Lecho with rice - a tourist’s breakfast: recipes for preparing appetizer salad for the winter - how to prepare homemade lecho with the addition of rice

What kind of rice should I use?

There have been quite a lot of varieties and types of rice on store shelves lately, but not all are suitable for preservation. To prepare winter lecho you will need white rice. Some use short-grain, some long-grain... The choice is yours, but still, long-grain cereal holds its shape better and the risk that it will not turn into porridge at the end of cooking is much higher.In addition, the rice should not be steamed.

Before cooking, the grains are sorted, removing stones and poorly processed grains. They have a dark appearance, so detecting them is not difficult. However, good manufacturers produce their product absolutely pure, requiring no additional manipulations.

Following the instructions, place the rice in the pan a few minutes before it is ready. Immediately before this, the cereal is rinsed with cool running water.

Recipes for lecho with rice

“Nostalgia” - a classic appetizer salad recipe

The preparation technology is quite simple: the tomatoes are pureed, the vegetables are boiled in the resulting juice, rice is added, and vinegar is poured at the half-cooked stage of the cereal.

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1.5 kilograms of fresh tomatoes are passed through a meat grinder along with the peel. A two-hundred-gram glass of vegetable oil and basic spices are added to the tomato base: 150 grams of sugar and 1.5 tablespoons (with a small amount) of salt.

The base is placed on the fire and warmed up. Seasonings are added to the boiling puree (1 teaspoon of ground pepper mixture, 7 black peppercorns and 2 bay leaves) and chopped vegetables: onions, sweet peppers (preferably bell peppers), and fresh carrots. All vegetables are taken in equal proportions - 500 grams each. The pepper is cut into strips, the carrots are chopped through a grater, and the onion is cut into half rings.

Attention! All recipes in this article indicate the weight of the purified ingredients!

The vegetables are brought to a vigorous boil and heated for 10 minutes over medium heat. Remove the bay leaf and replace it with ¾ cup of rice. Together with the cereal, the preparation is boiled for another quarter of an hour. At the same time, they do not leave the stove, since the salad almost constantly needs to be stirred.

When the rice reaches half-cookedness, pour in 1.5 tablespoons of vinegar and add a chopped head of garlic. After 5 minutes the stove is turned off.

Place lecho salad with rice in jars with a capacity of 0.5 to 1 liter. The container is thoroughly washed and treated with steam beforehand, sterilized. Twisted salads provide warmth. After 15-20 hours, the workpiece is transferred to a permanent storage location.

In our article we would like to invite you to use detailed and clear instructions for preparing aromatic lecho with rice cereal. By the way, winter preparation can also be a variation of lecho stuffed pepper with rice and minced meat.

With cooked rice

Rice very often sticks tightly to the dishes when preparing lecho, which literally does not allow housewives to “rest” and do other things. To avoid this, you can use boiled rice.

The quantity of products is taken based on the previous recipe. The cooking technology is also similar. The only difference is that the cereal is cooked separately. The proportion of water and rice is 2:1. At the same time, the cooking time for the vegetable component increases from 10 minutes to 20.

After the boiled rice is added, cook the lecho for 3 minutes. Then add garlic and vinegar according to the recipe and finish cooking with five minutes of boiling.

Channel of video blogger A.V. Rychkova “RAV” offers a recipe for a snack that can replace a full breakfast. Lecho is prepared with rice and 70% vinegar essence.

With zucchini and store-bought tomato paste

1.5 kilograms of zucchini are chopped into cubes. The size of the sides is 1.5-2 centimeters. Sweet pepper (1 kilogram) cut into strips or half rings. Onion (500 grams) - cubed.

In a large frying pan, fry the onion in 200 milliliters of vegetable oil.The pieces should not brown, but only become translucent.

Meanwhile, store-bought tomato paste is diluted in a cooking pot. For a 400 gram jar of pasta, take 1.5 liters of water. The resulting tomato solution is boiled for 2 minutes with the addition of salt (2 level tablespoons), sugar (200 grams), a tablespoon of red paprika, and ½ dessert spoon of ground pepper.

Peppers, fried onions and zucchini are added to the slightly thickened mass. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer the salad for 5-7 minutes.

