For example, for a good start to the day, here you will find breakfast recipes for people who fast, for every taste, simple, easily digested by the body, not burdening it and energizing it for the whole working day.
On the first For lunch, we suggest preparing either fresh cabbage soup or aromatic mushroom soup... Or maybe you would like to try a hearty pickle soup with pearl barley? The first Lenten dishes and their recipes are at your service!
Don't forget to serve light meals with the Lenten menu for lunch. And as a snack after breakfast or for an afternoon snack, you can make a dessert salad of fruits and berries, an ice smoothie from fresh fruits whipped in a blender.
We will share with our readers recipes for homemade Lenten baking (large pies, miniature pies, bread, pancakes...).
It is during Lent that it is advisable to take out a bread maker from the far corner, if you have long forgotten about it, and prepare aromatic homemade bread in it, the methods for preparing which we provide you with. Here you will also find dough recipes for various baked goods, in which the ingredients will be only plant-based. At the same time, the dough will delight you with its splendor and excellent taste.
In fact, step-by-step photographs are not needed to prepare many Lenten dishes, because they (the dishes) are simple, accessible, very easy both in terms of the set of ingredients and the principle of their preparation. The reason they are lean is that they contain not only the simplest plant ingredients, but also preparing such food is easy, quick and simple.
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Together with us, the Lenten cuisine of your fast promises to be varied, rich in vitamins, tasty, “colorful,” digestible, pleasing to the eyes and cleansing for the whole body.
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A selection of 100 recipes for Lenten dishes, now you will always know what you can cook and eat during Lent.
Lenten kharcho soup includes rice, potatoes, onions, garlic, nuts, and tomatoes. Kharcho is richly decorated with greenery. It simply smells of sour tomatoes and spicy garlic. You'll lick your fingers!
It is very easy to prepare lean cabbage soup in a slow cooker. The peculiarity of the multicooker is that the vegetables do not boil in it, they remain dense and full of flavor. We will prepare cabbage soup from fresh vegetables.
Lenten dumplings are a versatile dish that can be served in broth, fried and served as an appetizer or side dish. I will fry the dumplings and the entire preparation of the dish will take me 30-40 minutes.
Lenten salad with mushrooms is prepared from champignons, blue onions, spinach, and pine nuts. Dressed with olive oil. The salad turns out fresh, aromatic, satisfying and healthy. Try it!
Lenten borscht with sprat is prepared very quickly and simply. For it you need to chop all the vegetables, fry them, throw them into the pan, add sprat in tomato and cook until tender. You'll lick your fingers!
You can cook Lenten pickle with barley in less than an hour. The rassolnik turns out rich, satisfying, and sour. The pearl barley will need to be pre-soaked for half an hour. And then it’s simple.
Lenten borscht with mushrooms is a fragrant and bright first course that will delight your home with an abundance of vegetables and different flavors. This includes not only beets and mushrooms, but also cabbage, beans, bell peppers, etc.
Lenten pancakes are easy to prepare. It’s very tasty to serve these pancakes with smoked salmon and a sprig of dill. The dish turns out nourishing, beautiful and should appeal to all potato lovers.
Lenten crab salad can be prepared from crab meat or lean crab sticks, add herbs, vegetables, and light yogurt to them. It will turn out tasty, satisfying, bright, beautiful and original. Let's try!
Shchi is a national Russian dish, tasty and loved by everyone. Lenten cabbage soup with mushrooms is good for a fasting day. They will restore strength and fill the body with vitamin C, which is abundant in cabbage.
Cooking Lenten gingerbread can turn into a most exciting activity. The dough is easy to prepare, they bake quickly, and I recommend coloring the gingerbread cookies with the whole family; children will especially enjoy it.
As you know, avocado is a very nutritious fruit. Therefore, during Lent, when fasting people lack nutrients, I suggest preparing a lean avocado salad. Both tasty and satisfying.
Lenten salad with squid is prepared from ready-made canned squid, fresh vegetables, herbs and spices. This salad is not only tasty, but also healthy. Plus, it's light and fresh.
Lenten borscht is prepared from vegetables in a slow cooker for two hours. The result is a very tasty thick borscht, filled with the aromas of vegetables. In the slow cooker they open up wonderfully and retain their shape.
If you want chebureks during Lent, don’t despair - they can be prepared with both Lenten filling and Lenten dough. I used lentil filling and it turned out very tasty.
Lenten strudel is prepared without oil. The result is a fragrant pastry with a lot of apple filling, which is ideal for tea drinking. This lean strudel takes about two hours to prepare.
Use this recipe and prepare such lean bean cutlets that no one will distinguish from meat ones. Very tasty and filling.
Bright, tender and aromatic Lenten carrot cutlets will diversify and decorate your table on fasting days. Tasty and healthy at the same time. I'm sharing the recipe.
Very appetizing lean flatbreads that can be served with almost any dish instead of bread. A simple recipe for Lenten flatbreads is relevant not only for fasting people, but also for vegetarians.
During Lent, you also sometimes want to treat yourself to aromatic pilaf - and this is quite possible if you replace meat with mushrooms! Recipe for cooking lean pilaf with mushrooms - for fasting days and not only.
Lenten coleslaw is very refreshing and light. A godsend for those who are losing weight - a minimum of calories due to cucumber and vinegar. It’s good to include it in a complex side dish for poultry or fish.
If you decide to fast, or just want light, low-fat food, then you should pay attention to this simple recipe for lean cabbage cutlets. Tasty and healthy!
Lenten dumplings with two types of filling - turnips and sauerkraut - are a budget dish that can satisfy a whole horde of hungry adults. A fantastically tasty dish, despite its cheapness.
