{"id":1428,"date":"2019-06-29T11:25:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T11:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2019-06-29T11:25:53","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T11:25:53","slug":"ajo-blanco-cold-almond-soup-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/ajo-blanco-cold-almond-soup-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajo blanco (cold almond soup, Spain)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Ajo blanco<\/em> (cold almond soup, Spain)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is Andalusia\u2019s oldest cold soup with the <em>gazpacho<\/em> recipe to follow.<\/p>\n<p>On a hot summer day it is a very easy and appropriate soup to make with no cooking involved.<\/p>\n<p>The quality of the ingredients play the main part, as always in a dish consisting of just a few components. Allow a few hours for the soup to chill in the fridge. I don\u2019t like to blend a raw garlic into the soup. Personally I find it hard to digest. Instead I add a few crushed garlic cloves into the soup and allow them to enhance the soup with their irreplaceable aroma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Serves 4:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>200 g of blanched peeled almonds<\/li>\n<li>3 garlic cloves<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons of sherry vinegar (you can use red wine vinegar instead)<\/li>\n<li>200 ml of cold water<\/li>\n<li>150 ml of olive oil<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>a slice of stale bread (pre soaked in water)<\/li>\n<li>salt<\/li>\n<li>12-15 sweet green grapes (preferably seedless)<\/li>\n<li>extra virgin olive oil<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>(to serve)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Put the almonds into a blander or food processor and whizz until finely ground.<\/p>\n<p>Add to the blender the olive oil, vinegar and stale bread (squeeze out by hand excess water). Blend it all together until you get a creamy consistency. Start adding the water (while keeping the blender running) and a bit of salt. Use as much water as you wish in order to get your preferred consistency.<\/p>\n<p>Pour the soup into a bowl. Taste and adjust the seasoning. Add more vinegar if you enjoy more punchy notes.<\/p>\n<p>Peel and crush the garlic cloves with the back of a knife. Pop them into the bowl along with the grapes (cut in half lengthways).<\/p>\n<p>Cover and chill in the fridge for a minimum of 3 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Decorate individual soup plates with extra grapes if you like and a drizzle of olive oil moments before serving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajo blanco (cold almond soup, Spain) It is Andalusia\u2019s oldest cold soup with the gazpacho recipe to follow. On a hot summer day it is a very easy and appropriate soup to make with no cooking involved. The quality of the ingredients play the main part, as always in a dish consisting of just a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/ajo-blanco-cold-almond-soup-spain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ajo blanco (cold almond soup, Spain)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}