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

Most people who decide to keep fast simply refuse products containing animal fats, primarily meat, poultry, butter, milk and eggs. And on some days, and even 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 let's talk about recipes in which we will not use, just animal fats. And such recipes are actually quite a lot. You can cook a lot of delicious dishes without using meat, and at the same time to fully eat and most importantly, do not feel hunger.

At the same time, you should try to ensure that each dish contains a lot beneficial substances, trace elements, vitamins. Fasting lasts a long time, we all work, learn, and it is important that we have enough strength and energy for all this.

Therefore, in today's menu, such recipes and selected - nourishing, wholesome, and most importantly tasty.

Lenten menu:

  Pancakes for breakfast with flax flour

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

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

We will need:

• wheat flour - 1 cup
• flax seed - 1 tbsp. a spoon
• soy or almond milk - 250 ml.
• sugar - 1 tbsp. a spoon
• baking powder - 1 tsp
• soda - 0, 25 tsp
• salt - 0.25 tsp
• apple vinegar - 1 tsp
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon
• vegetable oil - for frying

Preparation:

1. Flaxseed grind in a coffee grinder into flour. Then pour it 2.5 tbsp. spoon flour and let stand for 15 minutes. We will get a thick jelly-like mass, which will replace our eggs.

2. Sift the flour in a deep bowl with baking powder.

3. Add salt, sugar and soda and mix.

4. Soy or almond milk mixed with vinegar. We will have a fermented milk product replacing kefir.

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

If the dough turns thick, you can add some warm water. If you want to make pancakes thin, make the dough thinner.

6. Heat the griddle over high heat, then brush with oil and let it warm. Pour a portion of the dough and bake first on one side, then on the other, until rosy.

7. Serve can be watered with honey. To eat with pleasure!

  Salad of baked pumpkin and olives (olives)

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

We will need:

• pumpkin pulp - 300 gr
• rukolla or leaf lettuce - 100 gr
• olives (pitted olives) - 50 gr
• green onions - 2 pcs
• oregano, dried - pinch
• marinade from olives - 1 tbsp. a spoon
• olive oil - 1 - 1, 5 tbsp. spoons
• pepper - to taste

Preparation:

1. Put the oven on for warming up, we will need a temperature of 180 degrees. Meanwhile, peel the pumpkin and cut it into 2 to 2 cm cubes. Sprinkle it with a small amount of freshly ground pepper for aroma and sprinkle 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, let it drain and dry with a paper towel. Then put on a large flat plate.

4. Add pumpkin, sliced ​​rings of olives or olives, chopped finely onions, and sprinkle with oregano.

5. For dressing, mix the remaining olive oil with the marinade from the olives and pour over the salad. Gently mix and eat with pleasure!

Marinated beet snack

We will need:

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

Preparation:

1. Rinse 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 cooked beets and cut into thin strips.

3. Onions cut into very thin half rings.

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

5. Sterilize glass jars, for this it is enough to scald them with boiling water. And tightly fill them with beets. At the top leave a little space for the oil. Pour it into the jars, it should cover the beets about 2 cm.

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

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

Green Pea Puree Soup

We will need:

• frozen green pea  - 450 gr
• potato - 4 pieces
• celery - 2 stalks
• carrots - 1 pc
• onion - 1 pc
• dried mint - 1 tsp
• salt, pepper - to taste
• vegetable oil
• toast for serving

Preparation:

1. Wash potatoes, onion and carrots and clean. Cut potatoes into small pieces, onion into small cubes, grate carrots.

2. Celery finely chopped. Green peas to defrost.

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 another 10 minutes.

4. In a pan, warm the butter and fry the onion to golden brown, then add the carrots and put it all together for another 5 minutes.

5. Then put the contents into the pan to the vegetables, add mint, salt and pepper to taste. Boil all together 5 - 7 minutes.

6. Grind the vegetables in the soup with an immersion blender until mashed. Serve with croutons that you can cook yourself.

Soups - mashed potatoes are very tasty and nutritious. In addition to this soup can be cooked, and you can use it both fresh and frozen.

And also can be cooked. If you have frozen in your freezer forest mushroomsthen you have a healthy lunch. And if the stocks are not prepared, or there is nothing left, then this soup will turn out very tasty using champignons. Fortunately, they are now sold in both fresh and frozen form all year round.

In addition to soups - mashed potatoes can also be prepared and ordinary soups. And 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 such delicious as soup with lentils. Such soups are tasty and nutritious, both with and without the use of meat products. And it is not by chance that legumes are rich in protein, it is just a storehouse of useful vitamins and trace elements.

  Lentil soup

Unfortunately, few people are now preparing dishes with lentils. And in vain, it is not only delicious dishes, but also also the most useful. Today we’ll have a potato casserole with lentil mince in the menu, and now the soup.

You can cook this soup with meat, it is delicious, and you can cook it in the post. And this does not affect the taste.

We will need:

• green lentils - 1 cup
• potato - 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. a spoon
• spices - to taste
• salt, pepper - to taste
• vegetable oil - 3 - 4 tbsp. spoons
• greens for feeding

Preparation:

1. Sort out the lentils and rinse thoroughly. It is necessary to go through it, because there may be small pebbles in it.

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 small pieces. Carrots and celery in fine straws, onion in small cubes or thin half rings. Garlic chopped. Cut half of lemon into thin slices.

3. Heat 1.5 - 2 spoons of butter in a pan and fry the potatoes in it on medium heat. Frying time should be about 10 minutes. At the same time it must be periodically stirred.

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

5. On the same pan, pour the remaining oil and fry the onions first, then the carrots with celery. The time of passerings will be 5 - 7 minutes. 2 minutes before the readiness to add spices. Ground mash and coriander work well for mash. And you can also add paprika, it will give good color  and add flavor.

6. Add a tomato and fry all together for another couple of minutes. If you add shop tomato paste, then add a little water, as it is thick, and will burn in a pan. If you add a grated tomato, or, then water will not be needed.

7. Stewed vegetables with tomato in a saucepan with soup. Pour in soy sauce and add sliced ​​lemon. Let it boil and boil it all together for 15 to 20 minutes.

8. 5 - 7 minutes until ready to salt. After turn off the heat, let stand and infuse for 10 - 15 minutes.

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

In Turkey, lentil soup - chorba is mashed. Therefore, if you wish, you can also make a puree soup out of it by turning the contents into an immersion blender.

I must say that this kind of soup is getting thick, they really have a spoon. They simultaneously replace both the first and second. They give a great sense of satiety and after them for a long time you do not want to eat. And about the taste, it's even better not to speak, as it is impossible to describe in words. Just cook once, and you will understand everything yourself.

  Granola

Granola is a homemade muesli made from oatmeal, nuts, dried fruit and honey. This tasty and healthy breakfast is often cooked in America, and recently it has become very popular with us. And it is not by chance that granola is just a storehouse of various vitamins, microelements and useful substances that have an excellent effect on metabolism. And such a product will definitely not be superfluous in the post.

