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Lenten meals during Lent. Lenten food: cooking recipes

Lenten meals during Lent. Lenten food: cooking recipes

19.10.2019

Fasting is a religious tradition of abstaining from food. And it is precisely this abstinence that causes housewives to think a lot about what to cook. Let's learn some basic recipes.

Remember that good nutrition is the key to your health. Therefore, during fasting, you should not starve, 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, but at the same time healthy dishes that must be prepared during fasting. It is worth noting that the Advent fast also covers the New Year holiday, and those who strictly adhere to the fast have to limit themselves to dishes. And what is the New Year without Olivie, and for those who are fasting, an alternative can be found.

Take:

300 g potatoes
100 g carrots and onions
100 g asparagus or beans
100 g of your favorite mushrooms
100 g lean mayonnaise
spices

Cooking:

Boil the first three ingredients and cut into cubes
If pickling mushrooms, then also chop them. Boil fresh mushrooms
Chopped pickled onions
Mix ingredients, add spices and season with mayonnaise
Leave to infuse for 60 minutes and serve

Delicious salad with corn and croutons:

300 g Chinese cabbage
1 can of corn
1 bulb
100 g crackers
100 g lean mayonnaise
Spices

The advantage of such a salad is that after fasting you can cook it with ordinary mayonnaise:

Cut onion and cabbage
Mix with corn
Season with spices and mayonnaise
Sprinkle breadcrumbs on top

Salad with crab sticks- This is a universal festive dish that will decorate both a festive and daily table:

200 g sticks
100 g rice
1 bulb
200 g corn
250 g mushrooms
100 g lean mayonnaise
spices

rinse the rice and boil until tender
cut crab sticks, mushrooms and onions
mix all the ingredients and season with mayonnaise

You can also cook very simple salads:

from cabbage with vegetable oil
from tomatoes and cucumbers
beetroot salad with vegetable oil

Lenten pastries: recipes

Very tasty and easy to bake during Lent oat cookies. To do this, take:

300 g oatmeal
50 g of 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 place on a baking sheet.
Bake at 120 C for 60 minutes

Adults and children love delicious pancakes. And in the post they can be no less sweet and lush. To do this, take:

500 g flour
300 g warm water
1 tsp yeast and salt
1 tbsp sugar

Prepare pancakes like this:

Pour salt with sugar and yeast into warm water
While the yeast is dispersing, sift the flour
Mix the ingredients with flour and, covering with cling film, send to a warm place to infuse
When you see that the dough has almost doubled, then place the pancakes on a preheated pan with a spoon
Lush and delicious pastries are ready. Sweet tooth can increase the amount of sugar by 1.5-2 times

Gingerbread during fasting, they cook very often. But now we propose to cook not just pastries, but diversify the gingerbread with 2 apples and 50 g of walnuts, as well as:

200 g sugar and water
1 tsp each of soda and lemon juice
2 tbsp honey
300 g flour
5 g baking powder

Preparing the rug:

Chop the walnuts
Mix flour and ripper
Mix sugar with water, put in a water bath
Add honey and cook until honey dissolves
Extinguish the soda and pour into the mixture
Remove the mixture from the water bath and add the nuts
Add flour with ripper and knead the dough
Pour the batter onto a baking sheet and arrange the chopped apples on top.
Bake the gingerbread for half an hour at a temperature of 180 ° C

Another delicious baking recipe - onion pie. After all, not everyone likes sweet pastries, but this dish is very refined and easy to prepare:

750 g 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 rice and add to boiling water, cook until tender.
Drain the broth from the rice, this is what you will need.
Chop the onion and fry.
Knead the dough by adding rice water to it. You can do this by hand or with a bread maker.
When the dough has risen and rises, divide it into 3 parts.
Roll out each part and spread the onion, fold the dough on top of each other.
Cut the cake into 16 pieces and roll each into a bagel.
Arrange in the form of bagels and bake for 30 minutes.
A delicious cake is ready, you can invite guests and give them tea with homemade cakes.

