Ajo Blanco - (Cool Garlic And Almond Soup)
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Italy
Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 8 ingredients
- 2 pieces white bread -- crust removed
- 3 tablespoons sherry vinegar
- 3/4 cup blanched almonds
- 1/2 cup white seedless grapes
- 12 muscat grapes -- for garnish
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 6 garlic cloves -- peeled, whole
- 3 cups water -- very cold salt -- to taste freshly-ground black pepper -- to taste
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Cook safely
Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Blending hot liquid. Let it cool a little first, fill the blender no more than a third, and hold the lid down with a folded towel. Start on the lowest speed. A stick blender in the pan is safer.
Method
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- Place almonds and garlic in food processor and blend until very fine. Add sherry vinegar and grapes and bread and blend until smooth. With machine running, drizzle in the olive oil first and then the water. Strain in a soup tureen and season pretty aggressively. Drizzle sherry vinegar on to bowls of soup and garnish with grapes.
- This recipe yields 4 appetizer servings.
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