Cold Soup & Prawns
Hold onto the summer with this recipe by Grand Chefs Carme Ruscalleda and Yusuke Okazaki from Relais & Châteaux restaurant Sant Pau…
Ingredients
| 1 kg | ripe tomatoes (cold soup) | |
| 1 | small clove of garlic | |
| 1 | small onion | |
| 0.5 | green pepper | |
| 100 ml | refined olive oil | |
| 200 ml | extra virgin olive oil | |
| 25 ml | balsamic vinegar | |
| 10 ml | sherry vinegar | |
| 2 | slices of bread, crusts removed | |
| 1 tsp | 5 ml | whole grain mustard |
| — | salt and pepper | |
| 2 | slices of bread (tomato bread) | |
| 2 | ripe tomatoes (tomato bread) | |
| — | olive oil and salt (tomato bread) | |
| 12 | large prawns | |
| — | basil leaves | |
| — | sea salt | |
| — | extra virgin olive oil (prawns) |
Instructions
Wash the tomatoes and chop the green pepper. Peel and chop the garlic clove and the onion. Tip everything you have chopped into a tall narrow jug, along with various oils and vinegars, the 2 slices of bread soaked in bread, the mustard and the salt and pepper. Liquidize, strain and refrigerate. Remove the heads from the prawns and devein. Drop the prawn tails in boiling salted water and cook for 30 seconds. Cool quickly with cold water and ice to stop further cooking. Peel and refrigerate. Make the basil gelatin by boiling the basil in a pan of salty water, refresh then in water ice and mix into the blender the mineral water with the boiled basilic. Add the gelatin and let it for 2 hours into the fridge. Cut it into small dices of 0.5 cm. Cut the 2 remaining slices of bread into 3cm x 3cm cubes and reserve until you serve the soup. Cut the tomatoes in half, remove the seeds and grate with a large-hole grater, season with salt, drizzle with oil and transfere to the fridge. When serving, coat the cubes of bread with tomato mixture. Ladle the soup into bowls, decoratively placing the cubes of tomato bread in each one. Sprinkle the chopped basil into the soup and place the prawn tails over the top. Finish off with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, the small basil gelatin dice and season with sea salt.