The First Page of My Recipe Book | Spanish B1
Prepare four servings of gazpacho from a precise Spanish recipe while learning practical cooking Spanish.
La primera página de mi recetario: gazpacho para cuatro
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What you'll learn
Ingredients and cooking actions, ir a with an infinitive, the pronoun los, más o menos, and the conditional form cambiarías.
The narrator records an Andalusian gazpacho recipe, washes the vegetables, adjusts the consistency, and chooses garnishes.
After reading
Article learning block
Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.
Phrases for training
Add useful phrases to SRS or mark them as already known.
un kilo de tomates maduros
newone kilogram of ripe tomatoes
Un kilo de gives the exact weight of an ingredient.
Useful for recipes and food shopping.
pongo el pan en remojo
newI put the bread in water to soak
Poner en remojo means leaving food in water so it becomes softer.
A common phrase in cooking instructions.
según la textura que quiero
newdepending on the texture I want
Según introduces the condition or criterion that guides a choice.
Useful for explaining how to adjust a recipe.
todo muy picado
neweverything very finely chopped
Picado describes food cut into small pieces.
Useful when preparing garnishes and salads.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
Gazpacho
gazpacho
gazpacho, a cold soup
Gazpacho is the name of a cold soup closely associated with Andalusian cooking.
The key dish name in the article.
Peppers
los pimientos
peppers
Pimiento is a masculine noun. Its plural is los pimientos.
A basic vegetable word for recipes.
Garlic cloves
dos dientes de ajo
garlic cloves
A diente de ajo is one separate segment of a garlic bulb.
The precise unit used for garlic in recipes.
Vinegar
el vinagre
vinegar
Vinagre is an acidic liquid added to food for flavour.
Common in dressings, salads and cold soups.
Blender
una batidora
blender
A batidora is an electric appliance used to blend food.
Essential for the modern gazpacho method described here.
Bowls
cuencos
bowls
A cuenco is a small deep container used for serving food.
Useful when describing how soup is served.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Ir a plus infinitive
voy a preparar gazpacho
I am going to prepare gazpacho
Voy a plus an infinitive expresses an intention or near-future plan.
Useful for saying what you plan to do.
Pronoun attached to an infinitive
Antes de cortarlos
before cutting them
In cortarlos, the pronoun los is attached to the infinitive cortar.
Useful for understanding compact recipe instructions.
The nouns replaced by los
los tomates y los pimientos
the tomatoes and the peppers
Los can replace a plural group of masculine nouns.
This card makes the pronoun's reference explicit.
Más o menos plus a noun
más o menos agua
more or less water
Más o menos before a noun compares quantity without an exact number.
Useful for explaining how to adjust consistency.
Conditional for an imagined change
¿Qué cambiarías tú en este gazpacho?
what would you change in this gazpacho
Cambiarías is the tú conditional form. It asks about an imagined change.
Useful for discussing possible recipe variations.
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