Well, almost.
Due to the fact that I could not fathom the idea of eating cold foods (with the exception of salads). Yet, miraculously I managed to convince myself to sample chilled soup without even making a run towards the microwave.
Miracle works its magic in the most delicious ways, I tell ya.
Since I can’t eat my weight on cold desserts, a chilled soup that comprises some of my favorite ingredients made the cut. Why has it taken this long for me to grill an avocado — is a question that has many answers. But let’s not get to the nitty-gritty details today.
Let’s just find solace in a comforting bowl of cold soup and the opportunity to experience it all — including grilled avocados.
There’s always “first” for everything.
Like, grilling whole scallions (green onions), cucumbers and peppers. Geez, I really need to use the grill more often by experimenting with different produce.
While I prepare the next long list of foods to grill, crank up your grill and make this soup.
Ingredients:
- some olive oil
- 2 medium very ripe avocados, halved
- 1 large cucumber, halved
- 6 whole stalks of spring onions
- 1 jalapeno
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 1 clove of garlic
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
Garnish (optional): toasted cubed bread, avocados, spring onions, chives, lemon zest & a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.
Directions:
- Preheat grill to medium-high.
- Coat halved avocados with some lemon juice to avoid browning. Brush some olive oil over avocados, cucumber, spring onions and jalapeno. Oil the hot grill too before grilling the veggies.
- Grill veggies for a few minutes or until everything is grilled/charred. Remove grilled veggies onto a platter to completely cool.
- Chop grilled veggies and add it into a food processor with remaining lemon juice, cold water, garlic, salt and black pepper. Puree until smooth.
- Portion out the soup into bowls and refrigerate to cool before serving, topped with some garnish.
Hope your first few days of summer is off to a delicious and happy start! Mine would be spent preoccupied over grilling and contemplating my next cold food adventure.
Oh my. The things we do in the name of food 😀
Do you enjoy “cold” foods (except for the obvious, i.e salads)? What’s on your grilling list this year? I’m excited about grilling a caesar salad!
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A scrumptiously summery and original soup! Avocados and cucumbers are rarely prepared in that manner (grilled) and that’s what I like about your recipe.
Cheers,
Rosa
Rosa — thank you friend. and yes, grilling it all is definitely new to me too but the flavors that it imparts thereafter is mind-boggling. so delish 🙂
Love that the veggies are grilled!
Kathryn — i can’t see avocados and cucumber in the same way, ever again. grilling is a game-changer for me 😉
Kiran this looks gorgeous!! YUM!
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I’ve never been too keen on cold soup myself, but something about this avocado/ cucumber version has me saying YES!
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Ashley — me too! you’ve got to try this to believe how good it tastes with the flavors from grilling 🙂
I love grilled veggies! I’m looking forward to grilling some stone fruit later in the summer when I can find some ripe peaches and nectarines.
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Laura — i’m giddy with excitement just thinking about grilling stone fruits! can’t wait 😉
this looks delicious kiran! what a perfect way to serve soup that’s both filling and summery! your presentation and photography is lovely.
Margarita — thank you so much, friend. and yes, cold soups has changed my life. literally 😀
Love grilled vegetables but would have never thought of grilling an avocado! What an unique, original idea!
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NT — me too! and now, i can’t see avocado the same way again. it has to be grilled from now on. Sigh 😀
Oh Kiran, this looks so gorgeous.. we have to go to the market and get more avocados so we can make your beautiful soup!
Happy Grilling 🙂
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Happy grilling!!
Happy Summer Kiran!!We are having a relaxed time and enjoying some rain in June..now that’s a first for us in a while.
I hear you girl, I need my soup hot and steamy(now that sounds naughty;)), but your version looks so good. Gotto get my grill out too..
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Ash — Happy Summer my sweet friend. And yes, its time to take out the grill 🙂
YOur brain is full of healthy delicious recipes. I LOVE IT! Gonna try this so I can lose a couple pounds.. with the dessert intake, I need this in my life. 🙂
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Nisha — LOL, thanks my sweet friend 🙂 I don’t know about losing pounds, but I can tell you that this is going to be so so delish!
I haven’t tried grilled avocados! Sounds like I need to remedy that and fire up the grill! What a lush chilled soup, summer in a bowl!
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Deb — thank you! and yes, grilling makes everything way too delish 🙂
This is so unique and totally gorgeous! Love this!
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Not exactly the right weather here for this beautiful soup (as we’re in winter) but I’d gladly make it anyway! Just turn up the heater and enjoy 🙂
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Yasmeen — totally! 🙂
This original soup looks divine. A big bowl of it for me, please!!!
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Denise — thank you so much and yes, have a bowl please! 🙂
I recently tried cooked cucumber for the first time, and it was awesome! It tasted almost like a melon (not surprisingly), and I have never had grilled avocado. Might have to give this a try when summer hits here!