We will need:

• oatmeal - 300 gr
• nuts mixture - what to eat - 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 tsp
• raisin - 100 gr
• flax seed - 1 tbsp. a spoon
• salt - 0, 5 tsp

Preparation:

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

2. Squeeze the juice out of the orange should make 150 ml and mix it in a saucepan with honey and butter.

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 pour oatmeal, add sunflower seed and pumpkin, as well as almond petals and chopped nuts.

5. Pour the honey mixture into the bowl and mix so that all the dry ingredients are evenly covered.

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

7. Warm the oven to 180 degrees and place a baking tray in it. Bake 40 - 50 minutes. Every 10 minutes to get and mix. It is necessary that all ingredients are evenly baked.

In the same way cooked bars - muesli. If you want to cook them, then you need to mix the contents only once. When the mass is ready, give it a little cool 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 reached.

9. Allow to cool, add raisins and flaxseed. Stir and transfer to a jar for storage. Store no more than two weeks.

10. Eat for breakfast, serving with milk.

And below is another recipe that you might also need.

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

  Millet porridge with fruit

We will need:

• millet croup - 0,5 cups
• sugar - 2 tsp
• salt - pinch
• ground cinnamon - pinch
• pear (you can any dried fruits) - 1 pc (200 gr)
• apple - 1 pc
• parsley or mint

Preparation:

1. Thoroughly rinse the millet a large number  cold water. Then pour it into the pot and pour cold waterso that it completely covers the cereal. Boil. Then drain the water and rinse the millet under running water.

2. Again fill the millet with water, this time we will need 1.5 cups. Bring to a boil, salt to taste, then reduce the heat and cook on low heat for 20 minutes. During this time the porridge should be completely ready.

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

4. If you use fresh fruit, they must be cleaned from the seeds and cut into slices. If you use dried fruits, they must first be boiled in a small amount of water so that they are steamed out.

You can also use any canned fruit.

5. Put sliced ​​or steamed dried fruits in a plate. Put millet porridge on top. Sprinkle with cinnamon, pour over honey.

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

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

And you can cook rice without millet. Very tasty it is obtained with vegetables, with onions and carrots. This, delicious, fragrant and very satisfying. My son is a vegetarian, and I often cook such a pilaf for him.

And in addition to rice and millet, a tasty 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 tsp

Preparation:

1. Barley rinse thoroughly and soak in 1 liter of cold water for several hours, and you can overnight.

2. Wash and clean the pumpkin from the peel and seeds. Then cut into cubes 2 to 2 cm.

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

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

5. Onion cut into small cubes. Fry it in a little oil in a thick-walled pan for about 4 minutes.

6. Add a pearl barley to the bow, from which all the water was previously drained and rinsed under running water. Add crushed garlic and 1 liter of boiling water. Boil on low heat for 20 minutes until complete evaporation of all liquid.

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. Place on plates and sprinkle with the remaining thyme.

If you do not have thyme, then do not worry, you can use basil or parsley. Or simply use dry herbs, such as Provence. By the way, they also contain thyme.

  Pumpkin with champignons and celery stewed in a skillet

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

Preparation:

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

2. Cut the pumpkin into 2 by 2 cm cubes.

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

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

5. Fry the sliced ​​mushrooms in a separate pan. I use champignons, but you can use any fresh or frozen mushrooms.

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

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

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

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

  Lentil Potato Casserole - Shepherd's Pie

Everyone loves, and as soon as it is not cooked. We prepared it, and even in several different versions. But they all prepared with minced meat. And today we have a fast menu, so I have an excellent recipe for you, tested. When you eat such a cooked casserole right away, you will not understand that it is vegetarian, so 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 at it 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 pieces (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

Preparation:

1. Peel and boil potatoes until ready in salted water. Pour broth into a separate pan.

2. Rinse lentils in running water, add water, salt and cook until ready for 30 minutes. Lentils are best used green.

3. Peel and dice the onions. Cabbage cut into strips.

4. Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry onions on it until golden brown. Then add the cabbage, fry briefly and pour the broth. Cover and simmer until tender.

5. At the end of the quenching add a tomato to the pan and put it all together for another 5 minutes.

6. Then add lentils, and stew all together.

7. Potatoes with mashed potatoes. Not in the post, you can add a little butter, milk or hard cheese. But we are preparing in 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. Lubricate the bottom and sides of the form with vegetable oil and lay out half the mashed potatoes.

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

10. Top with the remaining mashed potatoes.

11. Heat the oven to 180 degrees, then put the mold into it and bake for 25-30 minutes, until the surface of the casserole turns red. In order that the crust was even ruddy, you can top grease with vegetable oil.

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

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

  Dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms

Well, and how without dumplings? This is a favorite dish that is used not only in the post. And we have already prepared, very tasty and delicious. By the way, the recipe also gives the option of making an excellent dough.

And today we will make the filling more complicated and will prepare dumplings with mushrooms too. Mushrooms are known to be pure protein. And in the post, 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 prepare everything differently.

We will need:

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

Preparation:

1. Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes or small slices. Pour a small amount of water, it should only slightly cover the potatoes. Bring to a boil and cook for 20 minutes. Water while salt is not necessary.

2. Drain the potato broth into a separate saucepan and salt to taste. It should get about 500 ml. broth.

3. If you use salted or pickled mushrooms, then they should be thrown in a colander, so that the glass is superfluous. Then cut them into small pieces.

If you use fresh mushrooms, they must first cut into pieces and fry on a small amount of oil.

4. Crush potatoes in mashed potatoes, you can use a blender for this. Then add the mushrooms and chopped dill. Also it is necessary to salt and pepper. If the mushrooms are salty, then it may not be necessary. In any case, rely on your taste.

Stir the filling.

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

When all the flour has been added, the dough should be laid out on a table sprinkled with flour and carefully kneaded the dough, kneading it for at least 5 - 7 minutes. It should turn out to be sticky, but don't let it frighten you. Cover the dough with a film or a bowl and let stand at room temperature for 15 to 20 minutes.

6. On the table, pour in the flour, put the dough once again, then cut off the piece and roll a 2-3 cm cord from it. Then cut it into small pieces 2 to 3 cm long, depending on whether large or small vareniki You will cook.

7. From each piece of hands to form a small cake, flattening her hand. Then roll out thin small tortillas.

8. Lay out the filling and connect the edges, while you can fold them with a pigtail or simply cut the edges with denticles.

9. Pour water into a large saucepan and bring it to a boil, add salt. Carefully, put the dumplings one by one 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. Now we need to turn down the heat and boil them for another 2 minutes.

