If you are fasting, this does not mean at all that you have to eat only noodles and rolls. On the contrary, this is a great chance to pump your gastronomic abilities and learn how to cook something new. Therefore, today I offer you a large selection of wonderful lean dishes for every day. This can be useful not only for those who are fasting. In my recipes, you will find a lot of original, simple side dishes that can diversify any diet. And lean soups after fasting can be cooked with meat.
Here you will find a real lean menu - salads, soups, second and even pastries. Delicious recipes for fasting and more.
It is clear that fasting is a time not to indulge in gluttony, but this is not a reason to indulge in laziness and eat whatever. When there are many healthy recipes - while the food remains simple and ordinary.
One undeniable advantage of lean meals is that they are cheap, easy to prepare, and easy on the body. And at the same time they are very interesting and tasty. All these recipes are based on the simplest foods that everyone has - cabbage, carrots, potatoes, frozen vegetables, tomato paste, green peas.
For those who also want to make the dishes more dietary, you can completely replace vegetable oil in salads with lemon juice, and frying for baking in the oven without oil (you can add a little water), or stewing with water.
What will you find in this article
Lenten salads
Lettuce and green peas salad
Light and tasty salad.
Products:
Lettuce leaves (packing lettuce in pots), or you can replace it with Chinese cabbage, and ideally - Iceberg lettuce - two-thirds of a head of cabbage
half pepper 
half onion
carrots - 1 pc.
garlic - one or two cloves
Vegetable oil (for a dietary option, it can be replaced with lemon juice)
salt pepper
Cut the onions and peppers into small pieces. Carrots - rub on a coarse grater. Cut the salad. Put in the peas, squeeze out the garlic. Salt, pepper, season with vegetable oil or lemon juice! You can also shred greens here.
Cabbage salad with cucumbers and peppers
We have all tried this salad, but not everyone is familiar with the art of cooking tender cabbage with acetic acidity!
Products:
Cabbage - one kg
Bell peppers - one big 
cucumbers - two things
sugar - one tbsp a spoon with a slide
salt - one tsp With a slide,
nine percent vinegar - one or two tablespoons.
Fresh dill
vegetable oil
Slice the cabbage very thinly. To do this, it is necessary, as it were, to slide a knife along the surface of the cabbage, cutting off very thin stripes.
Salt, pour in vinegar, sprinkle with sugar. Add chopped dill. Slightly remember with your hands so that liquid appears, but not much.
Cut the pepper into small squares. Cucumbers - straws. Add vegetables to cabbage, add oils and stir.
Lenten soups
Lean vegetable soup
Simple and delicious lean soup!
Products:
Cabbage - one kg
Carrots - three pieces
Potatoes - five pieces
Bow - two pieces
Garlic - six cloves
vegetable oil
Greens
salt
1. Chop 1 kg of cabbage into square pieces. Pour in two and a half liters of water, salt. Let it simmer for 30 minutes on low heat.
2. Cut the potatoes into cubes.
3. Cut carrots and onions into small pieces.
4. Fry the garlic for a couple of minutes, then add the carrots and onions to it. Fry for about fifteen minutes until golden brown.
5. When the cabbage broth has boiled for 30 minutes, add the potatoes to the pot and cook for another ten minutes.
6. Then add the rest of the vegetables. Bring to a boil and remove from heat after five minutes.
7. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and dill. Cover for fifteen minutes and you can eat!
Lean soup with vegetables and rice
Products:
Pepper - one piece
bulb
carrots (large) - one piece
garlic - four cloves
rice - 4 tbsp. l. with top
potatoes - three pieces
broth or water - two liters
bay leaf, dill
vegetable oil
Cut the potatoes into cubes,
put in two liters of broth or water, salt and bring to a boil. Cook for 15 minutes when it boils.
At this time, chop the onion into rings and the rings into quarters. Rub the carrots (coarsely). Cut the pepper into squares. Garlic cloves - round.
Fry the onion with carrots for about five minutes, until they change color a little. Move the stir-fry to the edges of the skillet and add bell peppers in the center.
Fry the peppers for about 5 minutes, until they change color, then stir in the onions and carrots. And again move the mass to the sides. And put chopped garlic in the middle, and fry for a minute. Then stir in the vegetable mixture and remove from heat.
Add the stir-fry to the soup and add 4 tablespoons of rice as well. Let it boil, cook for no more than 5 minutes.
Remove from the burner, add lavrushka and chopped dill. Do not stir yet, leave to brew for 20 minutes under the lid. During this time, the rice will ideally come to readiness.
You can also season the soup with paprika.
Lean Green Pea Soup
Red lentils - two hundred gr
carrots - two hundred gr
onion - one hundred gr
garlic - one or two cloves
sesame seeds - one tablespoon with a slide
sunflower oil
Boil the lentils in two and a half liters of water. Add 1 tbsp. salt.
Finely chop or rub the carrots. Chop the onion into small pieces. Fry the onions and carrots on low power while the lentils are cooking. Until golden but not brown.
When the lentils are almost done, add the vegetable fry. Cook for another 5 minutes. Heat the sesame seeds in a dry skillet so that it darkens slightly. Remove soup from heat, add sesame seeds. Let it brew for about fifteen minutes.
Lean Pea Soup
We all see packets of frozen Brussels sprouts in the store. But how you can cook them deliciously, we do not know so many options. I only knew before - fry with meatballs. But here's another very tasty recipe that diversifies the lean menu.
Products:
Pack of frozen Brussels sprouts (four hundred gr.)
soy sauce - two tbsp l.
mustard seeds - one tsp
Tomato paste - one tablespoon
Garlic - three cloves
Put the cabbage in water, bring to a boil and let it simmer for fifteen minutes.
Chop the garlic, crush the mustard seeds a little.
Put the cabbage in a skillet with hot oil, everything else - garlic, tomato paste, soy sauce, mustard seeds. Add 0.5 tbsp. water, cover and warm up for about five minutes. Salt is not required as there is soy sauce.
You do not need to salt the dish.
Rice with peas and beans
Delicious lean dish
And here is another basic recipe that not every housewife knows how to cook. For there are tricks! But if the potatoes are fried correctly, then the McDonald's fries are resting!
Peel the potatoes.
Take a thick-bottomed skillet, such as a cast iron skillet. At the beginning, put it on the hot plate at maximum for a couple of minutes to warm up the pan.
At this time, cut the potatoes into rounds. When the pan is hot, pour in the vegetable oil and put on medium heat (four out of six). Let the oil warm up for another minute.
Put all the potatoes to fry, cover and leave alone for ten minutes.
Attention, do not interfere with the potatoes! Using a spatula, gently pry under the toasted layer of potatoes in the middle. And flip the entire layer as much as you can pry. Also, gently flip the potatoes over the sides of the pan in layers.
Again, spot exactly ten mines. Fry again under the lid. Again, gently turn over the entire layer of potatoes.
And one more time - ten minutes, fry under the lid. Then add salt. Turn over again carefully in the same way as before. This time you can literally wait a couple of minutes, or also ten, if you want a little brown. This is delicious!
Mushroom rice
I advise everyone to try this recipe, not just those who are fasting!
Products:
Potatoes - one and a half kg,
mushrooms, preferably fresh - two hundred gr. (can be a pack of frozen ones)
bread crumbs
onion - two pcs.
Boil the potatoes in salted water (can be cut into cubes to speed up the process).
Pour out the water. Stir in the puree. Let it cool to room temperature.
Chop the mushrooms into small pieces. Fry, about fifteen minutes ..
