No tomatoes? Well, it is not necessary! You can cook tasty and fragrant lecho without them.
There are many recipes for popular harvesting that do not require fresh tomatoes. In some, oil fillings are used, in others tomato paste or juice of the same name, in the third various marinades.
But in each there is he - Bulgarian pepper! It was he who isolated lepo from the whole crowd of winter salads.
Lecho Without Tomatoes - General Cooking Principles
Lecho without tomatoes is of two types:
1. White. Pouring is based on marinades based on oil, vinegar, and spices. They are boiled with or without vegetables.
2. Red. Various substitutes for fresh tomatoes are used. This is mainly tomato paste, sauces, juices, ketchups. You can take as a home-made, and production.
How is preparing lecho:
1. Prepare vegetables. Cleared, sliced pepper, onion. If other vegetables are used, we also clean and shred them at this stage.
2. Fill is being prepared. In a classic recipe, these are juice-twisted tomatoes. In this case, diluted pasta, oil and acetic mixtures, ready juice.
3. Spices are added. Usually it is salt, sugar, various types of pepper, spices.
4. Cooking. Vegetables are immersed in the pot and boiled together. Usually for pepper enough 20-30 minutes.
5. Spin. Ready lecho is poured into the banks and rolled up with a special key.
Like any other preparation, lecho requires sterility and prepared packaging. Otherwise, it will simply not be stored and sour.
Recipe 1: Thick lecho without tomatoes in oil filling with vinegar
As the filling is used oil mixture with vinegar. This lecho without tomatoes can be used as an independent snack, used in the preparation of hot dishes and salads. Preparation without preliminary cooking, with sterilization of cans.
Ingredients
• pepper 5 kg;
• half a cup of sugar;
• 40 grams of salt;
• 10-15 peppercorns;
• 200 grams of oil • half a cup of 9% vinegar.
Cooking
1. We clean the whole pepper from the viscera, cut it in half, then with large half rings.
2. Add vinegar, sugar and salt and put everything well together with your hands. Reserve for an hour.
3. Pour in vegetable oil, mix well again.
4. Pea peas scatter on sterile jars.
5. We fold the prepared lecho, tightly tamped.
6. The remaining juice with oil and vinegar is poured into cans. Do not worry if there is little liquid, in the process of sterilization the pepper will still give juice.
7. Covering the container with lids, put in a saucepan with a cloth on the bottom. Pour water so that it was on the shoulders of the cans. Turn on the stove.
8. After boiling, sterilize 15 minutes liter jar, 10 minutes half-liter. Roll up, cool in an inverted state.
Recipe 2: Lecho without tomatoes in honey marinade
To make this a tomato without a tomato, the pepper must be cut into large pieces, in quarters, and if the vegetables are small, then it can be even halves. It is better to use a multi-colored pepper, it will be more beautiful. Marinade is made on the basis of natural honey, artificial will not work, also do not try to replace the product with sugar, it will be completely wrong.
Ingredients
• 4 kg of pepper;
• 0.25 kg of honey;
• 0.5 liters of oil;
• litere of water;
• 0.5 liters of 9% vinegar;
• 4 tablespoons of salt.
Cooking
1. Prepare the pepper, chop and blanch in boiling water for 3 minutes. We take out in a colander, give the drain liquid.
2. Prepare the marinade, for this we dissolve honey in water, add all the other ingredients, you can add spices and dried herbs to your taste. Put on the stove, boil for 3 minutes.
3. Fold the blanched pieces on sterile jars, fill them with marinade and roll up the lids.
Recipe 3: Orange lecho without tomatoes with ginger and garlic
A very unusual recipe for lecho, which can be used as a dish for every day, and preparation. If you do not plan to roll this pepper, you can reduce the vinegar content or even remove it. In the fridge, such a pepper will stand perfectly for 3-4 days.
