Lenten holiday table recipes
The last days of December. The Christmas post has reached the home stretch. It seems that we are already accustomed to fasting and have become accustomed to the Lenten menu. But in the coming days, housewives will again have a headache about what to put on the table? For the festive New Year's table. Which for many of us has been and remains a good tradition. But for the sake of which I would not want to break my fast.
On the eve of the holiday holidays, we have prepared for you a selection of Lenten dishes for the New Year.
Salads and snacks
White cabbage for quick consumption
Ingredients:
cabbage - 3 kg.
carrots - 1 kg.
onions - 1 kg.
sweet pepper - 0.5 kg.
vegetable oil - 400 g.
9% vinegar - ¾ tbsp
sugar - ½ cup
salt - 1 tbsp
Preparation:
Cut the cabbage into large pieces, carrots into slices, onions into rings, pepper into strips and place everything in a large bowl. Bring vegetable oil, salt, sugar, vinegar to a boil, pour this mixture over the cooked vegetables and cook everything for 10 minutes. Place the finished salad in liter jars and store in the refrigerator.
Advice:
When selecting cabbage, look for heads that appear heavy for their size with fresh leaves.
Before serving or before cooking, you should not rinse sauerkraut; when rinsing, many valuable nutrients dissolved in the juice are lost.
Cabbage salad with apples
Ingredients:
cabbage - 160 g.
apples - 3-4 pcs.
onion - 40 g.
sugar - 2 teaspoons
3% vinegar - 1 tbsp
vegetable oil
salt - to taste
Preparation:
Shredded cabbage is placed in a saucepan, sugar, salt, vinegar are added and, stirring continuously, heated until it settles and becomes soft, but does not lose its elasticity. Chilled cabbage is mixed with butter, chopped apples and onions.
Cabbage salad with rice and raisins
Ingredients:
cabbage - 160 g.
boiled rice - 4 tablespoons
raisins - 5 tablespoons
dressing: ½ cup (3 parts vegetable oil and 1 part 3% vinegar),
salt to taste
Preparation:
Place the boiled rice in a heap in the middle of the salad bowl, around it is shredded cabbage into small strips, sprinkle with seedless raisins (pre-wash the raisins, pour over boiling water, let stand for 1 hour) and pour over the dressing.
Salad with onions and corn
Ingredients:
onions - 4 pcs.
corn grains - 280 g.
salt, black pepper
Preparation:
Boiled corn grains are passed through a meat grinder, blanched onions, salt, pepper, and oil are added and mixed thoroughly. When serving, sprinkle with herbs.
Parsley root salad
Ingredients:
parsley root - 250 g.
apples - 1-2 pcs.
onions - ½ pcs.
vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
lemon juice - 1-2 teaspoons
salt - to taste
finely chopped parsley - 1 teaspoon
Preparation:
Parsley roots are cut into thin strips, apples (without the core) into large strips, chop the onion, mix everything, season with lemon juice or vinegar, oil, salt and mix.
Roasted sweet pepper
Ingredients:
sweet pepper - 8 pods
sunflower oil - 2-3 tablespoons
3% vinegar - 1-2 tablespoons
salt - to taste
Preparation:
Cut the pepper pods into 4 parts, rinse, drain, and fry in oil until golden brown. Place the fried peppers on a plate, pour over vinegar, sprinkle with salt, cover and let stand for 10-15 minutes. After this, remove the skin from the pepper. Serve fried peppers with fresh tomatoes.
Carrot salad with pickled cucumber
Ingredients:
carrots - 800 g.
pickled cucumbers - 2 pcs.
tomato juice - 200 g.
Preparation
Remove the thin skin from the pickled cucumbers and cut them in half lengthwise. If the seeds are large, remove them. Cut the cucumbers into small cubes, pour in tomato juice, season with pepper and let it brew. Finely chop the carrots, pour in the prepared dressing and serve.
Salad of grated carrots, beets, cabbage and onions
Ingredients:
carrots - 200 g.
cabbage - 200 g.
beets - 200 g.
bunch of green onions
honey, lemon juice
Preparation:
Grate the vegetables separately, without mixing them by color. Place a mound of white cabbage in a round salad bowl. Place grated carrots in a ring around it and, finally, red grated beets in an outer ring. Pour lemon juice mixed with honey over everything. Place finely chopped green onions between the rings.
Shrimp cocktail with tomato dressing
Ingredients (for 6 servings):
❆ 350 g boiled frozen
peeled tiger prawns
❆ 2 small heads of lettuce
❆ 1 ripe avocado
❆ 1 red chili pepper
❆ 1 clove of garlic
❆ 1 tbsp. l. finely chopped cilantro
❆ 4 cherry tomatoes
❆ 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice
❆ 1 tsp. honey
❆ 3 tbsp. l. olive oil
Preparation:
Thaw the shrimp and pat dry with a towel. Peel the garlic clove and chop finely. Cut the chili in half, remove the seeds and chop finely. Mix garlic, chili and shrimp. Heat 1 tbsp in a frying pan. l. oil, fry the shrimp until pink (2-3 minutes), stirring constantly, then transfer to a deep plate and let cool.
Prepare the dressing:
Cut the cherry tomatoes into 4 parts, remove the seeds, and finely chop the pulp. Place on a plate, add lemon juice, honey and 2 tbsp. l. olive oil. Add chopped cilantro, add salt and spices to taste, stir.
To submit:
Tear the lettuce leaves into small pieces, finely chop the avocado pulp. Arrange lettuce leaves and avocado slices among the glasses in which the dish is served. Place shrimp on top and drizzle with dressing. Garnish with chicory leaves or herbs to taste. Serve with ciabatta or toasted pita bread.
Second courses
Stuffed pike
Ingredients:
❆ pike 1.5-1.8 kg
❆ 2-3 small onions
❆ 4-5 tbsp. l. boiled rice
❆ 50 g parsley
❆ juice of half a lemon
❆ salt, ground black pepper - to taste
❆ 0.5 tbsp. water - for extinguishing
❆ vegetable oil -
for frying and greasing
Preparation:
Wash the pike, remove scales and dry on a towel. Using a knife or scissors, cut out the gills. Make cuts along the gill bones on both sides, leaving intact the strip of skin connecting the back of the fish to the head. Turn the head back and, using a long, sharp and thin knife, carefully, trying not to tear the skin, separate it from the pulp. (If by chance the skin is slightly torn during cutting, then after stuffing you can sew up the tears with thread, which should be removed after baking; you can also fasten the tears with a toothpick). Cut the fins with scissors from the inside from the flesh of the carcass (not from the outside from the skin). Cut the spinal bone, 1-2 cm short of the tail. You should get a fish skin with a head, fins and tail and a fish carcass with pulp and bones.
Pass the fish carcass with bones through a meat grinder or chop in a blender. Finely chop the onion and fry in vegetable oil. Add cooked rice, chopped parsley, salt and pepper, stir, then mix with minced fish. Stuff the fish skin with the resulting filling.
Cover a small deep baking sheet (or frying pan) with foil, grease with vegetable oil, and place the fish. Grease the top of the fish with oil as well. Pour lemon juice, add half a glass of water, cover tightly with foil and place in an oven preheated to 180-200°C for 40-50 minutes. During cooking, it is advisable to pour the resulting juice from the baking sheet over the fish 2-3 times. 15 minutes before cooking, open the foil slightly to allow excess moisture to evaporate.
To submit:
Cool the finished fish (10-15 minutes), transfer to a dish, garnish with lemon and parsley leaves. You can serve mashed potatoes or baked potatoes as a side dish.