10. Arrange with a slotted spoon on a dish and serve.

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

  Potato gnocchi with pumpkin

Gnocchi are such Italian dumplings, which use flour as ingredients, semolinapotato 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 glasses
• olive oil - 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons
• nutmeg - pinch
• fresh greens
• salt, pepper - to taste

Preparation:

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

2. Pour the broth into the bowl and chop the vegetables into a mashed potatoes using a blender. Let them cool slightly.

3. Rinse greens, dry and divide into two parts. Garlic clean and grind.

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

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

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

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

8. In a large saucepan, warm the water, salt it and put gnocchi into it. Stir with a noisy so that they do not stick to the bottom. After they come up, cook for three more minutes.

9. When serving, sprinkle gnocchi with oil, sprinkle with garlic and the remnants of fresh greens.

  Peas 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 decoration

Preparation:

1. Sesame grind in a coffee grinder into flour, add a spoon olive oil  and mix. We will have tahini paste, it is the main ingredient for hummus. Sometimes it can be bought in the store, but it is sold very rarely from us.

2. Peas to soak for the night in cold water. Then rinse it in running water and place in a saucepan. Pour water to the top, bring to a boil, then drain it.

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

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

5. Cook the chickpeas with cold water, put aside three full tablespoons, and put the rest in the bowl of the blender and chop the mashed potatoes, adding sesame paste and a little broth from the peas.

6. Add the two remaining and chopped garlic cloves, squeeze out the lemon juice and pour in the remaining oil. Beat the mixture until it is mashed with a light color.

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

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

  Lean buckwheat cutlets

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

The cutlets taste like they are completely meat.

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

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

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

I want to say thank you to the author of the video for this recipe. Cutlets on it are amazingly tasty. And indeed, immediately and you will not understand what they are made of.

And for the post it is just the most, that neither is the right recipe. So take it to the piggy bank and cook with pleasure!

  Apple Muffins

We will need:

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

Preparation:

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

2. Allow to cool slightly, then use the spoon to remove all the pulp. Cut the banana and crush it all with a fork until mashed.

3. Add the vegetable oil and mix.

4. In a separate bowl, mix the sifted flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and cinnamon. Very tasty muffins will be obtained if you add to the dough also dried fruits with nuts or seeds, or one or the other.

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

6. Spread the prepared molds for muffins with vegetable oil and fill them in 2/3 parts. Bake for 30 minutes at 180 degrees.

7. Get out of the molds and serve to the table.

  Vitamin Smoothie

By the same principle as this recipe, you can make 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

Preparation:

1. Wash all fruits. Squeeze the juice from oranges and grapefruit. Bananas and mangoes are peeled and cut into smaller pieces.

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

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

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

Here we have this menu today.

Along with simple and everyday dishes like dumplings and pancakes, I tried to give less well-known recipes - hummus, gnocchi and granola. So your Lenten breakfasts, lunches and dinners will turn out with them even more diverse and tasty.

I hope that today's recipes you like, and cooked for them, you will not go hungry. All recipes have turned out as on selection - nourishing, nutritious and very tasty.

Bon Appetit! And fast for HEALTH!

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Now, when we remember our roots and traditions, many people observe Orthodox fasts, trying to stick to the lean menu; delicious lean dishes for every day and holiday, the best recipes  which we bring to your attention, cooking is not so difficult.

General principles of the lean menu

Recall that during the fasting period, believers eat only food of plant origin, excluding from the diet meat, poultry, dairy products, eggs. As for fish and seafood, they are allowed on certain days of fasting, and on some days are prohibited; You can clarify this question in the Orthodox calendar. The same applies to other subtleties: whether vegetable oil (Churchly Slavic oil), heat-treated food, etc. is allowed?

In the process of cooking fasting menu should not be used butter, it must be replaced by vegetable. Do not get involved in soy-based substitutes.: lean mayonnaise, soy meat and similar products. They often contain many harmful additives. It is possible and without them to think over the excellent Lenten menu: delicious lenten meals for every day and on a holiday, their best recipes are recipes for healthy and healthy food.

Many dishes can be prepared according to the usual recipe, with the exception of animal products; others turn out to be tasteless with such changes. You shouldn’t be upset: for centuries our people have created a varied Lenten menu, delicious lenten meals for every day and on a holiday - the best recipes have been used often, because fast days in the year even more than the "nepostodnyh".

What can replace meager products in lean menu?

Butter - vegetable.

Milk - water or peanut (almond, coconut) milk.

Meat - legumes or mushrooms, sometimes eggplant. Legumes are very nourishing, contain a lot of protein, replacing meat in relation to nutritional value; eggplants and mushrooms make the dish more tasty and satisfying; no wonder that in ancient times mushrooms were called “forest beef”. Guided by these principles, it will be easy to create a fasting menu, choosing delicious lenten dishes for every day and on a holiday; the best recipes we offer in this article.

In the process of cooking lean dishes should follow the usual principles:

Vegetables and fruits should be well washed with a brush in a bowl, and then under running water;

Forest mushrooms should be washed well, put in a small amount of cold water, boil for 5 minutes, then drain and pour fresh; only after that you can start cooking in accordance with the recipe; forest mushrooms should not be offered to children and the elderly;

Mushrooms and oyster mushrooms wash well enough;

The fish must be cleaned; squid free from films and cartilage;

Before cooking the dough flour should be sifted;

Oil and water should be heated to room temperature if the dough is yeast.

That's actually all that is needed for a lean menu to appear on your table - delicious lenten meals for every day and on a holiday, the best recipes of which will delight both children and adults.

And, of course, before starting work, you need to remember to pray.

Recipe 1. Salad from cabbage "Motley"

Of course, the Lenten menu, delicious Lenten dishes for every day and on a holiday, the best recipes of which we are now considering, are inconceivable without salads and cold appetizers. Some of them are familiar and suitable for every day, others are more likely for a festive table.

Ingredients

White cabbage - 0,5 kg

Carrots - 1 large

Apple sweet or sour-sweet - 1 piece

Bulgarian pepper - 1-2 pieces, preferably multicolored

Fresh cucumber - one small

Vegetable oil, better odorous, such as mustard

Cumin, peanuts, spicy greens  - at will, it's for an amateur

Cooking method

Cabbage finely shred; grate a carrot on a coarse or special grater. Salt and mash, rubbing with hands until it gives plenty of juice. If you do not like this way of "softening" cabbage, you can try to mash it with a pistil or some other device that is usually used for mashing potatoes in puree. They say it turns out too.

When the cabbage and carrots give the juice, set them aside for a quarter of an hour and prepare the rest of the ingredients.

Bulgarian pepper thinly chop, cucumber cut into thin semicircles, and the apple - into small slices. Combine all the vegetables, mix and fill with oil.

Various additives will help to significantly change the taste of this dish. You can, for example, sprinkle a salad with fresh dill or cilantro, or you can - caraway or roasted and chopped peanuts.

