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Hooray! We have collected an excellent harvest of pimply ones! All that remains is to process it and save it. We've already eaten our fill. Amazingly crispy, with garlic and dill and we eat it every day. Prepared preparations for lovers of spicy spicy cuisine.

Cucumber lecho is becoming a familiar dish on our table, and it is no coincidence, because it is an incredibly tasty homemade preparation, you will lick your fingers! From the huge variety of recipes for winter preparations, I suggest you prepare this particular pickle. It turns out delicious, similar to tomatoes.

A wonderful combination of cucumbers with other vegetables allows you to cook them with tomatoes, bell peppers, eggplants, carrots, onions... Tomatoes can be replaced with tomato paste, sauce or juice. I love recipes in which the lack of an exact recipe allows you to experiment and change the ratio of ingredients to your taste.

Cucumber lecho - an incredibly tasty preparation for the winter

Prepare more so that you don’t regret that it’s over quickly all winter! This is a lecho recipe for the winter, I suggest preparing it with homemade ketchup. It will take us more time to prepare ketchup, but we will save money and seal the jars without sterilization.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 kg cucumbers
• 4 medium onions
• 5-6 cloves of garlic
• 1.5 kg tomatoes
• black and allspice
• 2 carnation umbrellas
• 1 sprig basil
• 1 bunch of parsley
• 1.5 tbsp. l. salt
• 60 g sugar
• 2 tbsp. l. 9% table vinegar

Preparation:

This wonderful recipe can be prepared with tomato paste or juice, but with homemade ketchup you will get a richer taste with a whole range of aromatic spices.

Step 1. Let's prepare ketchup. Blanch the fleshy tomatoes and cool them sharply with cold water. Easily remove the skin and cut into pieces as desired.

Don’t sacrifice quality for the sake of price - we use only the highest quality tomatoes for ketchup; half-rotten tomatoes will never make tasty ketchup.

Step 2. Grind with a blender until smooth. Place on the fire, bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for 8-10 minutes.

Step 3. Add salt, sugar, all spices and herbs. We tie the greens in bunches and put them in the boiling sauce, when they give off their taste and the aroma is easy to get. Mix everything carefully and simmer over low heat until the ketchup becomes thick and dense.

Step 4. Pass the hot tomato mass through a sieve. If there are few seeds and they are small, you can skip this step.

Step 5. Let's try! The ketchup turned out to be a homogeneous, delicate consistency with the taste and aroma of all our spices and seasonings. Incredibly tasty and appetizing!

Step 6. Cut the cucumbers into circles 5-7 mm thick, onions into thin half rings. Finely chop or grate the garlic. Add all the ingredients to the prepared ketchup, add vegetable oil and vinegar, bring to a boil and cook for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally. It's time to perfect the taste.

Step 7 Place it hot into sterilized jars right up to the neck and immediately roll up the lids.

Step 8 Leave to cool completely under a blanket. This delicious preparation will ideally complement your winter diet, as a side dish for meat or pasta dishes.

Delicious preparation of cucumbers and tomatoes: the “Finger-lickin’ good” recipe

This bright, appetizing lecho with gherkins, tomatoes, carrots and bell peppers will go with any dish as a side dish or just as a salad. We take small cucumbers for home preparation; they can be left whole or cut into small cubes. It is better to use yellow or orange peppers, juicy young carrots.

Ingredients:

• 1.3 kg gherkins
• 700 g ripe fleshy tomatoes
• 200 g each of carrots and sweet peppers
• 1 large onion
• 1 small head of garlic
• 1 small hot pepper (optional)
• 150 g sugar
• 25-30 g salt
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• peppercorns and cloves
• 60 ml 9% table vinegar

Preparation:

• Soak the cucumbers in cold water in advance and leave for at least an hour.

The time for “reanimation” of pimply depends on the timing of collection. The earlier they were collected, the longer it takes for them to become saturated with water.

