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Lecho with eggplants and peppers for the winter
Lecho with eggplants and peppers for the winter without sterilization is a very tasty dish. Lecho is often served as an accompaniment to meat dishes, potatoes, or pasta, but it can also be a main dish. This appetizer is very delicious on its own. Lecho with eggplants, peppers, and onions can be enjoyed simply with bread.
Caloric value: 31 kcal per 100 grams of the dish.
Ingredients
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All products are on the table. You can start preparing lecho with eggplants and sweet peppers for the winter.
- eggplants - 600 g;
- tomatoes - 1.2 kg;
- sweet pepper - 300 g;
- bitter pepper - ¼ pod;
- onion - 300 g;
- sugar - 1.5 tbsp;
- salt - 1 tbsp;
- vinegar 6% - 2 tbsp;
- bay leaf - 2 pcs;
- black ground pepper - a pinch.
Preparation
- Wash the eggplants and cut off the tails. Cut a few centimeters off the hard tip along with the tail. Without peeling, cut the vegetables into small sticks. Do this quickly, as cut eggplants darken.
- Take firm, meaty tomatoes to make a thick tomato paste. The "Slivka" variety is very good for this. After washing the tomatoes, pass them through a meat grinder. From this amount of tomatoes, about 1 liter of tomato mass is obtained.
- Pour the tomato mass into a cooking pot. Add sugar, salt, vegetable oil, and vinegar. After pouring the chopped eggplants into the pot with tomatoes, put it on the fire. Covering with a lid, cook the eggplants in the tomato for 10 minutes over low heat.
- Peel the onions from the skin. It's better to take small onions. Cut them into half rings. From small onions, you get thin, neat strips.
- Add the onion to the tomato mass with the eggplants. Cook together for 10 minutes.
- Wash the bell pepper, remove the seeds, cut off the stem, and the partitions inside the pod. Many believe that only red pepper is suitable for lecho. This is not true. You can take peppers of any color for lecho. The pepper can be cut into cubes or strips. Strips of pepper give lecho a more attractive look. Cut the pepper into thin medium-sized strips. Add them to the pot with the other ingredients.
- Add the bay leaf, ground pepper, and finely chopped garlic. Continue cooking the lecho for another 10 minutes.
- Prepare the jars for canning the lecho for the winter in advance. Sterilize the jars for a few minutes over steam or in a preheated oven for 10-15 minutes. Distribute the boiling lecho into the hot jars. After sealing the jars tightly, turn them upside down, cover with a blanket, and leave in warmth overnight. Lecho with eggplants and peppers for the winter without sterilization can be stored in an apartment. Find a dark and cool place for it.
