Basic Red Gazpacho

• 3 pounds tomatoes ripe, roughly chopped
• 1 each sweet red bell peppers or yellow, seeded, stemmed, and roughly chopped (DO NOT use green)
• 2 each cucumbers pickling (kirby), and roughly , chopped
• 4 slices bread white, stale, crusts removed
• 6 cups water cold
• 1 clove garlic large, peeled
• 1/4 cup sherry or good wine vinegar, (or to taste)
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1 x salt
• 1 x black pepper freshly ground, to taste
• 1 x croutons garlic flavoured, if desired

1. Mince a bit of the tomato, pepper, and cucumber for garnish, and set aside.
2. Soak bread in a cup of the water for 5 minutes, then squeeze out excess water.
3. Place bread in a blender or food processor with the remaining tomato, pepper, cucumber and water, garlic and vinegar; process until smooth, then add olive oil slowly with machine running.
4. Season to taste with salt and pepper and refrigerate until ready to serve.
5. Before serving, check seasoning again, and garnish with reserved tomato, pepper, cucumber, and garlic croutons.

tomatoes, sweet red bell peppers, cucumbers pickling, bread, water cold, garlic, sherry, olive oil, salt, black pepper, croutons garlic

Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/basic-red-gazpacho-38086 (may not work)