100 lean recipes. Basic principles of nutrition during Lent

Fasting for a believer is a special time, a time of prayers and deep thoughts.

During this period, human nutrition also changes greatly, serious restrictions are imposed on it. With improperly organized nutrition in fasting, a deterioration in the general condition and even exacerbation of certain diseases is possible. On the other hand, fasting is a time of purification, including the physical one. Therefore, from the point of view of medicine, fasting is a completely reasonable event, only with the proviso that you need to approach it thoughtfully.

I’ll make a reservation right away that you can find out about the spiritual meaning of fasting by contacting your spiritual mentor. Here I want to consider the post from the point of view of a nutritionist.

Basic principles of proper nutrition in fasting

The main rule is the exclusion of all animal food: meat, fish, poultry, milk and dairy products, eggs. Respectively, the basis of the diet will be plant foods- grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, nuts, mushrooms.
Try not to suffer during fasting diet. Do not skip breakfast, do not forget about snacks.
In the absence of animal foods, which are rich in protein and contribute to a long feeling of satiety, frequent bouts of hunger are possible. During this period, there is a great temptation to overeat pastries and sweets. However, there is no question of any purification in this case. In order not to experience hunger, eat regularly, include in your daily diet foods rich in complex carbohydrates and containing vegetable protein - whole grains and legumes.
Particular attention during the period of fasting should be given soy products. There are a great many of them now - soy milk, tofu cheese, all this should be included in your diet.
Sometimes it's not as hard to start a post right as it is to end it. It would seem that everything is over, the bans have been lifted, you can eat forbidden foods. However, I want to warn you against overeating after fasting. Start Incorporating Animal Foods into Your Diet After Fasting Gradually and be sure to combine it with plant foods - vegetables and grain products.

Lenten menu for the week

MONDAY

Nutritionist comment:

To begin Lenten menu want with traditional breakfast in an unusual performance. Oatmeal contains complex carbohydrates, alimentary fiber, vegetable proteins vitamins of group B.

To maintain health, an adult should consume at least 400 g of vegetables daily (and preferably more). Unfortunately, few people can boast of such a diet. One way to enrich your menu with vegetables is light vegetable salads. These salads are “light” both in execution and in terms of calories.

In addition to vegetable protein, lentils contain folic acid and iron.

Recipe for green beans butter should be replaced with olive oil.

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

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. fresh mushrooms pre-boil
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 walnuts, as well as:

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

Preparing the rug:

grind 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

Great option 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 borsch 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 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 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 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 Lent, you can also make wonderful pastries with them. 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 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 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 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

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 bean 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
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 drizzle with soy milk or honey. It's very tasty, especially children love it.

Get creative, use the above recipes for the holiday table and complement them with the desired ingredients.

Menu on fasting days

It is not true that fasting cannot be fully eaten. We are offering to you sample menu for several days. You can supplement and improve it depending on your imagination and the availability of products:

Morning: Fruit Salad
Lunch: noodle soup buckwheat 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: Lean pancakes or pancakes
Lunch: Pea soup, pea cutlets, noodles
Dinner: Pilaf with mushrooms

Morning: Oatmeal cookies with tea
Dinner: 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

great post- 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 cook and festive dishes in the post, but they also should not contain prohibited products.

On Lazarus Saturday, you can put fish caviar on the table. And the next day, on Palm Sunday, and allowed to use fish dishes. 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 meatless 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 meals during fasting.

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 liter tomato juice;
eggless noodles (you can cook yourself from flour and water) - 250 g;
greens (dill, parsley, young green onion) to taste.

Cooking method

Boil the string beans until tender. Throw her in a colander.
Finely chop the onion and garlic. Simmer in water in a deep soup pot. On the days it's allowed vegetable oil, you can make a roast.
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 meals. 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. In the classic recipe, all vegetables are deep-fried before baking. We slightly modified the cooking technology and got an equally 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 allowed 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 what is 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 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.
Can be used to decorate baked goods 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 fruit juice 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.

I decided to write an article about what you can eat in fasting, what dishes you can cook on a fasting table.

