Posnaya. Lenten dishes

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

What can you eat in a post

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

How to eat healthy in Lent

• On Mondays- dry eating (water, black bread, fruits and vegetables)
• On Tuesdays- hot food without vegetable oil
• On Wednesdays- dry eating (vegetables, fruits, black bread, water, compotes)
• On Thursdays- hot food cooked without vegetable oil
• On Fridays- dry food (water, black bread, vegetables and fruits)
• On Saturdays- food with vegetable oil, grape wine is allowed
• On Sundays- food cooked in vegetable oil, wine
It is supposed to eat once a day, in the evenings, with the exception of Saturday and Sunday, when it is allowed to eat twice, at lunch and in the evening.

Meals for Lent on holidays

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

Lenten dishes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19/04/2017 19:49

Great Lent is 40 days of both spiritual and food abstinence. However, this is not the only post of the year. There are also Petrov post, Assumption post, Nativity post. And each of them requires certain restrictions in food.

During fasting weeks, many housewives are happy to restrict themselves in food, following a diet for the sake of losing weight, but at the same time they are seriously worried about the diet of the rest of the family. And not just like that - after all, many men and children oppose the fasting table and can reject the next meal, consisting of porridge and boiled beets.

Contrary to the established opinion about crackers and water, fasting food can and should be varied and complete. To do this, meat, eggs and dairy products should be replaced with their lean counterparts, and then dinner will no longer look unappetizing.

Your attention to 15 delicious dishes that you can cook in the post.

1. Oatmeal jelly - a replacement for yogurt

Not everyone loves oatmeal jelly, and almost no one cooks such a dish during fasting. Because of this, few people know that sour jelly is very similar to yogurt.

For cooking, you need to take a standard bag of oatmeal (400 g) and a crust of rye bread. Place the ingredients in a two-liter jar, pour cold water. The jar should be left for 12-24 hours, while stirring occasionally.

Then the oatmeal must be filtered through a sieve, pour the liquid into a saucepan and cook over low or medium heat. The mixture must be constantly stirred so that it does not burn. Pour hot jelly into jars and refrigerate.

2. Rice with honey and nuts on lean milk

Lean porridge can be made very tasty and nutritious without adding sugar to it. You can cook porridge on the water - the taste will not suffer much from this. If you are used to cereals with milk, you can take soy or peanut.

Peanut milk is easy to make - Nuts need to be ground into very fine crumbs, pour water, mix and strain.

Rice porridge needs to be salted (after cooking) and add honey and your favorite nuts. With such a healthy and tasty dish, you can please your loved ones on a holiday.

Even lean cookies can be tasty, healthy and satisfying.

For cookies, you need oatmeal, frozen cranberries or jam, and vegetable oil. Oat flakes should be fried in sunflower or coconut oil, then put on a sieve and allowed to drain excess fat.

Grind oatmeal in a blender (you can not grind everything - to taste), mix with berries. Form cakes from the dough, put on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven until golden brown.

4. Broccoli stew with peas and avocado

Such a "green" stew will be very useful in the post. It will help replenish energy, as well as the supply of vitamins.

Take fresh broccoli, you can also add cauliflower to the dish. To diversify the stew, add green beans to it.

When the broccoli, beans and green peas are boiled, you can add avocado and season the dish with garlic sauce. Serve hot.

5. Nutella

What is breakfast without Nutella? The classic version of this delicacy is not lean, as it contains milk powder. We offer an alternative recipe without the use of animal products.

For cooking, you will need whole hazelnuts, honey, cocoa powder and coconut oil. Hazelnuts should be soaked overnight in cold water. In a blender, grind the hazelnuts into fine crumbs, add cocoa powder to taste, a little butter, just a little bit of honey (or maple syrup) and vanilla if desired.

Grind to a paste and add to lean pancakes mixed with soy milk, or spread on a loaf. Yummy! Try it!

6. Sandwich with lean bean mayonnaise

Let's get back to our sandwich. A lean sandwich should come out satisfying in order to satisfy the feeling of hunger for a long time.

For a sandwich, we need a salad, rye or whole grain bread, canned beans, cucumber, tomato to taste. Cut the vegetables into small slices, and mash the beans in a plate and add oil and salt. Now the beans will act as lean mayonnaise.

Lubricate the bun itself with bean mayonnaise, and spread all the vegetables evenly on top. Cover with the second part of the roll (or bread). Bon appetit!