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So so so, SO sophisticated. GREG
Greg — thank you so so so SO much 😉
what a fun soup 🙂 I need to make cold soups and great pics as always
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Rebecca — thank you! and yes, cold soups are great for summer 🙂
Love your soup-this could be a Summer favorite for sure! Beautiful inspired veggie photos 😉
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Awee…such beautiful clicks, each one is giving a summery feel to the recipe. Never tried grilling an Avocado..need to try it.
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Sanjeeta — thank you so much! and yes, you need to try grilling avocados. it definitely adds another dimension of flavors 🙂
What a fantasticly soup recipe, Kiran! So well flavoured & apart too! MMMMMMMMMM!
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Chapeau to you Kiran! This soup is utterly fresh and original, must bring the taste of summer. Love the pictures too.
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Daniela — lol, thanks my sweet friend. but what does “chapeau” mean? 😀
Chapeau is a french word meaning “hat”, it is often used as a expression of approval and appreciation in France and other parts of Europe: “as a sign of admiration or respect, one shall indeed remove his hat”. 🙂 🙂 Sorry , forgot it may sound strange outside Europe!
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I am complete lover for clod foods, in fact my soups have to be at room temperature. Just can’t deal with hot stuff. But, cucumber gazpacho is one soup I always avoided, something to do with the raw cucumber in liquid state, not my type. But, now I know what I am doing there. As per avocados go, its very rare that you get nicely ripe avocados in India, so no avocados for me. Sigh!
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Charul — the Husband is same when it comes to food temperatures. it has to be room temperature for him 🙂
as for nicely ripe avocados — it’s easy to get it ripe on your own. just don’t put it into the refrigerator. get it into a brown paper bag and leave it on the kitchen counter. it’ll brown in 2 days. but that all depends how young or green the avocados are when bought. the less green it is, the faster it’ll ripe 🙂
Now this is the second cooked avocado recipe that I’ve seen this week! It must be a sign! 😀
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Lorraine — lol, it’s always a good sign when it comes to avocados 😀
A beautiful pairing indeed. Love the freshness of this cold soup.
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Those grilled avocados look lovely! I’ve never made cold soup before, but this looks perfect for summer.
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Natasha — thank you and yes, grilling veggies definitely is a game-changer for me 🙂
Kiran – this soup sounds fabulous! I love chilled soups especially when it is hot…nothing better than that and a lovely salad – yum!
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So original and beautiful! I love the soup!
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I love cold foods, especially cold soups such as gazpacho or vichyssoise. But I have yet to grill an avocado – I think there are two camps on that topic, some that love warm avocado (grilled or fried) and others that can’t take the flavour. I guess I’ll just have to try.
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Giulia — try it and you shall know 🙂
What a gorgeous and refreshing soup for the summer months! I love the light yet smoky vegetables that you combined in it!
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Georgia — thanks friend 🙂
I love the idea of a cold soup! It is hot here as well! I would love to grill fruits and see how they taste!
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Katerina — grilled fruits are just so incredible!! in fact, grilling anything brings out the best of flavors 🙂
You have no idea how diabolically hot Texas gets in summer time ! But hey, I have a cool recipe now to sooth my soul 🙂
Thanks a bunch, sweetheart, for the refreshingly new idea. And I was about to faint seeing your serene pictures 🙂
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Nusrat — i have some idea 😉
don’t faint, because you’d need to try this soup in those fiery temperatures 😉
grilled caesar salad would be interesting. I love grilled corn and anything veggies. I am not much of a cold soup person but again I have only tried couple.
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Dixya — can’t wait! i’m not much of a cold soup person myself, but there’s a handful that I’d happily gulp 🙂
I bet the grilling adds such a nice complexity of flavor – beautiful!
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Alyssa — thank you and yes, it does 🙂
Your Grilled Avocado & Cucumber Cold Soup is so beautiful. I agree, I was so unsure for the first time I made a chilled soup in Spring (with asparagus and green olives) but it was so good! I can’t wait to give this a try.
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Amy — thank you so much and i hope you’ll enjoy slurping this soup! let me know how it tastes 🙂
I don’t think I’ve ever had a chilled soup before! I should try that. 🙂
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Kiersten — you should 🙂
Kiran, we must be definitely at the same wave length, I just wrote a post presenting a chilled cucumber soup 🙂
Great minds…….
Yours look delicious and the grilled veggies are gorgeous.
Perfect for summer and very health and light.
Thanks for sharing!
