A selection of 100 recipes for lean dishes, now you will always know what you can cook and eat in Lent.
Lean kharcho soup contains rice, potatoes, onions, garlic, nuts, and tomatoes. Kharcho is abundantly decorated with greenery. It simply smells of sour tomatoes and spicy garlic. Lick your fingers!
It is very easy to cook lean cabbage soup in a slow cooker. The peculiarity of the multicooker is that the vegetables do not boil in it, they remain dense and full of taste. We will cook cabbage soup from fresh vegetables.
Lean dumplings are a versatile dish that can be served in broth, fried and served as an appetizer or side dish. I will fry the dumplings and it will take me 30-40 minutes to prepare the dish.
Lenten salad with mushrooms is made from champignons, blue onions, spinach, pine nuts. Dressed with olive oil. The salad turns out to be fresh, aromatic, satisfying and healthy. Try it!
Lean borscht with sprat is prepared very quickly and easily. For him, you need to chop all the vegetables, fry, throw them into a saucepan, add sprat in a tomato and cook until tender. Lick your fingers!
You can cook a lean pickle with barley in less than an hour. The pickle turns out to be rich, hearty, with sourness. The pearl barley will need to be soaked for half an hour. And then it’s simple.
Lenten borscht with mushrooms is a fragrant and bright first course that will delight home-grown people with an abundance of vegetables and various tastes. This includes not only beets and mushrooms, but also cabbage, beans, bell peppers, etc.
Lean potato pancakes are easy to cook. It is very tasty to serve such pancakes with smoked salmon and a sprig of dill. The dish turns out to be hearty, beautiful and should appeal to all potato lovers.
Lean crab salad can be made from crab meat or lean crab sticks, add herbs, vegetables, and light yogurt to them. It will turn out delicious, satisfying, bright, beautiful and original. Let's try!
Shchi is a national Russian dish, delicious and loved by everyone. Lean cabbage soup with mushrooms is good for a fasting day. They will restore strength, fill the body with vitamin C, which is abundant in cabbage.
Making lean gingerbread can be fun. The dough is prepared simply, they bake quickly, and I advise the whole family to color the gingerbread cookies, children will especially like it.
As you know, avocado is a very nutritious fruit. Therefore, in Lent, when the fasting lacks nutrients, I suggest making a lean avocado salad. Both tasty and satisfying.
Lean squid salad is made from ready-made canned squid, fresh vegetables, herbs and spices. Such a salad turns out to be not only tasty, but also healthy. Plus, it's light and crisp.
Lenten borscht in a slow cooker is prepared from vegetables for two hours. It turns out a very tasty thick borscht filled with vegetable aromas. In a multicooker, they open up remarkably and retain their shape.
If during the fast you feel like chebureks, do not despair - they can be prepared with both lean filling and lean dough. I used lentil filling - it turned out very tasty.
Lean strudel is cooked without oil. The result is fragrant pastries with a lot of apple filling, which are ideal for tea drinking. This lean strudel takes about two hours to prepare.
Use this recipe and make lean bean cutlets that no one can tell from meat. Delicious and satisfying.
Bright, tender and fragrant carrot lean cutlets will diversify and decorate your table on fast days. Tasty and healthy at the same time. I share the recipe.
Very appetizing lean cakes that can be served with almost any dish instead of bread. A simple recipe for lean cakes is relevant not only for fasting, but also for vegetarians.
During the fast, you also sometimes want to pamper yourself with fragrant pilaf - and this is quite possible if you replace meat with mushrooms! The recipe for cooking lean pilaf with mushrooms - for fast days and not only.
The lean cabbage salad is very refreshing and light. A find for those who are losing weight - a minimum of calories from cucumber and vinegar. It is good to include it in a complex side dish for poultry or fish.
If you are fasting or just want a light, low-fat meal, then you should check out this simple recipe for lean cabbage patties. Tasty and healthy!
Lenten dumplings with two types of turnip and sauerkraut fillings are a budget dish that can feed a horde of hungry adults. A fantastically tasty dish, despite its cheapness.
Great Lent is the time to cleanse the body. But what if the stomach insists on rich soups? The simple answer to this question is a lean hodgepodge. Well, how to cook it - read on.
Do everyone's favorite and well-known lean dumplings with potatoes need an introduction? Despite the cheapness of the ingredients, dumplings with potatoes are always popular. I share the recipe.
If during Great Lent you decide to cook pies, then a simple recipe for lean dough for pies will definitely come in handy. Kneading a lean dough for pies is easy enough - I'll tell you how.
Lenten pies with potatoes are pies that contradict the laws of physics. They can be eaten more than physically fit into a person. Verified personally. A simple recipe for lean pies with potatoes is for you!
Lenten pies with cabbage are classic Russian pies that are usually cooked during Lent, although in principle it can be successfully cooked all year round. The recipe is extremely simple and worth trying.
Lean cabbage soup is a great hot soup for those who are fasting or just want to have a fasting day. The cabbage soup is prepared simply from the available ingredients, but it turns out to be simply delicious.
If you love beans, then the recipe for stewed beans with tomatoes will certainly appeal to you and come in handy. An easy way to make deliciously trivial food like beans.
Beetroot patties are a great low-calorie recipe for anyone on a healthy diet. They can be served simply with sour cream as an independent dish, or they can be served with any side dish.
Make a light zucchini snack! I offer Algerian zucchini. Zucchini are spicy with a sweet and sour taste. All my friends like it, I recommend it!
The Greek potato recipe will delight all vegetable lovers. This bright, beautiful and tasty dish will ideally fit into a vegetarian menu, but it will be quite appropriate on the table of meat-eaters! :)
Fried potatoes, mushrooms ... And even sour cream, and onions, and fresh herbs .. Well, salivating? Then let's try to cook champignons with potatoes - millet, quickly, very tasty!
The easiest and fastest way to make beetroot salad is in this recipe. Minimum ingredients and many benefits!
Borscht with mushrooms and beans is a treasure trove of protein for vegetarians and a very satisfying dish for those who are fasting. A classic recipe for borscht with mushrooms and beans - from our table to yours!
Rice with corn in a slow cooker will be an excellent side dish for meat or fish, or a completely independent dish on your everyday table. It's easy to cook with a slow cooker, but it's nice to eat!;)
This beautiful and bright salad can rightfully be considered an off-season, but in the fall, when the tomatoes have not yet lost their summer flavor, it turns out to be especially tasty. White Bean Salad Recipe - For You!
This is a simple, but bright, beautiful and very tasty salad that does not conflict with the requirements of the fast, is suitable for dietary meals and vegetarian menus. Try it! :)
In fact, this wonderful salad is very similar to a vinaigrette, so this is a wonderful combination of sauerkraut, peas and beets, not only very tasty, but also healthy.
A wonderful tasty and healthy side dish that goes well with meat or fish, but at the same time can be an independent dish for every day.
The classic recipe for lean gingerbread will be useful not only for Orthodox believers, but also for everyone who tries to limit themselves in the consumption of butter dough. Details are in the recipe!
