Lecho with beans for the winter is a very common preparation that almost every housewife makes. Green bean twist is used as a sauce or side dish for dishes made from fish and meat.
Making your own lecho with beans for the winter is not so easy. Therefore, it is recommended that you familiarize yourself in advance with how to prepare such a snack with your own hands.
Basic recommendations
To prepare a delicious lecho with asparagus beans, you should use the following basic recommendations:
- be sure to rinse the beans and all vegetables that will be used to prepare the roll under running water;
- if all the beans are very dry, you will have to soak them for 10-12 hours;
- To prepare lecho, you need to use tomatoes that have been chopped using a blender or meat grinder.
Classic recipe
There are different recipes for creating winter twists with green beans. The most popular is the classic recipe, which is used by almost all housewives. To prepare the snack you will need the following ingredients:
- 3 kg pepper;
- 700 g beans;
- 5 kg of tomatoes;
- 500 g onions;
- 200 g sugar;
- 60 g salt;
- 120 ml vinegar;
- 400 ml oil.
First you need to thoroughly rinse the red tomatoes. They are then passed through a meat grinder to obtain a thick mixture. Remaining skins and seeds are removed from the ground tomatoes. Once you've prepared the tomatoes, you can start cooking the peppers. First, the top of the pepper is cut off, after which it is chopped into small longitudinal pieces. Sliced peppers and crushed tomatoes are added to the pan and heated on a gas stove until boiling. After half an hour, a little butter with sugar and salt is added to the mixture.
At the same time, the beans should be boiled. It does not cook for too long - 20-30 minutes. Then everything is distributed into jars, filled with vinegar and rolled up. All rolled up jars should cool for several hours, after which they can be transferred to the cellar.
With carrots
Some housewives prepare lecho from green beans for the winter with carrots, which will make this dish more tasty. When using this recipe, it is recommended to can the colored beans. It will make the classic tones of lecho more saturated.
To prepare the roll, you will need:
- 450 g beans;
- five onions;
- four peppers;
- 300 ml oil;
- 70 g salt;
- two heads of garlic.
Before you start preparing carrot snacks, you will have to spend a lot of time preparing the ingredients. First you need to start soaking the beans. They must be soaked for 10 hours. In this case, it is necessary to replace the water every few hours. The swollen beans are washed in cold water, poured into a pan of boiling water and cooked for half an hour.
While the beans are cooking, you can start working on the tomatoes. They are blanched, peeled and crumbled into small pieces. After this, the onion and pepper are cut into rings. Also, do not forget about carrots, which are grated.
The onion is poured into a frying pan for further frying. It is fried until brown, after which it should be placed in a separate bowl. Then, you should fry the carrots and tomatoes. You can't fry them for very long so that they don't burn. Therefore, they are fried over medium heat for 20 minutes and poured into a bowl with onions. Lastly, boiled beans are placed in the pan and should be fried for no longer than 15 minutes.
All prepared ingredients are mixed in a bowl and distributed into jars.
With eggplants
Lecho is a universal dish that can be constantly improved with the help of various products. Many cooks add eggplant to their twist recipes. To create such a lecho you will need:
- kilogram of eggplant;
- kilogram of pepper;
- 2 kg of beans;
- 300 ml vinegar;
- three bay leaves;
- 50 g salt;
- 100 g sugar;
- 4 kg of tomatoes;
- 300 ml oil.
Cooking begins with preparing the eggplants. First, they need to be cleaned of dirt and dried.Then they are cut into small rings no more than 15 mm thick. The chopped vegetables are placed in a colander, covered with salt and placed under pressure. This is done to get rid of bitterness. Then they are laid out in a frying pan and fried a little until golden brown.
Having finished with the eggplants, we proceed to prepare the remaining components. The carrots and beans are blanched, and the peppers are seeded and cut into rings. After this, the prepared ingredients are placed in a pan. To create the marinade, add tomatoes with garlic, sugar and vinegar to another container. Everything is thoroughly mixed and cooked for half an hour. After this, the marinade is poured into a saucepan and simmered over low heat for 25 minutes. Then allspice and bay leaves are added to the jars and the finished lecho is poured.
Conclusion
Even a person who has never had to do this before can prepare bean lecho for the winter. To do this, you will have to use one or another recipe for lecho with beans for the winter.
