Recipes for cooking peppers in tomato sauce for the winter

The classic process of harvesting vegetables for the winter has always seemed laborious to me, so first I want to offer you some simple options for cooking sweet peppers in tomato sauce. You have probably heard another name for this dish - lecho, which is also prepared from other vegetables. The beauty of my recipes is that you will need a minimum of time to prepare them, and sterilization is not required at all.

Pepper in tomato sauce recipe

I always cook bell peppers in tomato sauce for the winter according to this recipe, because I spend no more than 20 minutes on cooking, and it low calorie allows me not to worry about the figure.

Stove, large saucepan with lid, knife, board, large wooden spoon, 5 jars of 500 ml, 5 lids, seaming key.

Ingredients

How to choose ingredients

When choosing peppers, give preference to fleshy sweet varieties, but peppers collected in your garden are perfect. The main thing is that they are juicy and fragrant. And if there is a possibility choose multi-colored fruits that will look beautiful in a jar, and when serving. You can replace tomato sauce with pasta.

Step by step cooking

Recipe video

If you want to learn more about cooking pickled peppers in tomato sauce for the winter, I recommend watching this short video.

Recipe for peppers in tomato sauce with vegetable oil

And this is another option, how to roll peppers in tomato sauce without sterilization, but already with added vegetable oil.

Cooking time: 35-45 min.
Serving Yield: 4 cans of 1 liter.
Calories: 100 g - 50.2 kcal.
Necessary equipment and utensils: stove, large saucepan with a lid, a knife with a cutting board, a large wooden spoon, 4 cans of 1 liter (or 8 cans of 500 ml), the appropriate number of lids and a seaming key.

Ingredients

How to choose ingredients

For this recipe choose sweet varieties of peppers with thicker and juicier walls. Instead of tomato paste, you can use sauce, and vegetable oil must be refined.

Step by step cooking

Recipe video

How to cook pepper lecho according to this recipe, you can learn from a short video with a step-by-step cooking demonstration.

Basic common truths

• In cases where you cover vegetables without a sterilization process, I recommend carefully wash jars using a weak soda solution not dishwashing detergent.
• Peppers must not only be cleaned of cores and stalks, but also thoroughly washed with a sponge.
• The vinegar in the marinade acts as a natural preservative. which preserves the quality of the product for a long time.
• To prepare lecho, use large aluminum, copper or enamel pots with lids.

How to serve this dish and with what

Lecho with pepper is both a good appetizer and a great addition to meat dishes and any side dish. It is served in small bowls with a spoon to use pepper with tomato sauce. By the way, this sauce can be used as a gravy for a side dish y, and use it to make the main dish more juicy and spicy in taste.

Other preparation and filling options

I offered you recipes in which lecho is cooked in the classic way in a saucepan on the stove. But I assure you that it is even easier to cook, and this does not affect the taste in any way. You also noticed that I used tomato sauce for this dish, but you can cook it. And if you cook incredibly tasty, you will get another interesting variation of this dish.

In fact, in order to cook lecho, you can use various vegetables. For example, I love it very much, and recently I tried an unusual option -.

Such preparations for the winter require a little practice and experience, but even if you are new to this business, you can easily cope with my recipes. Write about what you have done in the comments.