A simple recipe for lean bread in a bread maker is relevant not only on fasting days - it will come in handy for everyone who monitors their health and weight, regardless of the season!
A simple recipe for breaded broccoli will enrich your menu with another easy and delicious vegetable side dish. With sesame seeds and soy sauce - it's just magical! :)
A light, tasty and very healthy dish made of carrots is suitable for lovers of vegetarian food, as well as those who are fasting or keeping fit.
Stewed cabbage with carrots is a versatile dish that can be prepared both on holidays and on ordinary days. In addition, stewed cabbage with carrots can be served as a side dish.
Korean-style potatoes are not a hot dish or a side dish, but a delicious spicy salad. Fans of everything "spicy" should definitely learn how to cook potatoes in Korean!
I think this Lean Bean Soup recipe might come in handy for more than just fasting. First of all - to the attention of vegetarians, but everyone else is welcome at our table! :)
A recipe for making a lean pie with jam without eggs and dairy products is useful for anyone who is fasting, and also monitors their health and weight.
A wonderful seasonal fresh vegetable side dish that goes well with any meat. You can use it as an independent dish, in any case it is very tasty.
Can't vegetable cutlets taste good? In fact, this is far from the case. Try to cook cabbage zrazy and you will be surprised how delicious vegetables can be.
A simple, but no less delicious vegetable salad, which will be a great addition to meat and poultry dishes. So, the recipe for salad with cabbage and corn is a delicious, light and healthy dish!
Dedicated to lovers of delicious and healthy food - a simple recipe for a salad with mushrooms with a photo!
Beet cutlets are a great alternative to meat cutlets. Moreover, they are much more useful than the latter!
I offer you a simple recipe for Armenian lobakhashu bean soup - delicious, healthy and completely vegetarian! At the same time, it is so satisfying that even inveterate meat eaters will appreciate it;).
I suggest you learn how to cook bell peppers with vegetables, and another tasty and healthy dish will appear on your summer menu!
Carrots with cheese and garlic are a wonderful salad with excellent taste and useful properties. Plus, this salad is very easy to prepare.
Solyanka is not only a delicious soup, but also a wonderful side dish of cabbage, the preparation of which turns into a real pleasure in the presence of a multicooker!
Probably, every housewife has her own signature recipe for eggplant rolls. What is not wrapped in them - carrots, cottage cheese, cheese, herbs, tomatoes! - but most of all I love these rolls with nuts. Try it!
Cooking young potatoes in a slow cooker is easy and simple. This is the first dish that I mastered when I bought a multicooker. It turned out great - delicious golden potatoes and all in one dish!
Champignons are an indispensable product during fasting. There are many recipes for lean mushroom dishes, and I want to offer you another one - a delicious and nutritious soup. Read the recipe!
For a light dinner or a diet lunch, you can prepare stewed celery with vegetables - a simple and delicious dish.
Beet cutlets are very healthy, tasty and satisfying. This dish will delight everyone: from lovers of delicious food to people who want to lose a couple of extra pounds.
Many people love Korean asparagus. But usually the price for this salad on the market bites decently. Let's cook it ourselves! And as much as we want.
I bring to your attention a delicious, aromatic potato with vegetables in a pot. This dish can be prepared from what is in the refrigerator; the ingredients in this version can be replaced with others.
Bean salads are always appetizing and satisfying. I suggest you prepare a bright salad that will impress any gourmet. I promise it will be beautiful and tasty!
When you want not only healthy, but also delicious vegetables, try cooking spicy carrots with marinade. This dish will be an excellent side dish for meat.
Boiled potato salad is great for a side dish. You can serve it with a meat or fish dish. Or as a snack.
I suggest you cook carrots in a tomato at home. A universal appetizer - for sandwiches, as a dressing for first courses, and as a sauce for side dishes. Moreover, it is very tasty, healthy and fast!
Most vegetarians understand vegetables and their health benefits better than regular meat eaters. This vegetarian broccoli puree soup recipe was told to me by a vegetarian friend. Very tasty.
White bean pate is one of the most delicious and healthy snacks I make for my family. The pate contains fresh herbs and lemon juice.
I personally cook porridge with carrots at home very often, it turns out to be a painfully simple and satisfying dish, so I advise you to try it too. Perfect with all kinds of salads and cutlets!
To your attention - a classic recipe for stewed potatoes with vegetables, a dish ideal both for fasting and for tasty utilization of the abundance of seasonal vegetables. Everything is fast, tasty and at the same time affordable.
The section contains interesting and simple meatless dishes, recipes for every day, on weekdays and weekends, salads, soups, desserts, main courses and, of course, pastries. A lean menu is by no means synonymous with boring. It's time to learn how to bake delicious homemade bread (with flour and water), custard potato tortillas and sweet lean muffins. Try unusual-tasting mashed soups, boil mushroom noodles and deliciously delicious lean borscht. And, of course, make instant marinades. I would encourage you to try all of the recipes featured in our Lean recipe collection every day, expanding your culinary collection and enriching your culinary experience.
Lean potato cutlets
Is it possible to cook potato cutlets without eggs so that they do not fall apart, have a neat shape, excellent taste and an appetizing crust? Give it a try, you will appreciate this lean recipe.
Lenten gingerbread with jam
One of the simplest and most affordable recipes for lean baking is a gingerbread, for which you do not need honey or molasses. The dough is kneaded with regular jam and strong tea.
Tortillas on water and flour
An excellent option for replacing white bread in fasting is flat cakes with water and flour. They are preparing elementary. And thanks to a simple secret, they remain soft and lush for a long time. The scones are so delicious that many people get hooked on them and include this lean recipe in their daily menu.
Simple Mexican Vegetable Mix Soup
The simplest lean soup. It contains a ready-made frozen mixture of vegetables and legumes, fried onions and carrots and cereals. Any one will suit your taste. Soup with bulgur is especially good.
Salad with beans, fried mushrooms and cucumbers
Hearty lean salad with an original taste. It contains canned beans, fried mushrooms with onions, pickled or pickled cucumbers and lots of fresh herbs.
Candied orange peels
A leisurely method of making candied fruits from a waste product - orange peels. Several days of soaking and boiling give an excellent taste result. Candied fruits are so bright and fragrant that they can be presented as sweet gifts during the fast.
Lenten recipe for old Russian cuisine - juicy, fragrant dough envelopes with mushrooms and buckwheat. They prepare slowly, with feeling, sensibly, with arrangement.
Barley cutlets
Recipe trick - how to cook cutlets from ordinary pearl barley, which look more appetizing than meat ones. Very tender, light, with fried onions, carrots and garlic. A find recipe for those looking for interesting and unusual lean dishes.
Lean oatmeal cookies with honey
For a delicious, varied fast, try these wonderful honey, cinnamon, and other lean cookies. Amazing aroma, crunchy, crumbly structure. The recipe is very simple and suitable for novice cooks.
Country style potatoes in the oven
A very simple and delicious dish that is perfect for fasting. Potatoes are poured with vegetable oil, sprinkled with spices and sent to the oven to bake until cooked.
