Lenten menu without meat. Dishes from cereals and legumes

Many Orthodox people pay special attention to nutrition, however, the restriction of animal products during Lent is not really a key point, what is happening in the human soul is much more important. Nevertheless, not thinking and not talking about the Lenten menu in general is fundamentally wrong, because through restrictions comes cleansing - the main task of Great Lent.

So, let's talk about what to cook in Lent and what can be a Lenten menu?

Let's start from afar. How often do you cook strictly following the recipe. Experienced chefs and those who simply often cook, as a rule, bring their own “zest” to any dish, or even do without a recipe at all, taking the main idea as a basis and developing it to their own masterpiece. The products that are at hand are used, some ingredients are replaced by others, cooking in a pan gives way to food in the oven, and so on. The recipe as such in this case is required only in the form of a push and an idea.

The second reason why this article was written is the constant search for inspiration. Working housewives are familiar with the annoying thought boring their heads: what to cook for dinner today? So that thoughts do not drill into your head, but soar, waving culinary excitement like a flag, we offer an approximate lenten menu for a week - only ideas, no exact proportions and recipes, one solid inspiration that you can use at your own discretion.

With regard to detailed cooking instructions, then they are- in the form of links to pages with recipes that Magic Food has collected for you.

Monday

- Not everything to the cat Maslenitsa - has come and great post.

BREAKFAST

Lean coffee pancakes
Pancakes in the post - a very real story with the aroma of home comfort, grandmother's hands and memories of a sweet childhood. All that is needed for this delicacy to appear on the table in Lent is to replace milk with any other drink ( mineral water, fruit juice or even regular strong tea), and instead of eggs, add a little more flour or starch. Let the dough brew, then bake the most ordinary thin pancakes. Delicious, tender and lean.

This time, try to take strong freshly brewed coffee as a base - pancakes with it will turn out with a very unusual flavor, the color is caramel-cream. The drink should be warm - it will brew the flour, so that the dough will come out elastic and strong. Fragrant Lenten Delight!

The vinaigrette
An undeservedly forgotten dish in Lent will come in handy. To make your vinaigrette as tasty as possible, do not forget to buy unrefined sunflower oil, which smells like seeds and contains much more useful substances than its purified "relative".

Alternative: "white" vinaigrette without beets(potatoes, beans, sauerkraut, onions, sunflower oil).

AFTER SNACK

Lean Banana Smoothie
Peeled banana, some berries (raspberries, strawberries, blueberries or cherries from the freezer), half a cup of any fruit juice or compote, a pinch of cinnamon, a minute with a blender - and you have an amazingly delicious lean smoothie in your glass! Thick smoothies without cream, milk or yogurt are just what you need to make the Fasting enjoyable.

Alternative: mango or pineapple smoothie, (bananas, carrots, apple, orange, ginger, mint.

DINNER

Pilaf with seafood
Lightly fry carrots and onions in vegetable oil, add mussels and squid rings, then add rice, add water and simmer until cereals are cooked - here's a great lenten dinner for you.

stuffed tomatoes
Not the most budget dish However, if you do not give yourself regular small joys, Lent will be a very difficult test. So - take a couple of tomatoes, cut off the “cap” and remove the core, put inside the stuffing from boiled rice until half cooked, finely chopped and fried mushrooms, onions, carrots, herbs, spinach, celery and bake until done. Very juicy, tasty and flavorful!

DINNER

Spaghetti with champignons
A little onion, cut into half rings - in a frying pan, fry until golden. Striped champignons - there too. A couple of spoons soy sauce- to mushrooms and onions. Salt, pepper, parsley, add spaghetti boiled al dente ... magical! Allow yourself half a glass of wine for today's dinner, and then the feeling of a fairy tale will be complete and comprehensive.

Wednesday

- In the middle of the post and the mother is simple.

BREAKFAST

Lavash with vegetables
Sheet bought in the evening thin lavash unfold on the board, grease with any lean mayonnaise(for example, apple or walnut). Put vegetables on one edge - tomatoes, Korean-style carrots, fried or pickled champignons, lettuce leaves, greens. Roll up and have a tasty and healthy breakfast.

