Happy Meatless Monday friends! I am loving all of the fruits and veggies that are so fresh and yummy right now. I can’t wait to see what you all bring to link up this week. One of my all time favorite summer recipes is a Spicy Gazpacho. I whipped it up in no time at all and topped it off with some homemade croutons. Yummy Yum! Hope you will join Tina Muir and I for another week of our tasty link up. We have a fun new Meatless Monday button to add too! Feel free to download it and use it for next time.
Take a bowl of yummy goodness and in minutes go from this:
To this:
My secret ingredient in the Gazpacho is spicy V-8 juice. I use it as the base instead of tomato juice. It brings a great, healthy flavor and the spicy variety kicks it up a notch. I like the crunch of the mini cucumbers right now but any will work.
Spicy Summer Gazpacho-Meatless Monday
Recipe Type: Summer Soup
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An easy spicy gazpacho soup you can whip up in seconds
Ingredients
- Soup-
- 48 oz bottle of V-8 Spicy V-8 juice
- 6 mini cucumbers or 2 large
- 1 jalapeno pepper
- 1 vidalia onion
- handful of fresh cilantro
- 1-1/2 lbs of fresh Campari tomatoes
- 2 C multi colored peppers
- salt & pepper to taste
- Croutons-
- 4 slices of day old Italian or Multigrain bread
- olive oil
- Kosher Salt
- Rosemary
Instructions
- Working in batches add all ingredients to a food processor or blender
- Pulse until desired consistency is reached
- Transfer to bowl to combine
- Chill for at least 1 hour
- Croutons:
- Preheat oven to 350
- line a baking tray with foil
- Place bread slices and sprinkle with olive oil, salt & rosemary
- bake until crunchy about 10 m on each side
- crumble and sprinkle on soup before serving
I love no cook meals and this one does not disappoint! It’s vegetarian, vegan, GF, & Paleo whew I hit them all this week!
Favorite no cook meal? What are you loving this week?
Wow, your comment are is all crazy on my iPad. Forgive me if I make a typo because I can’t see what I’m writing through a sea of Facebook logos.
Anyway, this soup sounds so delicious! I appreciate chilled and/or no cooking required meals. It gets so hot where I love it’s nice not to heat the house up ant further.
That’s strange looks ok here but I will check it out. I love cool easy meals in the summer too
Yum! I haven’t had gazpacho in a really long time! Looks easy and delicious which is right up my alley 🙂
Love the spicy V8 and rosemary in this!!
I hope you had a great weekend!
The spicy V8 is my secret weapon
That looks tasty! One question–did you find it too salty, using the V8 juice?
No not at all. I didn’t add any additional salt though I am really sensitive to salt
This sounds so refreshing! Could you replace the V-8 with regular tomato juice?
Yes you totally can. I just like the flavor of it
I’m the weirdest person. I love salsa, I love tomato soup…. I do not like gazpacho. At. all. It is so annoying because I always think that I might!…and then no. But I love the recipe creativity all the same!
Funny as I was eating it I felt like I was eating a bowl of salsa
I never left this until I became a Texan 🙂 perfect with the raging heat!!!
It is great for summer!
Yummy! This is so summery, and I LOVE it! Steve would love this with his chips!
Can’t go wrong with that!
I love gazpacho! The spicy V-8 is a great idea!
It’s a great flavor enhancer.
This really does scream summer! Yummy!!!
Thanks! Hope you give it a try
I love gazpacho, one of our favorite summer meals! I’ve never made croutons at home though. Something new to try this summer 🙂
super easy but adds a lot of flavor :0
My co-worker shared her spicy gazpacho recipe with me years ago and it was a TRUE WINNER!
Hope you like this one too!
This sounds absolutely amazing and so flavorful! I will have to try this : ) My favorite bake-less treat has been dateballs, as well as homemade granola bars. So quick and easy, and I really love that I know I am using all natural ingredients without preservatives. Thanks for sharing this recipe! Hope you have a great Monday!
I haven’t made date balls but they seem to be all the rage these days!
Ya know, I don’t know that I’ve ever really had gazpacho! Looks perfect for hot summer days.
what? How is that possible?!
Great minds think alike! I also use Spicy V8 juice as my base instead of having to rely on lots of tomatoes and other spices.
