Recipes for making cucumber lecho you will lick your fingers for the winter
With the onset of winter, there is a desire to get out of the cellar blanks that were made in summer or autumn. At the same time, canned cucumbers are especially popular. Some housewives make lecho from this vegetable for the winter. To prepare this dish, you must choose the most suitable recipe for cucumber lecho.
Classic recipe
To figure out how to cook cucumber lecho for the winter, you need to familiarize yourself with the classic way of creating dishes. It is he who enjoys considerable popularity among housewives, who make such delicious preparations for the winter that you will lick your fingers.
You can create cucumber lecho from the following ingredients:
- 2 kg of cucumbers;
- three tomatoes;
- 300 g of pepper;
- 120 g sugar;
- head of garlic;
- 80 g of salt;
- 70 ml of oil;
- 50 ml vinegar.
Before making cucumber lecho for the winter, you need to prepare all the ingredients that will be used in the process of creating the blank. Tomatoes are thoroughly washed and cut into equal parts. Then they should be grated, and there is no need to rub the skin. Only juice and pulp will be used to prepare winter harvesting.
After cooking fresh tomatoes, you can start preparing the peppers. To begin with, the stalk is removed from him, and then he is cleared of all the seeds. After that, the pepper is cut into small cubes no more than 3 mm in size.
Cucumbers are washed from dirt, peeled and cut into four equal parts. If they are too long, then they will have to be cut not only lengthwise, but also across. The length of the sliced cucumbers should not exceed 5-7 cm.
All prepared ingredients are placed in a small saucepan and add a little salt and vegetable oil to them. Then everything is thoroughly mixed, after which chopped garlic can be added to the mixture.
After that, lecho is made from the resulting mixture. To do this, put the saucepan over low heat to bring the liquid to a boil. Then the heat is reduced, the pan is covered and the mixture is cooked for another 20 minutes. Then a little vinegar is added to the dish. At first it may seem like the mixture is too thick, but don't be intimidated. The mixture will become thinner as it cooks.
When the lecho is ready, it must be immediately poured into sterilized jars and closed with seaming lids. Then the lecho with tomato paste should cool down, after which it can be transferred to the cellar for further storage.
With sweet pepper
Some cucumber lecho recipes for the winter are created using various ingredients. Quite often, sweet peppers are added during the preparation of this dish. To prepare lecho with sweet pepper, you need to prepare the following ingredients:
- 2 kg of cucumbers;
- four carrots;
- dill;
- 10 pieces. sweet pepper;
- three bay leaves;
- 100 ml of oil;
- head of garlic;
- two onion heads;
- a kilogram of overgrown tomatoes;
- 100 g of sugar and salt.
The creation of a dish should begin with the preparation of products. First, you should tackle carrots and onions. Each onion is peeled, washed and cut into rings. After that, you should wash the carrots, peel them and grate them on a medium grater. Then all prepared ingredients are placed in a pan and fried in oil. For frying, it is recommended to use a deeper skillet so that you can pour more oil into it.
In parallel with this, you should start cooking tomatoes. They are cut into small slices, which then need to be passed through a meat grinder or grind with a blender. Transfer the resulting mixture to a saucepan and add a little pepper and salt to it. You can also add some greenery if desired. A saucepan with liquid is placed on the stove and brought to a boil.
Then the cucumbers are cut into circles and added to the boiled tomato mixture. After that, the liquid is boiled for another 10 minutes and at the very end, fried carrots with onions are added to it.
Lecho is poured into jars and thoroughly mixed in them. All this is rolled up with lids and placed in a large basin of water. The container is put on fire and brought to a boil. Tinned jars should be sterilized within half an hour. After that, they are taken out of the basin, wrapped in a blanket and left to cool.
It is imperative to process containers with snacks, since it is not recommended to roll lecho for the winter without sterilization.
Conclusion
It is not so easy to roll lecho for the winter. It is recommended before that to study the recipes for lecho with cucumbers for the winter. You can also consult with a housewife who has already made this dish and will be able to explain in an accessible way how to cook it better.
