1️⃣ Char & peel: Broil/grill 🫑 peppers, 🍆 eggplant, and 🍅 tomatoes cut-side up until blistered (15–20 min). Toss in the 🧄 cloves for the last 5 min. Steam covered 10 min, then peel and seed peppers; scoop eggplant; slip garlic from skins.
2️⃣ Start the pot: In a wide pot, warm 🫗 oil. Sauté 🥕 carrot and 🧅 onion with a pinch of 🧂 salt 6–8 min until soft.
3️⃣ Reduce: Add peeled 🍅 tomato flesh (or passata), chopped peppers/eggplant, and roasted 🧄. Stir in 🍬 sugar, 🌶️ paprika, ⚫ pepper, and most of the 🧂 salt. Simmer on medium-low, stirring often, until very thick and glossy (20–25 min).
4️⃣ Finish: Stir in 🍎 vinegar and 🌿 parsley; cook 1–2 min. Adjust salt/acid. Cool and refrigerate up to 1 week, or jar hot in sterilized jars.
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
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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