Bishop's style potatoes
Ingredients:
potatoes - 1.5 kg.
vegetable oil - 5 tablespoons
flour - 2 tablespoons
Preparation:
Boil the potatoes, cool, cut into thick slices and fry in vegetable oil. At the end of frying, add flour, stir vigorously and let a crispy crust form.
Advice:
To make the potatoes cook faster, you need to add a little oil to the water.
Even when boiling potatoes, add a little garlic, bay leaf and a little vinegar, salt of course, then the potatoes turn out very tasty even when cold.
Mashed potatoes should not be diluted with cold milk, as this will cause the mashed potatoes to turn gray and form lumps. Before diluting the puree, you need to heat the milk to a boil and add gradually, stirring constantly.
Stuffed cabbage rolls with vegetables and rice in marinade
Ingredients:
cabbage - 500 g.
rice - 4-5 tablespoons
carrots - 1 pc.
bulbs - 2 pcs.
For the marinade:
carrots - 3 pcs.
bulbs - 2 pcs.
tomato paste - 2 tablespoons
vinegar - 50 g.
water - 200 g.
sugar -1 teaspoon
Preparation:
Boil white cabbage without the stalk in salted water until half cooked, then remove from the water, cool and separate the leaves, lightly beat off the stalks with a hoe. To prepare the minced meat, sauté onions with finely chopped carrots, mix with boiled fluffy rice and chopped herbs. Place minced meat on the prepared leaves, roll the leaf into an envelope shape, place on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil, grease with vegetable oil and fry in the oven until golden brown. Pour the fried cabbage rolls with vegetable marinade with tomato, adding hot water and simmer for 10-15 minutes. Then cool. For the marinade, grate the carrots, finely chop the onion, sauté in vegetable oil, then add tomato paste and fry for another 3-5 minutes. Dilute the sautéed vegetables with water, add vinegar, sugar, spices and simmer in a sealed container for 15-20 minutes. At the end of cooking, add salt to taste to the marinade.
Cod marinated with garlic
Ingredients:
fish - 1000 g.
vegetable oil - 100 g.
garlic - 50 g.
vinegar - 300 g.
Bay leaf
peppercorns
carnation
Preparation:
Cut the fish into pieces, fry in vegetable oil, cool. Place the prepared fish in a saucepan or enamel pan, pour over the marinade. Leave for 24 hours. Can be served with boiled potatoes and pickled vegetables. For the marinade: add crushed garlic, salt, pepper, bay leaf, cloves, sugar to hot boiled vinegar and cool.
Potatoes, fried chips
Ingredients:
potatoes - 1 kg
vegetable fat - 100 g.
salt - to taste
Preparation:
Cut the peeled large potato tubers into circles 2 cm thick and cut each circle in a spiral into a thin long ribbon (strip). Wash, dry, roll into shavings and deep-fry. When the potato ribbons acquire a golden color, remove them from the fat with a slotted spoon, salt them while hot and dry them. Fried potato chips can be served as a separate dish or side dish.
Tomatoes stuffed with fish and apples
Ingredients:
tomatoes - 8 pcs.
fillet - 400 g.
apples - 2 pcs.
pickled cucumbers - 1 pc.
vegetable oil - 1 tbsp
mustard - ½ teaspoon
finely chopped greens - 1 teaspoon
Preparation:
Boneless fish fillets are lowered, cooled and chopped. Cored and peeled apples and cucumbers are cut into small cubes, mixed with butter, mustard, fish, and sugar and salt are added to taste. The tomatoes are stuffed with the resulting filling, the pulp being removed. Stuffed tomatoes are placed on a plate and sprinkled with herbs
Potato and rice cutlets
Ingredients:
potatoes - 500 g.
rice - 0.5 cups
bulbs - 2 pcs.
carrots - 2-3 pcs.
vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
Preparation:
Boil the potatoes in their skins, peel and mash. Cook the rice. Sauté chopped onions and carrots in vegetable oil, combine with potatoes and rice, add salt to taste, add finely chopped parsley and dill, mix. Form cutlets and fry.
Desserts and baked goods
Lenten cake with raisins and nuts
Ingredients:
raisins - 2 cups
vegetable oil - 1 cup
salt - to taste
raisins - 1 cup
walnuts - 1 cup
apple broth -2 cups
soda - 1 teaspoon
flour - 4 cups
cinnamon - 25 g.
vinegar - 2 tablespoons
Preparation:
Grind sugar, vegetable oil, add salt, seedless raisins, finely chopped nuts minced through a meat grinder, dilute with apple broth from dried apples, add a teaspoon of soda. Mix everything thoroughly, adding flour little by little, add ground cinnamon. Just before putting it in the oven, add vinegar. Roll out the crust and bake for 1 hour in a well-heated oven.
When choosing raisins, pay attention to two signs of quality: raisins from light grapes should be brown. If it is uniformly yellow and soft, it is not worth purchasing.
Raisins produced from dark grapes are black with a bluish tint.
Halva
Ingredients:
semolina - 2 cups
cinnamon for sprinkling
For the syrup:
water - 4 cups
sugar - 2 cups
light raisins - 1 cup
almonds (grated coarsely) - 1 cup
Preparation:
Pour semolina onto a baking sheet and heat in the oven at 150℃.
Before putting it in the oven, add a tablespoon of semolina. 10 minutes after you put the baking sheet with semolina in the oven, stir it, then scoop up a little semolina with a spoon and compare its color with the color of raw semolina. if there is a difference in color, you can remove the baking sheet; if not, then fry the semolina in the oven until its color changes significantly compared to raw cereal. Do not overheat the semolina. The cereal should be fried for no more than 15 minutes in total. When the semolina acquires the proper color, you need to prepare a syrup from water and sugar in a saucepan. As soon as it boils, remove from heat, add raisins, almonds or walnuts, stir and add semolina. Place the pan back on the heat and stir until a homogeneous mass is obtained that does not stick to the walls of the pan. Immediately remove from heat, cover the pan with a napkin for a few minutes or, if desired, place in a mold. Serve by sprinkling each serving with cinnamon and sugar.
Orange sweetness
Ingredients:
oranges - 6 pcs.
sugar - 1500 g.
raisins - 200 g.
salt - ½ teaspoon
sugar - to taste
grated nuts
Preparation:
Peel the oranges, put them in a saucepan with water and cook them whole. Check readiness with a toothpick - nothing should stick to it. Cut each orange into 8 slices, separate the white peel and seeds. Boil the sugar syrup with water until the syrup thickens. Add lemon juice and add a little vanilla.
Fried apples
Ingredients:
apples - 5-6 pcs.
wheat flour - 2 tablespoons
sugar -2 tbsp
juice of 1 lemon
vegetable oil - 3 ½ tablespoons
Preparation:
Apples without skin and core are cut into 4 parts, breaded in flour and fried in heated oil. Fried apples are sprinkled with granulated sugar and sprinkled with lemon juice.
Beverages
Sbiten hot
Ingredients:
water - 1 l.
sugar - 150 g.
honey - 150 g.
spices (cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger - to taste)
Preparation:
Dissolve 150 grams of sugar and honey in 1 liter of water, add spices - cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger. Boil for 5-10 minutes, skimming off the foam. After half an hour, strain the drink. Heat the finished sbiten and drink it hot.
Advice: The honey you use for the drink should smell pleasant, not have a sour taste, and there should be no white foam on it.