Simple brine biscuits
The recipe is hello from the half-starved 90s. Vegetable oil, flour, baking powder and cucumber pickle, a little raisins, nuts or candied fruits - and now the dough is ready for wonderful crumbly cookies, which is called "out of nothing".
Lean apple pie
You have probably already wondered how tasty, varied and rich a lean menu can be. Among the meatless dishes for every day, apple pie takes pride of place. And not some dubious, but supposedly useful pancake. And a lush, shiny braided yeast cake.
Lenten honey gingerbread
One of the most popular budget recipes for lean baking, which is suitable for beginners, because it is simple, clear and has a good composition of products. You can bake a gingerbread on water, you can use tea, or you can use apple juice.
Lean borsch with beans
A bright accent in the lean menu is rich borsch with beans. The recipe provides detailed instructions on how to achieve exactly the same color as in the photo. I hope you enjoy both the cooking process and the resulting result.
Stewed cabbage with mushrooms
A very tasty and simple lean dish for every day. Mushrooms, onions, cabbage and tomato are all you need to prepare a hearty, lean lunch.
Armenian bean pate
During the fasting period, it is extremely important to maintain the body with food containing plant-based protein. Legumes and nuts are considered ideal alternatives to dairy and meat foods. Lenten bean pate in Armenian will definitely add variety to the diet of fasting days, and will also delight you with its availability and nutritional value.
Lean cabbage rolls with rice and mushrooms
Lean cabbage rolls can perfectly fit into the lean menu for every day, if you go for one trick - make a lot of them and freeze some of them - this will not affect the taste of cabbage rolls in any way.
Classic red bean lobio
A hearty, lean dish made from beans, nuts, and vegetables.
Lean mayonnaise
A recipe from the category of culinary miracles. Looking at the list of ingredients, you cannot believe that they will turn out what you see in the picture - a delicate, thick, lean mayonnaise, which can be used, for example, for dressing salads or served as a sauce for lentil cutlets.
Lean manty with vegetable filling
You probably already realized how extensive a menu of lean recipes can be for every day. We expand the variety with a recipe for manti with vegetable filling. Try it, perhaps you will like this option more than usual.
Lentil and rice meatballs in tomato sauce
Dish-blende - minced lentil with rice is really difficult to distinguish from ordinary meatballs. Form holds perfectly without adding eggs and flour. If you steam them, you can even do without vegetable oil, which is extremely important during Lent.
Canned Bean Soup
A hearty, bright, cheerful quick bean soup - add to your lean recipe box.
Lenten pancakes on mineral water
Popular lean pancake recipe. Try it - it really tastes better than the shallow ones. And baking them is much easier.
Lean Pea Soup
Peas are a great product for a lean menu. He is hearty, gives a lot of thick. Try this simple and delicious pea soup with potatoes, carrots and onions.
Indian samosas with vegetables
Samosas - a dish of Indian cuisine - fried pies made from a simple lean dough with a vegetable filling, the composition of which can be composed at your discretion. Ideal for a lean table.
Fresh cabbage soup
Recipe, actual for the post, for delicious cabbage soup on water, with vegetable frying, herbs and fragrant freshly ground pepper. The recipe is filmed in detail, step by step and is suitable for novice cooks.
Lenten lasagna
During the fast, you have the opportunity to make sure that classic dishes can be just as delicious without the use of seemingly obligatory ingredients. Try making juicy vegetable lasagna without cheese and with lean dough.
Green Pea Puree Soup
The king of the lean menu is green as March grass emerging from the melting snowdrifts, and just as tender, brewed with four ingredients, including water.
Buckwheat noodles with vegetables
If you have never tried buckwheat noodles, then fasting is a very suitable time for this. The noodles are extremely tasty with a spicy vegetable sauce, which is made from the most common products - onions, carrots, bell peppers and green beans.
Potato cutlets with peas
A very funny lean recipe - at first glance, the most ordinary cutlets, and if you bite through them - inside there are delicate mashed potatoes and funny peas. Try it!
Potatoes in a pot
A simple lean dish for every day that can be found in cookbooks called "church potatoes". Unremarkable in appearance, these potatoes taste delicious.
Classic vinaigrette recipe
A traditional Russian dish with a French name. It contains boiled beets, carrots, potatoes, onions, pickles and green peas. The perfect solution for a lean table.
Mushroom noodles
Very nourishing, rich, delicious soup, prepared in an elementary way! You can cook it every day.
Homemade peanut butter
Psychologists have proven that any restrictions activate a person's creative abilities. Fasting is a good time to learn how to cook something unusual that you can't even think of doing at home. For example, hearty and tasty peanut butter with honey. I made a jar - put it in the refrigerator and eat it every day.
Korean beetroot
Learning how to cook homemade salads in Korean is a great way to diversify the lean menu, make it rich and interesting. Preparing such a salad is not difficult at all. The volumes can be made large immediately, because it stands perfectly in the refrigerator for two to three weeks.
Korean cabbage
During the fast, please your household with delicious instant pickled cabbage. It gets its bright golden color thanks to the addition of turmeric.
Of course, the main goal of fasting is the spiritual growth of a person, the correction of sins, the cleansing of the soul from passions. It is not for nothing that there is such a saying - fasting is not in the belly, but in the spirit. Therefore, before talking about the “nutritional” component of fasting, I will quote one wonderful saying of St. Basil the Great: “Do not limit the benefits of fasting to abstinence in food, because true fasting is the elimination of evil deeds ... Forgive your neighbor an insult, forgive his debts. You do not eat meat, but you offend your brother ... True fasting is the removal of evil, abstinence of the tongue, suppression of anger in oneself, excommunication of lusts, slander, lies and perjury. Abstaining from this is true fasting. "
Thus, fasting should not be considered a weight loss diet. This article will tell you how to rationally compose your menu so as not to violate the rules of food abstinence during fasting, and not to harm your health.
Speaking about proper nutrition during fasting, it is worth noting that the measure of abstinence in food is different for each person. Someone is healthy, and someone has chronic diseases that require a therapeutic diet. Someone is studying, someone is doing hard physical labor. For pregnant and lactating mothers, the fast is also usually relaxed. It is best to discuss the measure of abstinence in food during fasting with your spiritual father.
Now there is Great Lent, which implies the exclusion of meat, fish, poultry, dairy products, eggs. There are days of dry eating, days of eating food without oil. In less strict, many-day fasts - Christmas and Peter's Lent, fish and fish caviar are blessed on some days.
Among the fasting there is a controversial attitude towards eating soy products and seafood (bloodless sea creatures) during fasting, as well as eating foods such as lean mayonnaise, lean sweets and cakes, etc. Again, if there are doubts and questions, all controversial points are better decide with your confessor. If the use of squid and soy cheese is a delicacy and temptation for you, of course you should refuse such food. However, one should not condemn a neighbor for eating such products - perhaps a person has the blessing of a confessor for eating certain products.
Basic principles of good fasting nutrition
- During the fast, most of the fasting person's diet is carbohydrate food, and very little protein is consumed. Meanwhile, protein is essential for human health, it is the “building block” of our body. Animal protein is excluded during fasting, but vegetable protein is allowed. Sources of vegetable protein - nuts, seeds, legumes, mushrooms, cereals, bread, soy products. Sea reptiles - shrimp, squid, mussels, etc., are also very rich in protein.
