Recipes for making lecho with rice for the winter
Winter is ahead and many housewives are busy preparing winter preparations. After all, you always want to pamper yourself and your family with something summer and tasty. There are a huge number of snacks that can be prepared in a multicooker for the winter and not only.
However, most housewives prefer to close the lecho with rice for the winter. It is not so easy to do this on your own and therefore you have to prepare in advance for such work.
Classic recipe
There are many different recipes for making lecho with rice for the winter, but the most popular is the classic recipe. It is he who is most often used during the creation of a blank. To close the lecho, you will have to use the following ingredients:
- a kilogram of tomatoes;
- 600 g of pepper;
- 200 g of rice;
- two onions;
- 250 ml of oil;
- 50 ml vinegar;
- 120 g sugar;
- 50 g of salt.
Lecho preparation begins with the preliminary preparation of all vegetables. To begin with, they are washed in hot water and the stalks, husks and seeds are removed from them. The pepper is chopped into small straws, and the onion is cut into rings or half rings. Then you should start preparing the tomatoes. It is recommended to peel them. To make this easier, all tomatoes should be soaked in hot water for a few minutes. Having separated the peel from the tomatoes, they must be placed in a meat grinder in a blender. You can also grate them. However, in this case, you do not need to peel the tomato skin.
Pour the tomato mixture into a small saucepan and add some oil and pepper to it. Then all this is put on a gas stove and cooked for 10-15 minutes. In parallel with this, you can do the preparation of rice. It is lowered into a container of hot water and boiled in it for half an hour. Do not add salt or sugar to the water during cooking.
After that, the rice is transferred to a separate bowl, sprinkled with salt and added to the pot with vegetables. Lecho should be cooked for 20 minutes. At this time, it must be stirred periodically so that the mixture does not begin to stick to the pan.
To check the readiness of the dish, you should pay attention to fig. It should not turn into mush and be a little hard.
When the lecho is ready, a little vinegar is added to it. The prepared mixture is distributed over the cans and closed with seaming caps. All containers should be stored in a warm room until they cool completely.
With carrots
This recipe will help people who do not know how to cook lecho with rice and carrots. To do this, you will need to purchase the following ingredients in advance:
- 2 kg of fleshy tomatoes;
- 2 kg of rice;
- three carrots;
- two peppers;
- garlic;
- 500 ml of oil;
- 150 g sugar with salt;
- two bay leaves.
Having bought all the necessary ingredients, you can make a salad. Tomatoes are prepared first.They are filled with boiling water and soaked in it for 50-10 minutes, after which they are immediately transferred to cold water and skinned. Then they are finely chopped with a foot and laid out in a saucepan. After that, you should tackle the pepper, which is first thoroughly washed and cut into small slices. When you're done with the pepper, you can start with the carrots. She, like all other vegetables, is first washed and peeled. Then it should be grated on a coarse grater and, together with pepper, add to a saucepan with tomatoes. Also, add onions and peppers to vegetables.
The vegetable mixture should cook for 20 minutes. During this time, it is necessary to add oil, salt and sugar to it. All contents should be constantly mixed so that they do not have time to stick to the walls or bottom of the pot. When the mixture boils, various spices are added to it. To do this, you can use:
- three carnations;
- ten peppers;
- Bay leaf;
- mustard seeds.
After that, dry and pre-washed rice is added to the dish. It is recommended to use long rice to prepare this lecho, as it is most suitable for this dish. After adding rice to the pan, the dish is stewed for another half hour. Remember to stir the salad while cooking.
While cooking lecho, you need to carefully monitor the rice so that it does not cook completely. It should be boiled until half cooked. After rolling, the rice will keep warm for a long time and therefore will have time to reach. If you cook it right away, then boiled porridge will turn out in the cans.
Before seaming, it is necessary to prepare the container. It is thoroughly washed out with baking soda or a special dishwashing detergent. Then each can is sterilized and moved on a towel to dry further.
Having prepared the container, the vegetable mixture from the pan can be distributed between the jars and closed. All rolled up jars are placed upside down and covered with a blanket or towel. When everything has completely cooled down, the conservation can be transferred to a cool place for further storage.
Conclusion
It is quite difficult for people who have never been involved in conservation to cook lecho on their own. To do this, you need to study recipes with a photo of lecho for the winter with rice.