• Blanch large, fleshy tomatoes with small seeds, remove the skin and cut into fairly large pieces (4x4 cm).
• Peel the onion and remove the seeds from the bell pepper. Cut the onion into medium cubes, pepper into 1.5-2 cm strips. Three young juicy carrots on a coarse grater.
• Mix these components in a saucepan and boil for 15-20 minutes.
• Cut the cucumbers into cubes, garlic into thin slices and add to the pan.
• Add vinegar and vegetable oil. Add finely chopped hot pepper, sugar, salt, pepper, cloves. And boil for another 15 minutes.
• Place while hot into sterile jars and cover with lids. Wrap it in a blanket and keep it until it cools completely, then transfer it to a cool place for storage.

Recipe for cucumber lecho in tomato sauce

For this cooking option, we’ll use store-bought sauce. Preferably high quality and natural. In many ways, the taste of the finished product will depend on it. The main criterion for choosing a quality tomato sauce is its composition, thickness, texture and color. The absence of water, vinegar, and starch in the composition indicates its naturalness.

https://youtu.be/2KLWZYw1xD4

We will need:

• cucumbers - 800 g
• store-bought tomato sauce - 2 cans of 0.7 each
• eggplants - 1.5 kg
• bell pepper - 800 g
• onions - 350 g
• salt - 1 tbsp. l.
• sugar - 3 tbsp. l.
• vegetable oil - 200 ml
• vinegar 9% - 70 ml

Preparation:

• In this recipe we use eggplants; housewives readily use this tasty and healthy vegetable in preparing many dishes. But you need to be able to cook it correctly so that there is no bitterness. Although today many hybrids without bitterness have been bred, there are still varieties that require special processing. So, what should you do to prevent eggplants from becoming bitter?
• Soak the chopped eggplants in salted water (put 1 tablespoon of salt per liter of water) or simply sprinkle with salt. For young eggplants, half an hour is enough, but for old fruits – at least an hour. Then we rinse the blue ones with cold water, place them on a sieve and let the remaining water drain.
• Cut the cucumbers and sweet red peppers into the same pieces as the eggplants.
• Onions into thin half rings, very large ones - into quarters.
• Pour the tomato sauce into a large saucepan and place over medium heat.

• Add chopped onion to the boiling sauce and after 5 minutes add all the other ingredients.
• Bring the mixture to a boil and simmer, covered, over low heat for 20-25 minutes, stirring frequently so as not to burn.
• At first there will be little liquid, but we do everything right, and gradually the vegetables will “give” juice.

• Next, add salt, sugar, vinegar and vegetable oil to the hot mass. Mix well and cook for another 5-8 minutes. Let's try!
• Meanwhile, we sterilize the jars in the microwave and boil the lids in boiling water.
• We put the hot vegetable mass into jars, right up to the neck and immediately roll them up.

Recipe for cucumber lecho for the winter with tomato paste in jars

Here's another simple, proven recipe for thrifty housewives! It is good because overgrown and twisted cucumbers will be used.

Friends, if you have found an interesting recipe for yourself, I will be glad. I invite you to the pages of my blog, let’s continue the topic of delicious preparations.

Step 1: Prepare the cucumbers.

Rinse the cucumbers thoroughly with warm running water. Then dry and, without peeling, cut into strips or semicircles.
Once again I would like to draw your attention to the fact that any cucumbers are suitable for preparing lecho, even overripe ones, which have already become quite large in size and therefore it is not possible to prepare them in the usual way.

Step 2: Prepare the tomatoes.

Wash the tomatoes thoroughly, make a cross-shaped cut on each one, and then hold them 30 seconds in boiling water and cool quickly, transferring to a bowl with ice. You will see that the skin has come away where the cuts were made; pull the swollen edges and remove the skin, exposing the pulp.


Chop the peeled tomatoes into small cubes.
Of course, you can do it easier and pass the tomatoes through a meat grinder or even grind the vegetables with a blender, if you like it better and want to save a little time, then do so.

Step 3: Prepare the pepper.

Peel the bell peppers, remove the stems and rinse thoroughly with running water. Cut off all the whitish partitions, and then cut the peeled peppers into thin strips.

Step 4: Prepare cucumber lecho.