7. Cabbage chips

Fasting has begun, and you want chips? Ordinary potato chips are considered lean, but there is little benefit in them.

You can make chips from white cabbage that you can eat without fear for health. To do this, you need to disassemble the head of cabbage into sheets, cut into pieces and grease with oil. Salt and pepper the future chips and put on a baking sheet. Send the baking sheet to the preheated oven, dry the chips until cooked.

This idea is popular not only in fasting, but also during weight loss. Such sweets are very sweet, they are perfect for tea, and at the same time they will not harm the figure.

The easiest option is to grind nuts and dried fruits, and then roll the balls in coconut flakes. There is another option, no less tasty.

Take a dried fruit without a stone (for example, dried tangerines will not work, but prunes are just right) and cut a hole with a knife. Inside put a small nut like hazelnuts, almonds or peanuts. The future candy should be smeared with honey, and then rolled in coconut, sesame or poppy seeds.

Such lean sweets will appeal to both adults and kids. Be careful - the sweets are too sweet!

In Rus', during Lent, a lot of different pies were prepared. The peasants added everything that remained from the meal to the filling: porridge, pickles and mushrooms. Pies were eaten instead of bread with soup and main courses.

Salty pies can be prepared with cucumbers, stewed fresh or sauerkraut, mushrooms, potatoes, buckwheat or rice. To make the pies tastier, the filling must be fried in a pan with vegetable oil.

Apples, pumpkin, carrots with honey, jam or frozen berries are great for sweet pies. Pumpkin pies are especially tasty, despite the fact that many do not like this vegetable.

Pie dough must be yeast: put a teaspoon of yeast in a bowl, grind with sugar, pour a glass of water and knead a thin dough. When it rises, you can add salt and flour to the desired density.

10. Lenten borscht

Fasting is a time of restriction, and many, especially men, want a hearty meal. Unfortunately, the classic borscht recipe contains meat and is not suitable for fasting. But what happens if meat is replaced with mushrooms?

Borsch with mushrooms is more like a mushroom soup, and therefore it is necessary to add beets, parsley and beans to it. You need to cook borscht in the same way as the classic one, removing only the stage of cooking beef.

11. Vareniki

Meat and completely non-lean dumplings can be replaced with dumplings. They can be with anything: potatoes, mushrooms, cranberries or raspberries. On some big holidays, fish is allowed, so on such days you can cook dumplings with fish.

For the dumplings test, you only need flour, water, oil and salt. This dough does not require yeast.

All ingredients must be gently and thoroughly mixed, gradually adding flour to salt water. In the resulting dough, you need to mix flour until it stops “absorbing” it into itself.

This dish came to us from Lithuania. It has a very unusual taste and quickly saturates. Be sure that you will like this porridge!

First you need to boil barley. Before cooking, pearl barley is soaked overnight. In the morning, you can drain the water and boil it. Please note that this process will take a long time.

Next, you need to grate raw potatoes. Barley and grated potatoes should be put on a hot frying pan, greased with vegetable oil. Fry glass porridge until golden brown.

The Lithuanian dish must be served warm, pre-decorated with fresh herbs.

13. Salad with mushrooms and pine nuts

So that during fasting vitamin deficiency does not take away all your strength, you need to refresh yourself with a vitamin salad. Mushrooms in its composition will saturate with useful and high-quality vegetable protein.

To prepare the salad, you will need blue onions, mushrooms, spinach and cedar nuts. Finely chop the onion, dip in boiling water and put in a bowl. Finely chop spinach and mushrooms, add pine nuts. Salad can be seasoned with garlic sauce or olive oil. You can also decorate it with arugula or basil.

14. Potato pancakes (cutlets)

Potatoes have long been used to prepare a variety of dishes: chips, french fries, casseroles. In fasting, cutlets can be prepared from this product.

To prepare cutlets, you will need potatoes, flour, onions and carrots. Carrots need to be fried together with onions in a pan. Please note that these ingredients must be very finely chopped so that whole pieces of onion do not come across in cutlets.

The fried mixture must be mixed either with mashed potatoes (make sure that there are no lumps in it), to which no water has been added, or with finely grated raw potatoes. In the first case, you get pancakes (cutlets), in the second - classic potato pancakes.

From this "dough" you need to mold small cutlets, then put it on a hot frying pan and fry until golden brown.

