Shop shelves attract a variety of canned vegetables. Jars and cans, small and large, glass and iron, beckon with delicious tomatoes, cucumbers, green peas ... But is it so useful that is hidden in colorful packaging? Do we always pay attention to the label, which contains information about the product? In this article, we’ll talk about lecho: calories, composition, origin of the recipe.
The origin of the recipe
A happy hostess always has many canned blanks for the winter. But there is sure to be a jar of lecho. Its calorie content depends on what is included in the composition, which, in turn, is dictated by the recipe.
It is believed that the birthplace of this fragrant tomato snack is Hungary. Nevertheless, the pages of some cookbooks contain information that they invented this dish in Bulgaria or even in Serbia.
Today it does not matter where this appetizer appeared. There are many recipes for this popular dish, always tasty and in some cases spicy from the added secret ingredients.
Types of lecho
Lecho is a cold appetizer, surprising in a variety of flavors. But what remains unchanged in every recipe is fragrant bell pepper and ripe juicy tomatoes.
A tomato and pepper dish is a simple appetizer, cooked for an hour or two. You can serve for dinner on a weekday and decorate the festive table with this dish. To prepare lecho a kilogram of tomatoes we grind in a blender, add to them one and a half kilograms of washed and stripped pepper, two tablespoons of salt, half a glass of sugar, black pepper. Boil the mass for about twenty minutes. Then we lay out in half-liter jars, add a clove of garlic to each, sterilize for 20 minutes and twist with an iron lid.
Pepper soup with tomato juice. The feature of this recipe is that you don’t have to bother with tomatoes, so it cooks much faster. For 3 liters of tomato juice, take Bulgarian pepper - 3.5 kg, onions - 1.5 kg, sugar, vinegar 9%, vegetable oil - 200 ml each, salt - 1.5 tbsp. l Mix and heat the liquid ingredients and spices in a saucepan, then add the prepared vegetables and cook for twenty minutes. We lay out on the banks, roll up - and in a fur coat.
The appetizer is served to the table cold and hot. In the second case, the components included in the recipe are cut and frozen in a bag. Then you just need to put the contents of the package into the pan and put out.
These are simple and affordable recipes lecho. Calorie content is low. Therefore, it can be used in dietetic cuisine.
Calorie dishes
In each recipe, lecho calorie content depends on the products incorporated into it. Here are some recipes (per 100 grams of the finished dish):
- with tomatoes and pepper - 55 kcal;
- with tomato juice - 63 kcal;
- with carrots -75 kcal;
- lazy lecho with vegetables - 75;
- with eggplant - 66 kcal;
- with zucchini - 55 kcal.
The original Hungarian version recipe includes not only vegetables (peppers, tomatoes, eggplants). Smoked pork sausages, mushrooms, brisket, rice were often added to it. Accordingly, the calorie content of such a dish also increased.
This dish is tasty and not very high-calorie, products are always available, so any housewife can cook it and serve it.