Ina Garten's Salmorejo Soup | Barefoot Contessa | Food Network

can we talk about Salma Rayo soup the three things I love about it first it's like gazpacho but a little more modern the second thing is that you make the entire thing in a blender or a food processor it's that easy and the third thing is I serve it with topping so it's a little like an ice cream sundae let's go make some Salma Rayo soup [Music] when my friend Miguel floresiana told me about Sal mareo I'd never even heard of it I thought now that sounds like something I'd like to make so it's basically pureed soup and it's thickened with bread and lots of flavors like gazpacho so starting with two pounds of tomatoes you know there aren't a lot of ingredients in this dish so you really want to start with good ingredients these are from a farm just choose the best ripe Tomatoes you can find they'll really make a difference so I'm just throwing all the ingredients into the food processor or you can use a blender and then I'm just going to puree them all together I love this for entertaining because actually it's even better if you make it a little in advance and leave it in the refrigerator all the flavors blend together and it's so refreshing in the summer just when the tomatoes are ripest is when it tastes the best you need a big food processor for this so that's the tomatoes now I'm just going to add some bread and it's going to thicken it a little bit so just one big slice of bread it's about two and a half ounces just chop that up too since it's all going to be pureed it doesn't matter how you cut it just pile that in whoa this is a big one okay and then half a cup of chopped Red Onion give it a little Heat and then one diced red pepper I'm using a Holland bell pepper a little sweetness is this all going to fit in I think it is and four cloves of garlic and you don't even have to cut them up because it's going to get pureed okay I'm just going to puree this all together I'll show you what happens is there an easier dish to make sure everything's pureed first just until you can't see very many pieces in it okay now I'm going to pour it into a bowl I'm going to add olive oil and vinegar seasonings let's pour it right in here look how great this looks gorgeous okay I just had a little bit of tomato puree maybe about a quarter of a cup just to sort of enhance the rich flavor three tablespoons of sherry wine vinegar just give it a little Edge and three quarters of a cup of olive oil a lot of olive oil so use good olive oil it's really like a salad like a vinaigrette and a salad okay I'm just going to whisk this in just like that that's going to stay whisked in smells great this is a great first course for a summer dinner just light and refreshing chilled and then I'll show you I like to serve it with all kinds of toppings just looks like summer doesn't it okay now I just have to season it so I'm going to put in two teaspoons of salt really depends on the tomatoes so season it and then taste it it's the only way to know but that's true with everything one teaspoon of pepper just whisk it together let's give it a taste this is the good part of cooking you have to taste everything really good it needs a little more salt then I think everything needs more salt okay now I'm gonna chill this for a couple of hours and it'll get nice and cold all the flavors will blend in the meantime I think I'll take a walk in the garden thank you [Music] so I need some fresh basil for my Salma Rayo you think I have enough basil here that's like crazy basil but good oh the sounds of Summer little police action in East Hampton oh you know what would be nice I have yellow tomatoes over there I think maybe I'll put them on since it's a tomato soup be nice to have some contrasting tomato thing so just a couple of them the plant doesn't look so good but the tomatoes are delicious let's see four maybe five of them I love these little pear Tomatoes okay I've got everything I need okay that's two hours and the salmarayos really chilled and if you're OCD like me I chilled the bowl too so everything stays really cold I'll show you how I serve it just put some some around in the bowl doesn't this look good so thick just so flavorful and I'm going to do lots of toppings on top so the first thing I'm going to do is put croutons on because I like something crunchy with something smooth and all I did was take a white country bread to Big cubes you can use something from the freezer that you've got left over olive oil in the pan really hot toast the croutons Salt and Pepper easy and they're so good I like that crunch with something that's smooth okay and then I thought tomatoes basil why not I know Salma Rayo is Spanish but this will be multi-cultural salmon Rayo Little Italian influence little julienne basil leaves I mean really you can just decorate it with anything you like but I just think this looks really pretty okay and then since there are tomatoes in it I thought I'd put some little yellow pear tomatoes that I had in my garden in it I want it to look delicious and fresh you can put shrimp on it if you want to make a meal out of it a couple little pear tomatoes and then coarse salt because of course everything has to have salt and the last thing is a little drizzle of olive oil just gives it a richness as though there's not enough olive oil in it already but this looks really gorgeous how's that that's like soup that's an entire meal in one bowl and it's so delicious [Music] so much better when it sits for two hours and that looks gorgeous that's like crazy delicious that's such a good soup [Music] this recipe and more can be found on my website barefoot contessa.com

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Id: RE6AhU0Z1zQ

Length: 7min 30sec (450 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 19 2023