Divide the mashed potatoes into 8 lumps (so as not to stick, wet your hands). Make the puree tortillas. Add mushrooms. Roll up the zrazy so that the filling is inside.
Sprinkle with breadcrumbs, place on a drizzled leaf. Place in a hot oven 180 degrees and cook for half an hour.
Can be garnished with toasted onion rings. And for those who are not afraid of calories, pour oil on each ready-made meal, in which these rings were fried.
Lenten pancakes
Yeast Lean Stuffed Pancakes
Products:
Flour - one and a half glasses, 
water - two glasses,
activated yeast - one tsp
Sugar - one tablespoon
a spoonful of salt
vegetable oil
Filling:
about a glass of boiled buckwheat
onion - one piece.
dry mushrooms - a handful
Making yeast dough for pancakes. Dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water. Leave on for fifteen minutes. Next, salt, sift the flour, mix so that there are no lumps. Add 2 tablespoons. sunflower oil. Let the dough stand for about forty minutes.
Lubricate the pan with a thin layer of oil. Wipe off the excess with a tissue. Fry the pancakes.
While the dough is infusing, make the filling. Boil dry mushrooms and chop.
Fry with buckwheat, chopped onions and carrots. Or sweat in the oven.
Stuff the pancakes with minced meat. You can also fry ready-made pancakes in vegetable oil until golden brown, but I do not do this for reasons of calorie content. Read the step-by-step recipe for lean pancakes with a photo.
Lean-free pancakes with potato filling
Products:
Yeast dough (purchased or homemade, it doesn't matter) - one kg
Potatoes - four
onions - 1-2 pieces
salt, pepper, sunflower oil
Cut the potatoes and onions very thinly, cut the potatoes into slices, and cut the onions into rings. Stir, pour 1 tbsp. sunflower oil, 1 tsp. salt without a slide, a little ground pepper, stir.
Divide one kilogram of dough into ten pieces. And each of them - two more, one of which is twice the size of the second.
The larger one, roll out thinly and put on a small saucer, while curling the edges down.
We also divide the potato mixture into about ten parts. We spread one on the dough. Now we roll a smaller circle from a small piece, and put it on top of the potatoes. We fold the edges up. Turn over, and roll out the cake again a little.
Then fry at low temperature for five minutes, turn over - and another five.
Famous breadsticks
Very simple brine biscuits, delicious!
Products:
One glass of brine,
One glass of vegetable oil
one glass of sugar
two packs of coconut flakes (you can also use lemon zest, dried berries, dried fruits, etc.)
two to three glasses of flour
Put butter, sugar, brine and one packet of shavings in a bowl and mix. Add flour until the dough is thick, like a shortbread (two or three glasses), that is, so that you can roll it out.
Roll out and sprinkle with the remaining shavings.
Cut out the cookies with cookie cutters or a glass.
Bake on a floured baking sheet at a temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees for about ten minutes.
Poppy cookies
Products:
Poppy - two hundred gr.
Brown (or regular) sugar - one tbsp
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
apple cider vinegar - two tablespoons
salt - half a tsp
Half a glass of water
flour - one or two tbsp.
cinnamon - 1-2 tsp
Sunflower oil - four tablespoons l.
Mix dry ingredients: sugar, poppy seeds, cinnamon, salt. Add water and sunflower oil, baking soda and apple cider vinegar. Knead a shortbread-like dough (to roll out).
Cover with plastic wrap and leave for one hour.
Then roll the dough into a layer of about half a centimer. Cut out the cookies with cookie cutters or a glass. Place on baking paper or floured baking sheet. Put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about half an hour.
Lean Coconut Banana Cookies
Products:
Bananas - 2 pcs.
coconut flakes - two hundred and fifty gr.
Half a glass of sunflower oil
sugar (brown is better, but you can use regular sugar) half a glass
water and flour
Combine sugar, butter, chopped banana and beat, adding coconut and flour. Until a thick dough is obtained.
To prepare the dough, you need to mix sugar and butter, add banana cut into pieces. Using a whisk, turn everything into a homogeneous mass, gradually adding coconut flakes and flour. The dough should not turn out liquid, but slightly thick, like thick sour cream.
Place small, not thick cookies on a baking sheet with baking paper or floured.
Bake at 180 degrees for twenty minutes, then dry at the lowest temperature until the cookies are golden brown.
Lenten cakes
Lean Carrot Pie
Delicious, delicate, aromatic carrot cake made from simple ingredients.
Products:
One hundred fifty grams of flour
100 grams of carrots
a handful of raisins or other dried fruits (optional)
a handful of walnuts (one hundred grams) (optional)
six tablespoons of vegetable oil
one hundred grams of sugar
a bag of vanilla sugar or vanillin
three teaspoons baking powder
Sprinkling:
fifty grams of flour
two tablespoons of vegetable oil
thirty grams of sugar
Sprinkle with the specified products. Mix and rub with your hands until you get a crumb. Put in the refrigerator.
Making the dough. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder. Add vegetable oil and water. Beat. Three carrots on a coarse grater, put in the dough, add raisins and chopped nuts if desired.
It is baked in a small form - eighteen centimeters. Put baking paper on the bottom. Pour out the dough. Sprinkle with crumbs. Bake in a hot oven (one hundred and eighty degrees) - about one hour. Check for readiness with a match. You can then sprinkle the cake with icing sugar.
Lean Chocolate Coffee Cake
Products:
one glass of sugar
a third of a glass of sunflower oil
a third of a glass of cocoa powder
vanillin
one and a quarter glass of flour
a teaspoon of baking soda
a teaspoon of vinegar
a glass of coffee (or water)
COOKING:
In a bowl, combine dry ingredients: flour, vanillin, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt. Add water or coffee, vegetable oil and vinegar.
Beat everything up.
Place in a hot oven 180 degrees. Bake for about half an hour.
Grease the finished biscuit with jam or melted dark chocolate (if you find it without milk). You can also garnish with vegetable cream.
Super-healthy, super-dietary raw (no baked) lean persimmon and blackcurrant cake
On the form 18 cm.
Products:
The foundation:
¾ st (80g) walnuts
12 pcs. (100g) dates
Pinch of cardamom
(if you are afraid to do on such a basis, then you can make a lean shortbread - like cookies in brine or poppy cookies, the recipes are given above. You can make such a cake in parallel with cookies)
Filling:
persimmon - 2 pieces
dates - 20 gr
cinnamon - 0.5 tsp
Water - 150 ml
agar-agar or pectin 1 tsp ..
frozen black currant - 100 gr (or any other berry)
agar-agar 1 tsp
Sugar
Defrost berries
Grind the walnuts with a blender. Grind dates too. Stir in the nuts, add a little cardamom, mix with a blender until smooth. Cover the bottom of the form with parchment, spread the mixture along the bottom.
Put in the refrigerator for an hour and a half, then in the freezer.
If you are confused by such a base, then make a lean shortbread dough, like in brine cookies or poppy cookies, and bake the base.
Making persimmon jelly. Peel the persimmon, beat with a mixer or blender into a homogeneous puree. Add cinnamon and sugar to taste (you can use two dates instead of sugar).
1 tsp Pour 150 ml of agar-agar into water. Bring to a boil with constant stirring.
Pour the agar into the persimmon puree. Remove the base from the freezer and pour the agar puree on top. Place in the freezer.
Fill
Take 150 ml of juice from frozen berries, which appeared during defrosting. Add sugar, but a little to make it sweet and sour. Pour 1 tsp of agar with fruit drink, bring to a boil and boil for 1 minute. Take the cake out of the freezer, put the berries on top, pour in the currant jelly.
Refrigerate for three hours.
