For the cuisine of the peoples of southern Europe, lecho is the same as for Russian fermentation, and for residents of the sea coast, fish and seafood.
The recipe for the lecho is simple: tomatoes, onions and bell peppers serve as the basis, and all other components are a matter of taste and personal preference. Did you see something familiar?
Yes, true, classic ketchup is also a peculiar lecho, spicy, piquant.
As we used to use it as a sauce for different side dishes, it’s also a good choice for many dishes.
Try to make lecho with beans according to our recipes, this is a satisfying and predominantly low-calorie dish, and spices and insignificant, at first glance, additives can diversify it so much that it’s hard to believe that all this is done!
Winter bean soup - general principles of preparation
• wash all vegetables well with running water;
• dry beans, pre-soaked for a period of 8 to 24 hours, depending on the variety, it is always cooked until cooked;
• asparagus beans are blanched;
• Tomatoes are used in the dish only in crushed form, any method of your choice is suitable for this, most often they use a meat grinder or a blender.
Winter bean soup
On shelves with summer preparations there is a place for a hearty recipe from stewed beans in a delicate sauce. The simplest recipe from the most affordable products.
Ingredients:
• bell peppers - 2.5 kg .;
• white beans - 800 gr.;
• tomatoes of any kind, red or pink varieties - 4.5 kg;
• onions - 0.5 kg;
• sugar - 8 tbsp. spoons "with a hill";
• coarse salt - 2 tbsp. spoons "with a hill";
• table vinegar - 100 g .;
• half a liter of vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. From grated tomatoes, remove seeds and pieces of the skin by rubbing through a colander.
2. Cut off the top of the pepper, free from the insides and chop the large longitudinal straws.
3. The resulting vegetable mass is placed in a large container and set to heat above average, until boiling.
4. Lay onions and peppers.
5. When the tomato boils again, you need to slightly reduce the heat and cook for 25 minutes. with a slight boil.
6. Carefully pour the oil, salt, pour sugar, mix.
7. Lay the pre-cooked beans and continue cooking for another quarter of an hour.
8. Pour vinegar and cook under the lid until cooked for about 8-10 minutes. at the smallest heating.
9. The lecho is ready for picking on banks.
Lecho with colored beans, based on the Georgian "Lobio"
Beans of colored varieties have their own taste, which gives saturation to the classic tones of lecho. And coriander and garlic improve the aroma and add a spicy touch to the sauce.
Ingredients:
• colored beans - 500 gr.;
• 6 large onions;
• half a kilogram of carrots and tomatoes;
• fleshy sweet pepper - 4 pieces;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• salt;
• ground black pepper;
• ground coriander;
• garlic - 2 heads;
• green onions - 1 bunch.
Cooking method:
1. Soak the beans for 12 hours, changing the water to fresh every 4 hours.
2. Rinse swollen beans, pour boiling water over it and boil until tender.
3. Blanch the tomatoes, peel them, crumble into small cubes.
4. Divide the onion into rings, 3-5 mm thick, then cut them from the edge to the middle to make "half rings".
5. Remove the seed box from the pepper and chop with a coarse straw.
6. Grate the carrots with large cells.
7. Peeled peeled garlic through a press.
8. In a deep frying pan, or pot, heat the vegetable oil.
9. Pour the onion, fry until brown and select in a separate bowl, put the carrots in the butter and lightly fry.
10. Put the tomatoes in the fried vegetables. Keep on medium heat 1/3 hour.
11. Put boiled beans, garlic, salt, pepper and sprinkle 5-7 g in a pan. ground coriander and continue cooking at the same temperature.
12. After 20 minutes, the lecho is ready.
13. Remove the dish from the heat and, wrapping it up, leave to insist for one hour.
14. Put the finished lecho on a dish and sprinkle with chopped green onions.
Lego with Beans and Eggplant
Lecho is a kind of dish that can be improved endlessly using ever new products. Do you have any eggplant? Wonderful! Let's diversify today's lecho with them.
Ingredients:
• 2 kilograms of medium-sized eggplant;
• sweet fleshy pepper - 1 kg;
• asparagus beans - 2 kg;
• carrots - 1.2 kg;
• 2 heads of garlic;
• ripe tomatoes, fleshy varieties - 3.5 kg;
• refined vegetable oil - 250 ml;
• 9% table vinegar - 300 ml;
• salt - 40 grams, then to taste;
• granulated sugar - 0.5 cups;
• three bay leaves;
• several peas of allspice.
Cooking method:
1. Washed and dried eggplant form rings with a thickness of 10-15 mm. Put layer by layer in a colander, pouring each layer with a small amount of salt. Put under oppression so that the glass is unnecessary bitterness. After an hour, wash and dry the eggplants with a paper towel.
