Ajo Blanco
Submitted by DivineMissEm on August 29, 2007 - 3:15pm
(3 votes)
Servings:
serves about 4This is a traditional Spanish soup, much like gazpacho. I´ve even heard it called white gazpacho before. Making it fully raw is so easy it´s incredible. The original recipe called for 150 grams of almonds, and I think a cup was about what I used. Garlic can be increased or decreased. I used 4 tonight and it was HOT!! Also use more or less grapes. I LOVE LOVE LOVE grapes in this. Green or Red, but i´m partial to green. Enjoy!!!
Ingredients:
1 cup raw almonds, soaked
2 clove garlic, mashed
¼ cup olive
oil
2 pinch salt
4 cup water
Preparation:
If you have a Vita-Mix, you are super lucky. I don´t, so this is what I did. Blend almonds and garlic until uniform. Add olive oil to blender and blend again. Add salt and water to the mix and blend yet again until a creamy soup forms. Serve garnished with grapes.
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1.
rawguru sells really raw almonds
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nope but if you could turn me on to a source of non-pasteurized almonds i would be very, very grateful
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Hmm..I don´t know because the almonds really add the necessary well, almondy flavor. I would say that the best substitute would probably be cashews because of the creaminess. I totally forgot about the pasteurization thing now. Have you tried sourcing European almonds?
4.
hey, one question
since almonds aren't raw anymore here in north america, do you know of any other nut that would make a good substitute?
5.
Awesome, i´m glad you enjoyed it. I´ll have to try it with the cucumber as well.
6.
I just made this last night, but with 1 cup grapes and 1/2 cucumber as well. Also too much garlic, but delicious!
7.
What a neat idea!