Lent is the time to cleanse the body. But what to do if your stomach persistently demands rich soups? The simple answer to this question is Lenten solyanka. Well, how to cook it - read on.
Do everyone's favorite and well-known Lenten dumplings with potatoes need any introduction? Despite the cheapness of the ingredients, dumplings with potatoes are always a hit. I'm sharing the recipe.
If you decide to make pies during Lent, then you will definitely need a simple recipe for Lenten dough for pies. It’s quite easy to knead lean dough for pies - I’ll tell you how.
Lenten pies with potatoes are pies that contradict the laws of physics. You can eat more of them than physically fit into a person. Checked personally. A simple recipe for Lenten pies with potatoes - for you!
Lenten pies with cabbage are classic Russian pies that are usually prepared during Lent, although in principle they can be successfully prepared all year round. The recipe is extremely simple, worth a try.
Lenten cabbage soup is an excellent hot soup for those who are fasting or just want to have a fasting day. The cabbage soup is prepared simply and from available ingredients, but the results are simply delicious.
If you love beans, then you will probably like and find this recipe for stewed beans with tomatoes. A simple way to deliciously cook such a trivial product as beans.
Beet cutlets are an excellent low-calorie recipe for anyone who follows a healthy diet. They can be served simply with sour cream as an independent dish, or with any side dish.
Make this easy zucchini appetizer! I offer Algerian zucchini. Zucchini turns out spicy with a sweet and sour taste. All my friends like it, I recommend it!
The recipe for cooking potatoes in Greek will delight all vegetable lovers. This bright, beautiful and tasty dish will fit perfectly into a vegetarian menu, but it will also be quite appropriate on the table of meat-eaters! :)
Fried potatoes, mushrooms... And even sour cream, onions, and fresh herbs... Well, are your mouth watering? Then let's try to cook champignons with potatoes - millet, quickly, very tasty!
The easiest and fastest way to prepare beet salad is in this recipe. Minimum ingredients and lots of benefits!
Borscht with mushrooms and beans is a real storehouse of proteins for vegetarians and a very satisfying dish for those who are fasting. A classic recipe for borscht with mushrooms and beans - from our table to yours!
Rice with corn in a slow cooker will be an excellent side dish for meat or fish, or a completely independent dish on your everyday table. With a multicooker it’s easy to cook, and it’s a pleasure to eat!;)
This beautiful and bright salad can rightfully be considered off-season, but in the fall, when the tomatoes have not yet lost their summer aroma, it turns out to be especially tasty. White bean salad recipe - for you!
This is a simple but bright, beautiful and very tasty salad that does not conflict with the requirements of fasting and is suitable for dietary nutrition and vegetarian menus. Try it! :)
In fact, this wonderful salad is very similar to a vinaigrette, so this is a wonderful combination of sauerkraut, peas and beets, not only very tasty, but also healthy.
A wonderful tasty and healthy side dish that goes perfectly with meat or fish, but at the same time can be an independent dish for every day.
The classic recipe for Lenten gingerbread will be useful not only for Orthodox believers, but also for everyone who tries to limit themselves in the consumption of butter dough. Details are in the recipe!
A simple recipe for lean bread in a bread machine is relevant not only on days of fasting - it will be useful to everyone who monitors their health and weight, regardless of the time of year!
A simple recipe for breaded broccoli will enrich your menu with another light and tasty vegetable side dish. With sesame seeds and soy sauce - it's simply magical! :)
A light, tasty and very healthy carrot dish is suitable for lovers of vegetarian food, as well as those who fast or watch their figure.
Stewed cabbage with carrots is a universal dish that can be prepared both for holidays and on ordinary days. In addition, stewed cabbage with carrots can be served as a side dish.
Korean potatoes are not a hot dish or a side dish, but a delicious spicy salad. Lovers of everything “spicy” should definitely learn how to cook potatoes in Korean!
I think this recipe for making Lenten bean soup can be useful not only for those observing fasting. First of all, attention to vegetarians, but everyone else is welcome at our table! :)
The recipe for making Lenten pie with jam without eggs and dairy products will be useful to everyone who observes fasts and also monitors their health and weight.
A wonderful seasonal side dish of fresh vegetables that goes perfectly with any meat. You can also use it as an independent dish, in any case it is very tasty.
Vegetable cutlets can't be tasty? In fact, this is far from the case. Try making cabbage zrazy and you will be surprised how appetizing vegetables can be.
A simple, but no less tasty vegetable salad, which will be an excellent addition to meat and poultry dishes. So, the recipe for salad with cabbage and corn is a tasty, light and healthy dish!
Dedicated to lovers of tasty and healthy food - a simple recipe for salad with mushrooms and champignons with photos!
Beet cutlets are a wonderful alternative to meat cutlets. Moreover, they are much healthier than the latter!
I offer you a simple recipe for Armenian bean soup lobahashu - tasty, healthy and completely vegetarian! At the same time, it’s so filling that even inveterate meat eaters will appreciate it ;).
I suggest you learn how to cook bell peppers with vegetables, and another tasty and healthy dish will appear on your summer menu!
Carrots with cheese and garlic are a wonderful salad with excellent taste and beneficial properties. Plus, this salad is very easy to prepare.
Solyanka is not only a delicious soup, but also a wonderful cabbage side dish, the preparation of which, if you have a multicooker, turns into a real pleasure!
Probably every housewife has her own signature recipe for eggplant rolls. They wrap so many things in them - carrots, cottage cheese, cheese, herbs, tomatoes! - but my favorite thing is these nut rolls. Try it!