If you have long wanted to try fasting, but the thought of a bland and monotonous fasting menu stops you, then you are simply unfamiliar with our step-by-step recipes for Lent. After all, if you approach the preparation of food for fasting rationally and at the same time with imagination, then you can get a varied and very tasty set of dishes for every day. Of course, one cannot say that such food will not differ much from what you are used to, but the very taste of properly prepared lean food will definitely appeal to even gourmets. And do not forget that in addition to traditional monastic recipes for Great Lent, literally every day, new options for healthy lean dishes appear, more adapted to the taste preferences of a modern person. So, next you will find simple and delicious recipes for fasting for lay believers with step-by-step instructions and photos. Also from our article you will learn what you can cook and eat during Great Lent, and what foods you should absolutely not eat.
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Diet Basics in Lent 2017 for Laymen by Day with Sample Recipes
Before proceeding to describe specific examples of recipes, it is worth saying a few words about the basics of the diet of lay believers in Lent 2017. To begin with, we note that Lent lasts 47 days and the most difficult (with days of hunger strike) are only the first and last weeks. In the rest of the weeks, the diet is divided into 3 groups:
- dry eating, when it is allowed to eat only unboiled dishes without oil (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
- boiled vegetable food without oil (Tuesday, Thursday)
- cooked food with butter (Saturday, Sunday)
Based on these basic rules, a lean menu is drawn up for the whole week. It is also worth noting that the daily diet for the laity during Lent (examples of recipes below) should be based exclusively on natural food. It is advisable to consume as much fresh vegetables and fruits as possible, homemade preparations for the winter, and fermented homemade products. The latter, by the way, are very rich in vitamins, in particular C, which is very important in conditions of reduced immunity in early spring. Next, you will find examples of delicious, healthy and fairly easy-to-prepare meals for every day for the Lent menu. We are sure that their taste will pleasantly surprise you, and the recipes themselves will definitely be included in your cookbook.
A delicious and simple salad for every day of Great Lent, a step by step recipe with a photo
First, we bring to your attention a step-by-step recipe with a photo of a delicious and simple salad for every day of Great Lent. It is based on affordable products - vegetables and fruits, thanks to which such a salad can be prepared at least every day. But with one amendment - on all days except weekends, the dressing should be done only from lemon juice without oil. Learn how to prepare a delicious and simple salad for every day of Great Lent from the step-by-step recipe below.
Essential ingredients for a delicious salad for every day of Great Lent
- potatoes - 3-4 pcs.
- pomegranate - 1 pc.
- walnuts (peeled) - 200g.
- red onion - 1 pc.
- cilantro - 1 bunch
- pepper
- vegetable oil
- lemon juice
Instructions for a delicious and simple salad recipe for every day of fasting
A simple recipe for the first course for a lean menu, step by step
Hot meals must be present on the fasting menu in order to ensure the normal functioning of the stomach during the period of Lent. As a rule, cabbage soup and light vegetable soups play the role of first courses. The simple recipe for the first course for the Lenten menu, which we offer you below, belongs to the second category. A simple recipe for vegetable broth will serve as the basis for this first course for a lean menu. The number and type of vegetables in this recipe can be changed at your discretion.
Required ingredients for a first course for a Lenten menu
- potatoes - 4-5 pcs.
- champignons - 0.5 kg
- carrots - 2 pcs.
- onion -1 pc.
- flour - 2 tbsp. l.
- vegetable oil
- Dill
- parsley
- Bay leaf
- ground black pepper
Instructions on how to cook the first dish for a lean menu according to a simple recipe
Cabbage cutlets for a lean menu, step by step recipe
Cabbage cutlets for a lean menu, a step-by-step recipe for which awaits your attention below, is a great option for a delicious snack. Such cutlets can be either an independent dish of lean cuisine, or a good addition to porridge and boiled potatoes. Despite the fact that these cutlets for the lean menu are made from cabbage, they are as satisfying and flavorful as their meat counterparts. See for yourself with our next step-by-step recipe.
Essential ingredients for cabbage cutlets for a lean menu
- cabbage - 500 gr.
- onion - 1 pc.
- semolina - 30 gr.
- flour - 30 gr.
- garlic - 2 pcs.
- Dill
- vegetable oil
- breadcrumbs
- pepper
Instructions for a step-by-step recipe for cabbage cutlets for a lean menu
Vegetable stew with lentils - a step-by-step recipe for a Lent menu
Another option for a tasty and healthy second course for the Lent menu is a vegetable stew with lentils. In general, lentils are a very underrated legume in our everyday cuisine. In the meantime, she is very useful and can greatly diversify the lean menu. Learn how to cook vegetable stew with lentils from the step-by-step recipe for the menu in Lent.
Essential ingredients for Lentil Vegetable Stew in Lent
- potatoes - 3-4 pcs.
- tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- onion - 1 pc.
- carrots - 1 pc.
- lentils - 1/3 cup
- cabbage - 1/2 pc.
- pepper
- vegetable oil
- spices to taste
Instructions for a step-by-step recipe for vegetable stew with lentils in Lent
The recipe for a raw date dessert for every day of Great Lent, step by step instructions
Probably the most common misconception about eating during Lent is that sweets are completely excluded from the fasting menu. In fact, you can and even need to eat sweets during fasting, but only natural and without eggs in the composition. Among the simplest options for healthy and allowed desserts are honey and dried fruits. But for those who prefer desserts that are more complex in flavor combinations, we offer a recipe for raw date sweets for every day of Great Lent. The recipe for a raw date dessert for every day of fasting itself is very simple to prepare and it is easy to repeat it according to the following step-by-step instructions.
Required ingredients for a Raw Date Dessert for Lent
- dates - 300 gr.
- walnuts / peanuts / cashews - 150 gr.
- cinnamon - 1 tsp
- cocoa
- carob
Instructions for a recipe for a raw date dessert for every day of fasting
On a note! If the date variety is dry and doesn't give a lot of liquid, you can add a little water or runny honey for stickiness.
Delicious Minutka cookies - a step-by-step recipe for simple baking in fasting
Lean baked goods can also be delicious, such as the simple Minutka cookie recipe below. A cookie dough is prepared from three simple components, and you can choose absolutely any filling to your taste. But best of all, the delicious Minutka cookies from the step-by-step recipe for simple baking in the post onwards, are obtained with homemade thick jam. You will learn how to prepare this simple, quick and mouth-watering delicacy below.
Essential Ingredients for Lean Delicious Minutka Biscuits
- flour - 300 gr.
- sparkling water - 1/2 cup
- vegetable oil - 1/2 cup
- jam for filling
Instructions for a simple recipe for delicious Minutka cookies in fasting
Lenten food: meatless meatballs recipe for Lent 2017, video
As you can see, fasting recipes can be simple and delicious at the same time. And in general, lean food, like all meals in Lent 2017, is rich in salads, pastries, and main and first courses. Our next video recipe for Lent - meatless meatballs, also applies to lean food and is sure to please the faithful laity. Such lean food (recipe for meatless meatballs for Lent 2017), although not from the monastery recipes, is perfect for a menu for every day.
Great Lent is one of the main events of the Orthodox year. Believers prepare to celebrate Easter by cleansing their souls, minds and bodies. What can be eaten during this period and what dishes can be prepared during fasting, you will learn from the article.
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In order not to break the fast and prepare a dish that is allowed on a specific day of abstinence, you need to know which foods are allowed and which are prohibited. Lent is considered the strictest among the rest. The first and last weeks are especially difficult to comply with.
On the very first day, you need to completely refrain from eating. Cold, oil-free meals during Lent are allowed from Tuesday to Friday. Such days are called dry eating.
