Nigel Slater serves up a delicious Spanish gazpacho soup Nigel Slater: Eating Together.

Nigel says: “This simple, refreshing, chilled Spanish soup is perfect on a hot day. Crumbled boiled egg makes a tasty garnish.”

The ingredients are: ½ cucumber, peeled, roughly chopped, 1 large yellow pepper, de-seeded, roughly chopped, 1 large red pepper, de-seeded, roughly chopped, 6 ripe tomatoes, roughly chopped, 2 banana shallots, roughly chopped, 3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped, 100g stale white bread, soaked in a little cold water, 3 tbsp olive oil and 2 tbsp sherry vinegar.