Heat the vegetable oil in a saucepan, and then pour all the prepared vegetables into it: tomato pulp, cucumbers and peppers. Pour in salt and granulated sugar, pour in vinegar, and don’t forget to also add the chopped head of garlic. Bring to a boil over medium heat, and then simmer your lecho for 30 minutes, not forgetting to stir it often.

Step 5: Prepare lecho from cucumbers.

After 30 minutes, place the finished cucumber lecho in glass jars (which, by the way, need to be washed with soda and sterilized while the vegetables are being prepared) and tightly close the preparation with boiled lids. Leave the jars to cool at room temperature.
Store cucumber lecho prepared for the winter in a cool, dark place.

Step 6: Serve cucumber lecho.

Cucumber lecho should be served in the same way as regular lecho, that is, as a cold appetizer, an addition to a side dish, or as a dish on its own, especially if you first heat it up and add chopped sausages or sausages. And don't forget about sour cream or mayonnaise.
Bon appetit!

Together with cucumbers or instead of them, you can add young zucchini or zucchini to lecho.

To reduce the cost and simplify things, housewives often use tomato paste or tomato juice instead of tomatoes.

You can also add onions or herbs to the lecho, as well as all kinds of spices: black and allspice, bay leaves, etc.

With the onset of winter, there is a desire to take out from the cellar the preparations that were made in the summer or autumn. At the same time, canned cucumbers are especially popular. Some housewives make lecho for the winter from this vegetable. To prepare this dish, you need to choose the most suitable cucumber lecho recipe.

To figure out how to prepare lecho from cucumbers for the winter, you need to familiarize yourself with the classic method of creating dishes. It is he who enjoys considerable popularity among housewives who make such delicious preparations for the winter that you will lick your fingers.

You can create cucumber lecho from the following ingredients:

• 2 kg of cucumbers;
• three tomatoes;
• 300 g pepper;
• 120 g sugar;
• head of garlic;
• 80 g salt;
• 70 ml oil;
• 50 ml vinegar.

Before making cucumber lecho for the winter, you need to prepare all the ingredients that will be used in the process of creating the preparation. The tomatoes are thoroughly washed and cut into equal parts. Then they should be grated, but there is no need to grate the skin. To prepare the winter preparation, only juice and pulp will be used.

After preparing the fresh tomatoes, you can start preparing the peppers. First, the stalk is removed, and then it is cleared of all seeds. After this, the pepper is cut into small cubes no larger than 3 mm.

The cucumbers are washed from dirt, peeled and cut into four equal parts. If they are too long, they will have to be cut not only lengthwise, but also crosswise. The length of sliced ​​cucumbers should not be more than 5-7 cm.

All prepared ingredients are placed in a small saucepan and add a little salt and vegetable oil. Then everything is thoroughly mixed, after which chopped garlic can be added to the mixture.

After this, lecho is made from the resulting mixture. To do this, place the pan on low heat until the liquid comes to a boil. Then the heat is reduced, the pan is covered with a lid and the mixture is cooked for another 20 minutes. Then a little vinegar is added to the dish. At first it may seem that the mixture is too thick, but do not be alarmed. The mixture will become thinner as it cooks.

When the lecho is ready, it must be immediately poured into sterilized jars and closed with sealing lids. Then the lecho with tomato paste should cool, after which it can be transferred to the cellar for further storage.

With sweet pepper

Some cucumber lecho recipes for the winter are created using various ingredients. Quite often, sweet pepper is added when preparing this dish. To prepare lecho with sweet pepper, you need to prepare the following ingredients:

• 2 kg of cucumbers;
• four carrots;
• dill;
• 10 pieces. sweet pepper;
• three bay leaves;
• 100 ml oil;
• head of garlic;
• two onions;
• a kilogram of overgrown tomatoes;
• 100 g sugar and salt.

Creating a dish should begin with preparing the ingredients. First you should tackle the carrots and onions. Each onion is peeled, washed and cut into rings. After this, you should wash the carrots, peel them and grate them on a medium grater. Then all the prepared ingredients are placed in a frying pan and fried in oil. For frying, it is recommended to use a deeper frying pan so that you can pour more oil into it.

