What is Gazpacho?

There is nothing more comforting that a bowl of warm soup on a cold winter day, or a steaming cup of Mom’s chicken noodle soup when you are feeling sick. The great thing about soup is that you can use any variety of ingredients and they are often quite simple to make. Primarily a combination of meat, vegetables, or legumes, in stock or hot water, soup has been a favorite dish for centuries and comes from the word “sop”, meaning a piece of bread served with some type of liquid. There are two main classifications of soups: clear soups and thick soups. Whether you are making a clear bouillon based soup or a thick creamy soup, there’s no doubt that soup is an easy and great dish to accompany any meal.

In this free video series, our expert takes a look at a classic Spanish soup called gazpacho. This cold tomato based soup is a delicious alternative to hot soups. Our expert will show you each easy to follow step for preparing all the vegetables, including the tomatoes, onions, garlic and cucumbers. You will also get tips on chilling gazpacho and garnishing this healthy and tasty soup recipe.

"Welcome to expertvillage.com. I am your chef today, Schmuel and we are going to be making soup. This one is for Gazpacho. I want to tell you a little bit about me first and my background in cooking. I started cooking back in 1996, 1997 in Los Angeles at Le Cordon, a great cooking school and I traveled around the world also taking cooking classes in the South of France, London at The Cordon Bleu. I came back and what did I do, Oh, I was a caterer. I had my own catering company and I was a private Chef and used to do movie sets and cater for celebrities dinner parties. Just had a great time. Was doing demonstrations at Bloomingdales. I even taught cooking for the Learning Annex. I had a great time doing food and now I am here to show you all the tips that I have taught other people as well. Like I said we are doing Gazpacho, as a Spanish delicacy and it is one of my favorites and my clients love it too. It is very simple to make. It is based with tomatoes. It is chilled, not cooked. So we have some tomatoes, cucumbers, green peppers, fresh lemons for that little tang on your tongue, tomato juice, Cayenne for little heat, olive oil and we are garnishing with some chives and sour cream. You are going to love it. So keep clicking and we are going to tell you step by step all these easy steps of how to put together some Gazpacho so keep clicking."