2. Lightly fry the eggplants in a well-heated pan with a little vegetable oil. No need to bring to readiness, requires a rosy fragrant crust.
3. We prepare the carrots in circles.
4. Divide the asparagus beans into 2-3 parts.
5. To make carrots and beans more tender, they should be quickly blanched.
6. Pepper, preferably red varieties, clear of seeds and prepare in large rings. Put pepper, browned eggplant, beans and carrots in a pot or cauldron.
7. Salt the tomatoes, add sugar, vinegar, garlic and mix everything thoroughly until the loose components are completely dissolved.
8. Pour the resulting marinade onto the stacked vegetables.
9. Top with bay leaf, allspice and black pepper peas.
10. Withstand at low boil for 25 minutes.
11. Pour the finished lecho into pre-prepared jars and sterilize for half an hour.
12. Roll up.
Asparagus beans
Good-looking foreigner? Well, of course, we are talking about asparagus beans, in a spicy tomato sauce with carrots and bell peppers.
Ingredients:
• asparagus beans - 2.5-3 kg;
• onions - one and a half kilograms;
• sweet pepper - one and a half kilograms;
• carrots, better than the Korolek variety - 1.2-1.5 kg .;
• Refined oil - one glass;
• salt - 1.5 tablespoons;
• sugar - 1.5 tbsp. spoons;
• 0.9% vinegar - 1.5 tbsp. spoons;
• tomato juice - 600 ml.
Cooking method:
1. Bean pods are divided into pieces 3-4 cm long.
2. Tomato juice can be used purchased or made by yourself from a kilogram of tomatoes.
3. Chopped peeled carrots on a thin straw.
4. Onion cut into thin rings.
5. Cut sweet pepper into small, unevenly sized pieces.
6. Pour water into a large container and bring to a boil.
7. Pour the beans and cook for 7-8 minutes.
8. Remove the cooked beans from the water and cool. Transfer to a suitable container.
9. Pour in vegetable oil, tomato juice.
10. Sprinkle onions and carrots.
11. Add salt, sugar and put to simmer with little heat.
12. After 20 minutes, pour in the vinegar and mix well. Cook until cooked for another 2-3 minutes.
13. Ready to lay immediately after removal from the stove pour into banks and roll up.
A quick lecho with beans in a slow cooker
When a person invented a multicooker, recipes have been counting for centuries already. And if you combine folk traditions and modern technology? Well, it’s up to you to decide how tasty it is, but everything is prepared very quickly.
Ingredients:
• tomatoes - 2.5 kg;
• onion - 4 heads;
• white or colored beans - 250-300 gr .;
• peeled garlic - 5 teeth;
• vinegar 9% - 2 tablespoons;
• coarse salt - 25 gr.;
• granulated sugar - 1/2 cup;
• Refined oil - 120 ml.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse soaked beans overnight and boil until cooked.
2. Blanch the tomatoes, remove the skin and chop.
3. Chopped peeled onions in small cubes.
4. Grind the garlic in a mortar, or grate with small cells.
5. Chop fleshy bell pepper with a small straw.
6. Transfer prepared vegetables to the multicooker bowl: chopped tomatoes and onions, peppers. Pour sugar, salt, put boiled beans and crushed garlic.
7. Mix the contents of the bowl.
8. Cook with the extinguishing mode set for one hour.
9. Pour vinegar, and stand for 15-20 minutes in the "Preheat" mode.
10. Put the finished dough into cans and roll up the lids.
Spicy vegetable lecho with beans
Well, if we add soft and tender zucchini and hot hot peppers to the classic recipe? Lecho is very fond of such options in Bulgaria, from where they migrated both to the Mediterranean coast and to us. In the southern republics of the USSR, according to a similar recipe, they produced wonderful inexpensive canned goods.
Ingredients:
• sugar beans - 180 gr.;
• tomatoes - 800 gr.;
• onions - 7 pcs.;
• Bulgarian pepper - 6 pcs.;
• zucchini - 400 gr.;
• hot red pepper - 1 pod;
• salt - 1 teaspoon with a slide;
• sugar to taste;
• vegetable oil or lard for frying;
• greenery.
Cooking method:
1. Prepare the vegetables. Cut the peeled onions into rings, chop peppers along the straws, peel the tomatoes and finely chop. Grind zucchini into strips.
