Uncle Vanya buy a Hungarian snack. Hungarian appetizer - riot of taste, magic of color! Recipes for bright Hungarian appetizers from peppers, tomatoes, eggs, cottage cheese, zucchini
Hungarian snacks stand out for their brightness. Most recipes use seasonal vegetables, and in the first place bell pepper. With whatever they combine it! Although, many different snacks are also made from other products in Hungary.
Hungarian appetizer - general cooking principles
Lecho is a classic Hungarian appetizer with an incredible amount of recipes. In addition to pepper, carrots, zucchini, eggplant and even lard are added to it. There are a couple below interesting recipes... Cottage cheese is also highly valued in Hungarian cuisine. It is actively used, but more often in salted form.
For Hungarian appetizers, it is common to add a lot of spices. Not only fresh peppers are held in high esteem, but also ground paprika. Very often they are combined in one dish, which allows you to get rich flavors. Garlic, black pepper, cloves and all kinds of greens are actively used.
Hungarian appetizer with bell pepper and carrots
A variant of the Hungarian lecho. In addition to bell pepper other vegetables are also present in this appetizer, such as carrots. If not lard, then you can use a different type of fat or just oil.
Ingredients
3 kg of pepper;
1 head of garlic;
100 grams of lard;
4 onion heads;
A kilogram of tomatoes;
3 tablespoons of wine vinegar;
Four carrots;
A spoonful of salt;
Four tablespoons of sugar;
Paprika, black pepper.
Preparation
1. To prepare an appetizer, you need a large saucepan or cauldron. If there is nothing like that, then take a saucepan with a thick bottom or fry the first vegetables in a frying pan, then transfer them.
2. Cut the bacon into slices, throw in and fry the pillbox for cracklings. Remove them carefully.
3. Cut the onion into strips, put in fat, fry until transparent.
4. Peel the carrots and grate with coarse strips, as for korean salads... Transfer to the onion, fry together. Usually a spoonful of paprika is also added to them, which can also be done.
5. Cut the pepper into halves, remove the seeds, then cut each part into length for another 3-5 parts to make large strips. Pour pepper to vegetables, stir and heat for two minutes.
6. Tomatoes according to the recipe are laid whole, but you can also cut them. Also, sometimes the skin is removed from the tomatoes, which is not necessary. Just add, cover the bowl and simmer everything together for half an hour.
7. Add to Hungarian appetizer vinegar, salt, be sure to add sugar, which will enhance the taste.
8. Peel the large head of garlic, chop and also lay at this stage. Stir everything thoroughly, simmer lecho for another 5-7 minutes and you're done!
Hungarian appetizer with zucchini and peppers for the winter
A variant of a delicious Hungarian preparation for the winter based on lecho, in which pieces of pepper and zucchini are ideally combined. For cooking, you can use red or yellow pepper, it is better not to take green pods, as they give the workpiece a little bitterness.
Ingredients
1.5KG ripe tomatoes;
3 cloves of garlic;
70 ml of oil;
500 g zucchini;
200 g onions;
800 grams of pepper;
5 peppercorns;
A spoonful of salt;
A couple of tablespoons of sugar;
Bitter pepper (one medium pod);
2 tbsp. l. vinegar;
3 carnations.
Preparation
1. First we do tomato sauce... To do this, cut the tomatoes into pieces, put them in a saucepan, cover and send them to the stove. Simmer in our juice for twenty minutes, then puree with a blender. Or we immediately twist it through a meat grinder, put it on the stove and cook for the same amount of time, but keep the lid closed so that the juice does not boil away.
2. Cut the onion into cubes, lightly fry, do not let the pieces burn. Often it is thrown raw, this can also be done, but after frying, the lecho will have a pleasant aroma.
3. Transfer the onion to the tomato sauce.
4. Cut the pepper into wide strips, discard the cores with seeds. Pour into a saucepan.
5. Cut the courgettes into pieces and add too.
6. Chop the garlic and hot pepper pod, add them to the total mass.
7. Immediately put salt and sugar, add peppercorns, stir everything thoroughly, cover and cook for twenty minutes.
8. At the end, throw in the cloves, vinegar, stir, be sure to taste and, if necessary, add more spices.
9. Boil for a minute with vinegar and immediately pour it into sterile jars, quickly roll up and turn the blank over the neck. We keep the Hungarian appetizer in this form until complete cooling, then you can put it away for storage.