Recipe 2. Waldorf type salad

Lenten menu, delicious Lenten dishes for every day and holiday, the best recipes for Lenten dishes are hard to imagine without this tasty and healthy salad, suitable for a daily table, and for a special occasion.

Ingredients

Celery cherry - 5-6 pieces

Green sweet apples - 2 large fruits

Cucumber - 1 small

Sheet salad to taste (except for arugula not suitable for this) - 2 good handfuls

Pineapple canned or fresh - 3-4 washers

Pineapple juice (can be from a jar) - a couple of spoons

Lemon - a slice

Walnuts are a handful

Vegetable oil - a pair of spoons

Mustard, can be a grain - a full teaspoon

Cooking method

Celery rinse well with a brush and clean from the skin and coarse fibers. Cut into thin slices across the stalks. Pineapple chopped or finely chopped. Peel the apples and the middle and rub them in large, immediately sprinkle with lemon. Cucumber thinly chopped or grate too. Salad tear hands pretty shallow.

Mix the oil with pineapple juice and mustard and season the salad. Sprinkle with nuts.

Recipe 3. "Olivier" with herring

Of course, I want to somehow diversify the lean menu, delicious lean dishes for every day and holiday, the best recipes of which can always come in handy, decorate any table, if you show your imagination. Therefore it is worth trying and unusual options  familiar dishes.

Ingredients

Boiled potatoes - 6 medium tubers

Boiled carrots - one rather large

Pickled cucumbers - 2-3 large

Fresh cucumber - 1 medium

Apple - 1 medium size

Salad red onions - 1 head; can be replaced by a stem of leek

Green peas - glass

Canned corn - half a cup, optional

Large herring - 1 fish or medium package of preserves “Herring in oil”

Greens to taste

Lemon - a slice

Mustard, can be grained - 1 tsp. With top

Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons (you can take the oil from preserves)

Cooking method

Boil the potatoes and carrots in a uniform until ready, cool in the peel, then peel and cut into small cubes.

Onion shred. If you chose leek, then cut it with thin rings.

Cucumbers cut into small cubes, rub the apple finely.

Peel the herring or remove it from the oil and chop it, too, rather finely, trying to avoid getting into the seed salad.

Combine all the ingredients in a salad bowl, salt slightly (do not forget that the herring is salty!). Butter from the preserves or the usual good beat with a fork with mustard, add a few drops of lemon juice. Season the salad with this sauce and let it stand. If desired, sprinkle with chopped herbs.

Recipe 4. Salad with cod liver "Filippovki"

This salad may well be used as a lenten festive dish, because it is very tasty and surely will please all guests, except, perhaps, the most capricious.

Ingredients

Cod liver - 1 standard can

Black Toast Bread

Salad onion - 1 head

Pickled cucumber - a pair of medium-sized pieces

Cooking method

Remove the cod liver from the jar, shake off excess oil and gently divide it with a knife or fork into small pieces.

Cut the bread into small croutons and dry them well in a dry frying pan.

Salad onion cut very finely, pickle  too small, you can even grate.

Very carefully mix all the ingredients, if necessary, add a spoonful of oil from the jar.

Of course, if we talk about the Lenten menu, delicious Lenten meals for every day and on a holiday, the best recipes are not only salads, but also hot dishes, and pastries, and desserts. To cover everything is simply impossible. However, we still offer you a few examples of hot, lean dishes for every day, some of which are quite suitable for a festive table.

Recipe 5. Stuffed Squids

This, I think, is one of the most spectacular Lenten Christmas meals (that is, for the Advent) that can decorate new Year's table  Those who do not want to break the fast and this night.

Ingredients

Cleaned squids - 2 pieces

Long grain rice - glass

Cooked and frozen shrimps - 2/3 cup peeled

Garlic - 1 clove

Tomato paste - 2 spoons; it's for color. You can add a little curry or saffron.

Vegetable oil

Shrimps can be replaced with a glass of vegetables: chopped bell pepper, grated carrots, peas, corn, and so on.

Cooking method

Cook crumbly rice, stir in a spoonful of tomato or a little curry to give it a beautiful color.

Shrimp clean, cut each into three parts. Garlic very finely chopped. Heat the butter in a deep frying pan and heat the garlic in it, trying not to fry it. If it didn't work out, just catch it on a saucer, it will be needed later. In garlic butter, let the shrimp slightly, just a minute and a half. Mix with garlic and rice.

Stuff the rice with prepared squid. Put them in a saucepan or saucepan and pour hot waterby adding a spoonful of tomato paste or a drop of curry into it. Cook on a small fire under the lid for 2 minutes.

Recipe 6. Cabbage rolls with salmon

For winter, Christmas, post the basis of the lean menu, which includes delicious lean dishes for every day and holiday, the best recipes are hearty dishes with fish, seafood and cereals. One of them - stuffed cabbage.

Ingredients

Natural salmon - 1 can

Rice - half a cup

Carrots - 2 small roots

Cabbage - the required number of leaves; You can use Chinese cabbage.

Vegetable oil

Tomato Paste

Cooking method

Boil rice until half cooked with one carrot, grated on the smallest terke.

Prepare the cabbage leaves: select large enough whole leaves, cut off the rough parts with a knife, if necessary slightly beat off. If you use salad, this is enough; Cabbage leaves must be dipped for a minute in boiling water.

Remove the salmon from the jar, remove the bones and mash the fish with a fork. Mix with rice. With this stuffing stuffed cabbage rolls, folded with envelopes and put out in a deep sauté pan or a low pot, sauce sauce.

For the sauce, mix tomato paste, water from a salmon can, vegetable oil, and a second carrot, grated or sliced ​​into slices.

This dish has many options. For example, you can not wrap the filling in cabbage leaves, but cut cabbage into squares, mix everything, pour in the same sauce and put out. You can take other canned goods. Instead of fish, you can add a mixture of vegetables to rice or even just fried onions.

Recipe 7. Vegetables "Tasty pods"

Excellent fasting dish for every day, inexpensive and healthy.

Ingredients

Frozen green beans - 200 g

Frozen champignons - 200 g

Pepper sweet frozen - 100 g

Vegetable oil

Garlic - 1-2 cloves, if desired

Onion - half-onion, optional

Cooking method

Put all vegetables in a saucepan with vegetable oil, salt and simmer under the lid until the color of the beans change. If desired, you can then open the lid and lightly fry the vegetables. Some people also like to sprinkle the dish with ground croutons and lightly fry them already.

Of course, this dish can be prepared from fresh vegetables, not from ice cream. But then the beans must be pre-boiled and cut into small pieces.

Recipe 8. Perlovka "Sour"

Ingredients

Pearl barley - glass

Dry mushrooms - a handful (can be replaced with oyster mushrooms or champignons, 300 g)

Vegetable oil

Peanut - half a cup

Cooking method

Dry mushrooms soak. Fresh - wash and, if necessary, clean.