Alternative: instead of pita bread you can take corn tortillas tortillas.

DINNER

Mushroom cream soup
Mushrooms are what gives any dish a special touch of satiety and solidity, so soup prepared with the addition of butter or mushrooms will be especially appropriate in Lent, when the calorie content of the diet to which you are accustomed is reduced. Do not spare vegetables - thanks to them, the first course will be even more fragrant.

AFTER SNACK

sesame milk
Pour a couple of handfuls of sesame seeds with hot water and leave to infuse for 3-5 hours, then finely chop the mass with a blender and pass through a piece of linen fabric. Add honey, cinnamon or vanilla - a delicious drink is ready!

DINNER

Stuffed bell pepper
Do you have a stock of frozen bell pepper, truth? Boil some rice, mix with sautéed onions, carrots, parsley root and celery, salt, stuff peppers and lightly stew in the oven or double boiler. Don't be bored, dinner is ready!

Thursday

“They don’t die from fasting, but they die from gluttony.”

BREAKFAST

Nutella fruit toast
Lightly dried nuts and pitted dates equal proportion put in a blender bowl, add a little citrus peel for flavor, if desired - a couple of tablespoons of cocoa powder and sugar. Grind everything into a homogeneous, rather thick, lumpy mass, after which, without turning off the blender, add a little vegetable milk (sesame, pumpkin, poppy, almond or any other), achieving a smooth structure and the desired consistency. Such a paste is an excellent spread on dried slices of toast bread. In the company of a cup of coffee - an elegant lenten breakfast that will energize you for the whole day.

DINNER

Vegetable soup-assorted
We take a voluminous roomy saucepan, warm it up in it a large number of vegetable oil(olive - it would be great!), pass onions, carrots, parsley root, add diced bell pepper, divided into inflorescences cauliflower and broccoli, do not forget about peeled tomatoes, pour a handful of green peas, do not be greedy and add a little corn. We pass, pass ... and then - op, a little bit of white wine and ordinary boiling water, spices and spices, salt and pepper. When serving, be sure to sprinkle with herbs. Overeating!

AFTER SNACK

Cranberry jelly
Good old jelly that smells of childhood and naivete... Why not? All you need is sugar, starch and some cranberries.

DINNER

Potato dumplings
fresh dough, mashed potatoes with fried carrots, pot-bellied dumplings, golden onion gravy ... Beware: so tasty that you can burst!

Friday

- Bread and cabbage will not let in dashing.

DINNER

Lean pickle
A simple science is to take, boil pearl barley in it, add diced potatoes, striped carrots and finely grated pickles. Hearty, rich, delicious.

Vegetables in Chinese sweet and sour sauce
In a wok, fry coarsely chopped carrots, onions, bell peppers, pumpkin, celery root, add a little soy sauce, garlic, salt, pepper, and then pour in half a glass of a weak solution of starch mixed with sugar and lemon juice. A couple more moves and great vegetables ready in sweet and sour sauce.

DINNER

Vegetable cutlets
Grind boiled broccoli, cauliflower, sauteed carrots, fried onions in any way convenient for you, add herbs, spices, sun-dried tomatoes, add a couple of tablespoons of starch, form cutlets and fry them until golden brown. Appetizing!

Saturday

- During fasting, food is simple.

BREAKFAST

Lean potato pancakes
A couple of potato tubers on a grater, a little dill, a spoonful of flour, salt, pepper and a frying pan with vegetable oil - that's probably all you need to get a wonderful and tasty Saturday breakfast. Of course, lean.

Rice with vegetables
Saute onions, carrots, bell peppers in a deep saucepan asparagus beans, stem celery and whatever else you have in your fridge and freezer, and then add a glass of rice and simmer until tender. A colorful lunch is uplifting!

DINNER

Rustic potatoes in the oven
Well, who can think of something more appetizing than oven-baked potato slices sprinkled with aromatic herbs and seasoned with garlic? Do not forget to get a jar of pickles from the pantry - you will have a great dinner.