- If a person leads an active lifestyle, they must eat foods that are a good source of energy and give a feeling of fullness for a long time - these are pasta, potatoes and cereals. But keep in mind that instant porridge is "fast" carbs! Such porridge quickly saturates, but it also "burns out" quickly, and after a couple of hours you can feel hunger. Choose rolled oats with a cooking time of 15-20 minutes. If there is no time for cooking in the morning, you can pour cold water over the rolled oats in the evening, and just warm up the porridge in the morning.
- It is useful to season salads with olive oil, per serving - 1 tablespoon of oil.
- Moderate consumption of dried fruits in the post is useful - dried apricots, prunes, dates, as well as nuts. They can be added to morning porridge, taken with you for a snack. Dried fruits and nuts have a high calorie content, so they quickly saturate.
- Use honey instead of sugar - you can add it to morning porridge, tea, use honey as a natural sweetener in baked goods. Bitter chocolate, marmalade and dried fruits in moderation are preferred over the sweet lean flour products that can be found on store shelves. These foods are usually high in fat and can lead to weight gain.
- A very important principle of good fasting nutrition is the daily consumption of fresh and / or thermally processed vegetables and fruits. Vegetables and fruits are great for a snack - for example, if it is a vegetable salad (you can, if you wish, diversify it by adding mushrooms, legumes, squid, nuts, croutons), seasoned with olive oil and 1 fruit.
- It is important not to starve and try to plan your meals so that there are no long breaks between meals. In this case, the digestive system will more quickly and better adapt to a plant-based diet and reduce the risk of "troubles" such as gastritis, constipation and indigestion. For those people who observe the monastery charter, eating no more than 2 times a day, observing the days of complete refusal of food, it is better to prepare in advance. Before fasting, you should gradually reduce the frequency of meals to make it easier for the body to adapt to the new regimen.
- If you are overweight, it is important to follow these guidelines to avoid gaining weight while fasting.
- First of all, it is necessary to minimize the amount of carbohydrate food in the evening meal as much as possible. Since carbohydrates provide a lot of energy, and in the evening after school or work, energy is usually not spent, it will be stored as fat "in reserve". Therefore, in the evening it is better to refuse pasta, potatoes, rice, cereals, flour products, bread and sweets. A variety of vegetable and legume dishes are available for dinner. These can be vegetable and bean salads, vegetable casseroles and cutlets, stews, vegetable caviar, baked and stewed vegetables, grilled vegetables, vegetable and bean soups (without potatoes, cereals and pasta). It is recommended to have dinner no later than 3-4 hours before bedtime! If you consider it compulsory for yourself to have a snack after dinner (for example, if dinner took place 5-6 hours before bedtime), then have a snack no later than 2 hours before bedtime.
- If the use of sea reptiles and soy products is acceptable for you, you can also include them in your menu in the evening.
- On days when fish is allowed, fish + any vegetables (except potatoes) would be an excellent dinner option.
- In the evening with tea (not sweet), you can eat a few nuts. Don't eat sweets for dinner.
- Potatoes are okay for lunch or breakfast, but not every day. Rice and pasta are preferred over potatoes. It is better to use cereals for breakfast, fruits and dried fruits - until 7 pm. Diversify your diet with frequent consumption of vegetables, both raw and cooked.
- Pay attention to moderate consumption of vegetable oil - the most high-calorie product known!
- The use of a variety of soups is encouraged, both for lunch and dinner (for dinner, vegetable / bean soups without cereals, pasta and potatoes).
- Further, in the examples of the lean menu, you will see the mark (dietary breakfast / lunch / dinner), this means that this diet is suitable for people who are overweight. On dry eating days, there is no such mark, since the diet of such days is in itself a dietary one.
RECIPES FOR LAST BREAKFAST / LUNCH / DINNER on dry days
Oatmeal & Fruit Smoothie: Fill the rolled oats with cold water overnight. In the morning, add 1-2 teaspoons of honey and fresh fruits cut into cubes - banana, kiwi, orange. Beat with a blender, adding water if necessary. You can use other fruits and any berries to make a smoothie. If desired, you can add dried fruits, nuts.
Fruit and Nut Salad: 1 apple, 1 banana, 1 orange cut into pieces, stir, season with lemon juice, cinnamon and 1 tsp. honey. Add any dried fruits and nuts if desired. If desired, you can add any fruits and berries to such a salad.
Oat muesli with soy milk: pour muesli with soy milk, wait 10 minutes until the flakes swell.
Carrot - apple salad: grate apple and carrot, mix, season with lemon juice, 1 tsp. honey, decorate with nuts if desired.
Strawberry-pear-carrot salad: Grate 2 carrots on a coarse grater, add strawberries and pear cut into large cubes (peel and core), add 1 tsp. honey and 1 tsp. lemon juice. Mix.
Vegetable salad: chop tomato, cucumber, radish, corn, leek, lettuce, dill, parsley, sesame seeds, stir. In such a salad, you can add grated celery root, young zucchini, crackers. Season with lemon juice.
Nourishing salad: canned beans, corn, green peas and diced tomato mix. You can add croutons, avocado and garlic if desired.
Cabbage and Pea Salad: Chop white cabbage, mash with salt with your hands, add diced fresh cucumber and green peas, sprinkle with lemon juice, mix.
Wheat salad: Chop lettuce leaves, add wheat sprouts, diced avocado, corn, pine nuts, olives. You can add croutons. Mix.
Avocado salad 1: Cut the avocado into cubes, mix with the chopped lettuce, croutons and drizzle with lemon juice.
Avocado salad 2: Cut the avocado into cubes, mix with chopped fresh cucumber, dill and corn, drizzle with lemon juice.
Carrot and pumpkin salad: grate carrots and pumpkin, season with 1 tsp granulated sugar or 1 tsp. honey. Drizzle with lemon juice.
Avocado Tomato Sandwiches: Grease black bread with crushed garlic, top with sliced avocado, on top of avocado - tomato sliced into rings.
Avocado pate sandwiches: Mash the avocado with a fork, add a little lemon juice, dried basil, a pinch of salt and paprika. Stir until smooth and spread on bread. Top with sesame seeds or toasted pine nuts.
Examples of lean breakfast on dry days:
- Any salad / smoothie from the list of dishes + tea / coffee / cocoa with dried fruits / nuts.
- Oat muesli with soy milk + tea / coffee / cocoa with dried fruits / nuts.
- Cornflakes with soy milk + tea / coffee / cocoa with dried fruits / nuts.
- Listed vegetable salad + Listed fruit salad / smoothie + Lemon tea.
- 2 avocado sandwiches + dried fruit / nut tea.
- Vegetable salad from the list + fresh fruits 1-2 pcs + tea with honey and lemon.
Examples of lean meals on dry eating days:
- Any salad / smoothie from the list of dishes + 1-2 avocado sandwiches + tea with honey and dried fruits / nuts.