On Saturday and Sunday, the fast is the least strict. So, in the first week of fasting on these days, it is allowed to eat hot dishes seasoned with vegetable oil.
In the remaining 5 weeks of Lent, one should eat in this way: dry food must be observed on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and hot food can be eaten on Tuesday and Thursday, on weekends it is allowed to fill food with vegetable oil, it is permissible to sip a little red wine. You can also cook festive meals during fasting, but they should also not contain prohibited foods.
On Lazarev Saturday, you can put fish caviar on the table. And the next day, on Palm Sunday, the use of fish dishes is allowed. But here it should be borne in mind that if the above holidays fall on the calendar on Holy Week, then during this period the use of any food of animal origin is prohibited. It is recommended to abstain from food on Good Friday, and dry eating is allowed on the day before Easter. Dishes prepared during the fast should not only not contain prohibited foods, but also be charged with positive energy and pure thoughts of the cook.
During the fast, they cook only from plant products. Animal food is prohibited: meat, dairy products, butter, eggs and all derivatives. Do not eat fast foods, snacks, carbonated drinks and the like. Food must be of vegetable origin. Dishes should not be too spicy, spicy, or sweet. Such food is also overkill on the table.
From a nutritional point of view, it can be noted that lean meals during fasting are not only not harmful to health. On the contrary, they cleanse the body of deposits and toxins, strengthen them with vitamins and minerals. Correct observance of the fast does not harm health due to the fact that the absence of animal food and all the necessary substances is replenished with plant components. So, the lack of animal protein is replaced by vegetable protein due to the use of beans, peas, wheat, nuts and mushrooms. Apples, bananas and buckwheat will cover your iron deficiency. Dried fruits with honey will support the immune system. Often, the main dishes during Lent are prepared on the basis of various cereals. The latter carry useful carbohydrates that saturate the body. All kinds of vegetables and fruits will give energy and fill the lack of nutrients, trace elements and vitamins.
A wide variety of simple but tasty dishes can be prepared from the permitted products: soups, salads, snacks, main hot and cold dishes and even pies. We offer you simple, but extraordinary recipes for meals during Lent.
Italian bean soup
Hearty, rich and unusual in taste soup will become a decoration To prepare it you will need:
- canned beans - 200 g;
- green beans (can be frozen) - 300 g;
- 1 onion;
- a clove of garlic;
- half a liter of tomato juice;
- eggless noodles (you can make your own from flour and water) - 250 g;
- greens (dill, parsley, green young onions) to taste.
Cooking method
- Cook the green beans until tender. Throw it in a colander.
- Chop the onion and garlic finely. Simmer in water in a deep soup pot. On days when vegetable oil is allowed, frying can be done.
- Pour tomato juice into the onion and garlic. Simmer for 15 minutes with the lid closed.
- In a separate saucepan, boil the noodles in salted water.
- Add the remaining ingredients to the stewing tomato juice with onions and garlic: green and canned beans, noodles. Season with salt to taste and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Sprinkle the soup with fresh herbs before serving.
Vegetable salad with avocado
What foods to cook during fasting on dry eating days? Try making a fancy avocado salad. This fruit is high in calories. Therefore, the proposed salad will not only enrich with vitamins, but also saturate the body of the fasting person.
To prepare it, you will need the following products:
- tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- avocado - 1 pc.;
- middle head of a bow;
- cucumber - 2 pcs.;
- radish - 200 g;
- lemon juice;
- salt.
Making a salad is very simple. To do this, cut all the vegetables and avocado into cubes. Finely chop the onion and soak in lemon juice for 5-10 minutes. Then mix all the ingredients and season with salt. You can also season with lemon juice or, on permitted days, with olive oil.
"Ratatouille"
Vegetables can also be used to make delicious fasting meals. Recipes for vegetable salads, stews and stews surprise with a variety of flavors. We invite you to try the original Italian vegetable dish "Ratatouille". In the classic recipe, all vegetables are deep-fried before baking. We slightly modified the cooking technology and got an equally tasty and even healthier dish.
To prepare "Ratatouille" you will need the following products:
- red bell pepper - 1 pc.;
- 1 head of garlic;
- 1 onion;
- zucchini - 2 pcs.;
- blue - 2 pcs.;
- tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
- half a liter of tomato juice;
- sea salt;
- fresh herbs.
How to cook Ratatouille
- Peel the eggplants, cut into slices up to 1 cm wide and soak them in cold water for half an hour.
- Peel the tomatoes by pouring boiling water over them.
- Peel the zucchini skins.
- To prepare the sauce, stew finely chopped onions and bell peppers with a few cloves of garlic in half a glass of tomato juice until the vegetables are tender. Salt. Grind the mixture in a blender until thick sauce forms.
- Place food parchment in a baking dish and pour the sauce about 1 cm thick on top.
- Lay out the vegetables, alternating between eggplant, zucchini, and tomato so that the vegetables end-to-end fill the form, as in the photo below.
- Now prepare the dressing. To do this, knead herbs, sea salt and a few cloves of garlic in a mortar. Olive oil can be added on permitted days. Grease the vegetables with the prepared dressing.
- Put the form in the oven and bake at 180 degrees for an hour and a half - until the vegetables are ready.
Dumplings with sauerkraut
What dish to cook during Lent, surprising the household and even the guests? Make dumplings! Few people know that such a traditional dish can be lean and at the same time no less tasty than the original. Only the filling will have to be replaced with a vegetable one. For dumplings with sauerkraut, you will need the following products:
- flour - 500 g;
- glass of water;
- sunflower oil - 100 g;
- sauerkraut - 500 g;
- salt to taste.
It won't take long to prepare such a dish during Lent. First you need to prepare the dough. Unfortunately, it is impossible to make it without vegetable oil - the dough will crumble. Therefore, such dumplings can please loved ones only on certain days of Great Lent.
In order to prepare the dough, you need to mix flour, water, and add salt to taste. Put the cool kneaded dough in the refrigerator for an hour. Then roll the sausages out of the dough. Cut them into pieces, roll out the circles. Then you need to squeeze sauerkraut from the excess juice. Place the filling in the middle of each circle of dough and top over to form a dumplings. It remains only to cook the product in salted boiling water for 5-7 minutes. Lean dumplings with sauerkraut are ready!
Pilaf with dried fruits
What are the main dishes to cook in Lent? Indeed, in Russian cuisine it is customary to consider meat treats as the main table decorations. You can offer to cook vegetable stew, porridge with mushrooms in pots, sauté, on certain days fish will become the highlight of the diet. We also offer you hearty pilaf. To prepare it, you need the following ingredients:
- rice (it is better to choose long-grain varieties) - 1.5 cups;
- a couple of large onions;
- carrots - 750 g;
- dried dates - 150 g;
- dried apricots - 350 g;
- ginger root;
- lemon juice - 4 tbsp. l .;
- ground cumin;
- ground coriander;
- ground cinnamon;
- vegetable broth - 3 cups;
- liquid honey - 2 tbsp. l .;
- a sprig of mint;
- salt.
How to cook pilaf
- Rinse the rice and soak it in cold water for half an hour.
- Peel vegetables.
- Cut the carrots into large bars, the onions into rings.
- Chop the ginger finely.
- Sauté the chopped vegetables in a saucepan. Add all the spices, salt.
- Sweat washed and dried dates with dried apricots in a separate saucepan with honey and lemon juice for 3-5 minutes.
- Add the honey mixture to the sauté pan with sauteed vegetables.
- Throw the rice in a colander. Then pour into a saucepan, smooth the surface and cover with vegetable broth. Cover, reduce heat and simmer without stirring with the lid closed until the rice is cooked through (about 20 minutes).
