hurry-me-not Lecso for hungry Hungarian Huns

So... when you're riding through Panonian plains, as you do, waving around your sabre and grooming your mustache it's perfectly reasonable to grow some peppers on the way.

Apparently.

Makes no sense? Well, that's Hungarian cuisine for you :) And one of it's best creations ever is lecso, a dish as simple as Jeremy Clarkson's cultural needs and at the same time as delicious as Scarlett Johansson in the opening sequence of Lost in Translation. Just more spicy. And red.
Amazingly short list of ingredients consists of:

- peppers (red or yellow, although red give the dish consistency of colour)
- onions
- tomatoes
- sausage
- olive oil, salt, pepper, paprika

There are recipes which would list lard or bacon as well, but it's much better not to go too rich here so I'm going to leave it out of the equation.Start with chopping (finely) the onions and peppers (seeds've got to go!). Pour some olive oil in a deep frying pan or wide-ish cooking pan and add the onions and peppers. put on a small fire, cover and take a break. DO NOT perform breaks a la Keith Floyd or you're not gonna last long enough to see the onions going soft! But if you're still sober then let's prepare the rest of the ingredients. Tomatoes - easy. If you can be bothered then get some fresh ones, put them in some boiling water for about 3 min, and cool down. Now the skin should peel easily and if you squeeze them you'd be also able to get rid of the seeds. Then you can chop them a bit and add to the pan.  But if, on the other hand, you cannot be bothered then just add some canned ones. And again, let it cook while, at the same time, you can prepare the last ingredient - ze sausage. Here's a little twist in the tale though. Forget your normal supermarket or even butcher's sausages as they simply won't do.  What you need is a proper smoked and cured stuff like Polish Wiejska (vee-ei-ska) which you can get at the deli counter in some supermarkets. It's pure meat with no fat and bloody delicious as well. It's necessary though to remove skin before slicing. Sausage needs to be cut into 0.5-1 cm thick half- or even quarter-slices and then just added to the veg in the pan. Once all members of the Lecso family are cuddling together on a low heat we add a big serving of sweet red paprika (spice and seasoning section in any supermarket) a little bit of salt and pepper and if you like it spicy some cayenne pepper or Tabasco sauce to your liking. I'd recommend a generous handful of marjoram as well (again, supermarkets) which is not an orthodox ingredient here, but it just goes perfectly well together. And that's pretty much it. Now you can cook it as long as you wish but no shorter than an hour. Serve with rice and send me compliments :)