Hungarian zucchini appetizer
This is not a preparation for the winter, but simply very tasty vegetable snack in the Hungarian style. According to the recipe, sour cream is added to it, the fat content of which can be selected at your discretion. If you don't want to make the snack heavier, then you can replace the sour cream with Greek white yogurt.
Ingredients
2 zucchini;
150 grams of sour cream;
One pepper;
2 tomatoes;
2 onions;
2 cloves of garlic;
0.5 tablespoons of ground paprika;
A spoonful of flour;
50 grams of oil;
Parsley and spices.
Preparation
1. Pour the oil into a frying pan, send it to the stove, let it heat up.
2. Peel and chop quickly onion, pour over the heated oil, fry for about two minutes. Then add paprika to it, stir, warm up for 10 seconds.
3. Cut the bell pepper into cubes, pour over the onion, pour in 50 ml hot water and put out. All the water should evaporate.
4. Zucchini cut into cubes, transfer to a frying pan, fry together with other vegetables for about five minutes. The pieces should not fall apart, but keep a little stiff.
5. Cut ripe tomatoes into small pieces, transfer to the rest of the vegetables, stir and simmer the dish almost until tender.
6. Mix spoon ordinary flour with sour cream, grind thoroughly so that there are no lumps, pour into a frying pan.
7. Immediately salt and pepper, add the garlic cloves, previously chopped.
8. Warm up the appetizer for a couple of minutes, turn off the heat, season with fresh parsley. Serve hot, like a stew, or cool.
Hungarian appetizer "Körözöt"
A variant of a bright appetizer, it is advisable to use large and multi-colored peppers. It is quite spicy, with spices and mustard. The basis is fatty cottage cheese.
Ingredients
500 g of cottage cheese 18%;
4 cloves of garlic;
Four peppers;
3 tbsp. l. sour cream;
Paprika spoon;
0.5 tsp ground red pepper;
0.5 tsp mustard;
0.5 onions;
0.5 bunch of dill;
1 tsp cumin seeds.
Preparation
1. Grind cottage cheese with a spoon or mash with a fork, transfer to a bowl.
2. Grind a half of an onion on the finest grater, together with it, you can immediately grate the peeled cloves of garlic.
3. Chop the herbs, add to the total mass.
4. Combine sour cream with mustard, add salt to them, hot peppers, put paprika, caraway seeds, grind thoroughly until smooth. If this is not done, then it will be more difficult to evenly distribute hot spices in the curd.
5. We shift the sour cream into the total mass, stir thoroughly.
6. Carefully cut the stalks of the peppers, take out the seeds, remove all the leaves.
7. Tightly stuff the peppers with cooked cottage cheese, put them in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
8. When serving, the peppers need to be cut across with washers and arranged nicely.
Hungarian Snack: Egg Pate Sandwiches
Recipe for a simple snack that can be prepared for breakfast or when guests arrive. You can add different spices to egg pate as you like.
Ingredients
50 grams of plum oil.;
1 tbsp. l. grows oils .;
2 cloves of garlic;
2 onions;
50 g of nuts;
4 radishes;
Fresh cucumber.
Preparation
1. Dice the onion, fry in butter until transparent, add the crushed garlic, heat together until soft.
2. On vegetable oil fry the nuts until golden brown.
3. Boil eggs, peel, cut into pieces.
4. Combine onions in a bowl, add nuts, eggs, add spices and mashed everything together with a blender.
5. Cut the baguette, brush with egg paste. You can dry the pieces of the loaf first.
6. Cut radish and fresh cucumber into rings, decorate the appetizer. You can use other vegetables and herbs for this purpose.
Hungarian snack "Curd Gombovtsy"
A variant of an appetizer that is boiled curd balls... They can be served with hot sauces or with sweet jam, condensed milk.