- Remove from heat. Let off steam by opening the lid. Place a sprig of mint on top and cover. Let the dish sit for another 10-15 minutes. Fragrant pilaf is ready!
Honey gingerbread
You can even make sweet foods for the fast. We cook honey lean gingerbread at home. They can pamper household members in any. They will become a worthy decoration of the festive table. However, do not forget that sweet foods should not be consumed excessively during Lent.
To prepare them you will need:
- a glass of sugar;
- 500 g of liquid honey;
- a pinch of baking soda;
- 7 glasses of flour;
- 1 tsp lemon juice;
- 4 glasses of chilled purified water.
How to cook
- Combine water, honey and sugar in a saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. Melt until the sugar is completely dissolved. Then remove from heat. Let the mixture cool.
- Knead the dough by mixing the honey mass with flour and soda slaked with lemon juice. Send the dough to the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Roll out the dough 2 cm wide. Squeeze out the molds.
- Bake the gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet at 220 degrees for 20 minutes.
- You can decorate baked goods with powdered sugar or jam.
You can create recipes for meals during Lent yourself, slightly modifying the classic ones and replacing the necessary products. Thus, original lean dishes are obtained, which the hostess can safely serve to the festive table.
Fruit cake
How to prepare festive meals during Lent? Of course, a real cake! To prepare a delicious biscuit-fruit cake, you will need the following products:
- flour - 3 cups;
- one and a half glasses of fruit juice to taste;
- sugar - 400 g;
- zest from 2 oranges;
- sunflower oil - 4 tbsp. l .;
- 2 sachets of baking powder;
- vanillin - 2 packs;
- salt to taste.
For the cream, you need to prepare the following ingredients:
- sugar - 5 tbsp. l .;
- any juice - 2 glasses;
- semolina (cereal) - 3 tbsp. l.
To soak the cakes, you will need 2 large tablespoons of sugar and 500 g of juice.
Cake preparation
- Knead the ingredients for the cakes. Divide it in half and bake 2 sponge cakes at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
- Send one cake to the refrigerator. Leave the other on the table, covered with a napkin.
- Prepare the impregnation by mixing the juice and sugar. Saturate the biscuit cake with it. Then let it cool in the refrigerator as well.
- Prepare the cream. To do this, mix the juice and sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Then gradually add semolina and cook like a regular porridge until tender.
- Cool the cream and beat thoroughly with a blender.
- Remove the cakes from the cold. Lay them on top of each other and brush with cream on all sides.
- If desired, garnish with nuts, coconut or fruit slices on top.
Conclusion
Even from a seemingly meager list of products, you can cook unusually delicious meals during Lent. The recipes offered by us, if desired, can be improved independently, with a little imagination.
Fasting is a religious tradition of abstaining from food. And it is precisely such abstinence that causes the housewives to think a lot about what to cook. Let's explore some basic recipes.
It should be remembered that good nutrition is the key to your health. Therefore, you should not starve during fasting, as this can lead to adverse consequences in the future. You can also supplement your diet with essential vitamins during fasting.
So let's start with salads. This is one of the simplest, yet healthiest foods to prepare during Lent. It is worth noting that the Christmas fast also covers the New Year's holiday, and those who strictly adhere to the fast have to limit themselves to food. And what is the New Year without Olivie, and an alternative can be found for those who are fasting.
Take:
- 300 g potatoes
- 100 g of carrots and onions
- 100 g asparagus or beans
- 100 g of your favorite mushrooms
- 100 g lean mayonnaise
- spices
Preparation:
- Boil the first three ingredients and cut into cubes
- If the mushrooms are pickling, then chop them as well. Pre-boil fresh mushrooms
- Chop the pickled onion into cubes
- Mix ingredients, add spices and season with mayonnaise
- Leave to infuse for 60 minutes and serve.
Delicious salad with corn and croutons:
- 300 g of Chinese cabbage
- 1 can of corn
- 1 onion
- 100 g croutons
- 100 g lean mayonnaise
- Spices
The advantage of such a salad is that after fasting you can cook it with regular mayonnaise:
- Chop the onion and cabbage
- Mix with corn
- Season with spices and mayonnaise
- Sprinkle with croutons on top
Crab stick salad Is a versatile festive dish that will decorate both festive and daily tables:
- 200 g sticks
- 100 g rice
- 1 onion
- 200 g corn
- 250 g mushrooms
- 100 g lean mayonnaise
- spices
- rinse the rice and boil until tender
- chop crab sticks, mushrooms and onions
- mix all the ingredients and season with mayonnaise
You can also cook very simple salads:
- cabbage with vegetable oil
- tomato and cucumber
- beetroot salad with vegetable oil
Lean baking: recipes
Delicious and easy to bake while fasting oatmeal cookies... To do this, take:
- 300 g oatmeal
- 50 g raisins and honey
- 200 g apple jam
- Dried fruits (optional)
- 50 g sunflower oil
Prepare cookies as follows:
- Dry the flakes a little in a pan
- Mix with the rest of the ingredients
- Form cookies with a spoon, and spread on paper spread on a baking sheet.
- Bake at 120 C for 60 minutes
Adults and children love delicious pancakes... And in fasting they can be no less sweet and lush. To do this, take:
- 500 g flour
- 300 g warm water
- 1 tsp each yeast and salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
Prepare pancakes like this:
- Pour salt, sugar and yeast with warm water
- While the yeast is dissolving, sift the flour
- Mix the ingredients with flour and, covered with cling film, send to a warm place to infuse
- When you see that the dough has almost doubled, then place the pancakes with a spoon in a preheated pan
- Lush and delicious pastries are ready. Those with a sweet tooth can increase the amount of sugar by 1.5-2 times.
A gingerbread during the fast they cook very often. But now we propose to cook not just baked goods, but to diversify the gingerbread with 2 apples and 50 g of walnuts, as well as:
- 200 g each sugar and water
- 1 tsp each soda and lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 300 g flour
- 5 g baking powder
Cooking gingerbread:
- Chop walnuts
- Mix flour and ripper
- Mix sugar with water, put in a water bath
- Add honey and cook until honey dissolves
- Quench the baking soda and pour into the mixture
- Remove mixture from water bath and add nuts
- Add flour with a ripper and knead the dough
- Pour the dough into a baking sheet and place the chopped apples on top
- Bake the gingerbread for half an hour at 180 ° C
Another delicious baking recipe - onion pie... After all, not everyone loves sweet pastries, but this dish is very sophisticated and easy to prepare:
- 750 g each flour and water
- 125 g rice
- 100 g sugar
- 15 g salt
- 1 kg of onion
- 10 g yeast
Onion pie is prepared like this:
- Rinse the rice and add to boiling water, cook until tender.
- Drain the broth from the rice as you will need it.
- Chop the onion and sauté.
- Knead the dough by adding rice water to it. You can do it manually or with a bread maker.
- When the dough has stood and rises, divide it into 3 pieces.
- Roll out each piece and spread the onions, fold the dough on top of each other.
- Cut the cake into 16 pieces and roll from each bagel.
- Divide into bagels and bake for 30 minutes.
- A delicious pie is ready, you can call your guests and give them tea with homemade cakes.
