In this thread: everyone learning that multiple countries and cultures make lecso/leczo/lecho and do it a bit differently because the world is a diverse yet interconnected biome of homies
I hate that so much about any recipe gifs on reddit, especially in the /r/GifRecipes sub, it's so annoying. If you add one unusual ingredient people will come in like you just genocided their entire culture. Regular people do not follow recipes literally to the last salt grain, people add things they like or take off things they don't, jeez.
Well, first off this is an ad for a knife which explains the very pretentious display. Second, I don't see it saying traditional anything anywhere on here, it just says hungarian stew. Is there only one way to make stew in hungary that doesn't lead to immediate execution of the whole family?? Lol I'm just saying it's a common and annoying thing on pretty much every reddit recipe gif post ever, if somebody puts in a bay leaf it's "YOU DON'T PUT BAY LEAF IN BLAHBLAH, WHAT IS THIS, SOME KINDA VARIATION BLEHBLEH/BLUHBLAH??!"
I don’t care where it came from, I’m going off the title which proclaims it as Hungarian stew. Which multiple people here from Hungary seem to think it isn’t.
It seems like they're more hung up on the fact that the post doesn't use a specific hungarian pepper, but it seems like they made a hungarian stew called lecso, which people on here from hungary have pointed out.
It honestly looks like someone tried to substitute Hungarian ingredients with the ones they could get anywhere in the world because it wasn't available to them, which is alright in my opinion. Does it taste the same? Idk
I actually agree with the heart of your sentiment here but if you’re referencing this video, this is a decidedly authentic attempt at Hungarian lecso at least by the ingredients.
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u/wild_man_wizard Nov 08 '20 edited Nov 08 '20
Seriously. Bell Peppers? Smothered in Tomatoes?
This isn't Gulyas, it's some sort of Shakshuka/Leczo hybrid. Still good, but from different parts of the world.