The next stage is laying the rice. For a given volume of vegetable mass you will need 1 cup. Cook the lecho for 20 minutes, stirring continuously.

A few minutes before the dish is completely prepared, a preservative is added to the winter preparation - 30 milliliters of 9% table vinegar.

Channel "Cooking Channel Oksana K." shares his recipe for winter preparation: SALAD WITH RICE FOR WINTER “TOURIST BREAKFAST”. New, richer and more intense taste! With fried vegetables.

Recipe for the lazy - in a slow cooker

Why is this recipe called “for the lazy”? Everything is very simple: the multicooker bowl is not capable of holding a lot of food and for high-quality preparation of lecho it must be filled with raw food to no more than 2/3 of the volume. This means that you will have to peel and cut very few vegetables. In addition, the “smart” modes of the miracle assistant are capable of preparing dishes almost independently.

Products:

• onion – 1 large head;
• carrots - 2 root vegetables;
• bell pepper – 4 pieces;
• tomato paste – 90 grams;
• water – 3 glasses;
• dry long-grain rice - 1 cup, included with the multicooker;
• vegetable oil – ½ cup;
• salt – 1.5 teaspoons;
• sugar – 2 tablespoons;
• vinegar 9% - 1 teaspoon.

Vegetables are cut randomly.Pour 3 tablespoons of oil into a bowl, add onions and carrots. 5 minutes after the unit starts operating in the “Frying” mode, add pieces of bell pepper, pour everything with tomato paste diluted with clean water, add spices and salt. The “Assistant” is switched to the “Extinguishing” mode. Cook vegetables covered for 10 minutes. Add rice and simmer the lecho for another 20 minutes. To prevent grains of rice from sticking to the bottom, the salad is stirred quite often. Vinegar is added at the final stage, a few minutes before turning off the device.

Eggplant with rice - original recipe for lecho in the oven

Three large pepper pods are peeled, washed and chopped into arbitrary pieces.

A kilogram of eggplants is peeled and cut into cubes, strips and small cubes. To get rid of the bitterness inherent in this vegetable, the slices are thickly sprinkled with salt, thoroughly rolled in crystals, and left for half an hour. Before cooking, the eggplant slices are washed with running water.

Onions (1 large head) are chopped into rings, and carrots (2 roots) into strips. Sliced ​​onions and carrots are lightly fried. The vegetables are not brought to a golden color; they only ensure that the oil is saturated with vegetable aroma.

Grease a high-sided baking sheet with vegetable oil. Place washed eggplants on the very bottom as the first layer, then ½ cup of washed rice, pepper, and fried vegetables on top. This entire “sandwich” is filled with a tomato base with spices.

You can make the base completely yourself by chopping 1.5 kilograms of fresh tomatoes with an immersion blender, or use ready-made tomato paste diluted in water (300 grams of base per 1 liter of water).For seasonings, add 1 tablespoon salt, 3 tablespoons sugar and ½ teaspoon dried garlic powder. It will give the lecho a special flavor.

Cover the baking tray with food with foil. Lecho should be cooked in the oven for 1.5 hours. Heating temperature – 200-220 ºС.

The finished lecho is laid out on portioned plates or served in a common salad bowl at the dinner table. If you plan to preserve the dish, then add 1.5 tablespoons of 9% strength vinegar to the vegetables and rice, mix everything, and heat in the oven for another 3 minutes before packing in a sterile container.

For vegetarians, blogger Irina Kuzmina has prepared a special video that describes in detail the recipe for an everyday dish - lecho with wild rice made from baked peppers.

Useful tips

• The tomato base for lecho is made in several ways: tomatoes with peel are crushed through a meat grinder or blender, or cut into arbitrary pieces without chopping. In the latter case, with tomatoes it is necessary remove the skin.
• To prevent the rice from sticking to the pan, choose a thick-walled cooking container with a wide bottom. To avoid problems with rice, you can add boiled cereal to lecho.
• The cooking time of the vegetable mass depends on the size of the cuts: the larger the pieces, the longer the dish will take to cook. But you should also take into account the fact that too finely chopped vegetables are “lost” in the finished salad and look less attractive.

Storage rules

Lecho, sealed in sterile jars, is stored very well. You can keep the workpiece either in a special cool place or at room temperature. Shelf life – 1-1.5 years.