Salmorejo

Description
Serves 6.



Ingredients

 * 1 kg tomatoes
 * 4 cloves of garlic
 * 5- 10 T olive oil
 * 1 or 2 T vinegar
 * 200 g.bread – soaked in water
 * 200 Jamon “Serrano” diced
 * Hard-boiled egg – chopped
 * Salt

Directions
Peel tomatoes, chop garlic and squeeze excess water from bread with hands. Place the following in the blender – tomatoes, garlic, vinegar, bread and salt – blend. Then add the olive oil in a steady stream to emulsify the mixture and produce a nice, thick salmorejo. This can be used as a sauce to serve with vegetables or fish, or on toast with thin slices of Serrano ham or thin slivers of desalinated cod as a tapa OR …….serve as a first course in a bowl, garnished with diced ham and chopped hard-boiled egg.