In parallel with this, you should start cooking tomatoes. They are cut into small slices, which will then need to be passed through a meat grinder or ground in a blender. Place the resulting mixture in a saucepan and add a little pepper and salt to it. You can also add some greens if you wish. The pan with the liquid is placed on the stove and brought to a boil.

Then the cucumbers are cut into slices and added to the boiled tomato mixture. After this, the liquid is boiled for another 10 minutes and at the very end, fried carrots and onions are added to it.

Lecho is poured into jars and mixed thoroughly. All this is rolled up with lids and placed in a large basin of water. The container is placed on the fire and brought to a boil. Twist jars should be sterilized within half an hour. After this, they are taken out of the basin, wrapped in a blanket and left to cool.

It is necessary to treat containers with snacks, since it is not recommended to roll up lecho for the winter without sterilization.

Conclusion

Rolling up lecho for the winter is not so easy. Before doing this, it is recommended to study recipes for lecho with cucumbers for the winter. You can also consult with a housewife who has already made this dish and can clearly explain how best to prepare it.

Published: 09/02/2017
Posted by: FairyDawn
Calories: Not specified
Cooking time: Not specified

Lecho made from cucumbers with tomatoes, carrots and bell peppers will certainly please your taste; the preparation will suit any dish and side dish. This lecho can also be served simply as a salad; it is very appetizing and bright, most likely because it is prepared in season, from fresh, juicy and sweet young vegetables. For this, you need to take small cucumbers, with small seeds that are practically unripe. It is better to use red fleshy or yellow pepper for lecho. In winter, cucumber lecho will diversify your diet; lecho will be especially relevant during Lent.




Ingredients:

- cucumbers – 1.2 kg;
- tomatoes – 700 gr.;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- peppers and carrots – 150 g each;
- garlic – 5-6 cloves;
- hot pepper - to taste;
- sugar – ¼ cup;
- salt – ½ tbsp;
- vegetable oil – ¼ cup;
- cloves, peppercorns – 1-2 pcs.;
- vinegar – 60 ml.

Step-by-step recipe with photos:

Wash the tomatoes and dry them a little, then chop the tomatoes randomly and grind them in a meat grinder or blender. Place the resulting tomato mixture in a saucepan. Add sugar and salt at once, and if you wish, you can also add one piece of cloves and black peppercorns. Pour in vegetable oil, simmer the sauce for 5-7 minutes.




Peel the onions, carrots and bell peppers; if desired, you can add a little hot pepper. Grate the carrots, chop the onion into cubes, cut the sweet pepper into small strips. Place the vegetables in a saucepan with the tomato mixture. Boil the vegetables in the tomato for a few minutes.




In the meantime, wash the cucumbers; if you have time, soak them in ice water in advance for 3-4 hours. Cut the cucumbers into medium-thick slices. Transfer the cucumber slices to the pan. Also peel the garlic and press it through. Send the garlic after the cucumbers, pour in the vinegar.




Boil vegetables for 15 minutes over medium heat.

Immediately pour the hot cucumber lecho into sterile jars.




Roll up or screw on sterile caps. I also really like this one

I really like different preparations where you don’t really need to bother with vegetables. Especially, in our country, it is the beautiful and medium-sized fruits that are eaten first. This means that overgrown or not very beautiful vegetables survive to harvest. That’s why I make many different types of seams where they need to be cut. It doesn't affect the taste at all. And for me, it’s even more convenient. Immediately I turned the jar into a salad bowl and the appetizer was on the table. There is no need to cut anything.

Of course, here you can take the initiative and change the ratio of vegetables. But I don’t recommend changing the amount of salt, sugar and vinegar. Still, these are preservatives, and we will roll up the appetizer without sterilization. I want no one to get upset and throw away the results of their work. This means that for the first time we comply with the proportions.

By the way, for those who did not have time to purchase table vinegar. If you mix 2.5 tsp. 70% vinegar in 100 ml of water, you get 100 ml of 9% vinegar.

Incredibly tasty lecho preparation made from cucumbers with tomatoes, carrots and bell peppers

I'll start with the mother of the popular lecho recipe. This is exactly the taste that my mother and grandmother prepared. So to speak from childhood.