- Any salad / smoothie from the list of dishes + 1-2 slices of bread + 1-2 fruits.
Examples of a lean dinner on dry eating days:
- Vegetable or bean salad from the list of dishes + 1-2 avocado sandwiches + tea with lemon and nuts.
- Vegetable or bean salad from the list of dishes + bread + tea with lemon and nuts.
- Vegetable or bean salad from the list + bread + 1 fresh fruit + lemon tea.
RECIPES FOR LAST BREAKFAST / LUNCH / DINNER on oil-free days
Oatmeal, cooked in water with 1 tsp. honey, a handful of fresh berries / fruits or dried fruits (prunes, dried apricots, raisins, dates) or nuts.
Baked apples with oatmeal, berries and nuts: Remove the middle from the apples, put oatmeal in the middle, 1 tsp. honey, berries and nuts. Put in a mold, bake in the oven at 200g. 15 minutes.
Millet porridge on water with pumpkin and / or prunes: Rinse the millet, soak the prunes in warm water. Cut the pumpkin pulp into cubes. Put everything together in boiling water, cook until viscosity. At the end of cooking, salt the porridge to taste. Add 1 tsp before serving. honey and garnish with nuts if desired.
Lean thick borsch: Pour water into a large saucepan, add spices: bay leaf 2-3 pcs, cloves 4-5 pcs, allspice 2-3 pcs, black pepper 1-2 pcs. and 1-2 medium sized peeled potatoes, cook over medium heat. Pour 2-3 ladles of water into a separate small saucepan, add the onion cut into small cubes and grated carrots, cook over medium heat. Grate 1 large beetroot, sprinkle with 1-2 tsp. lemon or 1 tsp. vinegar, stir and put in a small saucepan 10 minutes after the carrots, without stirring. Beets should be slightly covered with water. Remove spices and boiled potatoes from a large saucepan. Mash the potatoes in a separate container with a pestle and return to the saucepan. Separately cut 3-5 raw potato tubers into cubes and place in a large saucepan. When the beets are dull, pour the contents of the saucepan into a large saucepan. You can take both sauerkraut and fresh cabbage. Rinse the sauerkraut lightly with water, put in a saucepan. Chop raw cabbage, put in a saucepan. Add 2-3 tablespoons of tomato paste, mix thoroughly. Salt borscht to taste and cook until tender. Add chopped parsley and dill 5 minutes until tender.
Mushroom soup with potatoes: Soak dry mushrooms in hot water. Pour water into a saucepan, add spices: bay leaf 2-3 pcs, allspice 2-3 pcs, cook with spices for 5-10 minutes, remove the spices. Cut 4-5 potato tubers into cubes, put in a saucepan, salt the soup. Cut the onion and carrots into cubes, put in a frying pan with 2 tablespoons. water, simmer for 5-10 minutes. Chop mushrooms as desired, put in a pan with onions and carrots, simmer for another 10 minutes. Put the contents of the pan into a saucepan with soup, stir, cook until tender. Add chopped parsley and dill 5 minutes until tender.
Bean soup with potatoes: Soak the beans overnight in cold water with 1 tsp. baking soda. Drain the water in the morning, rinse the beans, put in a saucepan with water and cook until almost cooked. When the beans become almost soft, cut 4-5 potato tubers into cubes, put in a saucepan, salt the soup. Dice the onion, grate the carrots, put in a frying pan with 2 tablespoons. water, simmer for 5-10 minutes and put in a saucepan with soup. Salt the soup, add spices to taste and cook until tender. Add chopped parsley and dill 5 minutes until tender.
Vegetable stew: Coarsely chop the mushrooms, fry in a non-stick pan. Vegetables (you can take a frozen mixture of vegetables, you can put any of your own, cut into cubes, if desired) put in a pan with mushrooms, salt, add spices, 1 tbsp. tomato paste and a little water. Simmer covered over low heat until tender.
Mashed potatoes with mushrooms: Boil the potatoes and puree with a little potato broth. Chop mushrooms, salt, stew in a pan. Serve with chopped dill.
Potatoes with pumpkin and mushrooms in the sleeve: Chop potatoes, pumpkin, fresh mushrooms at random, salt and add spices / herbs to taste, stir. Put the mass into the sleeve. Pierce the sleeve in several places with a toothpick (so as not to burst during the cooking process). Bake in the oven at 180g for 40-50 minutes. Serve sprinkled with fresh herbs.
Examples of lean breakfast on oil-free days:(diet breakfast).
- Oatmeal porridge on the water + green salad + tea with lemon / coffee.
- Baked apples with oatmeal, berries and nuts + vegetable salad + tea / coffee.
- Millet porridge on water with pumpkin and / or prunes + green salad + tea / coffee.
Examples of lean meals on oil-free days:(diet lunch).
- Lean borscht + 1 slice of bread + vegetable salad + tea with lemon + nuts + tangerine.
- Mushroom soup with potatoes + sandwich with avocado pate + tea with lemon and nuts + apple.
- Bean soup with potatoes + 1 slice of bread + green salad + tea with dried fruits.
Examples of a lean dinner on oil-free days:
- Rice with vegetable stew + vegetable / bean salad + compote.
- Mashed potatoes with mushrooms + vegetable salad + tea with lemon and nuts.
- Potatoes with pumpkin and mushrooms in the sleeve + bean salad + tea with lemon and nuts.
- Vegetable stew + bean salad + tea with lemon and nuts. (dietary dinner).
RECIPES FOR LAST BREAKFAST / LUNCH / DINNER on oil days
Apple fritters: Sift flour 1.5 cups, mix with 0.5 tsp. baking powder, 4 tablespoons sugar, a pinch of salt, vegetable oil 2-3 tablespoons. with a whisk or mixer until smooth, adding water until the consistency of thick sour cream. Peel and core 1 large apple, grate on a fine grater and add to the dough, mix. Heat a frying pan, grease with vegetable oil and bake pancakes over medium heat on both sides. Serve with honey, fresh berries and fruits, jam.
Lean yeast pancakes. Put a dough from 1 tbsp. flour, 1/2 cup water, 1 tbsp. granulated sugar and a bag of dry yeast (1-2 teaspoons, depending on the final amount of the dough). Put the dough in a warm place (you can put a bowl of dough in a bowl of hot water and cover with a dry towel) for half an hour. The dough should work well. Then add 2-3 cups of sifted flour, a pinch of salt, 1 tablespoon to the dough. granulated sugar, 3-4 tbsp. vegetable oil and a glass of water. Beat the mixture with a mixer, adding water until the consistency of liquid sour cream or fermented baked milk. Put the finished dough in a warm place for 20 minutes, cover with a dry towel. When the dough comes up, test it. If it becomes too thick, add a little water and mix thoroughly. Heat the pans well, and periodically grease them with vegetable oil, bake pancakes. Serve with honey, fresh berries, fruit and jam.