Cooking new potatoes in a slow cooker is easy and simple. This is the first dish that I mastered after buying a slow cooker. It turned out great - delicious golden-colored potatoes and all in one bowl!
Champignons are an indispensable product during Lent. There are many recipes for lean dishes made from champignons, and I want to offer you another one - a delicious and nutritious soup. Read the recipe!
For a light dinner or diet lunch, you can prepare stewed celery with vegetables - a simple and very tasty dish.
Beetroot cutlets are very healthy, tasty and satisfying. This dish will please everyone: from lovers of delicious food to people who want to lose a couple of extra pounds.
Many people love Korean asparagus. But usually the price for this salad on the market is quite high. Let's cook it ourselves! And as much as we want.
I bring to your attention delicious, aromatic potatoes with vegetables in a pot. You can prepare this dish from what you have in the refrigerator; the ingredients in this version can be replaced with others.
Salads with beans are always appetizing and satisfying. I suggest you prepare a bright salad that will not leave any gourmet indifferent. I promise it will be beautiful and delicious!
When you want not only healthy, but also tasty vegetables, try cooking spicy carrots with marinade. This dish will be an excellent side dish for meat.
Salad with boiled potatoes is great as a side dish. You can serve it with a meat or fish dish. Or as a snack.
I suggest you cook carrots in tomatoes at home. A universal appetizer - for sandwiches, as a dressing for first courses, and as a sauce for side dishes. And it’s also very tasty, healthy and fast!
Most vegetarians understand vegetables and their beneficial properties better than ordinary meat eaters. This vegetarian broccoli soup recipe was shared with me by a vegetarian friend. Very tasty.
White bean paste is one of the most delicious and healthy snacks I make for my family. The pate contains fresh herbs and lemon juice.
I personally prepare porridge with carrots at home very often; it turns out to be a painfully simple and satisfying dish, so I advise you to try it too. Great for all kinds of salads and cutlets!
Great Lent is 40 days of both spiritual and dietary abstinence. However, this is not the only post of the year. There are also Peter's Fast, the Assumption Fast, and the Nativity Fast. And each of them requires certain dietary restrictions.
During the weeks of fasting, many housewives are happy to limit themselves in food, following a diet for the sake of losing weight, but at the same time they are seriously worried about the diet of the rest of the family members. And for good reason - after all, many men and children resist the Lenten table and may reject another lunch consisting of porridge and boiled beets.
Contrary to the established opinion about crackers and water, meals during fasting can and should be varied and nutritious. To do this, meat, eggs and dairy products should be replaced with lean counterparts, and then lunch will no longer look unappetizing.
Here are 15 delicious dishes that you can prepare during Lent.
1. Oatmeal jelly - a replacement for yogurt
Not everyone likes oatmeal jelly, and almost no one prepares such a dish during Lent. Because of this, few people know that sour jelly is very similar to yogurt.
To prepare, you need to take a standard package of oatmeal (400 g) and a crust of rye bread. Place the ingredients in a two-liter jar and fill with cold water. The jar should be left for 12-24 hours, stirring occasionally.
Then strain the oatmeal through a sieve, pour the liquid into a saucepan and cook over low or medium heat. The mixture must be stirred constantly to prevent it from burning. Pour the hot jelly into jars and place in the refrigerator.
2. Rice with honey and nuts with lean milk
Lenten porridge can be made very tasty and nutritious without adding sugar to it. You can also cook porridge in water - the taste will not suffer much from this. If you are used to cereals with milk, you can take soy or peanut milk.
Peanut milk is easy to prepare – grind the nuts into very fine crumbs, add water, mix and strain.
Rice porridge needs to be salted (after cooking) and add honey and your favorite nuts. You can please your loved ones on holiday with such a healthy and tasty dish.
Even Lenten cookies can be tasty, healthy and satisfying.
For cookies you need oatmeal, frozen cranberries or jam, and vegetable oil. Oatmeal should be fried in sunflower or coconut oil, then placed in a sieve and allowed to drain off excess fat.
Grind the oatmeal in a blender (you don’t have to grind everything, depending on your taste), mix with the berries. Form the dough into flat cakes, place on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven until golden brown.
4. Broccoli stew with peas and avocado
This “green” stew will come in very handy during Lent. It will help replenish energy, as well as vitamins.
Take fresh broccoli, you can also add cauliflower to the dish. To add variety to the stew, add green beans.
When the broccoli, beans and green peas are cooked, you can add the avocado and season the dish with garlic sauce. Serve hot.
5. Nutella
What would breakfast be without Nutella? The classic version of this delicacy is not lean, as it contains milk powder. We offer an alternative recipe without the use of animal products.
To prepare, you will need whole hazelnuts, honey, cocoa powder and coconut oil. Hazelnuts need to be soaked overnight in cold water. In a blender, grind the hazelnuts into fine crumbs, add cocoa powder to taste, a little butter, just a little honey (or maple syrup) and vanilla if desired.
Grind to a paste and add to lean pancakes mixed with soy milk, or spread on a loaf. Yummy! Try it!
6. Sandwich with lean bean mayonnaise
Let's get back to our sandwich. A meatless sandwich should be satisfying to satisfy your hunger for a long time.
For the sandwich we will need lettuce, rye or whole grain bread, canned beans, cucumber, and tomato to taste. Cut the vegetables into small slices, mash the beans in a plate and add butter and salt. Now the beans will act as lean mayonnaise.
Grease the bun itself with bean mayonnaise, and place all the vegetables evenly on top. Cover with the second part of the bun (or bread). Bon appetit!
