RCP: Chilled Avocado Soup

This is my very favourite soup, especially in hot weather. It's like drinking green velvet.

Chilled Avocado Soup

2 ripe avocados, preferably Haas
1/2 cup half-and-half
1 1/2 cups low-salt chicken broth
1/2 tsp salt, or to taste
1 tsp granulated garlic or garlic powder, or to taste
few dashes Tabasco sauce

Cut avocados in half lengthwise, remove the pits, and scoop out the flesh into a food processor. Add all remaining ingredients and blend until completely smooth. Pour into a large bowl and chill for several hours in the refrigerator. Serve cold. Makes 2 main-course servings (serve with a nice bread), or four appetizer servings.

[Jenise]

This is my very favourite soup, especially in hot weather. It's like drinking green velvet.

Chilled Avocado Soup

2 ripe avocados, preferably Haas
1/2 cup half-and-half
1 1/2 cups low-salt chicken broth
1/2 tsp salt, or to taste
1 tsp granulated garlic or garlic powder, or to taste
few dashes Tabasco sauce

Cut avocados in half lengthwise, remove the pits, and scoop out the flesh into a food processor. Add all remaining ingredients and blend until completely smooth. Pour into a large bowl and chill for several hours in the refrigerator. Serve cold. Makes 2 main-course servings (serve with a nice bread), or four appetizer servings.

I've made a warm avocado soup in the veloute style, but not a chilled version. With the garlic and Tabasco additions in yours, it's verging on a cross between gazpacho and guacamole, isn't it? Sounds lovely, and I can picture it as a Sunday brunch first course to precede something like a green enchilada pie with poached eggs.

I've made a warm avocado soup in the veloute style, but not a chilled version. With the garlic and Tabasco additions in yours, it's verging on a cross between gazpacho and guacamole, isn't it?

It's more like liquid guacamole. The Tabasco adds just a touch of heat. I picked that up in a little inn in rural France, from a chef who'd cooked in the French Caribbean.

Avocado soup is a very flexible base to experiment with.

I always add lime juice to chilled avocado soup. You can top it with cilantro, smoked paprika, salmon roe, dice cucumber, diced tomato, good EVOO, smoked salt, etc. etc. etc.