Bulgarian pepper

It cannot be said that in Georgia there are any traditional recipes for preparing lecho. Every Georgian family has its own traditions, and you can’t rewrite all the recipes. Moreover, some housewives do not want to share their secrets, and sometimes you have to guess what gives a divine taste to a particular dish. I will write the recipe that has been repeatedly tested by my family, my friends and neighbors.

In the 90s, homemade preparation of a variety of letcho salads was almost mandatory for every family. Salads were made from vegetables alone or with additives from various types of cereals. Canned food with rice and barley were especially popular. Such snacks were popularly called “Tourist’s Breakfast”. Today we will look at the most popular recipes for making homemade lecho with rice.

Preparing for the winter is always a troublesome task, and many housewives are looking for ways to make the task easier. This does not mean that housewives are lazy. Just smart optimization is good even in the kitchen. Therefore, I want to present several simple methods that will undoubtedly make it easier for many to prepare delicious vegetable lecho for the winter.

Natural tomato juice is the basis of the classic lecho recipe. For many housewives, in the modern rhythm of life, the procedure for processing fresh tomatoes into juice and further boiling them is too time-consuming. Therefore, savvy chefs have learned to use ready-made canned or packaged tomato juices, as well as tomato paste and ketchup for cooking lecho in tomato. Read more about all the tricks of preparing a winter salad from various vegetables in tomato sauce in our article.

You can diversify your winter preparations with vegetable salads. Even the well-known and beloved lecho can be prepared in different ways. Lecho with cauliflower is a rather unusual dish, but it is hearty and can be served as a side dish or as a salad.

It would seem that all the ways to prepare cucumbers for the winter are already known, but there is one recipe that turns such simple pickled cucumbers into an exclusive delicacy. These are pickled cucumbers in jelly. The recipe itself is simple, but the result is amazing.The cucumbers turn out incredibly crispy; the marinade itself, in the form of jelly, is eaten almost faster than the cucumbers themselves. Read the recipe and prepare the jars.

In Hungary, lecho is traditionally eaten hot, as an independent dish, or as a side dish for meat dishes. In our country, lecho is something like a spicy salad. There are many recipes for “Hungarian lecho”, and yet they have something in common. All versions of Hungarian lecho are prepared from different varieties of pepper. This adds not only bright color to the dish, but also rich flavor.

Pepper jam is made from a mixture of peppers - chili (hot) and bell peppers. And you can change the ratio of these two peppers to make a hotter or “softer” jam. Sugar, which is part of the jam, extinguishes the bitterness, and makes the sweet and sour, scorching jam indispensable for nuggets, cheese and meat dishes.