Lenten first courses, recipes

One of the most satisfying first courses is borscht. And even in the post it can be prepared quite diversely. We offer the main 2 options for lean borscht:

For classic lean borscht stock up:

2 each potato, beetroot and tomato
1 carrot and 1 onion
half a cabbage
2 cloves of garlic
1 st. 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 the pan and, when it boils, put the potatoes in the container
fry carrots and onions in a pan
in a separate pan, also stew the chopped beets
chop the tomatoes with a blender and add to the pan
when the beets with 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

A great option for lean borscht with beans and mushrooms. Add to the previous ingredients:

200 g champignons
10 prunes
100 g dry beans
1 tbsp tomato paste

Prepare lean borscht like this:

Rinse beans and leave to swell overnight
In the morning, boil it in the same water for 45 minutes.
Pull out the beans, and pour chopped potatoes into that water
Fry onions with carrots with tomato paste
In another pan, stew the beets and finely chopped prunes
Pour the contents of two pans into the pot with the potatoes
Fry the mushrooms in the freed pan
While everything is cooking, chop the cabbage
When the ingredients in the borscht are already slightly softened, but not yet soft enough, pour mushrooms, cabbage and previously cooked beans into it.
Borscht should be cooked for another 10-15 minutes
Sprinkle the first dish with herbs and invite your family to the table

Another dish that is known on fasting days is pickle. The ingredients for such a dish for 2 liters of water are as follows:

100 g barley
5 potatoes
1 carrot and onion
2 pickled cucumbers with 100 g brine
spices

Cooking process:

Rinse the cereal and leave to swell for 30 minutes
Boil barley until tender
At this time, cut the potatoes into cubes
Add potatoes and spices to softened cereals
Fry the grated carrot and chopped onion
Add the roast to the pickle when the potatoes are already soft enough
Cut the cucumbers and also pour into the pickle
At the end, pour in the brine, and bring the dish to a boil
Lenten pickle is ready

Well, how to do without lean soup. One of the traditional options is noodles soup:

2 small onions and 2 medium carrots
200 g noodles
A couple of stalks of celery
Spices to taste

Fry onions with spices until golden brown
Cut the celery, carrots and also send to the onion for just a couple of minutes
Put the ingredients in a saucepan and pour 2 liters of water, cook until boiling
Next, add the noodles and cook until tender.
If desired, sprinkle with herbs and you can try your creation.

It will also be very tasty lean soup with peas. For it you need:

3 potatoes
1 carrot and onion
100 g peas
Spices and herbs to taste

Soup preparation:

Leave the peas to swell overnight in cold water.
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 the soup and cook until the potatoes soften.
Sprinkle with herbs before serving.
It is very tasty to complement such a soup with croutons or crackers.

Lenten cabbage recipe

Cabbage perfectly complements salads and first courses. You can also cook lean pastries with cabbage. But a great and simple option during fasting is braised cabbage:

1 bulb
500 g white cabbage
7 g of vinegar, sugar and flour
15 g tomato paste
100 g water
30 g sunflower oil

Cooking instructions:

Chop the cabbage and simmer with butter for about 20 minutes
Then add chopped onion, 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

On sale there are several varieties of lean mayonnaise, which is great for dressing dishes during fasting. But you can also prepare such a product at home. So you can be sure that you are using a quality product:

750 g water
250 g flour
3 tbsp each of lemon juice and mustard
2 tablespoons of sugar and salt
120 g vegetable oil

Making mayonnaise is not difficult at all, for this:

Sift the flour and add a little water to it, grind until a homogeneous mass is formed.
Add the rest of the water and boil until thickened, leave to cool.
Mix the rest of the ingredients in a separate bowl and, whisking with a mixer, introduce the flour.
When the mass becomes homogeneous, the mayonnaise is ready. Simple and fast!

Lean 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 be used to make wonderful pastries. Fragrant and lush pies or pies with mushrooms will come in handy for tea.

An excellent option would be to cook fried potatoes and mushrooms with herbs. By mixing these ingredients you will get a great lunch or dinner.

