I decided to write an article about what you can eat in fasting, what dishes you can cook on a fasting table.
After all, you want to eat tasty, varied, healthy and not boring, so that every day you don’t eat the same thing, right?
I want to offer you some delicious ideas on how to feed yourself and your family during the fasting period.
From this article you will learn:
What can you eat in the post - menu for lean nutrition
So, many people know that fasting can be strict and not strict.
Moreover, during the same fast there are certain differences in the daily diet.
Accordingly, the dishes that are consumed are different.
Strict fasting and not strict - what is the difference between them?
All posts vary in their degree of severity.
- Strict post:
during strict fasting, only plant foods (vegetables, fruits, cereals) are allowed, and all animal products are completely excluded. Food can be thermally processed or raw (these are days of dry eating).
- Less strict post:
when allowed on some days vegetable oil in dishes from plant foods.
- Not a strict post:
fish and vegetable oil are allowed these days. Otherwise, all food is plant-based, meat, milk and eggs are not consumed at all.
Lent is considered the strictest. The rest are less strict.
What can be cooked in the post?
Many people think that fasting is only carrot cutlets, sauerkraut and “empty” rice… But, in fact, everything is not so scary at all, friends!
How do you like lasagna, spaghetti, pizza, various pancakes, dumplings, pancakes, pies and pies? It is not necessary to cook with white wheat flour if we do not want to get better! You can cook from buckwheat, corn, oat, pea, etc.
And how about various delicious sandwiches with hearty pates, vegetable and mushroom caviar, jelly, mushroom aspic, sweet cereals, dumplings with various fillings and “lazy” dumplings (gnocchi, dumplings, dumplings), julienne, various salads with such a hearty composition, that they fit to call the main dish and dumplings?
Borscht, cabbage soup, soups, mushroom and nut dishes, and even “scrambled eggs” without eggs!
And how many sweets you can cook, it's generally incomprehensible to the mind!
And sweets, and kozinaki, and pies, and cookies, and even cakes with cream!
Including - cakes without flour, without eggs and without sugar, this is already "aerobatics", but you can also learn this!
And this is not a complete list of those dishes that are called lean ...
And if fish is allowed, it’s generally a holiday: it’s fish soup, cutlets, meatballs with rice, fish pastes (pates), steamed, fried, grilled and oven fish.
With vegetables, stuffed, stewed with mushrooms and onions, various fillings with fish for pies and pancakes ... You can’t list everything!
What products can be used in the preparation of lenten dishes?
- Cereals:
millet, wheat, barley, barley, rice of all varieties,. Also buckwheat, bulgur, couscous, spelled, corn grits. As well as oatmeal, and cereal from several types of cereals.
- We prepare from them:
porridge, add to vegetable dishes, make cutlets, zrazy, fillings for pies and pies, prepare cereal soups and various casseroles.
From buckwheat, oatmeal, rice, barley, corn flour, rye flour, spelled flour we prepare our pastries and bread.
- Vegetables - absolutely everything
We prepare from them:
soups, vegetable stews, vegetable purees, puree soups, various fillings, vegetable sauces and meatballs.
We add them to pates, make salads from raw and boiled vegetables, casseroles, stew, bake, boil, fry, steam them.
We add cereals, mushrooms to them, pour them with all kinds of delicious sauces and eat just like that, cut into pieces.
Berries, fruits and dried fruits - absolutely everything
We prepare from them:
fruit purees, marshmallows, compotes, fruit drinks, kissels, jams and jams for tea. We twist and freshly squeezed juices, add to pastries, prepare fillings for pancakes and pies, add to cereals. We eat just like that, whole or cut into beautiful pieces.
- Greens - any
From it we prepare:
“green” salads, add to smoothies, cut into salads from boiled and raw vegetables, sprinkle generously on our prepared dishes, make “green” toppings for our pancakes and pies.
- Legumes:
peas, beans of all kinds, beans, chickpeas, mung beans, lentils.
- Cooking from beans:
soups, mashed soups, add to salads, boil and mash, add to vegetable stews, cook bean pastes, fillings, etc.
- Nuts - whatever you like
We cook from nuts: nut sauces (sweet and salty), nut muffins, nut cutlets, make gozinaki and halva, prepare delicious nut milk, add to pates and fillings, sprinkle our cereals with chopped nuts and add to any other dishes, pastries.
We make cheese from nuts. Cooking nut pastes and nut urbechi. We bite just like that
- Seeds:
sunflower, sesame, flax, poppy, chia seeds, hemp seeds.
We prepare from them:
we add to pastries, make gozinaki, sauces for dishes (sweet and salty), sprinkle our cereals with crushed seeds and add to other dishes.
We prepare vegetable milk (sweet and unsweetened), urbechi from seeds, cheese from seeds, tahina (takhina, tahini) from sesame seeds and a mix paste for sandwiches from various seeds.
- Mushrooms are everything
We fry them, stew them, bake them, cook them on the grill, steam them.
We cook them with various fillings, make pates out of them, cook julienne, add them to vegetable dishes, soups, prepare mushroom soups, mushroom fillings, add them to cereals, salads.
- Vegetable oil - any you want
For salads, cold dishes and snacks, and in ready-made dishes, it is best to use vegetable oils of the first cold pressing. They have both taste and aroma - just divine!
Choose the ones that you like: olive, linseed, camelina, and hemp, grape seed oil and walnut oil, sesame.
As well as mustard oil, coconut, rice, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds.
For frying-cooking-stewing, 100% oils and refined ones are suitable, they are odorless and can be cooked on, as well as coconut oil.
Where to get protein in a lean diet?
Mushrooms are our "meat" for the period of lean nutrition. This includes legumes, nuts, herbs and seeds.
All of these foods are highly nutritious, high in protein, healthy fats (nuts and seeds), and vitamins and minerals.
During fasting, all these products are MANDATORY in the daily diet. In this case, you will not have any "protein starvation".
What kind of cereals are prepared for fasting?
Our Russian porridge is not just food, it is a whole "philosophy"! This, of course, is not about quick, instant cereals, which “filled in and ate right away.”
Although, this is also an option: simple oatmeal or a mixture of cereals, filled with boiling water or vegetable milk, and with the addition of berries, nuts, fruits and seeds - why not a hearty, delicious breakfast?
And porridge with vegetables, mushrooms - why not a wonderful and hearty dish for dinner?
The main idea here is this: porridge is never NOT tasty. The porridge just needs to be cooked properly.
Here's an example: barley. Do not love? You just don't know how to cook it!…
Here you need to know the secret of delicious barley. Try to do this: rinse it, pour enough boiling water over it, wrap it in a warm blanket and let it brew all night, 8-10 hours. If all the water is not absorbed, then drain it, fill it again with a small amount of water and boil it for 10 minutes.
Fry separately the onion, cut into beautiful rings and grated potatoes, add spices and mix with the finished barley.
You can also add mushrooms if you like.
No one will refuse such porridge!
