Summer in the bank: quick recipes lecho

Recipe №1: lecho with tomatoes, peppers and carrots

Ingredients (yield is about 1.3 liter): 1 kg of tomatoes, 0.8-1 kg of sweet peppers (about 5 small pieces) 1 medium carrot, 1 tablespoon salt 1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup vegetable oil, 1/2 tablespoon vinegar, 3 leaf lavrushki, handful mixture peppers, peas pair allspice and 3 garlic cloves (by optional).

Tomatoes washed and purified from the seeds. If you have small tomatoes, just cut them in half and take out the seeds, when the fruit is bigger, then it is better to cut into 4 pieces. Recipe offer a ready-made mashed potatoes wipe through a sieve to get rid of the seeds, but for me it was easier to remove them immediately. My grandmother even leaves all the seeds, so you decide. If you have free time and desire - to shoot them with sandpaper. Then milled into a puree using a grinder or blender (as in my case), poured into a pan, adding sugar, salt and pepper oil with bay leaf, put on fire until boiling. So then it was easier to catch a bay leaf and then you on the tooth did not come across pepper, make a gauze bag - then just pull out a spoon before it is poured into a jar.

While tomato mass of boils, you slice the peppers lengthwise into 8-10 pieces (depending on size) and carrots. I was cutting thin strips, you can cut it as you want, as long as it was not too subtly, that she did not seethe in a smoothie! Pepper, by the way, can also be cut into larger pieces, or alternatively strips.

Tomato weight began to boil and on the surface there was a light foam - you need to get rid of it with a slotted spoon (spoon with holes), or strain through a sieve. Then you can add chopped carrots and peppers wait until lecho boils again, and then another 30 minutes to detect. For 10 minutes until cooked squeeze the garlic, if you like witty, then do not hesitate in quantity.

I want to add here a little apart by the number of peppers and carrots - when you just add the sliced vegetables, they will take up more space, and then boiled, becoming softer and more pepper and let juice. So do not hesitate and put a lot!

Turns out, a little cooled, add vinegar, mixed well and poured into a jar. Lecho is ready! It remains only to wait for it to cool down, and either directly on the table or in the fridge. Vinegar, incidentally, also be added if desired. He is there and so is not felt almost, and some professionals in conservation argue that for those cans that are preparing for the winter, it is not necessary.

Recipe №2: lecho with tomatoes, peppers and aubergines

Ingredients: 1 kg of tomatoes, peppers 1.2 kg (3-4 things) 1 medium eggplant, 1/5 cup of sugar, 1/5 cup oil, 1 tablespoon salt without slides, 3-4 bay leaves, a handful of peppers and mix again for a couple of garlic cloves will.

Preparation is fully consistent with the first recipe. Nothing new and complex. Eggplant need only throw a little earlier peppers (for 5 minutes). Pepper also cut to 6-8 parts, eggplant cut in small cubes in a thickness of about 0.5 cm and a length of 3 cm (approximately as half of the index finger).

If you compile and write a little easier, you just have to grind the tomatoes in puree, put it on the fire, add sugar, salt, oil and spices, cut into small cubes, vegetable pieces and send in boiling tomato puree.

All the troubles with the removal of the skin from the tomatoes, removing the seeds, etc. etc. - it is for the more sophisticated and advanced users (visually and simply more beautiful turns). Some even add a variety of dried herbs: basil, a mixture of Provencal herbs, Italian herbs, tarragon, thyme - all this can be purchased at almost any store. And in lecho add the onion, zucchini, squash, roasted or fried, with or without vinegar, add tomato juice and without it - variants simply do not count!