15. Salad with crab meat and corn

On some days, a fasting person can afford fish. Most of these days are Sundays and holidays.

And as you know, crab sticks are made from surimi - this is minced white fish meat. Corn and sweet peppers are ideal for this product. The salad will go perfectly for the second course, it will saturate for a long time.

To prepare the salad, you need crab meat or sticks, canned corn, red or yellow peppers and herbs. You can fill the salad with a paste of mashed ripe avocado.

The cuisines of the peoples of the world, and especially Russian, can boast a huge selection of meatless dishes. However, preparing delicious lean meals is not difficult, because among plant foods there are excellent substitutes for meat and fish. We are talking about legumes and mushrooms. Mushrooms look great in soups, pickles, cabbage soup and borscht, and from various types of legumes you can cook not only lean meatballs, but also delicate mashed soups that diversify your Lenten table so much.

Habitual sweets successfully replace honey, nuts and dried fruits, which are so good for the heart. Instead of chocolate and cocoa powder, you can use carob, which is increasingly appearing in the health food departments of supermarkets, and replace granulated sugar with fructose. Fantasize and experiment, and our site will tell you delicious lean recipesthat can be prepared both for every day and for the holiday table.

Ingredients:
100 g lettuce leaves,
200 g tomatoes,
50 g olives (pitted)
50 g olives (preferably with lemon),
a handful of walnuts,
1 tbsp olive oil,
1 tsp wine vinegar.

Cooking:
Rinse tomatoes and lettuce thoroughly. Tear the lettuce into large pieces, put on a plate, put coarsely chopped tomato, olives and olives on top.

Lightly crush the walnut kernels in your hands and sprinkle on top. It remains to sprinkle with wine vinegar and pour olive oil.

Ingredients:
1 stack pumpkin puree,
2 stack wheat flour
½ onion
finely chopped greens
black pepper,
paprika,
vegetable oil.
Filling:
½ small onion
½ stack boiled chickpeas
½ stack chopped spinach,
¼ stack. chopped walnuts,
2.5 tsp lemon juice
1 tbsp olive oil,
salt, pepper, paprika.

Cooking:
Mix flour, pumpkin puree, finely chopped onion and seasonings, mix thoroughly and leave to infuse for 10 minutes. During this time, prepare the filling. Heat a spoonful of olive oil, add the onion and fry it over low heat until golden brown. Then add chickpeas, spinach, walnuts, lemon juice and seasonings. We make fritters. For one pancake, you need no more than two tablespoons of dough. Roll this dough into a ball. Make a well in the center of the ball and add about ½ teaspoon of filling to it. Seal the indentation and roll the filling between your palms to form a patty. Put the pancakes in the pan and fry for a couple of minutes until the pancakes are a delicious brown color. Don't be afraid to spread them back to back in the pan - frying in batches is much more convenient as they don't stick together.

It is better to spread the finished pancakes on pre-prepared paper towels so that the excess oil is absorbed. Sprinkle with herbs and serve.

Ingredients:
1 large banana (ripe)
½ stack long grain rice,
1-1.5 stack. water,
paprika flakes, turmeric, red pepper, salt, vegetable oil.

Cooking:
Rinse the rice thoroughly, cover it with a glass of water and bring to a boil. Add salt, 1 tsp. turmeric and 1-2 tsp. paprika to give the rice a golden color. Peel the banana, cut it in half and lightly salt each part. Toast the banana slices in an oiled skillet over medium heat. Don't overcook! Flip as soon as you see the banana is softened. Put the cooked rice in some kind of cup or deep plate, compact it, turn it over onto a dish and put spicy bananas next to it.

Ingredients:
1 stack lentils,
1 tomato
1 cucumber
vegetable oil,
soy sauce,
fresh herbs - to taste.

Cooking:
Rinse the lentils, cover with warm water and leave for 1 hour. Then rinse and boil over medium heat in unsalted water. Finely chop the greens, cucumber, tomato and add to the lentils. Add vegetable oil and soy sauce of your choice. A delicious and healthy breakfast with slow carbohydrates is ready!

Ingredients:
10 fresh champignons,
1 package frozen green beans
1 stack boiled red beans
1 onion
3-4 garlic cloves,
salt, black ground pepper, herbs - to taste.

