Pepper Lecho. Several variants

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Pepper Lecho is a Hungarian dish. Naturally, getting to other countries, the recipe changes a little. Each hostess adds her own zest or a new ingredient. But the main component of this dish is invariably sweet pepper. It is he, in combination with other products, that makes pepper lecho unusually tasty.

To prepare this traditional dish, you need to take the following ingredients. It will take three kilograms of good tomatoes, the same amount of bell pepper, 4 tablespoons of s alt, one and a half glasses of sugar, 200 milliliters of vegetable oil, a couple of bay leaves and peppercorns.

First you need to prepare the vegetables. Wash the tomatoes with water, cut into large pieces and turn into a tomato. To do this, you can use a blender or meat grinder. We clean the pepper from seeds with a stalk and cut it into long pieces (along) into 4 or more parts, depending on the size of the vegetable.

Pour the cooked tomato into the pan. Add s alt, butter and sugar to it. We put the pan on the fire and wait until it boils. Then put the chopped pepper into the boiling tomato. We cook until ready. Usually with this volume, the cooking time is about 30 minutes. The main thing is not to digest the pepper, otherwise it will become soft and fall apart into pieces. In this case, pepper lecho will have an unaesthetic appearance. At the end, add vinegar - 60-80 milliliters (adjust to taste). We mix everything well. Our dish is ready. In this way, you can cook pepper lecho for the winter. In this case, pour it into prepared jars and close the lids. Jars and lids should be pasteurized. When the blanks have cooled, they must be placed in a room with a lower temperature.

Usually lecho is made from peppers and tomatoes, but other vegetables can be added. Let's take three kilograms of peppers, a glass of vegetable oil, one liter of tomato paste (you can make a tomato from fresh tomatoes), 250 grams of granulated sugar, a glass of vinegar (6%) and a tablespoon of s alt. You will also need one kilogram of carrots. Peel and three carrots with a fine grater. We remove the seeds and stem from the pepper, cut it into strips. We put the pot on the fire. Pour in the tomato paste, oil and vinegar. Add s alt and sugar there. When the mixture boils, put pepper and carrots into it. Cook for 8 minutes. Then put the pepper and carrot lecho into jars.

And finally, the recipe for lecho with the addition of eggplant. We take 4 kilograms of tomatoes, two medium eggplants, 7 large peppers, two onions, 200 millilitersvegetable oil, s alt, tarragon and sugar.

Vegetables need to be washed and peeled. We cut the tomatoes into slices, and the pepper, onion and eggplant into rings. Fry eggplants in a pan with vegetable oil until they become soft. Put the rest of the vegetables in a saucepan and cook for 15 minutes. Then add spices and continue to cook for another 20 minutes. After that, put the eggplant in the pan. Cook for another 15 minutes. Then put the lecho into pasteurized jars and roll up the lids.

There are a lot of recipes for cooking lecho. Each of them is good in its own way. Therefore, choose a more suitable one and make preparations for the winter.