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Recipe: Avocado Gazpacho Soup

Ingredients

  • 2 large cucumbers
  • 3 c chicken broth (can substitute vegetable broth for vegetarian)
  • 1 tsp hot pepper sauce (or more to taste)
  • ¼ c firmly packed fresh cilantro, chopped
  • 1 Tbl fresh lime juice
  • 2 ripe avocados, peeled, pitted and coarsely chopped
  • Salt to taste
  • 6 green onions, chopped finely
  • Garlic croutons Cilantro sprigs

Instructions

  1. Cut one cucumber into chunks and process with 2 cups of broth, cilantro, lime juice, salt and hot pepper sauce. Pit, peel and process avocados with pureed mixture and add the third cup of broth. Process briefly to coarsely puree the avocado, leaving some chunks. Chill at least 2 hours.
  2. Just before serving, dice the green onions and peel, seed and chop the second cucumber. Pour soup into bowls and garnish each one with fresh croutons and fresh cilantro sprigs. Set out minced onion and diced cucumber to add individually.

Number of servings (yield): 6

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