Soaked dry mushrooms, rinse, chop and boil until cooked in a little water. Rinse the pearl barley, pour it into a thermos and pour boiling water for an hour. Then take out into the pot, add boiling water, mushrooms and salt if necessary. Cook until ready for cereals - usually about 30 minutes.

Spice up the finished porridge with butter and sprinkle with roasted peanuts.

Instead of mushrooms, or together with mushrooms, you can spice up the barley with any stewed vegetables or fried onions.

Recipe 9. Zrazy carrots and beetroot

Usually this dish is popular with children, because it turns out pretty sweet.

Ingredients

Carrots - 2 large root vegetables

Beets - 2 medium

Raisin without stones - a glass

Dried apricots - a glass

Semolina - half a cup

Flour - 3-4 tablespoons (or less)

Breadcrumbs

Vegetable oil

Cooking method

Cook carrots and beets, skip them (individually!) Through a meat grinder or chop them in another way, for example, grate them on a fine grater.

Mince and dried apricots (if it is tough - after pre-soaking). Mix with a small amount of carrots. This is a filling for beetroot.

Raisin soak is a filling for carrots.

In the beets and carrots fill the semolina, a little bit of salt, mix and let stand. If the resulting "dough" is not glued, add flour, but not very much.

Form carrots from carrots, put raisins, close zrazy and roll in breadcrumbs immediately. Also form zrazy from beets stuffed with dried apricots and also breaded.

Fry zrazy in vegetable oil until a beautiful crust.

Recipe 10. Potato casserole with mushrooms

Ingredients

Potatoes - 6 pieces of medium size

Mushrooms or oyster mushrooms - 300 g

Onions - 1 large onion

Vegetable oil

Cooking method

Peel the potatoes and cut into thinner slices.

Onions cut into thin semicircles, mushrooms - in small pieces. Salt and simmer onions with mushrooms and butter.

In a greased baking dish, put half of the potato slices, slightly salted, on them - mushrooms with onions, cover with a layer of potatoes, also slightly salt.

All bake in the oven at 150 degrees under foil before cooking potatoes, then remove the foil, increase the temperature to 220 degrees and wait until you get a nice crust.

Recipe 11. Snack Cabbage

Ingredients

Water - 6 glasses

Vegetable oil - 1 cup

Vinegar 9% - 1 cup

Salt - 3 tablespoons

Garlic - 1 head

Cabbage - 4 kg

Carrots - 4 pieces

Beet - 2 pieces

Black pepper peas, allspice, bay leaf - to taste

Cooking method

Water combined with vinegar, oil, salt, add bay leaf and pepper, boil. Cabbage is arbitrary, but cut into small-sized ones, grate carrots and beets large, you can on a special grater for carrots in Chinese. Mix vegetables and pour them with hot marinade. Lightly press (do not ram!) And leave in a warm place for a day.

Recipe 12. Carrot-Lemon Cupcake

There is no doubt that in the Lenten menu, since these are delicious Lenten dishes for every day and holiday, the best baking recipes should also be included. After all, something tasty for tea is a real pleasure for all families.

Ingredients

Flour - 200 g

Carrots - 200 g

Olive (corn) oil - 10 table. spoons

Lemon - half of the average fruit

Sugar - 1 glass

Walnuts - a glass of peeled (can be replaced with candied fruits or raisins, or even put all together)

Soda - half a teaspoon or less

Cooking method

Remove carrot and grate very finely. Remove the zest from the half lemon and chop it. Squeeze the juice out of the same lemon halves, put a small amount of soda out, pour the rest into a bowl. There to pour a glass of water, butter, slaked soda, pour flour and sugar and knead the dough.

Dry the nuts in a frying pan and chop with a knife. Add the zest and nuts (candied fruits, raisins ...) to the dough, mix and put in a greased form so that the dough will rise slightly during the baking process.

Bake at 180 degrees for about an hour. Willingness to check the torch.

Recipe 13. Sorbet berry

Ingredients

Any frozen berries (you can, of course, and fresh) - 400 g

Sugar - to taste, but usually about a glass

Cooking method

From a liter of water and a glass (or more, if you want a sweeter dessert), cook sugar syrup.

Rinse the berries, without defrosting, under a stream of cold water and pour into a hot syrup. Bring to a boil, mash the berries and let cool under a lid.

Strain the cooled broth in a container for freezing and put in the freezer. Every 15 minutes, remove the container from the freezer and carefully mix the ice cream with a fork until it reaches the desired consistency.

• Perhaps the main thing in the lean menu is to cook so that the dishes are sufficiently nutritious, contain the necessary vitamins and have a distinct taste.
• You need to use more legumes: they not only quickly saturate, but also contain a lot of protein, namely from its lack usually suffer from fasting and vegetarians.
• Crumbly cereals - the perfect solution for the post. Their taste can be supplemented with fried onions, pickled cucumbers, chopped greens, mushrooms, stewed or fried vegetables. For example, rice is perfectly combined with carrots and peas, buckwheat - with onions or pickled cucumber, any porridge is good with mushrooms. It makes sense to pay attention to such cereals as couscous, quinoa or bulgur, they are very useful and are perfect for the post.
• Vegetables should not be subjected to too long heat treatment, then they will have more vitamins.
• Do not forget about fresh vegetables and fruits, they need to complement any meal, then the post will be a joy, and in favor of the soul.

If you stick to the post, for sure, often you get the idea that I would like to find new lean dishes. No wonder you went into this section and were not mistaken - we offer a large selection of dishes that can be cooked during fasting.
  The heading "Food in the post" is open precisely so that you can find interesting recipes  and cook them at home. Almost all recipes have step by step photosso that the cooking process is as easy as possible for you.
  Meals during fasting do not contain meat. However, many replace it with mushrooms or legumes, as these foods are very nutritious. In the section there is different recipes  of these and not only products.
  It is allowed to eat fish on some days, so you can also cook dishes from fasting fish if you like some of our recipes.
  Recipes of dishes during fasting can please your home. Fasting does not mean tasteless dishes. Cooking delicious meals in a post is really easy.
  Use recipes of lenten dishes in Lent, Advent, Assumption or Petrovsky - see for yourself. Almost all recipes will easily fit any post depending on the days. The dishes in the Great post are more strict, but you will find such recipes here too.
Here are presented the fasting dishes from vegetables (squash, pumpkin, cabbage, potatoes, eggplant, cauliflower, beans, etc.), from mushrooms, from fruits (apples, pears, berries, etc.), from seafood (squid , mussels, shrimp, etc.), from cereals (rice, pasta, buckwheat, lentils, etc.), from fish. There are Lenten dishes for every day and for the holiday. You will find dishes of lean cuisine without butter, eggs, and dairy products.
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27.08.2017

Recipe plum compote 3 liter jar

Ingredients:  plum, sugar

In winter, sometimes there are not enough "ours", and not overseas ripe fruits and berries ... Therefore, the hostesses and harvested canned compotes. It turns out very tasty drink and juicy fruits, which with pleasure will be eaten by both children and adults.

