Recipes for Lenten dishes from Orthodox Russian monasteries. Monastery-style boiled beans
SMOLENSKY MONASTERY
Curd noodles
Ingredients:
100 g noodles or vermicelli, 150 g low-fat cottage cheese, 1 tsp. sugar, 2/3 eggs, 1/4 cup sour cream, 1 tbsp. l. jam, 1 tbsp. l. ground crackers, salt to taste.
Preparation
Boil noodles or vermicelli in salted water. Pass the cottage cheese through a meat grinder, add the yolks mashed with sugar, mix everything and combine with boiled noodles, add whipped egg whites.
Place the mixture on a frying pan greased with oil and sprinkled with breadcrumbs, brush the surface with sour cream and bake.
When serving, cut into pieces, pour over sour cream mixed with jam.
CHUDOV MONASTERY
Porridge with spices
Ingredients:
2 cups oatmeal, 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 cup cream, 5 tbsp. l. sugar, 1 liter of water, 1 tsp. salt, cinnamon, coriander, cloves
Preparation
Boil the oatmeal in salted water until cooked. Pour milk over the porridge, boil, add sugar, season with spices and cook for 5-7 minutes.
At the end of cooking, add cream, stir and remove from heat.
SOLOVETSKY MONASTERY
Viburnum soup
Ingredients:
125 g viburnum, 150 g crackers, 3 tbsp. l. honey, 500 g water, sour cream
Preparation
Sort out the viburnum berries, rinse, pour boiling water and leave for half an hour.
Then drain the infusion, pour fresh water over the berries and cook for about 30 minutes over low heat.
5 minutes before the end of cooking, add honey and grated rye crackers.
When serving, pour sour cream into the soup.
IRKUTSK ASCENSION MONASTERY
Pine drink
Ingredients:
300 g pine needles, 1/4 cup honey, 1.5 liters of water, 1/2 lemon.
Preparation
Wash the pine needles thoroughly, chop finely, pour boiling water, add honey, lemon zest and cook, covered, for 30 minutes.
Strain the finished broth, cool and pour in lemon juice.
DALMATOV MONASTERY
Ural appetizer
Ingredients:
200 g soaked watermelon, 2 beets, 3 tsp. honey, 2 cloves of garlic, herbs.
Preparation
Wash the beets well, boil, cut into small slices.
Cut the pulp of soaked watermelons into cubes, mix with beets, add finely chopped garlic and honey.
Garnish the appetizer with dill.
VALAAM MONASTERY
Fish in Russian
Ingredients:
200 g herring, 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, 1/2 cup milk, 1/2 tbsp. l. flour, 1/2 onion, salt and pepper to taste.
Preparation
Clean fresh herring, gut it, rinse it, and place it in a saucepan.
Cover the fish with finely chopped onions, salt and pepper to taste, pour in butter and milk so that the fish is barely covered.
Cover the saucepan with a lid and simmer in the oven until done.
PECHERSKY MONASTERY
Pudding
Ingredients:
1 cup rice, 2 cups water, 3 cups milk, 7 apples, 6 tbsp. l. sugar, 4 eggs, 4 tbsp. l. butter or margarine, 2 tbsp. l. sour cream, crackers.
Preparation
Sort the rice, rinse and cook a viscous porridge. Cool the finished porridge, mix with yolks, ground with sugar, add finely chopped apples, beaten egg whites, mix.
Grease a baking sheet with oil and sprinkle with ground breadcrumbs. Place the prepared mixture on a baking sheet, level the surface, brush with a mixture of eggs and sour cream and bake in hot oven.
Serve the pudding with any jam.
TRINITY-SERGIUS LAVRA
Lentil soup
Ingredients:
750 g water, 1 carrot, 3 cloves garlic, 1/2 cup lentils, 1/2 onion, 1/2 tbsp. l. savory greens, 1 Bay leaf, salt and pepper to taste
Preparation
Rinse the lentils, pre-soaked for 4-6 hours, add fresh water, put on low heat and bring to a boil. Then add finely chopped carrots and cook until the lentils are completely cooked.
When the lentils are ready, add finely chopped onion, bay leaf, black pepper, salt and cook over low heat for another 10 minutes.
Add savory and chopped garlic to the finished stew, remove from heat and let it brew.
SUZDAL MONASTERY
Omelette
Ingredients:
3 eggs, 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, 1/2 cup milk, 1 clove garlic, 1/2 part each carrot and turnip, 1/4 cup chopped cabbage, 1/2 tsp. mustard, salt to taste.
Preparation
Finely chop the garlic, mix with vegetable oil and mustard, grind the mixture thoroughly. Peel the carrots and turnips, rinse and cut into thin strips.
Prepare an omelette mixture of eggs, milk and salt, beat everything well.
Place the garlic mixture in a heated frying pan, then add the vegetables, lightly fry, pour over the omelette mixture and bake in a hot oven.
HOLY ASSUMPTION KIEV-PECHERSK LAVRA
Mushroom cheese
Ingredients:
champignons 500 g, Domashny cheese 600 g, olive oil 2 tbsp. l., chopped greens 2 tbsp. l., salt to taste.
Preparation
Wash the mushrooms, cover completely with water, add salt and cook until tender for 20 minutes. Drain the water, drain the mushrooms in a colander, pass through a meat grinder, add butter and mix with cheese.
Place the resulting mass on clean gauze, roll into a ball and place under a press for an hour.
Transfer the cheese cake to a plate, cut into slices, sprinkle with herbs and serve.
Kalya with fish
Ingredients:
salmon fillet 600 g, sauerkraut 1 cup, flour 1 tbsp. l., lemon 0.5 pcs., parsley and celery root 1 pc., pickles 2 pcs., onions 1 pc., allspice 5-6 peas, cucumber pickle 1 cup, vegetable oil 2 tbsp. l., bay leaf 2-3 pcs., chopped dill 2 tbsp. l., salt to taste.
Preparation
Wash the fish, cut into portions, add water (2 liters), add roots, bay leaf, pepper, salt and cook for 15 minutes.
Place the salmon pieces in a separate dish, strain the broth, add sauerkraut and cook for 5-7 minutes.
Finely chop the onion, place in a frying pan and sauté in oil for 3 minutes.
Add diced cucumbers and cook for another 5 minutes, add flour, stir and lightly fry.
Place the prepared dressing in the soup, bring to a boil, add fish, cucumber pickle and cook for 10 minutes.
Serve with a slice of lemon on each plate and sprinkle with herbs.
Stuffed cabbage rolls with mushrooms
Ingredients:
cabbage 1 head, rice 2/3 cup, champignons 600 g, onions 1 pc., vegetable oil 4 tbsp. l., salt and pepper to taste.
Preparation
Wash the rice, add one and a half glasses of water and cook until half cooked (about 10 minutes).
Wash the mushrooms, chop them, fry in oil (1 tablespoon) for 10 minutes.
Chop the onion and sauté in oil (1 tablespoon) until golden brown, combine with mushrooms and rice, add salt, pepper and stir.
Disassemble the cabbage into leaves, blanch in boiling water for 3-4 minutes until elastic and drain in a colander. Hard stems can be lightly beaten until soft. Place a tablespoon of filling on each sheet and roll up the cabbage roll.
Place the cabbage rolls in a greased fireproof dish (1 tablespoon), sprinkle oil (1 tablespoon) on top and simmer over low heat, covered, for 15 minutes.
Serve sprinkled with herbs.
Makovnik
Ingredients:
flour 2 cups, vegetable oil 3 tbsp. l., yeast 0.5 sachets, sugar 1 tsp, salt to taste for filling, poppy seeds 10-12 tbsp. l., honey 3 tbsp. l.
Preparation
Knead the dough: dissolve sugar in warm water, add yeast, flour (1 tablespoon), mix and place in a warm place.
When the dough rises (15 minutes), add salt, vegetable oil (2 tablespoons), the rest of the flour and knead the dough. Knead until it doesn't stick to your hands.
Place the dough in the pan, cover with a lid and let rise (45 minutes).
Place poppy seeds in a gauze bag and rinse. Melt honey in a water bath. Add the washed poppy seeds, stir and continue cooking, stirring, for 8-10 minutes. Cool.
Roll out the dough thinly, spread the poppy seed filling over the entire surface, roll into a roll and place on a greased baking sheet (1 tablespoon), grease the top with the remaining oil and place in an oven preheated to 200 degrees.
Bake for 10 minutes.
Monastic Lenten fish soup made from fresh fish
Ingredients
For 2 liters of water: 1-1.5 kg of fish, 0.3 cups of millet, 1 carrot, 3-4 potatoes, 1 onion, 10 black peppercorns, salt, herbs to taste.
Preparation
Many people love fish first courses, and fish soup occupies a special place in Russian cuisine. We offer a Lenten recipe for making monastery fish soup. This first dish can be prepared not only during Lent, but also for every day.
To prepare monastery fish soup according to this delicious Lenten recipe, you need to cook broth from cleaned and gutted fish, skimming off the foam as necessary.
Remove the fish, carefully strain the broth through a fine sieve and put on fire. When it boils, put millet, chopped potatoes and carrots, onion, bay leaf and pepper into the pan. Cook until the vegetables are ready.
At this time, use your hands to separate the fish into small pieces, carefully selecting the bones.
When the soup is cooked, add pieces of fish and boil for 2-3 minutes.
Lenten chebureks
Ingredients
For the dough: 0.5 liters of water, 700 g of flour, 1 cup of vegetable oil, salt and pepper to taste.
For the filling: minced mushroom, or finely chopped sauerkraut, or fried onion with carrots.
Preparation
Delicious, light, original chebureks prepared according to this Lenten recipe is a good dish not only for Lent, but also for every day
To prepare pasties, you need to dilute salt to taste in water, add ground black pepper, sifted flour and knead the dough. The dough should be elastic.
Roll out thin flat cakes 3 mm thick and about 20 cm in diameter.
Place the prepared filling in a thin layer on one side of the flatbread, cover with the other side, pinch the edges of the pasty well and prick with a fork in several places.
Fry in hot vegetable oil (deep frying).
You can serve pasties with soups or as a main course.
Chicken fillet in nuts
Ingredients:
chicken fillet (white or fattier red) – 1 kg, salt, 1 tbsp. flour (more if needed), 3-4 eggs, salt, 4-5 glasses walnuts.
Preparation
Festive chicken dish. This dish will delight you with both its taste and speed of preparation.
The secret of this delicious dish chicken – in an unusual nut batter. The chicken fillet turns out amazingly juicy!
To fry fillet in nuts, you need to prepare 3 containers for the batter components.
Pour flour into the first one. In the 2nd, mix all the eggs with salt - this mixture should be very salty. Pour ground nuts into the third (you can grind them in a meat grinder or blender).
Separately prepare chopped small pieces of fillet.
First, dip the chop on all sides in flour, then on both sides in the egg and finally in chopped nuts.
And we fry all this on salted sunflower or olive oil over medium heat until the nuts are cooked and browned.
The meat turns out very juicy and tasty.
Fried woodcock
Ingredients:
for 1 woodcock - 50 g of bacon, 100 g of butter, red wine, salt.
Preparation
If among the parishioners there is a hunter who brings hunting trophies, then this is a recipe for the festive monastery table.
To prepare a fried woodcock according to a holiday recipe, the carcass must be processed, the legs seasoned, rubbed with salt, covered with bacon, tied, and fried in a saucepan (frying pan) with the addition of wine until cooked.
Remove threads and remaining bacon.
Other medium-sized waders or small chickens are prepared in the same way.
SERPUKHOV LORD WOMEN'S MONASTERY
Lenten dishes:
Lenten pilaf with prunes
Ingredients:
- Rice - 0.5 kg
- Onions - 2 cereals. heads
- Carrots - 3 pcs.
- Bell pepper - 2 pcs.
- Prunes – 200 g
- Fresh tomatoes. - 3 pcs.
- Garlic - 3-4 cloves
- Vegetable oil
- Bay leaf
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Water 600 – 700 g
Preparation
Fry onions, carrots, and bell peppers separately in oil until tender.
Cut the prunes into strips. Finely chop the garlic. Cut the tomatoes into cubes.
Rinse the rice and place in an aluminum pan. Place fried vegetables, tomatoes, garlic, prunes, bay leaf, salt and pepper there.
Mix all contents and pour hot water. Bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low until tender, without stirring.
Vegetable puree soup
Ingredients:
- Potato
- Onion
- Carrot
- Greenery
- Laurel. leaf, salt
- Hercules (optional)
Preparation
Finely chop the onion and carrots and fry. Boil the potatoes in salted water, remove them and wipe or mash them, and then combine them again with the broth.
Put onions, carrots and laurel there. leaf, you can roll oats and cook for 5 minutes. At the end of cooking, add finely chopped greens.
If desired, add a little dry vegetable cream to this soup (about 2 tablespoons per 1 liter of water)
Potato casserole with mushroom filling
Ingredients:
- Potato
- Fresh champignons
- Onion
- Greenery
- Vegetable oil
- Salt to taste
Preparation
Fry the onion. Finely chop the mushrooms and fry them. Leave some of the fried onions for puree, and combine the rest with mushrooms. Finely chop the greens and also combine with the mushroom filling.
Boil the potatoes until tender (but do not overcook them), pass through a meat grinder or grind (do not add water). Add a little oil to the mashed potatoes.
Grease a baking sheet with oil, place half of the potatoes on it and level it over the entire baking sheet. Then place on a layer of potatoes mushroom filling in an even layer, and the top layer is the rest of the potatoes.
Sprinkle the top of the casserole over the entire surface with vegetable oil or grease with lean mayonnaise, garnish with slices of mushrooms. Bake until golden brown.
Puff salad with pineapple
1st layer - boiled rice
- soy mayonnaise
- 2nd layer - finely chopped fried champignons with onions
- soy mayonnaise
- 3rd layer - finely chopped canned pineapples
- soy mayonnaise
- 4th layer - finely chopped parsley and dill
- soy mayonnaise – mesh
All these layers can be repeated if you want the salad to be taller.
Squid cutlets
Ingredients:
- Fresh squid 1 kg
- Onions 2 pcs.
- Breadcrumbs 1.5-2 cups
- Salt and ground black pepper to taste
- Vegetable oil
Preparation
Remove the insides of the skin from the defrosted squid. Wipe with a napkin to remove water. Pass through a meat grinder 2 times.
Fry half the amount of onion and add to the squid, grind half raw through a meat grinder and also combine with the minced meat.
Add salt, pepper, crackers, beat the minced meat well.
Form cutlets, roll them in breadcrumbs and fry well on both sides in vegetable oil.
Squid sauce (for side dish)
Ingredients:
- Fresh squid - 0.5 kg
- Bow - 1-2 goals
- Carrots - 1-2 pcs.
- Water - 1 l
- Sauteed flour - 4 tbsp. heaped spoons
- Bay leaf, salt, pepper to taste
Preparation
Peel fresh squid from entrails and skin, cut them into strips. Chop the onion, grate the carrots and fry them in vegetable oil.
Dilute the flour little by little with cold water, then combine all the products and, stirring, bring to a boil, cook for 5-7 minutes.
If desired, add about 2 tbsp soy mayonnaise to the gravy before cooking. lie
Festive Lenten gingerbread
Ingredients:
- Flour - 2.5-3 cups
- Tea leaves - 1 glass
- Instant coffee - 1 teaspoon
- 0.5 cups vegetable oil
- 1 cup of sugar
- 3 tbsp. spoons of jam
- grated zest of half a lemon
- prunes - 4-5 pcs.
- dried apricots - 4-5 pcs.
- walnuts - 2 tablespoons
- soda - 1 teaspoon
- lemon. juice - 1 tbsp
Preparation
Pour sugar into a bowl, add butter, put jam. Add coffee to the hot, very strong tea brew and also pour into the bowl. Add flour and knead the dough well.
Roast the nuts and crush them finely with a rolling pin or wooden masher and add to the dough.
Finely chop the prunes and dried apricots and add to the dough. Add zest.
Knead the dough. Quench the baking soda with lemon juice and combine with the dough.
Grease a baking sheet with oil, place the dough on it in an even layer and place in a preheated oven.
Bake at 180-200 C for 40 minutes.
Rye bread crust (lean without butter)
Ingredients:
- Rye bread
- Honey
- Walnuts
- Cinnamon
- Lemon zest
Preparation
Slice the bread thinly, trim off the crusts. Soak each slice of bread with honey, sprinkle with a little cinnamon and grated zest.
Place on top of each other, sprinkle crushed walnuts on top and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.
Georgian salad (lean without oil)
Ingredients:
- Fresh cabbage - 2 medium heads
- Walnuts - 1 cup
- Ground black pepper - 0.5 teaspoon
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Salt, sugar to taste
Preparation
Cut the cabbage into 4 parts, place tightly in an aluminum pan, add water and cook over low heat for 2 hours. Then remove from the water and cool. It’s good to squeeze the water out of it with your hands and pass it through a meat grinder.
Grate the garlic on your own fine grater and add to cabbage.
Pass the nuts through a meat grinder and combine with the mixture. Also add salt, pepper, sugar and mix well.
Belyashi with lentil filling
Knead yeast dough:
- Water - 1 liter
- Flour - 2 kg
- Vegetable oil - 0.5 cups
- Yeast - 20 gr.
- Salt - 1 teaspoon
- Sugar - 3 tbsp. spoons
- Place it in a warm place for 1.5-2 hours.
Filling: Boil 1 kg of lentils well in salted water, place in a colander to drain. Then pass the lentils through a meat grinder or grind until smooth. Grate and add 3 cloves of garlic. Finely chop and fry the onion (2-3 large heads) and combine it with the lentils.
Make small cakes from the dough, 7-10 mm thick, 10 cm in diameter, put minced lentils in the middle, form round whites and fry them in oil over low heat under a closed lid, turning them over periodically until cooked through.
Savory dishes
Salad recipes:
Salad "Mushroom Picker's Joy"
Ingredients:
- Fried champignons with onions - 50%
- Pickled or pickled cucumbers
- Boiled eggs
- Mayonnaise
Preparation
Champignons are cut large. Cucumbers - cubes. Eggs - large cubes. Mix everything and season with mayonnaise.
Salad from crab sticks
Ingredients:
- 200 g crab sticks
- 4 hard-boiled eggs
- 3 fresh cucumbers (medium) or salted
- 0.5 onions (small)
- 3 tbsp. spoons of corn
- 2 small boiled potatoes or 4 tbsp. spoons of rice
- mayonnaise 250 g
Preparation
Cut the crab into small cubes. sticks, cucumbers, eggs, onions (fine), potatoes.
Add corn, season with mayonnaise and stir.
Herring under a Fur Coat
Ingredients:
- Boiled potatoes
- Boiled beets
- Boiled carrots
- Boiled eggs
- Onion
- Salted herring
- Mayonnaise
Preparation
Grate the potatoes on a fine grater, placing them first on the dish.
The next layer is herring, cut into small cubes.
On top of the herring is a very finely chopped onion.
Then - grated eggs, carrots, beets.
Each layer is coated with mayonnaise and the top is also coated with mayonnaise.
Decorate the fur coat with herbs and vegetables.
Cheese recipes
Cheese
Ingredients:
- 3 liters of milk
- 1 kg of cottage cheese
- 10 pieces. eggs
- 3 tbsp. spoons of salt
Preparation
Combine cottage cheese with eggs and salt. Boil the milk and add the curd mixture to the boiling milk.
Cook over low heat for 20 minutes.
Once everything has curled up, discard it on cheesecloth.
Cheese with pepsin (powder)
Place pepsin on a bucket of warm milk at the tip of a sourdough knife. Place the milk for fermentation. After a while, stir with a wooden spoon.
When separating the whey from the curd, place the curd in a colander until it hardens. Then turn over to drain the liquid on the other side. Sprinkle a little salt on all sides.
Do not keep the cheese in a colander for a long time, otherwise it will become dry.
Then keep in tightly boiled cold brine.
Dessert recipes
Bakery:
Honey cake
Ingredients:
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp. spoon of butter
- 1 tbsp. lie honey
- 3 tsp. soda (without slide)
- 3 tsp. vinegar or lemon juice
- 3.5 cups flour
Preparation
Beat 3 eggs with 2 cups sand, 2 tbsp. bed of drains Oils from 1st tbsp. lie Melt the honey in a water bath and pour it all into the egg with sugar.
Then quench 3 teaspoons of soda with 3 tablespoons of vinegar and pour everything back into the mixture, mix well.
IN general mixture add 2 cups of flour and knead the dough well.
Cook in a water bath, stirring the dough until it turns the color of baked milk.
When the dough is ready, dump it onto the flour (1.5 cups - the rest of the flour), knead and divide into 6-8 pieces. Roll out each piece thinly (like dumplings), constantly adding flour so that the dough does not stick.
Sprinkle a baking tray with flour and smooth out the rolled out cake layer on it. Baked at 220 very quickly until light brown.
After removing each cake from the oven, carefully drop it from the baking sheet onto the table so as not to break it.
When the cakes have cooled, carefully remove excess flour from them.
Cream:
700 g of sour cream (can be diluted with kefir if it is thick) and 1 glass of granulated sugar - combine and stir well.
Then grease all the cakes one by one, stacking them on top of each other. Let the cake stand for a while and soak. Then lightly press down on top with a board, give an even shape to the cake, trimming the edges. You can sprinkle crushed nuts and chocolate on top, and if you like, you can add vanillin or zest to the dough before cooking.
Place the cake in the cold or can be consumed immediately.
The cakes can be baked 3-4 days before the cake is ready; they are stored for a long time.
Cake "Sun"
Ingredients:
- 300 g carrots
- 1.5 tbsp. spoons of flour
- 0.5 teaspoons salt
- 100 gr. ground walnuts
- 1 tbsp. spoons of crushed crackers
- 4 egg yolks
- 100 g sugar
- 1 teaspoon cherry juice
- a pinch of cinnamon and cloves
Preparation
Peel the carrots and grate on a fine grater. Then mix flour with salt, walnuts and crushed crackers.
Separately, take the egg yolks and grind them with sugar, add Cherry juice, cinnamon and cloves. Then beat with a whisk until foam forms.
Carefully add flour with nuts and grated carrots. To stir thoroughly.
Place the dough in a hot oven and bake for 40 minutes.
If desired, the cooled cake can be decorated with lemon cream and nuts.
Dessert
Prunes in sour cream
Ingredients:
- Pitted prunes
- Shelled walnuts
- Sour cream
- Vanillin
- Sugar
- (kefir – as needed)
Preparation
Fill the prunes with nuts. Mix sour cream with sugar and vanilla. If the sour cream is very thick, dilute it with kefir so that it is of medium thickness.
Place prunes in enamel dishes and pour in sour cream.
Let it brew for at least 6 hours.
Creamy jelly
Ingredients:
- Water
- Dry vegetable cream
- Sugar
- Vanillin
- Gelatin
- Water for soaking gelatin
Preparation
Boil water and dissolve cream and sugar in it. Cool and add vanillin.
Pre-soak gelatin in cold boiled water and when it swells, dissolve it in a water bath, then combine it with the creamy liquid.
Pour the jelly into molds, decorate and cool.
Easter recipe
Ingredients:
- 2 kg of fat cottage cheese (from whole milk)
- 1 kg very thick sour cream
- 1 liter of milk
- 1 kg granulated sugar
- zest of 0.5 lemon
- zest of 0.5 orange
- 150 g pine nuts
- 2 raw eggs
- 3 raw yolks
- 4 hard-boiled yolks
- candied fruits 100 g
- coconut crumbs 1 tbsp. spoon,
- vanillin - 1 sachet.
Preparation
Boil pine nuts and walnuts with boiling water to remove the skin.
Squeeze the cottage cheese under pressure. The cottage cheese should be buttery and cool.
Dehydrate sour cream 2 days before preparing Easter. To do this, pour the ash into an enamel basin and use a clean linen cloth, but not a new one, because new fabric does not absorb fluid well. Pour the sour cream and cover the top again with linen cloth. As soon as cracks appear on the sour cream, it is ready.
Toffee: take 1 kg of sugar, mixed with 1 liter of milk and put on fire. You need to cook it in an aluminum pan. At first the fire should be high, and when it boils, turn it to low heat and cook, stirring vigorously from time to time. Since sugar can be contaminated, the milk may curdle, but you can ignore this. Cook the toffee until golden brown.
Combine the hot toffee with the mashed cottage cheese and mix everything vigorously. Add vanillin, lemon and orange zest and mix everything again.
Grind raw eggs and raw yolks with a small amount sugar, combine them with the total mass and mix everything again.
Add mashed sour cream with a small amount of sugar to dehydrated sour cream. hard-boiled yolks, mix gently and combine with the curd mass. Add nuts and coconut crumbs there. Mix everything.
Place Easter in molds (pasochniki) on double gauze and refrigerate.
Easter must sit for 2 days to drain the liquid, so by Good Tuesday the products for Easter must be prepared (drain the sour cream, finely chop the candied fruits, grate the zest of lemon and orange, press out the cottage cheese, prepare the ash (before Good Monday), wash the beans, prepare gauze ), so that Easter will be ready on Great Wednesday.
Whole milk cottage cheese is fermented for 2 days, boiled for 20 - 30 minutes, and weighed out for 17 hours.
One bucket of milk yields 1.9 - 2 kg.
From time immemorial, meals in the monastery were ritual, like all other parts of religious life.
In many monasteries where lay brothers and ordained monks lived, the ritual of eating was guarded with special care. Each individual group had its own sink for washing dishes and a table, although everyone ate lunch in a common area
Monastic kitchen
Monastic cuisine is quite strict. According to tradition, there was only one meal per day. Before this, the monks walked through the entire monastery to the refectory, carefully washing their faces and hands. Before eating, it was necessary to read prayers. Only after this could the meal begin.
Conversations were not allowed while eating. However, this was allowed in extreme cases, but only very quietly and out of great necessity.
Any food not eaten at the end of the meal was placed in a basket and distributed to the poor.
The refectory was a large common hall. As a rule, it was located at a sufficient distance from the church. The reason for this arrangement is quite clear. The church must be freed from noise and extraneous odors.
The monastic kitchen was under the control of a monk assigned to this task.
There are many rituals associated with monastic dishes, including what they should be and how much they should be served.
In large monasteries main kitchen used for preparing main dishes. Bread and other baked goods were prepared in a separate kitchen.
The kitchen for pilgrims was located separately.
Lenten monastery cuisine
The Lenten monastic kitchen is an ideal space for spiritual practice.
According to tradition, monastery cuisine during Lent should be wholesome and healthy. This helps to cleanse the soul.
However, you should not think that the recipes for Lenten monastery cuisine are boring and monotonous. Of course, there are some prohibitions. For example, lenten dishes of monastic cuisine cannot be fatty or fried; canned food and various sauces, as well as food of animal origin, are excluded. It is believed that such food can provoke the occurrence of diseases and mental illnesses. The only exception, perhaps, is fish, which can be eaten on certain days of fasting.
Recipes for monastic cuisine during Lent include a large number of products plant origin. These are mainly vegetables, cereals and mushrooms. Contrary to popular belief, such simple ingredients can make excellent firsts and main courses, as well as original snacks.
Monastic cuisine during Lent
As we already know, monastic cuisine during Lent should be predominantly of plant origin. Here is the greatest nutritional value legumes have. They contain the largest amount of protein.
Legumes can be used to make the most different soups and salads. Legumes are also often used to prepare second courses. For example, peas make excellent peas.
To saturate the body with carbohydrates, we use porridge. They can be prepared from any cereal: millet, rice, corn, oatmeal, barley, pearl barley, etc.
It is also allowed to eat mushrooms in any form during fasting. We can, for example, make an excellent soup from dried mushrooms, or we can make a second course. Eating pickled mushrooms is also allowed. However, you should not get carried away with them because of the high vinegar content.
In general, mushrooms are quite heavy food for our stomach. Therefore, it would be most advisable to dilute them with vegetables.
We can eat vegetables both fresh and as main courses. The most common second courses vegetable stew and baked vegetables. Potatoes are especially often baked.
Eating fruits and olives is also encouraged. By the way, olives can be eaten directly with the pits.
Naturally, it is allowed to eat bread and pastries during Lent. In general, bread is a food that is given special importance.
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“If, by fasting physically, we are led to be entangled in the most destructive passions of the soul, then the exhaustion of the flesh will not bring us any benefit, when at the same time we remain defiled in the most precious part of our nature, which, in fact, becomes the dwelling of the Holy Spirit.”
Venerable Cassian the Roman
SECOND DISHES PREPARED WITHOUT OIL
Boiled potatoes with nuts
500 g potatoes, 1 onion, 150 g peeled walnuts, 1 - 2 cloves of garlic, 2 sprigs of cilantro, parsley or dill, wine vinegar, red pepper, salt to taste.
Boil well-washed potatoes with skins, cool, peel and cut into cubes. Crush peeled walnuts, garlic, red pepper and cilantro with salt.
Add wine vinegar and chopped onions to taste, mix with diced boiled potatoes and sprinkle with chopped parsley or dill.
Potato meatballs
500 g potatoes, 1 onion, 0.5 tbsp. peeled walnuts, 2 - 3 tbsp. l. wine vinegar, 1 tbsp. l, water, 1 - 2 cloves of garlic, 0.5 tbsp. finely chopped green cilantro and dill, crushed saffron, capsicum, salt to taste.
Boil the potatoes as usual and mash well. Crush the peeled nuts, garlic, cilantro, capsicum, salt and squeeze out the nut oil, which is poured into a separate bowl. Dilute the crushed nut mass with water and vinegar, add very finely chopped onions, cilantro and dill, crushed saffron, mashed potatoes and knead well. From the resulting doughy mass, roll into meatballs the size of a chicken egg. Carefully place them on a plate, make a small depression in each meatball, into which pour the nut butter.
Belarusian hoof
300 g potatoes, 20 g wheat flour, 1 onion, 1 g soda, salt, mushrooms.
Grate raw potatoes, add salt, flour, soda and mix well. Roll out the resulting dough into strips, which are then cut into pieces 2-3 cm long and baked in the oven. Before serving, immerse the product in mushroom broth for 10 - 15 minutes, then drain in a colander. Serve with fried onions and mushrooms.
Monastery-style boiled beans
Cauliflower beans, onions, parsley and dill, salt.
Sort out the colored beans, rinse well, scald with boiling water, add a small amount of warm water so that the beans are lightly covered with it, and cook until the grains are soft. Then add salt to taste, add finely chopped onions. Cook for about half an hour, add chopped parsley and dill. Serve the boiled beans hot or cold along with the remaining broth.
Red bean puree
200 g red beans, 40 g onions, 60 g walnut kernels, 20 g wine vinegar, 4 g garlic, pepper, dill, cilantro, parsley, salt to taste.
Add raw chopped onion and garlic to the beans, cooked until half cooked, bring to readiness and strain. Rub the beans, gradually diluting this mixture with broth. Season with crushed nuts, vinegar, chopped herbs and pepper.
Pearl barley porridge with vegetables
Pearl barley, carrots, onions, spices, salt, bay leaf.
Rinse the cereal well, add water, bring to a boil and cook over medium heat for 1.5 - 2 hours. In the middle of cooking, add carrots, chopped onions, salt, bay leaves and spices to the pan.
Pilaf with dried fruits and nuts
2 tbsp. rice, a handful of dried apricots, raisins, several dates, prunes, 4 - 5 walnuts, 2 tbsp. l. honey, salt.
In lightly salted water, cook the rice until half cooked, add thoroughly washed and sorted raisins, chopped dried apricots, several dates cut into strips and pitted and chopped prunes, as well as fried (without oil) crushed nuts. Bring under the lid until cooked, add honey, stir and let it brew.
Semolina porridge with cranberry juice
From 1 tbsp. prepare cranberries 6 tbsp. fruit drink, boil, add 0.5 tbsp. semolina and 0.5 tbsp. sugar, boil, cool, serve with sugar.
Smolensk porridge with cranberry juice
From 1 tbsp. prepare cranberries 6 tbsp. fruit drink, boil, add 0.5 tbsp. rice and 0.5 tbsp. sugar, boil, cool, serve with sugar.
Rolled porridge
0.5 liters of water, about 1.5 cups of oatmeal, 1/3 cup of walnuts, salt, sugar to taste.
Pour oatmeal, sugar, salt to taste, and peeled nuts into boiling water. Cook for 15 minutes, stirring.
SECOND COURSES COOKED WITH VEGETABLE OIL
Mashed potatoes with onions
1.5 kg potatoes, 3 onions, 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, salt.
Boil the potatoes, drain the water into a separate bowl. Finely chop the onion and fry until golden brown. Mash the potatoes, adding broth as needed so that the puree is not too thick. Add fried onions.
Boiled potatoes
1 kg potatoes, 3 cloves of garlic, 0.5 tsp. caraway seeds, salt, vegetable oil.
Boil the potatoes along with the halved garlic cloves and caraway seeds. Drain the broth, dry and serve, sprinkled with vegetable oil.
Bishop's style potatoes
1.5 potatoes, 5 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, 2 - 2.5 tbsp. l. flour, salt.
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.
Deruny
10 potatoes, salt, vegetable oil, flour.
Grate the peeled potatoes on a coarse grater, add salt and add enough flour so that the dough is not too liquid. Spoon the potato mixture into a frying pan with hot vegetable oil and fry on both sides until crispy. Place on a plate in 1 layer so that the potato pancakes do not become wet, otherwise they will not be crispy.
Baked potatoes stuffed with fried onions
10 - 12 large potatoes, 1 onion, 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, salt.
Bake the potatoes, peel them, cut off the tops, make recesses of such depth that the walls can hold the minced meat.
Mash the extracted mixture, pour oil over it, mix with chopped onion fried in oil and stuff the potatoes. Sprinkle it with oil and warm it up.
You can add mushrooms to the minced meat.
Baked potatoes stuffed with buckwheat porridge and onions
10 - 12 potatoes, for minced meat: 100 g, buckwheat, 2 - 3 onions, vegetable oil, salt.
Bake the potatoes, peel them, cut off the tops, make recesses of such depth that the walls can hold the minced meat.
Cook buckwheat porridge: pour the cereal into a pan (it should take up half the volume), add oil, salt, pour boiling water (so that the cereal is covered) and place the pan in the oven in a frying pan with boiling water (it needs to be replenished as it boils).
Add chopped fried onions to the prepared porridge, stir and stuff the potatoes. Spray it generously with oil and heat it in the oven.
Potato pies with mushrooms
Potatoes, flour, vegetable oil, salt. For minced meat: mushrooms, onions.
Prepare mashed potatoes using the water in which the potatoes were boiled, add flour to form a viscous dough. For the filling: soak mushrooms in cold water for 2 - 4 hours, boil them in the same water, drain in a colander, chop, fry with chopped onions in vegetable oil. With wet hands, divide the dough into balls, form into flat cakes, put the filling on them, and pinch the edges. Fry the pies on both sides in vegetable oil. The filling can also be made from fried cabbage with garlic, or from other vegetables, or from buckwheat porridge with onions.
About half or 1 small head of cabbage, vegetable oil, salt, 3 cloves of garlic, herbs.
Finely chop the cabbage, place in a deep frying pan with hot vegetable oil, add water so that the cabbage is just covered. Add salt and simmer covered for 15 minutes. Open the lid, let the excess liquid evaporate and bring to a golden color over high heat.
Place chopped garlic into the prepared cabbage and serve, sprinkled with chopped herbs.
Cabbage rolls stuffed with vegetables
Loose head of cabbage, 2 carrots, 2/3 tbsp. rice 1 onion, 1 tbsp. l. tomato, garlic, vegetable oil, salt, herbs.
Remove the tops from a head of cabbage large leaves– 10 – 12 pieces, lightly boil them until they become soft, beat off the petioles or cut them off. Prepare the minced meat: boil fluffy rice, fry chopped carrots and finely chopped onions, combine with rice, add a finely chopped clove of garlic.
Fill cabbage leaves with prepared minced meat, roll into rolls and place in a deep frying pan or saucepan. Pour water, add tomato, herbs, salt and simmer until tender.
Lenten cabbage rolls
1 kg cabbage, 0.5 tbsp. ground crackers, 2 - 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, 0.5 tbsp. l. salt.
Boil a whole head of cabbage in salted water until half cooked. Remove to a colander and let the water drain. Disassemble the head of cabbage into leaves and wrap each of them in an envelope, roll in breadcrumbs and fry in oil. Can also be served cooled.
Cabbage cutlets
500 g cabbage, 2 tablespoons semolina, 2 tablespoons ground crackers, salt to taste, 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, 1/2 cup water.
Finely chop the cabbage, put it in a saucepan, add water, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and simmer until half cooked. Pour semolina into the boiling mass in a thin stream, cook, stirring continuously for 10-15 minutes, cool slightly, add salt, stir and cool. Form cutlets oval shape, breaded in breadcrumbs, fry.
Fresh white cabbage with vegetable oil and breadcrumbs
1 head of cabbage, 1 onion, 200 g vegetable oil 3 tbsp. l. breadcrumbs, a few sprigs of parsley, salt.
Peel the head of cabbage from the top leaves, cut into 6-8 pieces, put in salted boiling water, let it boil, drain in a colander, and squeeze lightly. Place the cabbage on the bottom of the pan, add parsley and onion, cover with a lid and cook until soft, without boiling. When serving, pour the cabbage with heated vegetable oil and breadcrumbs, prepared as follows: add grated stale bread into the heated vegetable oil and brown it.
Or: peel a head of fresh cabbage from the outer leaves, cut it crosswise, but not all the way, put it in salted boiling water and cook until soft. Place the whole head of cabbage on a plate and pour over the butter and breadcrumbs.
Or: season the broth in which the cabbage was cooked with 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil and 0.6 tbsp. l. flour, boil, shaking the pan, place the cabbage on a deep dish and pour over the resulting sauce.
Stewed fresh cabbage
1 - 2 heads of fresh cabbage, 0.5 tbsp. water, 0.5 tbsp. l. flour vegetable oil, Apple juice(or vinegar), sugar, salt to taste.
Chop the cabbage, add salt, squeeze, fry in vegetable oil, add water, add flour, salt, sugar and apple juice (or vinegar), simmer until tender.
Stewed sour cabbage
600 g sauerkraut, 3 - 6 dried mushrooms, 1 onion, 1 - 2 bay leaves, 2 - 3 black peppercorns, 0.5 tbsp. l. flour, 2 - 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, salt.
Wash the shredded cabbage, squeeze it out, put it in a saucepan, pour in pre-cooked mushroom broth, add finely chopped mushrooms, bay leaf, pepper, salt, cook until tender. Add flour fried in vegetable oil with finely chopped onion, stir, cook covered until tender.
Pasta with vegetables
500 g pasta, 2 - 3 carrots, 40 g parsley root, 3 onions, 1 tbsp. green peas, 2 tbsp. l. tomato puree, 100 g vegetable oil, dill or parsley.
Chop carrots, parsley, onion into thin strips, fry with tomato puree in vegetable oil for 10 - 12 minutes, then add heated canned peas to the vegetables and mix. Boil pasta, drain water, combine with vegetables. Serve the pasta hot, sprinkled with finely chopped dill or parsley.
Mushrooms stewed with barley or rice
400 g salted, or 60 g stewed mushrooms, 50 - 60 g vegetable oil, 1 - 2 onions, 0.5 - 0.75 tbsp. cereals, 2 - 3 tbsp. water, 1 tbsp. l. tomato puree, salt, green onions and parsley.
Fry the prepared mushrooms and onions in oil until light golden brown. Mix with washed cereals and hot water, simmer until the cereal becomes soft, then add tomato puree. Sprinkle the finished dish with herbs. Serve with pickled cucumber salad or cabbage.
Mushrooms stuffed with rice
500 g champignons, 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, 1 tbsp. boiled rice, 1 parsley root, crackers, salt.
For medium-sized mushrooms with a round cap, cut out the stem so that the cap remains intact. Finely chop the legs across the grain and simmer in vegetable oil along with grated parsley. Add cooked rice, salt.
Sprinkle a little salt on the mushroom caps, fill them with minced meat and place them in a fireproof dish or greased form. Place the remaining minced meat in a mound and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Bake the mushrooms until golden brown.
Fried abalone with minced mushroom and buckwheat porridge
Prepare the ears, stuff them with minced mushroom mixed with buckwheat porridge, which is fried along with the onion and mushrooms. Serve with borscht and mushroom sauce.
Prepare dough for ears as for noodles. Roll out very thin, cut into quadrangles, brush the edges with water, put 1 tsp on each piece. minced meat, mold the edges of the quadrangles, and then the ends. Fry in vegetable oil, preferably in a copper saucepan so that the oil does not burn. After frying, place the ears on paper and, when dry, dip them into borscht or soup just before eating.
Dried mushroom pilaf
10 - 12 dried porcini mushrooms, 1 tbsp. rice, 3 onions, 1 carrot, 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, 1.5 tbsp. broth, tomato puree, salt.
Sort the mushrooms and soak for 3 hours, then cook in the same water until tender. Remove the mushrooms from the broth, cut into large strips, and fry. Also fry finely chopped onion, sauté carrots with tomato puree. Mix with mushrooms, adding a little strained mushroom broth. Add the sorted washed rice, close the lid and simmer until done.
Mash porridge
Millet and barley, (rice and wheat, corn and barley) cereals, two types of vegetables, salt.
Take a mixture of cereals (for example: millet and barley, corn or rice and wheat, corn and barley). The main thing is that one of the cereals is whole, and the other (or others) is crushed. Grate at least two types of vegetables on a coarse grater. For a glass of cereal mixture - a glass of vegetables.
Place a third of the vegetables on the bottom of the dish, a layer of cereal on them, then another layer of vegetables and so on to make three layers (vegetables on top). Fill everything with hot salted water until upper layer vegetables was covered with it. Place in the oven for 6 – 8 minutes.
Buckwheat porridge with onions
2 tbsp. buckwheat, 2 onions, 3 tbsp. vegetable oil. salt.
Sort out the buckwheat, wash and dry in a saucepan with a thick bottom, stirring constantly, add salt and, when the grain becomes dry and crumbly, pour in 3 tbsp. boiling water Cover with a lid and cook over low heat without stirring, otherwise the porridge will not be crumbly. Fry finely chopped onion in a frying pan and add it to the prepared porridge. Let it rest well, wrapping the pan in newspaper and putting it under the pillow.
Pea porridge with barley
1 tbsp peas, 1 tbsp. barley, 1 carrot, 2 onions. vegetable oil, salt, parsley or green onions.
Soak the peas in the evening and cook them in the same water. In 20 minutes. add washed barley. Stir frequently to prevent it from burning and make sure it doesn't run away.
When the peas become soft, mash them, add chopped onions and coarsely grated carrots fried in vegetable oil, and simmer for about 20 minutes. Serve sprinkled with chopped parsley or green onions. Barley groats can be replaced with “Hercules”, in which case it is added at the end of cooking, for 15 – 20 minutes. to end.
Porridge with apples
Semolina (millet, oatmeal) cereal, sweet and sour apple, sugar.
Cook thin porridge in water (semolina, millet, oatmeal). Separately, grate a peeled apple of sweet and sour varieties. Before serving, place the pureed apple directly on a plate at the rate of one medium-sized apple for two servings. Before use, stir by adding. tastes a little sugar. Along with the apple, you can also grate some carrots.
Rice cutlets with mushroom sauce
1 tbsp. rice, 4 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, 0.5 tbsp. crushed white crackers, salt.
For the sauce: 3 - 4 dry mushrooms. 1 onion 1 tbsp. l. flour, 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, 1 tbsp. raisins (sultanas), 0.5 tbsp. sweet almonds, lemon juice and sugar to taste.
Boil the rice in salted water until soft, discard, let the water drain thoroughly, put in a pan, knead a little so as not to crumble, pour in 1 tbsp. l. oil and let cool. Cut cutlets from this mass, roll in breadcrumbs and quickly fry on both sides.
For the sauce: cook broth from soaked mushrooms. Fry finely chopped onion in oil, add flour and fry. Pour, gradually stirring, a glass of mushroom broth and boil. Scald the raisins and almonds with boiling water several times and let the water drain. Add lemon juice, sugar, salt to taste, raisins, chopped almonds to the sauce. Let the sauce boil and pour it over the cutlets.
Rice with prunes
0.5 tbsp. rice, 0.5 tbsp. prunes, 1.5 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, 1.5 tbsp. l. sugar, 2 - 3 whispers of citric acid, 1 tbsp. water.
Wash the rice, dry it and fry it in a frying pan. Remove pits from prunes. Place prunes and fried rice in boiling water, add sugar, citric acid and cook at low boil until the rice is cooked.
When serving, pour vegetable oil over the rice.
Rolled oatmeal pancakes
Add 1 - 2 grated apples, salt and 2 tbsp to the oatmeal porridge. l. flour. To stir thoroughly. Fry pancakes in a hot frying pan in vegetable oil.
Pancakes with onions
500 g flour, 2 tbsp. water, 1 tbsp. l. sugar, 15 g yeast, onion, pinch of salt, 0.5 tbsp. vegetable mpsl.
Knead the pancake dough from flour, water, yeast, salt, sugar. Let the dough rise. Finely chop the onion, simmer in oil, add salt to taste. When the dough has risen, add stewed onions to it. Let the dough rise again for 15 minutes. Bake pancakes as usual.
Monastery style rice
2 cups rice, 4 cups water, 2 onions, 2 tablespoons vegetable oil, 2 carrots, 1 tablespoon tomato paste or tomato sauce, dried celery, dill, ground black pepper, salt.
Rinse the rice thoroughly, pour boiling water over it, cook for 10 minutes until it is grain-to-grain, and drain in a colander. In a deep frying pan, fry finely chopped onions in vegetable oil until golden brown, add boiled onions; grated carrots and tomato on a coarse grater, mix. Add rice, season to taste with herbs, pepper and salt. Serve the dish hot.
Pumpkin pancakes
1 kg of peeled pumpkin, 1 glass of wheat flour, salt, sugar to taste, vegetable oil for frying, honey.
Grate the pumpkin on a fine grater, add salt and sugar, add flour, knead into a homogeneous dough. Place with a spoon on a hot frying pan in heated vegetable oil, fry on both sides. Serve with honey.
Pea jelly
1/2 cup split peas, 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon vegetable oil, 2 onions.
Dry the peas in a frying pan and grind in a coffee grinder. Pour the resulting pea flour into boiling salted water and, stirring continuously, cook for 15-20 minutes, then pour into greased plates. When the jelly thickens, cut it into portions.
When serving, sprinkle the jelly with onions fried in vegetable oil.
Lent 2018 has arrived, during which the Orthodox are preparing for Easter, which is early this year - it falls on April 8.
Lent is the very first, long (it lasts seven weeks) and strict. Throughout Lent, believers must abstain from food of animal origin, pray and attend services, and work on their spirituality and morality.
All seven weeks of Lent have separate traditions and are dedicated to a specific saint.
Parts and weeks of Lent 2018
First week(week) of Great Lent is called “Fedorova Week”. Popularly it begins with “Clean Monday”. These days, Orthodox Christians remember all the saints who stood up in defense of Christianity. Especially on Saturday they honor the Great Martyr Theodore of Amasea, who was executed for his faith. Tormented by hunger and iron, he did not renounce Christianity until his death.
Second week Great Lent is dedicated to the memories of Gregory Palamas, who at the age of 20 renounced all the blessings life had in store and became a hermit on Mount Athos, and went from a monk to the Archbishop of Thessaloniki. Saturday this week is considered Parent's Day.
Third week called the Worship of the Cross. The Life-Giving Cross will be installed in churches. According to legend, he is able to heal diseases and has extraordinary strength. Wednesday of this week is special because it is in the middle of Lent.
Fourth week During Great Lent the memory of the monk John Climacus is honored. At the age of 16, he abandoned all benefits and went into the desert.
Fifth week Lent reminds us of Mary of Egypt, who is considered the patroness of repentant sinners. Mary herself, according to legend, led a sinful life from the age of 12; after 17 years she realized her mistakes, repented and received forgiveness. Afterwards she went into the desert lands, where she prayed until the end of her days.
Sixth week Lent is otherwise called Palm Week. These days, believers honor those days when people recognized Christ as their king and threw palm branches under their feet, laying an honorable path for him. In Russia, the branches are replaced with willow branches.
After it begins Holy Week. It is at this time that you need to atone for sins and cleanse your soul, spend time with loved ones, trying not to let strangers near you.
Recipes for Lenten dishes for Lent 2018
Lenten table– not only is it considered beneficial to health, lean products: vegetables, grains – the most refined culinary products, often requiring special art of preparation and giving the most amazing results...
During Lent, meat, eggs, dairy products, and animal fats are excluded from the diet. Fish is allowed on the Annunciation and Palm Sunday. Fish roe acceptable on Lazarus Saturday...
Salads
Preparing salads during strict fasting can greatly diversify the table. IN Lent Of course, fresh vegetables are less available than during summer fasts, but preparations can be widely used: frozen, dried, pickled vegetables and fruits, tofu, add cooked rice or other cereals.
To dress salads, sunflower oil, soy mayonnaise, sauces are used, or ingredients that are juicy enough are selected so that the salad is tasty without additional ingredients.
Salad of various vegetables
100 g kohlrabi, 50 g canned green peas, 2 carrots, 2 fresh apples, cucumbers, 50 g lettuce or green onions, 50 g plums or prunes, 1 tomato or fresh sweet pepper, 1 teaspoon sugar, 200 g . soy mayonnaise, pepper, salt to taste, dill.
Peeled boiled young kohlrabi, chopped carrots thin slices. Rinse the prunes, add hot water to swell, remove the seeds and cut into slices. Also chop the pitted plums.
Cut the tomatoes into 5-6 parts, cut the fresh sweet pepper, removing the stem along with the grains, into strips. Peel the apples, remove the seeds and cut them in the same way as vegetables. Cut the washed lettuce leaves into 2-3 parts, and chop the cucumbers into slices.
Mix chopped vegetables and fruits, add canned green pea, lightly salt, pepper and season with mayonnaise when serving. You can add sugar (preferably powdered sugar) and lemon juice to the salad. Vegetable salad can be prepared from other vegetables available.
The vinaigrette
Peel boiled potatoes and beets, cut into small cubes or thin slices. Cut pickled cucumbers and onions into cubes. Sort through the sauerkraut and cut into large pieces.
If sauerkraut has a very sour taste, rinse it with cold water or even soak it for some time, squeeze it out, grind it. Finely chop the onion. Then mix all the vegetables, add salt and season with vegetable oil. Potatoes can be partially or completely replaced with boiled beans.
Lenten seaweed salad
Dried seaweed is soaked, boiled, washed thoroughly. Separately, chopped onions are fried, mixed with prepared cabbage, seasoned with soy sauce, ajinomoto, and other spices to taste.
Korean salads
Many Korean salads have lean components and therefore are quite suitable for a Lenten meal. You can buy them ready-made or prepare them yourself. To prepare salads, you need a special grater (only an experienced hand can cut it as thinly as necessary).
Here are some classic options: 1) carrots (chopped thinly), 2) carrots and green radish(the second is smaller, chop both products), 3) cabbage (cut into 2x2 cm squares, add either chopped carrots or beets, but very little of the latter, just for color). Prepared vegetables are salted, mixed, crushed, allowed to stand until juice is obtained, the juice is drained or squeezed out.
Heat odorless sunflower oil in a frying pan. At this time, season the vegetables with vinegar, red pepper, ajinomoto, and coriander. Finely chop the garlic and place it in a heap on the vegetables, pour the heated oil directly onto the garlic, and mix everything. Let stand and cool.
Salad of cabbage, carrots, apples and sweet peppers
Washed white cabbage cut into strips, grind with a small amount of salt, drain the juice, mix with peeled chopped apples, carrots, sweet peppers, season 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, 3 g vinegar, 15 g onions, 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.
Salad “Summer”
Place the tomatoes in a colander, pour boiling water over them, and then immediately pour cold water over them. Remove the skin. Cut the peeled tomatoes into thin slices. Cut the peeled apple in half and remove the core. Cut the apple into slices too. Cut the onion and pepper into small strips. Mix everything. Salt, add sugar, add lemon juice and pour over vegetable oil.
2 ripe tomatoes, 1 apple, 1 small onion, 1 sweet peri pod, 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, salt, sugar, 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
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 green canned 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.
Leek
Finely chop the green part of the leek into rings (you need four stems), fry in margarine with garlic and thyme. Add the white part of the stems. Pour the whole thing half and half with white wine and vegetable broth before putting the container in the oven, cover with food paper, put in the oven and keep for 30 minutes.
4 stalks of leeks, 2 cloves of garlic, a bunch of fresh thyme, 115 g of butter (you can vegetable margarine), 2 glasses of chardonnay, 285 ml vegetable broth, sea salt and black pepper.
Crumbled buckwheat with mushrooms and onions
3 glasses of water, 1.5 glasses of buckwheat, 2 onions, some dry porcini mushrooms. Pour water over the kernel, cover with chopped mushrooms and put on high heat, closing with a lid.
When it boils, reduce the heat by half and continue cooking for 10 minutes until thickened, then reduce the heat again to low and cook for about 5-7 minutes. until the water has completely evaporated. Remove from heat and wrap warm for 15 minutes. At the same time, fry finely chopped onion and add salt. Add the fried onions to the porridge and stir evenly.
Mushroom pilaf
For pilaf, thick-walled dishes are preferred, they heat up evenly and release heat slowly. The ratio of the main components: rice carrots, mushrooms (frozen, fresh or soaked dry) is equal, i.e. for half a kilo of rice there are exactly the same amount of carrots and mushrooms.
You can partially or completely replace mushrooms with soy meat, but it should be remembered that soy meat itself does not have the same taste as mushrooms, and when using it, the dish should be seasoned with the help of flavorings and spices.
Heat the cauldron and the oil in it (do not skimp on oil for pilaf: its taste improves significantly), fry the mushrooms and carrots, add salt and spices, cover the top, without stirring, with a layer of washed rice and carefully pour in water (1.5 volumes of rice), so that the rice turns out covered with water with a margin of more than a couple of centimeters. Close the lid tightly, trying not to open the lid further unnecessarily.
When we hear that the contents of the cauldron are boiling, reduce the heat to a minimum, at this time we will prepare the garlic: we will need several small cloves. They are placed directly into the cap of rice (the rice has already swollen and absorbed all the water above it) whole and lightly pressed down, immersing it in the rice, after which the cauldron is turned off, but the pilaf continues to cook due to the residual heat.
After ten to fifteen minutes you can mix everything and serve. Homemade pickled cucumbers or tomatoes or sauerkraut are a good addition to pilaf.
Sweet barley porridge with poppy seeds
Rinse the barley and begin to cook in plenty of water over moderate heat, skimming off the foam. When the cereal begins to secrete mucus, drain the excess water and cook until the cereal is soft and thick, stirring.
Prepare poppy seeds (less than half a glass of poppy seeds per glass of cereal): pour boiling water over it, let it steam, after 5 minutes. Drain the water, rinse the poppy seeds, add boiling water again, and immediately drain it as soon as droplets of fat begin to appear on the surface of the water. Then grind the steamed poppy seeds, adding a little boiling water.
Mix prepared poppy seeds with thickened, softened barley porridge, adding honey, heat over low heat for 5-7 minutes, stirring continuously, remove from heat, add jam.
Millet porridge with pumpkin
Boil small pieces of pumpkin in water for 10-15 minutes. Wash the millet thoroughly and add it there, lightly salt and sweeten. Stirring, cook until thickened (min. 15-20). You can set it to “ready” for a short time in the oven. The proportions between pumpkin and millet are chosen according to taste, the amount of water is taken depending on the previous components, and with more pumpkin less water is required.
FIRST MEAL
Adaptation to fasting soup-kharcho
Pour half a glass of rice into two to three liters of boiling water. Fry 3-4 onions, add them to water with rice, bay leaf, allspice (crush the peas). After 5 minutes, add half a glass of crushed walnuts.
After another short time, add half a glass of tomato paste (in a more classic version: tkemali plums, which we don’t find here, or half a glass of pomegranate juice): dried herbs (basil, parsley), red pepper, a little cinnamon, suneli hops (key for taste soup seasoning).
After another 5 minutes, you can turn it off completely, adding fresh herbs and chopped garlic, and let it brew. In an even more adapted version to the Russian environment, potatoes can be placed in boiling water before rice.
Rassolnik
Soak a small amount of pearl barley for several hours (no more than half a glass per standard three-liter saucepan soup). Boil it lightly. Place potatoes cut into cubes into boiling water with barley. Separately, fry the onion and add carrots to the rice and potatoes.
Later, when the potatoes are ready, add chopped pickles and season with brine (it’s good to stew these cucumbers in the brine a little before). At the end of cooking, add chopped garlic, bay leaf, dried or fresh herbs. Can be served with soy mayonnaise, if available.
Korean soup
For this soup you need to have a special soy seasoning: chai. She has a very thick consistency, dark brown color, specific taste and smell. The Japanese have an analogue called “Mizo”.
For a lean version of this soup, three or four onions are fried with the addition of two or three tablespoons of chai; you can also add steamed soy meat here. After this, water is added (up to three liters), after boiling the potatoes and a little later the “profile” vegetable.
It could be fresh korean cabbage or dried, or chopped zucchini, or a couple of green radishes. The soup is cooked until the vegetables are ready. The tai should give the saltiness and spiciness, but if it seems insufficient, you can add more salt and red pepper. Serve with unleavened rice, cooked in a thick-walled bowl, ratio of rice to water: two to three, gradually reduce heat.
Lentil soup
Soak the lentils for a couple of hours, set to cook, peel and cut the potatoes, carrots and onions fried in oil. Successful additions and spices to this soup: coriander, thyme, garlic, herbs. Pairs well with soy meat (fry with onions and carrots), tomatoes, olives (their brine is added directly to the soup) and soy mayonnaise when serving.
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 applesauce, salt, herbs.
Pea soup with pearl barley
Soak the peas overnight in cold water and, adding washed pearl barley, cook in the same water. Cut the carrots, onions and parsley into small cubes, fry in oil and combine with the peas when they are half cooked. Salt and sprinkle with herbs.
1 liter of water, 1 cup of peas, 1 tablespoon of pearl barley, 1/2 carrots, 1/2 onions, 1/2 parsley root, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil, herbs, salt.
Lenten pea soup
In the evening, pour cold water over the peas and leave to swell and prepare the noodles.
For noodles, mix half a glass of flour well with three tablespoons of vegetable oil, add a spoon cold water, salt, 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 and 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 grate 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 tablespoons of herbs, 1 tablespoon of tomato puree, vinegar.
SECOND COURSES
Peppers, eggplants, stuffed zucchini
Peel peppers, eggplants, young zucchini from stalks and seeds (cut off the peel from zucchini) and stuff minced vegetables, which includes finely chopped onions, carrots, cabbage, taken in equal parts, and 1/10 of their 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 onions, fried in oil, and add.
1/2 cup peas, 1.5 liters of water, 1 cup buckwheat, 2 onions, 4 cm. 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-raw potatoes in clay pot, add finely chopped herbs, onions, salt, add boiling water, cover with a lid and put in the oven for 1 minute. The finished stew is eaten with cucumbers (fresh or salted) and sauerkraut.
1 kg of potatoes, 1/2 cup of vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon of dill, I cm. 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. Before serving, sprinkle with herbs on the table.
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 cook garlic Sause. To do this, grind the garlic with salt, add 2 tablespoons sunflower oil and stir. Pour garlic sauce over fried potatoes.
10 small potatoes, half a glass of sunflower oil, 6 lobes of chenok, 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 rice, 0.75 cups oats, 0.7 liters of water, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 onion, 4-5 cloves of garlic. 4-5 tablespoons of sunflower oil, 1 tablespoon of dill.
Tochonka
Soak the poppy seeds for 10 hours, drain the water, squeeze and grind in a mortar.
Soak the beans for 10 hours, boil for 2 hours and grind the boiled beans into puree, to which hot add mashed poppy seeds, mashed potatoes, finely chopped onion, sugar, pepper, parsley and grind.
5 potatoes, 0.5 cups beans, 2 tablespoons poppy seeds, 1-2 onions, 2 teaspoons sugar, 1 tablespoon parsley, 0.5 tablespoons ground black pepper.
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, during which time prepare the prunes - peel them from the pits and 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.
KVASS, COMPOTES
Dried fruit compote
Wash the fruits, and then separate the apples and pears, as they take longer to cook.
Rinse the sorted fruits 3-4 times and place in boiling water. Cook pears and apples for 35-40 minutes, other fruits - 15-20 minutes. Add sugar at the end.
200 g of dry fruits, 5 tablespoons of sugar, 1.5 liters of water.
Rhubarb compote
Rinse the rhubarb stems in warm water. Remove the skin from the thickened ends with a knife. Then cut the stems into pieces 2-3 cm long, put them in a bowl, cover with cold water and leave in it for 15 minutes. Cook sugar syrup. Remove the prepared rhubarb from cold water and immerse in boiling syrup, add lemon zest and cook for 10-15 minutes.
200 g rhubarb (stalks), 150 g sugar, 4 glasses of water, 8 g lemon zest.
Lingonberry compote with apples
Wash winter apples, cut into slices, and remove the core. Then immerse the fruits in sugar syrup made from a decoction of apple peels and cores. Bring the syrup to a boil and add lingonberries to it.
150 g lingonberries, 150 g apples, 150 g granulated sugar, 600 g water.
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 cm. 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 soak, boil and let the water 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 tablespoons vegetable oil, salt, pepper, vinegar or lemon juice, green onions.
Stewed mushrooms
Heat the oil, add thinly sliced mushrooms and chopped onions. TO boiled mushrooms broth is added, fresh mushrooms are stewed in their own juice for 15-20 minutes. Towards the end of the stewing, add salt and herbs. Served as a side dish boiled potatoes and raw vegetable salad.
500 g of fresh or 300 g of boiled (salted) mushrooms, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 1 onion, salt, 1/2 cup of mushroom broth, parsley and dill.
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.
Apple charlotte with black bread
Apples (preferably sour varieties, such as Antonov) - 3 pieces, granulated sugar - 100 g, cinnamon, cloves and vanillin to taste, almonds (I took hazelnuts because there were no almonds) -20 g, dry white wine – 20 g, mashed black bread – 1 glass (I took 2 glasses, it seemed to me that a glass was not enough), vegetable oil – 20 g, zest of 0.5 lemon, orange peels– 20 g. Peel the apples, cut into slices, remove the grains, put 2 tablespoons of sugar, add cinnamon, crushed nuts, orange peels, white wine.
Buckwheat porridge shangi
Roll out flatbreads from lean dough, put buckwheat porridge, cooked with onions and mushrooms, in the middle of each, fold the edges of the flatbread.
Place the finished shangi on a greased pan and bake them in the oven.
The same shangi can be prepared stuffed with fried onions, potatoes, crushed garlic and fried onions.
Buckwheat pancakes
Pour three glasses of boiling water over three glasses of buckwheat flour in the evening, stir well and leave for an hour. If you don’t have buckwheat flour, you can make it yourself by grinding buckwheat in a coffee grinder.
When the dough has cooled, dilute it with a glass of boiling water. When the dough is lukewarm, add 25 g of yeast dissolved in half a glass of water.
In the morning, add the rest of the flour, salt dissolved in water to the dough and knead the dough until the consistency of sour cream, put it in a warm place and bake in a frying pan when the dough rises again.
These pancakes are especially good with onion toppings.
Pancakes with seasonings (with mushrooms, onions)
Prepare a dough from 300 g of flour, a glass of water, 20 g of yeast and place it in a warm place.
When the dough is ready, pour in another glass of warm water, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, salt, sugar, the rest of the flour and mix everything thoroughly.
Soak the washed dried mushrooms for three hours, boil until tender, cut into small pieces, fry, add chopped and lightly fried green onions or onions, cut into rings. Having spread the baked goods in a frying pan, fill them with dough and fry like ordinary pancakes.
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.
Unleavened dough products
What features does it have? unleavened dough prepared for Lent? We cannot put an egg in it to strengthen it. Because of this, our actions depend to a greater extent on the “character” of the flour, on the strength of its gluten.
If the flour is good, and you tried to make a very tight dough (water:flour ratio = 1:3 by volume, and don’t forget to salt - adding salt also strengthens the dough a little), you will get excellent dough for dumplings.
But a situation may well arise when the quality of the flour leaves much to be desired, there is not enough strength to knead the dough, and there is no masculine strength to help. Then you can pour more water (1:2.5), but be prepared for the dough to “float” during the cooking process, dumplings or other products will be slippery and fall apart. Treat this with prayer and patience and eat with humility (it is always useful).
In the future, when using the same flour, you can “overcome” the weakness of its character by changing the cooking method: steam it (it will be something like manti), or fry it in oil (like chebureki).
Both of these methods require a softer dough. Interesting dough variations are obtained by replacing water with brine or another liquid. There are methods that use hot water, which produces a dough with a special taste, with a slight sweetness, and this dough requires more water.
The dough can be used directly for noodles, dumplings, as a side dish or as a component for soup, or as a shell for filling: fried cabbage or other vegetables, mashed potatoes, mushrooms, onions, herbs, fresh or frozen berries with sugar, boiled and twisted dried fruits, bean or pea puree and even porridge: for example, millet or buckwheat.
We prepare ordinary unleavened dough, let it rest for about twenty minutes, roll it into small thin circles and fry them on both sides. Serve on the table, where various fillings are prepared: bean pate, fresh vegetable salad, stewed vegetables, and maybe jam, fruit salad. We put the filling directly on the flatbread and eat it right away along with the “plate”.
Galushki
Roll out the unleavened dough, kneaded with water, into a 1 cm thick cake, cut into strips 2-3 cm wide, pinching off small pieces from each strip, and throw into salted boiling water (or vegetable or mushroom broth). Dough for dumplings can also be prepared from a mixture of wheat and buckwheat flour. Dumplings boiled in water are drained and seasoned with fried onions. Dumplings boiled in broth are eaten with liquid.
Dumplings with mushrooms
Soak and boil 150 g of dried mushrooms, finely chop, add 2 onions fried in oil, 2 tablespoons of crumbs from stale bread, pepper, salt, a little mushroom broth, knead everything and simmer lightly. The dough is the usual one for dumplings. Roll out thinly, make small dumplings and cook. Serve doused with oil.
Lenten manti with pumpkin
To prepare manti, you need special utensils: a double boiler or a saucepan with a removable upper part into which racks with manti are inserted (cascan, manti cooker). Dough: half a liter for 1 kg of flour hot water, salt, knead well, let sit.
Minced meat: pumpkin cut into small (half a centimeter) cubes, soy meat in proportionate pieces equal proportions with pumpkin, spices: salt, red pepper, ajinomoto. Roll out the dough into thin circles the size of a small saucer. Place a heaping tablespoon of minced meat in the middle.
The dough is pinched on top: with a bag or figured. The grates are lubricated with vegetable oil. Place the manti on them (do not crowd them, otherwise they will stick together), insert them into a pan where water is already boiling and steam for 45 minutes.
Serve with sauce: dilute soy sauce (classic, Korean, brown) with water, add just a little vinegar, red pepper (a noticeable amount), chopped garlic.
Dumplings with cherries
Make a dough from flour and water, not very stiff, roll it out into a thin crust. Peel the cherries and sprinkle with sugar. Digest the juice that drains with sugar. Make small dumplings, boil, drain in a colander, pour juice on a plate. Serve cold.
Dumplings with apples
For the filling, take 800 g of apples, 1/2 cup of sugar. Peel the apples, remove the core, cut into strips, sprinkle with sugar, prepare dumplings from not very thin dough and cook them. When serving, sprinkle the dumplings with sugar or honey.
Dessert
I would like to start talking about desserts with the simplest, something that does not need cooking: fresh fruits or washed and steamed dried fruits (dried apricots, raisins, figs, dates, prunes), nuts of the most different types, halva, kazenaki, pastila, jam of various consistencies.
Lenten foods include many candy and jelly candies, marshmallows (technologically can be lean). Among the desserts prepared, we note jelly, jelly, and fruit salads. The latter are either prepared from predominant juicy fruits or seasoned with syrup prepared from canned fruits or prepared independently. We will consider baked goods and flour desserts separately.
Apple dessert
Mix chopped baked apples with boiled rice and add ginger and curry. Baked apples can also be served without rice with powdered sugar and cinnamon.
Cereal dessert with dried fruits
Cook a regular compote of dried apricots, raisins or other dried fruits without seeds. When the fruit is ready, add semolina (or other small grains) in a thin stream with stirring, evenly, in a small amount.
Citrus jelly
4 oranges, lemon, 100 g sugar, 15 g agar-agar, half a glass of water. Dissolve agar-agar and sugar in warm water, add the zest of half an orange, the juice of oranges and lemon, mix, strain, pour into molds and into the refrigerator. When serving, the molds are lowered briefly under water so that the jelly can easily separate.
Fruit salad
Boil the pasta until tender, drain in a colander and rinse with cold water, season with vegetables. oil and stir. Cut the grapes in half and remove the seeds. Cut bananas into slices.
Peel the apple from the core and cut into thin slices. Add tangerines or oranges in slices or half-slices. Sprinkle fruit with cinnamon sugar and drizzle lemon juice. Finely chop the figs and dates, chop the nuts.
Place the canned fruit in a colander, mix with the pasta and other ingredients and add a little canned fruit syrup. Mix everything, sprinkle coconut flakes and/or chocolate chips.
Pumpkin aspic
Stew the peeled pumpkin in the oven until transparent with a small amount of water. Pour layers of raisins, peeled walnuts (slightly crushed), and dried apricots (also cut into 3-4 pieces) into the bottom of a flat bowl about half a finger thick.
Cover it all with a pumpkin on top. Do not discard the remaining pumpkin juice from cooking, but use it instead of water to make jelly (see instructions on gelatin bags). Pour the prepared warm jelly over the workpiece, then put it in the refrigerator and serve cold.
DISH RECIPES
RUSSIAN MONASTERIES
BEFORE EATING
AFTER EATING
(prayer for weight loss)
“An angel for your meal!”
For a snack at the top
1. 3 kulebyaki with minced meat
In the brother's meal for lunch
1. Kulebyaka with porridge
2. Pressed caviar
3. Lightly salted beluga
5. Cabbage soup with fried fish
6. Fish soup made from crucian carp and burbot
8. Fried cabbage
10. Canpot made from apples
1. Payments by state
2. Non-salary income
3. Donations.
cellarer
Father Hermogenes.
Cold snacks:
- curly vegetable slices,
Hot appetizer:
Salad:
First course:
Second course:
Dessert:
- ice cream with fruit.
Beverages:
— kvass
- freshly baked bread, honey cakes, various savory and sweet pastries to choose from.
Let us remember that in monasteries meat is not consumed very often, in some it is not consumed at all. Therefore, the “spell” “Crucian crucian carp, crucian carp, turn into a piglet” does not work.
On great and patronal holidays, the brothers are blessed with “consolation” - a glass of red wine - French or, at worst, Chilean. And, of course, dishes are being prepared for a special holiday menu.
And here is the breakfast menu of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' on one of the days in April 2011.
Patriarchal food menus are carefully developed and balanced by nutritionists to maintain in the patriarch the proper energy necessary for the tireless conduct of his enormous spiritual, organizational and representative work.
Everything is on the patriarchal menus starting products and ready-made dishes undergo the same testing as in the Kremlin kitchen. All the dishes on the patriarchal table are the fruit of long analysis, discussions and endless tastings of the highest class culinary specialists, health doctors and nutritionists.
For Patriarch Kirill’s indispensable faith in God’s mercy and protection is a high spiritual matter, and the work of the patriarchal guard from the FSO and the corresponding doctors and laboratories is an everyday earthly matter.
Cold dishes:
Sturgeon caviar with buckwheat pancakes.
Caspian sturgeon, smoked, with galantine from grapes and sweet pepper.
Salmon stroganina with parmesan cheese and avocado mousse.
Snacks:
Pheasant roll.
Calf jelly.
Hare pate.
Blue Crab Pancake Cake.
Hot appetizers:
Fried hazel grouse.
Duck liver with rhubarb sauce fresh berries.
Hot fish dishes:
Rainbow trout poached in champagne.
Hot meat dishes:
Smoked duck strudel.
Roe deer back with lingonberry galantine.
Venison grilled on the grill.
Sweet foods:
White chocolate cake.
Fresh fruit with strawberry galantine.
Baskets with fresh berries in champagne jelly.
NOTE TO THE PATRIARIAL BREAKFAST MENU. This morning meal of Saint Cyril was shared with him by other primates of the Russian Orthodox Church, who also were monastics, who came to see him in the monastic cell in the morning.
The monastery chef is happy to share his recipes vegetable salad with shrimp and fish solyanka.
First of all, in order for everything to turn out tasty and pleasing to God, you need to start cooking by reading a prayer. Have you read it? Now let's get to work!
Portioned salad"Sea freshness"
Lettuce leaves are torn into pieces by hand - this is important.
Cucumber and tomato are cut into large pieces.
To these are added several sprigs of chopped parsley, a ring of chopped canned pineapple and five pieces of chopped king prawns.
All this is seasoned with Provencal mayonnaise and placed in a beautiful pile on a lettuce leaf.
Top with pine nuts.
For decoration: four shrimp are cut lengthwise and, together with parsley leaves, are placed around the “slide”.
NOTE. This salad, if seasoned with lean mayonnaise (see recipe below), can be eaten during Lent.
Lenten fish solyanka"Monastic style"
Broth is boiled from the cleaned heads and ridges of salmon, pike perch and carp.
Separately, coarsely chopped fish fillets (stellate sturgeon, sturgeon, beluga or other) are cooked until tender.
Blanch the pickled cucumbers by steaming.
Sauté (simmer briefly) tomatoes and onions.
In the finished strained broth we add pieces of boiled fish, sliced olives, cucumber dressing and fried tomato.
Let the hodgepodge brew under the lid for 15 minutes.
Serve with parsley, a slice of lemon, previously zested, and a spoonful of sour cream.
Rye yeast-free bread mixed with hops
Ingredients
:
For the test you need: 2 tablespoons of hops (you can buy it at the pharmacy) pour a glass of boiling water.
When the hops swell, add rye flour, add a little salt and sugar.
The dough is not elastic, a little stronger than for pancakes, and sticky. To prevent it from sticking, wet your hands with water.
The mold in which the bread will be baked is greased with oil and baked in the oven for three hours. As a result, the oil turns into a thin film, which will prevent the loaf from burning.
Preparation
The dough is poured into the mold, filling it halfway.
Flatten it with a wet hand and let it rise in the oven at a temperature of 37 degrees. For about two hours, and then bake at a temperature of 220 degrees. 1-1.5 hours.
Readiness is checked by squeezing the top and bottom crust: if the crumb between them quickly straightens, the bread is well baked.
After baking, the crust is moistened with water.
You cannot cut rye bread while it is hot; it must cool down.
“This bread is not only extremely tasty, but also extremely healthy,” says Alexander Titov, technologist at the St. Daniel Monastery. — Lowers cholesterol in the blood and helps normalize metabolism. Not only will you not gain weight from such bread, but on the contrary, you can lose weight extra pounds. And most importantly, it preserves very well
Monastic pies made from Lenten dough
Ingredients
:
For 1 kg of flour take 8 grams of yeast, salt - 25 g, sugar - 30 g, warm water - 250 ml, vegetable oil - 150 g (it gives the dough fluffiness).
Preparation
“Knead the dough well and let it rise for 15-20 minutes,” says the monastery cook Nadezhda Grasu. — Divide it into balls of 60 grams. The secret of our delicious signature pies lies in the flour, which is brought from the Danilovsky farmstead mill in the Ryazan region. And of course, we do everything with prayer, we put a piece of our soul into every pie. After all, dough, like a child, loves warmth.
The fillings can be very varied, but in the monastery there are eight types: potatoes, cabbage, rice-fish, rice-mushrooms, cottage cheese, jam, cinnamon and poppy seeds. There is another seasonal one - apples. They are also brought from the Ryazan monastery garden.
Each pie has its own shape, with cabbage a classic one, potatoes a triangle, cottage cheese round with a hole in the middle. Rice-fish - a classic with two notches in the center, with mushrooms - the dough is pinched together like a dumpling with a pigtail. The pie with jam is rolled up.
With cinnamon mixed with powdered sugar, roll it into a roll, make a slit in the center and pull one end into the slit, creating a “Christmas tree” shape. The poppy seed cake is rolled in the same way as the cinnamon cake and then folded in half. An incision is made on the fold to the middle along the folded tube. Then the two parts are spread apart and the dough takes the shape of a heart. By the way, cinnamon and poppy seed buns are greased with vegetable oil before spreading the filling so that it spreads evenly.
The pies are placed on a greased baking sheet and placed in the oven at a temperature of 46 degrees. C for 15 minutes. Then preheat the oven to 180-200 degrees and bake for 12 minutes.
The pies, wonderful in taste and light for the tender monastic stomach, are ready.
ANY MOST EXPERIENCED LAY GOURMET CAN LEARN THE ART OF EATING FROM THIS GOURMET MONK
Kitchen of Father Hermogenes,
Monk of St. Daniel's stauropegial monastery
“A TABLE THAT BEGINS AND ENDS WITH PRAYER WILL NEVER FALL OUT”
(Saint John Chrysostom)
To the Glory of the true Orthodox Lord!
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