Granola: 1.5 cups rolled oats, a handful of hazelnuts, almonds, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, coconut, diced dried fruits (optional), mix thoroughly with 2 tablespoons. honey, 2-3 tbsp. p oil. Put parchment paper on a baking sheet, put the mixture and bake at 160g for 40 minutes. Stir every 5 minutes. The mixture should take on a pleasant golden brown color. Do not overdry! Cool, add coconut and raisins, stir. Can be refrigerated for several days. Serve with soy milk.
Pea soup: Soak peas overnight with 1 tsp. baking soda. Drain the water in the morning. Cook the peas in new water until half cooked. Dice the potatoes, fry the carrots and onions in vegetable oil. Roast and add potatoes to the soup. Season with salt and spices to taste. Cook until tender. Serve with croutons.
Lean soup - kharcho with mushrooms: Soak dry mushrooms in boiling water for half an hour. Fry onions and carrots in a pan. When the onion turns golden, add the mushrooms and a little water. Simmer covered for 10 minutes. Put the contents of a frying pan into boiling water and add rice, cook for 10 minutes. Salt the soup to taste, add 2 tbsp. tomato paste and chopped dill with parsley. Cook for another 5-7 minutes, bringing to a boil.
Baked eggplant with tomato: cut the eggplant into rings, pour over salted water for 1 hour (so that the bitterness goes away). Cut the tomatoes into slices. Squeeze the eggplants from excess water, lightly fry in a pan with vegetable oil. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil, put circles of eggplant, on top - circles of tomato, on top - a drop of lean mayonnaise (can be replaced with mushroom caviar). Bake in the oven at 200g. 15 minutes.
Pots with vegetables and mushrooms: Cut the eggplant into cubes, soak in salted water for half an hour to remove the bitterness. Cut the tomato and onions into cubes. Cut the champignons into large slices. Fry the onions in a pan, when the onions are browned, add the mushrooms, fry for 5-7 minutes, add the eggplants with tomatoes and lightly fry. Cut the carrots into slices. Drain the water from the canned beans. Put all the ingredients in pots and fill them with salted water so that the water slightly covers the vegetables. We send the pots to the oven and cook at 200 degrees for about 1 hour.
Lahanorizo: Fry the onion and grated carrots in vegetable oil. Chop 300-500 grams of white cabbage, put it on the carrot with onion and fry over high heat until caramelized, stirring continuously. Add 2-3 tbsp. tomato paste and spices. Season with salt to taste, stir and reduce heat.
Add ½ cup rice and 1 cup water to the cabbage. You can add more or less rice as you like. Simmer, covered, until the rice is cooked.
Examples of lean breakfast on butter days:
- Apple fritters + green salad + lemon tea.
- Lean yeast pancakes + green salad + lemon tea.
- Granola + green salad + coffee with soy milk. (diet breakfast).
Examples of lean meals on butter days:(diet lunch).
- Pea soup + green salad with butter + tea with lemon + apple.
- Lean kharcho soup + raw vegetables + a sandwich with vegetable caviar + tea with lemon.
- Lean thick borscht + green / bean salad + tea with 2-3 pieces of marmalade.
- Lahanorizo + caviar sandwich + fruit salad + lemon tea.
Examples of a lean dinner on butter days:
- Spaghetti with vegetable stew + bean salad + lemon tea.
- Boiled potatoes with 1 tsp. aromatic oil + baked eggplant with tomato + vegetable salad + compote.
- Lahanorizo + vegetable salad + tea with lemon and nuts.
- Pots of vegetables and mushrooms + bean salad + tea with lemon and nuts. (dietary dinner).
RECIPES FOR LAST LUNCH / DINNER on fish days
Potato soup with red fish: Pour water into a saucepan, put diced potatoes. In a frying pan with 1 tbsp. butter, fry grated carrots and diced onions. After 10 minutes of boiling potatoes, add frying and pieces of red fish to the soup. Add spices and salt to taste, chopped dill and parsley. Cook for another 10-15 minutes.
Potato soup with squid meatballs: Meatballs: Cook potato soup. When the soup is almost ready, make meatballs with a teaspoon: take squid puree into a spoon, form a ball the size of a walnut on a spoon. Gently dip the spoon with the minced meat into the soup, hold it for a few seconds to "grab" and turn the spoon over, our meatball will not disintegrate. This is how we make all the meatballs. Bring the soup to a boil and the soup is ready!
Rice and Fish Salad: Boil rice, cool, add boiled pink salmon in pieces (or canned food), green peas, green onions, dill, vegetable oil, salt to taste and mix.
Squid cutlets: Such cutlets can be frozen for future use. We take squid carcasses. If with the skin, remove it with a stocking, remove the insides. Using a submersible blender, or a meat grinder, we make mashed potatoes from squid. Salt and pepper to taste, add 2-5 tbsp. bread crumbs (breadcrumbs are only needed so that you can form cutlets from the squid mass), chopped dill, mix. We form cutlets, roll them in bread crumbs. Freeze for future use, or fry in a pan.
Fish cakes: mince the pulp of any fish (or take ready-made minced fish), add 2-3 tbsp. Breadcrumbs, salt and pepper to taste. In a frying pan, fry diced onions and grated carrots. Mix with minced meat. Form patties.
Tuna Tomato Salad: Dice the tomatoes, add the canned tuna, chopped lettuce, dill and green onions. Drizzle with olive oil and stir.
Examples of lean meals on fish days.(diet lunch)
- Potato soup with red fish + bean salad + 1 slice of bread + compote.
- Potato soup with squid meatballs + green salad + 1 slice of bread + tea with lemon.
- Boiled rice + baked fish + green salad + tea with lemon and nuts.
- Vegetable soup + salad with rice and fish + 1 slice of bread + compote .
Examples of lean dinner on fish days.
- Buckwheat porridge + baked fish + raw vegetables + lemon tea.
- Fish cakes + boiled rice + vegetable salad + tea with lemon.
- Tuna and tomato salad + lahanorizo + tea with lemon and nuts.
- Vegetable stew + fish cakes + soy cheese slice + lemon tea (dietary dinner).
- Squid cutlets + vegetable stew + vegetable salad + lemon tea. (dietary dinner).
- Grilled vegetables + oven-baked red fish steak + tea with lemon and nuts. (dietary dinner).
There is one more thing to be aware of while maintaining a healthy fasting diet. Excluding certain foods from the diet can lead to deficiencies in important vitamins and minerals. For example, if you refuse milk and fermented milk products, the intake of calcium into the body, from which our bones are "built", is significantly reduced. And if you refuse meat food, there may be a deficiency of iron, which is necessary for blood formation and oxygen "nutrition" of the body. Therefore, to compensate for this deficiency, you can supplement your diet with food additives and multivitamin complexes, the intake of which must be discussed with your doctor.
Do not forget that the end of the post should not be "abrupt". Our body needs time to adapt to "heavy" food and rebuild metabolic processes. At the end of the fast, you need to be as careful as possible to include in your menu fast food - first introduce dairy products and eggs, after a while - fish and meat. And it's very important not to overeat.
I wish the readers good health!
Endocrinologist Akmaeva G.A.