Ingredients plum compote:

- 800 g of plums;
  - 250 g of sugar;
  - water boiled.

10.08.2017

Lenten pancakes by leavening for a wake

Ingredients:  flour, yeast, water, sugar, salt, butter

Commemoration - an event that terrifies everyone. But at the wake, you also need to cook and entertain guests. Today I will describe for you a recipe for lean puffy pancakes with yeast.

Ingredients:

- 150 grams of flour,
  - 8-10 grams of yeast,
  - 250 ml. water,
  - 1 tbsp. Sahara,
  - a pinch of salt,
  - 5 tbsp. vegetable oil.

03.08.2017

Couscous with soy sauce and vegetables

Ingredients:  couscous, water, salt, soy sauce, refined vegetable oil, zucchini, bulgarian pepper, onions, turmeric

I propose to cook a very tasty and nourishing porridge with an unusual name - couscous. We will cook couscous with zucchini and soy sauce, which will give the dish an amazing taste.

Ingredients:

- couscous - 1 cup,
  - boiling water - 1 cup,
  - salt - pinch,
  - soy sauce - 1 tbsp.
  - vegetable oil - 1 tbsp.,
  - 1 zucchini,
  - 1 bell pepper,
  - 1 onion,
  - turmeric - 1 tsp.

24.07.2017

Fried garlic shooter recipe

Ingredients:  arrow garlic, vegetable oil

I present to your attention an excellent simple and tasty repe of fried garlic shooters. It is very simple to prepare them - you will need arrows and vegetable oil, on which we will fry them.

Ingredients:

- garlic arrows,
  - vegetable oil.

04.06.2017

Baked potato wedges in the oven as in McDonalds

Ingredients:  potato, vegetable oil, salt, curry for vegetables, black pepper, hot pepper, red pepper, turmeric

Many of you have been to McDonalds and ate potatoes in a country style. Now I will tell you how to cook the same potatoes at home.

Ingredients:

- 8-10 tubers of young potatoes;
  - salt to taste;
  - 2 tsp. curry seasonings;
  - 1 tsp. black pepper;
  - 1 tsp. hot pepper;
- half a hour. red ground pepper;
  - half a hour. turmeric.

27.05.2017

Millet porridge with pumpkin on the water (lean recipe)

Ingredients:  pumpkin, millet, water, sugar, salt, raisins, dried fruits

For people who are allergic to lactose or just during fasting, I suggest cooking this delicious and easy-to-cook nourishing millet porridge with pumpkin on the water.

Ingredients:

Fresh pumpkin without peel and seeds - 300-350 gr .;
  - millet - 1 glass;
  - water for porridge - 1.5-2 glasses;
  - water for cooking pumpkin - 0.5 cups;
  - sugar - 2-3 tablespoons;
  - salt - 1/3 tsp;
  - raisins or other dried fruits - 1-2 handfuls.

20.05.2017

Microwave Potatoes

Ingredients:  potato, oil, salt, garlic, spice

The easiest, but delicious side dish can be cooked in the microwave of potatoes. Vegetables are cut into slices, mixed with spices and butter and cleaned in the oven for 16 minutes. As a result, fragrant roasted potatoes are served, which can be served with any dish.

Products for the recipe:
- half a kilo of potatoes,
  - 5 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil,
  - salt - to taste,
  - 2 cloves of garlic,
  - Spices - to taste.

09.05.2017

Lenten cabbage rolls from Peking cabbage with rice and mushrooms

Ingredients:  Chinese cabbage, rice, mushrooms, onions, carrots, vegetable oil, dill, oregano, paprika, black pepper, tomato sauce, water, salt,

I have never considered lenten dishes to be the worst in taste and have repeatedly proved this to my loved ones. Today I want to offer you to cook very tasty lean cabbage rolls with delicate delicious Peking cabbage.

Ingredients:

- Head chinese cabbage;
  - half a glass of rice;
  - 150 grams of champignons;
  - 2 onions;
  - 1 carrot;
  - 3 items of l. vegetable oils;
  - 1 bunch of dill;
  - half tsp oregano or Provencal herbs;
  - half tsp paprika;
  - 2-3 pinches of black pepper;
  - 5 tbsp. tomato sauce;
  - 2 glasses of water;
  - To taste salt.

05.05.2017

Lean Pie with Cabbage

Ingredients:  flour, water, lean oil, yeast, salt, sugar, cabbage, tomato paste

Let's cook today tasty pie  - from yeast dough  with cabbage. It is done simply and quickly, but it turns out very beautiful. The cake refers to the fast dishes, so that it will find its connoisseurs among those who fast.
Ingredients:
- 600 grams of wheat flour;
  - 300 grams of warm water;
  - 45 grams of vegetable oil for the test;
  - 12 grams of dry active yeast;
  - 0.5 tsp. Sahara;
  - 0.5 tsp. salts;
  - 0.25 fork white cabbage;
  - 1.5 tbsp. tomato paste.

05.05.2017

Green beans pkhali

Ingredients:  beans, onion, cilantro, chili, garlic, walnut, lemon, salt, paprika, butter

Phali is an example of the fact that a very simple dish can be incredibly tasty! So if you decide to make such a snack, do not regret it - the result will be excellent. Our current recipe for phalas in Georgian - from green beans with nuts - is very successful and mouth-watering.
Ingredients:
- 350 gr of green beans;
  - 80 grams of onions;
  - 50 gr coriander;
  - 2 pods of chili peppers;
  - 2 cloves of garlic;
  - 60 gr walnuts;
  - 1 lemon;
  - salt to taste;
  - ground red paprika to taste;
  - olive oil for frying.

02.05.2017

Ingredients:  water, frozen mushrooms, potatoes, carrots, onions, greens, vegetable oil, rice, salt, black pepper

Even without meat, you can cook delicious hearty soup, if in stocks there is a package of frozen mushrooms. It does not matter whether it's honey fungus, white mushrooms or ordinary mushrooms - mushroom soup  In any case, it will turn out tasty and nourishing.

Products for the recipe:
- 2 liters of water;
  - 200 grams of frozen mushrooms;
  - three potatoes;
  - one carrot;
  - two onions;
  - A bunch of greens;
  - 30 ml of vegetable oil;
  - a handful of rice;
  - salt - to taste;
  - ground black pepper - to taste.

30.04.2017

Buckwheat in a merchant with mushrooms

Ingredients:  buckwheat, water, mushrooms, onions, carrots, bell pepper, black pepper, vegetable oil, salt, green onions, pickled cucumbers

From buckwheat you can cook a lot of delicious dishes and a variant of one of them we offer you. Again, it is prepared in different ways. In buckwheat, merchants add meat or mushrooms, and you can do both at once. By the way, very delicious dish  it turns out with porcini mushrooms.