A similar story with buckwheat porridge. Do you like it with milk? Please: grind seeds or nuts with water in a blender, strain, and you will have the healthiest milk in the world! Any porridge is good with vegetable milk, and buckwheat is especially good. Make it sweet or savory, whichever you like.
An excellent option for buckwheat porridge is buckwheat with onions, carrots and other fried vegetables.
Buckwheat with mushrooms and onions - who would refuse it, right?
Very tasty buns, pancakes are prepared from buckwheat flour and “Grechaniki” are fried.
In stores, look for spaghetti or any other pasta made from buckwheat flour. It is very tasty and unusual!
Prepare sweet pilaf from rice: add steamed raisins, nuts, seeds, any fresh berries or fruits to boiled rice, pour over with sweet nut sauce or honey. This is a meal!
And rice with mushrooms and vegetables? Why not swim? A very tasty and satisfying dish, the absence of meat and you will not notice ...
Any porridge can be served with a sauce prepared by yourself. It's easier than ever - to prepare the sauce from the same seeds or nuts. You can make vegetable sauce, tomato sauce, sweet fruit and berry sauce.
Be sure to add spices to any cereal. This will enrich the taste of your cereals, give them an incredible flavor and make them healthier and easier to digest.
Dried fruits in post
Of course, dried fruits are eaten in fasting.
The amount of vitamins in them, of course, falls, but the amount of sugar increases.
But, despite this, the benefits of dried fruits are still all in doubt, because all the trace elements are stored there in the necessary and sufficient quantity.
They are commercially available, they are not so expensive in price, especially since there are a lot of them and you can’t eat them. Of course, it is better to buy those that have not been processed, that have been dried and stored without being exposed to "chemical attack."
They are not as beautiful and glossy as those that were first soaked in sugar syrup and dried at high temperature, and then treated with sulfur dioxide, etc., but you know for 100% that you do not harm yourself by using them.
You can eat dried fruits and just like that, say, with tea. To do this, it is better to pre-soak them in water. They will become juicy and soft, and will look like fresh ones.
From any dried fruit you can make a delicious dessert-delicacy.
Especially good in this dessert will be: figs, cherries, large prunes.
Need juice from red berries. If it’s not the season, then feel free to take your blanks off the shelves and get started! Add the following spices to the juice: vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg, black pepper and sugar. Add dried fruits cut into large pieces, mix and boil it all over a very low heat: first without a lid for 50-60 minutes, then under the lid for another 40 minutes. Look, it may take less time. The main thing is that the syrup becomes thick.
Such a dessert can be served with tea, served with porridge, and just cracked with a spoon ...
The use of dried fruits is not limited to this.
Many amazing things are done with dried fruits: for example, they are added to the stuffing for stuffing tomatoes, sweet bell peppers and eggplant. They are stewed with red beans and fried onions.
It turns out unusual, original and piquant.
How to cook mushrooms in the post?
If we do not take into account the “newfangled” soybeans, then mushrooms are exactly the “meat” that will be on our table during the entire post.
Mushroom soup, potatoes with mushrooms and onions, vegetable stew with mushrooms, mushroom julienne, mushroom caviar, potato cutlets stuffed with mushrooms with mushroom sauce (zrazy), mushroom risotto and dumplings with mushrooms…
All this, of course, can be prepared quite calmly from dried mushrooms and from frozen ones. Not only bored champignons and oyster mushrooms will do. Honey mushrooms, chanterelles, aspen mushrooms, porcini mushrooms - everything is good!
Recently, Japanese shiitake mushrooms can also be found. He is the "world champion" in the fight against cancer. In addition, they are incredibly tasty, the Japanese know a lot!
And the huge, just giant portobello mushrooms? It tastes like pure chicken! And they are often sold in ordinary supermarkets, ask!
Mushrooms have a fantastic variety, and this is a great occasion for daily "mushroom experiments" in order to cook mushrooms often, cook a lot and tasty.
Here are some options for you:
- You can make tapenade sandwiches from forest mushrooms: grind capers with olive oil, add lemon juice, season with salt and pepper. It turns out such a paste that is perfectly smeared on toasted slices of bread, and between two slices - slices of mushrooms fried to a crisp.
- And from the good old oyster mushrooms, a salad “emerges” by itself: mushrooms, apples, celery stalks, lettuce and large dark grapes fried to a beautiful ruddy. Everything is drizzled with a dressing of lemon juice with crushed pine nuts, salt, pepper and a little cinnamon. Mmm…
- And champignons fried with soy sauce, honey, sesame seeds and green onions? Served hot, immediately, they are incredible!
How to use nuts and seeds in fasting?
Nuts play an important role in our lean diet.
They can not only sprinkle cakes and add to a salad of beets and garlic ...
During fasting, when almost every protein counts, nuts are simply an irreplaceable thing!
If the nuts are fresh, then this is, consider that “almost a panacea” in the autumn-winter period, when all sorts of colds and SARS pester us.
Nuts are just so nice to nibble on and make nut pastes out of them. It does not have to be peanuts, very tasty pastes are obtained from absolutely any nuts! It is even better to make from nuts, moreover, from raw ones. Still, peanut butter is an ambiguous product ...
Although, if you really want to, then you can, but not much. It is very easy to cook at home: roast peeled peanuts in the oven, twist it in a meat grinder twice, add salt and water to the desired consistency.
Or immediately twist everything in a blender - peanuts + salt + water.
The same principle is used to make raw nut paste:
- Do you want something sweet? No problem: add honey and cinnamon.
- Do you want something unusual? Please: add pepper, quite a bit of honey and spices. A very original taste is obtained from nut paste!
- Want something more satisfying? Then combine in a blender lightly roasted nuts in the oven (walnuts are perfect for this appetizer, but you can use any, be guided by your taste), fried onions, salt, pepper and water. Very, very tasty, hearty and fragrant snack! It smells so that you immediately need to spread it on your bread and eat it until the homemade “grind”, otherwise you won’t get it, believe me!
- If you want to make something “more impressive” for a snack, then you can add boiled beans and a little bit of garlic to this recipe. Again: we scroll everything in a blender with the addition of water to the desired pasty consistency.
- You can do the same with seeds - cook a paste, and every morning spread a thin layer on your slice of bread, crispy toast, cookies (you can sweet or salty) or whole grain bread. Hearty, tasty, healthy, what else do you need, right?
Make sweet pastes, make salty ones, whatever you want!
Who said tahini has to be salty?
Are you afraid of experiments? Then prepare sweet tahini: sesame seeds (can be raw or fried in a dry frying pan, with fried seeds it turns out many times more fragrant) + honey + cinnamon + salt.
This is such an amazing thing, folks! To say it's delicious is an understatement! Therefore, as soon as you cook, grab yourself a spoonful of bread, and only then call your family, although you won’t need to call them, I’m sure: the aroma of roasted sesame seeds is such a thing that they themselves will run to, believe me!