Ingredients
500 g of cottage cheese;
Two eggs;
5 tablespoons of semolina;
10 g sugar;
A pinch of salt;
30 g butter;
3 tbsp. l. flour;
4-5 tablespoons of crackers.
Preparation
1. Mix the grated cottage cheese, add eggs, salt and sugar to them, stir thoroughly. For the salty version, you can add a clove of garlic.
2. Fall asleep at the end semolina, flour, re-stir and leave the dough for ten minutes.
3. Use wet hands to mold small balls, no more than four centimeters in diameter.
4. Boil water, salt, throw in balls, stir gently with a slotted spoon and boil for 5 minutes after surfacing.
5. Remove with a slotted spoon, shake off all drops.
6. Melt butter, add crackers, fry until pleasant aroma.
7. Dip warm balls in fried croutons.
Pink and yellow tomatoes are very popular now, but tomato juice they turn out to be pale and ugly. You can correct the color with boiled chopped beets, you can add it to lecho. Do not use the root vegetable raw, it will turn brown.
Sterilizing cans is not always a laborious and time-consuming process. There is a mass simple ways... For example, pour some water and put the jars in the microwave, warm up for 5-7 minutes, pour out the water. Or bake the jars in the oven on a baking sheet.
Garlic is not always easy to peel, it can be very difficult to remove dry husks. But you can soak the cloves in cold water, the process will go much faster.
On store shelves, there are a variety of delicacies, which in everyday life are either very difficult or impossible to make on your own. With the growth of urbanization, people began to abandon such activities as conservation. Many people still make blanks, especially those who have a country house or summer cottage. But ordinary city dwellers prefer to shop in stores. A new brand of canned food - "Uncle Vanya" - has become very popular. All products are incredibly tasty, so women start looking for a recipe for blanks to please their loved ones with a delicious homemade delicacy. One of them is the Hungarian "Uncle Vanya" appetizer, the recipe for which will be presented below.
Peculiarities
If you carefully read the composition of the appetizer, you can conclude that this is nothing more than an ordinary Russian lecho. A loud name adds demand to the product, therefore they buy it more often.
Before preparing the Uncle Vanya Hungarian appetizer according to the recipe, you need to read the ingredients on the jar. And although there is only one manufacturer, different regions the product encountered may be different. Classic recipe assumes the obligatory presence of bell peppers, tomatoes, carrots, garlic, onions and auxiliary additives. What to look for when choosing components will be discussed in the next paragraph.
How to choose products?
First, decide for yourself how much of the snack you want to end up with. The number of products will depend on this. The article will contain a recipe for the Hungarian appetizer "Uncle Vanya" with minimal proportions, so if desired, they can be increased several times.
Secondly, the amount of all ingredients should be approximately equal. If you send more tomatoes to the harvest, then the consistency will differ from the store product. Also, with a large amount of peppers or carrots, the taste and appearance will change.
Third, don't forget about quality. All ingredients must be strong and ripe. Tomatoes that are not the first freshness are best left for tomato juice. Choose either juicy vegetables or ripe and meaty ones. It is better to put unripe fruits aside, although in small quantities they will also work.
Ingredients
To prepare a Hungarian snack for the winter, you need to take:
- Carrots - 0.5 kg;
- Tomatoes - 3 kg;
- Bulgarian pepper - 2 kg;
- Onions - 2 pcs;
- Garlic - 4-5 cloves;
- Sunflower oil - 5 tbsp. l .;
- Salt, pepper - to taste;
- Sugar - 150 g;
- Vinegar 9% - 2 tbsp. l.
More sugar can be added if desired, depending on the desired result. Many people like snacks with sourness, so they add this loose powder to a minimum.
Bulgarian pepper is included in the Hungarian snack "Uncle Vanya" not only for flavoring, but also as a decoration. Therefore, it is better if all vegetables are multi-colored, then in jars "lecho" will become very beautiful.
The list indicates that vinegar should be 9%, but in the absence of just this, apple cider or other aromatic vinegar is quite suitable. If the product is regular, but with a lower percentage, you need to add a little more, but not too much, otherwise the snack will be spoiled.