Sbiten festive
Ingredients:
water - 1.5 l.
honey - 500 g.
yeast - 50 g.
spices (ginger, cloves, allspice, cinnamon)
Preparation:
Boil 500 grams of honey and 1.5 liters of water, constantly removing the foam, add ginger, cloves, allspice, cinnamon, boil again, cool. Dilute 50 grams of yeast, mix with honey infusion, pour into bottles, and place in a warm place for 12 hours. After this, close the bottles tightly and leave in a cool place for 2-3 weeks to mature. You can add 500 grams of cranberry juice to the prepared drink.
Kissel made from dried blueberries or dried rose hips
Ingredients:
dried blueberries or dried rose hips - 50 g.
sugar - ¾ cup
starch - 2 tablespoons
Preparation:
Pour dried blueberries (or dried rosehips) washed in hot water into 2 cups of cold water and cook for 15-20 minutes. When the blueberries become soft, strain the broth into another pan, and mash the berries well with a wooden pestle or spoon. Pour 1 glass of water again, boil and, squeezing, strain into a saucepan with the broth. Then add sugar, boil again and pour in the diluted starch.
Orange juice
Ingredients:
oranges - 110 g.
sugar - 120 g.
water - 1 l.
Preparation:
Finely chop the orange zest, add hot water, boil for 5 minutes. Then leave for 3-4 hours. After straining, add sugar to the broth, bring to a boil, pour in the squeezed orange juice and cool.
Lemon juice with burnt sugar
Ingredients:
lemon - 1-2 pcs.
water - 1 l.
granulated sugar - 0.5 cups
Preparation:
Squeeze juice from lemons. Boil water with sugar and a thin slice of lemon peel (yellow part only). Add lemon juice to the cooled water, and if desired, also a little burnt sugar, which will give the drink a beautiful color. You can serve it with lemon slices.
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 explore some basic recipes.
It should be remembered that good nutrition is the key to your health. Therefore, you should not fast during fasting, as this can lead to adverse consequences in the future. You can also supplement your diet with essential vitamins during fasting.
So, let's start with salads. This is one of the simplest, but at the same time healthy dishes that must be prepared during fasting. It is worth noting that the Nativity fast also covers the New Year holiday, and those who strictly adhere to fasting have to limit themselves in foods. What would New Year be without Olivie, and for those who fast, an alternative can be found.
Take:
- 300 g potatoes
- 100 g carrots and onions each
- 100 g asparagus or beans
- 100 g of your favorite mushrooms
- 100 g lean mayonnaise
- spices
Preparation:
- Boil the first three ingredients and cut into cubes
- If you are marinating the mushrooms, chop them as well. Pre-boil fresh mushrooms
- Chop pickled onions into cubes
- Mix the 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 onion
- 100 g crackers
- 100 g lean mayonnaise
- Spices
The advantage of this salad is that after fasting you can prepare it with regular mayonnaise:
- Chop the onion and cabbage
- Mix with corn
- Season with spices and mayonnaise
- Sprinkle croutons on top
Salad with crab sticks is a universal holiday dish that will decorate both the holiday and everyday tables:
- 200 g sticks
- 100 g rice
- 1 onion
- 200 g corn
- 250 g mushrooms
- 100 g lean mayonnaise
- spices
- rinse the rice and boil until done
- chop crab sticks, mushrooms and onions
- mix all ingredients and season with mayonnaise
You can also cook very simple salads:
- from cabbage with vegetable oil
- from tomatoes and cucumbers
- beet salad with vegetable oil
Lenten baking: recipes
Very tasty and easy to bake during Lent oat cookies. To do this, take:
- 300 g oatmeal
- 50 g each 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 frying pan
- Mix with remaining ingredients
- Form cookies with a spoon and place on a baking sheet
- Bake at 120 C for 60 minutes
Adults and children love delicious food pancakes. And during Lent they can be no less sweet and fluffy. To do this, take:
- 500 g flour
- 300 g warm water
- 1 tsp each yeast and salt
- 1 tbsp sugar
Prepare pancakes like this:
- Pour salt, sugar and yeast with warm water
- While the yeast is rising, sift the flour.
- Mix the ingredients with flour and, cover with cling film, send to a warm place to infuse.
- When you see that the dough has almost doubled, use a spoon to place the pancakes on the heated frying pan.
- Lush and delicious baked goods are ready. People with a sweet tooth can increase the amount of sugar by 1.5-2 times
Kovrizhka It is cooked very often during Lent. But now we suggest preparing not just baked goods, but diversifying the gingerbread with 2 apples and 50 g of walnuts, as well as:
- 200 g sugar and water each
- 1 tsp each soda and lemon juice
- 2 tbsp honey
- 300 g flour
- 5 g baking powder
Preparing the gingerbread:
- Chop the walnuts
- Mix flour and baking powder
- Mix sugar and water and place 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 baking powder and knead the dough
- Pour the dough onto a baking sheet and place the chopped apples on top
- Bake the gingerbread for half an hour at 180 °C
Another delicious baking recipe - onion pie. After all, not everyone loves sweet pastries, but this dish is very delicious and easy to prepare:
- 750 g each of flour and water
- 125 g rice
- 100 g sugar
- 15 g salt
- 1 kg onion
- 10 g yeast
Onion pie is prepared like this:
- Rinse the rice and add to boiling water, cook until done.
- 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 using a bread machine.
- When the dough has stood and risen, divide it into 3 parts.
- Roll out each piece and arrange the onions, stack the dough on top of each other.
- Cut the cake into 16 pieces and roll each into a bagel.
- Place bagels in pan and bake for 30 minutes.
- The delicious pie is ready, you can invite guests and serve them tea with homemade cakes.
Lenten first courses, recipes
One of the most satisfying first courses is borscht. And even during Lent it can be prepared in quite a variety of ways. We offer 2 main options for lean borscht:
For classic Lenten borscht stock up:
- 2 pieces of potatoes, beets and tomatoes
- 1 carrot and 1 onion
- half a cabbage
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp. l sugar and salt
- spices to taste
Naturally, there is no meat in this dish. Prepare as follows:
- cut the vegetables as you would for regular borscht
- chop the cabbage and mince 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 frying pan
- In a separate pan, also simmer the chopped beets
- Grind the tomatoes in a blender and add to the pan
- when the beets, carrots and onions are ready, add them to the pan
- add salt and sugar, as well as your favorite spices
- bring to a boil and leave to simmer
Excellent version of Lenten borscht with beans and mushrooms. Add to the previous ingredients:
- 200 g champignons
- 10 prunes
- 100 g dry beans
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
Prepare Lenten borscht like this:
- Rinse the beans and leave to soak overnight
- In the morning, boil it in the same water for 45 minutes.
- Remove the beans and add the chopped potatoes to the water.
- Fry onions and carrots with tomato paste
- In another frying pan, simmer beets and finely chopped prunes
- Pour the contents of two frying pans into the pot with the potatoes.
- Fry the mushrooms in an empty frying pan
- While everything is cooking, chop the cabbage
- When the ingredients in the borscht have softened slightly, but are not yet soft enough, add mushrooms, cabbage and previously cooked beans.
- 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 famous during fasting days is pickle. The ingredients for such a dish for 2 liters of water are as follows:
- 100 g pearl barley
- 5 potatoes
- 1 carrot and onion each
- 2 pickled cucumbers with 100 g brine
- spices
Cooking process:
- Rinse the cereal and leave to swell for 30 minutes
- Cook the barley until done
- Meanwhile, cut the potatoes into cubes.