But one of the favorite fasting recipes are cabbage rolls with mushrooms and rice. For cooking you will need:

400 g cabbage leaves
100 g of rice and mushrooms
1 bulb
50 g flour and tomato paste
Spices
mushroom broth

Preparing cabbage rolls is not difficult:

Boil rice and mushrooms in separate containers, then cut the latter into strips
Chop the onion and fry, add spices
Stir in rice and mushrooms
Wash the cabbage leaves and cut off the thickening
Spread the filling on the cooled leaves and fry in a pan
While cabbage rolls are fried, mix flour with tomato and broth
Put the cabbage rolls in a saucepan, pour in the broth and simmer for 45 minutes

Another very tasty recipe with mushrooms is stuffed champignons. The filling can be any lean - this is rice, and mushroom legs with herbs, as well as various vegetables. You will simply need:

Remove stems from mushrooms
Arrange them on a baking sheet and stuff them with the chosen filling.
Lightly spread lean mayonnaise on top 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:

First, try the first one - pumpkin soup for which you will need:

400 g pumpkin
1 bulb
4 cloves of garlic
500 g vegetable broth
Spices

This soup will be in the form of mashed soup:

Place the chopped ingredients in a baking dish and put in the oven at 200 C
After that, put the ingredients in a blender bowl, adding the broth, and whisk
Garnish the soup with herbs and serve

Unusual but delicious dish pumpkin in batter. For her, you only need flour and pumpkin in a ratio of 1:5, as well as a little oil for frying. You can add your favorite spices if you wish. The cooking process is very simple - roll small pieces of pumpkin in flour and fry until golden brown in oil.

Try as an appetizer 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
Olive oil
Spices

Warm salad is prepared as follows:

Put the sliced pumpkin into a baking dish.
Arrange chopped tomatoes on top, add oil and spices
Bake vegetables 15 minutes
At this time, chop the greens
Sprinkle a warm salad with herbs, mix and serve until cool.

You can also make oatmeal with chopped nuts, pumpkin and cinnamon.

Lenten 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 stop at the achieved results. Let's try some more options.

Let's start with potato casserole with mushrooms:

3 potatoes
700 g mushrooms
1 bulb
Spices

The casserole is very easy to make:

Boil and pass the mushrooms with potatoes through a meat grinder
Saute the onion and mix with the potato-mushroom mixture
Arrange the future casserole in a baking dish and bake until browned

An exquisite and healthy dish is potatoes with prunes and raisins. For 0.5 kg of potatoes, take:

100 g dried fruits
20 g vegetable oil
Greens and spices

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, you can sprinkle freshly chopped herbs on top

And how to avoid potato zrazy. But let's supplement them with rice and vegetables. So they will be even tastier:

0.5 kg potatoes
100 g rice
1 onion and carrot
Spices

Cooking method:

Boil potatoes in their skins and mash or grate
Boil rice and fry vegetables
Mix ingredients, add spices and form meatballs
Fry until golden brown

With potatoes, you can cook a lot of dishes; during fasting, this is a product that will help you out more than once.

Lenten cutlets: photo recipes

Do not think that cutlets are only meat. The variety of options is simply amazing. Let's 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 bulb
2 cloves of garlic
50 g semolina
Spices

Vegetable cutlets:

Boil 2 potatoes
While the tubers are cooking, chop the eggplant and onion in a meat grinder, squeeze out the juice
Grate the rest of the potatoes and add to the chopped vegetables
Add mashed boiled potatoes and semolina there.
Mix well, if desired, roll in breadcrumbs and fry
Consume hot

bean cutlets, in this case we use mung bean - small peas:

500 g peas
1 bulb
Spices

Pea cutlets:

Soak mung beans for 2-3 hours in cold water
Drain and fill with new water, cook for 20 minutes after boiling
Grind peas in a blender
Fry the onion and mix with the pea mixture
Blind cutlets and fry

You can also make great oatmeal cutlets- simple and delicious:

250 g cereal
1 onion and potato
5 champignons
2 cloves of garlic
spices

Cooking cutlets:

Steam oatmeal for 20 minutes
Peel potatoes and grate on a fine grater
Grind onions with mushrooms in a blender along with herbs
Mix the ingredients and blind cutlets, 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 presented a recipe for lean Olivier, take note of it. This article offers a variety of options that can be used for New Year's Eve. But still we want to offer you some more interesting dishes:

