Cucumber lecho for the winter you can lick your fingers with tomato paste

Cucumber lecho? Yes! Very tasty salad! Cucumber lecho is one of the most delicious salad preparations I've ever tasted! Crispy cucumber rings are perfectly complemented by tomato sauce, I also put onions and carrots in the salad - how can I do without them! I share the recipe, try it and share your impressions!
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 10 % 1 g
Fats 30 % 3 g
Carbohydrates 60 % 6 g
52 kcal
GI: 83 / 0 / 17

Cooking method

Cooking time: 1 d 1 h 40 min

1. Pour water into a saucepan, spread tomato paste, pour vegetable oil, pour salt and sugar. Mix everything well and send it to the fire. Bring the mass to a boil and cook for 5 minutes.

2. Onions and carrots are cleaned, washed, onions are cut into thin half rings, carrots are grated. Bulgarian pepper is cleaned from seeds and partitions, washed, cut into strips.

3. We put the prepared vegetables in the boiling tomato mixture, add allspice peas and bay leaf, bring to a boil, then cook for about 15 minutes under a closed lid.

4. While everything is cooking there, let's do cucumbers: mine, cut into thin circles.

5. After 15 minutes, we put cucumbers in lecho, pour vinegar, add a little ground black pepper, coriander and paprika. Cook for about 10 minutes.

6. Lay out the lecho in sterile dry jars, roll up with tin lids, turn the jars upside down, insulate with a blanket and leave in this position until completely cooled.

It is better to store lecho in a dark, cool place, a cellar or a basement will work perfectly.

Wait for winter and try cucumber lecho first of all!

Calorie content of the products possible in the dish

  • Fresh cucumbers - 15   kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   kcal/100g
  • Bay leaf - 313   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Wine vinegar (3%) - 9   kcal/100g
  • Vinegar 9% - 11   kcal/100g
  • Balsamic vinegar - 88   kcal/100g
  • Apple vinegar - 14   kcal/100g
  • Vinegar - 11   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Tomato paste - 28   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Paprika - 289   kcal/100g
  • Ground coriander - 25   kcal/100g
  • Allspice - 263   kcal/100g

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