There is a nuance here. The salad can be spicy if you add the entire specified amount of hot pepper with seeds. If you don’t like spicy preparations, then simply remove it from the recipe, or reduce its amount by half.

Let's take:

• 1.5 kg tomatoes,
• 1 kg of cucumbers,
• 0.3 kg sweet pepper,
• carrots - 350 g,
• garlic head,
• hot chili pepper - 2-3 pcs,
• 2 tsp salt,
• 0.5 cups sugar,
• vinegar 9% - 90-100 ml,
• 0.5 cups odorless vegetable oil.

Let's start with the fact that it is better to collect cucumbers and tomatoes immediately before harvesting. Rinse them and remove the substandard ones. Spoiled or rotten fruits.

We take a meat grinder and insert a thin grid so that we do not end up with large pieces of pulp. We take the tomatoes and cut them into pieces, getting rid of hard places and the stalk.

Grind them into puree in a meat grinder. Without removing the assistant, we peel the head of garlic and also grind all the cloves into puree.

At this stage, take the chili and also pass it through a meat grinder.

That's all for now. Pour the mixture into a saucepan with a thick bottom so that the mixture does not have time to burn. Let's put it aside and take care of the remaining products.

Separately, grate the carrots on a coarse grater.

Peel the seeds and cut the sweet pepper into small strips.

Now we do the following. Heat a frying pan, pour in vegetable oil and fry the carrots over medium heat on the stove. After 3 minutes, add the pepper strips. Simmer on the same mode for about 10 minutes.

During this time we will have time to deal with cucumbers. Cut off the ends and chop them. First, cut into 4 parts. And then each into small pieces.

Place the cucumbers and frying into the tomato mixture and add sugar, rock salt, and vegetable oil.

First, turn on the maximum heating of the stove and wait for it to boil. Then reduce it to minimum and cook for 30 minutes. 5 minutes before the end of the timer, add vinegar and finish cooking under the lid. The cucumbers will become a different, less saturated color. And the carrots and peppers are soft.

I wash the jars with regular baking soda. I always use a new, clean sponge. I inspect all containers for cracks and chips and remove those containers that I don’t like.

I sterilize them over steam, but you can do this using a microwave or oven. This is described in detail.

I boil the lids for five minutes.

And only then do we pour the lecho into clean, dry and still warm sterile jars.

We seal the lids and check if the juice is oozing from under them. We put it “under a fur coat” for natural sterilization and cooling.

Recipe for finger-licking lecho with tomato paste for the winter

Of course, not all housewives always have a kilogram of tomatoes on hand, especially those who live in urban areas. But this does not mean at all that you need to give up on cucumber lecho. We'll just go to the store and buy half a liter of good quality tomato paste. And we will use it exactly.

Let's take:

• 1 kg peppers,
• 4 kg cucumbers,
• 2 tbsp. l. rock salt,
• 200 g sugar,
• 0.5 liters of tomato paste,
• 150-200 ml 9% vinegar,
• 170 ml vegetable oil,
• garlic head.

First of all, we take out a meat grinder. We will equally need its modern electric version and the manual version from the USSR. It doesn't matter.

Wash the peppers and remove the core and seeds. We also peel the garlic and divide it into cloves.
We take these vegetables and grind them through a meat grinder. Add tomato paste to this mixture.

We remove the ends of the cucumbers and cut them into bars.

Pour the aromatic vegetable mixture over the cucumbers. Taste it and add some salt. Add sugar and vegetable oil.

Transfer the mixture to a saucepan or cauldron and cook for 15 minutes on medium heat.

Add vinegar and cook covered for another 3 minutes.

Pour the snack into sterile jars and seal them with lids.

Traditionally we place it under layers of fur coats, jackets and old blankets.

Cucumber lecho in tomato juice without carrots

A lighter version with tomato juice. I think this is one of the easiest preparations for the winter. And the result is simply delicious, someone even called this taste “just finger-licking good.”

Let's take:

• 2 kg of tomato fruits,
• 2.5 kg cucumbers,
• 6 onions,
• bell pepper - 900 gr,
• 2 garlic heads,
• sunflower oil - 160 ml,
• vinegar 9% - 60 ml,
• sugar - 6 tbsp. l.,
• salt - 2 tbsp. (70 gr).

