Spanish Salmorejo

The salmorejo is a sauce made with tomatoes, garlic, vinegar, olive oil and bread crumb. It's typical to eat in the south of Spain in summer, where is 40º degrees. Gazpacho is a similar dish, but it's more like a liquid salad. Salmorejo is a dense sauce served with hard cooked eggs and Spanish Ham.



Ingredients (2 persons):
8 little ripe tomatoes
1 garlic clove
1 teaspoon of salt
2 slices of bread
Balsamic vinegar
Black peeper
Olive oil extra virgin
Spanish Ham

This is one of the recipes easier than you can imagine. Even it is not necessary to peel the tomatoes.

Take out the hard part of the tomato and put it in a container. Crush it with an electrical mixer until create a sauce.

Peel the garlic clove, take out the inside part and put it with the tomato puree. Crush it and dd the crumb bread until you start to see the sauce begins to be dense.

Put salt, peeper, a little trickle of balsamic vinegar and a good trickle of olive oil. Prove and add more of the ingredient you like more.

Serve the salmorejo with hard cooked eggs and chopped Spanish ham.