Vegetable aspic:

1 eggplant, zucchini and bell pepper
350 g tomato
Packet of gelatin
Greenery
Spices

Step by step:

In the oven at 190 ° C, spread the sliced \u200b\u200bvegetables on a baking sheet, bake for 15 minutes
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 parted
Then pour in the rest of the juice.
Spread cling film into the mold and spread the pepper, pour in some of the liquid
Next, eggplant and zucchini alternately, also alternating them with liquid
Place in refrigerator until chilled

Tasty and festive stuff eggplant:

Tomatoes
mushrooms
prunes
Nuts

You can use this filling or any other for stuffing a vegetable:

Cut the eggplant into strips and season with salt
Dip in flour and fry
Put the chosen filling on the strips and twist
Decorate with greenery

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 cook fruit salad:

To do this, cut kiwi, banana, orange and pear.
Mix and drizzle with soy milk or honey. It's very tasty, especially children love it.

Be creative, use the above recipes for the festive table and complement them with the desired ingredients.

Menu on fasting days

It is not true that fasting cannot be fully eaten. We offer you a sample menu for a few 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, cabbage salad
Dinner: Vinaigrette, honey cake for tea

Morning: Toast with honey, tea
Lunch: pickle, beetroot salad, baked potatoes
Dinner: Mushroom lasagna

Morning: Lean pancakes or pancakes
Lunch: Pea soup, 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. One who once fasted can no longer deny himself this. Try it and you - feel the lightness in the body and the strength of your own will.

Video: Cooking Lenten Meals

With sour cream and jam, the time of Great Lent comes. Much has been written and said about what you can eat in fasting and what you can’t, but I still want to quote the words of Hieromonk Oleg, a priest of the Ascension Caves Monastery, about the observance of fasting by the laity: “... first of all, we should think about spiritual fasting ...”. For those who are not confident in their abilities, the hieromonk advises to start small. First fast on Wednesdays and Fridays. Do not eat eggs, meat and dairy products these days. Then gradually observe other restrictions of fasting.

What can you eat in a post

Lent 2016 starts March 14th and ends April 30th. During fasting, it is supposed to eat lean food, this one that is of plant origin. All kinds of pickles are allowed (pickled and pickled cucumbers, sauerkraut), as well as mushrooms, nuts, tea, crackers, gray or black bread, you can cook compotes, fruit jelly and various cereals on the water with the addition of raisins, prunes and dried apricots.

How to eat healthy in Lent

On Mondays- dry eating (water, black bread, fruits and vegetables)
On Tuesdays- hot food without vegetable oil
On Wednesdays- dry eating (vegetables, fruits, black bread, water, compotes)
On Thursdays- hot food cooked without vegetable oil
On Fridays- dry food (water, black bread, vegetables and fruits)
On Saturdays- food with vegetable oil, grape wine is allowed
On Sundays- food cooked in vegetable oil, wine

Meals for Lent on holidays

March 14th- complete abstinence from any food
April 7 (Annunciation) - you can eat fish dishes
April 23 (Lazarus Saturday) - you can eat dishes with fish caviar
April 24 (Palm Sunday) - fish and seafood dishes are allowed
April 29 (Good Friday) - you can not take any food before the removal of the shroud during the church service
May 1 (Easter)- fast food is allowed

Lenten dishes

A very tasty lean dish, which is prepared from pumpkin, potatoes, onions and tomatoes. Vegetables seasoned with spices are baked in the oven. See detailed step by step recipe...

Beans are not only tasty and nutritious, they are also famous for the fact that they contain vitamins, proteins and amino acids indispensable for the human body...

An ideal dish during fasting, tasty and nutritious, contains vegetable protein and vitamins. Preparing this dish is quite simple, and in the presence of canned beans and lecho, it is generally done instantly ...

This dish is simply indispensable during fasting, it is tasty and nutritious, contains vegetable protein (mushrooms). At the same time, these zrazy contain no meat, no milk, no eggs...

During fasting, only lean food is allowed. In order for the body to receive the proteins it needs, it is necessary to consume proteins of plant origin. And the leader among such plants is beans ...