Products for the recipe:
- two glasses of buckwheat;
  - 4 glasses of water;
  - 300 g of mushrooms;
  - three onions;
  - one carrot;
  - two pods of sweet pepper;
  - black pepper freshly ground - to taste;
  - vegetable oil - 50 ml;
  - salt - to taste;
  - bunch of green onions;
  - salted cucumbers.

30.04.2017

Cabbage patties

Ingredients:  cabbage, potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, semolina, flour, black pepper, salt, breadcrumbs

Isn’t it really delicious burgers? Immediately you will not say that they are not meat at all, but vegetable, or rather cabbage. For fasting table  they are perfect, and cooking them is not difficult. All the secrets of cooking, see the photo recipe.

Products for the recipe:
- 400 grams of cabbage;
  - one potato;
  - one carrot;
  - onion head;
  - two cloves of garlic;
  - 50 g of semolina;
  - 50 g of flour;
  - spices - at will;
  - 150 grams of bread crumbs.

29.04.2017

Chebureks with potatoes

Ingredients:  flour, lean oil, salt, sugar, vodka, water, potatoes, dill, onion, salt

Want to cook something tasty, but not quite normal? Then pay attention to the recipe for chebureks with potatoes. They are just as appetizing as traditional ones, and, as a rule, are very popular with both adults and children.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of wheat flour;
  - 80 grams of vegetable oil (for the dough);
  - 1 tsp. salts;
  - 0.5 tsp. Sahara;
  - 1 tsp. vodka;
  - 170 g of water;
  - 400 grams of potatoes;
  - 1 small bunch of dill;
  - 1 onion;
  - salt for the filling to taste;
  - vegetable oil for frying.

25.04.2017

Lean cookies on pickle from cucumbers

Ingredients:  cucumber pickle, sugar, lean oil, flour, baking powder

You have no idea what a wonderful recipe we have prepared for you today. First of all, it will appeal to those who observe the post - after all, this is a lean cookie. And besides, economical housewives will be happy - after all, the dough for this baking is done on the brine from cucumbers. Cookies come out very tasty! Be sure to try it, you will like it!

Ingredients:
- 100 grams of cucumber pickle;
  - 150 grams of sugar;
  - 50 grams lean oil;
  - 350 grams of wheat flour;
  - 1 tsp. baking powder for the dough.

23.04.2017

Green beans pkhali

Ingredients:  beans, walnut, garlic, pepper, coriander, mustard, cilantro, sauce, lemon, oil, salt

Anyone who loves Georgian cuisine, especially like pkhali - small vegetable balls with nuts and garlic. They are very tasty and appetizing. Even if you are not a fan of Georgian cuisine, try the green bean choppers: we are sure that you will also like them.

Ingredients:
- 400 g of green (string) beans;
  - 100 grams of nuts;
  - 2 cloves of garlic;
  - 5 g ground red pepper;
  - 5 g of coriander;
  - 5 grams of black mustard seeds;
  - 30 gr coriander; Ingredients:  water, yeast, flour, sugar, salt, vegetable oil, white cabbage, carrots, onion, bay leaf, tomato sauce, salt, black pepper

If you like cabbage patties, then you will certainly like our today's recipe. Yeast dough  for them it is prepared quite simply, and the pies themselves are baked in the oven, which greatly facilitates the work, when compared to pies, fried in a frying pan.

Ingredients for the dough:
- 130 ml of warm water;
  - 10 g of yeast;
  - 200-220 grams of flour;
  - 1 tbsp. sugar without slides;
  - 0.5 tsp. salts;
  - 2 tablespoons refined vegetable oil.

Ingredients for filling:
- 0.5 average cabbage;
  - 1 small carrot;
  - 1-2 pcs of bay leaves;
  - 3 items of l. tomato sauce;
  - salt to taste;
  - pepper black or red to taste;
  - 3-4 tbsp. vegetable oil.

The fast of the Holy Quadrant is called the Great Lent due to the special importance of its establishment. Traditionally, the Holy Pentecost and all divine services begin with the vespers of the Shrovetide week. During the evening service on Forgiveness Sunday, when there is a rite or rite of general forgiveness in the temple.

The great fast is fixed mainly in the memory of the forty-day fast of Jesus Christ, who soon after his baptism left for the wilderness and fasted there (Matthew 4: 2), and also in memory of the forty-day fast of Moses (Exodus 34, 28) and Elijah ( 2 Kings 19, 8).

The fact that the fast was established by the apostles and lasted for forty days almost from the beginning of its establishment, there is evidence from deep antiquity, and the name “Fourtieth” is often found in ancient written monuments.

However, the fasting of the Holy Fourties (which lasted for 40 days everywhere) in the ancient Church was not observed at the same time. It depended on the unequal calculation of the days of fasting and the days when it was resolved. In the Eastern Churches, the existing order of observance of Lent was established in the 4th century.

The Lent consists of a forty-day fast (the Quarter Lent) and a fasting Holy Week “for the sake of the saving passions” of Christ. The Apostolic Decrees on Great Lent say: “Let this fast (Fourtieth) be done before the fast of Easter (Holy Week)” (Book 5, ch. I).

The ancient Christians observed the Great Lent with particular rigor, refraining from even drinking water until the ninth (third in the afternoon) of the day. They ate food after the ninth hour, eating bread and vegetables. Forbidden meat, milk, cheese, eggs.

The rules of observing the Great Lent are also reflected in the Church Charter. On the First and Passion Week, the Orthodox Church prescribes keeping a particularly strict fast. On Monday and Tuesday of the first week, it is prescribed to observe the highest degree of fasting: “Not at all, it is not fitting for the measure” In the rest of the week of fasting, except Saturdays and Sundays, - subsistence. On Saturdays and Sundays, cooked food with oil (vegetable oil) is allowed. And only on the feast of the Annunciation, if it falls outside the Holy Week, the eating of fish is permitted.

The Church strongly condemns those who break the Great Lent, but, acting in the spirit of God's love and mercy, does not impose the rules of repentance in full on children, sick, infirm and elderly, does not alienate them from participating in the joy of communion and Easter. But the weak in body, as well as the healthy, are obliged to perform the work of love and mercy during the Great Lent and, like in other fasting, to keep the spiritual fast from sins.

In the numerous stichera and troparia of the services of the Holy Covenant, the Church clarifies the essence of the true fast as a means of spiritual rebirth: the time of spiritual achievement, the strengthening of self-sacrifice, the killing of sinful desires. Therefore, in the hymns, the Church calls the Holy Fourtieth a cheerful time of fasting.