Eating lean foods, a person will not feel weakened, since such food fully satisfies the needs of the body. A person adheres to the restrictions while fasting, and feels cheerful and light. A person who adheres to the restrictions during fasting feels cheerful and light, and not weak and drained, as some believe. Many people follow a similar diet all their lives and feel very good about it. In order for the lean food to be tasty and look beautiful on the table, we have created this section on the site. It is important to know the history of fasting and the importance of lean cuisine in Russia.
- Great Lent begins 49 days before Easter.
- His goal is to prepare for Easter within 7 weeks.
- The first 40 days are considered to be a type that Jesus fasted in the wilderness for 40 days after his baptism.
- Subsequent: 1 day is Lazarev Saturday, the second day is Palm Sunday and Holy Week - the final 6 days.
- The last week is the most important, as it helps to refresh the memory of the last week of our Lord's life. These are the resurrection of Lazarus, the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on the donkey and the Last Supper and the sermons of Jesus.
What dishes should the household prepare for fasting for every day? The Oil Week is over, which means that the time has come for Great Lent - the strictest and longest in the whole year.
How to compose your diet so as not to violate its requirements? What can you eat at this time, and what should you refuse? Look for the answers in our article.
Basic principles of nutrition during Lent
Lent in 2018 lasts from February 19 to April 7. Fasting isn't just about restricting a particular category of foods.
The true meaning is in pacifying the spirit by pacifying the body. That is, you limit yourself to food in order to test your willpower, fortitude.
Pregnant and lactating women, children, people suffering from serious illnesses or after operations do not comply with the regimen.
Too strong dietary restrictions, overly zealous observance of all the rules is fraught with serious negative consequences, so strike a balance and do not go beyond reasonable boundaries.
This fast is considered the strictest of the year. - In the first week (Monday to Friday), only cold, oil-free meals are allowed.
- In general, the most severe days of fasting, in addition to the first week, are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from the second to the sixth week.
- The only thermally processed food that can be eaten these days is.
- But it should be lean - no milk or butter (even vegetable).
- Hot food is allowed on Tuesdays and Thursdays without vegetable oil and animal products.
- On Saturdays and Sundays, the diet can be expanded with dishes with vegetable oil.
- But this does not mean that you need to eat monotonously and very poorly. Spring is coming, and we all want vitamins, herbs, fresh vegetables. Therefore, greens should also be included in the diet. Moreover, raw vegetables are allowed even on dry eating days.
- Pay attention to cereals that you have not used before. Usually in our diet we use at best two or three types of cereals. But their assortment is much wider. In addition to the usual buckwheat, rice and oatmeal, it is worth trying , barley, corn grits, pearl barley, millet, , lentils, wild rice.
- Be sure to use legumes and vegetables (cabbage, potatoes, , carrots, pumpkin, celery, bell peppers), mushrooms, fruits and nuts, algae, pasta (which do not contain eggs), lean sauces and drinks, dried fruits and .
With our recipes, the post will be satisfying. Lent cuisine - 5+ first courses
Lentil stew
You will need:
- 2.5 l of water
- 0.5 kg lentils
- 2 onions
- 1 large carrot
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Bay leaf
- 2-3 cloves of garlic
Lentil stew Step by step cooking:
- Wash the vegetables, cut and cook with lentils and bay leaves for three hours.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Add finely chopped garlic before cooking.
- If the soup is too thick, you can add a little water to taste.
Chowder-repeater
You will need:
- 5 medium-sized rap
- Parsnip root
- Parsley root
- 1 onion
- Allspice peas to taste
- Cloves to taste
- Bay leaf
- Head of garlic
- A bunch of any greenery
Repevitsa Step by step cooking:
- Put chopped turnips, parsley and parsnips in a saucepan with boiling water and cook until tender.
- At the end of cooking add the head of garlic crushed in a mortar, bay leaf, salt and spices.
Lean cabbage soup with mushrooms
You will need:
- 0.5 kg sauerkraut
- 30 g dry porcini mushrooms
- 2 onion
- 3 potatoes
- 1 carrot
- 1 parsley root
- 1 turnip
- 3 bay leaves
- Head of garlic
- Salt and allspice to taste
Lean cabbage soup with mushrooms Step by step cooking:
- Boil mushrooms in three liters of broth.
- Add chopped potatoes and finely chopped onions.
- Send carrots, turnips and parsley there.
- Squeeze sauerkraut to remove excess liquid and add to the saucepan.
- At the end of cooking add crushed garlic, bay leaves, salt and allspice.
Oatmeal soup without oil
You will need:
- 2 l of water
- 2 potatoes
- 1 carrot
- 1 onion
- 0.5 cups oatmeal
- Dried herbs to taste
- Salt to taste
Oat soup Step by step cooking:
- Dip the chopped potatoes in boiling water, add finely chopped onions, carrots and dried herbs after a few minutes.
- Season with salt, add oatmeal and cook for another 5-10 minutes.
Millet kulesh
You will need:
- 8 potatoes
- ¾ glasses of millet groats
- 2 onions
- 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
- Dried herbs
- Salt to taste
Millet kulesh Step by step cooking:
- Put the sliced potatoes in boiling water.
- Bring to a boil, add millet and cook until tender.
- 10 minutes before the end of cooking, add season with onions fried in vegetable oil.
- Sprinkle with dried herbs before serving.
Main dishes for a lean menu
Fasting main meals for every day are easy to prepare c. So, I often cook mashed peas, and potatoes with zucchini.
Potatoes with zucchini in a slow cooker
You will need:
- 4 potatoes
- 1 vegetable marrow
- 1 onion (better than sweet varieties)
- 2 cloves of garlic
- A couple of tablespoons of olive oil
- Salt, pepper - to taste
- Fresh herbs for serving
Potatoes with zucchini in a slow cooker Step by step cooking:
- Peel and dice the prepared potatoes. Cut the courgettes into half rings or cubes.
- Chop the onion and fry in a slow cooker in olive oil. Send vegetables and spices, salt there.
- Put on the "Quenching" or "Simmering" mode (depending on your model) for 40-50 minutes.
You will need:
- 0.5 kg of champignons
- 1 glass of rice
- 1 carrot
- 1 onion
- 2 glasses of water
- Vegetable oil for frying
- Salt and spices to taste
Step by step cooking:
- Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots and fry in a multicooker bowl in vegetable oil.
- Send the sliced mushrooms there. Fry everything together for a few minutes, then salt, add spices and cover the mixture with rice.
- Fill gently with water so that the vegetable and rice layers do not mix. Cook in the "Pilaf" mode, then the technician will do everything herself.
- Serve the finished dish, garnish with chopped herbs.
Oatmeal cutlets
You will need:
- Half a glass of boiling water
- 1 cup oatmeal
- 3-4 champignons
- 1 potato
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves of garlic
- Salt, spices to taste
- Frying oil
Oatmeal cutlets Step by step cooking:
- Pour boiling water over the oatmeal in a saucepan and leave, covered with a lid, to soak. 20-30 minutes will be enough.
- Wash the peeled potatoes well and grate. Grate the onion in the same way.
- Cut the champignons into cubes, chop the herbs and pass the garlic through a garlic press (you can rub on a fine grater).
