In the summer Greece is blessed with a bounty of ripe, juicy, delicious tomatoes, apart from making sauces, dips, sun-drying, the ripest tomatoes we make into this simple refreshing cold soup!
Serves4 servings
Cooks In10' preparation | 15' cooking
DifficultyEasy
Ingredients
4 red firm and ripe tomatoes
2 red bell peppers
2 mini cucumbers, tender
½ onion, chopped
1 clove of garlic, chopped (optional)
1 tbsp. vinegar
4 cups tomato juice
Salt, freshly ground pepper
TO SERVE
Feta cheese, crumbled
Sliced olives
Rusk or croutons
Capers
Extra virgin olive oil
Oregano
Method
Peel and deseed the tomatoes before chopping into very small cubes.
Remove the stem from the pepper, halve and remove the seeds and fibers. Chop into small cubes and add to tomatoes.
Halve the cucumber, remove seeds with a spoon and chop into cubes, with the skin. Add to the other ingredients with the onion, garlic, and vinegar.
Season well.
Mix the ingredients all together and leave to stand for about 10 minutes.
Add the tomato juice, combine ingredients and chill.
Serve the cold tomato soup in transparent bowls and garnish with the olives, rusk, capers, and feta.
Finally, drizzle with a few drops of olive oil and sprinkle with oregano.