Ingredients
• 12-14 peppers;
• 10 cloves of garlic; • 50 grams of fresh ginger;
• 150 grams of oil;
• 3 oranges;
• 70 grams of sugar;
• 70 grams of 9% vinegar;
• 2 partial spoons of salt.
Cooking
1. Ginger three on a coarse grater or cut into thin, translucent flakes. Garlic we clean and cut each clove into several parts.
2. Pour butter into the cauldron, add ginger with garlic and fry for 2-2 minutes.
3. Pepper cut into large strips and sent to the cauldron, mix.
4. We wash the oranges well with a brush, remove the zest, survive the juice and send it all to the cauldron.
5. Pour salt, sugar, cover with lid and stew until soft pepper.
6. Pour in the vinegar, boil it still for a minute. Now you can try the preparation on the taste and, if necessary, add spices, acids or sugar at its discretion.
7. Spread the orange lecho on the banks, twist the key.
Recipe 4: Lecho without Tomatoes with Tomato Paste
Tomato paste will help out if there are no fresh tomatoes, but you need to make a real lecho. It is better to use paste from glass jars, not overcooked and not burnt.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of pasta;
• 3 kg of pepper;
• 500 grams of water;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 1.5 tablespoons of salt;
• 100 grams of oil and vinegar.
Cooking
1. Dilute tomato paste with water, mix everything well. If the pieces are not dissolved - do not worry, disperse during the cooking process.
2. Add sugar, salt, butter and pour everything into a large saucepan. We put on fire.
3. Cut the pepper in arbitrary pieces, as you like, and throw everything into the pan. Cooking after boiling for about 20 minutes, it is important not to digest, so that the pieces remain intact. Let it be a little crunch.
4. At the end add vinegar, stir, boil a couple more minutes.
5. Fold the blank into sterile jars, twist and remove for storage.
Recipe 5: Sweet lecho without tomatoes in oil “Five minutes”
Pepper, like tomatoes, loves sugar, which can be poured into it without restrictions. The recipe for delicious lecho with a sweet taste and summer aroma, which is quickly prepared and help out, if you need to quickly determine a large crop. Ingredients
• 3 kg of pepper;
• litere of water;
• a glass of sugar;
• a glass of oil;
• a glass of vinegar 9%;
• 50 grams of salt (about 2 full spoons).
Cooking
1. In a large saucepan, mix sugar and salt with water, dissolve and add oil with vinegar to them. We put on the stove.
2. Peppers without viscera cut into large pieces. You can simply cut each vegetable vertically into 4-6 pieces.
3. Dip vegetables in boiling marinade and cook for 5 minutes. Be sure to mix. During this time, the pieces will become softer, settle, highlight their juice and completely covered with marinade.
4. Spread boiled peppers in jars, pour boiling marinade under the neck, roll up. We remove to cool under a blanket.
Recipe 6: Lecho without tomatoes with eggplants and onions
Recipe for vegetable lecho without tomatoes, but with the addition of tomato juice. You can use both purchased and home product. Eggplants take young, without ripe seeds and with a soft skin. The list of products includes vegetables of medium size. We will cook boiled lecho, but you can also pre-fry eggplants and onions separately in butter, then put in pepper. It will be delicious too.
Ingredients
• 10 peppers;
• 7 eggplants;
• 5 bulb bulbs;
• 1.5 liters of juice;
• 50 ml of vinegar 6%;
• Spoon of salt;
• 50 grams of sugar.
Cooking
1. Wash eggplants, wipe dry, remove the stalks and cut into cubes.
2. Pepper free from middles, cut into squares.
3. Cut the bulbs into cubes.
4. All combine, add salt, sugar, tomato juice. Set to stew for 20 minutes. Then pour in the vinegar and boil for another couple of minutes.
5. We decompose the blank on a pre-sterilized container, roll it up.
Recipe 7: Lecho without tomatoes in brine
Another recipe for light lecho without tomato. Ideally, it uses round ratund pepper, which has a thick and juicy flesh. But you can take any other, preferably meaty and juicy. About 7 half-liter jars should come out of this amount of products.