After all, you want to eat tasty, varied, healthy and not boring, so that every day you don’t eat the same thing, right?

I would like to offer you some delicious ideas how to feed yourself and your family during the fasting period.

From this article you will learn:

What can you eat in the post - menu for lean nutrition

So, many people know that fasting can be strict and not strict.

Moreover, during the same fast there are certain differences in the daily diet.

Accordingly, the dishes that are consumed are different.

Strict fasting and not strict - what is the difference between them?

All posts vary in their degree of severity.

Strict post:

during strict fasting, only plant foods (vegetables, fruits, cereals) are allowed, and all animal products are completely excluded. Food can be thermally processed or raw (these are days of dry eating).

Less strict post:

when allowed on some days vegetable oil in dishes from plant foods.

Not a strict post:

fish and vegetable oil are allowed these days. Otherwise, all food is plant-based, meat, milk and eggs are not consumed at all.

Lent is considered the strictest. The rest are less strict.

What can be cooked in the post?

Many people think that fasting is only carrot cutlets, sauerkraut and "empty" rice ... But, in fact, everything is not so scary at all, friends!

How do you like lasagna, spaghetti, pizza, various pancakes, dumplings, pancakes, pies and pies? It is not necessary to cook from white wheat flour if we don't want to get better! You can cook from buckwheat, corn, oat, pea, etc.

And how do you like various delicious sandwiches with hearty pates, vegetable and mushroom caviar, jelly, mushroom aspic, sweet cereals, dumplings with different fillings and “lazy” dumplings (gnocchi, dumplings, dumplings), julienne, various salads with such a satisfying composition that it is right to call them the main course and dumplings?

Borscht, cabbage soup, soups, mushroom and nut dishes, and even “scrambled eggs” without eggs!

And how many sweets you can cook, it's generally incomprehensible to the mind!

And sweets, and kozinaki, and pies, and cookies, and even cakes with cream!

Including - cakes without flour, without eggs and without sugar, this is already "aerobatics", but you can also learn this!

And it's far from full list those dishes that are called lenten ...

And if fish is allowed, it’s generally a holiday: it’s fish soup, meatballs, meatballs with rice, fish pastes (pates), steamed, fried, grilled and oven fish.

With vegetables, stuffed, stewed with mushrooms and onions, various fillings with fish for pies and pancakes ... You can’t list everything!

What products can be used in the preparation of lenten dishes?

Cereals:

millet, wheat, barley, barley, rice of all varieties,. More buckwheat, bulgur, couscous, spelt, corn grits. As well as oatmeal, and cereal from several types of cereals.

We prepare from them:

porridge, add to vegetable dishes, make cutlets, zrazy, fillings for pies and pies, prepare cereal soups and various casseroles.

From buckwheat, oatmeal, rice, barley, cornmeal, rye flour, spelled flour we cook our pastries and bread.

Vegetables - absolutely everything

We prepare from them:

soups, vegetable stews, vegetable puree, puree soups, different fillings, vegetable sauces and cutlets.

We add them to pates, make salads from raw and boiled vegetables, casseroles, stew, bake, boil, fry, steam them.

Add cereals, mushrooms to them, pour them with all kinds of delicious sauces and eat just like that, cut into pieces.

Berries, fruits and dried fruits - absolutely everything

We prepare from them:

fruit purees, marshmallows, compotes, fruit drinks, kissels, jams and jams for tea. We twist and freshly squeezed juices, add to pastries, prepare fillings for pancakes and pies, add to cereals. We eat just like that, whole or cut into beautiful pieces.

Greens - any

From it we prepare:

"green" salads, add to smoothies, cut into salads from boiled and raw vegetables, sprinkle generously on our ready meals, we make “green” fillings for our pancakes and pies.

Legumes:

peas, beans of all kinds, beans, chickpeas, mung beans, lentils.

Cooking from beans:

soups, mashed soups, add to salads, boil and mash, add to vegetable stews, cook bean pastes, fillings, etc.