Here is another very, very original idea for a snack: raw almonds, lemon juice, a little honey, fresh basil leaves, salt, a little garlic and ginger (proportions are arbitrary, to your taste) scroll through a meat grinder or in a blender, adding so much water, to get a paste of the consistency you want.
Then you take apples, carrots, celery stalks, cucumbers and whatever else you can think of, cut into pieces and eat them, dipping them in the prepared sauce.
Very tasty, unusual, nutritious and mega-healthy snack! Be sure to cook, you will definitely like it!
I really like to cook various pastas and pates from seeds and nuts, it helps out so much when there is no time, but you need to eat something quickly, preferably healthy!
And do not be afraid of the calorie content, you, even if you want, will not be able to eat a lot, it's very satisfying!
Such pastes can not only be spread on bread, they can be used as fillings, and add to your own porridges, and spaghetti instead of sauce.
Store nut or seed paste in the refrigerator.
Lenten first courses
Friends, try to do this, and buckwheat soup will become your “favorite” for the lenten period, honestly!
And how do you like the idea of kharcho soup, gazpacho, pickle? You can continue the list. All this can be cooked without meat, and all this is quite tasty and nutritious!
So, friends, this is what I wanted to tell you today. I really hope that you will take some ideas for yourself and apply them.
If you liked the ideas from this article, then share with your friends on social. networks, friends and co-workers at work.
Write in the comments what you can eat in the post, your ideas for lean nutrition. What are you cooking? I will be very interested, I'm always looking for something new and cool.
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See you soon, my dears!
Alena Yasneva was with you, Health and Delicious Lent to everyone!
Lent is a period of spiritual and physical cleansing. During fasting, it is necessary to refuse any dishes that contain meat, milk and eggs. However, if you know the recipes for lenten dishes for every day during fasting, you can provide yourself and your family with a complete and balanced diet. In this article you will find delicious and original recipes for lenten dishes with photos.
Lenten borscht
Borscht is a traditional and one of the most delicious first courses. Borscht is most often prepared on the basis of pork, however, during the fasting period, you can cook a vegetarian borscht, which in taste will not differ much from a meat-based dish.
Components:
- Potato - 5 pcs.
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs. or tomato juice - 1 cup.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Carrot - 200 g.
- Beets - 2 pcs.
- Cabbage - 300 g.
- Sunflower oil.
- Salt, sugar, vinegar, garlic and other spices - to taste.
Peel and cut vegetables. Finely chop the cabbage. Remove the skin from the tomatoes and chop with a blender. Onion and garlic cut into small cubes.
Place the potatoes in a saucepan, cover with water and put on fire. After 10 minutes, add cabbage to the potatoes.
Heat up a frying pan, pour vegetable oil. When it warms up, put the onion in the pan, fry for 2 minutes, adding the carrots. Fry until done. At the end of cooking, add the twisted tomatoes and bring to a boil.
Grate the beets, squeeze out the juice. Roast the beets, sprinkling with lemon juice or vinegar to preserve the rich color. Pour the juice into a saucepan, add a little vinegar. This juice must be poured into borscht at the very end of cooking.
Add beetroot, zazharka, salt, sugar and spices to the pan. Cook until done. Turn off the borscht by adding garlic, herbs and beetroot juice with vinegar. Serve with black bread, fresh onions, garlic and herbs.
Lenten cabbage rolls
If you can't decide what to cook in the post before Easter, recipes can be taken from the classic ones, only by cooking them without meat. An excellent recipe during fasting is cabbage rolls, in which vegetables should be put instead of minced meat. Lenten cabbage rolls are not inferior in taste to the classic ones, but they contain fewer calories and can be consumed even during Lent.
Components:
- Large cabbage - 1 pc.
- Rice - 150 g.
- Onions and carrots 200 g each
- Tomato juice - 200 ml.
- Dill, green onion - to taste.
- Sunflower oil, garlic, sugar, spices.
Divide the cabbage into sheets, and boil until soft. For medium-sized sheets, it will take about five minutes. Boil rice until tender and let cool. It is best to use round rice - it will provide the necessary stickiness.
Finely chop the onion, grate the carrot. Fry vegetables until tender. Mix rice, fried, chopped or dried garlic and dill. Add spices and salt.
The finished mixture must be laid out on sheets. Roll up the filling. Fry on both sides for 1-2 minutes. Transfer the cabbage rolls to a saucepan, pour over the juice, add spices and simmer for half an hour.
Stuffed cabbage served with green onions, dill and any lean sauce. As a side dish, boiled potatoes with dill are suitable for such a dish.
mushroom stew
Vegetables are the basis of nutrition during Lent. Mushroom stew is a great option for lunch or dinner. It consists of fresh mushrooms, vegetables, herbs and spices. The dish is tasty, nutritious and fragrant.
Components:
- Champignons or other mushrooms - 500 g.
- Onions and bell peppers 300 g each
- Tomato paste - 50 ml or tomato juice - 200 ml.
- Flour - 1 tbsp. l.
- Spices.
Mushrooms must be washed, cut into large pieces. If champignons are used, then the medium mushroom must be cut into four parts. Onions must be peeled, cut into large slices. Peel sweet pepper, cut into large cubes. Cut the garlic into slices.
Fry garlic and onion in olive or vegetable oil. After 2-3 minutes, add sweet pepper and fry for a few more minutes. Then add mushrooms and fry for 10 minutes.
It remains only to put tomato paste, a little flour, 300 ml species and bring to a boil. When the stew boils, add spices and salt. Simmer for 15 minutes on low heat. Serve with parsley, dill or other herbs to taste.
Pilaf with pumpkin, dried apricots and raisins
Slov is a fragrant and satisfying dish, for the preparation of which it is not necessary to use meat. In addition, dried apricots and other dried fruits give the dish an incredible taste. This lean dish will appeal even to those who love pilaf with meat.
Components:
- Brown rice - 300 g.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 300 g.
- Pumpkin - 300g.
- Garlic - 2 heads.
- Seasoning for pilaf and salt.
- Raisins, dried apricots and other dried fruits - a handful.
Pumpkin and carrots should be peeled and cut into strips. Onion cut into cubes. Fry the vegetables one by one in vegetable oil. Pour into a cauldron, adding dried fruits, garlic and spices to it.
Rinse brown rice and fry in vegetable oil for a few minutes. Pour over the rest of the ingredients. It remains to add water or vegetable broth in such an amount that the liquid covers the components by 3 cm.
Cover and cook for 50-60 minutes. Brown rice takes longer to cook than usual, so if you cook pilaf with regular rice, the time should be reduced to 30 minutes.
Ready pilaf served with fresh herbs. As an addition to this dish, a fresh salad or vegetable cuts are best suited. Dried fruits give the dish a rich taste and aroma, so this pilaf is not inferior to a traditional dish with meat.
Barley porridge with olives and vegetables
Barley porridge is a fairly simple side dish. However, if you add vegetables, olives, bright spices and herbs to it, you can turn barley porridge into a full-fledged dish that can be consumed even during Lent.
Components:
- Perlovka - 200 g.