2. Pour the onion into a hot oil or lard in a frying pan and fry until a light amber color is obtained.
3. Add chopped peppers. Quench with a lid on medium heat for a quarter of an hour.
4. Pour in the tomato mass, with salt and sugar dissolved in it.
5. Put the zucchini, cut into strips, red hot pepper, previously grated. Mix everything well.
6. After 15 minutes, pour the boiled beans.
7. Continue to simmer until cooked.
8. When serving, sprinkle with finely chopped dill and parsley.
Hunting lecho with white beans and smoked sausages
The recipe for those hunters who were not lucky enough today to sit around the fire with friends. Let's hope that your mistress is more successful and she has some simple products and smoked meats.
Ingredients:
• sugar bean varieties - 250 grams;
• sweet pepper - 7 pieces;
• fleshy tomatoes - 4 pieces;
• onions - 3 medium heads;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• ground paprika;
• ground pepper;
• smoked bacon - 200 grams;
• hunting sausages - 250 grams;
• salt;
• sugar.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the bacon into small sticks. Put in a frying pan and slowly heat the fat from it. Remove the pieces of bacon on a separate plate.
2. Onions are crushed with rings, fried until golden brown in a pan with melted fat.
3. Pour a little paprika into the fried onions and mix with a little heat.
4. Spread peppers peeled and cut into small pieces.
5. When the pepper changes color and becomes softer, put tomatoes without skin in a pan.
6. Cook with a little heat and a closed lid, stirring occasionally gently.
7. After 20 minutes, remove the lid and add bacon, boiled beans and cut into several parts hunting sausages. Salt, pepper to taste. Cover and stand for another quarter hour.
8. At the end of cooking, add grated garlic to the dish.
Lecho with grapes
Fans of original tastes can gird aprons and arm themselves with cookers. A delicious dish, in which there is an unexpected aroma of grapes, and a rich flavor of spicy spices will be a good reward for your time.
Ingredients:
• white beans, sugar - 100-150 grams;
• white grapes, sour varieties - 500 grams;
• medium-sized zucchini - 2 pcs.;
• bell pepper - 3 pcs.;
• tomatoes - 800 grams;
• garlic - 8 teeth;
• tomato paste - 2 tablespoons;
• red pepper, medium-sized pod;
• refined sunflower oil - 80 ml;
• apple vinegar;
• dried basil;
• pepper peas.
Cooking method:
1. Bake bell pepper in the oven and peel, shape into cubes.
2. Each zucchini cut along, into several parts and then into small cubes.
3. We pass the tomato paste in vegetable oil.
4. Pour crushed tomatoes into a deep bowl with a thick bottom, heat, bringing to a slight boil.
5. Add sausage tomato paste, chopped pepper, chopped half hot pepper, zucchini.
6. Salt, toss 5 peas of black pepper and bring to a boil.
7. Reduce heat and simmer.
8. Crush the berries of the grapes and separate the juice.
9. Finely chop the garlic with a knife.
10. After 10-15 minutes, pour in the oil and grape juice.
11. Add boiled beans. Pour 3-4 pinches of basil and garlic, add a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar. Stew for 15 minutes.
12. We get the banks and close.
Bean Treats - Tips and Tricks
• Bean grains must be soaked in advance in cold water overnight. Change the water 3-4 times.
• when boiling beans, do not add salt to the water, then the beans will be cooked much faster;
• a pressure cooker, or a slow cooker with a pressure cooker function, will save you time when cooking beans.
• Coriander, very often used in the preparation of beans, is just in place in our recipes. If you add it in the middle of the “hot” cooking, then the dish takes on a rich, “satisfying” taste, and if you put it a little and immediately remove from heating, the lecho will become spicy.
• Coriander is the best friend of caraway seeds. In a lecho with beans, this duet is very good if the dish is served immediately and hot. Do not put caraway seeds in canned food, the result will be poorly predicted.
• it will be easier to remove the skin from tomatoes if an incision is made in the area of the stalk and the fruits are held in boiling water for 2 minutes. Then cool with cold water.
• Lecho canning jars should be washed using baking soda or laundry soap;
• lids for seaming must be boiled for 5 minutes with a strong boil, and dried well by laying them on a clean towel;
• the lecho rolled up in cans will be stored longer if the cans are put down with lids after seaming and wrapped in a blanket until they cool;
• garlic in lecho, intended for serving, preferably put 1-2 minutes before the end of cooking. In this case, the dish will be more fragrant;
• it is undesirable to use frozen green beans, it will quickly break apart and can turn into porridge.
One recipe - many dishes! If a fresh lecho with beans is served hot, or let it cool to room temperature, you will have two different lecho. If you let it brew, then you will get three more separate dishes: chilled, from the refrigerator, an appetizer; cold dish - garnish; warmed tender lecho, which is different from freshly cooked.
