Incredibly delicious cucumber lecho for the winter
Cucumber treat is an incredibly tasty preparation for the winter. This lecho can be served on the table as an independent dish in the post or included in the vegetarian menu, or add a few spoons to mashed potatoes - you get a complex side dish to meat dish, chicken or fish.
For this recipe with a photo, you can use small cucumbers with peel or overripe cucumbers without peel.
It will take 45 minutes to prepare, from the ingredients indicated in the step-by-step recipe you will get several cans of 500 ml each.Ingredients:
- cucumber - 3 kg;
- tomato - 1.5 kg;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 kg;
- sugar -150 g;
- salt - 60 g;
- vinegar 9% - 150 ml;
- sunflower oil - 200 ml.
How to cook lecho from cucumbers
I carefully wash the small cucumbers, cut the ends, cut the fruits together with the peel into slices 3 mm thick. Large, overripe cucumbers are also suitable for the recipe, but they will have to be peeled and peeled, and the flesh cut into small cubes.
Put tomatoes in a pot with boiling water for 1 minute, immediately transfer to a bowl of ice water, make an incision, remove the skin, and cut out the core.
Chop the tomatoes finely, add to the pan.
It is better to use red, very ripe tomatoes for this recipe.
Pods of sweet bell pepper are cut into two parts, remove the seeds. We cut the flesh of the peppers into cubes, throw them into the pan.
Pour sugar and salt, pour delicious vegetable oil (olive, sunflower or corn). Close the pan tightly, put on the stove.
Cook on moderate heat for about 40 minutes, 5 minutes before the end of cooking pour in 9% vinegar. Bring vinegar to a boil, remove from the stove.
We pack hot vegetables in sterilized dry cans, close tightly, turn them upside down on the lids and wrap them in a warm blanket.
Leave it warm for the night, then clean it in a cool, dark place.
Such blanks are well stored without sterilization; for reliability, half-liter cans can be sterilized for 10 minutes, liter cans for 15-18 minutes.
Storage temperature from +2 to +12 degrees Celsius.