- Mix all components, salt and add pepper. The finished mass should be moderately liquid - so that you can pick up with a spoon.
- Heat oil in a frying pan and fry, spooning them into hot oil.
- Fry over medium heat until a beautiful golden brown crust forms.
- After turning over to the other side, fry over medium heat for a minute, then cover the pan with a lid and fry the patties for another 3-5 minutes over low heat.
- Serve cutlets with mashed potatoes, boiled peas or fresh vegetables.
Fasting meals for every day - salads and sauces
Dishes without vegetable oil that can be cooked are first and foremost.
Dressing for them can be lemon juice, a mixture of vinegar and sugar, guacamole, tomato sauce.
You will need:
- 2 avocados
- 1 clove of garlic
- Salt and black pepper to taste
- 2 tsp lime or lemon juice
Step by step cooking:
- To make the guacamole sauce, beat the pulp, garlic clove, salt, black pepper, and lime or lemon juice in a blender.
- If desired, you can add other spices to the mixture, any pepper or herbs that you like.
Tomato sauce
You will need:
- 3 tbsp. l. tomato paste
- 3 cloves of garlic
- Adjika to taste
- Half a bunch of finely chopped greens
- Salt to taste
Tomato sauce Step by step cooking
- For lean tomato sauce, combine tomato paste, finely chopped garlic, adjika, salt and finely chopped herbs.
Spicy ginger sauce
You will need:
- 60 ml rice vinegar
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 small shallot
- 2 tbsp. l. grated fresh ginger
- 2 tbsp. l. soy sauce
Ginger sauce Step by step cooking:
- Grind all components to a puree and add to dishes to taste.
Mustard sauce
You will need:
- 100 grams of mustard powder
- 4 tbsp. l. natural vinegar
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp icing sugar
- Cinnamon to taste
- Cloves to taste
- Nutmeg to taste
Step by step cooking:
- The first step is to make a mustard powder paste.
- To do this, we brew it with a small amount of boiling water and stir quickly to make a thick paste.
- When there are no dry lumps of powder left, slowly we begin to add more boiling water.
- In total, we will need about two glasses of water. Leave the poured mustard to soak for a day.
- Then we drain off the excess water. This must be done carefully so as not to "disturb" the mustard thickened at the bottom of the container.
- Add all the other components to the resulting paste, leave for another 3-4 hours and then you can use it.
- Store the sauce in a tightly closed jar.
You will need:
- The pulp of one apple
- Half can of canned pineapple
- 0.5 cups orange juice
Step by step cooking:
- An unusual apple-pineapple sauce is perfect for fruit or vegetable salads.
- To prepare it, combine the pulp of one apple, a cup of pineapple pulp and half a glass of orange juice in a blender.
Raw beet snack
You will need:
- 3 medium beets
- 1 onion
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 tsp
- 0.5 tsp ground red pepper
- 0.5 tbsp. l. natural vinegar
- 0.5 tbsp. l. Sahara
- 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
Raw beet snack Step by step cooking:
- To make up for my lack of vitamins, I often cook beets. Try the beetroot salad with spices too.
- Wash and peel raw beets. Grate, salt and set aside. Mix sugar and vinegar in a bowl, then combine with grated beets. Leave to marinate for 2 hours.
- After the beets are marinated, drain the resulting juice.
- Fry the onions in vegetable oil until they turn dark golden and remove from the pan.
- In the future, we only need the remaining aromatic oil without onions.
- Sprinkle red pepper, ground cilantro seeds, and minced garlic over the beets. Top with hot oil.
- Mix well and the salad is ready. In the same way, you can make this appetizer with carrots or cabbage, or you can try making an assortment by mixing several types of vegetables at once.
Delicate bean pate
You will need:
- 200 grams of mushrooms
- 100 grams of dry beans
- Dill to taste
- 1 onion
- 1 medium carrot
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of olive oil
- Salt to taste
- Nutmeg, black pepper, dried basil - to taste
Step by step cooking:
- Boil the beans and drain. Fry the onion in half rings in butter, add grated carrots, washed and chopped mushrooms there.
- Fry everything together for a few minutes, then cover the pan and simmer a little more over low heat.
- Combine the cooked beans, vegetable mixture, salt and spices and beat the pate well with a blender (you can mince it twice with a fine mesh).
- Tamp the pate tightly into the mold and leave for several hours to cool completely and the ingredients "make friends".
Fasting meals for every day - sweet recipes
So that at the end of the fast all your thoughts are not limited to food, periodically prepare sweets.
For example, one of the recipes below.
Flaxseed crackers
You will need:
- 150 grams of flour
- 60 ml cold water
- 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
- 3 tbsp. l. flax seed
- 1 tsp salt
- 0.5 tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp. l. Sahara
Flaxseed crackers Step by step cooking:
- Mix all dry ingredients, mix oil and water separately, pour into flour mixture and knead well.
- The finished dough should be thick, like dumplings. Put the dough in a bag for 15-20 minutes, then roll it into a thin layer 3-4 mm thick.
- The dough is rolled out very thinly and cut into diamonds or squares with a knife.
- It is better to do this immediately on baking paper, so that you can immediately put the bake on, without transferring it from the table to a baking sheet.
- Bake in the oven at 200⁰С (preheat the oven beforehand). Check the readiness of the cookies by their appearance - the crackers should be browned.
- In addition, you can add any nuts or seeds you like to the cookies.
Sea buckthorn marmalade
You will need:
- 250 grams of sea buckthorn puree
- 5 grams agar agar
- 100 grams of water
- 100 g sugar
Sea buckthorn marmalade Step by step cooking:
- In a saucepan or saucepan with a thick bottom, soak agar-agar in water, leave to soak. Meanwhile, in another saucepan, bring the mixture of berry puree and sugar to a boil.
- Combine both liquids in a saucepan and bring everything together to a boil.
- Boil for 2-3 minutes over low heat, stirring constantly. The mass in the saucepan will be quite viscous.
- Pour the finished marmalade into molds and leave to harden in a cool place.
You will need:
- 200 ml soy milk (you can nut or rice)
- 350 ml coconut milk
- 80 grams of cocoa powder
- 200 grams of dried dates
- 2 tsp starch
- A pinch of salt
Diet ice cream Step by step cooking:
- Remove the seeds from the dates, pour the pulp with coconut milk, salt and boil.
- Add cocoa and whisk in a blender until smooth. If desired, the mixture can be filtered through a sieve, then the ice cream will be smoother, but this is not necessary.
- Put the mixture on low heat again.
- Mix the starch and cold soy milk, add to the mixture, which is already warming up over the fire, and bring everything to a boil.
- Refrigerate and set to freeze. If you have an ice cream maker - this is where your worries end, just freeze the mixture in it according to the instructions for your machine.
- If you work in manual mode, like me, you will need to put the cold mixture in the freezer and beat it every half hour with a fork.
- In total, you will have to mix it 9-10 times (that is, the first 4 hours of freezing).
In addition, you can eat any jams and fruit drinks and fruit purees.
Videos about dishes in the post for every day will be useful for novice cooks, because with their help you can see the preparation of dishes step by step.