This cold Lebanese cucumber and mint soup is a real discovery, beyond gazpacho or salmorejo there is life. Cucumber is one of the quintessential summer ingredients, its flavor and texture go hand in hand, but its properties can also be enjoyed in a spectacular cold soup. That dose of freshness that we will achieve with the cucumber, we are going to enhance it even more with a touch of mint. The success of this Lebanese cold soup is assured, dare to try it, it is very easy to prepare.
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How to make a cold Lebanese cucumber mint soup
- This incredible Lebanese Chilled Cucumber Mint Soup is one of the most refreshing of the summer, packed with a good amount of vitamins and fiber.
- The trickiest part of this recipe is looking for the raw material. The recipe can be adapted to our tastes or diet.
- We can use a vegan cream and some soy yogurts , it will be just as good, it will be a vegan dish to our tastes.
- We can put goat yogurts , it is one of those that are fashionable and provide less lactose with more proteins.
- We get to work with the cucumbers , peel them and cut them into pieces to go through the blender.
- In the most traditional recipe, the cucumber is grated or cut into very small pieces so that when we add the liquid ingredients we have a very fresh soup.
- We place the cucumber in the blender glass . We will give you a little more joy with the garlic clove.
- If we put it half the same it will be good, it is an option if we are not very garlic. It won’t be too noticeable in the face of a rush of very fresh ingredients .
- We put the cream and yogurts , these dairy products combine very well with the rest of the flavors and will allow us to enjoy a strong soup texture.
- We will lack the dressing, with a little vinegar, olive oil and salt , we will achieve the right flavor point to our tastes.
- We blend everything until we get a soup or a cream, if we want it to be softer we can add water or vegetable broth, the original recipe calls for chicken broth.