Nuts - whatever you like

We cook from nuts: nut sauces (sweet and salty), nut muffins, nut cutlets, make gozinaki and halva, prepare delicious nut milk, add to pates and fillings, sprinkle our cereals with chopped nuts and add to any other dishes, pastries.

We make cheese from nuts. Cooking nut butters and walnut urbechi. We bite just like that

Seeds:

sunflower, sesame, flax, poppy, chia seeds, hemp seeds.

We prepare from them:

we add to pastries, make kozinaki, sauces for dishes (sweet and salty), sprinkle our cereals with crushed seeds and add to other dishes.

We prepare vegetable milk (sweet and unsweetened), urbechi from seeds, cheese from seeds, tahina (takhina, tahini) from sesame seeds and a mix paste for sandwiches from various seeds.

Mushrooms are everything

We fry them, stew them, bake them, cook them on the grill, steam them.

Cooking them with various fillings, make pates out of them, cook julienne, add to vegetable dishes, in soups, cooking mushroom soups, mushroom fillings, add to cereals, salads.

Vegetable oil - any you want

For salads, cold dishes and snacks, and in ready-made dishes, it is best to use vegetable oils of the first cold pressing. They have both taste and aroma - just divine!

Choose the ones that you like: olive, linseed, camelina, and hemp, grape seed oil and walnut oil, sesame.

As well as mustard oil, coconut, rice, sunflower seeds and from pumpkin seeds.

For frying-cooking-stewing, 100% oils and refined ones are suitable, they are odorless and can be cooked on, as well as coconut oil.

Where to get protein in a lean diet?

Mushrooms are our "meat" for the period of lean nutrition. This includes legumes, nuts, herbs and seeds.

All of these foods are highly nutritious a large number of protein, healthy fats (nuts and seeds), and vitamins and minerals.

During fasting, all these products are MANDATORY in the daily diet. In this case, you will not have any "protein starvation".

What kind of cereals are prepared for fasting?

Our Russian porridge is not just food, it is a whole "philosophy"! Of course, we are not talking about fast, instant cereals, which "filled in and immediately ate."

Although, this is also an option: simple cereals or a mixture of cereals, filled with boiling water or vegetable milk, yes with the addition of berries, nuts, fruits and seeds - why not a hearty, delicious breakfast?

And porridge with vegetables, mushrooms - why not beautiful and hearty meal For dinner?

The main idea here is this: porridge is never NOT tasty. The porridge just needs to be cooked properly.

Here's an example: barley. Do not love? You just don't know how to cook it!…

Here you need to know the secret delicious pearl barley. Try to do this: rinse it, pour enough large quantity boiling water, wrap in a warm blanket and let it brew all night, 8-10 hours. If all the water is not absorbed, then drain it, fill it again a small amount water and boil it for 10 minutes.

Fry separately the onion, cut into beautiful rings and grated potatoes, add spices and mix with the finished barley.

You can also add mushrooms if you like.

No one will refuse such porridge!

A similar story with buckwheat porridge. Do you like it with milk? Please: grind seeds or nuts with water in a blender, strain, and you will have the healthiest milk in the world! Any porridge is good with vegetable milk, and buckwheat is especially good. Make it sweet or savory, whichever you like.

An excellent option for buckwheat porridge is buckwheat with onions, carrots and other fried vegetables.

Buckwheat with mushrooms and onions - who would refuse it, right?

Buckwheat flour is very delicious buns, pancakes and fry "greechaniki".

In stores, look for spaghetti or any other pasta from buckwheat flour. It is very tasty and unusual!

Cook from rice sweet pilaf: in boiled rice add steamed raisins, nuts, seeds, any fresh berries or fruits, pour over sweet nut sauce or honey. This is a meal!

And rice with mushrooms and vegetables? Why not swim? A very tasty and satisfying dish, the absence of meat and you will not notice ...

Any porridge can be served with a sauce prepared by yourself. It's easier than ever - to prepare the sauce from the same seeds or nuts. You can make vegetable sauce tomato sauce, sweet fruit and berry sauce.

