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Any housewife at least once tried to cook for the winter zucchini lecho with tomato paste. Indeed, the recipe for this culinary miracle is in the house book of any woman. For each of us, it turns out to be special, unique. This article contains the best homemade delicacy recipes.
Main ingredients
This dish can contain a wide variety of vegetables. Always select fresh fruits for cooking. The main ingredient is zucchini. The rest of the composition depends on the selected recipe. It can be tomatoes, onions, carrots, mixed in different proportions. For cooking, you should stock up on vegetable oil and a small amount of spices.
Tomato paste easily replaces tomatoes that are not readily available.
Recommendations for cooking lecho
Zucchini lecho, like any canned food, must be prepared only from well-washed and peeled vegetables. Most often, they are crushed into small pieces so that the composition of the dish is as homogeneous as possible. And small pieces are prepared much faster.
It is imperative to remove the middle from the zucchini - all seeds and fibers will be superfluous.
If the recipe contains onions, cut them into rings. In this form, it looks great on the festive table.
More spicy lecho will be if you add garlic and chili to its composition. However, you are unlikely to pamper a child with such a dish. It is suitable for the adult gourmet table.
Containers - jars of various sizes - be sure to steam sterilize. Thanks to this, jars with your favorite lecho will stand until spring and will not swell.
Recipes for making zucchini lecho with tomato paste
Many recipes can be found in various sources. lecho with tomato paste from zucchini. They differ mainly in additional ingredients included in the recipe. Let's consider some of the most interesting and, of course, delicious recipes.
Recipe number 1 Lecho with onions
Consider first lecho recipes with tomato paste with a more delicate and mild taste.
Cooking ingredients.
- Zucchini - 2 kg. The zucchini variety works best.
- Carrots - 500 gr.
- Tomato paste (for a more delicate taste, you can replace with tomato juice) - 1 liter.
- Bulb onions - 1000 gr. Since we will cut it into rings, you should not choose very large onions.
- Vegetable oil - 1/3 - 1/2 cup.
- Ground pepper - a little, to taste.
- Citric acid - on the tip of the spoon.
- Sugar and salt to taste (about 1.5 tbsp each).
Cooking process.
- We wash the zucchini well, peel and cut into small pieces. If the zucchini are young and they have not yet had time to form a loose middle and seeds, then you do not need to clean them.
- Cut the peeled and washed onion into rings.
- Preparing the carrots. To do this, rub it on a coarse grater or finely chop it.
- Simmer onions with carrots over low heat in a vegetable place.
- We take an enamel dish, put all the vegetables in it and fill them with tomato paste.
- Add all the spices and salt.
- Cook, after closing the lid for about 10 minutes.
- Add citric acid and granulated sugar. We continue to cook for another quarter of an hour.
- We lay out in jars and roll them up.
Recipe number 2 Lecho with bell pepper
Cooking ingredients.
- Zucchini - 15 pcs. medium size.
- Bulgarian pepper - if small, then 10 pieces, large - you can reduce their number.
- Tomato paste - 400 gr.Try to choose a paste without various additives, carefully check the expiration date. All this will help you prepare a good and long-lasting snack.
- Water - 1 liter.
- Vinegar 12% - half a glass.
- Head of garlic (can be subtracted if desired)
- Granulated sugar and salt - both 3 tbsp. l.
Cooking process.
- Pour all the tomato paste into an enamel bowl, add water there. We boil the resulting mixture.
- Pour sugar and salt into the mixture, add oil. Simmer for about 8-10 minutes over low heat.
- While the liquid is boiling, we prepare the vegetables - wash them, peel them, cut them. Try to keep all the pieces about the same size.
- Pass the garlic through a garlic press. If it is not there, chop it with a knife.
- First, garlic and pepper go to the boiling solution. Let them cook for about 10 minutes.
- The zucchini can now be added. Simmer for another 20 minutes over low heat.
- A few minutes before the mixture is ready, pour in the vinegar, taste the dish. Now you can add salt or sugar if the taste doesn't suit you.
- We roll the finished lecho into jars.
Recipe number 3 Lecho from zucchini in a slow cooker
What modern housewife does not use a multicooker to prepare delicate and healthy dishes. Canned food for the winter in a slow cooker turns out to be no worse than everyday food.
Cooking ingredients.
- Zucchini - 2 kg (weight of already peeled vegetable)
- Pepper (not bitter), carrots and onions - 500 g each.
- Several cloves of garlic - 4-6 pcs. Vary the amount of garlic according to your preference.
- Hot pepper - use to taste. Do not overuse this ingredient.
- Vegetable oil - a glass - one and a half.
- Tomato paste - 300 gr.
- Table vinegar 9% - 150 ml.
- Water - 600 - 700 ml. Beforehand, the water can be defended or passed through a filter.
- Fine salt - 2 tbsp. l.
- Sugar - 7 tbsp. l.
Cooking process.
- Cut the onion into medium-sized pieces. It is better to grate the carrots using the coarse side.
- Saute vegetables until a pleasant color. Stir to keep them soft and not burnt.
- Remove seeds from zucchini and pepper. Cut the pepper into strips, the zucchini - into cubes.
- Dilute tomato paste in pre-warmed water.
- Put vegetables in a slow cooker, fill with diluted tomato paste, add sautéing.
- Now it's the turn of all the spices, salt and sugar. We put them according to the recipe.
- We simmer for about 35-45 minutes, depending on the power of the multicooker. When the lecho is almost ready, add vinegar.
- We lay out the finished dish in jars and roll it up.
Recipe number 4 Lecho "tender"
Cooking ingredients.
- Zucchini - 2 kg. A dish made from young vegetables will be very tasty.
- Water - 1 - 1.5 tbsp.
- Carrots - 1 pc. If the roots are small, you can take 2 pieces.
- Tomato paste - 100 gr.
- Bulgarian pepper - 2 pcs. For the beauty of the dish, you can take red and green.
- Bulb onions –2 or 3 pcs. medium size.
- Salt.
- Vegetable oil - 50 ml.
- Citric acid - 1/4 tsp.
Cooking process.
This appetizer is very easy to prepare. Even a young hostess can surprise her household with her.
- Chopped onion and grated carrots in vegetable oil, fry everything. Be sure to make sure that the vegetables do not burn.
- Pepper is added to the pan, all vegetables are stewed for about 5-10 minutes.
- Next, there is a line of pasta and water.
- We continue to simmer over low heat. After 15 minutes from the start of work, it was time for zucchini.
- Add the main ingredient - zucchini. For this recipe, they are cut large enough.
- Cook until the courgettes are tender. Add vinegar, as always, a few minutes before cooking.
- Pour into containers and roll up.
Conclusion
Lecho recipes are very similar. Any hostess can always bring something of her own into them. The main thing is that guests and household members appreciate your work.