Sunday

- Fasting is not in the belly, but in the spirit.

BREAKFAST

Homemade lean buns
Take any recipe as a basis yeast dough, which you always succeed, put the dough, wait for it to grow. Knead lean dough, add dried fruits and herbs, poppy seeds and nuts, berries and candied fruits, form balls - and delight the family with hot homemade breakfast buns.

eggplant caviar
Peel the baked eggplants, add some nuts and garlic, herbs and bell peppers, chop into a paste with a blender - you have an excellent vegetable snack on your table.

AFTER SNACK

rice ice cream
You will be surprised to learn what ordinary rice porrige. If you mix it with sugar and apple marshmallow, add a little lemon peel and vanilla, and then grind everything with a blender, freeze, stirring occasionally, you will get an amazing ice cream that melts on the tongue, leaving a delicate aftertaste. And yes, it is absolutely lean!

DINNER

Lean vegetable pizza
The classic pizza dough is prepared lean, that is, without the addition of milk and eggs. Great, this suits us! Everything else - as always, except for one moment: we remove the cheese, but add a lot different vegetables, mushrooms, herbs, onions. Bake and enjoy with a glass of dry wine.

We are all people, weak and mostly greedy for goodies, and therefore it is worth taking care that small snacks are always at hand during Lent.

The easiest option is a secret jar with your favorite dried fruits: fill a beautiful container with nuts, dried apricots, raisins, prunes, dried cherries and open it when there is a very strong desire to “break loose” from the chosen diet and eat a cake with oil cream or buy three kilograms of "Doctor's" and make yourself such a sandwich.

Lenten cookies help: a little sweet - and everything seems simple and real again. Study carefully the composition of the chocolate offered in stores - among the bars of "black joy" there are often those that are made without milk and dairy products. Many caramel candies are also suitable for Lenten menu, and therefore can cheer you up and help you resist the quick temptation.

Easy and delicious Fasting to you!

Lent is one of the main events of the Orthodox year. Believers are preparing for the celebration of Easter, cleansing the soul, mind and body. What you can eat during this period and what dishes you can cook during fasting, you will learn from the article.

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In order not to break the fast and prepare a dish that is allowed on a particular day of abstinence, you need to know which foods are allowed and which are prohibited. Lent is considered the strictest among the rest. The first and last weeks are especially difficult to comply with.

On the very first day, you need to completely refrain from eating. Cold, oil-free meals during Lent are allowed from Tuesday to Friday. Such days are called dry eating.

On Saturday and Sunday, fasting is the least strict. So, in the first week of fasting these days it is allowed to eat hot dishes seasoned with vegetable oil.

In the remaining 5 weeks of Great Lent, you should eat like this: dry eating should be observed on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and hot food can be eaten on Tuesday and Thursday, on weekends it is allowed to fill food with vegetable oil, it is permissible to sip a little red wine. You can also prepare festive dishes in fasting, but they also should not contain foods that are prohibited for consumption.

On Lazarus Saturday, you can put fish caviar on the table. And the next day, on Palm Sunday, the use of fish dishes is also allowed. But here it should be noted that if the above holidays fall on the calendar for Holy Week, then during this period it is forbidden to eat any food of animal origin. On Good Friday, it is recommended to abstain from food, and on the day before Easter, dry eating is allowed. Dishes prepared for fasting should not only not contain prohibited foods, but also be charged with positive energy and pure thoughts of the cook.

During fasting, they cook only from products of plant origin. Animal food is prohibited: meat, dairy products, butter, eggs and all derivatives. You can not eat fast food, snacks, carbonated drinks and the like. Food should be of natural plant origin. Dishes should not be too spicy, spicy or sweet. Such food is also an excess on the table.

