Soups
Gazpacho of Beetroot Soup with Goats Curd
Gazpacho of Beetroot Soup with Goats Curd
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Beetroot Gazpacho is a delicious, chilled soup which is simple to make and packed full of flavour. It also makes a great vegetarian option for a quick lunch or light dinner.
Ingredients
- 1 small potato, approx. 120g
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 1 red onion
- 1 clove garlic
- 1kg raw beetroot, peeled and diced
- 250ml vegetable stock
- 25ml blood orange juice
- ¼ tsp. hot horseradish sauce
- 75ml tomato passata
- 75ml double cream
- 300ml beetroot juice
- Salt and pepper
To Serve:
- 2 baby dark beetroots, peeled and washed
- 125g fresh goat’s curd
- 1 blood orange, segmented
- 40g beetroot crisps
- 12 pea shoot tendrils
Preparation
- Preheat the oven to 200˚C / 190˚ Fan / Gas Mark 6 and bake the pototo, for approximately 30 minutes, or until soft. Once the potato has baked, remove the skin and discard. Reserve the potato flesh.
- In a large saucepan, add the olive oil, diced onion and crushed garlic and sauté, until soft.
- Stir in the diced beetroot to the softened onions and garlic and continue to sauté a little.
- Pour in the vegtable stock, orange juice and horseradish and then crush the potato into the pan. Simmer until the beetroot is soft.
- Add the passata and double cream and continue to simmer for another 2 minutes, before adding in the beetroot juice.
- Using the Cordless Pro Hand Blender, with the blending attachment, blend the soup until smooth.
- Pass the soup through a fine sieve, if necessary.
- If the soup is too thick, add a little beetroot juice to thin down.
- Chill in the fridge for 2 hours.
- For the garnish, slice the baby beetroot lengthways, using the fine slicing disc on either the Easy Prep Pro or Expert Prep Pro.
- Peel the orange, removing all the pith. Cut into segments and reserve in the juice.
- Pour the chilled soup into 4 bowls.
- Spoon on some of the goats curd and then arrange the finely sliced beetroot, orange segments and beetroot crisps on top. Scatter with the pea shoots.