Best Vegetable Stew Recipe-Hungarian Lecsó 

If you want to eat something easy and healthy, I present you the best vegetable stew recipe, as I usually do, the Hungarian lecsó.

This is a simple and fast recipe, with several variants.

There is a simple option, only from vegetables and which is usually consumed as a side dish with steaks or breaded meat.

Other variants are those with rice, eggs or potatoes, which can be eaten as the main course for dinner for example.

Today we will make a vegetable stew with eggs, will be delicious.

Let’s See the Ingredients!

In the Hungarian cuisine, this recipe is based on three ingredients: onion, pepper and tomatoes.

I will enrich a little, the traditional recipe with two cloves of garlic and one leek.

So I used three medium-sized onions, two white and one red, but you can use the same way, it doesn’t matter. And the same amount of pepper, that is, three pieces, which can be of different types or the same type.

And because it is not the season of tomatoes, I preferred canned tomatoes, because they are much more flavoured than those in the supermarket.

And because I said we will make a vegetable stew with eggs, we also need 4 eggs.

How Do We Prepare the Ingredients?

First, we clean the onion and garlic and wash and clean the leek.

I sliced the onion, in thin slices, instead of chopping it.

I also sliced the leek thin and the garlic I chopped well.

The peppers were washed and cut into slices not too large.

We just have to break the eggs into a bowl and beat them with a fork.

And Now Let’s Prepare the Best Vegetable Stew Recipe

For this, I use a pot pan, in which I heat three tablespoons of sunflower oil on it. The original recipe uses pork lard, but you can also use olive oil.

When the oil has warmed, put the sliced onion to fry.

Roast on medium heat for about two minutes, stirring not to burn, then add the chopped leeks and garlic.

Fry for another minute or two, until the onion becomes transparent, it should not fry too hard.

Now add the sliced bell peppers.

I seasoned with a tablespoon of sea salt and I put a lid over the pan. Salted vegetables, under steam, will release their water faster, but do not forget to stir from time to time.

After a few minutes, season with a teaspoon of freshly ground pepper and a tablespoon of sweet paprika powder.

Mix and add the can of chopped tomatoes. If you use fresh tomatoes, you can now add the cut tomatoes.

Stir again and let it simmer for about 15 minutes. If the stew is too thick or dry, you can add 150 ml of water.

At this point, you can vary the recipe as you wish.

You can put half a cup of rice, and a cup of water and you will get vegetable stew with rice.

Or add three or four peeled potatoes and cut into cubes and also a cup of water and you will get vegetable stew with potatoes.

I let the stew boil until it thickened and the water evaporated, then I added beaten eggs.

Stir another three minutes until the eggs are done and with that the best vegetable stew recipe is ready.

Serving the Vegetable Stew

Because we added eggs in the vegetable stew, we can consume it as such, for breakfast, only with fresh bread.

This best vegetable stew recipe is family favourite and we do it quite often.

It can be consumed as a side dish near the roasted chicken.

If you like stew recipes without meat, you can try it too the best creamy mushroom pasta recipe.

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