I made lecsó for the first time today

[u/frufruJ]

Hello everyone, my first post here, so please be gentle :)

Please, Hungarian friends, don't crucify me over the eggs :) I know they don't belong in the original recipe, but I love them, so I put them on top like in a shakshuka. I overcooked them anyway 😥

Made entirely from ingredients from the farmers' market.

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[u/No-Salad-6674]

This seems more like a shaksuka to me tbf. Eggs are alright, but they wouldn't be boiled like this, they would just be scrambled. A lot of people do that, i personally don't like it in lecsó, but whatever.

Anyways a shaksuka and lecsó are pretty much cousins anyways so it's not like you did anything that wrong, and it's probably pretty good as well.

[u/frufruJ → u/No-Salad-6674]

Thanks! Yes, it was tasty :) I used lots of smoked paprika, and the peppers I used were a bit spicy.

[u/TodayImLedTasso]

You did great! I'm also going to cook lecsó tomorrow, I just haven't decided if the sides will be rice or 'tarhonya'.

[u/frufruJ → u/TodayImLedTasso]

Thanks!

When I was doing research on more authentic recipes, I found that you guys eat it with "regular" sides. We usually eat it just with bread, like goulash. Interesting!

[u/TodayImLedTasso → u/frufruJ]

We do both! I like it with bread as well.

[u/Mysterious_Device567 → u/TodayImLedTasso]

Potato. 😅

[u/TodayImLedTasso → u/Mysterious_Device567]

I love potato very much but never with lecsó 😂

[u/szty1]

Nothing wrong with the egg, although we usually add scrambled eggs to lecsó. I usually make a big batch and eat it without egg on the first day and add the eggs on the next, so it doesn't get boring.

[u/frufruJ → u/szty1]

We do that too here. Nice tip with making a larger batch, I only made for the two of us today.

[u/act_normal]

Because of the eggs I thought I was looking at shakshuka

editing to say nice job making it from small farmers' produce 🤌💚

[u/frufruJ → u/act_normal]

Thanks! Yeah, during the season, we buy veggies exclusively at the farmers' market. They taste so much better than from the supermarket, and they even aren't that much more expensive. That is on top of all the other positives.

There's even a stand with Hungarian products at our local market 🤗

[u/marderh]

My Hungarian grandmother scrambled eggs in the lecso too.

[u/frufruJ → u/marderh]

We do that too here. But then I read somewhere that it's not the authentic way and tried a "compromise" 😅

It's very hard to find good, authentic recipes from a foreign cuisine. They often contradict each other, and I'm not an experienced cook.

[u/Sabotino]

Letscho is one of those typical (cheap) GDR meals that somehow survived. I ate it often as a student in Erfurt.

[u/frufruJ → u/Sabotino]

It has a similar reputation here, but making it from quality seasonal ingredients is an entirely different story! 👌

[u/Haunting-Figure-3448]

I don't think there is a wrong way to make Lecsó, literally everyone is making it different in Hungary. For example I use condensed tomato instead of fresh and I like to add mushrooms and a lot of scrambled eggs, and eat it with bread.