Ingredients
• 2.5 kg of pepper;
• 14-21 cloves of garlic (2 or 3 pieces per jar); • litere of water;
• 4 tablespoons of salt;
• 170 grams of sugar;
• half a cup of oil;
• 3 tablespoons of vinegar 70%.
Cooking
1. Shred the pepper, previously washed and freed from the seeds.
2. Garlic free from husk, cut into arbitrary slices.
3. We pour pepper into sterile jars, add garlic, tightly tamp down everything with wooden pulp to fill all voids.
4. Cook the brine from the remaining ingredients, boil and pour in jars to the neck.
5. Put in a saucepan on the cloth, cover with lids, pour hot water and sterilize for 15 minutes.
6. We roll and send to storage.
Recipe 8: Lecho without tomatoes with zucchini and carrots
Delicious salad lecho, bright and fragrant, prepared on the basis of tomato paste. Carrots for this recipe lecho better rub on a Korean grater sticks, so it does not boil soft and will be beautiful. You can use any pasta, but if it is highly boiled and saturated, then you can take less and add water. From this amount of products you get 10-11 half-liter cans of snacks.
Ingredients
• 3 kg of pepper;
• 1.5 kg zucchini;
• 1 kg of carrots;
• liter of tomato paste;
• 2 liters of water;
• a glass of sugar;
• 4 tablespoons of salt;
• 20 ml of vinegar 70%;
• 12 cloves of garlic.
Cooking
1. Mix the paste with water, add salt, sugar and set on the stove.
2. Carrots three, sent to the pan.
3. Pepper cut into strips or half rings and also lay in the total mass. Together boil 15 minutes.
4. Diced zucchini and shipped to the rest of the ingredients. Cook leko about 15 minutes, so that the vegetables are soft, but the pieces should not fall apart from touch.
5. Add vinegar, pre-chopped garlic and to taste any spices, boil for 2 minutes.
6. We decompose on a container, we roll up.
Recipe 9: Spicy lecho without tomatoes with carrots and garlic
The recipe for hot lecho, in which, besides the Bulgarian pepper, burning pods are added. Poison can be adjusted to your liking. To fill the tomato juice is used, you can take the store.
Ingredients
• 2 kg of sweet pepper; • 3 sharp pods;
• kilo of carrots;
• garlic head;
• 1.5 tablespoons of salt;
• 2 liters of juice;
• 2 tablespoons of vinegar;
• half a cup of sugar.
Cooking
1. We clean the carrot, chop straws and put in the pan.
2. Add juice, salt, sugar and finely chopped hot peppers. All mix and cook for 15 minutes.
3. Remove the insides from the peppers, chop straws and send them to the pan, cook for another 15 minutes.
4. Garlic peeled, chopped.
5. Add minced garlic and vinegar to the pan, boil for a minute, then fold them into jars and spin.
Lecho without Tomatoes - Tips and Tricks
• Regular table vinegar in lecho can be replaced by apple. It will be tastier, healthier and more interesting. Only the percentage of acid should be similar.
• In lecho it is very important not to digest peppers, otherwise the snack will be tasteless. Let it be better that the pieces remain a bit crunchy, in the process of cooling under the blanket and further storage they will reach the desired state.
• The most delicious lecho is obtained from ripe and fleshy peppers. If they are not enough, then you can add immature, but not more than half.
• Lecho is in harmony with various spices and aromatic herbs, so they can be safely added to the recipe and make their own changes. Especially well combined with pepper: parsley, cilantro, basil, allspice and black pepper, cloves, marjoram, ginger.
• The process of cooking lecho allows you to make edits at any stage. You can always add salt, spices and sugar, if they are not enough. If the billet is too salty, then it can be diluted with juice, diluted paste or put a little more pepper, blanched beforehand in water.
