Lecho. Calorie content of the dish

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Store shelves attract with a variety of canned vegetables. Jars and jars, small and large, glass and iron, beckon with mouth-watering tomatoes, cucumbers, green peas … But is it really useful what is hidden in colorful packages? Do we always pay attention to the label, which contains information about the product? In this article, let's talk about lecho: calorie content, composition, origin of the recipe.

Origin of the recipe

There are always a lot of canned blanks for the winter at the cheerful hostess. But there will definitely be a jar of lecho. Its calorie content depends on what is included in the composition, which, in turn, is dictated by the recipe.

It is believed that the birthplace of this fragrant tomato snack is Hungary. Nevertheless, the pages of some cookbooks contain information that this dish was invented in Bulgaria or even in Serbia.

Today it doesn't matter where this snack originated. There are many recipes for this popular dish, always tasty and in separatecases savory from added secret ingredients.

Types of lecho

Lecho is a cold appetizer that surprises with a variety of tastes. But what remains unchanged in every recipe is fragrant bell pepper and ripe juicy tomatoes.

Lecho with tomatoes and peppers - a simple appetizer, cooked for an hour or two. You can serve it for dinner on a weekday and decorate the holiday table with this dish. To prepare lecho, grind a kilogram of tomatoes in a blender, add to them one and a half kilograms of pepper washed and cut into strips, two tablespoons of s alt, half a glass of sugar, black pepper. Boil the mass for twenty minutes. Then we put it in half-liter jars, add a clove of garlic to each, sterilize for 20 minutes and twist with an iron lid.

Pepper Lecho with tomato juice. The beauty of this recipe is that you don’t have to mess around with tomatoes, so it cooks much faster. For 3 liters of tomato juice, take bell pepper - 3.5 kg, onions - 1.5 kg, sugar, vinegar 9%, vegetable oil - 200 ml each, s alt - 1.5 tbsp. l. We mix the liquid ingredients and spices and heat them in a saucepan, then add the prepared vegetables and cook for about twenty minutes. We put it in banks, roll it up - and into a fur coat.

Snack is served cold and hot. In the second case, the components included in the recipe are cut and frozen in a bag. Then you just need to put the contents of the package in a pan and stew.

These are simple and affordable lecho recipes. The calorie content of the dish is low. Therefore it canuse in dietary cuisine.

Dish calories

In each lecho recipe, the calorie content depends on the products included in it. Here are some recipes (per 100 gr. of the finished dish):

• with tomatoes and peppers - 55 kcal;
• with tomato juice - 63 kcal;
• with carrots -75 kcal;
• lazy lecho with vegetables - 75;
• with eggplant - 66 kcal;
• with zucchini - 55 kcal.

The original recipe of the Hungarian version includes not only vegetables (peppers, tomatoes, eggplants). Smoked pork sausages, mushrooms, brisket, rice were often added to it. Accordingly, the calorie content of such a dish also increased.

This dish is tasty and not very high in calories, products are always available, so any housewife can cook and serve it.