- Carrot - 1 pc.
- Onion - 150 g.
- Olives - 100 g.
- Sesame - 10 g.
- Water - 1 liter.
- Vegetable oil - 60 ml.
- Salt, pepper and other spices to taste.
Pearl barley should be washed, let the water drain. Fry in a dry frying pan until a pleasant aroma of pearl barley appears. Sesame should also be fried in a dry frying pan for a pleasant crunch.
Cut the carrots into thin slices, and finely chop the onion or cut into large cubes. Fry.
Place fried vegetables, sesame seeds, pearl barley in a saucepan and pour water. Cook until tender, adding salt, black pepper and other spices at the end of cooking.
Olives must be cut into thin slices and added to the porridge 10-15 minutes before the end of cooking. On average, the preparation of porridge takes 50 minutes. Serve porridge with fresh herbs or slices of fresh cucumbers.
Vegetarian curry
If you are looking for original Lenten dishes for every day of Lent, pay attention to the vegetarian curry. This is a spicy savory dish that will be the highlight of your Lenten menu. The original combination of vegetables and spices will surprise your friends and acquaintances with your taste.
Components:
- Vegetable frozen mix - 800 g.
- Almonds - two presses.
- Onion - 100 g.
- Ginger root - 20 g.
- Coconut milk - 1 cup.
- Garlic - to taste.
- Vegetable oil - 80 ml.
- Coriander, hot pepper, saffron, turmeric - to taste.
You can use any set of vegetables to prepare this dish. It may include sweet peppers, potatoes, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, asparagus and peas. The most important thing in this dish is the right set of spices. For those who like spicy dishes, you can use more hot peppers.
Fry the vegetable mixture in vegetable oil, add finely chopped onion. Additionally, add garlic and ginger, cut into thin slices. Add almonds, coriander, saffron, turmeric, chili, black pepper and other spices to taste to this mixture.
It remains only to add coconut milk, salt and simmer for 10-15 minutes. This dish is served hot. Additionally, you can decorate the curry with dill and parsley, and also serve with fresh vegetables.
Cabbage, orange and apple salad
A fresh salad is the best dish for those who fast or are fond of proper nutrition. Salad based on red cabbage, apples and oranges - a delicious combination and benefits. Its preparation takes a minimum of time. In addition, this salad can be both a main course and a great addition to cereals or boiled potatoes.
Components:
- Red cabbage - 400 g
- Apple - 200 g.
- Orange - 200 g.
- Olive or sunflower oil - 30 ml.
- Apple or grape vinegar - 30 ml.
- Black pepper and salt - to taste.
Peel apples and oranges and cut into thin slices. Shred the cabbage. Mix all the ingredients by dressing the salad with any vegetable oil and fruit vinegar. Salt and pepper. This salad is suitable as a main meal or addition to other dietary dishes.
Lenten cutlets
Great Lent is a test for every Orthodox person. Of course, meat cannot be replaced with vegetables, but tasty and crispy vegetarian cutlets will become a favorite dish during the fasting period.
Components:
- Cabbage - 1 pc.
- Semolina - 50 g.
- Onion - 100 g.
- Flour - 30 g.
- Garlic - ½ head.
- Salt, spices, dill - to taste.
- Breadcrumbs.
- Sunflower oil.
Boil cabbage for 10 minutes. Take it out of the water and let the water drain. Grind with a blender or meat grinder, and additionally squeeze out the liquid.
Grind onion and garlic with a blender or chop finely. Chop the dill with a hatchet or chop. Combine all ingredients, salt and pepper. Add semolina and flour. Let stand 10 minutes for the semolina to swell.
From the resulting mass, form cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs and fry in vegetable oil. Serve with vegetable salad or pickles.
Lenten cookies
If you are looking for delicious lean recipes for every day, pay attention to lean biscuits. It will be a wonderful dessert or appetizer during Lent. In addition, cookies do not contain sugar, so they can be part of diet food and children's menus.
Components:
- Oatmeal - 200 g.
- Rye flour - 2 tbsp. l.
- Green apples - 400 g.
- Carrots - 60 g.
- Walnut - 50 g.
- Cranberry - 40 g.
- Dates - 5 pcs.
- Freshly squeezed carrot or apple juice - 60 ml.
- Cinnamon and vanilla - to taste.
- Sesame - 2 tbsp. l.
Chop nuts and dates. Grate carrots on a coarse grater. Grind the apple with a blender or grate on a fine grater. Mix all the ingredients, adding spices, juice, cranberries, oatmeal and flour.
The resulting mass must be left for 20 minutes so that the flour and oatmeal absorb the juice. Form a cookie from the resulting mass, roll it in sesame seeds. Lay out on a baking sheet lined with parchment.
Bake for half an hour at medium temperature. Cookies can be eaten hot or cold.
Okroshka lenten
Despite the fact that okroshka is considered a summer dish, it can be cooked throughout the year. During the fasting period, okroshka can be prepared with salted or pickled mushrooms. It is best to cook such dishes with salted milk mushrooms or mushrooms.
Components:
- Fresh cucumbers - 400 g.
- Soaked apples - 2 pcs.
- Salted mushrooms - 150 g.
- Kvass - 1.5 liters.
- Green onions - 1 bunch.
- Dill - 1 bunch.
- Mustard, apple cider vinegar, salt - to taste.
Mushrooms must be thoroughly washed under running water and finely chopped. Peel the skin of fresh cucumbers and cut them into small cubes. Chop greens. Peel the apple from the peel and core, and also cut into small cubes.
Mix all ingredients and fill with kvass. To give okroshka a piquant taste and aroma, add a little apple or grape vinegar, mustard and black pepper. Salt to taste. Additionally, you can add boiled potatoes and fresh radishes to the okroshka.
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Great Lent is 40 days of both spiritual and food abstinence. However, this is not the only post of the year. There are also Petrov post, Assumption post, Nativity post. And each of them requires certain restrictions in food.
During fasting weeks, many housewives are happy to restrict themselves in food, following a diet for weight loss, but at the same time they are seriously worried about the diet of other family members. And not just like that - after all, many men and children oppose the fasting table and can reject the next meal, consisting of porridge and boiled beets.
Contrary to the established opinion about crackers and water, fasting food can and should be varied and complete. To do this, meat, eggs and dairy products should be replaced with their lean counterparts, and then dinner will no longer look unappetizing.
Your attention to 15 delicious dishes that you can cook in the post.
1. Oatmeal jelly - a replacement for yogurt
Not everyone loves oatmeal jelly, and almost no one cooks such a dish during fasting. Because of this, few people know that sour jelly is very similar to yogurt.
For cooking, you need to take a standard bag of oatmeal (400 g) and a crust of rye bread. Place the ingredients in a two-liter jar, pour cold water. The jar should be left for 12-24 hours, while stirring occasionally.
Then the oatmeal must be filtered through a sieve, pour the liquid into a saucepan and cook over low or medium heat. The mixture must be constantly stirred so that it does not burn. Pour hot jelly into jars and refrigerate.
