Gaspacho à Alentejana (Gazpacho Alentejo's Way)

Ingredients

• 3 garlic cloves
• 1 1/2 tablespoons rock salt
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 tablespoons vinegar
• 2 ripe tomatoes
• 1/2 cucumber
• 1/2 green pepper
• dried oregano leaves
• 200 g stale old country bread (this bread doesn't crumb very easily)
• pepper
• 1 1/2 liters ice water (can substitute for tomato juice)

Directions

1. 1

   In a pestle and mortar smash garlic cloves with salt. Put the resulting paste in a terrine. Add olive oil and vinegar and season with pepper.

2. 2

   Puree one tomato in the blender. Add to the terrine. Cut in small dices the other tomato, green pepper and cucumber and add to the terrine. Pour 1 1/2 liter of iced water. Season with oreganos and add bread cut up in dices. Wait 15 minutes and eat. Good to acompaign fried fish, presunto or chouriço.