Cucumber Soup With Wasabi Avocado Cream Recipes

Steps:

• Purée cucumbers with water, vinegar, and 2 teaspoons kosher salt in batches in a blender until smooth.
• Mash together avocado, lime juice, and remaining teaspoon kosher salt until smooth. Whisk in yogurt, wasabi paste, chives, and pepper to taste.
• Just before serving, blend soup with ice in batches until smooth. Serve topped with avocado cream.

Steps:

• In a blender, combine cucumbers, avocados, scallions, cilantro, jalapeño, lime juice, and 1 cup water; blend until smooth. Season with salt and stir in up to 1/4 cup more water until consistency is like that of heavy cream. Refrigerate until chilled, at least 1 hour and up to 6 hours.
• Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350°F. Arrange baguette slices on a rimmed baking sheet. Brush both sides with oil; season with salt and pepper. Bake until golden, 15 to 20 minutes.
• Prepare an ice-water bath. Bring a pot of generously salted water to a boil. Add asparagus; cook until bright green and tender, 2 to 3 minutes, depending on thickness. Transfer to a plate; let cool slightly.
• Return water to a boil; gently lower in eggs with a slotted spoon and cook 7 minutes. Transfer to ice bath and let stand 5 minutes. Peel and halve eggs; season to taste.
• Ladle soup into bowls and drizzle with oil. Serve with crostini, asparagus, eggs, and ham.

Steps:

• In a food processor or blender combine the cucumber, avocado and scallions. Pulse until the mixture is thoroughly chopped.
• Add broth, sour cream and lemon juice and continue to process until smooth.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste and chill for 4 to 6 hours.
• Taste for seasoning and serve in chilled bowls with garnish.

Steps:

• In a food processor or blender, purée garlic, cucumber and avocado, scraping down sides if necessary. Add buttermilk, 3/4 cup water, dill, salt, a pinch of cayenne, black pepper and half the orange juice. Blend until smooth.
• Add remaining orange juice in increments until you like the flavor. Cover and refrigerate. Serve soup chilled, garnished, if desired, with shrimp tossed with olive oil and lime juice.

Steps:

• Cut 5 cucumbers in to 3" chunks.
• Place half in a food processor or blender with 2 tablespoons of honey and process until smooth.
• Pour mixture through a cheesecloth lined strainer into a bowl.
• Puree remaining chunks of cucumber, (without honey), and strain through cheesecloth into same bowl.
• Peel, seed and thinly slice remaining cucumbers and place slices in a separate bowl.
• Add vinegar and remaining 2 tablespoons of honey and toss to coat.
• Cover and chill both bowls of cucumber for at least 8 hours.
• Using a fine-mesh strainer and the back of a spoon, squeeze the juice from pureed cucumber mixture. Discard the solids.
• Place half the marinated cucumber slices, avocado and 1 and 3/4 cups cucumber juice in blender or food processor and process until smooth.
• Repeat with remaining cucumber slices and 1 and 3/4 cups of juice. Reserver any remaining juice for another use, if desired.
• Stir in chopped dill, salt and pepper.
• Spoon into serving bowls and garnish with cracked black pepper and dill sprigs if desired.

Steps:

• In a food processor or blender, add the cucumber, avocado, Greek yogurt, vegetable broth, lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, scallions, salt, and pepper. Blend until smooth and creamy.
• Chill for at least 30 minutes, or until ready to serve.
• Enjoy!