Be sure to add spices to any cereal. This will enrich the taste of your cereals, give them an incredible flavor and make them healthier and easier to digest.

Dried fruits in post

Of course, dried fruits are eaten in fasting.

The amount of vitamins in them, of course, falls, but the amount of sugar increases.

But, despite this, the benefits of dried fruits are still all in doubt, because all the trace elements are stored there in the necessary and sufficient quantity.

They are commercially available, they are not so expensive in price, especially since there are a lot of them and you can’t eat them. Of course, it is better to buy those that have not been processed, that have been dried and stored without being exposed to "chemical attack."

They are not as beautiful and glossy as those that were first filled. sugar syrup and dried at high temperature, and then treated with sulfur dioxide, etc., but you know for 100% that you do not harm yourself by using them.

You can eat dried fruits and just like that, say, with tea. To do this, it is better to pre-soak them in water. They will become juicy and soft, and will look like fresh ones.

From any dried fruit you can make a delicious dessert-delicacy.

Especially good in this dessert will be: figs, cherries, large prunes.

Need juice from red berries. If it’s not the season, then feel free to take your blanks off the shelves and get started! Add the following spices to the juice: vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg, black pepper and sugar. Add dried fruits cut into large pieces, mix and boil it all over a very low heat: first without a lid for 50-60 minutes, then under the lid for another 40 minutes. Look, it may take less time. The main thing is that the syrup becomes thick.

Such a dessert can be served with tea, served with porridge, and just cracked with a spoon ...

The use of dried fruits is not limited to this.

Many amazing things are done with dried fruits: for example, they are added to the stuffing for stuffing tomatoes, sweet bell peppers and eggplant. They are stewed with red beans and fried onions.

It turns out unusual, original and piquant.

How to cook mushrooms in the post?

If we do not take into account the “newfangled” soybeans, then mushrooms are exactly the “meat” that will be on our table during the entire post.

Mushroom soup, potatoes with mushrooms and onions, vegetable stew with mushrooms, mushroom julienne, mushroom caviar, potato cutlets stuffed with mushrooms, with mushroom sauce(zrazy), mushroom risotto and dumplings with mushrooms…

All this, of course, can be quite safely prepared from dried mushrooms and from frozen ones. Not only bored champignons and oyster mushrooms will do. Honey mushrooms, chanterelles, aspen mushrooms, porcini mushrooms - everything is good!

Recently, one can meet japanese mushrooms shiitake. He is the "world champion" in the fight against cancer. In addition, they are incredibly tasty, the Japanese know a lot!

And the huge, just giant portobello mushrooms? It tastes like pure chicken! And they are often sold in ordinary supermarkets, ask!

Mushrooms have a fantastic variety, and this is a great occasion for daily "mushroom experiments" in order to cook mushrooms often, cook a lot and tasty.

Here are some options for you:

Wild mushrooms can be used to make tapenade sandwiches: grind capers with olive oil, add lemon juice, season with salt and pepper. It turns out such a paste that is perfectly smeared on toasted slices of bread, and between two slices - slices of mushrooms fried to a crisp.
And from the good old oyster mushrooms, a salad “emerges” by itself: mushrooms, apples, celery stalks, lettuce and large berries dark grapes. Everything is drizzled with a dressing of lemon juice with crushed pine nuts, salt, pepper and a little cinnamon. Mmm…
And champignons fried with soy sauce, honey, sesame seeds and green onions? Served hot, immediately, they are incredible!

How to use nuts and seeds in fasting?

Nuts play an important role in our lean diet.

They can not only sprinkle cakes and add to a salad of beets and garlic ...

During fasting, when almost every protein counts, nuts are simply an irreplaceable thing!

If the nuts are fresh, then this is, consider that “almost a panacea” in the autumn-winter period, when all sorts of colds and SARS pester us.

Nuts are just so nice to nibble on and make nut pastes out of them. It doesn't have to be peanuts, very delicious pastas are obtained from absolutely any nuts! It is even better to make from nuts, moreover, from raw ones. Still, peanut paste- an ambiguous product ...