- Add potatoes and spices to softened cereal
- Fry grated carrots and chopped onions
- Add frying to the pickle when the potatoes are already soft enough
- Slice the cucumbers and also add them to the pickle
- Finally, add the brine and bring the dish to a boil.
- Lenten pickle is ready
Well, how can you 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 celery stalks
- Spices to taste
- Fry the onion with spices until golden brown
- Chop the celery, carrots and also add to the onions for just a couple of minutes
- Place the ingredients in a saucepan and add 2 liters of water, cook until boiling.
- Next add the noodles and cook until done
- If desired, sprinkle with herbs and you can try your creation
It will also be very tasty lean pea soup. For it you need:
- 3 potatoes
- 1 carrot and onion each
- 100 g peas
- Spices and herbs to taste
Preparing the soup:
- Leave the peas to swell in cold water overnight
- In the morning, set it to cook, and at this time peel the carrots, onions and potatoes
- Cut the last ingredient into cubes and add to the peas
- Chop and sauté the remaining peeled vegetables
- Add them to the soup and cook until the potatoes soften
- Sprinkle with herbs before serving
- It’s very tasty to complement this soup with croutons or croutons.
Lenten cabbage recipe
Cabbage makes a great addition to salads and first courses. You can also make Lenten baked goods with cabbage. But an excellent and simple option during fasting is braised cabbage:
- 1 onion
- 500 g white cabbage
- 7 g each of vinegar, sugar and flour
- 15 g tomato paste
- 100 g water
- 30 g sunflower oil
Cooking instructions:
- Shred 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, stir and simmer for another 5-7 minutes.
Delicious and lean cabbage is ready. You can supplement it with potatoes or lean porridges.
Lenten mayonnaise: recipe
There are several varieties of Lenten mayonnaise on sale, which are great for seasoning dishes during Lent. But you can prepare such a product at home. This way you can be sure that you are using a quality product:
- 750 g water
- 250 g flour
- 3 tbsp each lemon juice and mustard
- 2 tbsp each sugar and salt
- 120 g vegetable oil
Preparing mayonnaise is not at all difficult, 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 cook until thick, leave to cool.
- Mix the rest of the ingredients in a separate bowl and, while beating with a mixer, add the flour.
- When the mass becomes homogeneous, the mayonnaise is ready. Simple and fast!
Lenten mushroom recipes
In addition to the fact that mushrooms can be added to soups and Lenten borscht, as well as salads during Lent, you can also make wonderful baked goods with them. Fragrant and fluffy pies or pies with mushrooms will come in handy with 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 recipes for fasting people is cabbage rolls with mushrooms and rice. To prepare you will need:
- 400 g cabbage leaves
- 100 g each of rice and mushrooms
- 1 onion
- 50 g each of flour and tomato paste
- Spices
- Mushroom broth
Preparing cabbage rolls is not difficult:
- Boil rice and mushrooms in separate containers, then cut the latter into strips
- Chop the onion and fry, add spices
- Stir in rice and mushrooms
- Wash the cabbage leaves and trim off any thick spots
- Place the filling on the cooled leaves and fry in a frying pan.
- While the cabbage rolls are roasting, mix the flour with the tomato and broth
- Place cabbage rolls in a saucepan, add broth and simmer for 45 minutes
Another very tasty recipe with mushrooms is stuffed champignons. The filling can be any lean - this includes rice, mushroom stems with herbs, as well as various vegetables. You just need:
- Remove stems from mushrooms
- Place them on a baking sheet and stuff them with your chosen filling.
- Lightly spread lean mayonnaise on top and bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 C
Lenten pumpkin recipes
You can prepare quite a lot of dishes from pumpkin. We offer you several 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 onion
- 4 cloves garlic
- 500 g vegetable broth
- Spices
This soup will be in the form of a puree soup:
- Place the chopped ingredients in a baking dish and place in the oven at 200 C
- After this, place the ingredients in a blender bowl, adding broth, and beat
- Garnish the soup with herbs and serve
An unusual but tasty dish - pumpkin in batter. For it you only need flour and pumpkin in a ratio of 1:5, as well as a little oil for frying. If you wish, you can add your favorite spices. The cooking process is very simple - roll small pieces of pumpkin in flour and fry in oil until golden brown.
Try it as a snack 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 each of onion and arugula
- Olive oil
- Spices
The warm salad is prepared as follows:
- Place the chopped pumpkin in a baking dish
- Place chopped tomatoes on top, add oil and spices
- Roast vegetables for 15 minutes
- At this time, chop the greens
- Sprinkle the warm salad with herbs, mix and serve before it cools down.
You can also prepare oatmeal, to which you 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 complement it with delicious salads. But you shouldn’t stop at the achieved results. Let's try a few more options.
Let's start with potato casserole with mushrooms:
- 3 potatoes
- 700 g mushrooms
- 1 onion
- Spices
The casserole is very easy to prepare:
- Boil and mince the mushrooms and potatoes
- Sauté the onion and mix with the potato-mushroom mixture
- Place the future casserole in a baking dish and bake until browned
A delicious and healthy dish is potatoes with prunes and raisins. For 0.5 kg of potatoes take:
- 100 g dried fruits
- 20 g vegetable oil
- Herbs and spices
Potatoes are prepared as follows:
- Cut the potatoes into cubes and, stirring with dried fruits, simmer until half cooked
- Next, add oil, spices and herbs and continue to simmer until done.
- Serve hot, you can sprinkle freshly chopped herbs on top
And how can you avoid it? potato zrazy. But let's complement them with rice and vegetables. This will make them even tastier:
- 0.5 kg potatoes
- 100 g rice
- 1 onion and 1 carrot each
- Spices
Cooking method:
- Boil the potatoes in their jackets and mash or grate
- Boil rice and fry vegetables
- Mix the ingredients, add spices and form into balls
- Fry until golden brown
You can prepare a lot of dishes with potatoes; during Lent, this is a product that will help you out more than once.
Lenten cutlets: recipes photos
Don't 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 the cutlets in breadcrumbs, oatmeal or sesame seeds.
Eggplant and potato cutlets:
- 4 potatoes
- 2 small eggplants
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 50 g semolina
- Spices
Vegetable cutlets:
- Boil 2 potatoes
- While the tubers are boiling, chop the eggplants and onions in a meat grinder, squeeze 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 breading and fry
- Eat hot
Bean cutlets, in this case we use mung beans - small peas:
- 500 g peas
- 1 onion
- Spices
Pea cutlets:
- Soak the mung beans for 2-3 hours in cold water
- Drain the water and add new water, cook for 20 minutes after boiling.
- Grind the peas in a blender
- Fry the onion and mix with the pea mixture
- Make cutlets and fry
You can also cook great oatmeal cutlets– simple and tasty:
- 250 g flakes
- 1 onion and 1 potato each
- 5 champignons
- 2 cloves garlic
- spices
Cooking cutlets:
- Steam oatmeal for 20 minutes
- Peel the potatoes and grate them finely
- Grind the onions and mushrooms in a blender along with the herbs
- Mix the ingredients and form into cutlets, fry
Lenten holiday and New Year's dishes: recipes
One of the traditional dishes for the festive table is Olivier. At the beginning of the article we present a recipe for Lenten Olivier, take note of it. This article offers a variety of options that can be used for New Year's Eve. But we still want to offer you a few more interesting dishes:
Vegetable aspic:
- 1 each eggplant, zucchini and bell pepper
- 350 g tomato
- Gelatin packet
- Greenery
- Spices
Step by step:
- Place sliced vegetables on a baking sheet in a 190°C oven and bake for 15 minutes.
