Lyutenitsa 🍅 Bulgarian Pepper–Tomato Spread 🇧🇬 (Lutenitsa)

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Description

Smoky roasted red peppers and tomatoes cooked down with carrot and a gloss of sunflower oil—thick, sweet–savory, and spoonable on everything. 🫑🔥

Hook: Roast, reduce, and jar—late-summer flavor in under an hour on the stove. ⚡

Ingredients

Servings: 4 ×1
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Preparation

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Total Time

🕒 Prep: 25 min
🔥 Cook: 30 min
⏳ Total: 55 min

Nutritional Value

🔋 Energy: ~60 kcal
💪 Protein: ~1 g
🧈 Fat: ~4 g
🍞 Carbohydrates: ~6 g
🧂 Sodium: ~180 mg
🔥 60 kcal 💪 1 g protein 🍞 6 g carbs 🧈 4 g fat
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Advice

Use a wide pot and keep the batch shallow—more surface area means faster evaporation and a bright, jammy spread that won’t weep on bread.

Why it works

Roasting concentrates pepper/tomato sugars; oil forms a light emulsion with the veg purée for sheen, while a last splash of vinegar sharpens the sweet, smoky base.

Twist

Sharena (spicy) version: add ½–1 tsp hot paprika or a roasted hot pepper; Country style: skip eggplant and leave the mixture a bit chunky.

Status

Breakfast toast, grilled meats, cheese boards—Bulgarian lyutenitsa makes them all sing. #grannyzen #lyutenitsa 🇧🇬🍅

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