7. Kale chips
Lent has begun and you want some chips? Regular potato chips are considered lean, but they have little benefit.
You can make chips from white cabbage that you can eat without worrying about your health. To do this, you need to disassemble the head of cabbage into sheets, cut into pieces and grease with oil. Season the future chips with salt and pepper and place on a baking sheet. Place the baking sheet in the preheated oven and dry the chips until done.
This idea is popular not only during fasting, but also during weight loss. These candies are very sweet, they are perfect for tea, and will not harm your figure.
The easiest option is to grind nuts and dried fruits, and then roll the balls in coconut flakes. There is another option, no less tasty.
Take a dried fruit without a pit (for example, dried tangerines will not work, but prunes are just right) and cut a hole with a knife. Place a small nut like hazelnut, almond or peanut inside. The future candy should be coated with honey and then rolled in coconut flakes, sesame seeds or poppy seeds.
Such Lenten sweets will appeal to both adults and children. Be careful - the candy is too sweet!
In Rus', many different pies were prepared during Lent. The peasants added to the filling everything that was left from the meal: porridge, pickles and mushrooms. Pies were eaten instead of bread with soup and main courses.
Salty pies can be prepared with cucumbers, stewed fresh or sauerkraut, mushrooms, potatoes, buckwheat or rice. To make the pies tastier, the filling should be fried in a frying pan with vegetable oil.
Apples, pumpkin, carrots with honey, jam or frozen berries go great in sweet pies. Pumpkin pies are especially delicious, even though many people don’t like this vegetable.
Pie dough should be yeast: Put a teaspoon of yeast in a bowl, grind it with sugar, add a glass of water and knead into a thin dough. When it rises, you can add salt and flour to the desired thickness.
10. Lenten borscht
Lent is a time of restrictions, and many, especially men, want hearty food. Unfortunately, the classic borscht recipe contains meat and is not suitable for Lent. But what happens if you replace meat with mushrooms?
Borscht with mushrooms is more reminiscent of mushroom soup, and therefore it is necessary to add beets, parsley and beans to it. You need to prepare borscht in the same way as classic, removing only the stage of cooking the beef.
11. Dumplings
Meat and completely non-lean dumplings can be replaced with dumplings. They can be with anything: potatoes, mushrooms, cranberries or raspberries. On some major holidays, fish is allowed, so on such days you can cook dumplings with fish.
For the dumpling dough you only need flour, water, oil and salt. This dough does not require yeast.
All ingredients must be mixed carefully and thoroughly, gradually adding flour to salted water. You need to mix flour into the resulting dough until it stops “absorbing” it into itself.
This dish came to us from Lithuania. It has a very unusual taste and fills you up quickly. Be sure that you will like this porridge!
First you need to boil the pearl barley. Before cooking, pearl barley is soaked overnight. In the morning you can drain the water and cook it. Please note that this process will take a long time.
Next you need to grate the raw potatoes. Place barley and grated potatoes in a hot frying pan greased with vegetable oil. Fry the glass porridge until golden brown.
The Lithuanian dish must be served warm, first garnished with fresh herbs.
13. Salad with mushrooms and pine nuts
To prevent vitamin deficiency from taking away all your strength during fasting, you need to fortify yourself with a vitamin salad. The mushrooms in its composition will be saturated with healthy and high-quality vegetable protein.
To prepare the salad you will need blue onions, mushrooms, spinach and pine nuts. Finely chop the onion, pour boiling water over it and place in a bowl. Finely chop the spinach and mushrooms, add pine nuts. The salad can be dressed with garlic sauce or olive oil. You can also garnish it with arugula or basil.
14. Potato pancakes (cutlets)
Potatoes have long been used to prepare a variety of dishes: chips, French fries, casseroles. You can make cutlets from this product during Lent.
To prepare the cutlets you will need potatoes, flour, onions and carrots. Carrots need to be fried together with onions in a frying pan. Please note that these ingredients must be chopped very finely so that whole pieces of onion do not end up in the cutlets.
The fried mixture must be mixed either with mashed potatoes (make sure there are no lumps in it), to which no water has been added, or with finely grated raw potatoes. In the first case you will get pancakes (cutlets), in the second - classic potato pancakes.
From this “dough” you need to make small cutlets, then place them in a hot frying pan and fry until golden brown.
15. Salad with crab meat and corn
On some days, a fasting person can afford fish. Mostly such days are Sundays and holidays.
And as you know, crab sticks are made from surimi - minced white fish meat. Corn and sweet peppers are ideal for this product. The salad is perfect for a second course and will fill you up for a long time.
To prepare the salad you need crab meat or sticks, canned corn, red or yellow pepper and herbs. You can season the salad with mashed ripe avocado paste.
Come up with new and original ideas, try new dishes - and then the Lenten table will not look unappetizing or make you want to buy grilled chicken. Also, do not forget that children and the sick are allowed indulgence, and in addition, spiritual cleansing is more important than abstinence during fasting.
Bon appetit!
Lent is a great event for the Christian world. After all, religious people believe that these days the physical body comes into harmony with the spiritual world, is cleansed of sinful deeds and thoughts and draws closer to God.
From the article you will learn about four main things about what food you should eat at this time, and which it is better to abstain from. We will tell you what lean food is and give recipes for its preparation.
Four major Christian fasts
Begins on November 28 and lasts forty days, including January 6. On all days, except odd-numbered weekdays and Saturdays, you are allowed to eat everything except certain foods, and vegetable oil and fish are allowed on weekends and even-numbered days.