Cooking:
Blanch green beans without defrosting first in boiling water and drain on a sieve. Mushrooms cut into slices and fry in vegetable oil. Add green beans and quartered onion to the mushrooms. Stir and fry until the onion is soft. Add boiled red beans along with some of the liquid in which they were boiled, salt, pepper, add garlic, passed through a press, and remove from heat. Cover with a lid and let steep for 10-15 minutes. Sprinkle with herbs when serving.

Ingredients:
200 g white beans (dry)
300 g potatoes
200 g carrots
1 large onion
250 ml vegetable broth or water
1-2 tbsp flour,
salt, pepper, garlic - to taste.

Cooking:
Soak beans in cold water and leave overnight. Drain the old water, pour 2 liters of fresh water and cook the beans until soft. Add finely chopped onions, carrots and potatoes to the beans and cook until the potatoes are tender. To obtain a creamy state of our soup, rub the resulting mass through a sieve. A blender is undoubtedly faster, but in this case the consistency will not be as creamy. Add the roasted flour and spices to the vegetable broth (or boiled water). Mix with soup and hold covered over low heat for 10-15 minutes. The soup turns out not only lean and tasty, but also fast and satisfying - it takes no more than an hour to cook, it depends on the speed of boiling the beans.

Ingredients:
2 kg pumpkin,
1 tomato (can be replaced with 2 tablespoons of tomato paste),
1 onion
1 celery stalk
1 chili pepper
3-4 garlic cloves,
olive or vegetable oil, salt, pepper, parsley - to taste.

Cooking:
Peel the pumpkin from seeds and peel, cut into cubes and place in a deep frying pan. Chop the onion, garlic, chili pepper, celery, add to the pumpkin and sauté in a little olive or vegetable oil. Peel the tomato, finely chop and add to the rest of the vegetables. Add 2 cups of water (preferably vegetable broth) and simmer for 20 minutes. Focus on the pumpkin - when it softens, transfer the entire mass to a blender and beat until a homogeneous creamy mass. Pour everything back into the saucepan, season with salt and pepper and bring to a boil. Add croutons, prunes, sesame or pumpkin seeds to taste.

Ingredients:
1 stack ground walnuts,
6 potatoes
3-4 bulbs
200 g white bread,
salt - to taste.

Cooking:
Grind all the ingredients with a meat grinder, grate the potatoes on a fine grater. Soak the bread in boiled water, squeeze it out and mix with the chopped products. Knead the minced meat well, form cutlets and fry them in vegetable oil.

Ingredients:
2 stack boiled buckwheat,
500 g fresh champignons or oyster mushrooms,
2 bulbs
2 tsp starch,
greens, salt, black pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Finely chop the mushrooms, fry in a dry frying pan without oil until the liquid has completely evaporated, pour in a little vegetable oil and add the onion, cut into small cubes. Fry everything together and chill. Mix with buckwheat and pass through a meat grinder along with starch and herbs. Salt, pepper, form cutlets, roll them in flour or breadcrumbs and fry in vegetable oil.

Ingredients:
10 sweet red peppers
300 g dry rice
500 g champignons,
1 onion
1 carrot
2 tomatoes
1 liter tomato juice
herbs, salt, pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Boil the rice until half cooked in boiling salted water. Finely chop the mushrooms, fry in a dry frying pan until the liquid evaporates, then pour in the vegetable oil and add the chopped onion. Fry until done. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, scald the tomatoes and remove the skin and cut into small cubes. Spasser vegetables in vegetable oil, cool and mix with mushrooms, chopped herbs and rice. Stuff the prepared peppers, put them in a saucepan with a thick bottom and pour over the tomato juice. Put in the oven with medium heat for 30-40 minutes.

Marinade Ingredients:
1 stack boiled water
½ st. l. vegetable oil,
½ stack 9% vinegar,
1 tbsp salt,
1 tbsp Sahara.

Cooking:
You will need cabbage, carrots, garlic, herbs, salt. Prepare the cabbage for cabbage rolls as usual - disassemble into leaves and beat off the thick parts with the blunt side of the knife. For the filling, grate the carrots on a coarse grater and mix it with chopped garlic and chopped herbs. Salt to taste and wrap in cabbage leaves. Put the cabbage rolls in a glass jar or enamel pan (make sure that there are no chips or rust on the enamel!), pour cold marinade and refrigerate for 2-3 days.

