TOP 7 delicious step-by-step recipes for preparing lecho for the winter with garlic

Lecho is considered a traditional Bulgarian dish, which is popular among housewives. This appetizer is often served at the table, and therefore many people preserve it. Before you can preserve such a dish, you need to figure out how to prepare lecho with garlic for the winter.

Features of preparing lecho with garlic for the winter

Before creating a snack, you should familiarize yourself with the main features of preparing lecho for the winter:

• when creating the dish, ripe peppers and tomatoes without signs of rotting are used;
• fresh garlic is used for winter harvesting, as it is the most fragrant;
• the snack is preserved in sterile jars.

Product selection rules

It is very important to purchase good products, since the taste of the prepared dish depends on the quality of the vegetables. When creating preservation, the following vegetable products are selected in advance:

• Tomatoes. Varieties of juicy tomatoes are selected, from which a lot of tomato juice is obtained.
• Pepper. It is necessary to use large bell peppers with a sweetish flavor.
• Garlic. Garlic is used to add flavor to the dish. It is better to choose the Petrovsky or Alekseevsky variety.

Preparing containers

To sterilize containers, place a pan of water on a gas stove and bring to a boil. Then a metal mesh is installed on the container, on top of which the jars are placed upside down. They are steamed for 20-25 minutes.

The best recipes for lecho with garlic

There are seven recipes with which you can prepare delicious garlic lecho.

A simple recipe for garlic arrows

This is the most popular recipe for making red tomato appetizers. When creating a snack, 750 grams of garlic arrows are cut into pieces, washed and boiled in a pan of water. Then 650 milliliters of tomato paste is added to the container, which is boiled with garlic. After this, 300 grams of chopped pepper, onion and grated carrots are added to the mixture. The ingredients are stirred and simmered over low heat for 15 minutes.

The prepared mixture is poured into jars, rolled up with sterile lids and taken to the cellar.

Eggplant option

The following ingredients are used to create the snack:

• ten eggplants;
• four onions;
• seven peppers;
• 15-17 tomatoes;
• six cloves of garlic;
• 100 milliliters of vinegar;
• sugar and salt to taste.

First, the tomatoes are chopped and passed through a meat grinder. Then cut the remaining vegetables, pour them into a pan and pour in the tomato mixture. Add some salt and put it on the stove to boil for half an hour.

With cucumbers

To prepare lecho you will need the following products:

• one and a half kilograms of tomatoes;
• kilogram of cucumbers;
• 5-6 kilograms of sweet pepper;
• 700 grams of carrots;
• 3-4 heads of garlic;
• 120 milliliters of vinegar;
• salt with sugar.

Vegetables are washed from dirt, cut and poured into a saucepan. Place the tomatoes in a separate container and boil them. Pour the prepared tomato liquid into other vegetable ingredients and boil them. For flavor, you can add spices and herbs to the lecho.

In Hungarian

To prepare an appetizer according to the Hungarian recipe, you will need:

• 400 grams of carrots;
• kilogram of tomatoes and peppers;
• 500 grams of onion;
• 100 grams of salt and sugar;
• laurel leaf;
• a tablespoon of vinegar.

The tomatoes are crushed in a blender, mixed with bay leaves and boiled. Then chopped vegetables are added to the container, mixed with salt, vinegar and sugar. The ingredients are stewed for 20-40 minutes and poured into a container.

With parsley

Young parsley will help make lecho more aromatic and tastier. In addition to greens, the following is added to the appetizer:

• two kilograms of tomatoes;
• 600 grams of onion;
• five cloves of garlic;
• 85 grams of salt;
• apple cider vinegar;
• half a kilo of pepper.

Vegetables are chopped, placed in a bowl, sprinkled with salt and left to steep overnight. When they release their juice, they are thoroughly squeezed and mixed with vinegar and vegetable oil.Then everything is boiled in tomato juice and poured into jars.

Without vinegar

To create lecho without adding vinegar, you will need:

• kilogram of tomatoes;
• 800 grams of pepper;
• 55 grams of vegetable oil;
• salt and sugar to taste.

The tomatoes are crushed to make a liquid puree. Then chop the pepper and add it to the container with the tomato mixture. Everything is boiled, mixed with butter, salt and sugar. In half an hour, the dish will be ready and can be poured into a container.

Delicious Kuban lecho with garlic

The following ingredients are prepared for Kuban lecho:

• five kilograms of pepper;
• four kilograms of tomatoes;
• a glass of vinegar;
• salt to taste;
• head of garlic.

Tomato paste is prepared from tomatoes and poured into a saucepan. Then chopped peppers with garlic, vinegar and salt are added to it. The mixture is brought to a boil, simmered for forty minutes and poured into jars.

How to properly store the finished product?

Cooked and canned snacks should be stored in a cool place. A refrigerator or cellar, where the temperature will not exceed 5-8 degrees, is suitable for this.

At room temperature, canned lecho will quickly spoil.

Conclusion

Many housewives preserve lecho for the winter. Before canning a dish, you should familiarize yourself with the recipes for preparing such a winter preparation.