2. Rice with honey and nuts on lean milk
Lean porridge can be made very tasty and nutritious without adding sugar to it. You can cook porridge on the water - the taste will not suffer much from this. If you are used to cereals with milk, you can take soy or peanut.
Peanut milk is easy to make - nuts need to be ground into very fine crumbs, pour water, mix and strain.
Rice porridge needs to be salted (after cooking) and add honey and your favorite nuts. With such a healthy and tasty dish, you can please your loved ones on a holiday.
Even lean cookies can be tasty, healthy and satisfying.
For cookies, you need oatmeal, frozen cranberries or jam, and vegetable oil. Oat flakes should be fried in sunflower or coconut oil, then put on a sieve and allowed to drain excess fat.
Grind oatmeal in a blender (you can not grind everything - to taste), mix with berries. Form cakes from the dough, put on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven until golden brown.
4. Broccoli stew with peas and avocado
Such a "green" stew will be very useful in the post. It will help replenish energy, as well as the supply of vitamins.
Take fresh broccoli, you can also add cauliflower to the dish. To diversify the stew, add green beans to it.
When the broccoli, beans and green peas are boiled, you can add avocado and season the dish with garlic sauce. Serve hot.
5. Nutella
What is breakfast without Nutella? The classic version of this delicacy is not lean, as it contains milk powder. We offer an alternative recipe without the use of animal products.
For cooking, you will need whole hazelnuts, honey, cocoa powder and coconut oil. Hazelnuts should be soaked overnight in cold water. In a blender, grind the hazelnuts into fine crumbs, add cocoa powder to taste, a little butter, just a little bit of honey (or maple syrup) and vanilla if desired.
Grind to a paste and add to lean pancakes mixed with soy milk, or spread on a loaf. Yummy! Try it!
6. Sandwich with lean bean mayonnaise
Let's get back to our sandwich. A lean sandwich should come out satisfying in order to satisfy the feeling of hunger for a long time.
For a sandwich, we need a salad, rye or whole grain bread, canned beans, cucumber, tomato to taste. Cut the vegetables into small slices, and mash the beans in a plate and add oil and salt. Now the beans will act as lean mayonnaise.
Lubricate the bun itself with bean mayonnaise, and spread all the vegetables evenly on top. Cover with the second part of the roll (or bread). Bon appetit!
7. Cabbage chips
Fasting has begun, and you want chips? Ordinary potato chips are considered lean, but there is little benefit in them.
You can make chips from white cabbage that you can eat without fear for health. To do this, you need to disassemble the head of cabbage into sheets, cut into pieces and grease with oil. Salt and pepper the future chips and put on a baking sheet. Send the baking sheet to the preheated oven, dry the chips until cooked.
This idea is popular not only in fasting, but also during weight loss. Such sweets are very sweet, they are perfect for tea, and at the same time they will not harm the figure.
The easiest option is to grind nuts and dried fruits, and then roll the balls in coconut flakes. There is another option, no less tasty.
Take a dried fruit without a stone (for example, dried tangerines will not work, but prunes are just right) and cut a hole with a knife. Inside put a small nut like hazelnuts, almonds or peanuts. The future candy should be smeared with honey, and then rolled in coconut, sesame or poppy seeds.
Such lean sweets will appeal to both adults and kids. Be careful - the sweets are too sweet!
In Russia, during Lent, a lot of different pies were prepared. The peasants added everything that remained from the meal to the filling: porridge, pickles and mushrooms. Pies were eaten instead of bread with soup and main courses.
Salty pies can be prepared with cucumbers, stewed fresh or sauerkraut, mushrooms, potatoes, buckwheat or rice. To make the pies tastier, the filling must be fried in a pan with vegetable oil.
Apples, pumpkin, carrots with honey, jam or frozen berries are great for sweet pies. Pumpkin pies are especially tasty, despite the fact that many do not like this vegetable.
Pie dough must be yeast: put a teaspoon of yeast in a bowl, grind with sugar, pour a glass of water and knead a thin dough. When it rises, you can add salt and flour to the desired density.
10. Lenten borscht
Fasting is a time of restriction, and many, especially men, want a hearty meal. Unfortunately, the classic borscht recipe contains meat and is not suitable for fasting. But what happens if meat is replaced with mushrooms?
Borsch with mushrooms is more like a mushroom soup, and therefore it is necessary to add beets, parsley and beans to it. You need to cook borscht in the same way as the classic one, removing only the stage of cooking beef.
11. Vareniki
Meat and completely non-lean dumplings can be replaced with dumplings. They can be with anything: potatoes, mushrooms, cranberries or raspberries. On some big holidays, fish is allowed, so on such days you can cook dumplings with fish.
For the dumplings test, you only need flour, water, oil and salt. This dough does not require yeast.
All ingredients must be gently and thoroughly mixed, gradually adding flour to salt water. In the resulting dough, you need to mix flour until it stops “absorbing” it into itself.
This dish came to us from Lithuania. It has a very unusual taste and quickly saturates. Be sure that you will like this porridge!
First you need to boil barley. Before cooking, pearl barley is soaked overnight. In the morning, you can drain the water and boil it. Please note that this process will take a long time.
Next, you need to grate raw potatoes. Barley and grated potatoes should be put on a hot frying pan, greased with vegetable oil. Fry glass porridge until golden brown.
The Lithuanian dish must be served warm, pre-decorated with fresh herbs.
13. Salad with mushrooms and pine nuts
So that during fasting vitamin deficiency does not take away all your strength, you need to refresh yourself with a vitamin salad. Mushrooms in its composition will saturate with useful and high-quality vegetable protein.
To prepare the salad, you will need blue onions, mushrooms, spinach and cedar nuts. Finely chop the onion, dip in boiling water and put in a bowl. Finely chop spinach and mushrooms, add pine nuts. Salad can be seasoned with garlic sauce or olive oil. You can also decorate it with arugula or basil.
14. Potato pancakes (cutlets)
Potatoes have long been used to prepare a variety of dishes: chips, french fries, casseroles. In fasting, cutlets can be prepared from this product.
To prepare cutlets, you will need potatoes, flour, onions and carrots. Carrots need to be fried together with onions in a pan. Please note that these ingredients must be very finely chopped so that whole pieces of onion do not come across in cutlets.
The fried mixture must be mixed either with mashed potatoes (make sure that there are no lumps in it), to which no water has been added, or with finely grated raw potatoes. In the first case, you get pancakes (cutlets), in the second - classic potato pancakes.
From this "dough" you need to mold small cutlets, then put it on a hot frying pan and fry until golden brown.
15. Salad with crab meat and corn
On some days, a fasting person can afford fish. Most of these days are Sundays and holidays.
And as you know, crab sticks are made from surimi - this is minced white fish meat. Corn and sweet peppers are ideal for this product. The salad will go perfectly for the second course, it will saturate for a long time.
To prepare the salad, you need crab meat or sticks, canned corn, red or yellow peppers and herbs. You can fill the salad with a paste of mashed ripe avocado.