Soak the vegetables so that they can be washed quickly and easily.

We take a meat grinder with a fine grid and make tomato juice. We skip all the tomatoes, but first remove any bruised or damaged areas. Cut off the stems. If the peppers are juicy, then they can also be chopped in a similar way. I'll do just that.

We pass the garlic through a meat grinder there. Pour the vegetable puree into a cauldron and add vegetable oil. I take unscented sunflower. Add salt and sugar to taste.

Boil the mixture and cook for 10 minutes, stirring over medium heat on the stove. It will gurgle and puff, so you can cover it with a lid.

In the meantime, cut the cucumbers into bars or circles. Depends on your preferences.

Cut the onion into half rings.

Add onions and cucumbers to the tomato mixture.

Bring it to a boil again and cook for 7 minutes. But three minutes before the end of cooking, add vinegar.
Of course, we have already prepared all the jars in advance, which means they can be filled with salad.

And put it away for the winter.

A simple and tasty recipe with cucumbers and garlic without pepper

It turns out there is lecho without pepper. Although, in my understanding, this name itself implies its mandatory presence. But everything is changing.

We need:

• cucumbers - 3 kg,
• tomatoes - 3 kg,
• 6 onions,
• 2 garlic heads,
• granulated sugar - 3 tbsp.,
• 2 tbsp. salt,
• vinegar 9% - 2 tbsp,
• 90 ml odorless vegetable oil.

We wash and sort the vegetables. We cut off all the substandard.

Cut the tomatoes in half and grind through a meat grinder. Pour into a cauldron and place on the stove until it boils. Let it simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

At the same time we will prepare the remaining products. Cut the onion into half rings and chop the garlic. We send them to the tomatoes.

Wait for it to boil again and cook for 10 minutes.

We cut the cucumbers into thin slices and place them in boiling tomatoes. Add sugar, salt and butter.

We wait until we see the mass boil. Then reduce the heat to medium and wait 15 minutes.

Five minutes before readiness, add vinegar. Cover with lids to prevent the acid from evaporating.

Pour the lecho into sterile jars.

But make sure that they are warm, then they will definitely not burst from temperature changes. We twist and repeat the procedure for checking the tightness and natural sterilization under the layer of blankets.

Delicious cucumber lecho with eggplant without garlic and without sterilization

This salad is even tastier than regular lecho. It turns out tastier and richer. The cucumbers are crunchy and the eggplants fall apart in your mouth. Just what you need for boiled potatoes.

Let's take:

• 1.4 kg eggplant,
• 1.4 kg tomato (needs juice),
• 650 g cucumbers,
• 650 g sweet pepper,
• 350 g onions,
• 1 tbsp. l. salt,
• 80 g sugar,
• 220 ml vegetable oil,
• 75 ml vinegar 9%.

Let's start with the blue ones. We wash them and cut them into pieces, salt them. Leave for 20 minutes, then drain the liquid. This is necessary so that the bitterness comes out of the pulp. We rinse the pieces under running tap water and squeeze them out by hand.

We cut cucumbers and peppers into the same neat cubes. As usual, we are used to shredding them into salad.

Meanwhile, we extract juice from the tomatoes. Here is your flight of fancy. If you want, use a blender, juicer or meat grinder. Whatever is at hand.

Pour the juice into a saucepan and place over medium heat. It is important for us that the mass bubbles and boils.
Cut the onion into quarter rings and add to the boiling juice.

After five minutes, add the remaining vegetables - cucumbers, eggplants and peppers.

After boiling, simmer covered for 20 minutes.

See how much juice is released during the cooking process. Add salt, sugar, vinegar and vegetable oil here. Add vinegar.

Cook for another five minutes. At the same time, we sterilize the jars and lids.

Fill them with salad.

We wrap it up and wrap it in warm clothes. This is necessary so that the snack is sterilized from the inside naturally while cooling slowly. Then it will last a long time, until spring.

That's all the simple preparations. I invite you to cook some more. Also unusual and tasty.