton (1) Garlic clove (1) Olive oil (1 tbsp) Salt Boiled eggs (2)...

I have a cookery book called "Mango Soup" by Jenni Malsingh. And in that book there is a recipe for mango soup. She took two Indian dishes and combined them. She took the Gujarati idea of adding mango pulp to karli (which is a gram flour and yoghurt soup) and the Keralan idea of coconut & mango...

This soup really needs fresh sweetcorn off the cob, and plenty of it, perhaps much more than the 6 ears of corn suggested. We had to make it with frozen sweetcorn and the difference was very obvious and disappointing. 1 ear of corn yields roughly 100g of sweetcorn if you do need to use frozen...

We've just had another of those really hot days and combined with the smoke problems, I've not been too well or able to do much at all. So when hubby spotted this recipe I thought why not? After all, the only thing that needed cooking was the brown rice and I could use the microwave for that...

I have to say that this recipe looks amazing when served. The colour is fantastic and the texture spot on. But I am a little disappointed by the lack of flavours coming through. Perhaps it was the fact that I was lacking in fresh beetroot? My weight was just under the 500g required and my...

And another in the series of cold soups that I have been exploring this summer due to the hot weather we have been experiencing. This is actually a very nice and refreshing soup that is easy to eat despite the weather. It is so nice and easy that we are actually making it again. One thing I will...

I have something of a confession to make. I've never, ever had the traditional cold Spanish soup, gazpacho. That's the truth. Never. So given the current hot summer temps (39°C today) and my general lack of enthusiasm to easy anything even vaguely warm in such temperatures, we have been working...

This is a soup designed to be served cold from the fridge for those days when it is simply too hot to eat. Now I'm living in Australia, we have those summer days (winters are still cold though) and the second of them is upon us. So I started making the soup early in the morning (6:30am) before...

I've been struggling to come up with anything for the latest CookingBites recipe challenge tbh. And whilst looking around for something different to do with melons came across various soup recipes lots of which involved ham and scallops or crab meat, none of which I eat. I will have to confess...