Bende Lecso Stewed Tomatoes with Peppers & Onions, Hungarian Style 700g (1.5lb)

Bende Lecso is Hungarian stewed tomatoes with peppers and onions in a jar — the lecsó, the Hungarian summer vegetable stew built from ripe tomatoes, yellow and red banana peppers, and onion, slow-cooked in oil until soft and collapsed into the thick, paprika-scented vegetable base that is at once a side dish, a main, and the foundation for countless Hungarian preparations. Bende is a Hungarian food producer, and their Lecso follows the standard Hungarian household recipe — tomato, paprika peppers, onion, and a simple seasoning that allows the vegetable flavours to dominate rather than a heavy spice mix. Lecsó is one of Hungary's most versatile summer preparations: it appears alongside fried eggs in the classic lecsó-with-egg breakfast, as the base for chicken paprikash when summer vegetables are abundant, as a vegetable side for grilled meats, and as a one-pot meal when mixed with sausage and eaten directly with bread. Warm and serve alongside fried eggs for the classic Hungarian breakfast, use as the base for a paprikash or gulyás, fold into sausage and serve with rye bread, or eat cold on bread as the room-temperature vegetable spread that Hungarian sandwiches occasionally become.