Lenten food during Lent, which begins 49 days before Easter Sunday, consists mainly of vegetables and fish, except in the 7th, 4th and 1st weeks.
The 58th day after Easter begins and ends on the Day of Peter and Paul. Vegetable oil and fish dishes are prohibited only on odd days of the week, except weekends.
The Assumption Fast lasts 14 days from August 14 to August 27. Vegetable oil is consumed on weekends, and fish can only be eaten on Apple Day, August 19.
What you can and cannot eat during Lent
During fasting, as a rule, it is prohibited to eat:
- on strict days - dairy products, eggs and fish;
- poultry and animal meat.
Allowed to eat:
- not rich;
- soy and bean products with a high content of vegetable protein;
- porridge with water;
- nuts, fruits, dried fruits;
- mushrooms;
- boiled, stewed, salted vegetables;
- vegetable oil and fish on permitted days.
On these days, significant attention is given to cooking, because lean food, the recipes for which we will give in the article, must contain not only permitted products, but also be healthy, tasty and nutritious.
First Lenten dishes
A Lenten menu must necessarily contain first courses, because eating dry food harms the digestive tract and causes heartburn and other gastrointestinal disorders. Not everyone knows, but the favorite first courses of many, solyanka and cabbage soup, can be prepared without meat and butter, and lean food will not lose its taste and aroma.
Solyanka
A day before cooking, soak 0.5 cups of red beans; cook them for one and a half to two hours in salted water. When the beans are ready, leave the broth for the hodgepodge, and place the beans separately in a deep plate. Cut 1 medium sized onion into cubes. Peel 2 pickled cucumbers and cut into cubes. Fry the onion a little, add cucumbers and continue frying along with the onion. Throw the vegetables into boiling bean broth and add 1 tablespoon of tomato paste. Remove the olives from the jar, cut into slices and, when the potatoes are half ready, add to the pan along with a bay leaf and two allspice peas.
Add 6-7 pcs. to 3 liters of boiling water. diced potatoes, add salt to taste. After 5-7 minutes, add shredded cabbage (a small head of cabbage), 1 piece of sweet pepper, diced. While the vegetables are cooking, fry a small carrot, onion and grated tomato in a frying pan. When the potatoes and cabbage are cooked, add the dressing, bay leaf and 3 black peppercorns to the pan. Serve with finely chopped parsley and grated garlic.
Second courses
Rice porridge with vegetables and mashed potatoes - delicious lean food - these dishes are very simple.
Rice porridge with vegetables
Rinse a glass of rice several times until the water becomes clear. Cut bell pepper (1 pc.), cut half a head of cauliflower into pieces and inflorescences, cut 1 small carrot into strips or thin slices. Pour 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil into a heated frying pan and add spices (cumin/cumin and cloves, after 10 seconds - turmeric). Add vegetables: cabbage, carrots, peppers and fry a little. Then add rice and fry for about 3 minutes. and pour in 2 glasses of water.
Wait until it boils, cut the tomato into cubes, throw it into a frying pan with rice and vegetables, pour in a can of green peas and put 1 bay leaf on top. Add pepper and salt to taste and simmer covered over low heat for 20 minutes. If the water has not evaporated during this time, cover again and cook until tender. Sprinkle chopped herbs on top.
Mashed potatoes
Peel and boil one and a half kg of potatoes. Pour the potato broth into a jar. Finely chop a medium-sized onion and fry in sunflower oil until golden brown. Mash the potatoes; if the mashed potatoes are very thick, add potato broth. Season with onions and serve.
Lenten salads
Lenten food during Lent presupposes a predominance of vegetables in the diet, so vegetable salads will be very relevant during this period.
The vinaigrette
Wash and boil 2 pcs. carrots, 4 pcs. potatoes, 1 pc. beets. Cool, peel. Peel the onion and cut all the vegetables into cubes. Cut three pickled cucumbers and two fresh ones into cubes. Add a can of peas, after draining the water. Greens, salt, pepper - to taste. Season the salad with 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Beet salad with nuts and dried fruits
Boil 1 beet. Pour boiling water over 100 g of raisins and/or prunes and set aside for 15-30 minutes, drain, rinse and dry. Peel the beets and grate them on a coarse grater. Cut the prunes into slices. Chop 3-4 walnuts and chop. Add 1-2 grated cloves of garlic, raisins, prunes, nuts, pour in 1-2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, sprinkle chopped dill on top.
Snacks
Bulgarian pepper
Wash a kilogram of bell pepper, remove the seeds, cut out the stalks and bake in the oven until golden brown. Remove the skin and cut into slices. In a separate bowl, mix 5 cloves of grated garlic, ½ teaspoon of salt, and a teaspoon of vinegar. Pour garlic sauce over the peppers, place in a jar with a tight-fitting lid and refrigerate for 24 hours.
Herring cocktail
Grate 2 tsp horseradish, crush 2 tbsp. l cranberries or lingonberries and mix with low-fat mayonnaise. Cut 1 red apple and 3 pickled cucumbers into strips or thin slices. Clean 2 pcs. lightly salted herring, remove the bones, cut into neat thin slices. Mix all ingredients. Cover the bottom of the dish with lettuce leaves, place the prepared herring mixture on top, and garnish with herbs.
Dessert
Desserts are the most delicious lean food, the recipes of which are so simple that cooking does not take much effort and time, and the result will delight both adults and children.
Fruit ice
Clear 3 pcs. kiwi, wash. Sort out a glass of strawberries, wash them, and get rid of the stems. Add 2 tbsp to a partial glass of water. l sugar and 2 tsp lemon juice. Mix. Grind the strawberries. Grind the kiwi in a blender.