Despite the fact that this borsch is prepared without meat, it turns out to be so rich, tasty and fragrant that many meat soups fade against it...

This pate is very tender, tasty and nutritious. Great recipe for fasting people. Also, this lean pate recipe will be very useful for vegetarians, as well as for everyone who adheres to proper nutrition ...

This dish needs no introduction, everyone knows it. Vinaigrette is healthy, nutritious and delicious. You can cook with beans, you can without, and most importantly - even without adding oil, it remains delicious ...

Prepare this delicious and healthy soup with mushrooms and barley. Natural protein of plant origin will fill the body with strength and energy, only in fasting it should be eaten without sour cream...

It is not so difficult to eat tasty and varied during fasting, it is enough to show a little imagination and a boring potato turns into a real delicacy. Try it, delicious, fast and affordable...

Beans are a source of very valuable vegetable protein, vitamins and amino acids. During fasting, it is very important that the food is balanced, cabbage soup with beans will help you with this ...

The most delicious mushrooms are pickled. Moreover, you can pickle mushrooms yourself at home. I offer a very simple and quick recipe, just a few hours and the delicacy is ready!

Delicious and inexpensive meal. In addition to buckwheat, you will need any edible mushrooms (mushrooms, porcini mushrooms, etc.), onions, carrots, grows. oil. The perfect meal during Lent...

Surprising but true: dough without milk and eggs can be delicious! And not just tasty, but very tasty. Preparing lean dough is quite simple, you can make any filling ...

A quick, tasty and healthy dish, suitable for both everyday menu and fasting. Rather, these are even two lenten dishes, because. This recipe allows you to cook delicious boiled fish and aspic ...

An ideal dish for vegetarians and fasting. Green beans are full of vitamins and minerals, mushrooms provide vegetable protein, and pasta is a carbohydrate source of energy...

During fasting, prepare a delicious and nutritious soup. Gazpacho is made from fresh tomatoes, cucumber, garlic and lettuce. During Lent, instead of white bread, we put gray ...

Diversify your menu during fasting with delicious sauerkraut. She prepares very quickly. Only three days and the vitamin dish is ready. You can eat it sour, or you can stew it and stick dumplings on it ...

On Saturdays and Sundays, when hot food cooked in vegetable oil is allowed, you can make this tasty and healthy stew. For its preparation you will need carrots, zucchini .....

Very tasty and healthy meal. First, boil the eggplants or bake them in the oven, then cut them together with onions and lettuce peppers. A little salt and a little oil, and our dish is ready...

During fasting, when the menu is not so varied, ferment cauliflower. This simple lean dish will not only decorate the table, but also bring an element of novelty to your diet. Try it, very tasty cabbage...

A simple and delicious recipe for a lean dish. To prepare pickled eggplant, you will need eggplant, carrots, onions, garlic and quite a bit of vegetable oil ...

It is a traditional dish of fasting people and vegetarians. It cooks very quickly and always turns out delicious. With the appropriate decoration, it turns into a lenten festive dish ...

The ascetic and often insipid taste of lenten dishes can be pleasantly complemented by spicy carrots prepared according to a Korean recipe, which is so loved by our people...

Ratatouille, although it is a lean dish, is worthy of a festive table in terms of its taste and appearance. Therefore, on the holidays of fasting, remember this dish ...

A very tasty and filling meal. Mushrooms are a 100% vegetable protein, which during fasting will more than replace animal proteins for you.

Boiled rice is a very healthy and nutritious dish, it helps to cleanse the body. Complement boiled rice with stewed vegetables and you get a great lean, healthy lunch...

In those days of Lent, when it is allowed to eat fish, you can cook this beautiful appetizer from avocados, shrimp, fried fish and cherry tomatoes. Cooking skewers in the oven...

There are many different recipes for cooking potatoes. Among the simple and lean recipes, I recommend this one. The use of paprika powder will give the dish a special golden color, and garlic will give an appetizing aroma...

An old recipe that came out of the origins of folk cooking. A very simple dough without eggs and milk, which is well molded. Delicious stuffing and appetizing fried onions...

