Lecho love and cook very many. This salad has a great taste and aroma. Each housewife has her favorite recipe, which she uses annually. In classic lecho there are very few ingredients, often it is only peppers and tomatoes with spices. However, there are other cooking options. The composition of these salads include other ingredients that make it more satisfying. For example, housewives are often added to lecho rice. This is the recipe we will consider now.
Recipe lecho with rice
The first step is to prepare all the ingredients. For lecho with rice for the winter we need:
- ripe fleshy tomatoes - three kilograms;
- rice - 1.5 kilograms;
- carrots - one kilogram;
- sweet pepper - one kilogram;
- onions - one kilogram;
- garlic - one head;
- table 9% vinegar - up to 100 ml;
- sunflower oil - about 400 ml;
- granulated sugar - up to 180 grams;
- salt - 2 or 3 tablespoons;
- bay leaf, cloves, paprika powder and allspice to taste.
We now turn directly to the preparation of salad. Tomatoes must be removed peel. To do this, they poured boiling water and kept there for a couple of minutes. Then the water is changed to cold and they begin to gently remove all the skin from the fruit. Such tomatoes can not even grind with a meat grinder, but simply chopped with a knife. It does not affect the taste.
Then go to the bell pepper. It is washed, and then all seeds and stalks are removed. It is better to cut vegetables into strips or slices. Next, wash and clean the carrots. After that, it is rubbed on a grater with the largest holes.
Important! At first glance, it may seem that there are too many carrots, but after heat treatment it will decrease in volume.
Then peel and chop the garlic and onions. They put a large 10-liter enameled pan on the fire, put sliced tomatoes, granulated sugar, salt and sunflower oil into it. Be prepared to stir the contents of the pot very often. Lecho very quickly begins to stick to the bottom, especially after adding rice.
The contents of the pan are brought to a boil and boil for 7 minutes, stirring regularly. Immediately after this, add all sliced vegetables (sweet bell pepper, carrots, garlic and onions) to the container. All this is thoroughly mixed and again brought to a boil.
After lecho boil it is necessary to throw your favorite spices into the pan. You can build on the following quantities:
- sweet peas - ten pieces;
- carnation - three pieces;
- ground sweet pepper - one tablespoon;
- mustard seeds - one tablespoon;
- bay leaf - two pieces;
- ground pepper mixture - one teaspoon.
If you add bay leaf to lecho, then after 5 minutes it will need to be removed from the pan. Only now you can add to the dish dry washed rice. The experience of many housewives shows that long rice (uncooked) is most suitable for lecho. After adding the rice, the lechos are stewed for another 20 minutes so that the rice reaches a state of semi-preparation. Remember that at this stage it is very important to stir the salad often.
Rice should not be fully cooked. After seaming, the banks will keep warm for a long time, so that he can walk. Otherwise, you will not get lecho with rice, but lecho with boiled porridge. Before you turn off the fire, you must pour vinegar into the salad.
Advance should prepare banks for lecho. They are thoroughly washed with dishwashing detergent or soda and rinsed well in water. After that, the containers are sterilized for 10 minutes. Then the banks are taken out of the water and spread on a clean towel so that the water is completely glass.
Important! Salad cans must be completely dry so that no water drops remain.Now we pour the hot billet in the tank and roll up the sterilized lids. We turn containers upside down and wrap in a warm blanket. After the salad has cooled completely, you can move the containers to a cooler place for storage. From this amount of ingredients, about 6 liters of finished salad is made. And this is not less than 12 half-liter jars of lecho with rice for the winter. Quite enough for a single family.
Conclusion
Recipes lecho with rice for the winter may differ slightly from each other. But mostly this delicious salad consists of pepper, ripe tomatoes, onions, carrots and rice itself. Everyone can add a variety of spices to the dish to their own taste. In general, the seen photos can convey only the appearance of lecho, but not the aroma and taste. So, enough to sit on the Internet, quickly grab the cooking!