- Then remove the skin from the pepper.
- Pour 1/7 of the tomato and gelatin into a container and heat in a water bath until the gelatin is completely dissolved.
- After this, pour in the rest of the juice.
- Place cling film in the mold and arrange the peppers, pour in some of the liquid
- Next, alternately eggplants and zucchini, also alternating them with liquid
- Place in the refrigerator until hardened.
Delicious and festive stuff the eggplants:
- Tomatoes
- Mushrooms
- Prunes
- Nuts
You can use this filling or any other to stuff vegetables:
- Cut the eggplant into strips and add salt
- Bread in flour and fry
- Place 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 lay the filling on top.
For the above salads you can also prepare fruit salad:
- To do this, cut kiwi, banana, orange and pear.
- Mix and top with soy milk or honey. This is very tasty, children especially love it.
Get creative, use the above recipes for your holiday table and supplement them with the desired ingredients.
Menu on fast days
It is not true that you cannot eat well during Lent. We offer you a sample menu for several days. You can supplement and improve it depending on your imagination and the availability of products:
- Morning: Fruit salad
- Lunch: noodle soup, buckwheat porridge and vegetable salad
- Dinner: potato zrazy with mushrooms
- Morning: Oatmeal with dried fruits
- Lunch: Borscht with beans, cabbage salad
- Dinner: Vinaigrette, honey gingerbread for tea
- Morning: Toast with honey, tea
- Lunch: Rassolnik, beet salad, baked potatoes
- Dinner: Mushroom lasagna
- 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 cleansing the soul and body. Anyone who has fasted once can no longer deny himself this. Try it too - feel the lightness in your body and the strength of your own will.
Video: Cooking Lenten dishes
Neither the body will be cleansed without fasting and prayer, nor the soul without mercy and truth. (Philokalia)
You will find festive recipes for Lenten dishes in this article. Lenten pies, main courses, soups and salads - we have selected only the best recipes for you.
Lenten recipes
Lenten salads
Salad of cabbage, carrots, apples and sweet peppers
The washed white cabbage is cut into strips, ground with a small amount of salt, the juice is drained, mixed with peeled chopped apples, carrots, sweet peppers, seasoned with sugar and vegetable oil. Sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.
300 g cabbage, 2 apples, 1 carrot, 100 g sweet pepper, 4 tablespoons vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon sugar, herbs.
Beet caviar
Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Fry everything in vegetable oil until golden brown. Then add grated fresh beets. Five minutes before cooking, add salt to taste and tomato paste.
1 onion, 1 carrot, 3-4 medium beets, 100 g vegetable oil, 1/2 cup tomato paste diluted with water, salt.
Radish salad with butter
Peel and rinse the radish well, put it in cold water for 15-20 minutes, then let the water drain, chop the radish on a grater, season with vegetable oil, salt and vinegar, put in a salad bowl, garnish with herbs. You can add chopped onions sautéed in vegetable oil to the grated radish.
Radish 120 g, vegetable oil 10 g, vinegar 3 g, onions 15 g, greens.
Vitamin salad
Finely chop the fresh cabbage and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Mix everything and add salt. Add green peas (canned). Pour vinegar, vegetable oil, sprinkle with ground black pepper and herbs. You can add fresh cucumbers and green onions.
300 g of fresh cabbage, 1 large carrot, 5 tablespoons of peas, salt, 1 tablespoon of vinegar. 10 g vegetable oil, 2 g black pepper.
Tomatoes stuffed with vegetable mixture
Wash the tomatoes, cut off the top with a sharp knife, and remove the core with a spoon. Finely chop the boiled carrots, finely chop the apple, grate the cucumbers on a coarse grater. Place all vegetables in a bowl, add peas, salt, vegetable oil and stir. Stuff the tomatoes with this minced meat. Sprinkle dill on top.
5 small tomatoes, 1 carrot, 1 apple, 2 pickled cucumbers, 100 g canned green peas, 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, 1/3 teaspoon salt, dill.
Rice salad
Boil rice in salted water. Chop the vegetables, mix with cooled rice, salt and pepper, add sugar and vinegar to taste.
100 g rice, 2 sweet peppers, 1 tomato, 1 carrot, 1 pickled cucumber, 1 onion.
Lenten first courses
Vegetable soup
Fry chopped onion, parsley and celery in vegetable oil, add water, add chopped carrots, rutabaga and shredded cabbage and cook over low heat for 20-30 minutes. About halfway through cooking, add crushed garlic and seasonings; add applesauce or grated apple at the very end. When serving, sprinkle the soup with chopped herbs.
2 onions, 1 parsley root, celery, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 1 liter of water, 2 carrots, 1 slice of rutabaga, 1 cup of finely shredded cabbage (150 g), clove of garlic, 1 bay leaf, 1/2 teaspoon of cumin , 1 apple or 2 tablespoons of applesauce, salt, herbs.
Lenten pea soup
In the evening, pour cold water over the peas and leave to swell, prepare the noodles.
For noodles, mix half a glass of flour well with three tablespoons of vegetable oil, add a spoonful of cold water, add salt, and leave the dough for an hour to swell. Cut the thinly rolled out and dried dough into strips and dry in the oven.
Cook the swollen peas without draining until half cooked, add the fried onions, diced potatoes, noodles, pepper, salt and cook until the potatoes and noodles are ready.
Peas - 50 g, potatoes - 100 g, onions - 20 g, water - 300 g, oil for frying onions - 10 g, parsley, salt, pepper to taste.
Russian Lenten soup
Boil pearl barley, add fresh cabbage, cut into small squares, potatoes and roots, cut into cubes, into the broth and cook until tender. In the summer, you can add fresh tomatoes, cut into slices, which are added at the same time as the potatoes.
When serving, sprinkle with parsley or dill.
Potatoes, cabbage - 100 g each, onions - 20 g, carrots - 20 g, pearl barley - 20 g, dill, salt to taste.
Borscht with mushrooms
Prepared mushrooms are stewed in oil along with chopped roots. Boiled beets are grated or cut into cubes. Potatoes, cut into oblong pieces, are boiled in broth until soft, other products are added (flour is mixed with a small amount of cold liquid) and the whole thing is boiled for 10 minutes. Greens are added to the soup before serving. If tomato puree is added, it is stewed together with mushrooms.
200 g fresh or 30 g dried porcini mushrooms, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, 1 onion, a little celery or parsley, 2 small beets (400 g), 4 potatoes, salt, 1-2 liters of water, 1 teaspoon flour, 2 -3 tbsp. spoons of greens, 1 tbsp. spoon of tomato puree, vinegar.
Peppers, eggplants, stuffed zucchini
Peel peppers, eggplants, young zucchini from stalks and seeds (cut off the peel from zucchini) and stuff with minced vegetables, which includes finely chopped onions, carrots, cabbage, taken in equal parts, and 1/10 of the total volume of parsley and celery. All vegetables used for minced meat must first be fried in vegetable oil. Also fry stuffed eggplants, peppers and zucchini. Then place in a deep metal bowl, pour in 2 cups of tomato juice and place in the oven for 30-45 minutes. for baking.
Tikhvin porridge
Wash the peas, boil in water without adding salt, and when the water has boiled down by 1/3 and the peas are almost ready, add the mixture and cook until tender. Then season with finely chopped onion, fried in oil, and salt.
1/2 cup peas, 1.5 liters of water, 1 cup buckwheat, 2 onions, 4 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil.