Lenten first courses, recipes
One of the most satisfying first courses is borscht. And even in fasting it can be prepared in a variety of ways. We offer the main 2 options for lean borscht:
For classic lean borscht stock up on:
- 2 pcs of potatoes, beets and tomatoes
- 1 carrot and 1 head of onion
- half cabbage
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 tbsp. l sugar and salt
- spices to taste
Naturally, there is no meat in this dish. Prepare as follows:
- chop the vegetables as you would for regular borscht
- chop the cabbage and chop the garlic
- pour 2 liters of water into a saucepan and, when it boils, put potatoes in a container
- fry the carrots and onions in a pan
- in a separate skillet, also stew the chopped beets
- chop the tomatoes with a blender and add to the pan
- when the beets, carrots and onions are ready, add them to the pan
- salt and add sugar, as well as your favorite spices
- bring to a boil and leave to infuse
Great option for lean borscht with beans and mushrooms... Add to the previous ingredients:
- 200 g champignons
- 10 pcs of prunes
- 100 g dry beans
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
Prepare lean borscht like this:
- Rinse the beans and leave to swell overnight.
- In the morning, boil it in the same water for 45 minutes.
- Pull out the beans, and put the chopped potatoes in that water
- Fry onions with carrots with tomato paste
- In another skillet, simmer the beets and finely chopped prunes
- Pour the contents of two pans into a pot of potatoes
- Fry the mushrooms in the empty skillet
- While everything is cooking, chop the cabbage
- When the ingredients in the borsch have already softened slightly, but are not yet soft enough, pour mushrooms, cabbage and previously cooked beans into it
- Borscht should be boiled for another 10-15 minutes
- Sprinkle the first course with herbs and invite your family to the table.
Another dish that is known in the days of fasting is pickle... The ingredients for such a dish for 2 liters of water are as follows:
- 100 g of pearl barley
- 5 potatoes
- 1 carrot and 1 onion
- 2 pickled cucumbers with 100 g brine
- spices
Cooking process:
- Rinse the cereal and leave to swell for 30 minutes
- Boil the barley until tender.
- At this time, cut the potatoes into cubes.
- Add potatoes and spices to the softened cereal
- Saute grated carrots and chopped onions
- Add stir-fry to the pickle when the potatoes are soft enough
- Cut the cucumbers and also pour into the pickle
- Pour in the brine at the end and bring the dish to a boil
- Lean pickle ready
Well, how can you do without lean soup. One of the traditional options is noodles soup:
- 2 small onions and 2 medium carrots each
- 200 g noodles
- A couple of celery stalks
- Spices to taste
- Fry the spiced onions until golden brown
- Chop celery, carrots and also send to the onion for just a couple of minutes
- Put the ingredients in a saucepan and cover with 2 liters of water, cook until boiling
- Next, add the noodles and cook until tender.
- Sprinkle with herbs if desired and you can taste your creation
It will turn out very tasty as well lean pea soup... For him you need:
- 3 potatoes
- 1 carrot and 1 onion each
- 100 g peas
- Spices and herbs to taste
Soup preparation:
- Leave the peas to swell in cold water overnight.
- In the morning, put it to boil, and at this time, peel the carrots and onions with potatoes
- Cut the last ingredient into cubes and send to the peas
- Chop the rest of the peeled vegetables and sauté
- Add them to soup and cook until potatoes are softened.
- Sprinkle with herbs before serving
- It is very tasty to supplement such a soup with croutons or croutons
Lean cabbage recipe
Cabbage perfectly complements salads and first courses. You can also make lean baked goods with kale. But a great and easy option while fasting is braised cabbage:
- 1 onion
- 500 g white cabbage
- 7 g each vinegar, sugar and flour
- 15 g tomato paste
- 100 g of water
- 30 g sunflower oil
Cooking instructions:
- Chop the cabbage and simmer with butter for about 20 minutes
- Then add chopped onions, spices and tomato paste to it.
- Add flour to the finished cabbage, mix and simmer for another 5-7 minutes
Delicious and lean cabbage is ready. You can supplement it with potatoes or lean cereals.
Lean mayonnaise: recipe
There are several varieties of lean mayonnaise on the market that are great for dressing meals during fasting. But you can cook such a product at home. So you can be sure that you are using a quality product:
- 750 g water
- 250 g flour
- 3 tablespoons of lemon juice and mustard
- 2 tablespoons of sugar and salt
- 120 g vegetable oil
Making mayonnaise is not at all difficult, for this:
- Sift flour and add a little water to it, grind until smooth.
- Add the rest of the water and boil until thick, leave to cool.
- Mix the rest of the ingredients in a separate bowl and, whisking with a mixer, add the flour.
- When the mass becomes homogeneous, the mayonnaise is ready. Simple and fast!
Lenten mushroom recipes
In addition to the fact that mushrooms can be added to soups and lean borscht, as well as salads during fasting, they can also make wonderful baked goods. Fragrant and fluffy pies or pies with mushrooms will come in very handy with tea.
An excellent option would be to cook fried potatoes and mushrooms with herbs... By mixing these ingredients, you will get an excellent lunch or dinner.
But one of the favorite fasting recipes is cabbage rolls with mushrooms and rice... For cooking you will need:
- 400 g cabbage leaves
- 100 g of rice and mushrooms
- 1 onion
- 50 g flour and tomato paste
- Spices
- Mushroom broth
Making stuffed cabbage rolls is not difficult:
- Boil rice and mushrooms in separate containers, then cut the last into strips
- Chop the onion and fry, add spices
- Toss with rice and mushrooms
- Wash the cabbage leaves and trim off the nubs
- Put the filling on the cooled leaves and fry in a pan
- While the cabbage rolls are toasting, mix the flour with the tomato and broth.
- Place the cabbage rolls in a saucepan, cover with broth and simmer for 45 minutes
Another very tasty recipe with mushrooms is stuffed mushrooms... The filling can be any lean - this is rice, and the legs of mushrooms with herbs, as well as various vegetables. You just need:
- Remove stems from mushrooms
- Spread them out on a baking sheet and stuff with the chosen filling
- Lightly anoint the top with lean mayonnaise and bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 ° C
Lean pumpkin recipes
You can cook a lot of dishes from pumpkin. We offer you some very simple, but at the same time delicious dishes:
Try the first one first - pumpkin soup for which you will need:
- 400 g pumpkin
- 1 onion
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 500 g vegetable broth
- Spices
This soup will be in the form of a puree soup:
- Place the chopped ingredients in a baking dish and send to the oven at 200 C
- Then put the ingredients in a blender bowl, add the broth and whisk
- Garnish the soup with herbs and serve.
An unusual but tasty dish - pumpkin in batter... For her, you only need flour and pumpkin in a 1: 5 ratio, as well as a little oil for frying. You can add your favorite spices if you wish. The cooking process is already very simple - roll small pieces of pumpkin in flour and fry until golden brown in oil.
For a snack, try pumpkin salad with tomatoes... The peculiarity of this salad is that it is served warm. Ingredients:
- Pumpkin without skin - 600 g
- 300 g tomato
- 1 bunch of onions and arugula each
- Olive oil
- Spices
A warm salad is prepared as follows:
- Place the chopped pumpkin in a baking dish
- Spread chopped tomatoes on top, add oil and spices
- Roast vegetables for 15 minutes
- At this time, cut the greens
- Sprinkle warm salad with herbs, stir and serve until cool
You can also make oatmeal with chopped nuts, pumpkin, and cinnamon.
Lean potato dishes: recipes
The simplest dish is boiled or fried potatoes. You can add your favorite spices to this dish, as well as add delicious salads. But do not dwell on the achieved results. Let's try a few more options.
