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Bulgarian pepper, juicy, fleshy vegetable, vary in size and shape, with iridescent colors: from green to red. There are blue and yellow, and orange, white varieties. The most beloved and popular dishes from the Bulgarian pepper is Lecho. Hungarian writer Gyula crudo, argued that a person eats peppers and tomatoes in summer and winter lecho.
Lecho- classic Hungarian dishes, which included a mandatory presence of three types of vegetables: peppers, tomatoes and onions. This is only a framework, but it is possible to improve the dish, add the rice, boiled potatoes, pieces of meat, sausages or other vegetables. It's all a matter of taste and improvisation.
In our country, mainly used as Lecho snacks, and for Bulgaria and Hungary, is one of the ingredients in the preparation of various dishes.
They add the onions and peppers while extinguishing sausage, chicken or meat, this dish, combine the first and second dishes. Cold Spanish soup gazpacho, the same can be prepared using Lecho.
Most housewives adapted the recipe for those products available to them, there lecho with the addition of fried onions, carrots, and even lard.
Recipe 1. Reference Hungarian Lecho
Yes, now the Hungarian Lecho need to cook it at home lard, bacon, bacon, not the oil.
Ingredients:
• 2 kg of fleshy red, yellow peppers.
• 1 kg of tomato.
• 3 pcs. bulbs.
• 3 pcs. carrot.
• 100 grams of lard.
• 1 tablespoon (10 grams) seasoning paprika.
• 1 teaspoon (5 grams) of chili.
• 3 tbsp. l. wine vinegar,
• salt, sugar and spices to taste, garlic.
How to Cook lecho:
To start, prepare all ingredients for cooking. Peppers need to wash, remove seeds, cut into rings. Cut onion half rings, thin strips of carrots and tomatoes into small pieces. If desired, remove their skin, splash boiling water before that.
Heat the appropriate size pan or kettle, fry until the bacon cracklings. Laying sliced onions, carrots and season with paprika and chili.
The next stage of the addition of the rings bell pepper, stir, and a couple of minutes, tomatoes, then crushed garlic, salt, sugar, pepper, favorite spices and vinegar.
Decreases to a minimum the fire, and tormented, about 15-20 minutes. Taste and flavor are obtained is very saturated. Boiling mixture pour into sterilized jars and roll for the winter. Optionally, the bottom of the jars before filling, put a pea allspice, parsley and bay leaf.
Recipe 2. Croatian lecho sweet pepper and eggplant
Its smoky flavor is very suitable for meat dishes. Perhaps change this recipe to your taste, adding hot red pepper and onion, and substituting lemon juice or red wine vinegar.
For the preparation of 6-liter jars:
Components:
• 4 large eggplant.
• 10 large red bell peppers.
• 15 large tomatoes.
• 1 cup of olive or sunflower oil is of good quality.
• 1 head of garlic.
• salt, sugar and black pepper to taste, the juice of two lemons, or apple cider vinegar.
How to Cook lecho:
The ideal would be to have a street grill, baked with wood, vegetables have a terrific scent that will give ready-made meals. But of course you can use the standard urban stove.
Oven heated to 180-200 degrees C. Put the washed eggplants and peppers on a baking sheet and roast turning while their skins will not be black, about 30 minutes.
Transfer the roasted vegetables in a paper bag (the plastic can melt) and wrap that was formed within the steam for 10 minutes. This is necessary to make it easier to peel vegetables. Peel and slice the slices, place in a bowl. Add salt to taste and pepper, crushed garlic and stir.
Tomatoes change and scroll through a meat grinder. The resulting mass is poured into a large pot add sugar, salt, bring to a boil. After boiling tomato juice to gently insert baked vegetables and simmer over low heat stirring occasionally for 30 minutes.
Now it is quite thick and flavorful lecho, with chunks of roasted pepper and eggplant. And what a beautiful red color. At the end of cooking, pour the lemon juice or apple cider vinegar. Pour into sterilized jars lecho on and roll for the winter.
Turning upside down the banks, "wrap" their dense blanket until cool.
Many housewives have their own secrets of cooking lecho someone does not use anything except pepper and tomato, someone adds honey, apples and courgettes. Lecho to eat only white bread, then you get the maximum pleasure.
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