Divide the sugar syrup into 2 parts: pour one half into the kiwi puree, the other into the strawberries. Fill small molds or disposable cups halfway with fruit puree, insert an ice cream stick into each mold, and place in the freezer for an hour. Remove the molds and add the remaining puree. You can combine kiwi and strawberries to make a striped recipe. And leave to cool until completely frozen.
Baked apples
Cut medium-sized apples (5-6 pcs.) into 2 parts, discard the core. Place in a baking dish in one layer, sprinkle with sugar on top (sprinkle 1 teaspoon in the middle, if the apples are sour, sprinkle more). If you have almond or coconut flakes, use them by dividing 2 tbsp. l for all halves of apples. Place in a preheated oven for half an hour. Baked apples are a lean food that can be eaten hot or cold.
Fruit salad with honey
If necessary, melt half a glass of honey by placing a jar of honey in hot water.
Wash and peel the fruit. Cut out the center of 1 large apple; 2 bananas, 4 tangerines, 1-2 kiwis and 1 pc. Peel the persimmons. Separate the grapes from the bunch, cut into two halves along with the plums, remove the seeds, peel 1 pomegranate, selecting the seeds. Cut apples and bananas into small slices, sprinkling with lemon juice to prevent the fruit from darkening. Cut the tangerine slices into pieces, and also cut the kiwi into small pieces. Mix the ingredients together, pour over the honey, stir again and sprinkle with pomegranate seeds.
Bakery
Many people mistakenly believe that baking is harmful to health, and it is not recommended to eat it during Lent, since it contains eggs and milk. However, cooking lean food in the oven without eggs and milk is quite possible.
Crazy Pie
Mix half a glass of flour with a glass of sugar, 0.5 tbsp cocoa, a pack of vanilla sugar, a pinch of salt and nuts (to taste), quench the soda with vinegar and add to the dry ingredients, mix. Pour 150 g of vegetable oil into the mixture, mix thoroughly, pour a glass of water and knead until smooth.
Pour the dough into a greased pan and spread evenly. Place in the oven for half an hour. While the cake is cooking, mix 3 tbsp cocoa, 3 tbsp sugar, ½ tbsp water, ½ tbsp. butter (since lean food is prepared without butter, you need to add vegetable oil to the glaze), and place in a water bath. Cook until the glaze thickens. Once the cake has cooled, pour the glaze over it, cover and set aside for a few hours.
Charlotte
Peel and finely chop six apples, sprinkle with lemon juice to prevent the apples from darkening, and sprinkle with sugar.
Mix a tablespoon of honey with ½ tbsp. sugar, ¼ tsp cinnamon, a pack of vanilla sugar and pour ½ tbsp boiling water. Stir until the sugar crystals dissolve. Pour in ½ tbsp. vegetable oil, continuing to stir. After mixing 300 g of flour with 2 tsp of baking powder and the liquid mixture, stir out the dough and pour onto a baking sheet. Place the apples in an even layer. Place the oven for 30-35 minutes.
Preparing Lenten food does not take too much time and requires minimal material costs, and this is another advantage of observing Christian traditions.
What dishes should you prepare for your household every day during Lent? Oil Week is over, which means the time has come for Lent - the strictest and longest of the year.
How to structure your diet so as not to violate its requirements? What can you eat during this time, and what should you avoid? Find answers in our article.
Basic principles of nutrition during Lent
Lent in 2018 lasts from February 19 to April 7. The essence of nutrition during fasting is not just limiting a certain category of foods.
The true meaning is to pacify the spirit by pacifying the body. That is, you limit yourself in food in order to test your willpower and fortitude.
Pregnant and lactating women, children, people suffering from serious illnesses or after operations do not follow the regimen.
Too strong dietary restrictions and overly zealous adherence to all the rules are fraught with serious negative consequences, so maintain a balance and do not overstep reasonable boundaries.
The upcoming fast is considered the strictest of the year. - In the first week (Monday to Friday), only cold dishes without vegetable oil are allowed.
- In general, the strictest days of fasting, in addition to the first week, are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from the second to the sixth week.
- The only thermally processed product that can be eaten these days is.
- But it must be lean - without milk or butter (even vegetable oil).
- On Tuesdays and Thursdays, hot food without vegetable oil and animal products is allowed.
- On Saturdays and Sundays, the diet can be expanded to include dishes with vegetable oil.
- But this does not mean that you need to eat monotonously and very sparingly. Spring is coming, and we all want vitamins, herbs, and fresh vegetables. Therefore, you should definitely include greens in your diet. Moreover, raw vegetables are allowed even on dry eating days.
- Pay attention to grains that you have not used before. Usually in our diet we use, at best, two or three types of cereals. But their range is much wider. In addition to the usual buckwheat, rice and oatmeal, it’s worth trying , barley, corn grits, pearl barley, millet, , lentils, wild rice.
- Be sure to include legumes and vegetables (cabbage, potatoes, , carrots, pumpkin, celery, bell peppers), mushrooms, fruits and nuts, seaweed, pasta (which does not contain eggs), lean sauces and drinks, dried fruits and .
Our recipes will make your fast satisfying Lent cuisine - 5+ first courses
Lentil soup
You will need:
- 2.5 liters of water
- 0.5 kg lentils
- 2 onions
- 1 large carrot
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Bay leaf
- 2-3 cloves of garlic
Lentil soup Step-by-step preparation:
- Wash the vegetables, cut them and cook with lentils and bay leaves for three hours.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Add finely chopped garlic before finishing cooking.
- If the soup is too thick, you can add a little water to taste.