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Daniela — definitely great minds 😀
Oooh a cold soup, this looks so beautiful and innovative 😀
I would love to try it!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
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My brother-in-law will be grilling some rib eye this weekend for July 4th. Unfortunately my husband and I don’t own a grill just yet but hopefully soon. Your soup looks amazing Kiran. They are perfect on those hot summer days/nights when one’s craving soup but don’t want a hot one. Have a great day! 🙂
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Anne — thank you my friend! you could always grill it indoors, with a grill pan or skillet. I’m sure that’ll work too 🙂
Had never thought of roasted Avocados and cucumbers and that too in a soup! Well, what do you know!
Love your props and the DOF in the last shot!
Radhika — thank you my sweet friend. and yes, grilling does bring out the best of flavors 🙂
Kiran it looks amazing, what a pictures!
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I grill almost every veggie from time to time – such terrific flavor. This soup looks superb – I’ll bet it has tons of flavor. Excellent recipe – thanks.
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John — so true! and thanks, grilling does amplify flavors 🙂
Well you’re not the only one, I’ve got to get on board with this whole avocado grilling thing!
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This is such an amazingly inventive idea Kiran! Wow. I’m impressed! I’d love to try this soup. It’s way too cold for cold soups here though (it’s Wintry so I’d rather have a hot bowl of creamy pumpkin!) so I’ll bookmark this recipe for Summer! Thanks lovely!! xx
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Lauramess — awww, thanks so much for the lovely compliments my sweet friend! stay warm 🙂
I usually dont like cold soups ….especially avocado, but the addition of jalapeno I am sure , heats this up to Yum.
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Tania — oh yes! and you’ll never know for sure if you liked it or not, until you try it first 😉
Your photos are gorgeous! As a fellow blogger I know how hard it is to photograph a green soup and try to make it look appetizing. But your pictures make me want to make this soup. It looks so refreshing and perfect for this time of year. 🙂
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I would never have thought to grill avocado. What a terrific idea. We don’t often eat chilled soups either, and it looks like we’re missing out.
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Kristi — you are definitely missing out. a must try 🙂
These indeed do look deliciously refreshing and cooling for summer. I hope you guys don’t have as much humidity as we do in DC!
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Nik — humidity is always so high here in Florida 😀
I also run from cold soups, gazpachos, and such, but this looks freakin’ beautiful!!! It would be a crime not to devour it!
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Hey Kiran, My friend Roanna introduced me to you and I finally got to checking out your space. My sister thinks I’m crazy about avocados and I only am because we have this tree at my parent’s house in Goa and it gives us the biggest avocados I’ve ever seen in my life. I wish I could be home. I’d definitely make this soup.
Edlyn — hey there and thank you so much for checking out my space! I hope you enjoyed your visit here. i’m a little bit crazy too when it comes to avocados. so i can definitely relate to your enthusiasm. hope you get to visit your home soon and make this soup! have a great day 🙂
This kind of sounds like it would taste like a green and creamier version of gazpacho soup – can’t wait to try it! I’m so excited for summer as well!!
Yvonne — it’s even better with grilled avocados 🙂
The soup looks perfect for hot summer days indeed and such a beautiful bright colour! I don’t think I have ever grilled avocado (I once baked it but it was not a good idea…). It looks good though.
When you said “cold dishes” I thought “I couldn’t survive without salads”. In the summer I eat salad as a meal several times a week. Sometimes even every day… Apart from this I cannot think of other raw dishes…
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Sissi — i can’t imagine baking avocados either. grilling is definitely a game-changer 🙂
I am not a huge fan of cold soup but when it looks like this and sounds like this and tastes like you describe then GIVE ME SOME NOW!
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Jessica — I wish I could send you this soup as a care package. But unfortunately, fresh soups like this doesn’t taste the same after a few days in transit 😀
I don’t really enjoy cold soups like gazpacho or the likes…but you can almost convince me to try this because it is so pretty! Almost…I am still thinking about it. Cold soups…hmmm, not so sure yet…LOL!
Jen — just jumped into this recipe and i’m sure it’ll be enough to convince you 🙂
Very original soup, I would have never thought of this combination of ingredients. It sounds and looks so very tempting too Kiran. I feel like grabbing a spoon and trying it out. =)
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Helene — thanks my sweet friend! you should give it a try. it’s so tasty 🙂
I’ve never made a cold soup at home. Avocados are my favorite so I would LOVE this!!
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Katrina — me too, until i made this. and now, there’s no turning back 😉
oh what a great idea for these warm days we’ve been having!
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Gina — thanks and ditto 😉
Grilling the veggies and making soup , Wow thats sounds delicious.. I love ur photography kiran !!
Sowmya — thank you so much!!
That looks amazing! I don’t have a grill but I recently got a grill pan for my tiny stovetop and I’m loving it. Can’t wait to give this recipe a try.
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Cindie — thank you! a grill pan would work too!! have fun and let me know how it tastes 🙂
Eu simplesmente adoro molho pesto!
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