• Tomato gazpacho is a well-known, simple classic. Tomato gazpacho, frozen olive oil and yellow-pepper sorbet with olives and herbs is a sophisticated update that’s just bursting with flavours. Perfect for an elegant dinner or for when you’d like to impress your guests.

    Recipe by Richard Carstens 

    Tomato gazpacho, frozen olive oil and yellow-pepper sorbet with olives and herbs

    Serves: 4
    Cooking Time: 1 hr 30 mins

    Ingredients

    • Tomato gazpacho

    • 1kg beefsteak tomatoes
    • 10 fresh basil leaves
    • 60ml (¼ cup) sherry vinegar
    • 45ml (3 tbsp) olive oil
    • 1 medium red pepper, seeded and chopped
    • 1 small cucumber, chopped
    • 1 medium onion, peeled and chopped
    • 1 garlic clove, peeled and chopped
    • 15ml (1 tbsp) tomato paste
    • Stock syrup

    • 150ml water
    • 150g sugar
    • Yellow-pepper sorbet

    • 500g yellow peppers, seeded and chopped
    • 10ml (2 tsp) olive oil
    • 20ml (4 tsp) rice wine vinegar
    • 125ml (½ cup) stock syrup
    • 15ml (1 tbsp) liquid glucose
    • To serve

    • 200ml olive oil, placed in a small container in the freezer until frozen
    • fresh basil
    • fresh parsley
    • 8 Kalamata olives, pitted and chopped

    Instructions

    1

    For the gazpacho, combine all of the ingredients in bowl and set aside to macerate, 1 hour. Blend until smooth and strain through a sieve.

    2

    For the syrup, combine all of the ingredients in a pot over medium heat and cook until the sugar has dissolved.

    3

    For the sorbet, sauté the peppers in the olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat until soft. Deglaze with the vinegar and cook until reduced by half, about 2 minutes. Add the stock syrup and glucose and stir to combine. Remove from heat and blend before straining through a chinois (conical sieve) or fine mesh strainer. Churn in a sorbetière according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Place in the freezer until frozen completely. If you do not have a sorbetière, place in a freezer-proof container in the freezer. Just before frozen, but still liquid, beat with electric beaters until smooth. Return to the freezer until frozen completely.

    4

    To assemble the dish, scoop out balls of the frozen olive oil using a melon baller. Pour the soup into bowls and add a scoop of sorbet and some frozen olive oil balls. Garnish with fresh herbs and a sprinkling of olives.

     

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