Let's start with potato casserole with mushrooms:
- 3 potatoes
- 700 g mushrooms
- 1 onion
- Spices
The casserole is very simple to prepare:
- Boil and mince the mushrooms and potatoes
- Saute the onions and mix with the potato-mushroom mixture
- Place the casserole in a baking dish and bake until golden brown
An exquisite and healthy dish is potatoes with prunes and raisins... For 0.5 kg of potatoes, take:
- 100 g of dried fruits
- 20 g vegetable oil
- Herbs and spices
The potatoes are prepared as follows:
- Cut the potatoes into cubes and, mixing with dried fruits, simmer until half cooked
- Next, add oil, spices with herbs and continue to simmer until tender.
- Serve hot, sprinkle with freshly chopped herbs on top
And how to get around potato zrazy... But let's supplement them with rice and vegetables. This will make them even tastier:
- 0.5 kg potatoes
- 100 g rice
- 1 onion and 1 carrot
- Spices
Cooking method:
- Boil potatoes in their skins and mash or grate
- Boil rice and sauté vegetables
- Mix ingredients, add spices and shape into meatballs
- Fry until golden brown
You can cook a lot of dishes with potatoes; during Lent, this is a product that will help you out more than once.
Lean cutlets: photo recipes
Do not think that there are only meat cutlets. The variety of options is simply amazing. Let's take a look at the most popular ones. Firstly, many housewives will wonder what to add to cutlets instead of eggs so that they do not fall apart. The answer is very simple - semolina... And you can bread cutlets in breadcrumbs, oatmeal or sesame seeds.
Eggplant and potato cutlets:
- 4 potatoes
- 2 small eggplants
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 50 g semolina
- Spices
Vegetable cutlets:
- Boil 2 potatoes
- While the tubers are boiling, chop the eggplants and onions in a meat grinder, squeeze the juice
- Grate the rest of the potatoes and add to the chopped vegetables
- Add mashed boiled potatoes and semolina there.
- Stir well, if desired, roll in breading and fry
- Drink hot
Bean cutlets, in this case we use mung bean - small peas:
- 500 g peas
- 1 onion
- Spices
Pea cutlets:
- Soak mung bean for 2-3 hours in cold water
- Drain and fill with new water, cook for 20 minutes after boiling
- Grind the peas in a blender
- Fry the onion and mix with the pea mixture
- Blind cutlets and fry
You can also cook great oatmeal cutlets- simple and tasty:
- 250 g cereal
- 1 onion and 1 potato
- 5 champignons
- 2 cloves of garlic
- spices
Cooking cutlets:
- Steam the oatmeal for 20 minutes
- Peel potatoes and finely grate
- Chop the onion with mushrooms in a blender along with the herbs
- Mix the ingredients and mold the patties, fry
Lenten holiday and New Year's dishes: recipes
Olivier is one of the traditional dishes for the festive table. At the beginning of the article, we present a recipe for lean Olivier, take note of it. This article offers a variety of options that you can use for New Year's Eve. But still we want to offer you some more interesting dishes:
Vegetable aspic:
- 1 eggplant, zucchini and bell pepper each
- 350 g tomato
- Gelatin package
- Greens
- Spices
Step by step:
- Put the vegetables cut into slices in the oven 190 ° С on a baking sheet, bake for 15 minutes
- Then remove the skin from the pepper.
- Pour 1/7 of the tomato and gelatin into a container and heat in a water bath until the gelatin is completely separated
- After that, pour in the rest of the juice
- Spread cling film into the mold and spread the pepper, pour part of the liquid
- Next, alternately eggplants and zucchini, also alternating them with liquid
- Refrigerate until solid
Tasty and festive you can stuff the eggplant:
- Tomatoes
- Mushrooms
- Prunes
- Nuts
You can use such a filling or any other for stuffing a vegetable:
- Cut the eggplant into strips and salt.
- Breaded in flour and toast
- Place the filling of your choice on the strips and twist
- Garnish with herbs
You can cut the eggplant not into strips, but into rings, and then you just need to put the filling on top.
For the above salads, you can also prepare fruit salad:
- To do this, cut up kiwi, banana, orange and pear.
- Mix and drizzle with soy milk or honey. Well, it's very tasty, especially children love it.
Get creative, use the recipes above for the holiday table and supplement them with the desired ingredients.
Fast days menu
It is not true that you cannot eat well during fasting. We offer you a sample menu for several days. You can supplement and improve it depending on your imagination and the availability of products:
- Morning: Fruit Salad
- Lunch: noodle soup, buckwheat porridge and vegetable salad
- Dinner: potato zrazy with mushrooms
- Morning: Oatmeal with dried fruits
- Lunch: Borscht with beans, salad with cabbage
- Dinner: Vinaigrette, honey tea
- Morning: Toast with honey, tea
- Lunch: Pickle, beet salad, baked potatoes
- Dinner: Mushroom Lasagne
- Morning: Lean pancakes or pancakes
- Lunch: Soup with peas, pea cutlets, noodles
- Dinner: Pilaf with mushrooms
- Morning: Oatmeal cookies with tea
- Lunch: Vegetable soup, buckwheat porridge with mushrooms
- Dinner: Vegetable salad
Fasting is a time of purification of the soul and body. Anyone who has fasted once can no longer deny himself this. Try it too - feel the lightness in the body and the power of your own will.
Video: Cooking lean meals
Fasting is a time of spiritual cleansing. The rejection of some products during this period is frightening for many. should be nutritious and contain all the nutrients that are necessary for full life. How to make the menu varied? The answer to this question is very simple. There are wonderful delicious ones suggested in this article. There are so many of them that you can indulge yourself with a new culinary masterpiece every day without compromising on religious principles.
A simple recipe
What delicious lean dishes are there? There are many different recipes for fasting, as long as they do not contain animal products. Let's start with the simplest dish you can make with the ingredients available. This is with vegetables. You will need a glass of pearl barley, two carrots, one onion, two tomatoes, one 200 grams of broccoli, any greens, a spoonful of vegetable oil, hops-suneli, bay leaf, spices and water.
It is better to soak the pearl barley overnight, so it will cook faster. Then it must be rinsed and filled with salt and cook for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, peel all the vegetables and cut them into small cubes. Then fry the onion with the addition of vegetable oil. Next, add carrots, peppers, broccoli and tomatoes to it. Put salt and pepper to taste. At the end, add chopped greens and suneli hops. Mix porridge with barley and let the dish brew.
Tomato puree soup
For those who want to create an exquisite menu, you will need more complex tasty lean dishes. Recipes with photos are presented in this article - you just have to choose! For example, tomato puree soup with basil. It is a wonderful combination of flavors and aromas. To prepare it, you will need 150 grams of good juicy tomatoes, 20 grams of carrots, three cloves of garlic, one onion, 10 grams of rice, 20 grams of celery, several sprigs of basil and spices (salt, pepper). Cut onion, garlic, celery and carrots into cubes and lightly fry in olive oil.
Remove the skin from the tomatoes and add the pulp to the pan. Put the pre-washed rice with the rest of the ingredients. We bring the dish to full readiness. Then use a blender to puree and add spices and basil to the soup. Once again, grind and filter everything. Delicious lean cream soup is ready. It can be eaten cold.
Dorada with thyme
On some days of Lent, you can eat seafood and fish. Use the delicious lean dishes, the recipes for which are presented here. Dorada baked with thyme will perfectly complement and diversify the menu. To prepare this treat, you will need one fish carcass, one lemon, several sprigs of fresh thyme, the same amount of fresh basil, 100 grams of olives and olives and spices.
Sprinkle the prepared fish with seasonings. Put thyme and a quarter of lemon inside the carcass. Sprinkle it with olive oil on top. What is the easiest way to prepare delicious lean meals? Recipes in the oven are a great time saver. We put the fish in an oven preheated to 160 degrees and bake for 20 minutes. When serving, decorate the fish with basil sprigs, olives, olives and pour over with lemon juice. A beautiful lean dish is ready.