Chowder
You will need:
- 5 medium sized turnips
- Parsnip root
- Parsley root
- 1 onion
- Allspice peas to taste
- Cloves to taste
- Bay leaf
- head of garlic
- A bunch of any greenery
Repevitsa Step-by-step preparation:
- Place chopped turnips, parsley and parsnips in a saucepan with boiling water and cook until tender.
- At the end of cooking, add the head of garlic crushed in a mortar, bay leaf, salt and spices.
Lenten cabbage soup with mushrooms
You will need:
- 0.5 kg sauerkraut
- 30 g dried porcini mushrooms
- 2 onions
- 3 potatoes
- 1 carrot
- 1 parsley root
- 1 turnip
- 3 bay leaves
- head of garlic
- Salt and allspice to taste
Lenten cabbage soup with mushrooms Step-by-step preparation:
- Boil mushrooms in three liters of broth.
- Add chopped potatoes and finely chopped onion.
- Send carrots, turnips and parsley there.
- Squeeze out excess liquid from the sauerkraut and add to the pan.
- At the end of cooking, add crushed garlic, bay leaf, salt and allspice.
Oatmeal soup without oil
You will need:
- 2 liters of water
- 2 potatoes
- 1 carrot
- 1 onion
- 0.5 cups oatmeal
- Dried herbs to taste
- Salt to taste
Oatmeal soup Step-by-step preparation:
- Place the chopped potatoes in boiling water, after a few minutes add finely chopped onions, carrots and dried herbs.
- Add salt, add oatmeal and cook for another 5-10 minutes.
Millet kulesh
You will need:
- 8 potatoes
- ¾ cup millet cereal
- 2 onions
- 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
- Dried herbs
- Salt to taste
Millet kulesh Step-by-step preparation:
- Place the potatoes, cut into slices, into boiling water.
- Bring to a boil, add millet and cook until tender.
- 10 minutes before the end of cooking, add onions fried in vegetable oil.
- Sprinkle with dried herbs before serving.
Main dishes for the Lenten menu
The main dishes for fasting for every day are easy to prepare in. So, I often prepare mashed peas and potatoes with zucchini.
You will need:
- 4 potatoes
- 1 zucchini
- 1 onion (preferably sweet varieties)
- 2 cloves garlic
- A couple of tablespoons of olive oil
- Salt, pepper - to taste
- Fresh herbs for serving
Potatoes with zucchini in a slow cooker Step-by-step preparation:
- Peel the prepared potatoes and cut into cubes. Cut the zucchini into half rings or cubes.
- Chop the onion and fry in a slow cooker in olive oil. Send vegetables, spices, and salt there.
- Set to “Stew” or “Simmer” mode (depending on your model) for 40-50 minutes.
You will need:
- 0.5 kg champignons
- 1 cup rice
- 1 carrot
- 1 onion
- 2 glasses of water
- Vegetable oil for frying
- Salt and spices to taste
Step-by-step preparation:
- Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots and fry in a multicooker bowl in vegetable oil.
- Add sliced mushrooms there too. Fry everything together for a few minutes, then add salt, add spices and add rice to the mixture.
- Carefully pour in water so that the vegetable and rice layers do not mix. Cook in the “Pilaf” mode, then the equipment will do everything itself.
- Serve the finished dish, garnished with chopped herbs.
Oatmeal cutlets
You will need:
- Half a glass of boiling water
- 1 cup oatmeal
- 3-4 champignons
- 1 potato
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- Salt, spices to taste
- Oil for frying
Oatmeal cutlets Step-by-step preparation:
- Pour boiling water over the oatmeal in a saucepan and leave, covered, to soak. 20-30 minutes will be enough.
- Wash the peeled potatoes well and grate them. Grate the onion in the same way.
- Cut the champignons into cubes, chop the greens and pass the garlic through a garlic press (you can grate it on a fine grater).
- Mix all ingredients, add salt and pepper. The finished mass should be moderately liquid - so that you can scoop it up with a spoon.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry, spooning them into the hot oil.
- Fry over medium heat until a beautiful golden brown crust forms.
- After turning over to the second side, fry over medium heat for a minute, then cover the pan with a lid and fry the cutlets for another 3-5 minutes over low heat.
- You can serve the cutlets with mashed potatoes, boiled peas or fresh vegetables.
Lent dishes for every day - salads and sauces
Dishes without vegetable oil that can be cooked are first of all.
The dressing for them can be lemon juice, a mixture of vinegar and sugar, guacamole, tomato sauce.
You will need:
- 2 avocados
- 1 clove of garlic
- Salt and black pepper to taste
- 2 tsp. lime or lemon juice
Step-by-step preparation:
- To prepare guacamole sauce, beat the pulp, garlic clove, salt, black pepper and lime or lemon juice in a blender.
- If desired, you can add other spices, any pepper or herbs that you like to the mixture.
Tomato sauce
You will need:
- 3 tbsp. l. tomato paste
- 3 cloves garlic
- Adjika to taste
- Half a bunch of finely chopped greens
- Salt to taste
Tomato sauce Step-by-step preparation
- To prepare lean tomato sauce, mix tomato paste, finely chopped garlic, adjika, salt and finely chopped herbs.
Spicy ginger sauce
You will need:
- 60 ml rice vinegar
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 small shallot
- 2 tbsp. l. grated fresh ginger
- 2 tbsp. l. soy sauce
Ginger sauce Step-by-step preparation:
- Grind all ingredients to a puree and add to dishes to taste.