What is characteristic of the time allotted by the Orthodox Church for fasting? This is the time of abstinence and restrictions, the time when a person torments his body so that the soul can “feed”.
The main rule (without going into subtleties) is the absence of animal products in food. What does this refer to:
- meat,
- bird,
- butter,
- milk and dairy products (kefir, fermented baked milk, sour cream ...),
- eggs,
- fish (some days allowed).
If you restrict your diet in this way, you will be fasting. A true pastor of souls will tell you that even without delving into the subtleties and daily prohibitions and permissions, you are walking the path of abstinence and humility of your flesh.
In practice, if we analyze the "lean" cuisine, then it is 99% the same as vegetarian.
In this collection, we have collected for you recipes for lean (or otherwise vegetarian) dishes that you can cook during fasting. And trust me, it's delicious!
At the beginning of each recipe, there is an exact list of the ingredients from which this dish is prepared. But you can find the detailed cooking process with step-by-step instructions and nuances by clicking on the link “HERE”. All recipes have been tried and tested. The final photo of a really cooked dish, then what you get.
Lenten menu delicious recipes during fasting
Lenten recipes (main course)
Sauteed vegetables
Would need:
- 4-5 pcs. small eggplants;
- 4-5 pcs. small tomatoes;
- 5-6 pcs. bell pepper;
- 2 pcs. large carrots;
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper;
- ½ teaspoon of allspice ground pepper;
- 1 teaspoon chopped dried basil
- 100 ml of vegetable oil;
- salt to taste.
In this cooking option, eggplants are taken as the main ingredients. Vegetable saute is easy to prepare and in a short time, but in the end you get a rich, aromatic, and most importantly, delicious dish. It will be both a good side dish and an excellent independent dish. For details on the process of cooking sautéed vegetables and photo instructions, see.
Escalivada
Would need:
- 2 eggplants;
- spinach (can be replaced with arugula);
- 4 red sweet peppers;
- 1 clove of garlic;
- 2-3 tablespoons of olive oil;
- parsley;
- ground black pepper;
- salt.
This dish comes from Catalonia (Spain). Escalivada is not difficult to prepare, but the dish turns out wonderful! It is preferable for him to cook vegetables on the grill - then they will acquire an irreplaceable aroma, and not just bake, and your Escalivada will turn out really wonderful! For details on the cooking process of this dish with photo instructions, see.
Buckwheat porridge with mushrooms
Would need:
- 1 st. buckwheat;
- 300 grams of mushrooms;
- vegetable oil;
- salt.
Simple and delicious - that's the motto of this dish! Many have already fallen in love with the combination of these products, and how could it be otherwise? It takes a little time to prepare, but the result is a delicious and fragrant meal. In addition, it is very nutritious, because there are many useful substances in buckwheat. You can find out in detail how to cook buckwheat porridge with mushrooms.
Vegetable stew with zucchini
Would need:
- 300 g cabbage;
- 1 PC. medium-sized zucchini;
- 1 PC. medium sized carrots;
- 2 onion heads;
- 500 g potatoes;
- 1 PC. bell pepper;
- vegetable oil;
- salt.
Usually the stew is cooked with meat and all the ingredients are stewed in a rich sauce or fried. This version of the stew is vegetable, without meat, and all vegetables will be stewed in their own juice, so it is suitable for people who fast and vegetarians. You will find a detailed recipe with a photo step by step
Barley porridge with vegetables
For cooking you will need:
- 1 st. pearl barley;
- 1 PC. carrots;
- 1 head of onion;
- 300 grams of cabbage;
- 150 grams of mushrooms;
- 2 tablespoons of Krasnodar sauce;
- 100 grams of refined oil.
Barley porridge, like buckwheat, is a Russian national food. Together with vegetables, this porridge acquires a pleasant taste, moreover, it is good for the body to assimilate and is generally very beneficial for it. And carrots and sauce give the dish a beautiful color. For a step-by-step recipe for barley porridge with vegetables, click here.
Lenten rice dishes
Rice with frozen vegetables
Would need:
- 1 st. rice
- 100 g of corn;
- 100 g of asparagus;
- 100 g of sweet pepper (preferably red);
- garlic;
- vegetable oil;
- spices to taste.
Because of the frozen food, this dish is good to cook in winter, when the choice of fresh vegetables is rather scarce. But vitamins in winter are even more needed by our body, so lunch will turn out to be useful. Such rice will conquer you with fragrant aroma and excellent taste! Click here for a step by step recipe.
Vegetarian pilaf (with mushrooms)
You will need:
- 600 g long grain rice;
- 400 g mushrooms;
- 1 large carrot;
- 200 g raisins;
- 2 tablespoons of tomato sauce;
- 2 onion heads;
- vegetable oil (i.e. vegetable).
This recipe is just for those people who are different from the main mass of people who fast and for vegetarians. Pilaf turns out crumbly and with a pleasant aroma. Raisins add an unusual but pleasant sweetness and are loaded with nutrients. This dish will not leave anyone indifferent. And in detail about the process of preparing this dish with photo instructions, see.
Sweet pilaf
You will need:
- 1 st. long grain rice;
- 70 g dried apricots;
- 70 g raisins;
- 70 g prunes;
- ½ st. refined oil.
Most often, pilaf is cooked salty, and sweet pilaf is not typical on our tables. The kids will love this variation of the recipe and won't need to be coaxed into eating their lunch. In addition to this, it is useful and nutritious. How to cook sweet pilaf, see step by step.
Salads in fasting for every day
Salad - vegetable noodles
You will need:
- daikon;
- cucumber;
- carrot;
- Bell pepper;
- lemon;
- parsley;
- sesame;
- olive oil.
This salad looks bright and elegant, so it will also have a place on the festive table. This dish is suitable for raw foodists, because all salad products are used raw. How to cook this wonderful salad step by step with a photo, you will learn by clicking.
salads in post recipes with photos
Classic vinaigrette
Would need:
- 200 grams of lettuce;
- ½ cup beans;
- 100 grams of sauerkraut;
- 2 medium sized carrots;
- 2 pieces of small potatoes;
- 1 piece of pickled cucumber;
- 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- salt;
- greenery.
Ordinary products that are always in the house are wonderfully combined in a salad that can be prepared both for a celebration and for an ordinary family dinner. A classic vinaigrette is not difficult to prepare, but it turns out a beautiful and satisfying salad. You will learn step by step cooking this salad.
Petrovsky salted cabbage
Would need:
- 2 kg of cabbage;
- 2 pieces of large onion heads;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 2 pieces of large carrots;
- 1 glass of vegetable oil;
- 100 grams of vinegar;
- sugar;
- salt.
Cabbage according to this recipe comes out appetizing and crispy. Although the shelf life of Petrovsky salted cabbage is somewhat shorter than ordinary sauerkraut, but, as a rule, it is eaten very quickly - it is very tasty. For details on the cooking process of this dish with photo instructions, see.
