What Is Letscho And What Goes With It?

Should it be piquant and spicy? Try Letscho in Hungarian! What is it and what goes with it? Here you can find out everything about the popular stew:

What is Letscho?

Letscho is typically Hungarian and was formerly known in the former GDR, but also in many Eastern European countries where it is still popular today. Because it traditionally consists of leftover ingredients, peppers and tomatoes form the basis, because every farmer in Hungary used to have them in the house. Then whatever is left over can be mixed in eggs, sausage, bacon, and gherkins – after all, everything is allowed in the creative kitchen, it just has to taste good in the end!

The following basic ingredients form the basis for typical Letscho:

• Paprika, original yellow pointed paprika
• tomatoes
• onions
• garlic
• Salt
• sugar
• paprika powder

By the way…

In Hungary, the spicy stew is also often prepared with cucumber, vinegar and bay leave when it is in the house.

What goes well with Letscho?

Once the basis has been created, you can mix in whatever is there and tastes good. The following ingredients have been particularly tried and tested:

• bacon
• Sliced ​​cooked sausage or hunting sausage
• egg or egg barley
• meatballs

Dishes with letcho

You can use Letscho as an excellent side dish or sauce for many meat dishes. You can serve it as a dip with grilled meat, with raclette, or with rice with shashlik. We love Letscho with schnitzel or over freshly fried meatballs. The sauce also goes well with poultry or fish and it can even give the bratwurst a really tasty kick. You can also use letscho for classic solyanka. This saves you a bit of snipping work, but you still get the full flavor.

The best dishes with Letscho at a glance:

• as a dip for raclette
• as a dip for grilled food
• Shish kebab skewers with lecho sauce and rice
• Schnitzel with Letscho sauce
• Meatballs with Lescho sauce
• Bratwurst with Letscho dip
• as a dip for fish
• as the basis for solyanka

Tip: Letscho can be preserved very well. If you happen to have too much Hungarian sauce left over, simply boil it up with enough water and sugar. You can fill the boiling hot sauce up to the top of screw-top jars and turn them upside down after closing the jars. But make sure that the jars and lids are clean so that no mold develops!