Mustard sauce
You will need:
- 100 grams mustard powder
- 4 tbsp. l. natural vinegar
- 0.5 tsp. salt
- 2 tbsp. powdered sugar
- Cinnamon to taste
- Cloves to taste
- Nutmeg to taste
Step-by-step preparation:
- The first step is to prepare a paste from mustard powder.
- To do this, brew it with a small amount of boiling water and stir quickly to form a thick paste.
- When there are no dry lumps of powder left, we slowly begin to add more boiling water.
- In total we will need about two glasses of water. Leave the poured mustard to soak for a day.
- Then drain off the excess water. This must be done carefully so as not to “disturb” the mustard grounds that have settled at the bottom of the container.
- Add all the other ingredients to the resulting paste, leave for another 3-4 hours and then you can use it.
- The sauce should be stored in a tightly closed jar.
You will need:
- Pulp of one apple
- Half a can of canned pineapple
- 0.5 cups orange juice
Step-by-step preparation:
- An unusual apple-pineapple sauce is perfect for fruit or vegetable salads.
- To prepare it, mix the pulp of one apple, a cup of pineapple pulp and half a glass of orange juice in a blender.
Raw beet snack
You will need:
- 3 medium beets
- 1 onion
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 tsp.
- 0.5 tsp. ground red pepper
- 0.5 tbsp. l. natural vinegar
- 0.5 tbsp. l. Sahara
- 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
Raw beet snack Step-by-step preparation:
- To compensate for the lack of vitamins, I often cook beets. Try the beetroot salad with spices too.
- Wash and peel raw beets. Grate, add salt and set aside. Mix sugar and vinegar in a bowl, then combine with grated beets. Leave to marinate for 2 hours.
- After the beets have been pickled, drain off the resulting juice.
- Fry the onion in vegetable oil until it turns dark golden brown and remove from the pan.
- In the future, we will only need the remaining aromatic oil without onions.
- Sprinkle red pepper, ground cilantro seeds and minced garlic over the beets. Pour hot oil over everything.
- Mix well and the salad is ready. In the same way, you can make this appetizer with carrots or cabbage, or you can try making an assortment by mixing several types of vegetables at once.
Tender bean pate
You will need:
- 200 grams of mushrooms
- 100 grams of dry beans
- Dill to taste
- 1 onion
- 1 medium sized carrot
- 1 tbsp. spoon of olive oil
- Salt to taste
- Nutmeg, black pepper, dried basil - to taste
Step-by-step preparation:
- Boil the beans and let them drain. Fry the onion in half rings in oil, add grated carrots, washed and chopped mushrooms.
- Fry everything together for a few minutes, then cover the pan and simmer a little more over low heat.
- Combine the boiled beans, vegetable mixture, salt and spices and beat the pate well with a blender (you can pass it through a fine mesh meat grinder twice).
- Press the pate tightly into the mold and leave for several hours until it cools completely and the ingredients become friends.
Lent dishes for every day - sweet recipes
So that at the end of the fast all your thoughts do not come down to food, periodically prepare sweets.
For example, according to one of the recipes below.
Crackers with flax seeds
You will need:
- 150 grams of flour
- 60 ml cold water
- 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
- 3 tbsp. l. flax seeds
- 1 tsp. salt
- 0.5 tsp. baking powder
- 2 tbsp. l. Sahara
Crackers with flax seeds Step-by-step preparation:
- Mix all dry ingredients, mix oil and water separately, pour into flour mixture and knead well.
- The finished dough should be thick, like dumplings. Place the dough in a bag for 15-20 minutes, then roll it out into a thin layer 3-4 mm thick.
- The dough is rolled out very thin and cut into diamonds or squares with a knife.
- It is better to do this immediately on baking paper so that you can immediately bake without transferring it from the table to a baking sheet.
- Bake in the oven at 200⁰C (preheat the oven in advance). Check the readiness of the cookies by their appearance - the crackers should be browned.
- In addition, you can add any nuts or seeds that you like to cookies.
Sea buckthorn marmalade
You will need:
- 250 grams of sea buckthorn puree
- 5 grams agar-agar
- 100 grams of water
- 100 g sugar
Sea buckthorn marmalade Step-by-step preparation:
- In a saucepan or thick-bottomed saucepan, soak the agar-agar in water and leave to soak. Meanwhile, in another saucepan, boil the mixture of berry puree and sugar.
- Combine both liquids in a saucepan and bring everything together to a boil.
- Boil for 2-3 minutes over low heat, stirring constantly. The mass in the saucepan will be quite viscous.
- Pour the finished marmalade into molds and leave to harden in a cool place.
You will need:
- 200 ml soy milk (can be nut or rice)
- 350 ml coconut milk
- 80 grams cocoa powder
- 200 grams of dried dates
- 2 tsp. starch
- A pinch of salt
Diet ice cream Step-by-step preparation:
- Remove the pits from the dates, pour coconut milk over the pulp, add salt and boil.
- Add cocoa and beat the mixture in a blender until smooth. If desired, the mixture can be strained through a sieve, which will make the ice cream smoother, but this is not necessary.
- Return the mixture to a low heat.
- Mix starch and cold soy milk, add to the mixture that is already heated on the fire and boil everything together.
- Cool and freeze. If you have an ice cream maker, your worries end here, just freeze the mixture in it according to the instructions for your unit.
- If you work manually, like me, you will need to put the cold mixture in the freezer and beat it with a fork every half hour.
- In total, you will have to stir 9-10 times (that is, the first 4 hours of freezing).
In addition, you can eat any jams, fruit drinks and fruit purees.
Videos about dishes during Lent for every day will be useful for novice cooks, because with their help you can see the preparation of dishes step by step.