Simple stew
Cut raw potatoes into large cubes and in a wide frying pan, in vegetable oil, as quickly as possible (over high heat) and fry evenly on all sides until golden brown. As soon as the crust has formed, place the still half-baked potatoes in a clay pot, cover with finely chopped herbs, onions, salt, add boiling water, cover with a lid and place in the oven for 1 minute. The finished stew is eaten with cucumbers (fresh or salted) and sauerkraut.
1 kg potatoes, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 1 tbsp. spoon of dill, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of parsley, 1 onion, 1/2 cup water, salt.
Braised cabbage
Finely chop the onion, put it in a frying pan with vegetable oil and fry until golden brown. Then add finely shredded cabbage and fry until half cooked. In 10 min. until finished, add salt, tomato paste, ground red or black pepper, sweet peas and bay leaf. Close the pan with a lid. Sprinkle with herbs before serving.
2 medium onions, 1 small head of cabbage, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, salt, pepper, 2-3 allspice peas, 1 bay leaf, 1/2 cup tomato paste diluted with water.
Potatoes in garlic sauce
Wash the peeled potatoes and dry with a towel. Cut each potato in half. Heat more than half of the vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the potatoes until golden brown. Then prepare the garlic sauce. To do this, grind the garlic with salt, add 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil and stir. Pour garlic sauce over fried potatoes.
10 small potatoes, half a glass of sunflower oil, 6 cloves of garlic, 2 teaspoons of salt.
Friable rice-oat porridge
Rinse the rice and oats, mix and pour the mixture into boiling water. Keep on high heat for 12 minutes, then reduce the heat to medium and keep for another 5-8 minutes, then remove from heat, wrap warm and only after 15-20 minutes. open the lid. Season the finished porridge with onions fried in oil and finely chopped garlic and dill. Heat in a frying pan over low heat for 3-4 minutes.
1.5 cups of rice, 0.75 cups of oats, 0.7 liters of water, 2 teaspoons of salt, 1 onion, 4-5 cloves of garlic, 4-5 tablespoons of sunflower oil, 1 tbsp. spoon of dill.
Potato cutlets with prunes
Make a puree from 400 grams of boiled potatoes, add salt, add half a glass of vegetable oil, half a glass of warm water and enough flour to make a soft dough.
Let it sit for about twenty minutes so that the flour swells, at this time prepare the prunes - peel them from the pits, pour boiling water over them.
Roll out the dough, cut into circles with a glass, put prunes in the middle of each, form cutlets by pinching the dough into patties, roll each cutlet in breadcrumbs and fry in a frying pan in a large amount of vegetable oil.
Potato fritters
Grate some of the potatoes, boil some, drain the water, add salt and add finely chopped onion and fried in vegetable oil. Mix the entire potato mixture, add flour and soda and bake pancakes from the resulting dough in vegetable oil.
750 g grated raw potatoes, 500 g boiled potatoes (mashed), 3 tablespoons flour, 0.5 teaspoon soda.
Rice with vegetables
Heat oil in a frying pan, fry onions, carrots, and bell peppers. Then add lightly boiled rice, salt, pepper, a little water and simmer for another 15 minutes. Bring until cooked, the rice should absorb all the liquid. Then add green peas, parsley and dill.
2 full glasses of rice, 100 g of vegetable oil, 3 onions, 1 carrot, salt, pepper, 3 sweet peppers, 0.5 liters of water, 5 tablespoons of green peas.
Lenten mushrooms
Mushroom vinaigrette
Mushrooms and onions are chopped, boiled carrots, beets, potatoes and cucumber are cut into cubes and mixed. The oil is seasoned with vinegar and seasonings and poured over the salad. Sprinkle with herbs on top.
150 g pickled or salted mushrooms, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 small beet, 2-3 potatoes, 1 pickled cucumber, 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, 2 tbsp. spoons of vinegar, salt, sugar, mustard, pepper, dill and parsley.
Mushroom caviar
Fresh mushrooms are stewed in their own juice until the juice evaporates. Salted mushrooms are soaked to remove excess salt, dried mushrooms are soaked, boiled and allowed to drain in a colander. Then the mushrooms are finely chopped and mixed with chopped onions, lightly fried in vegetable oil. The mixture is seasoned and finely chopped green onions are sprinkled on top.
400 g fresh, 200 g salted or 500 g dried mushrooms, 1 onion, 2 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil, salt, pepper, vinegar or lemon juice, green onions.
Stewed mushrooms
Heat the oil, add thinly sliced mushrooms and chopped onions. Broth is added to the boiled mushrooms; fresh mushrooms are stewed in their own juice for 15-20 minutes. Towards the end of the stewing, add salt and herbs. Boiled potatoes and raw vegetable salad are served as a side dish.
500 g fresh or 300 g boiled (salted) mushrooms, 2 tbsp. tablespoons vegetable oil, 1 onion, salt, 1/2 cup mushroom broth, parsley and dill.
Lenten pies
Lenten pie dough
Knead the dough from half a kilogram of flour, two glasses of water and 25-30 g of yeast.
When the dough rises, add salt, sugar, three tablespoons of vegetable oil, another half a kilogram of flour and beat the dough until it stops sticking to your hands.
Then put the dough in the same pan where you prepared the dough and let it rise again.
After this, the dough is ready for further work.
Pea pancakes
Boil the peas until soft and, without draining the remaining water, grind, adding 0.5 cups of wheat flour per 750 g of pea puree. Form pancakes from the resulting dough, roll in flour and bake in a frying pan in vegetable oil.
Pies with pea filling
Boil the peas until tender, mash, add onion fried in vegetable oil, pepper and salt to taste.
Prepare a simple yeast dough. Divide the dough into balls the size of a walnut and roll into flat cakes 1 mm thick. Add the filling. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes.
Using materials from “Orthodox Cuisine Recipes”. – St. Petersburg: “Svetoslov” – 1997
Lent is one of the main events of the Orthodox year. Believers prepare for the celebration of Easter by cleansing their souls, thoughts and bodies. You will learn from the article what you can eat during this period and what dishes you can prepare during fasting.
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In order not to break the fast and prepare a dish allowed on a specific day of abstinence, you need to know which foods are allowed and which are prohibited for consumption. 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 abstain from eating. During Lent, cold dishes without vegetable oil 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 on these days it is allowed to eat hot dishes seasoned with vegetable oil.
During the remaining 5 weeks of Lent, you should eat this way: 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 season food with vegetable oil, and it is permissible to sip a little red wine. You can also prepare festive dishes during Lent, but they also should not contain foods prohibited for consumption.
On Lazarus Saturday you can put fish caviar on the table. And the next day, on Palm Sunday, the consumption of fish dishes is allowed. But here it should be taken into account that if the above holidays fall on the calendar during Holy Week, then during this period the consumption of any food of animal origin is prohibited. On Good Friday it is recommended to abstain from food, and on the day before Easter, dry eating is allowed. Dishes prepared during Lent should not only not contain prohibited foods, but also be charged with positive energy and the pure thoughts of the cook.
During fasting, food is prepared only from products of plant origin. Animal foods are prohibited: meat, dairy products, butter, eggs and all derivatives. You cannot eat fast food, snacks, carbonated drinks, etc. Food must 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 are not only not harmful to health. On the contrary, they cleanse the body of deposits and toxins and strengthen it with vitamins and minerals. Proper fasting does not harm health due to the fact that the lack of animal food and all necessary substances is replenished with plant components. Thus, the lack of animal protein is replaced by vegetable protein through the consumption of beans, peas, wheat, nuts and mushrooms. Apples, bananas and buckwheat will cover iron deficiency. Dried fruits with honey will support the immune system. Often the main dishes during fasting are prepared on the basis of various cereals. The latter carry healthy carbohydrates that will saturate the body. All kinds of vegetables and fruits will give energy and make up for the lack of nutrients, microelements and vitamins.