Fragrant potato roll

Ingredients:
700 g potatoes
3 tbsp (no slide) starch,
salt.
For filling:
2 large onions
2-3 carrots
300 g fresh mushrooms,
salt, black or red ground pepper - to taste.

Cooking:
Boil the potatoes in boiling salted water, drain the water, draining about a glass of mashed liquid, and pat dry. Prepare puree and chill. For the filling, chop the onion and carrot and fry in vegetable oil until soft. Grind the mushrooms, add to the vegetables and fry for 3-4 minutes, stirring constantly. Salt and pepper to taste and let cool. Mix mashed potatoes with starch and lay out in the form of a rectangle on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Put the baking sheet in the oven heated to 200ºС for 15-20 minutes. Then spread the filling over a slightly browned potato layer and carefully roll it into a roll, separating the paper. Brush the top with vegetable oil and bake in the oven for another 15 minutes.

Ingredients:
For the dark layer:
3 bananas
1 tsp honey,
½ tsp lemon zest,
cocoa powder and almonds to taste.
For the light layer:
150 g coconut flakes
10 pieces. cashew nuts,
3 tbsp honey.
For the cream layer:
2 bananas
150 g almonds
1-2 tbsp water.

Cooking:
Beat the dark, light and cream ingredients separately until smooth and creamy. Arrange the layers in the prepared pan so that the cream is in the middle. Cover with cling film and put in the freezer to cool our ice cream properly. The finished delicacy can be cut and served at the table.

Ingredients:
4 stack flour,
2 stack water,
1.5 stack. Sahara,
1.5 stack. walnuts (pre-chop)
1 stack raisins,
3 tbsp cocoa powder
1 st. l. ground cloves,
1 tbsp ground cinnamon,
1 lemon (zest)
3 tsp baking powder
½ glass of liqueur (or dessert wine)
1 stack coarsely chopped walnuts for garnish

Cooking:
Rinse the raisins, brew with boiling water and drain in a colander. Mix flour, baking powder, cloves and cinnamon, add oil and mix well. Add lemon zest, raisins, walnuts, liqueur, cocoa, raisins, sugar and water. Mix, put the dough into a greased mold and bake in the oven for an hour at 180ºС. Determine the degree of readiness with a wooden stick. Cool the finished cake in the form, put on a dish, cut and sprinkle with walnuts.

Ingredients:
100g peanuts
100g almonds
100g walnuts,
200g hazelnuts
250g honey.

Cooking:
Grind walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts in a blender, but not very finely - large pieces will give our sweets a brighter taste. Then mix nuts with honey.
Fry the peanuts in a pan without oil and grind separately in a blender, this time quite finely. Roll the resulting nut-honey mass into balls and roll in ground peanuts. Put the sweets on a dish with a napkin and place in the refrigerator.
This interesting dessert can be stored in the cold for quite a long time and is perfect for lean tea parties.

Ingredients:
300g bananas
2 tbsp sugar syrup,
150 ml of water
70g brown (or regular) sugar
2 strawberries,
3 mint leaves
a few drops of lemon juice.

Cooking:
First prepare the banana puree. The easiest way to do this is in a blender, adding a few drops of lemon juice so that our puree does not get an unpleasant dark color.
Mix the puree, sugar, sugar syrup, water and put on a slow fire. Then, after boiling, pour the resulting mass into beautiful molds or glasses and put it in the refrigerator to cool. After the sorbet has thickened, take it out of the molds, put it in dessert bowls and garnish with strawberries and mint leaves.

You see, it’s not at all difficult to cook delicious lean dishes and there are a lot of them.

Bon appetit!

Larisa Shuftaykina

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

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

Four major Christian fasts

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

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

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

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

What you can and can not eat in the post

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

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

It is allowed to eat:

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

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

First Lenten Meals

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

Solyanka

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

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

Main dishes

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

Rice porridge with vegetables

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

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

Mashed potatoes

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

Lean salads

Lenten food during Lent implies 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, clean. Peel the onion and cut all the vegetables into cubes. Cut three pickled cucumbers and two fresh ones into cubes as well. Add a jar of peas, after draining the water from it. Greens, salt, pepper - to taste. Fill the salad with 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.

Beet salad with nuts and dried fruits

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

Snacks

Bulgarian pepper

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

Herring cocktail

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

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

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

Baked apples

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

Fruit salad with honey

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

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

Bakery

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

crazy pie

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

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

Charlotte

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

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

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