From a nutritional point of view, it can be noted that Lenten dishes during fasting not only do not harm health. On the contrary, they cleanse the body of deposits and toxins, strengthen with vitamins and minerals. Proper observance of fasting does not harm health due to the fact that the lack of animal food and all the necessary substances is replenished with plant components. Thus, the lack of animal protein is replaced by vegetable protein through the use of beans, peas, wheat, nuts and mushrooms. Apples, bananas and buckwheat will cover iron deficiency. Dried fruits with honey will support immunity. Often the main dishes during fasting are prepared on the basis various cereals. The latter bear healthy carbohydrates that saturate the body. All kinds of vegetables and fruits will give energy and make up for the lack of nutrients, trace elements and vitamins.

From the allowed products, you can cook a wide variety of simple but tasty dishes: soups, salads, snacks, basic hot and cold dishes, and even pies. We offer you simple, but extraordinary recipes for dishes during Lent.

Italian bean soup

Hearty, rich and unusual in taste, the soup will become a decoration. To prepare it, you will need:

canned beans - 200 g;
green beans (can be frozen) - 300 g;
1 head of onion;
clove of garlic;
half a liter of tomato juice;
eggless noodles (you can cook yourself from flour and water) - 250 g;
greens (dill, parsley, young green onion) to taste.

Cooking method

Weld green beans until ready. Throw her in a colander.
Finely chop the onion and garlic. Simmer in water in a deep soup pot. On days when vegetable oil is allowed, you can make frying.
Pour the tomato juice into the onion and garlic. Sweat for 15 minutes with the lid closed.
In a separate pot, boil the noodles in salted water.
In the languishing tomato juice with onion and garlic, add the remaining ingredients: capsicum and canned beans, noodles. Salt to taste and boil for 15 minutes.
Sprinkle soup with fresh herbs before serving.

Vegetable salad with avocado

What dishes to cook in fasting on dry days? Try to do unusual salad with avocado. This fruit is high in calories. Therefore, the proposed salad will not only enrich with vitamins, but also saturate the body of a fasting person.
To prepare it, you will need the following products:

tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
avocado - 1 pc.;
medium head of onion;
cucumber - 2 pcs.;
radish - 200 g;
lemon juice;
salt.

Preparing a salad is very easy. To do this, cut all the vegetables and avocado into cubes. Finely chop the onion and soak for 5-10 minutes in lemon juice. Then mix all the ingredients, salt. You can also fill with lemon juice or, on allowed days, with olive oil.

"Ratatouille"

Vegetables can also be used to make delicious fasting dishes. Recipes for vegetable salads, stews and stewed vegetables surprised by the variety of flavors. We invite you to try the original Italian vegetable dish Ratatouille. AT classic recipe Before roasting, all vegetables are deep-fried. We slightly modified the cooking technology and got a no less tasty and even more healthy dish.

For the preparation of "Ratatouille" you will need the following products:

red bell pepper - 1 pc.;
1 head of garlic;
1 onion;
zucchini - 2 pcs.;
little blue ones - 2 pcs.;
tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
half a liter of tomato juice;
sea salt;
fresh greens.

How to cook Ratatouille

Peel the eggplant, cut into slices up to 1 cm wide and soak them in cold water for half an hour.
Peel the skin off the tomatoes by dipping them in boiling water.
Peel the skin of the zucchini.
To prepare the sauce, finely chopped onion and Bell pepper with a few cloves of garlic, simmer in half a glass of tomato juice until the vegetables are ready. Salt. Blend the mixture in a blender until a thick sauce forms.
Put food parchment in a baking dish, pour sauce about 1 cm thick on top.
Lay out the vegetables, alternating eggplant, zucchini, tomato so that the vegetables end-to-end fill the form, as in the photo below.
Now prepare the dressing. To do this, you need to knead the greens in a mortar, sea salt and a few cloves of garlic. On permitted days, you can add olive oil. Ready dressing brush the vegetables on top.
Place the form in the oven and bake at a temperature of 180 degrees for an hour and a half - until the vegetables are ready.

Dumplings with sauerkraut

What dish to cook in fasting, surprising the household and even guests? Make dumplings! Few people know that such a traditional dish can be lean and at the same time no less tasty than the original. Only the filling will have to be replaced with vegetable. For dumplings with sauerkraut you will need the following products:

flour - 500 g;
glass of water;
sunflower oil - 100 g;
sauerkraut - 500 g;
salt to taste.