From the permitted products you can prepare a wide variety of simple but tasty dishes: soups, salads, snacks, main hot and cold dishes and even pies. We offer you simple but extraordinary recipes for dishes during Lent.
Italian bean soup
A hearty, rich and unusual-tasting soup will become a decoration. To prepare it you will need:
- canned beans - 200 g;
- green beans (can be frozen) - 300 g;
- 1 onion;
- garlic clove;
- half a liter of tomato juice;
- eggless noodles (can be prepared yourself from flour and water) - 250 g;
- greens (dill, parsley, green young onions) to taste.
Cooking method
- Cook the green beans until tender. Drain it in a colander.
- Finely chop the onion and garlic. Simmer in water in a deep soup pan. On days when vegetable oil is allowed, you can fry it.
- Pour tomato juice into the onions and garlic. Simmer for 15 minutes with the lid closed.
- In a separate pan, boil the noodles in salted water.
- Add the rest of the ingredients to the simmering tomato juice with onions and garlic: green and canned beans, noodles. Add salt to taste and boil for 15 minutes.
- Sprinkle the soup with fresh herbs before serving.
Vegetable salad with avocado
What dishes to cook during fasting on days of dry eating? Try making an unusual salad with avocado. This fruit is high in calories. Therefore, the proposed salad will not only enrich it with vitamins, but will also saturate the body of a fasting person.
To prepare it, you will need the following products:
- tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
- avocado - 1 pc.;
- medium onion head;
- cucumber - 2 pcs.;
- radishes - 200 g;
- lemon juice;
- salt.
Making the salad is very simple. To do this, you need to cut all the vegetables and avocados into cubes. Finely chop the onion and soak for 5-10 minutes in lemon juice. Then mix all the ingredients and add salt. You can also season with lemon juice or, on permitted days, with olive oil.
"Ratatouille"
Vegetables can also be used to prepare delicious dishes during Lent. Recipes for vegetable salads, stews and stewed vegetables surprise with a variety of tastes. We invite you to try the original Italian vegetable dish “Ratatouille”. In the classic recipe, all vegetables are deep-fried before baking. We slightly modified the cooking technology and got an equally tasty and even healthier dish.
To prepare Ratatouille you will need the following products:
- red bell pepper - 1 pc.;
- 1 head garlic;
- 1 onion;
- zucchini - 2 pcs.;
- blue ones - 2 pcs.;
- tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
- half a liter of tomato juice;
- sea salt;
- fresh greens.
How to cook Ratatouille
- Peel the eggplants, cut into slices up to 1 cm wide and soak them in cold water for half an hour.
- Peel the tomatoes by pouring boiling water over them.
- Peel the skin of the zucchini.
- To prepare the sauce, simmer finely chopped onions and bell peppers with a few cloves of garlic in half a glass of tomato juice until the vegetables are tender. Add some salt. Blend the mixture in a blender until a thick sauce forms.
- Place parchment paper in a baking dish and pour the sauce on top to a thickness of about 1 cm.
- Lay out the vegetables, alternating eggplant, zucchini, and tomato so that the vegetables closely fill the form, as in the photo below.
- Now prepare the dressing. To do this, you need to mash the herbs, sea salt and a few cloves of garlic in a mortar. On permitted days you can add olive oil. Spread the prepared dressing on top of the vegetables.
- Place the pan in the oven and bake at 180 degrees for an hour and a half until the vegetables are ready.
Dumplings with sauerkraut
What dish should you prepare during Lent that will surprise your 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 one. For dumplings with sauerkraut you will need the following products:
- flour - 500 g;
- glass of water;
- sunflower oil - 100 g;
- sauerkraut - 500 g;
- salt to taste.
Preparing such a dish during Lent 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, you can please your loved ones with such dumplings only on certain days of Lent.
In order to prepare the dough, you need to mix flour, water, and add salt to taste. Place the kneaded dough into the refrigerator for an hour. Then roll out the dough into “sausages”. Cut them into pieces, roll out circles. Then you need to squeeze out the excess juice from the sauerkraut. Place the filling in the middle of each dough circle and seal it into a dumpling shape. All that remains is to cook the product in salted boiling water for 5-7 minutes. Lenten dumplings with sauerkraut are ready!
Pilaf with dried fruits
What dishes to prepare during Lent for the main meal? 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, and on certain days the highlight of the diet will be fish. We also offer you hearty pilaf. To prepare it you need the following ingredients:
- rice (it is better to choose long-grain varieties) - 1.5 cups;
- a couple of large onions;
- carrots - 750 g;
- dried dates - 150 g;
- dried apricots - 350 g;
- ginger root;
- lemon juice - 4 tbsp. l.;
- ground cumin;
- ground coriander;
- ground cinnamon;
- vegetable broth - 3 cups;
- liquid honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
- mint sprig;
- salt.
How to cook pilaf
- Rinse the rice and soak it in cold water for half an hour.
- Peel the vegetables.
- Cut the carrots into large bars, the onion into rings.
- Finely chop the ginger.
- Fry the chopped vegetables in a saucepan. Add all the spices and salt.
- Simmer washed and dried dates and dried apricots in a separate pan with honey and lemon juice for 3-5 minutes.
- Add the honey mixture to the saucepan with the fried vegetables.
- Place the rice in a colander. Then pour into a saucepan, level the surface and pour in vegetable broth. Cover with a lid, reduce heat and simmer without stirring with the lid closed until the rice is cooked (about 20 minutes).
- Remove from heat. Release the steam by opening the lid. Place a sprig of mint on top and close the lid. Let the dish brew for another 10-15 minutes. The flavorful pilaf is ready!
Honey gingerbread
You can even prepare sweet dishes for Lent. We prepare honey Lenten gingerbreads at home. You can pamper your household with them at any time. They will also become a worthy decoration for the holiday table. However, do not forget that sweet dishes should not be consumed in excess during Lent.
To prepare them you will need:
- a glass of sugar;
- 500 g 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 heat. Let the mixture cool.
- Knead the dough by mixing the honey mass with flour and soda slaked with lemon juice. Place the dough in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Roll out the dough 2 cm wide. Press out the molds.
- Bake gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet at 220 degrees for 20 minutes.
- You can decorate baked goods with powdered sugar or jam.
You can create recipes for dishes during Lent yourself, slightly modifying the classic ones and replacing the necessary products. In this way, original Lenten dishes are obtained, which the hostess can safely serve at the festive table.
Fruit cake
What holiday dishes to prepare for Lent? Of course, a real cake! To prepare a delicious sponge-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 of 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 (cereals) - 3 tbsp. l.
To soak the cakes you will need 2 large spoons of sugar and 500 g of juice.
Preparing the cake
- Knead the dough from the ingredients needed for the cakes. Divide it in half and bake 2 sponge cakes at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
- Place one cake in the refrigerator. Leave the other one on the table, covered with a napkin.
- Prepare the impregnation by mixing the juice with sugar. Soak the sponge cake with it. Then leave it to cool in the refrigerator as well.
- Prepare the cream. To do this, mix the juice with sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Then gradually add semolina and cook like regular porridge until tender.