Although, if you really want to, then you can, but not much. It is very easy to cook at home: roast peeled peanuts in the oven, twist it in a meat grinder twice, add salt and water to the desired consistency.

Or immediately twist everything in a blender - peanuts + salt + water.

The same principle is used to make raw nut paste:

Do you want something sweet? No problem: add honey and cinnamon.
Do you want something unusual? Please: add pepper, quite a bit of honey and spices. Highly original taste comes from nut butter!
Want something more satisfying? Then combine in a blender lightly roasted nuts in the oven (walnuts are perfect for this appetizer, but you can use any, be guided by your taste), fried onions, salt, pepper and water. Very, very tasty, satisfying and fragrant snack! It smells so that you immediately need to spread it on your bread and eat it until the homemade “grind”, otherwise you won’t get it, believe me!
If you want to make something "more impressive" for a snack, then you can add to this recipe boiled beans and a little bit of garlic. Again: we scroll everything in a blender with the addition of water to the desired pasty consistency.
You can do the same with seeds - cook a paste, and every morning spread a thin layer on your slice of bread, crispy toast, cookies (you can sweet or salty) or whole grain bread. Hearty, tasty, healthy, what else do you need, right?

Make sweet pastes, make salty ones, whatever you want!

Who said tahini has to be salty?

Are you afraid of experiments? Then prepare sweet tahini: sesame seeds(can be raw, or fried in a dry frying pan, with roasted seeds it turns out many times more aromatic) + honey + cinnamon + salt.

This is such an amazing thing, folks! To say it's delicious is an understatement! Therefore, as soon as you cook, grab yourself a spoonful of bread, and only then call your family, although you don’t have to call them, I’m sure: the aroma of roasted sesame seeds is such a thing that they themselves will come running to, believe me!

Here is another very original idea for a snack: raw almonds, lemon juice, a little honey, fresh basil leaves, salt, a little garlic and ginger (proportions are arbitrary, to your taste), scroll through a meat grinder or in a blender, adding so much water to get a paste of the consistency you need.

Then you take apples, carrots, celery stalks, cucumbers and whatever else you can think of, cut into pieces and eat them, dipping them in the prepared sauce.

Very tasty, unusual, nutritious and mega-healthy snack! Be sure to cook, you will definitely like it!

I really like to cook various pastas and pates from seeds and nuts, it helps out so much when there is no time, but you need to eat something quickly, preferably healthy!

And do not be afraid of the calorie content, you, even if you want, will not be able to eat a lot, it's very satisfying!

Such pastes can not only be spread on bread, they can be used as fillings, and add to your own porridges, and spaghetti instead of sauce.

Store nut or seed paste in the refrigerator.

Lenten first courses

Friends, try to do this, and buckwheat soup will become your "favorite" for the lenten period, honestly!

And how do you like the idea of kharcho soup, gazpacho, pickle? You can continue the list. All this can be cooked without meat, and all this is quite tasty and nutritious!

So, friends, this is what I wanted to tell you today. I really hope that you will take some ideas for yourself and apply them.

If you liked the ideas from this article, then share with your friends on social. networks, friends and co-workers at work.

Write in the comments what you can eat in the post, your ideas for lean nutrition. What are you cooking? I will be very interested, I'm always looking for something new and cool.

And other readers will also be interested to know, write!

See you soon, my dears!

Alena Yasneva was with you, Health and Delicious Lent to everyone!

Potato zrazy with mushrooms

The ruddy crust of these tender potato cutlets With mushroom stuffing not only gives them an appetizing look, but also crunches nicely when you eat them. The perfect complement becomes a spicy tomato or mushroom sauce.

Necessary:
5 large red potatoes
250 g champignons
1 large onion
2–3 tbsp flour
Bay leaf and black peppercorns - to taste
small bundle fresh dill(can be omitted)
pinch nutmeg
salt - to taste

vegetable oil - for frying

Mushroom dishes. Recipes from the chef. watch the video!