Cooking such a dish during fasting does not take much time. First you need to prepare the dough. Unfortunately, it is impossible to make it without vegetable oil - the dough will crumble. Therefore, such dumplings can please loved ones only on certain days of Great Lent.

In order to prepare the dough, you need to mix flour, water, and add salt to taste. Place the kneaded dough in the refrigerator for an hour. Then roll out the sausages from the dough. Cut them into pieces, roll out circles. Then you need to squeeze sauerkraut from excess juice. Place the filling in the middle of each circle of dough and roll it into a dumpling shape. It remains only to cook the product in salted boiling water for 5-7 minutes. Lean dumplings with sauerkraut are ready!

Pilaf with dried fruits

What dishes to cook in fasting for the main? After all, in Russian cuisine it is customary to consider meat treats as the main decorations of the table. You can offer to cook vegetable stew, porridge with mushrooms in pots, sauté, on certain days the highlight of the diet will be fish. We offer you a hearty pilaf. To prepare it, you need the following ingredients:

rice (it is better to choose long-grain varieties) - 1.5 cups;
a couple of large onions;
carrots - 750 g;
dried dates - 150 g;
dried apricots - 350 g;
ginger root;
lemon juice - 4 tbsp. l.;
ground cumin;
ground coriander;
ground cinnamon;
vegetable broth - 3 cups;
liquid honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
sprig of mint;
salt.

How to cook pilaf

Rinse the rice and soak it in cold water for half an hour.
Clean vegetables.
Cut carrots into large bars, onions into rings.
Finely chop the ginger.
Fry chopped vegetables in a saucepan. Add all spices, salt.
Washed and dried dates with dried apricots in a separate saucepan with honey and lemon juice for 3-5 minutes.
Add the honey mixture to the saute pan with the sautéed vegetables.
Drain the rice in a colander. Then pour into a saucepan, level the surface and pour vegetable broth. Cover, reduce the heat and simmer, without stirring, with the lid closed, until the rice is cooked through (about 20 minutes).
Remove from fire. Release steam by opening the lid. Put a sprig of mint on top and close the lid. Let the dish brew for another 10-15 minutes. Fragrant pilaf is ready!

Honey gingerbread

You can even cook sweet dishes for Lent. Cooking honey lean gingerbread at home. They can pamper households at any time. They will become worthy decoration holiday table. However, do not forget that sweet dishes cannot be consumed in excess during Lent.

To prepare them you will need:

a glass of sugar;
500 g of liquid honey;
a pinch of soda;
7 glasses of flour;
1 tsp lemon juice;
4 cups chilled purified water.

How to cook

Mix water, honey and sugar in a saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. Melt until the sugar is completely dissolved. Then remove from fire. Let the mixture cool down.
Knead the dough by mixing the honey mass with flour and soda slaked with lemon juice. Send the dough to the refrigerator for half an hour.
Roll out the dough to a width of 2 cm. Squeeze out the molds.
Bake the gingerbread on a baking sheet at a temperature of 220 degrees for 20 minutes.
You can decorate pastries with powdered sugar or jam.

Recipes for dishes during Lent can be created independently, slightly modifying the classic ones and replacing necessary products. Thus, original lenten dishes are obtained, which the hostess can safely serve to the festive table.

Fruit cake

What to cook holiday dishes in fasting? Of course the most real cake! To prepare a delicious biscuit-fruit cake, you will need the following products:

flour - 3 cups;
one and a half glasses of fruit juice to taste;
sugar - 400 g;
zest from 2 oranges;
sunflower oil - 4 tbsp. l.;
2 bags of baking powder;
vanillin - 2 packs;
salt to taste.

For the cream, you need to prepare the following ingredients:

sugar - 5 tbsp. l.;
any juice - 2 glasses;
semolina (groats) - 3 tbsp. l.

To impregnate the cakes, you will need 2 large spoons of sugar and 500 g of juice.