- Cool the cream and beat thoroughly with a blender.
- Remove the cakes from the cold. Place them on top of each other and coat with cream on all sides.
- If desired, you can decorate the top with nuts, coconut or fruit slices.
Conclusion
Even from a seemingly meager list of products you can prepare incredibly tasty dishes for Lent. The recipes we have proposed can, if desired, be improved independently 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 draws closer to God.
From the article you will learn about four main things about what food you should eat at this time, and which it is better to abstain from. We will tell you what lean food is and give recipes for its preparation.
Four major Christian fasts
Begins on November 28 and lasts forty days, including January 6. On all days, except odd-numbered weekdays and Saturdays, you are allowed to eat everything except certain foods, and vegetable oil and fish are allowed on weekends and even-numbered days.
Lenten food during Lent, which begins 49 days before Easter Sunday, consists mainly of vegetables and fish, except in the 7th, 4th and 1st weeks.
The 58th day after Easter begins and ends on the Day of Peter and Paul. Vegetable oil and fish dishes are prohibited only on odd days of the week, except weekends.
The Assumption Fast lasts 14 days from August 14 to August 27. Vegetable oil is consumed on weekends, and fish can only be eaten on Apple Day, August 19.
What you can and cannot eat during Lent
During fasting, as a rule, it is prohibited to eat:
- on strict days - dairy products, eggs and fish;
- poultry and animal meat.
Allowed to eat:
- not rich;
- soy and bean products with a high content of vegetable protein;
- porridge with water;
- nuts, fruits, dried fruits;
- mushrooms;
- boiled, stewed, salted vegetables;
- vegetable oil and fish on permitted days.
On these days, significant attention is given to cooking, because lean food, the recipes for which we will give in the article, must contain not only permitted products, but also be healthy, tasty and nutritious.
First Lenten dishes
A Lenten menu must necessarily contain first courses, because eating dry food harms the digestive tract and causes heartburn and other gastrointestinal disorders. Not everyone knows, but the favorite first courses of many, solyanka and cabbage soup, can be prepared without meat and butter, and lean food will not lose its taste and aroma.
Solyanka
A day before cooking, soak 0.5 cups of red beans; cook them for one and a half to two hours in salted water. When the beans are ready, leave the broth for the hodgepodge, and place the beans separately in a deep plate. Cut 1 medium sized onion into cubes. Peel 2 pickled cucumbers and cut into cubes. Fry the onion a little, add cucumbers and continue frying along with the onion. Throw the 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 ready, add to the pan along with a bay leaf and two allspice peas.
Add 6-7 pcs. to 3 liters of boiling water. diced potatoes, add salt to taste. After 5-7 minutes, add shredded cabbage (a small head of cabbage), 1 piece of sweet pepper, diced. While the vegetables are cooking, fry a small carrot, onion and grated tomato in a frying pan. When the potatoes and cabbage are cooked, add the dressing, bay leaf and 3 black peppercorns to the pan. Serve with finely chopped parsley and grated garlic.
Second 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 becomes clear. Cut bell pepper (1 pc.), 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 heated frying pan and add spices (cumin/cumin and cloves, after 10 seconds - turmeric). Add vegetables: cabbage, carrots, peppers and fry a little. Then add rice and fry for about 3 minutes. and pour in 2 glasses of water.
Wait until it boils, cut the tomato into cubes, throw it into a frying pan with rice and vegetables, pour in a can 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
Peel and boil one and a half kg of potatoes. Pour the potato broth into a jar. Finely chop a medium-sized onion and fry in sunflower oil until golden brown. Mash the potatoes; if the mashed potatoes are very thick, add potato broth. Season with onions and serve.
Lenten salads
Lenten food during Lent presupposes a predominance of vegetables in the diet, so vegetable salads will be very relevant during this period.
The vinaigrette
Wash and boil 2 pcs. carrots, 4 pcs. potatoes, 1 pc. beets. Cool, peel. Peel the onion and cut all the vegetables into cubes. Cut three pickled cucumbers and two fresh ones into cubes. Add a can of peas, after draining the water. Greens, salt, pepper - to taste. Season the salad with 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Beet salad with nuts and dried fruits
Boil 1 beet. Pour boiling water over 100 g of raisins and/or prunes and set aside for 15-30 minutes, drain, rinse and dry. Peel the beets and grate them on a coarse grater. Cut the prunes into slices. Chop 3-4 walnuts and chop. Add 1-2 grated cloves of garlic, raisins, prunes, nuts, pour in 1-2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, sprinkle chopped dill on top.
Snacks
Bulgarian pepper
Wash a kilogram of bell pepper, remove the seeds, cut out 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 of salt, and a teaspoon of vinegar. Pour garlic sauce over the peppers, place 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 1 red apple and 3 pickled cucumbers into strips or thin slices. Clean 2 pcs. lightly salted herring, remove the bones, cut into neat thin slices. Mix all ingredients. Cover the bottom of the dish with lettuce leaves, place the prepared herring mixture on top, and garnish with herbs.
Dessert
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 out a glass of strawberries, wash them, and get rid of the stems. Add 2 tbsp to a partial glass of water. l sugar and 2 tsp lemon juice. Mix. Grind the strawberries. Grind the kiwi in a blender.
Divide the sugar syrup into 2 parts: pour one half into the kiwi puree, the other half into the strawberries. Fill small molds or disposable cups halfway with fruit puree, insert an ice cream stick into each mold, and place in the freezer for an hour. Remove 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, discard the core. Place in a baking dish in one layer, sprinkle with sugar on top (sprinkle 1 teaspoon in the middle, if the apples are sour, sprinkle more). If you have almond or coconut flakes, use them by dividing 2 tbsp. l for all halves of apples. Place in a preheated oven for half an hour. Baked apples are a lean food that can be eaten hot or cold.
Fruit salad with honey
If necessary, melt half a glass of honey by placing a jar of honey in hot water.
Wash and peel the fruit. Cut out the center of 1 large apple; 2 bananas, 4 tangerines, 1-2 kiwis and 1 pc. Peel the persimmons. Separate the grapes from the bunch, cut into two halves along with the plums, remove the seeds, peel 1 pomegranate, selecting the seeds. Cut apples and bananas into small slices, sprinkling with lemon juice to prevent the fruit from darkening. Cut the tangerine slices into pieces, and also cut the kiwi into small pieces. Mix the ingredients together, pour over the honey, stir again and sprinkle with pomegranate seeds.
Bakery
Many people mistakenly believe that baking is harmful to health, and it is not recommended to eat it during Lent, since it contains eggs and milk. However, cooking lean food in the oven without eggs and milk is quite possible.
Crazy Pie
Mix half a glass of flour with a glass of sugar, 0.5 tbsp cocoa, a pack of vanilla sugar, a pinch of salt and nuts (to taste), quench 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 dough into a greased pan and spread evenly. Place 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, you need to add vegetable oil to the glaze), and place in a water bath. Cook until the glaze thickens. Once the cake has cooled, pour the glaze over it, cover and set aside for a few hours.
Charlotte
Peel and finely chop six apples, sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent the apples from darkening, and sprinkle 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 in ½ tbsp. vegetable oil, continuing to stir. After mixing 300 g of flour with 2 tsp of baking powder and the liquid mixture, stir out the dough and pour onto a baking sheet. Place the apples in an even layer. Place the oven for 30-35 minutes.
Preparing Lenten food does not take too much time and requires minimal material costs, and this is another advantage of observing Christian traditions.
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