I know it’s great isn’t it?
I love gazpacho but have never made my own–now I will!
It’s so easy! You must 🙂
I have never made nor had gazpacho before. It looks delicious and great for a hot summer day!
What?! No way and you have to come over and cook with me over the summer I thought it might be fun to do a few IRL cooking things with DC bloggers
This looks so refreshing! I am on a huge veggie kick right now and enjoying zucchini from our garden almost every night!
I love zucchini grilled and in salads yummy!
Oh this sounds so good! I’m wondering if my girls would go for it. There are some of the vegetables they love and some they aren’t huge fans of but blending them up they would never know. They haven’t been soup fans this year, so that was interesting, maybe I can spark the excitement with this cold soup! Oh or they might even go for it when we pull the veggies and herbs from our garden!
Thank you for hosting!
Hiding veggies by pureeing them works for me! Good luck
Yum! This looks awesome! I want to sit outside on my back porch and eat a big bowl of this!
Thanks me too! That’s what got me going with it. Thanks for stopping by have a great day
I love gazpacho so very much. Thank you for posting!!!
Me too and it’s so easy to make
I have always wanted to try this and you use V-8 juice! One of my favorites!
It’s my secret ingredient I love it in here.
Yum! I love being able to avoid heating up my kitchen during the summer months.
Gazpacho is one of my favorite summer dishes. So refreshing in the heat. I love to top it with tortilla chips and avocados too. It reminds me of the beach!
Yes some of my favorites too. I am all about avocado 🙂
Using V-8 juice as the base is such a good idea!
It really gives it a nice flavor-my secret weapon!
This recipe could easily be on my weekly menu. Multiple times. Yum ! Can I come over the next time you make it?
I wish! How fun would that be?!
That looks amazing! I’m a nutrition nerd, but I’m salivating over the nutrients in that bowl, lol.
ha it’s pretty darn healthy!
Looks delicious! THanks for the reminder to make some–it’s a summer soup I often forget about but love!
And it’s so easy!
Your stuff always look so good – but I’d have to despice it. Lol. Otherwise I get trouble tummy.
Thanks! You can totally leave out the jalapeno and it would still be yummy!
That does look good! I am kind of funny about tomatoes. I like a good pico de gallo, but there is something texturally that throws me. That being said, I have never had gazpacho. I should probably try it before I say I don’t like it.
It kind of is pico de gallo 🙂
I actually don’t like the taste of V8 on it’s own. Maybe that’ll be different in a dish!
I don’t like it on its own either but it’s great as a base
I LOVE gazpacho! And anything with a kick. This sounds like the perfect lunch as the weather has started majorly heating up around here!
It has hasn’t it?!
Gazpaho is where it’s at!! I just made a batch myself – great tip on the spicy V-8!! I’ll have to check that out next time!
Thanks! The V-8 gives it a nice flavor.
Yum!!!! Gazpacho is totally one of my favorite summer recipes! So many fresh veggies!!! I have to make some soon. Great recipe!
Thanks it is super easy!
Yummy! I’ve been doing meatless Mondays for 7 months now and I’ve lost some weight and definitely feel better. I only noticed how meat does fill you up once I started meatless Mondays.
Meatless meals can be really filling. Hope you will stop by and check out our recipes again and maybe even add one yourself 🙂
Sounds good. I love anything spicy. Although I’ve never had cold soup. Ursa it would be refreshing in the hot summer.
Really you e never had gazpacho!?
I cant wait to make this! I have been craving gazpacho for days!!
It’s so great this time of year
This looks so good!!! Gazpacho is something I’ve never made and only had a few times! I will have to try this recipe!
You will love it it’s so was and healthy
Gonna add this one to my bookmark and try it out later!
Thanks!
Thanks hope you like it and thanks for stopping by!
Confession – I’ve never had Gazpacho before even though I read a lot of it in the recipe section.
What really?! That’s just crazy
LOVE THIS! I would totally use it as a chicken topper or mix in some tuna! MMMMM 🙂
Interesting idea for sure 🙂
I have never been a fan of gazpacho but spicy I love. I would definitely try this out it does look delicious!
Thanks! I am all about the spicy too.