Cooking a cake

Knead the dough with the ingredients needed for the cakes. Divide it in half and bake 2 sponge cakes at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
Send one cake to the refrigerator. Leave the other on the table, covered with a napkin.
Prepare the impregnation by mixing the juice with sugar. Soak her biscuit cake. Then leave it to cool in the refrigerator as well.
Prepare cream. To do this, mix the juice with sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Then gradually introduce semolina and cook like regular porridge until cooked.
Cool the cream and beat thoroughly with a blender.
Take the cakes out of the cold. Lay them on top of each other and coat with cream on all sides.
You can garnish with nuts on top if you like. coconut flakes or fruit slices.

Conclusion

Even from a seemingly meager list of products, you can cook unusually delicious dishes in the post. The recipes proposed by us, if desired, can be improved on their own, with a little imagination.

Lent is a great event for the Christian world. After all, religious people believe that these days the physical body comes into harmony with the spiritual world, is cleansed of sinful deeds and thoughts and approaches God.

From the article you will learn about the four main ones about what kind of food should be taken at this time, and which one is better to abstain from. We will tell you what lean food is and give recipes for its preparation.

Four major Christian fasts

It starts on November 28 and lasts forty days, including January 6. On all his days, except for odd weekdays and Saturdays, everything is allowed, except for certain foods, and vegetable oil and fish are allowed on weekends and on even days.

Lenten food in Great Lent, starting 49 days before Easter Sunday, consists mainly of vegetables and fish, except for the 7th, 4th and 1st weeks.

On the 58th day after Easter begins and ends on the Day of Peter and Paul. vegetable oil and fish meals are prohibited only on odd days of the week, except weekends.

The Dormition fast lasts 14 days from August 14 to August 27. Vegetable oil is consumed on weekends, and fish can only be eaten on Apple Savior Day, August 19th.

What you can and can not eat in the post

In fasting, as a rule, it is forbidden to eat:

on strict days - dairy products, eggs and fish;
poultry and animal meat.

It is allowed to eat:

not rich;
soy and legumes with a high content of vegetable protein;
porridge on the water;
nuts, fruits, dried fruits;
mushrooms;
boiled, stewed, salted vegetables;
vegetable oil and fish on permitted days.

On these days, cooking is given considerable attention, because lean food, the recipes of which we will give in the article, should contain not only permitted foods, but also be healthy, tasty and nutritious.

First Lenten Meals

Lenten menu should without fail contain first courses, because dry food harms the digestive tract and causes heartburn and other gastrointestinal disorders. Not everyone knows, but the first courses beloved by many, hodgepodge and cabbage soup, can be prepared without meat and butter, and lean food will not lose its taste and aroma from this.

Solyanka

A day before cooking, soak 0.5 tbsp of red beans, cook it for one and a half to two hours in salted water. When the beans are ready, leave the broth for the hodgepodge, and put the beans separately in a deep plate. Chop 1 medium sized onion into cubes. 2 pickled cucumbers, peeled, cut into cubes. Fry the onion a little, add the cucumbers and continue frying with the onions. Throw vegetables into boiling bean broth and add 1 tablespoon of tomato paste. Remove the olives from the jar, cut into slices and, when the potatoes are half cooked, add to the pan along with bay leaves and two peas of allspice.

In 3 liters of boiling water, add 6-7 pcs. diced potatoes, salt to taste. After 5-7 minutes, add shredded cabbage (small head), 1 piece of sweet pepper, diced. While the vegetables are cooking, fry a small carrot, an onion and a grated tomato in a pan. When the potatoes and cabbage are cooked, add dressing to the pan, Bay leaf and 3 black peppercorns. Serve with finely chopped parsley and grated garlic.

Main courses

Rice porridge with vegetables and mashed potatoes - delicious lean food these dishes are very simple.

Rice porridge with vegetables

Rinse a glass of rice several times until the water runs clear. Bulgarian pepper (1 pc.) Cut into strips, cut half a head of cauliflower into pieces and inflorescences, cut 1 small carrot into strips or thin slices. Pour 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil into a preheated pan and throw in spices (cumin / zira and cloves, after 10 seconds - turmeric). Put vegetables: cabbage, carrots, peppers and fry a little. Then add rice and fry for about 3 minutes. and add 2 cups of water.