Carrot in Korean
What products will you need:
- 1 kg of carrots;
- 6-7 large cloves of garlic;
- 2 teaspoons without top of ground coriander;
- ½ cup vegetable oil;
- 3-4 tablespoons of vinegar (9%);
- salt, sugar, pepper - 1 teaspoon each.
This recipe is just delicious-tasting Korean-style carrots! Bright carrots will decorate your table, and your family will be delighted, and guests will ask for the recipe! The dish is not very spicy and fragrant. How to cook this salad step by step, you will learn.
Beetroot in Korean
What is needed for the recipe:
- 1 kg of maroon beets (table);
- garlic take 6 cloves;
- 1 white onion (medium);
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper;
- ¾ teaspoon ground red pepper;
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon;
- 1/3 teaspoon coriander;
- 5 pieces of cloves;
- 2 tablespoons of vinegar;
- salt;
- vegetable oil.
Bright, spicy and fragrant salad that many people love. It can often be seen on our tables, although it was brought from distant Korea. Beets according to this recipe are well suited to any side dish, having a sharp and special taste. This vegetable is rich in iron - this is another reason to prepare such a salad. For details on the cooking process of this dish with photo instructions, see.
Raw salad "Vitamin Bomb"
You will need:
- 400 g of Jerusalem artichoke;
- 400 g carrots;
- 400 g turnip;
- 200 g of beets;
- greenery;
- olive oil for salad dressing.
In this salad, the products perfectly complement each other in taste and color. The dish turns out beautiful, in addition to this, all the ingredients have a beneficial effect on the body. The salad got its name due to its richness in vitamins - their amount in one serving completely replenishes the required volume for the day. You will learn how to cook the Vitamin Bomb salad step by step by clicking.
Lenten recipes for a snack or snack
Fried pies with cabbage (very thin dough)
For a lean pie dough, we take:
- 4 tbsp. flour (with a slide);
- 2 standard glasses of water;
- 1 tablespoon of sugar;
- 50 grams of fresh yeast;
- 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- 1 teaspoon of salt;
- vegetable oil for frying.
The filling is prepared from the following products:
- 500 grams of fresh or sauerkraut (to your taste);
- 1 head of onion (bigger);
- 1 piece of carrot (medium size);
- vegetable oil for frying;
- allspice.
Well, very good recipe! The pies are delicate and very tasty because the dough is thin and tender. Cooking does not take much time and the process is absolutely simple. And, of course, this dish is suitable for those who are fasting, as there are no animal products in the recipe. You will learn how to cook these wonderful pies step by step by clicking.
Oriental snack - hummus
You will need:
- 200 g chickpeas;
- 5 tablespoons of sesame seeds;
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander;
- 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 2 tablespoons of sesame oil;
- 5 tablespoons of olive oil.
This appetizer was invented in the East. Peas are taken as the base product of hummus, so the dish turns out to be quite satisfying. One sandwich with this snack guarantees you a feeling of satiety for a long time. For details on the process of preparing this oriental appetizer with photo instructions, see.
Braised Cabbage with Turmeric
Would need:
- 500 grams of cabbage;
- 200 grams of carrots;
- 3-4 onions (take medium ones);
- 1/3 teaspoon of turmeric;
- spice mediterranean;
- vegetable oil.
Such a common and uncomplicated, in fact, recipe, loved by many. Only in traditional cooking options, due to long stewing, cabbage becomes extremely soft and loses all vitamins. According to the recipe we offer, the cabbage comes out juicy, fragrant, with a beautiful golden color, and the cooking itself will take about 30-40 minutes. Serve this dish with potatoes - it will be a good combination. In addition, this cabbage is well suited as a filling for dumplings. For details on the cooking process of this dish with photo instructions, see.
Braised cabbage with oyster mushrooms
You will need:
- 200 grams of oyster mushrooms;
- ¼ head of cabbage;
- 1 small carrot;
- 3-4 medium sized onions;
- ground pepper;
- Bay leaf;
- 50 grams of tomato paste;
- vegetable oil for frying;
- salt.
It will take a little time to cook, and besides, it will not be difficult to cook at all. Stewed cabbage with oyster mushrooms is quite satisfying and tasty, and the unique aroma will not leave anyone indifferent. For details on the cooking process of this dish with photo instructions, see.
Sweets and desserts during Lent
Banana ice cream (raw)
Would need:
- 2 bananas.
Yes, that's all - 2 bananas. Despite the small list of ingredients, ice cream can really be prepared even at home. And it turns out very tasty! Once you try it, you will want to cook it again and again. How to make banana ice cream step by step, you will learn by clicking.
Dried fruit energy bar
You will need:
- 1 glass of nuts;
- 1 cup dates;
- 1 glass of cherries.
Such dried fruit bars energize, tone up the body and saturate well. These delicious bars also have a positive effect on the body, because these dried fruits contain a large amount of vitamins. For details on the cooking process of this dish with photo instructions, see.
Oven baked apples with cinnamon and lemon
What are we preparing from:
- 6 apples of optimal size for baking;
- 1 lemon;
- honey 2-3 tablespoons;
- cinnamon to your taste.
Apples according to this recipe are very juicy and tasty. The union of these products is incomparably beneficial for the body. And the diffused aroma leaves an indelible impression. For details on the cooking process of this dish with photo instructions, see.
Oatmeal with dried fruits
To prepare 100 grams of oatmeal, you need to take:
- 100 g prunes;
- 100 g dried apricots;
- 100 g raisins;
- sugar;
- salt.
One of the healthiest breakfasts is oatmeal combined with dried fruits. And, of course, in winter, when our body needs more nutrients than usual, such a meal will come in handy. Cooking such porridge turns out without extra time and effort. From oatmeal, porridge turns out to be more tender, and it cooks faster, so it is preferable to take them for cooking. How to cook oatmeal with dried fruits, see step by step
Caramel lean charlotte with apples
- flour (1.5 cups);
- sugar (4 tablespoons for caramel and 0.5 cups for dough);
- oil (0.5 cup);
- large apples (2 pcs.);
- baking powder (1 teaspoon);
- crushed cinnamon (0.5 tea l.);
- water (1 tablespoon).
Believe it or not, you can even bake an apple pie from lean foods. This is delicious. Detailed recipe and photo steps. And here is the miracle lean pie in the photo.
Lean apple pancakes on the water
This recipe is very, very suitable for fasting, it does not have milk, but softness due to a small amount of applesauce.
Ingredients:
- wheat and whole grain flour - 3 table spoons + 3 table spoons;
- an apple of medium size;
- ordinary water - 1 glass;
- vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon;
- refined sugar - 2 tablespoons;
- a little soda.
The recipe is incredibly simple. You probably already understood everything from the list of products, but it’s still worth looking at the detailed instructions. Here is a link to step by step photos and description -.