Onions and garlic are vegetables that cannot spoil any preservation recipe for the winter, so if you add not 5, but 6 cloves (or more), you will get spicier. But the main thing is not to overdo it.
Preparation
That's the whole recipe for the Hungarian "Uncle Vanya" appetizer. It remains to spread the mass into pre-prepared sterilized jars, roll up and put away in a secluded place to cool.
Many housewives experiment and decorate the classic appetizer with additional ingredients. The best variations are described below.
With hot pepper
You won't have to change the composition of the main dish, but you will need to add the specified ingredient to it. You should not put a lot: one small pod is enough for the amount of vegetables in the recipe. If you really like hot snacks, you can put a little more. Such a preservation recipe for the winter is very good for kebab lovers. The spiciness will warm, and the aromatic vegetables will decorate the meat. An excellent substitute for store-bought ketchup.
With bean pods
Surely gardeners often do not know where to put young bean shoots. And here is a worthy use for them. They will perfectly decorate "lecho", soaked in tomato juice. It is important that the beans do not have time to fully ripen, otherwise they will turn out to be tough and ruin the whole dish.
Rinse the pods well, peel and cut into 2–3 cm slices. Add with all the vegetables. Make sure they cook well.
How to make Uncle Vanya Hungarian appetizer even tastier? Follow the tips below! Here are collected the nuances of experienced housewives that help add the missing flavor to the dish.
- As is known, sunflower oil can be of two types: with and without smell. It is better to give preference to a refined, non-aromatic one, then the dish will turn out to be much more pleasant.
- To simplify the process of cooking "lecho" tomatoes can be chopped with a blender without removing the skin. This will save a lot of time, and the consistency will be very delicate. Only this option is more "Russian", because the Hungarians are used to cutting vegetables in pieces.
- It is better to prepare delicacies for conservation in a special metal dish with a thick bottom. It is necessary so that the contents do not burn.
- Greens are never superfluous, so if you really want to put a little parsley or dill, do not deny yourself such a pleasure. It is impossible to spoil the dish with this, only to decorate it.
Not all preservation lovers have a basement for storing jars, so they are looking for ways to save them in an apartment.
Almost all high-rise buildings have balconies, so you can put preservation there. However, first you need to equip the place. To protect the workpieces from frost, lay the shelves (the entire cabinet, etc.) with polystyrene foam. It keeps the internal temperature and keeps cold air out. If it is not possible to purchase the material, cover the jars with several warm blankets.
Only those snacks that contain vinegar can be stored in the apartment itself. You can select a place for preservation in the back cupboard of the kitchen or in another secluded corner.
Hello my adored readers of the review!
Dedicated to lovers of canned vegetables !!!
There was a special offer in "Magnet" and I managed to buy a bank canned beans from "Uncle Vanya", called "Tuscan Beans". The inscriptions proudly flaunt on the can - without GMOs and dyes. And the media say that everything is GMO-free ...
We love beans!
Ingredients: Ingredients: carrots, white beans, sweet peppers, onions, sunflower oil, tomato paste, sugar, salt, acetic acid, ground black pepper.
For me, it is also an indicator that there is no starch in the composition. I don't need extra starch.
The jar stood for a week, I could not think of what to eat it with to make it interesting. Not invented...
I opened the can - laying the vegetables up to the top, and the oil or sauce did not come out from the top. In my opinion, there is nothing superfluous!
They just ate it, warming it up with sausages.
What I want to say - I liked it, although I white beans I always suspect of excessive bitterness. Here it did not taste bitter, and also retained its shape, which is important for the external contemplation of the dish.
The amount and cutting of vegetables was balanced - no large pieces... The taste is harmonious. Neither vinegar, nor salt, nor sugar was in the foreground. For me, this appetizer could be eaten not only hot, but also cold, just with black bread. The amount of spices is also normal.
Due to availability tomato paste in the composition, I was afraid that the stomach would give out pain, but it did not happen, from which I concluded that the recipe was correct and correct technological process cooking this canned product.