Wait for it to boil, cut the tomato into cubes, throw it into a pan with rice and vegetables, pour a jar of green peas and put 1 bay leaf on top. Add pepper and salt to taste and simmer covered over low heat for 20 minutes. If the water has not evaporated during this time, cover again and cook until tender. Sprinkle chopped herbs on top.

Mashed potatoes

One and a half kg of potatoes peeled and boiled. Pour the potato broth into a jar. Finely chop a medium-sized onion head, fry in sunflower oil until golden brown. Peel the potatoes, if the mashed potatoes are very thick, add potato broth. Top with onions and serve.

Lean salads

Lenten food in Lent implies the predominance of vegetables in the diet, therefore vegetable salads will be very relevant in this period.

The vinaigrette

Wash and boil 2 pcs. carrots, 4 pcs. potatoes, 1 pc. beets. Cool, clean. Peel the onion and cut all the vegetables into cubes. Cut three pickled cucumbers and two fresh ones into cubes as well. Add a jar of peas, after draining the water from it. Greens, salt, pepper - to taste. Fill the salad with 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.

Beet salad with nuts and dried fruits

Boil 1 beetroot. Pour boiling water over 100 g of raisins and / or prunes and set aside for 15-30 minutes, drain, rinse and dry. Peel and grate the beets coarse grater. Prunes cut into slices. Chop 3-4 walnuts, chop. Add 1-2 grated garlic cloves, raisins, prunes, nuts, pour 1-2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, sprinkle chopped dill on top.

Snacks

Bulgarian pepper

Wash a kilogram of bell pepper, get rid of the seeds, cut the stalks and bake in the oven until golden brown. Remove the skin and cut into slices. In a separate bowl, mix 5 cloves of grated garlic, ½ teaspoon salt, a teaspoon of vinegar. Pour the garlic sauce over the peppers, put in a jar with a tight-fitting lid and refrigerate for 24 hours.

Herring cocktail

Grate 2 tsp horseradish, crush 2 tbsp. l cranberries or lingonberries and mix with low-fat mayonnaise. Cut into strips or thin slices 1 red apple and 3 pickled cucumbers. Clean 2 pcs. salted herring, remove the bones, cut into neat thin slices. Mix all ingredients. Cover the bottom of the dish with lettuce leaves, put the prepared herring mixture on top, decorate with herbs.

desserts

Desserts are the most delicious lean food, the recipes of which are so simple that cooking will not take much effort and time, and the result will delight both adults and children.

Fruit ice

Clear 3 pcs. kiwi, wash. Sort a glass of strawberries, wash, get rid of the tails. In an incomplete glass of water, add 2 tbsp. l sugar and 2 tsp lemon juice. Mix. Grate strawberries. Grind kiwi in a blender.

Divide sugar syrup into 2 parts: pour one half into kiwi puree, the other half into strawberries. Small molds or disposable cups half full fruit puree, insert an ice cream stick into each mold, put in the freezer for an hour. Take out the molds and add the remaining puree. You can combine kiwi and strawberries to make a striped recipe. And leave to cool until completely frozen.

Baked apples

Cut medium-sized apples (5-6 pcs.) into 2 parts, get rid of the core. Put in a baking dish in one layer, sprinkle with sugar on top (pour 1 tsp into the middle, if the apples are sour, pour more). If almond or coconut flakes are available, use them by dividing 2 tbsp. l for all halves of apples. Put for half an hour in a preheated oven. Baked apples are a lean food that can be consumed hot or cold.

Fruit salad with honey

If necessary, melt half a glass of honey by putting in hot water a jar of honey.

Wash and clean fruits. Cut the center of 1 large apple; 2 bananas, 4 tangerines, 1-2 kiwi and 1 pc. peel persimmons. Separate the grapes from the bunch, cut into two halves along with plums, get rid of the seeds, peel 1 pomegranate, choosing the grains. Cut apples and bananas into small slices, sprinkling with lemon juice so that the fruits do not darken. Cut the mandarin slices into pieces, cut the kiwi into small pieces as well. Mix ingredients together, pour over honey, stir again and sprinkle with pomegranate seeds.

Bakery products

Many mistakenly believe that baking is unhealthy, and it is not recommended to eat it during fasting, because it contains eggs and milk. However, it is quite possible to cook lean food in the oven without eggs and milk.

crazy pie

Mix half a glass of flour with a glass of sugar, 0.5 tbsp cocoa, a pack vanilla sugar, a pinch of salt and nuts (to taste), extinguish the soda with vinegar and add to the dry ingredients, mix. Pour 150 g of vegetable oil into the mixture, mix thoroughly, pour a glass of water and knead until smooth.

Pour the batter into an oiled mold and spread evenly. Put in the oven for half an hour. While the cake is cooking, mix 3 tbsp cocoa, 3 tbsp sugar, ½ tbsp water, ½ tbsp. butter (since lean food is prepared without butter, vegetable oil must also be added to the icing), and put on water bath. Cook until glaze thickens. After the cake has cooled, pour it with glaze, cover and set aside for several hours.

Charlotte

Peel and finely chop six apples, sprinkle with lemon juice so that the apples do not darken, and sprinkle them with sugar.

Mix a tablespoon of honey with ½ tbsp. sugar, ¼ tsp cinnamon, a pack of vanilla sugar and pour ½ tbsp boiling water. Stir until the sugar crystals dissolve. Pour ½ tbsp. vegetable oil while continuing to stir. After mixing 300 g of flour with 2 tsp of baking powder and liquid mixture, knead the dough and pour onto a baking sheet. Spread apples in an even layer. Put the oven on for 30-35 minutes.

Cooking lenten food does not take too much time and requires minimal material costs, and this is another plus for observing Christian traditions.

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 New Year without Russian salad, 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 into 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 oatmeal 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 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 loves sweet pastries, and 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 of the dish 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. To previous ingredients add:

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 still not 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 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 cabbage leaves and trim the bulges
Spread the filling on the cooled leaves and fry in a pan
While the cabbage rolls are fried, mix the flour with the 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 tasty 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 cook oatmeal, to which add 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

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 a rumpled boiled potatoes and semolina
Mix well, if desired, roll in breadcrumbs and fry
Consume hot

bean cutlets, in this case 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

One of traditional dishes for the festive table is Olivier. At the beginning of the article, we presented a recipe for lean Olivier, take note of it. This article proposes 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
Greens
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.
Lay out in the form cling film and spread the pepper, pour 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 pour 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 lasagne

Morning: Lenten 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

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, ryazhenka, 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. Here is the detailed cooking process step by step instructions and nuances, you can find the link by clicking on the word “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 black ground 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 sauté It is easy to prepare and in a short time, but the result is a rich, fragrant, and most importantly - a delicious dish. It will be like good side dish, and excellent an 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 just vegetable, without meat, and all vegetables will be stewed in own juice, so it is suitable for fasting people and vegetarians. Detailed recipe with a photo step by step you will find

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 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. To find out step by step recipe barley porridge with vegetables, click .

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 on festive table he also has a place. 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;
100g sauerkraut;
2 medium sized carrots;
2 pieces of small potatoes;
1 piece of pickled cucumber;
3 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
salt;
greens.

Ordinary products that are always in the house are wonderfully combined in a salad that can be prepared for both a celebration and a regular one. family dinner. A classic vinaigrette is not difficult to cook, but it turns out beautiful and hearty salad. Step by step cooking you will recognize 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 which 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;
greens;
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 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. Details about the preparation process oriental snack see photo instructions.

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 options cooking, due to long stewing, cabbage becomes extremely soft and loses all vitamins. According to our recipe, 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 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 most healthy breakfasts- This 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).

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Lenten apple pancakes on the water

This recipe is very, very suitable for fasting, it does not contain milk, and softness due to a small amount 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 look detailed instructions still worth it. Here is a link to step by step photos and description - .