How to cook:

Baked cauliflower with garlic

baked cauliflower

Roasted to a golden blush, crispy cauliflower flavored with lemon and garlic will give you a fresh look at this seemingly unappetizing vegetable! An independent and complete dish can be served for dinner both hot and cold.

Necessary:
1 medium cauliflower (you can use frozen)
3 tbsp olive oil
1 lemon (you will need the zest and juice)
1 tsp dried oregano
2-3 garlic cloves
salt - to taste
a bunch of fresh herbs (parsley, mint) - for decoration

How to cook:

Vegetable meatballs

The secret of these meatballs is that vegetables are cut small pieces while maintaining a cohesive structure. This creates a contrast of flavors, making them more juicy and rich. Vegetable meatballs can be an excellent filling for sandwiches and sandwiches.

Necessary:
2 large potatoes
250 g broccoli (can be frozen)
1 leek
1 medium onion
small bunch of fresh dill
0.5 tsp dried oregano
salt, pepper - to taste
1–2 tbsp flour
olive oil - for frying
breadcrumbs or flour

How to cook:

Rice with brussels sprouts and apple in a pot

Rice with Brussels sprouts

In a clay pot, snow-white rice is combined with extravagant Brussels sprouts, juicy Antonov apple and cashew nuts. Soaking in the aromas of spices and vegetables, several simple ingredients turn into an incredibly tasty dish, everyone will ask for the supplement!

Necessary:
1 st. basmati rice
1 large green apple(preferably antonovka)
100 g roasted cashew nuts
300 g frozen Brussels sprouts
3 allspice peas
black peppercorns, salt - to taste
2 tbsp olive oil
1.5 st. hot water
fresh parsley or dill, for garnish

How to cook:

Rice balls with roasted vegetable sauce

Home

Rice balls, or "lazy Japanese rolls"- a godsend for those who want to have a tasty and original dinner, spending a minimum of time and money. Gentle and light sauce from baked vegetables wonderfully complements the taste of pretty balls.

Necessary:

Sauce:
1 sweet bell pepper
1 large tomato
1–2 tbsp olive oil
1–2 tsp Sahara
0.5 tsp mixtures provencal herbs
salt, pepper - to taste

Balloons:
2 tbsp. boiled rice
1 st. sesame
1 tbsp lemon juice
2–3 tbsp soy sauce
a bunch of young spinach (can be replaced salad leaves)
a few green onions
sweet paprika - to taste

How to cook:

Spring rolls

Newfangled "spring rolls" - rolls from the thinnest rice paper filled with juicy fresh vegetables, rice noodles and lettuce. Sweet and spicy will serve as a bright addition peanut sauce. A charge of vitamins and a riot of colors on your table!

Necessary:

Peanut sauce:
100 g shelled roasted peanuts
1/4 st. very hot water
1 tbsp honey
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tsp vinegar (apple, rice)
1 tsp lemon juice
a pinch of ground chili
1/4 tsp salt

Spring rolls:
12 sheets of rice paper (alternative: 12 Chinese cabbage leaves or 3 thin pita bread, each divided into 4 parts)
3 small carrots
3 cucumbers
1 ripe avocado
bundle lettuce
1 st. cooked rice noodles

How to cook:

Three layer vegetable pie

three-layer vegetable pie

A unique three-layer cake with a rich taste of eggplant fried in olive oil, tomatoes in own juice, walnuts and garlic. The bulgur filling gives the dish an exquisite taste. oriental fragrance. No need to waste time on the dough, everything is extremely simple! Great option for a weekend dinner.

Necessary:

Eggplant Ragout:
1 large eggplant
1 medium onion
2-3 garlic cloves
1 can of chopped tomatoes in their own juice (500g)
0.5 st. water
handful of walnuts
bunch of fresh cilantro (optional)
salt, pepper - to taste
olive oil - for frying

Dough:
1 loaf white bread
4 tbsp water
3 tbsp olive oil
0.5 tsp dry thyme
salt - to taste

1 st. cooked bulgur (can be replaced with long grain rice)

olive oil - for greasing the mold

How to cook: