Lent is a very important time for Orthodox people. This is not only a time of spiritual cleansing and prayers, but this period also provides for a serious restriction in food.

Most people who decide to fast simply refuse products containing animal fats, primarily meat, poultry, butter, milk and eggs. And on some days also fish. Of course, if you fast according to all the rules, then in this case there are more stringent restrictions, but they will be discussed in one of the following articles.

And today we’ll talk just about recipes in which we will not use animal fats. And there are actually a lot of such recipes. You can cook a lot of delicious dishes without using meat, and at the same time eat fully and, most importantly, not feel hungry.

At the same time, we must try to ensure that each dish contains a lot of useful substances, trace elements, vitamins. The fast lasts a long time, we all work, study, and it is important that we have enough strength and energy for all this.

Therefore, in today's menu, such recipes are selected - hearty, healthy, and, most importantly, tasty.

Now Shrovetide is in full swing, and every day we cook pancakes for every taste. But we cook them mainly with milk, kefir, and of course with eggs. Although there is But it's one thing without eggs, but how to cook them even without milk.

It turns out you can, and very tasty, using soy or almond milk. Let's see how to do it.

We will need:

• wheat flour - 1 cup
• flaxseed - 1 tbsp. the spoon
• soy milk or almond milk - 250 ml.
• sugar - 1 tbsp. the spoon
• baking powder - 1 teaspoon
• soda - 0.25 tsp
• salt - 0.25 tsp
• apple cider vinegar - 1 teaspoon
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. the spoon
• vegetable oil - for frying

Cooking:

1. Grind flaxseed in a coffee grinder into flour. Then pour it with 2.5 tbsp. spoons of flour and let stand for 15 minutes. You will get a thick jelly-like mass that will replace our eggs.

2. Sift the flour into a deep bowl along with the baking powder.

3. Add salt, sugar and soda and mix.

4. Mix soy or almond milk with vinegar. We will get a fermented milk product that replaces kefir.

5. Pour the milk into the flour mixture. Mix thoroughly until all lumps are dissolved. Then add vegetable oil and then infusion of linseed flour. Mix again until smooth.

If the dough is too thick, you can add a little warm water. If you want the pancakes to be thin, make the dough thinner.

6. Heat the frying pan over high heat, then grease with oil and let it warm up as well. Pour a portion of the dough and bake first on one side, then on the other, until golden brown.

7. Serve with honey. Eat with pleasure!

Salad of baked pumpkin and black olives (olives)

This is a hearty and healthy salad, filled with vitamins, and also delicious.

We will need:

• pumpkin pulp - 300 gr
• arugula or leaf lettuce - 100 gr
• pitted olives (olives) - 50 gr
• green onion - 2 pcs
• dried oregano - pinch
• marinade from olives - 1 tbsp. the spoon
• olive oil - 1 - 1.5 tbsp. spoons
• pepper - to taste

Cooking:

1. Put the oven on heating, we will need a temperature of 180 degrees. In the meantime, peel the pumpkin and cut into 2 x 2 cm cubes. Sprinkle with a little freshly ground pepper for flavor and drizzle with olive oil.

2. Bake for 20 - 30 minutes until the pumpkin is soft. Then take it out and let it cool completely.

3. Rinse arugula or leaf lettuce, drain and pat dry with a paper towel. Then put on a large flat plate.

4. Add pumpkin, sliced ​​olives or olives, finely chopped onion, and sprinkle with oregano.

5. For the dressing, mix the remaining olive oil with the olive marinade and pour over the salad. Mix gently and enjoy!

Pickled beetroot appetizer

We will need:

• beets - 1 kg
• onion - 1 pc.
• vegetable oil - 100 ml
• table vinegar 9% - 200 ml
• salt - 0.5 tsp
• pepper - a pinch

Cooking:

1. Wash the beets thoroughly with a brush. Then wrap it in foil and bake in the oven for about 1 hour. The temperature should be 210 degrees.

2. Cool the finished beets and cut into thin strips.

3. Cut the onion into very thin half rings.

4. Prepare a saucepan, put beets mixed with onions in it. Season with salt and pepper, pour vinegar. Mix gently so as not to damage the beets.

5. Sterilize glass jars, for this it will be enough to scald them with boiling water. And fill them tightly with beets. Leave some room for oil at the top. Pour it into jars, it should cover the beets by about 2 cm.

6. Close with plastic lids and store in the refrigerator.

Such beets can be eaten as a snack, as an addition to side dishes, or used as a dressing for lean borscht. Or you can just spread it on bread and use it as a small snack.

Soup - mashed green peas

We will need:

• frozen green peas - 450 gr
• potatoes - 4 pcs
• celery - 2 stalks
• carrots - 1 pc.
• onion - 1 pc.
• dried mint - 1 teaspoon
• salt, pepper - to taste
• vegetable oil
• croutons for serving

Cooking:

1. Wash and peel potatoes, onions and carrots. Cut the potatoes into small pieces, onion into small cubes, grate the carrots.

2. Finely chop the celery. Defrost green peas.

3. Pour two liters of water into a saucepan and bring it to a boil. Put the chopped potatoes and cook for 10 minutes, then add the green peas and celery. Cook for 10 more minutes.

4. Heat the oil in a pan and fry the onion until golden brown, then add the carrots and simmer all together for another 5 minutes.

5. Then put the contents in a saucepan with vegetables, add mint, salt and pepper to taste. Boil everything together for 5-7 minutes.

6. Blend the vegetables in the soup with an immersion blender until pureed. Serve with croutons that you can make yourself.

Soups - mashed potatoes are very tasty and nutritious. In addition to such a soup, you can cook it, and you can use it both fresh and frozen.

You can also cook. If you have frozen forest mushrooms in your freezer, then you are provided with a healthy lunch. And if the stocks have not been prepared, or there is nothing left, then such a soup will turn out to be very tasty using champignons. Fortunately, they are now sold both fresh and frozen all year round.

In addition to puree soups, regular soups can also be prepared. Moreover, almost any - and, and, and. We cook everything as usual, but without meat.

But here I would like to talk separately about soups with legumes - this is both, and soup, and as delicious as lentil soup. These soups are tasty and nutritious, both with and without meat products. And this is no coincidence, legumes are rich in protein, it's just a storehouse of useful vitamins and minerals.

Lentil soup

Unfortunately, few people now cook dishes with lentils. And in vain, these are not only delicious dishes, but also the most useful ones. Today we will also have potato casserole with minced lentils on the menu, but now soup.

You can cook such a soup with meat, it's delicious, or you can cook it in fasting. And it will not affect the taste in any way.

We will need:

• green lentils - 1 cup
• potatoes - 3 pcs
• carrots - 1 pc.
• celery root - 100 gr
• onion - 1 pc.
• garlic - 2 cloves
• lemon - 0.5 pcs
• tomato - 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons
• soy sauce - 1 tbsp. the spoon
• spices - to taste
• salt, pepper - to taste
• vegetable oil - 3 - 4 tbsp. spoons
• greens for serving

Cooking:

1. Sort the lentils and rinse well. It is necessary to sort it out, as it may contain small pebbles.

Pour it with two liters of cold water and put on fire. Let the water boil, reduce the heat and remove the foam if necessary. Cook for 15 minutes.

2. Cut the potatoes into medium-sized cubes. Carrots and celery in thin strips, onions in small cubes or thin half rings. Mince the garlic. Cut half a lemon into thin slices.

3. Heat 1.5 - 2 tablespoons of oil in a pan and fry the potatoes on it over medium heat. The frying time should be about 10 minutes. At the same time, it must be stirred periodically.

4. Then put the potatoes in a pan with the lentils.

5. Pour the remaining oil into the same pan and fry the onion first, then the carrots and celery. Passing time will be 5 - 7 minutes. 2 minutes before the readiness to add spices. Ground zira and coriander are well suited for mung bean. And you can also add paprika, it will give a good color and add flavor.

6. Add the tomato and fry everything together for a couple more minutes. If using store-bought tomato paste, add a little water as it is thick and will burn in the pan. If you add grated tomato, or, then water will not be needed.

7. Put the stewed vegetables with tomato in a saucepan with soup. Pour in the soy sauce and add the chopped lemon. Let it boil and cook everything together for 15-20 minutes.

8. 5 - 7 minutes before the readiness to salt. After you turn off the fire, let stand and brew for 10 - 15 minutes.

9. When serving, remove the lemon slices, they gave up their juice, and became ugly, so they will spoil the appearance. Pour soup into cups. Sprinkle with fresh herbs.

In Turkey, lentil soup - chorba is mashed. Therefore, if you wish, you can also make soup out of it - mashed potatoes, rubbing the contents with a submersible blender.

I must say that this kind of soups are cooked thick, they really cost a spoon. They simultaneously replace both the first and the second. They give a wonderful feeling of fullness and after them you don’t want to eat for a very long time. And it’s even better not to talk about taste, since it’s impossible to describe it in words. Just cook once, and you will understand everything yourself.

Granola

Granola is homemade muesli made from oatmeal, nuts, dried fruits and honey. This tasty and healthy breakfast is often prepared in America, and recently it has become very popular with us. And it is no coincidence that granola is just a storehouse of various vitamins, trace elements and nutrients that have a great effect on metabolism. And such a product will definitely not be superfluous in a post.

We will need:

• oatmeal - 300 gr
• mixed nuts - what are - 200 gr
• pumpkin seeds - 70 gr
• sunflower seeds - 70 gr
• almond petals - 50 gr
• honey - 150 gr
• large orange - 1 pc.
• olive oil - 3 tbsp. spoons
• ground cinnamon - 1 teaspoon
• raisins - 100 gr
• flaxseed - 1 tbsp. the spoon
• salt - 0.5 tsp

Cooking:

1. Prepare a mixture of nuts, here you can use any nuts - hazelnuts, almonds, walnuts, cashews, etc. They must be chopped, but left at the same time in large enough pieces, you can use a blender for this.

2. Squeeze the juice from the orange, you should get 150 ml and mix it in a saucepan with honey and oil.

3. Put the mass on the smallest fire, add salt and cinnamon. Stir and heat until the honey is completely dissolved, and the mass becomes homogeneous.

4. In a large bowl, add oatmeal, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, as well as almond flakes and chopped nuts.

5. Pour the honey mass into a bowl and mix so that all dry ingredients are evenly covered with it.

6. Cover the baking sheet with baking paper and put the whole mass on it in an even layer.

7. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and put a baking sheet in it. Bake 40 - 50 minutes. Take out and stir every 10 minutes. All ingredients need to be cooked evenly.

Muesli bars are prepared in the same way. If you want to cook them, then you need to mix the contents only once. When the mass is ready, let it cool slightly and cut into squares or rectangles in the form of bars.

8. When a dark crust appears on the surface, the granola is ready and can be taken out.

9. Let cool, add raisins and flaxseed. Mix and pour into a jar for storage. Store no more than two weeks.

10. Eat for breakfast, serving with milk.

And below is another recipe that you may also find useful.

This is a simpler recipe with fewer ingredients, and you can choose which one you like best. Or cook them both at once. Fasting lasts a long time, so granola will not be superfluous.

Millet porridge with fruits

We will need:

• millet groats - 0.5 cups
• sugar - 2 teaspoons
• salt - a pinch
• ground cinnamon - a pinch
• pear (any dried fruit is possible) - 1 pc (200 gr)
• apple - 1 pc.
• parsley or mint

Cooking:

1. Rinse the millet thoroughly in plenty of cold water. Then pour it into a saucepan and pour cold water over so that it completely covers the cereal. Boil. Then drain the water and rinse the millet under running water.

2. Pour water over millet again, this time we need 1.5 cups. Bring to a boil, salt to taste, then lower the heat and simmer for 20 minutes over low heat. During this time, the porridge should be completely ready.

3. Grind the porridge in a blender bowl until smooth.

4. If you use fresh fruits, then they must be de-seeded and cut into slices. If you use dried fruits, then they must first be boiled in a small amount of water so that they are steamed.

You can also use any canned fruit.

5. Place chopped fruits or steamed dried fruits on a plate. Put millet porridge on top. Sprinkle with cinnamon, sprinkle with honey.

6. Serve garnished with a sprig of mint or parsley.

The recipe is very simple and easy to prepare. The stage with grinding porridge with a blender can be skipped, it will turn out even faster.

And you can cook rice without millet. It is very tasty with vegetables, onions and carrots. So tasty, flavorful and very satisfying. My son is a vegetarian and I often cook this plov for him.

And in addition to rice and millet, delicious porridge can be made from barley.

Barley with baked pumpkin and thyme

We will need:

• pearl barley - 1 cup
• pumpkin - 1 kg
• onion - 1 pc.
• garlic - 1 clove
• salt, pepper - to taste
• fresh or dried thyme - 1 teaspoon

Cooking:

1. Rinse barley thoroughly and soak in 1 liter of cold water for several hours, or overnight.

2. Wash the pumpkin and peel and remove the seeds. Then cut into cubes 2 by 2 cm.

3. Put the pumpkin prepared in this way in a baking dish, drizzle with vegetable oil and sprinkle with half of the cooked thyme.

4. Heat the oven to 220 degrees and bake the pumpkin in it for 30 minutes. Put the finished pumpkin on a dish.

5. Cut the onion into small cubes. Fry it in a small amount of oil in a thick-walled pan for about 4 minutes.

6. Add barley to the onion, from which all the water was previously drained and rinsed under running water. Add chopped garlic and 1 liter of boiling water there. Cook over low heat for 20 minutes until all liquid has evaporated.

7. At the end of cooking, add salt and pepper to taste. And immediately close the pan with a lid.

8. Then remove from heat and cover with a towel, leave to infuse for another 15 - 20 minutes.

9. Add baked pumpkin, mix gently. Arrange on plates and sprinkle with the remaining thyme.

If you do not have thyme, then it's okay, you can use basil or parsley. Or just use dry herbs like Provence. By the way, they also contain thyme.

Pumpkin with champignons and celery, stewed in a frying pan

• pumpkin pulp - 300 gr
• champignon mushrooms - 300 gr
• celery root - 250 gr
• onion - 1 pc.
• soy sauce - 1.5 tablespoons
• salt, pepper - to taste
• vegetable oil - 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons

Cooking:

1. Peel and rinse the celery root. Then cut the onion and celery into small cubes.

2. Also cut the pumpkin into cubes 2 by 2 cm in size.

3. In a large frying pan, heat the oil and fry the onion for 3-4 minutes. Then add the pumpkin and fry everything together for another 5 minutes.

4. Add celery and simmer the contents for 5 - 7 minutes, stirring occasionally.

5. Fry chopped mushrooms in a separate pan. I use mushrooms, but you can use any fresh or frozen mushrooms.

If frozen mushrooms are used, it is not necessary to defrost them. You can send it to the pan directly from the freezer.

6. After the mushrooms are fried, add them to the pan, mix everything, salt and pepper to taste and add soy sauce. Simmer everything together for another 5 minutes.

7. Serve hot, if there are seeds from the pumpkin, then you can sprinkle the dish with them.

The same dish can be prepared without celery. And if you want to cook it more nutritious and satisfying, then you can use potatoes instead.

Lentil Potato Casserole - Shepherd's Pie

Everyone loves, and as soon as they don’t cook it. We also prepared it, and even in several different versions. But they were all prepared with minced meat. And today we have a lenten menu, so I have an excellent recipe for you, tested. When you eat such a cooked casserole right away and you don’t understand that it is vegetarian, the appearance and, most importantly, the taste will be similar to the usual one.

When I first cooked it for my son, for a long time he could not believe that it did not contain a single gram of meat, and for a long time he picked with a fork, looking for what was wrong with it. But I didn’t pick anything up, because everything in it is as it should be.

We will need:

• potatoes - 10 pcs (large)
• white cabbage - 300 gr
• onion - 1 pc.
• green lentils - 1 cup
• tomato - 1 pc (large) or tomato
• vegetable broth
• salt, pepper - to taste
• spices - to taste and desire

Cooking:

1. Peel potatoes and boil until tender in salted water. Drain the broth into a separate saucepan.

2. Rinse the lentils in running water, add water, salt and cook until cooked for about 30 minutes. It is best to use green lentils.

3. Peel and cut the onion into cubes. Cut the cabbage into strips.

4. Heat the oil in a pan and fry the onion in it until golden brown. Then add the cabbage, fry for a short time and pour the broth. Cover with a lid and simmer until done.

5. At the end of the stew, add the tomato to the pan and simmer everything together for another 5 minutes.

6. Then add the lentils, and simmer everything together.

7. Mash potatoes. Not in fasting, you can add a little butter, milk or hard cheese. But we are preparing for the post, so we do not add any of the above.

8. I will bake the casserole in a detachable form, then it will be more convenient to get it out of it later. Grease the bottom and sides of the mold with vegetable oil and lay out half of the mashed potatoes.

9. Grind lentils with cabbage through a meat grinder, thereby getting minced lentils. Put it on a potato layer and smooth over the entire surface.

10. Top with the remaining mashed potatoes.

11. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, then put the mold in it and bake for 25-30 minutes until the surface of the casserole is lightly browned. To make the crust even more ruddy, you can grease the top with vegetable oil.

12. Get the finished form, let it cool slightly. Then open it and cut into segments, eat with pleasure!

In order not to spoil the shape with a knife, its bottom can be pre-lined with a piece of parchment paper cut to size.

Vareniki with potatoes and mushrooms

Well, how about without dumplings? This is a favorite dish that is used not only in fasting. And we have already cooked, very tasty and appetizing. By the way, the recipe also gives an option for preparing an excellent dough.

And today we will make the filling more complicated and prepare dumplings with mushrooms. Mushrooms are known to be pure protein. And in fasting, in the absence of meat, it will be most welcome.

By the way, in order not to overlap with the previous recipe, today we will cook everything differently.

We will need:

• potatoes - 500 gr
• fresh or pickled mushrooms (any) - 200 gr
• dill - 50 gr
• flour - 700 gr
• salt - to taste
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons

Cooking:

1. Peel potatoes and cut into cubes or small slices. Pour in a small amount of water, it should only slightly cover the potatoes. Bring to a boil and cook for 20 minutes. The water does not need to be salted.

2. Drain the potato broth into a separate pan and salt it to taste. Should be about 500 ml. decoction.

3. If you use salted or pickled mushrooms, then they should be thrown into a colander so that excess liquid is drained. Then cut them into small pieces

If you use fresh mushrooms, then they must first be cut into pieces and fried in a small amount of oil.

4. Mash the potatoes, you can use a blender for this. Then add mushrooms and chopped dill. You also need to salt and pepper. If the mushrooms are salty, then this may not be necessary. In any case, rely on your taste.

Mix stuffing.

5. Now let's prepare the dough. To do this, add vegetable oil to a warm potato broth and pour the sifted flour in parts. Each time it must be thoroughly mixed.

When all the flour has been added, put the dough on a floured table and knead the dough thoroughly, kneading it for at least 5-7 minutes. It should turn out sticky, but don't let that scare you. Cover the dough with plastic wrap or a bowl and let stand at room temperature for 15-20 minutes.

6. Pour flour on the table, knead again the left dough, then cut off a piece and roll a tourniquet 2-3 cm thick out of it. Then cut it into small pieces 2-3 cm long, depending on whether large or small dumplings You will cook.

7. Form a small cake from each piece with your hands, flattening it with your hand. Then roll out thin small cakes.

8. Lay out the filling and connect the edges, while you can roll them up with a pigtail or simply link the edges with cloves.

9. Pour water into a large saucepan and bring it to a boil, salt. Gently, one at a time, put dumplings into it, gently mix with a slotted spoon so that they do not stick to the bottom.

After the water boils again, you need to wait until all the dumplings float to the surface. Now you need to reduce the heat and cook them for another 2 minutes.

10. Put a slotted spoon on a dish and serve.

As a dressing, you can use fried onions in oil. It turns out just super tasty!

Potato gnocchi with pumpkin

Gnocchi are Italian dumplings, where flour, semolina, potatoes are used as ingredients. And they fit perfectly into the Lenten menu.

We will need:

• potatoes - 200 gr
• pumpkin pulp - 200 gr
• garlic - 2 cloves
• flour - 2 - 2.5 cups
• olive oil - 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons
• nutmeg - pinch
• fresh greens
• salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:

1. Peel and cut the potatoes and pumpkin into 2x2 cm cubes. Pour cold water over so that it only covers all the vegetables. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.

2. Pour the vegetable broth into a bowl, and chop the vegetables into a puree using a blender. Let them cool down a bit.

3. Rinse the greens, dry and divide into two parts. Peel and mince the garlic.

4. Add nutmeg, salt, pepper and half the greens to the puree. Stir, then add vegetable oil and mix again.

5. Pour flour in small portions, stirring with a spoon each time. Knead the dough, it will turn out viscous. Roll the dough into a ball, cover with cling film and let rest for 10 minutes.

6. Separate a part of the dough from the common piece and roll a thin sausage 2 cm wide out of it. Cut the sausages into circles, make a dent with your finger. Work on a floured table.

7. Arrange the gnocchi on a floured tray and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

8. In a large saucepan, heat water, salt it and put the gnocchi in it. Stir with a slotted spoon so they don't stick to the bottom. After they float to the top, cook for another three minutes.

9. When serving, drizzle the gnocchi with oil, sprinkle with garlic and the rest of fresh herbs.

Chickpea Hummus

We will need:

• chickpeas - 500 gr
• sesame - 3 - 4 tbsp. spoons
• olive oil - 70 ml
• garlic - 3 cloves
• lemon - 1 pc.
• salt, red pepper - to taste
• paprika ground cilantro or parsley for garnish

Cooking:

1. Grind sesame seeds in a coffee grinder into flour, add a spoonful of olive oil and mix. We will get tahini paste, it is the main ingredient for hummus. Sometimes you can buy it in the store, but we sell it extremely rarely.

2. Soak chickpeas overnight in cold water. Then rinse it in running water and put it in a saucepan. Fill with water to the top, bring to a boil, then drain.

3. Refill with water, bring to a boil and drain. And then do the same again.

4. Then again pour it with water, bring to a boil. Add a whole clove of garlic and cook for 1.5 - 2 hours. Then pour the broth into a separate bowl.

5. Pour boiled chickpeas with cold water, set aside three full tablespoons, and put the rest in a blender bowl and grind into puree, adding sesame paste and a little broth from peas.

6. Add the two remaining and chopped garlic cloves, squeeze the lemon juice and pour in the remaining oil. Beat the mass until a puree is light in color.

7. Put the hummus on a plate, sprinkle with fresh herbs, drizzle with oil and garnish with the remaining whole peas. Sprinkle red pepper and paprika on top.

8. Serve with fresh vegetables and pita bread or bread.

Lean buckwheat cutlets

It happens that sometimes boiled buckwheat remains. You cook porridge, do not eat it right away and it costs itself in the refrigerator. It’s a pity to throw it away, but I don’t want to eat it anymore. And then I began to cook from it. And if this is not in the post, then with the addition of a small amount of minced meat.

Cutlets taste like they are completely meat.

I began to cook the same cutlets with minced fish, and they also turn out very tasty. By the way, on some days in Lent you can eat fish, and in this case you can cook buckwheat cutlets with fish.

But since my son does not eat meat, I cooked cutlets for us with the addition of minced meat, and for him with the addition of potatoes. Since he loves both, he always eats them with great pleasure.

When I began to prepare today's article, I began to watch the video and saw a familiar recipe. And I decided not to describe it, but to include this video in the article.

And for the post, this is just the most necessary recipe. So take it to the piggy bank and cook with pleasure!

Lean apple muffins

We will need:

• large apples - 3 pcs
• banana - 1 pc.
• flour - 200 gr
• sugar - 5 - 6 tbsp. spoons
• vegetable oil - 4 tbsp. spoons
• baking powder - 1 teaspoon
• cinnamon - 1 teaspoon
• raisins or nuts - optional

Cooking:

1. Wash apples, dry and cut into halves. Remove the core, do not peel off the peel. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes. You can also bake in the microwave. Apples should become soft.

2. Allow to cool slightly, then use a spoon to remove all the pulp. Slice the banana and mash everything with a fork to a puree.

3. Add vegetable oil and mix.

4. In a separate bowl, mix the sifted flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and cinnamon. Very tasty cupcakes will turn out if you add dried fruits with nuts or seeds to the dough, or one thing.

5. Add mashed potatoes to the dry mixture and mix. If it was not enough to get an elastic dough, you can add a little apple juice. Mix the whole mass until smooth.

6. Lubricate the prepared cupcake molds with vegetable oil and fill them into 2/3 parts. Bake for 30 minutes at 180 degrees.

7. Get out of the molds and serve.

Smoothie vitamin

By the same principle as this recipe, you can prepare smoothies from different fruits and berries, as well as from their combinations.

We will need:

• large oranges - 4 pcs
• bananas - 3 pcs
• red grapefruit - 1 pc.
• mango - 1 pc

Cooking:

1. Wash all fruits. Squeeze juice from oranges and grapefruit. Peel bananas and mangoes and cut into smaller pieces.

2. Put the pulp into the blender bowl, add the juice there and beat until smooth.

3. Serve in glasses with a straw. You can decorate with a sprig of mint or slices of orange or banana.

You can use apples, pears, kiwis, tangerines and all commercially available fruits for smoothies. And you can make smoothies with the addition of vegetables.

This is our menu for today.

Along with such simple and everyday dishes as dumplings and pancakes, I tried to give lesser-known recipes - these are hummus, gnocchi and granola. So your lenten breakfasts, lunches and dinners will turn out to be even more varied and tasty with them.

I hope you enjoyed today's recipes and that you won't go hungry after cooking them. All the recipes turned out to be just right - hearty, nutritious and very tasty.

Bon appetit! And fast for HEALTH!

Every year more and more people think about the need to fast. Unfortunately, not everyone immediately manages to change their taste habits. For those who fast for the first time, it can be difficult to resist and at least in some way not violate food prohibitions. Sometimes such violations occur due to a fairly common misconception that nothing interesting can be prepared from lean foods available at home. But do not rush and put forbidden foods on the fasting table. Perhaps you just don’t know that there are a huge number of delicious and healthy recipes for lean dishes, many of which were used by our grandmothers and great-grandmothers.

Food in Lent: what to cook?

Start learning recipes for lean dishes, make your own cookbook. From the collected recipes, you can even develop a menu for each day of Lent in 2019. By the way, these same recipes will come in handy for you in Petrov, Assumption and Christmas posts. They are less strict and lengthy, but this is no reason not to comply with them at all.

In order for fasting food to be not only tasty, but also healthy, do not forget to diversify your diet. Soups, cereals, salads, vegetable side dishes and even pastries and desserts - all these dishes must be on your menu. To make it easier for you to decide what to cook for fasting, check out our selection of interesting and tasty recipes for fasting dishes.

Breakfast Recipes

What kind of lean dish can replace the usual scrambled eggs for many? There are a lot of options: vegetable pancakes, fruit smoothies, sandwiches and even pancakes.

1) Zucchini pancakes

1. Grate half of the zucchini.
2. Cut green apple into strips.
3. Pour 4 tablespoons of buckwheat or corn flour into a bowl and pour a small amount of water.
4. In a separate container, dilute soda with hot water (½ teaspoon of soda in half a glass of water).
5. Pour the resulting soda solution into the flour. Add grated zucchini, grated apple, salt. The mixture should be liquid, like sour cream.
6. Bake pancakes in a preheated pan with vegetable oil until golden brown.

3) Banana smoothie

5) Lean pancakes with stuffing

1. Pour a glass of water into a bowl, add half a teaspoon of soda, salt and 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
2. Gradually add a glass of flour, constantly stirring the mixture. The dough should be liquid.
3. Bake pancakes in a pan until browned.
4. For the filling, crush boiled potatoes, add a spoonful of sunflower oil, finely chopped bell pepper and fresh herbs.
5. Wrap the filling in pancakes.

Recipes for dinner

Traditionally, during lunch, it is customary to serve first courses. Below are simple recipes for lean soups for every day.

1) Vegetable cream soup

2) Georgian vegetable borscht

1. Soak beans in water for a long time.
2. Start cooking by boiling the beans. It will take about 30-50 minutes, you need to check the readiness.
3. Add 3 diced potatoes to the beans.
4. Cook a fry of 1 onion and grated carrots in a preheated pan until the onion turns golden, then add the beets, also grated.
5. Add spices hops-suneli, dry cilantro, tomato paste. After boiling, simmer covered for 5 minutes.
6. Add the roast to the contents of the pan and immediately throw in a small amount of chopped cabbage, cook for 20 minutes.
7. Salt the borsch, season with herbs, pepper, add a few whole peas of allspice and cook for a few more minutes so that all the ingredients absorb the smell of spices.

Dinner Recipes

When thinking about what to cook for fasting for dinner, keep in mind that all dishes should be easily digestible. In addition, as a rule, it is during a leisurely evening meal that a desire arises to taste something unusual. This means that the recipes for lean dishes for dinner should not only be healthy, but also especially tasty.

1) Red vegetable caviar

2) Lean cutlets

• Chop 400 grams of cabbage.
• Boil it until tender, about 20 minutes and add a couple of tablespoons of semolina. Cook for another 10 minutes, stirring. Salt.
• After the cabbage has cooled, grind it using a blender.
• Prepare cutlets from the resulting mass, roll in breadcrumbs and fry.

3) Lean pilaf

1. Rinse 2 cups of rice and soak in water for an hour.
2. Chop vegetables: 3 onions and carrots. Carrots are cut into thin strips, onions - into half rings.
3. In a cauldron, fry the onion until golden brown and add the carrots. Cover and stir occasionally until the carrots are soft.
4. Pour 3 cups of boiling water into the cauldron. Salt the mixture and season with spices, best of all with cumin.
5. Put rice in the cauldron so that all the frying remains at the bottom. Cook over high heat, gradually reducing the heat to a minimum for 13 minutes, then over low heat for another 20-30 minutes until the rice is ready.
6. Remove the pilaf from the stove and leave covered for 20 minutes.
7. Add greens to the finished dish. Serve with a salad of fresh tomatoes and cucumbers with onions.

Lenten desserts

Even in the lenten menu there is a place for recipes for sweet dishes. Just remember that fasting desserts should be natural, light and not too sweet.

1) Pineapple mint sorbet

1. Cut the banana into circles, put in a bowl and leave in the freezer for a couple of hours.
2. In a blender, mix a frozen banana, 300 grams of pineapple, a tablespoon of honey, mint leaves and 3 tablespoons of water.
3. Put in molds and put the sorbet in the freezer for another couple of hours.

2) Strawberry ice cream

1. Grind 100 grams of frozen strawberries, a banana and a tablespoon of sugar with a blender.
2. Put the ice cream in molds and put in the freezer for a couple of hours.

3) Fruit salad

Even such a small number of recipes for lenten dishes clearly demonstrates that fasting food can be varied, healthy and very tasty. The only rule that must be observed is that in fasting your food should be moderate and not “weight” your thoughts and body.

Bon appetit!

If you are fasting, this does not mean at all that you need to eat only noodles and rolls. On the contrary, this is a great chance to improve your gastronomic skills and learn how to cook something new. Therefore, today I offer you a large selection of wonderful lenten dishes for every day. This can be useful and not only fasting. In my recipes you will find a lot of original simple side dishes that can diversify any diet. And lean soups after fasting can be cooked with meat.

Here you will find a real Lenten menu - salads, soups, mains and even pastries. Delicious recipes for Lent and beyond.

It is clear that fasting is a time not to indulge in gluttony, but this is not a reason to indulge in laziness and eat anything. When there are many healthy recipes - despite the fact that the food remains simple and ordinary.

One indisputable advantage of lean meals is that they are cheap, easy to prepare and easy on the body. And at the same time very interesting and tasty. All these recipes are based on the simplest products that everyone has - cabbage, carrots, potatoes, frozen vegetables, tomato paste, green peas.

For those who also want to make dishes more dietary, you can completely replace vegetable oil with lemon juice in salads, and fry for baking in the oven without oil (you can add a little water), or stewing with water.

What you will find in this article

Lean salads

Lettuce and green pea salad

Light and tasty salad.

Products:

Lettuce leaves (packing lettuce in pots), or you can replace it with Beijing cabbage, and ideally - Iceberg lettuce - two-thirds of a head of cabbage
half pepper

half an onion
carrots - 1 pc.
garlic - one or two cloves
Vegetable oil (for a dietary option, you can replace lemon juice)
salt pepper
Cut the onion and pepper into small pieces. Carrots - rub on a coarse grater. Cut lettuce. Put the peas, squeeze the garlic. Salt, pepper, season with vegetable oil or lemon juice! You can also chop greens here.

Cabbage salad with cucumbers and peppers

We've all tried this salad, but not everyone knows the art of making tender, acetic-sour cabbage!

Products:

Cabbage - one kg,
sweet pepper - one large

cucumbers - two pieces
sugar - one tbsp. spoon with slide
salt - one tsp With a slide
nine percent vinegar - one or two tbsp.
Dill fresh
vegetable oil

Slice the cabbage very thinly. To do this, it is necessary, as it were, to slide a knife along the surface of the cabbage, cutting off very thin strips.
Salt, pour in vinegar, sprinkle with sugar. Add chopped dill. Lightly knead with your hands so that liquid appears, but not much.
Pepper cut into small squares. Cucumbers - straws. Add vegetables to cabbage, pour in oils and stir.

Lean soups

Lean vegetable soup

Simple and very tasty lean soup!

Products:

Cabbage - one kg
Carrots - three pieces
Potatoes - five pieces
Onions - two pieces
Garlic - six cloves
vegetable oil
Greenery
salt
1. Chop 1 kg of cabbage into square pieces. Pour two and a half liters of water, salt. Let it simmer for 30 minutes on low heat
2. Cut the potatoes into cubes.
3. Cut carrots and onions into small pieces.
4. Fry the garlic for a couple of minutes, then add carrots and onions to it. Fry for fifteen minutes until golden brown.
5. When the cabbage broth is cooked for 30 minutes, throw potatoes into the pan and cook for another ten minutes.
6. After that, put the rest of the vegetables. Bring to a boil and remove from heat after 5 minutes.
7. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and dill. Cover with a lid for fifteen minutes, and you can eat!

Lean soup with vegetables and rice

Products:

Pepper - one piece
bulb
carrot (large) - one piece
garlic - four cloves
rice - 4 tbsp. l. riding
potatoes - three pieces
broth or water - two liters

bay leaf, dill
vegetable oil

Cut potatoes into chunks
put in two liters of broth or water, salt and bring to a boil. Cook for 15 minutes when it boils.

At this time, chop the onion into rings and rings into quarters. Grate carrots (large). Pepper cut into squares. Garlic cloves - round.

Fry the onion with carrots for about five minutes, until they change color a little. Move the roast to the edges of the pan and add the bell pepper to the center.

Fry the pepper, 5 minutes, until it changes color, then mix with the onions and carrots. And again move the mass to the sides. And in the middle, put chopped garlic, and fry for a minute. Then stir in the vegetable mixture and remove from heat.

Put the fried into the soup and also throw in 4 tablespoons of rice. Let it boil, cook for 5 minutes no more.
Remove from the burner, add the parsley and chopped dill. Do not stir yet, leave to brew for 20 minutes under the lid. During this time, the rice will ideally reach readiness.

You can also season the soup with paprika.

Lean soup with green peas

Red lentils - two hundred gr
carrot - two hundred gr
onion - one hundred gr
garlic - one or two cloves
sesame - one tbsp with a slide
sunflower oil
Cook lentils in two and a half liters of water. Add 1 tbsp. salt.
Finely chop or grate the carrot. Chop the onion into small pieces. Fry the onions and carrots on low power while the lentils cook. To golden, but not brown.

When the lentils are almost done, add the stir-fried vegetables. Cook for 5 more minutes. Toast the sesame seeds in a dry frying pan to darken a little. Remove soup from heat, add sesame seeds. Let it brew for fifteen minutes.

Lean pea soup

We all see packs of frozen Brussels sprouts in the store. But how they can be deliciously cooked, we know not so many options. I knew before only - fry with meatballs. But here is another very tasty recipe that diversifies the lenten menu.

Products:

Frozen Brussels sprouts (400 grams)
soy sauce - two tbsp. l.
mustard seeds - one tsp
Tomato paste - one tablespoon
Garlic - three cloves

Put the cabbage in water, bring to a boil and let it boil for fifteen minutes.
Chop the garlic, crush the mustard seeds a little.
Put the cabbage in a pan with hot oil, and everything else - garlic, tomato paste, soy sauce, mustard seeds. Add 0.5 tbsp. water, cover with a lid and heat for five minutes. Salt is not required as there is soy sauce.
Salt is not required.

Rice with peas and beans

Very tasty fast food

And here is another basic recipe that not every housewife knows how to cook. Because there are tricks! But if the potatoes are fried correctly, then McDonald's fries are resting!
Peel potatoes.
Take a thick-bottomed pan, such as cast iron. At the beginning, put on a hot burner for a couple of minutes to the maximum so that the pan warms up.
At this time, cut the potatoes into rounds. When the pan is hot, pour in the vegetable oil and place over medium heat (four out of six). Let the oil heat up for another minute.
Put all the potatoes to fry, close the lid and do not touch for ten minutes.
Attention, do not interfere with the potatoes! With a spatula, gently pry under the fried potato layer in the middle. And turn the whole layer over as much as you can pry. Also carefully flip the potatoes over the sides of the pan.
Again, mark exactly ten minutes. And again fry under the lid. Again, carefully flip the entire layer of potatoes.

And one more time - ten minutes, fry under the lid. Then - add salt. Turn over again carefully in the same way as before. You can literally wait a couple of minutes this time, or also ten, if you want browner. This is delicious!

mushroom rice

I advise everyone to try this recipe, not only the fasting ones!

Products:

Potato - one and a half kg,
mushrooms, preferably fresh - two hundred gr. (can be a pack of frozen)
breadcrumbs
onions - two pcs.
Boil potatoes in salted water (can be cut into cubes to speed up the process).
Pour out the water. Pour puree. Let cool to room temperature.
Chop the mushrooms into small pieces. Fry for fifteen minutes.
Divide the mashed potatoes into 8 lumps (so as not to stick, wet your hands). Make mashed potatoes. Add mushrooms. Roll up the zrazy so that the filling is inside.
Sprinkle with breadcrumbs, place on a sheet that has been drizzled with oil. Put in a hot oven 180 degrees and cook for half an hour.
Can be garnished with fried onion rings. And for those who are not afraid of calories, pour each finished zrazu with the oil in which these rings were fried.

Lean pancakes

Yeast lean stuffed pancakes

Products:

Flour - one and a half glasses,

water - two glasses,
activated yeast - one tsp
Sugar - one tablespoon
half a spoonful of salt
vegetable oil

Filling:

about a glass of boiled buckwheat
onion - one pc.
dried mushrooms - handful

We make yeast dough for pancakes. Dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water. Leave for fifteen minutes. Next, salt, sift the flour, mix so that there are no lumps. Add 2 tbsp. sunflower oil. Let the dough rest for forty minutes.

Grease the pan with a thin layer of oil. Wipe off excess with a tissue. Fry pancakes.

While the dough is resting, make the filling. Boil dry mushrooms and crumble.
Fry with buckwheat, chopped onions and carrots. Or bake in the oven.
Start pancakes with minced meat. You can also fry ready-made pancakes in vegetable oil until golden brown, but I don’t do this for calorie reasons. Read a step-by-step recipe for lean pancakes with a photo.

Yeast-free lean pancakes with potato filling

Products:

Yeast dough (purchased or homemade, it doesn’t matter) - one kg
Potato - four pcs.
onion - 1-2 pcs
salt, pepper, sunflower oil

Cut potatoes and onions very thinly, potatoes - into circles, onions - into rings. Stir, pour 1 tbsp. sunflower oil, 1 tsp salt without a slide, a little ground pepper, stir.
Divide one kilogram of dough into ten pieces. And each of them - two more, one of which is twice as large as the second.
The larger one, thinly roll out and put on a small saucer, while the edges twist down.
We also divide the potato mixture into about ten parts. We spread one on the dough. Now we roll a smaller circle from a small piece, and put it on top of the potatoes. We bend the edges up. Turn over and roll out the cake again a little.

Then fry on a low temperature for five minutes, turn over - and another five.

famous bread sticks

Very simple brine cookies, delicious!

Products:

One glass of brine
One glass of vegetable oil
one glass of sugar
two packs of coconut flakes (you can also use lemon zest, dried berries, dried fruits, etc.)
two or three cups of flour

Put butter, sugar, brine and one pack of chips in a bowl and mix. Add flour until the dough is thick, like shortbread (two or three glasses), that is, so that it can be rolled out.
Roll out and sprinkle with the remaining shavings.
Cut out cookies with cookie cutters or a glass.
Bake on a floured baking sheet at 180 degrees for about ten minutes.

poppy seed biscuits

Products:

Poppy - two hundred gr.
Brown (or regular) sugar - one tbsp.
half a teaspoon of baking soda
apple cider vinegar - two tablespoons
salt - half tsp
Half glass of water
flour - one or two tbsp.
cinnamon - 1-2 tsp
Sunflower oil - four tbsp. l.
Mix dry ingredients: sugar, poppy seeds, cinnamon, salt. Add water and sunflower oil, soda and apple cider vinegar. Knead the dough, similar to shortbread (so that it rolls out).
Cover with foil and leave for one hour.
Then roll out the dough into a layer of about half a centimeter. Cut out cookies with cookie cutters or a glass. Place on baking paper or a floured baking sheet. Put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about half an hour.

Lean Coconut Banana Cookies

Products:

Bananas - 2 pcs.
coconut flakes - two hundred and fifty gr.
Half a glass of sunflower oil
sugar (preferably brown, but you can use regular) half a glass
water and flour
Mix sugar, butter, chopped banana and beat, adding coconut and flour. Until you get a thick dough.
To prepare the dough, you need to mix sugar and butter together, add a banana cut into pieces. Using a whisk, turn everything into a homogeneous mass, gradually adding coconut and flour. The dough should not turn out liquid, but slightly thick, like thick sour cream.
Put small and not thick cookies on a baking sheet with baking paper or sprinkled with flour.
Bake at 180 degrees for twenty minutes, then dry at the lowest temperature until the cookies are golden.

Lenten cakes

Lean carrot cake

Delicious, tender, fragrant carrot cake made from simple ingredients.

Products:

One hundred and fifty grams of flour
100 grams of carrots
a handful of raisins or other dried fruits (optional)
a handful of walnuts (one hundred grams) (optional)
six tablespoons of vegetable oil
one hundred grams of sugar
sachet of vanilla sugar or vanillin
three teaspoons of baking powder

Topping:
fifty grams of flour
two tablespoons of vegetable oil
thirty grams of sugar

Make a sprinkle of the indicated products. Mix and grind with your hands until you get a crumb. Put in refrigerator.

We make dough. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder. Add vegetable oil. Whisk. Three carrots on a coarse grater, spread in the dough, add raisins and chopped nuts if desired. If the dough is thick, add a little water to make it like sour cream.
It is baked in a small form - eighteen centimeters. Put baking paper on the bottom. Pour out the dough. Sprinkle with crumbs. Bake in a hot oven (one hundred and eighty degrees) - about one hour. Check for readiness with a match. The cake can then be sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Lean Chocolate Coffee Cake

Products:

one glass of sugar
a third cup of sunflower oil
third cup cocoa powder
vanillin
one and a quarter glass of flour
a teaspoon of soda
a teaspoon of vinegar
a glass of coffee (or water)

COOKING:

In a bowl, mix dry ingredients: flour, vanilla, sugar, cocoa, soda and salt. Add water or coffee, vegetable oil and vinegar.
Beat everything.
Put in a hot oven at 180 degrees. Bake for about half an hour.
Lubricate the finished biscuit with jam or melted dark chocolate (if you find it without milk). You can also decorate with vegetable cream.

Super-healthy, super-diet raw (no-bake) lean persimmon and blackcurrant cake

For an 18 cm mold.

Products:

The basis:
¾ tbsp (80g) walnuts
12 pcs. (100g) dates
pinch of cardamom

(if you are afraid to do it on such a basis, then you can make shortbread lean - like brine cookies or poppy seeds, the recipes are given above. You can make such a cake in parallel with cookies)

Filling:
persimmon - 2 pcs
dates - 20 gr
cinnamon - 0.5 tsp
Water - 150 ml
agar-agar or pectin 1 tsp.
frozen blackcurrant - 100 gr (or any other berry)
agar-agar 1 tsp
Sugar
Defrost berries
Grind walnuts with a blender. Grind the dates too. Move with nuts, add a little cardamom, mix with a blender into a homogeneous mass. Cover the bottom of the form with parchment, spread the mixture along the bottom.

Place in the refrigerator for an hour and a half, then in the freezer.

If you are confused by such a base, then make shortbread lean dough, as in brine cookies or poppy seed cookies and bake the base.

We make persimmon jelly. Peel the persimmon from the skins, beat with a mixer or blender into a homogeneous puree. Add cinnamon and sugar to taste (you can use two dates instead of sugar).
1 tsp Agar-agar pour 150 ml of water. Bring to a boil with constant stirring.
Pour the agar into the persimmon puree. Remove the base from the freezer and pour the puree with agar on top. Put in the freezer.

fill
Take 150 ml of juice from frozen berries, which appeared during defrosting. Add sugar, but a little, so that it is sweet and sour. 1 teaspoon of agar pour fruit drink, bring to a boil and boil for 1 minute. Take the cake out of the freezer, put the berries on top, pour currant jelly.
Put in the refrigerator for three hours.

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

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

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

Basic principles of proper nutrition in fasting

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

Lenten menu for the week

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THURSDAY

Lent is a period of spiritual and physical cleansing. During fasting, it is necessary to refuse any dishes that contain meat, milk and eggs. However, if you know the recipes for lenten dishes for every day during fasting, you can provide yourself and your family with a complete and balanced diet. In this article you will find delicious and original recipes for lenten dishes with photos.

Lenten borscht

Borscht is a traditional and one of the most delicious first courses. Borscht is most often prepared on the basis of pork, however, during the fasting period, you can cook a vegetarian borscht, which in taste will not differ much from a meat-based dish.

Components:

• Potato - 5 pcs.
• Tomatoes - 2 pcs. or tomato juice - 1 cup.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Carrot - 200 g.
• Beets - 2 pcs.
• Cabbage - 300 g.
• Sunflower oil.
• Salt, sugar, vinegar, garlic and other spices - to taste.

Peel and cut vegetables. Finely chop the cabbage. Remove the skin from the tomatoes and chop with a blender. Onion and garlic cut into small cubes.

Place the potatoes in a saucepan, cover with water and put on fire. After 10 minutes, add cabbage to the potatoes.

Heat up a frying pan, pour vegetable oil. When it warms up, put the onion in the pan, fry for 2 minutes, adding the carrots. Fry until done. At the end of cooking, add the twisted tomatoes and bring to a boil.

Grate the beets, squeeze out the juice. Roast the beets, sprinkling with lemon juice or vinegar to preserve the rich color. Pour the juice into a saucepan, add a little vinegar. This juice must be poured into borscht at the very end of cooking.

Add beetroot, zazharka, salt, sugar and spices to the pan. Cook until done. Turn off the borscht by adding garlic, herbs and beetroot juice with vinegar. Serve with black bread, fresh onions, garlic and herbs.

Lenten cabbage rolls

If you can't decide what to cook in the post before Easter, recipes can be taken from the classic ones, only by cooking them without meat. An excellent recipe during fasting is cabbage rolls, in which vegetables should be put instead of minced meat. Lenten cabbage rolls are not inferior in taste to the classic ones, but they contain fewer calories and can be consumed even during Lent.

Components:

• Large cabbage - 1 pc.
• Rice - 150 g.
• Onions and carrots 200 g each
• Tomato juice - 200 ml.
• Dill, green onion - to taste.
• Sunflower oil, garlic, sugar, spices.

Divide the cabbage into sheets, and boil until soft. For medium-sized sheets, it will take about five minutes. Boil rice until tender and let cool. It is best to use round rice - it will provide the necessary stickiness.

Finely chop the onion, grate the carrot. Fry vegetables until tender. Mix rice, fried, chopped or dried garlic and dill. Add spices and salt.

The finished mixture must be laid out on sheets. Roll up the filling. Fry on both sides for 1-2 minutes. Transfer the cabbage rolls to a saucepan, pour over the juice, add spices and simmer for half an hour.

Stuffed cabbage served with green onions, dill and any lean sauce. As a side dish, boiled potatoes with dill are suitable for such a dish.

mushroom stew

Vegetables are the basis of nutrition during Lent. Mushroom stew is a great option for lunch or dinner. It consists of fresh mushrooms, vegetables, herbs and spices. The dish is tasty, nutritious and fragrant.

Components:

• Champignons or other mushrooms - 500 g.
• Onions and bell peppers 300 g each
• Tomato paste - 50 ml or tomato juice - 200 ml.
• Flour - 1 tbsp. l.
• Spices.

Mushrooms must be washed, cut into large pieces. If champignons are used, then the medium mushroom must be cut into four parts. Onions must be peeled, cut into large slices. Peel sweet pepper, cut into large cubes. Cut the garlic into slices.

Fry garlic and onion in olive or vegetable oil. After 2-3 minutes, add sweet pepper and fry for a few more minutes. Then add mushrooms and fry for 10 minutes.

It remains only to put tomato paste, a little flour, 300 ml species and bring to a boil. When the stew boils, add spices and salt. Simmer for 15 minutes on low heat. Serve with parsley, dill or other herbs to taste.

Pilaf with pumpkin, dried apricots and raisins

Slov is a fragrant and satisfying dish, for the preparation of which it is not necessary to use meat. In addition, dried apricots and other dried fruits give the dish an incredible taste. This lean dish will appeal even to those who love pilaf with meat.

Components:

• Brown rice - 300 g.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Carrots - 300 g.
• Pumpkin - 300g.
• Garlic - 2 heads.
• Seasoning for pilaf and salt.
• Raisins, dried apricots and other dried fruits - a handful.

Pumpkin and carrots should be peeled and cut into strips. Onion cut into cubes. Fry the vegetables one by one in vegetable oil. Pour into a cauldron, adding dried fruits, garlic and spices to it.

Rinse brown rice and fry in vegetable oil for a few minutes. Pour over the rest of the ingredients. It remains to add water or vegetable broth in such an amount that the liquid covers the components by 3 cm.

Cover and cook for 50-60 minutes. Brown rice takes longer to cook than usual, so if you cook pilaf with regular rice, the time should be reduced to 30 minutes.

Ready pilaf served with fresh herbs. As an addition to this dish, a fresh salad or vegetable cuts are best suited. Dried fruits give the dish a rich taste and aroma, so this pilaf is not inferior to a traditional dish with meat.

Barley porridge with olives and vegetables

Barley porridge is a fairly simple side dish. However, if you add vegetables, olives, bright spices and herbs to it, you can turn barley porridge into a full-fledged dish that can be consumed even during Lent.

Components:

• Perlovka - 200 g.
• Carrot - 1 pc.
• Onion - 150 g.
• Olives - 100 g.
• Sesame - 10 g.
• Water - 1 liter.
• Vegetable oil - 60 ml.
• Salt, pepper and other spices to taste.

Pearl barley should be washed, let the water drain. Fry in a dry frying pan until a pleasant aroma of pearl barley appears. Sesame should also be fried in a dry frying pan for a pleasant crunch.

Cut the carrots into thin slices, and finely chop the onion or cut into large cubes. Fry.

Place fried vegetables, sesame seeds, pearl barley in a saucepan and pour water. Cook until tender, adding salt, black pepper and other spices at the end of cooking.

Olives must be cut into thin slices and added to the porridge 10-15 minutes before the end of cooking. On average, the preparation of porridge takes 50 minutes. Serve porridge with fresh herbs or slices of fresh cucumbers.

Vegetarian curry

If you are looking for original Lenten dishes for every day of Lent, pay attention to the vegetarian curry. This is a spicy savory dish that will be the highlight of your Lenten menu. The original combination of vegetables and spices will surprise your friends and acquaintances with your taste.

Components:

• Vegetable frozen mix - 800 g.
• Almonds - two presses.
• Onion - 100 g.
• Ginger root - 20 g.
• Coconut milk - 1 cup.
• Garlic - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - 80 ml.
• Coriander, hot pepper, saffron, turmeric - to taste.

You can use any set of vegetables to prepare this dish. It may include sweet peppers, potatoes, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, asparagus and peas. The most important thing in this dish is the right set of spices. For those who like spicy dishes, you can use more hot peppers.

Fry the vegetable mixture in vegetable oil, add finely chopped onion. Additionally, add garlic and ginger, cut into thin slices. Add almonds, coriander, saffron, turmeric, chili, black pepper and other spices to taste to this mixture.

It remains only to add coconut milk, salt and simmer for 10-15 minutes. This dish is served hot. Additionally, you can decorate the curry with dill and parsley, and also serve with fresh vegetables.

Cabbage, orange and apple salad

A fresh salad is the best dish for those who fast or are fond of proper nutrition. Salad based on red cabbage, apples and oranges - a delicious combination and benefits. Its preparation takes a minimum of time. In addition, this salad can be both a main course and a great addition to cereals or boiled potatoes.

Components:

• Red cabbage - 400 g
• Apple - 200 g.
• Orange - 200 g.
• Olive or sunflower oil - 30 ml.
• Apple or grape vinegar - 30 ml.
• Black pepper and salt - to taste.

Peel apples and oranges and cut into thin slices. Shred the cabbage. Mix all the ingredients by dressing the salad with any vegetable oil and fruit vinegar. Salt and pepper. This salad is suitable as a main meal or addition to other dietary dishes.

Lenten cutlets

Great Lent is a test for every Orthodox person. Of course, meat cannot be replaced with vegetables, but tasty and crispy vegetarian cutlets will become a favorite dish during the fasting period.

Components:

• Cabbage - 1 pc.
• Semolina - 50 g.
• Onion - 100 g.
• Flour - 30 g.
• Garlic - ½ head.
• Salt, spices, dill - to taste.
• Breadcrumbs.
• Sunflower oil.

Boil cabbage for 10 minutes. Take it out of the water and let the water drain. Grind with a blender or meat grinder, and additionally squeeze out the liquid.

Grind onion and garlic with a blender or chop finely. Chop the dill with a hatchet or chop. Combine all ingredients, salt and pepper. Add semolina and flour. Let stand 10 minutes for the semolina to swell.

From the resulting mass, form cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs and fry in vegetable oil. Serve with vegetable salad or pickles.

Lenten cookies

If you are looking for delicious lean recipes for every day, pay attention to lean biscuits. It will be a wonderful dessert or appetizer during Lent. In addition, cookies do not contain sugar, so they can be part of diet food and children's menus.

Components:

• Oatmeal - 200 g.
• Rye flour - 2 tbsp. l.
• Green apples - 400 g.
• Carrots - 60 g.
• Walnut - 50 g.
• Cranberry - 40 g.
• Dates - 5 pcs.
• Freshly squeezed carrot or apple juice - 60 ml.
• Cinnamon and vanilla - to taste.
• Sesame - 2 tbsp. l.

Chop nuts and dates. Grate carrots on a coarse grater. Grind the apple with a blender or grate on a fine grater. Mix all the ingredients, adding spices, juice, cranberries, oatmeal and flour.

The resulting mass must be left for 20 minutes so that the flour and oatmeal absorb the juice. Form a cookie from the resulting mass, roll it in sesame seeds. Lay out on a baking sheet lined with parchment.

Bake for half an hour at medium temperature. Cookies can be eaten hot or cold.

Okroshka lenten

Despite the fact that okroshka is considered a summer dish, it can be cooked throughout the year. During the fasting period, okroshka can be prepared with salted or pickled mushrooms. It is best to cook such dishes with salted milk mushrooms or mushrooms.

Components:

• Fresh cucumbers - 400 g.
• Soaked apples - 2 pcs.
• Salted mushrooms - 150 g.
• Kvass - 1.5 liters.
• Green onions - 1 bunch.
• Dill - 1 bunch.
• Mustard, apple cider vinegar, salt - to taste.

Mushrooms must be thoroughly washed under running water and finely chopped. Peel the skin of fresh cucumbers and cut them into small cubes. Chop greens. Peel the apple from the peel and core, and also cut into small cubes.

Mix all ingredients and fill with kvass. To give okroshka a piquant taste and aroma, add a little apple or grape vinegar, mustard and black pepper. Salt to taste. Additionally, you can add boiled potatoes and fresh radishes to the okroshka.

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