Ragout with potatoes and vegetables is prepared very quickly and simply, and in order for the potatoes to boil quickly and the stew to turn out thick, use a simple tip on how to properly cut potatoes ...

Fried potatoes with mushrooms is a very high-calorie hearty dish. Cook it for lunch and you will have energy for the rest of the day, which is very important for a modern business person...

Do not be afraid of the overseas tricky name Brava sauce. It's actually quite easy to make the sauce. We take tomato sauce, garlic, paprika, flour and a little spicy Tabasco sauce ...

During fasting, you can not eat meat soups and broths, however, boiled liquid food is necessary for the body. Here we are all rescued by the fish soup, which can be cooked on those days when it is allowed to eat fish ...

Silver carp is a very common and affordable fish, the meat is tender and juicy. It cooks quickly and can be fried with minimal oil. This modest but tasty dish will expand your diet during Lent...

Not everyone and not always can and eat everything that is tasty. For example, during the days of fasting, believers should not eat certain foods, but you still especially want something tasty. As for vegetarians, they also have their own prohibitions on certain foods. Therefore, here you will find recipes for lean and vegetarian simple dishes, you can get to know them better and take them into action. Bon appetit!

From this simple lenten dough, you can make wonderful dumplings with garlic for borscht, you can make wonderful buns for tea from them - the dough is magnificent, simple and always turns out! Look at the recipe and even an inept hostess can handle it!

From oatmeal, which many people do not like, and therefore refuse to eat, you can cook completely uncomplicated and satisfying cutlets for fasting. They are prepared simply, the taste is excellent, at least once a week you can feed the family with a salad of vegetables.

If you don’t know in the post what to come up with for the household, our two excellent recipes for you are hearty, tasty, and cooking will not take much time. Feed the family enough, in addition, it is also useful, so we recommend taking note

In fasting, and not only, you can greatly diversify the menu and feed the household if you have thin Armenian lavash on hand. You can make wonderful crispy and tender rolls from it - cook pancakes with completely different fillings. Your household will definitely appreciate these recipes - today we have mushrooms and cabbage. Recipe here:

Do you know about the existence of such an interesting root crop as Jerusalem artichoke? And how incredibly useful is it? And you still haven't tried it? It is urgent to eliminate this misunderstanding - be sure to include it in your menu, especially during the days of fasting, it will come in handy for you with its benefits and diversify the menu. :

An excellent recipe for a popular vegetable dish - just right for the summer season. Easy to cook, healthy, delicious - your household will be delighted! Try to cook ratatouille - it is revered in many countries, and this vegetable stew will become your favorite, both in fasting, and for vegetarian food, and at least for every day.

A simple, healthy and tasty beetroot salad is what you need for fasting, or just on a normal day when you want to unload the body from fatty heavy meat food. Hearty, simple, easy - we are preparing a vinaigrette for the household.

If you are fed up with buckwheat (and it is very useful!), then you can easily cook such lean meatballs from it and thus diversify your lenten menu. They turn out to be satisfying, they are prepared simply and quickly, prepare another simple vegetable salad for them and a great lean dinner is ready!

How delicious this onion pie turned out - I didn’t even expect it! Soft, slightly crumbly, tender - my household dared me, I didn’t have time to even notice, I’ll bake again today. The dough is excellent, you can make it with any filling, it is prepared very simply and quickly, the products are minimal in terms of costs, just a miracle! I advise you to cook such a delight for your household - you can vary the fillings as you like, any one will do.

You will like these tender and tasty fried pies with pumpkin in fasting, or if you are a vegetarian, and just anyone will like it, as they turn out delicious, the price of their output is pennies, hearty and mouth-watering! They are prepared simply and without problems, I recommend trying this recipe and see for yourself.

A great option for lean stuffed peppers with rice and vegetables. Also great for those who follow a vegetarian diet. Despite the absence of meat, such peppers are tasty and satisfying, you can add soy, beans or chickpeas to the minced meat to increase the satiety and deliciousness of the dish.