The section contains interesting and simple Lenten dishes, recipes for every day, for weekdays and weekends, salads, soups, desserts, main courses and, of course, pastries. Lenten menu is not a synonym for boring. It's time to learn how to bake delicious homemade bread (on flour and water), custard potato cakes and sweet lean muffins. Taste unusual tasting mashed soups, cook mushroom noodles and deliciously wonderful lean borscht. And, of course, make instant marinades. I would advise you to try all the recipes presented in our collection of meatless recipes every day, expanding your culinary collection and enriching the 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 a delicious crust? Try it, 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 any honey or molasses. The dough is kneaded on ordinary jam and strong tea.
Cakes on water and flour
An excellent option for replacing white bread in fasting is cakes on water and flour. They are prepared in an elementary way. And thanks to a simple secret, they remain soft and fluffy for a long time. Flat cakes are so tasty that many people “sit down” on them and include this lean recipe in their daily menu.
Simple soup with "Mexican" mixed vegetables
The simplest lean soup. In the composition - a ready-made frozen mixture of vegetables and legumes, roasted onions and carrots and cereals. Any to your taste will do. Bulgur soup is especially good.
Salad with beans, fried mushrooms and cucumbers
Hearty lean salad with an original taste. In the composition - canned beans, fried mushrooms with onions, salted or pickled cucumbers and a lot of fresh herbs.
Candied orange peels
An unhurried method of preparing candied fruits from a waste product - orange peels. A few days of soaking and boiling gives an excellent taste result. Candied fruits are so bright and fragrant that they can be presented as sweet gifts during Lent.
Lenten recipe of old Russian cuisine - juicy, fragrant dough envelopes with mushrooms and buckwheat. They prepare slowly, with feeling, really, with arrangement.
Barley cutlets
The trick recipe is how to cook cutlets from ordinary barley that look more appetizing than meat ones. Very tender, light, with fried onions, carrots and garlic. The recipe is a find for those who are looking for interesting and unusual Lenten dishes.
Lean oatmeal cookies with honey
To make fasting tasty and varied, try these wonderful lean cookies with honey, cinnamon and other spices. Amazing flavor, crispy, crumbly texture. The recipe is very simple and suitable for beginner cooks.
Rustic potatoes in the oven
A very simple and very tasty dish that is perfect for Lent. Potatoes are poured with vegetable oil, sprinkled with spices and sent to the oven to bake until fully cooked.
Easy brine cookies
The recipe is a greeting from the half-starved 90s. Vegetable oil, flour, baking powder and cucumber pickle, some raisins, nuts or candied fruits - and now the dough for a wonderful crumbly cookie is ready, which is called "out of nothing".
Lenten apple pie
You, for sure, have already managed to be surprised how tasty, varied and rich the lenten menu can be. Among the Lenten dishes for every day, an honorable place is occupied by an apple pie. And not some dubious, but supposedly useful pancake. A fluffy, shiny yeast pie-braid.
Lenten honey gingerbread
One of the most popular budget lean baking recipes, which is suitable for beginners, because it is simple, understandable and has a good composition of products. You can bake a gingerbread on water, you can use tea, or you can use apple juice.
Lenten borscht with beans
A bright accent in the lenten menu is rich borscht with beans. The recipe gives detailed instructions on how to achieve exactly the same color as in the photo. I hope you enjoy both the cooking process and the result.
Cabbage stew with mushrooms
A very tasty and simple lean dish for every day. Mushrooms, onions, cabbage and tomato - that's all you need to prepare a hearty lean lunch.
Armenian bean pate
During the fasting period, it is extremely important to support the body with food containing vegetable protein. Legumes and nuts are considered an ideal alternative to dairy and meat foods. Lenten bean pate in Armenian style will definitely add variety to the diet of fasting days, and will also please you with its accessibility 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
Hearty lean dish of beans, nuts and vegetables.
Lean mayonnaise
Recipe from the category of culinary miracles. Looking at the list of ingredients, you can’t believe that they will turn out what you see in the picture - a delicate, thick, lean mayonnaise that can be used, for example, for dressing salads or served as a sauce for lentil cutlets.
Lenten manti with vegetable filling
You probably already understood how extensive the menu of lean recipes for every day can be. We expand the variety with a recipe for manti with vegetable filling. Try it, you might like this option more than usual.
Lentil and rice meatballs in tomato sauce
A decoy dish - minced lentils with rice is really difficult to distinguish from ordinary meatballs. The form keeps perfectly without the addition of eggs and flour. If you steam them, you can even do without vegetable oil, which is extremely important during Lent.
canned bean soup
Hearty, bright, cheerful bean soup in a hurry - in your piggy bank of lean recipes.
Lenten pancakes on mineral water
A popular pancake recipe. Try it - they really turn out tastier than the quick ones. And they are much easier to bake.
Lean pea soup
Peas are a great product for a lenten menu. It is hearty, gives a lot of thick. Try a simple and delicious pea soup with potatoes, carrots and onions.
Indian samosas with vegetables
Samosas - a dish of Indian cuisine - fried pies from a simple lean dough with a vegetable filling, the composition of which can be made at your discretion. Perfect for a dinner table.
Shchi from fresh cabbage
A recipe for delicious cabbage soup on the water, with roasted vegetables, herbs and fragrant freshly ground pepper, is an actual recipe for fasting. The recipe is filmed in detail, step by step and suitable for beginner cooks.
Lean lasagna
During fasting, it becomes possible to make sure that classic dishes can be just as tasty without the use of seemingly obligatory ingredients. Try making juicy vegetable lasagna without cheese and on lean dough.
Green Pea Soup
The king of the lenten menu is green like March grass breaking out from under melting snowdrifts, and just as tender, it is brewed from four ingredients, including water.
Buckwheat noodles with vegetables
If you have never tried buckwheat noodles, then fasting is a very good time for this. The noodles are exceptionally tasty with a spicy vegetable sauce, which is made from the most common products - onions, carrots, sweet peppers and green beans.
Potato cutlets with peas
A very funny lean recipe - at first glance, the most ordinary cutlets, and you will bite them - inside are tender mashed potatoes and funny peas. Be sure to try!
Potato in a pot
A simple fasting dish for every day, which can be found in cookbooks called "church potatoes." Unremarkable in appearance, such potatoes are delicious in taste.
Classic vinaigrette recipe
A traditional dish of Russian cuisine with a French name. In the composition - boiled beets, carrots, potatoes, onions, pickles and green peas. The perfect solution for a lean table.
mushroom noodles
Very hearty, rich, wonderfully tasty soup, prepared in an elementary way! You can cook at least every day.
homemade peanut butter
Psychologists have proven that any restrictions activate the creative abilities of a person. Fasting is the time to learn how to cook something unusual, which you won’t 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 at least every day.
Beetroot in Korean
Learning how to cook homemade salads in Korean is a great way to diversify the lenten menu, make it rich and interesting. Preparing this salad is quite easy. Volumes can be immediately made large, because it is excellent in the refrigerator for two to three weeks.
Korean cabbage
During fasting, please your household with delicious instant pickled cabbage. It acquires a bright golden color due to the addition of turmeric.