Gaspacho à Alentejana (gazpacho Alentejo's Way)

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1 1/2 tablespoons rock salt
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 tablespoons vinegar
• 2 ripe tomatoes
• 1/2 cucumber
• 1/2 green pepper
• dried oregano leaves
• 200 g stale old country bread (this bread doesn't crumb very easily)
• pepper
• 1 1/2 liters ice water (can substitute for tomato juice)

Recipe

• 1 in a pestle and mortar smash garlic cloves with salt. put the resulting paste in a terrine. add olive oil and vinegar and season with pepper.
• 2 puree one tomato in the blender. add to the terrine. cut in small dices the other tomato, green pepper and cucumber and add to the terrine. pour 1 1/2 liter of iced water. season with oreganos and add bread cut up in dices. wait 15 minutes and eat. good to acompaign fried fish, presunto or chouriço.