Whoever loves pilaf, but on fast days with meat is not allowed - he will enjoy his lean brother with mushrooms and vegetables. vegetarians will also like the recipe - the dish is simple, but tasty, satisfying and nutritious. My husband even said that it was almost like a real pilaf with meat. Cooking, delighting our households,

When you don’t have money for sausage, mayonnaise and eggs, or fasting in the yard, but you want to eat, you can cook such a lean salad like Olivier - simple, satisfying and tasty! You can vary with the ingredients by adding mushrooms or other fish, green peas or canned corn to your taste.

These rolls are so delicious, they are so tender and crispy that your household will definitely appreciate them! They can be prepared for breakfast, lunch, fasting and a normal day. It is possible with any filling, and they will always be delicious. They are prepared simply, quickly, and very economically.

This recipe for a wonderfully lean and simple chocolate muffin will delight you on fasting days when you really want something tasty. And you can cook it on any ordinary day, from the simplest and most useful products.

If you want to cook a quick breakfast in a hurry, then you won’t find a better recipe. Just prepare any filling in the evening and buy pita bread. In the morning, spend only 5-10 minutes and a delicious, hearty breakfast is ready for you! This is a great dish for fasting, hearty and tasty.

19/04/2017 19:49

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 the sake of losing weight, but at the same time they are seriously worried about the diet of the rest of the family. 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 lunch 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 Rus', 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 classic borscht, 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.

Serve a Lithuanian dish must certainly be warm, after decorating 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.

The Lent of Holy Lent is called Great Lent due to the special importance of its establishment. Traditionally, the Holy Forty Day and all divine services begin with Vespers of the Maslenitsa (cheesy) week. During the evening service on Forgiveness Sunday, when there is a rite or rite of general forgiveness in the temple.

Great Lent was established mainly in memory of the forty-day fast of Jesus Christ, who soon after His baptism went into the wilderness and fasted there (Matt. 4, 2), as well as in memory of the forty-day fast of Moses (Ex. 34, 28) and Elijah ( 1 Kings 19:8).

The fact that the fast was established by the apostles and lasted forty days almost from the beginning of its establishment, there is evidence from ancient times, and the name "Fourteen" itself is often found in ancient written monuments.

However, the fast of the Holy Forty Days (which lasted everywhere for 40 days) was observed in the ancient Church not at the same time. This depended on the unequal calculation of the days of fasting and the days when it was allowed. In the Eastern Churches, the observance of Great Lent, which still exists to this day, was established in the 4th century.

Great Lent consists of a forty-day fast (Fourteen) and the fast of Passion Week “for the sake of the saving passions” of Christ. The Apostolic Decrees on Great Lent say: “Let this fast (Fourteen) be celebrated before the fast of Pascha (Passion Week)” (book 5, ch. I).

The ancient Christians observed Great Lent with particular strictness, even abstaining from drinking water until the ninth (third in the afternoon) hour of the day. Food was eaten after the ninth hour, eating bread and vegetables. Meat, milk, cheese, eggs were forbidden.

The rules for observing Great Lent are also reflected in the Church Charter. During the first and Holy Weeks, the Orthodox Church prescribes keeping a particularly strict fast. On Monday and Tuesday of the first week, it is prescribed to observe the highest degree of fasting: “It is by no means appropriate to eat.” In the rest of the weeks of fasting, except for Saturdays and Sundays - dry food. On Saturdays and Sundays, cooked food with oil (vegetable oil) is allowed. And only on the feast of the Annunciation, if it does not fall on Holy Week, is it allowed to eat fish.

The Church strictly condemns those who violate Great Lent, but, acting in the spirit of God's love and mercy, does not impose the rules of fasting in its entirety on children, the sick, the infirm, and the elderly, does not alienate them from participation in the joy of communion and Pascha. But those who are weak in body, like those who are healthy, are obliged during Great Lent to do deeds of love and mercy and, as in other fasts, to keep spiritual fasting from sins.

In numerous stichera and troparia of the services of the Holy Fortecost, the Church explains the essence of true fasting as a means of spiritual rebirth: a time of spiritual achievement, strengthening oneself in self-sacrifice, and mortifying sinful desires. Therefore, in hymns, the Church calls the Holy Forty Day a joyful time of fasting.