How to cook a tasty appetizer of zucchini

Contents:

• Squash lecho tomato sauce
• Sharp little appetizer of zucchini
• Appetizer of eggplant and zucchini
• Courgettes stuffed with lecho in multivarka

In Hungary, one of the traditional vegetable dishes considered lecho. His recipe is now known in many countries of the world. In Russia, too, fell in love with lecho. Every housewife happy to prepare this vegetable dish, adding a further ingredients. Currently, there are many different recipes lecho. 3 remain unchanged its main components: paprika or pepper, onions and tomatoes. In our country, often add zucchini lecho - very useful product, low-calorie and easily digestible.

Lecho squash can be cooked for dinner as the main dish of vegetables, spread it on bread or a roll in the banks for the winter.

Lecho is a good appetizer and is perfect as a garnish for fish and meat dishes. In general, it is required to prepare every woman. What are the recipes can be made with zucchini lecho?
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Squash lecho tomato sauce

To prepare this dish, you will need these ingredients: zucchini - 2 kg of sweet pepper - 500 g tomatoes - 1 kg onions - 10 pcs., Tomato paste - 400 g vegetable oil - 200 ml sugar - 1 cup salt - 2 tablespoons vinegar - 1 tbsp. spoon. These products will last for 4 liters lecho.

You should first prepare the vegetables. They need to wash and dry. As for the zucchini, then to cook lecho better to use young fruits.   They are soft and juicy, easy to cut slices or half rings. If squash larger than average, they removed the seeds and cut the skin. Tomatoes finely crushed. Peeled onions should be cut into rings and pepper, as well as zucchini or slices or half rings.

Further prescription 400 grams of tomato paste diluted with water, the result is supposed to be 1 liters. It is poured into a pan, put on fire and bring to a boil, add the vegetable oil, sugar and salt. After this, in turn, with 10-minute intervals lay the vegetables in the following order: zucchini, peppers, onions and tomatoes. Vegetables boiled for another 15 minutes, add vinegar and allowed to simmer for 5 minutes.

For starters you need to prepare the banks (0.5 or 1 L). They are washed and sterilized. Hot lecho laid out by the banks and roll. Turn them down lids, wrap up old jacket and leave in a warm place for the night.

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Sharp little appetizer of zucchini

Many people love spicy food. How to Cook lecho with burning taste? For this recipe will need zucchini - 2 kg, pepper - 0, 5 kg, hot pepper (chili) - 1 pc., Tomatoes - 2 kg, carrots - 2 pcs., Garlic - 2 heads, onions - 3 pcs. dill or parsley - 10 g vegetable oil - 1 cup, salt - 2 tbsp. tablespoons sugar - 1 cup, vinegar - 100 g

First you need to wash all the vegetables, and some peel (onion, carrot, garlic and tomatoes). Carrots should be grate, and the onions, garlic and chili mince or very, very finely chopped. Next, clean the stalks from the tomatoes and chop them with a knife. Then put them in a pan, pour a little water and cook until boiling. Then add thereto a vegetable oil and carrot sharp vegetables. Cook for 5-7 minutes mass.

At this time, zucchini cut into cubes and add to boiling in a pan vegetables. After 10 minutes, add sliced ​​peppers, salt and broth in a saucepan and put sugar. Vegetables should cook for another 20 minutes, to pepper was hard to taste. 5 minutes before end of cooking to add to the pan with chopped herbs and vinegar. The finished snack decomposed into sterilized jars, roll up and cool upside down wrapped up in a towel at room temperature.
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Appetizer of eggplant and zucchini

To lecho turned more fragrant in its composition must be more different vegetables. The perfect complement to squash are lecho eggplant. Here's how to prepare this delicious appetizer for the following recipe.

First, you need to prepare the necessary food: zucchini and eggplant - at 0, 5 kg, carrots, tomatoes and peppers - 1, 5 kg, parsley - beam, vegetable oil - 100 ml sugar - 100 g, salt - 1.5 Art. spoon, vinegar - '70

Now you need to do vegetables. First wash the tomatoes, they removed the stalk. Prepared fruits twisted in a meat grinder, then stacked in a pot large volume. Purified carrots rubbed on a coarse grater and add to the tomatoes. Then remove from the stalk pepper seeds, pepper, cut into strips and put in a saucepan.

In eggplant and zucchini cut off the stalk and "noses". What follows is cut into slices, and these vegetables are also put into the pot. Then there is poured vegetable oil and vinegar. All vegetables solyatsya, mix, put on fire and bring to a boil. After boiling for 50 minutes. cook over medium heat in a saucepan with the lid closed. For 10 minutes. until ready to lecho added finely chopped parsley leaves and sugar. During the whole process of cooking should be periodically stir the vegetables. After 10 min., When the leaves of parsley will become softer, the pan is removed from the heat. Next you need to sterilize jars, lay on them and roll lecho. Wrap banks towel and left upside down for the night in the kitchen.

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Courgettes stuffed with lecho in multivarka

Lecho not necessarily roll for the winter. It can be served freshly cooked or added as an ingredient in other dishes. Here's a recipe for the below exactly surprise guests. First, preparing itself lecho in a small amount, and the easiest way. For it will be necessary zucchini - 0, 8-1 kg, sweet peppers - 2-3 pcs., Hot pepper - 0, 5 pcs., Garlic - 0, 5 head, tomato juice - 250 ml, sugar and vinegar - 1 Art. spoon and a little salt.

Washed and peeled vegetables: peppers and garlic are two types - should mince, then the resulting paste is placed in a pan, pour tomato juice and boil for 10 minutes. Zucchini cut into slices or cubes are added to the mass and tomato prepared by boiling, another 20 minutes after the addition of zucchini in a pot filled with salt and sugar infused vinegar. Periodically stir the vegetables, so they are not scorched. The finished dish is placed to Eurobank and capped. For the stuffed zucchini will be enough one jar of the product.

For the preparation of stuffed zucchini need these ingredients: zucchini - 600 g minced pig-beef - 0, 5 kg rice - 150 g, onions - 1 pc., Garlic - a couple of cloves, salt, pepper, dill and celery - 20g, little broth or water.

Washed zucchini zucchini need to peel. If this young zucchini, cut them along. If larger zucchini, cut them crosswise into several pieces (width pieces - 3-4 cm). This is followed by gently spoon to get at the core of these vegetables, along with the available seeds.

Then you can take meat. For him, in a saucepan until soft boiled rice. Onion finely chopped and fried in vegetable oil. To add minced meat cut greens, fried onions and rice. Minced meat seasoned with spices and garlic passed through the press peeled garlic cloves. The entire mass thoroughly mixed. Rings or zucchini halves stuffed with finished ground and laid on the bottom Multivarki. By ½ zucchini filled with broth. Mounted on a 20 min. mode "Baking." Then, on top of the cooked mass is laid out before lecho. Multivarki mode changes to "quenching". 45-50 minutes preparing the dish. Served hot. It turns lecho this recipe sweet, tasty, hearty and unusual.

There are many recipes for this nutritious dish that love in the world. Every housewife, trying the above recipes can further add to lecho any the ingredient, not afraid to spoil the product, as in any case, this dish will turn out flavorful and delicious.