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The lecho salad recipe came to us from abroad. Nevertheless, he gained just extraordinary popularity. Almost every housewife should have several jars of this fragrant and tasty salad on the shelf with preservation. It is noteworthy that the composition of the workpiece can be changed depending on your own preferences. Only tomatoes and bell peppers remain unchanged components in lecho. In addition to the main ingredients, carrots, eggplants, cucumbers and zucchini can be added to the salad. The classic Hungarian version also has meat or sausage. In our country, it is customary to cook lecho only from vegetables and thicker than the Hungarians do. In this article, we will see how to cook cucumber lecho recipes for the winter.
The first option is lecho from cucumbers for the winter
For this spicy and tasty salad, we need:
- young small cucumbers – one kilogram;
- Bulgarian sweet pepper – five pieces (large);
- fleshy ripe tomatoes – half a kilogram;
- hot pepper – one piece;
- garlic – from 5 to 8 teeth;
- onions – two pieces (large);
- carrots – 1 piece;
- cloves;
- sunflower oil;
- Dill seeds;
- allspice;
- coriander seeds;
- Bay leaf;
- salt to taste.
Put a deep frying pan on a small fire, pour refined sunflower oil into it and fry chopped onions and grated carrots on it. Vegetables should be well softened, but not fried.
Tomatoes are washed under running water. Then the stalks are removed from them and, if desired, the skin can be removed. Wash the bell pepper too, cut it, cut out the stalks and remove the seeds. After that, grind the tomatoes and peppers with a blender or meat grinder. The resulting mass must be slightly salted, add prepared spices to taste and put on a slow fire. Let the mixture boil, after which we throw cucumbers into it, which were previously peeled and cut into circles. Lecho is boiled for at least three minutes, and then fried carrots and onions are added.
Next, we proceed to the preparation of jars for lecho. They must be thoroughly washed and sterilized. Then peeled garlic is placed at the bottom of each container, after which it is poured and the lecho itself is poured. We put lids on top of the jars and put the containers in a large pot of water. We put it on a slow fire, wait until the water boils, and detect exactly 20 minutes. After this time, it will be possible to roll up jars with lecho.
Turn each container upside down. Then the jars need to be wrapped in a blanket or blanket. We leave our blanks for a day so that they cool completely. Further, the blanks are stored in a dark, cool place.
Instead of fresh tomatoes, tomato paste works great. Before starting cooking, it should be diluted with water to get a mass that looks like liquid sour cream. It is important to look at the composition of the paste. It should not contain preservatives. The paste itself has excellent preservative properties.
Cucumber lecho with tomatoes
For the second option, lecho for the winter, we need to prepare:
- small cucumbers – up to 2,5 kilograms;
- ripe fleshy tomatoes – up to 1,5 kilograms;
- garlic – from 5 to 10 teeth;
- sweet bell pepper – half a kilogram;
- table 9% vinegar – one spoon;
- refined sunflower oil – 50 ml;
- red hot pepper to taste;
- granulated sugar – about 100 grams;
- dill and coriander seeds;
- salt – 2 (heaped) tablespoons.
Tomatoes and peppers are peeled and cut, as in the first recipe. Then the vegetables are chopped using a meat grinder or other kitchen equipment. Now this liquid mass is put on the stove and brought to a boil. After that, you can add all the spices to the mixture. Next, peeled and chopped cucumbers are added to the dish. The salad is boiled for another 10 minutes, after which sunflower oil and table vinegar are poured into it. As soon as the dish boils again, the fire is turned off.
Put the peeled and chopped onion and garlic into clean sterilized jars. Immediately after them, the vegetable mass is poured into jars. Now each jar is rolled up with sterilized lids, and left to cool upside down. After the salad has completely cooled, it is necessary to move the workpiece to a cool place.
Conclusion
What only skillful housewives do not cook from cucumbers. But few people know how to make lecho from this vegetable. Everyone is used to the fact that this salad is prepared mainly with tomatoes and peppers, but certainly not with cucumbers. Although at first glance it looks a little strange, but in reality it turns out very tasty. Lecho with cucumbers is now cooked by many housewives. They claim that the taste of cucumbers in the dish is practically not felt. The fact is that cucumbers do not have a pronounced taste and can easily absorb the aroma and taste of other ingredients. You can choose any proposed cucumber lecho recipe and try to cook it. We are sure after that this blank will definitely replenish your winter stocks.
In the end, we want to bring to your attention a video on how else you can cook cucumber lecho for the winter.
