Sataraš is a light vegetable stew made of

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tomato The tomato (, ), ''Solanum lycopersicum'', is a plant whose fruit is an edible Berry (botany), berry that is eaten as a vegetable. The tomato is a member of the nightshade family that includes tobacco, potato, and chili peppers. It originate ...

es,

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s and condiments that is popular throughout

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. It is very similar to a Hungarian dish,

lecsó Lecsó ( , ; Czech and ; ; ; ; , ), also anglicized as lecho, is a Hungarian thick vegetable ragout or stew which traditionally contains yellow pointed peppers, tomato, onion, salt, and ground sweet and/or hot paprika as a base recipe. The o ...

, and a Turkish dish, menemen, from which this stew may have descended during the Ottoman imperial period.

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