Nutritious smoothie
It is especially important during fasting that the body receives all the vitamins necessary for full development. And a nutritious drink will become a godsend during this period. Take half a glass of coconut milk, a few pineapple slices, one banana, 50 milliliters of water, and 150 grams of spinach. The cooking process is very simple. We put all the ingredients, except water, in a blender and grind everything thoroughly. If the resulting drink is too thick, then dilute it with water. Serve immediately and enjoy the taste.
Champignon soup
Another delicious first course is champignon soup. It can be prepared in an hour, and very few ingredients are required. It is necessary to prepare 300 grams of mushrooms, three potatoes, one carrot, three medium onion heads, a few peppercorns, salt, half a spoonful of dry oregano, the same amount of ground paprika, two tablespoons of sunflower oil, a clove of garlic, bay leaf and water. Cook the onion (1 head) and carrots, cut into slices, with allspice and bay leaves for about 30 minutes. Then add the potatoes (diced) to them.
We leave them to cook for another 20 minutes. We cut the remaining onion very finely, it can be in half rings, it can be diced - as you like, and the mushrooms - in pieces. Fry them in vegetable oil. Add these two ingredients to the pot. Separately fry the flour and, diluting it with broth from the pan, put it in the main dish. Chop the garlic and put it in a saucepan with the remaining spices. Cook for another 10 minutes. Then grind the entire contents of the pan with a blender, add spices and serve. These are delicious meatless dishes. The recipes with the photos presented here are useful for the hostess who wants to pamper the household, but at the same time do not violate the fasting instructions.
Grilled dishes
During abstinence, have a picnic in nature. Delicious meatless meals can be prepared there. The recipes are simple and don't require much skill. For example, grilled vegetables. To do this, you need to take zucchini, eggplants, bell peppers, mushrooms (champignons), olive oil, vinegar, lemon and spices. We take all vegetables in the required quantity. We cut them in any shape. Then grease the pieces with butter and sprinkle with spices. Fry on the grill until tender. Sprinkle with vinegar or lemon juice when serving. You must first remove the skin from sweet peppers. To do this, after frying, we put it in a bag and tie it tightly. After a while, the skin can be easily removed.
Baked Pepper Salad
Let’s not forget about salads, which perfectly complement the menu. We bring to your attention the most delicious meatless dishes, the recipes of which are not difficult. Baked pepper salad is a very unusual culinary creation. To prepare it, you will need 4 red bell peppers, three tablespoons of olives, 5 small spoons of capers, a few sprigs of fresh parsley, salt, pepper and olive oil. First, grease the peppers with olive oil and put them in the oven for 30-45 minutes. The baking temperature is 180 degrees.
The peppers should brown well on each side. Then we put them in a bag and close it. When the vegetables have cooled down, you need to peel them off. Cut the peppers into thin strips and put them in a salad bowl. Grind the olives and dry the capers. Add them to the pepper, put the chopped parsley there and season with olive oil. We use salt and pepper to taste.
Cabbage "Provencal"
This is a very popular recipe that is not only used during fasting. Delicious, crispy cabbage will decorate any table. To prepare it, take 600 grams of white cabbage, 50 milliliters of vinegar (9 percent), 50 grams of carrots, a large spoonful of sugar, three quarters of a small spoonful of salt, 50 milliliters of vegetable oil and pepper to taste. We start by making the marinade. Mix salt, sugar and vinegar with a glass of water and put on fire. Bring the marinade to a boil. Cut the cabbage into medium pieces (not small), and the carrots into strips or slices. We mix vegetables and fill them with marinade, into which we first pour vegetable oil. We put the cabbage under a press, and when the marinade has cooled, we move it to the refrigerator. You can eat it in a day. You can easily cook these delicious meatless dishes for the New Year.
Falafel
This Israeli dish makes a great alternative to meatballs. For cooking, you will need 250 grams of dry chickpeas, two tablespoons of flour, one peeled garlic clove, a liter of water, one bunch of parsley and cilantro, a spoonful of cumin, half a small spoonful of salt and vegetable oil. We wash the chickpeas a day and fill it with cold water. Then we drain the water and grind it in a meat grinder with garlic and herbs.
Season the resulting minced meat with spices and spices and leave for 30 minutes. After that, add flour and mix thoroughly. You should have a thick dough. We form balls from it. To prevent the dough from sticking to your hands, we moisten them periodically with water. Then deep-fry the balls and put them on a paper towel to drain off the remaining fat. Vegetables prepared in any way will be a good addition to this dish. Hostesses, do not limit yourself to a meager set of products, fantasize, cook delicious meatless dishes. Recipes for every day are also suitable for a festive table.
Bean soup
How can you do without a delicious one that is great for a lean menu? To prepare it, you will need 4 glasses of water, two medium tomatoes, two celery stalks, one onion, spices, herbs and, of course, a glass of beans. Beans are best washed and soaked overnight. Then we drain the water and discard the beans in a colander or sieve. Finely chop the onion and put it in a saucepan with water. We cook it, avoiding a violent boil.
Then put the beans in a saucepan. When all the ingredients are ready, add the peeled and chopped tomatoes. Cook the soup for 15 minutes and season it with spices and herbs. We serve the finished food to the table. Use the delicious lean dishes we are considering in your diet. Recipes for Lent should not only contain a maximum of vitamins and nutrients, but also be appetizing in appearance. Decorate treats as you see fit.
Honey cookie
It is not always possible to eat honey during Lent, but on those days when it is allowed, make delicious honey cookies. And for this you only need two ingredients: 250 grams of honey (liquid) and 250 grams of flour (it is better to take a coarse grind). Pour honey into a suitable container and gradually add flour to it. This should be done slowly, thoroughly mixing the mass so that it turns out to be homogeneous. We knead the dough and make a layer 2-3 centimeters thick from it. We bake it in the oven at 200 degrees for about 15 minutes. Then we cut the layer into strips and put them in a bag so that they become soft. Such cookies are stored for a very long time. Choose delicious, lean dishes, the recipes for which are usually easy to prepare, and delight your family.
Zrazy with mushrooms
Fasting is a chance to present familiar dishes in a new quality. Perhaps they will become your favorite culinary creations on ordinary days. To prepare zrazy with mushrooms, you need to take 100 grams of potatoes, 70 grams of fresh mushrooms (any), 20 grams of flour, onion, salt and vegetable oil. Boil the potatoes in their skins, cool, peel and mash until puree. Cut the mushrooms very finely and fry together with the onions, chopped in the same way, in a pan with the addition of vegetable oil. Mix the potatoes with flour and season them with salt to taste. Now we form a cake from mashed potatoes, and place the mushroom filling in the middle. We pinch the edges and sculpt the zrazy. Fry them in a pan with vegetable oil on each side until golden brown.
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Buckwheat with mushrooms in a slow cooker
During Lent, as at any other time, a multicooker can become an assistant in the kitchen. Buckwheat with mushrooms is a wonderful dish for every day. To prepare it, you will need one carrot, 150 grams of cabbage, 200 grams of fresh mushrooms, a glass of buckwheat, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, two glasses of water, spices and salt. Chop the cabbage, and three carrots with a grater. We wash the buckwheat, and cut the mushrooms, but not very finely. We put all the ingredients in a slow cooker and pour in water. You can immediately add vegetable oil. We set the buckwheat cooking mode for 40 minutes and wait for the end signal. We cook quickly and simply delicious meatless dishes. You can use any recipes in a slow cooker. The main thing is that they suit your taste and take their rightful place in your daily diet.