Cuisines of the peoples of the world, and especially Russian, can boast a huge choice of lenten dishes. However, it is not difficult to cook delicious Lenten dishes, because among vegetable products there are excellent substitutes for meat and fish. Speech on legumes and mushrooms. Mushrooms look great in soups, rassolnikah, schach and borsch, and from different types of legumes you can cook not only lean cutlets, but also tender soups, purees, which so diversify your lean table.

Habitual sweets successfully replace honey, nuts and dried fruits that are so good for the heart. Instead of chocolate and cocoa powder, you can use carob, which is increasingly appearing in the departments. healthy eating  in supermarkets, and sugar is replaced by fructose. Imagine and experiment, and our site will tell you delicious meatless dishes that can be prepared for every day, and on the festive table.

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

Preparation:
  Rinse the tomatoes and lettuce leaves thoroughly. Narvite salad in large pieces, put on a plate, top with coarsely chopped tomato, green and black olives.

Slightly mash the walnut kernels in your hands and sprinkle on top. It remains to be sprinkled with wine vinegar and pour with olive oil.

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

Preparation:
Mix flour, pumpkin puree, finely chopped onion and seasoning, mix thoroughly and set aside for 10 minutes. During this time, prepare the filling. Heat a spoonful of olive oil, add the onion and fry it over a small fire until golden brown. After add chickpeas, spinach, walnuts, lemon juice and seasonings. We make pancakes. For one pancake you need no more than two tablespoons of dough. Roll a ball out of this test. Push the groove in the center of the ball and add about ½ teaspoon of filling to it. Grip the groove and roll the ball with the filling between your palms to give it the shape of a pancake. Put the pancakes in a frying pan and fry for a couple of minutes until the pancakes become appetizing brown. Do not be afraid to put them in a frying pan close-up - it is much more convenient to fry in batches, as they do not stick together.

Putting ready pancakes is better on pre-cooked paper towels so that excess oil is absorbed. Sprinkle with herbs and serve.

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

Preparation:
  Rinse the rice thoroughly, pour it with a glass of water and bring to a boil. Add salt, 1 hl. turmeric and 1-2 tsp paprika, to give rice a golden color. Clean the banana, cut it in half and slightly attach each part of it. Fry the banana pieces on a buttered frying pan over medium heat. Do not fry! Flip right over as soon as you see that the banana is softened. Put the prepared rice in a cup or a plate, compact it, turn it over on a platter and put spicy bananas next to it.

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

Preparation:
  Rinse lentils, cover with warm water and leave for 1 hour. After rinse and boil over medium heat in unsalted water. Finely chop the greens, cucumber, tomato and add to the lentils. Add to your taste vegetable oil and soy sauce. Delicious and healthy breakfast with slow carbohydrates ready!

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

Preparation:
  Blanch the string beans, without defrosting beforehand, in boiling water and fold them into a sieve. Mushrooms cut into slices and fry in vegetable oil. Add to mushrooms green beans and onion, cut into quarter rings. Stir and fry until tender onion. Add boiled red beans with a portion of the liquid in which it is boiled, salt, pepper, add garlic, passed through a press, and remove from heat. Cover and steep for 10-15 minutes. Sprinkle with greens when serving.

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

Preparation:
  Soak the beans in cold water and leave overnight. Drain the old water, pour 2 liters of fresh water and boil the beans until soft. Add the finely chopped onion, carrots and potatoes to the beans and cook until the potatoes are cooked. To get the creamy state of our soup, wipe the resulting mass through a sieve. Blender, of course, faster, but in this case, the consistency will not so creamy. In the vegetable broth (or boiled water) add the fried flour and spices. Mix with soup and hold under the lid on low heat for 10-15 minutes. Soup is obtained not only lean and tasty, but also fast and satisfying - it takes no more than an hour to cook, it depends on the speed of cooking the beans.

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

Preparation:
  Peel the pumpkin from the seeds and peel, cut into cubes and place in a deep frying pan. Crush onion, garlic, chili pepper, celery, add to pumpkin and stew in a small amount of olive or vegetable oil. Peel the tomato, cut into small pieces and add to the rest of the vegetables. Add 2 cups of water (or better vegetable broth) and simmer for 20 minutes. Focus on the pumpkin - when it softens, put the whole mass in a blender and whisk until a smooth creamy mass. After pour everything back into the pan, season with salt, pepper and bring to a boil. To taste add crackers, prunes, sesame or pumpkin seeds.

Ingredients:
  1 stack ground walnuts,
  6 potatoes
  3-4 onions,
  200 grams of white bread
  salt - to taste.

Preparation:
  Grind all the ingredients with a meat grinder, rub potatoes with a small grater. Soak bread in boiled water, squeeze and mix with chopped products. Knead the minced meat well, make cutlets and fry them in vegetable oil.

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

Preparation:
  Finely chop the mushrooms, fry in a dry frying pan without oil until the liquid is completely evaporated, pour in a little vegetable oil and add onion, cut into small cubes. Fry everything together and cool. Mix with buckwheat and mince along with starch and greens. Salt, pepper, make cutlets, roll them in flour or breadcrumbs and fry in vegetable oil.

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

Preparation:
  Boil rice until half cooked in boiling salted water. Finely chop the mushrooms, fry in a dry frying pan until the liquid evaporates, then add the vegetable oil and add the chopped onion. Fry until cooked. Carrots grate on a large grater, tomatoes scald and remove the cuticle and cut into small cubes. Save vegetables in vegetable oil, cool and mix with mushrooms, chopped herbs and rice. Stuff the prepared peppers, put them in a thick-bottomed saucepan and cover with tomato juice. Put in the oven with an average heat for 30-40 minutes.

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

Preparation:
  You will need cabbage, carrots, garlic, herbs, salt. Prepare cabbage for cabbage, as usual - disassemble into leaves and beat off the thick parts with the blunt side of the knife. For the filling, grate the carrots on a large grater and mix it with sliced ​​garlic and chopped greens. Salt to taste and wrap in cabbage leaves. Fold the cabbage rolls in a glass jar or enamel saucepan (make sure that there is no chips and rust on the enamel!), Pour a cold marinade and put in the fridge for 2-3 days.

Fragrant Potato Roll

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

Preparation:
  Boil the potatoes in boiling salted water, drain the water, pour about a glass of liquid for mashed potatoes, and dry. Cook the mashed potatoes and cool. For the filling, chop the onion and carrot and fry in vegetable oil until soft. Crush mushrooms, add to vegetables and fry for 3-4 minutes, stirring constantly. Salt and pepper to taste and let cool. Mashed potatoes mix with starch and lay out as a rectangle on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Put the baking tray in the oven, heated to 200ºС, for 15-20 minutes. Then spread the stuffing over a slightly roasted potato layer and gently roll it, separating the paper. Top grease with vegetable oil and bake in the oven for another 15 minutes.

Ingredients:
For the dark layer:
  3 bananas,
  1 tsp honey
  ½ tsp lemon peel,
  cocoa powder and almond chips to taste.
For a light layer:
  150 grams of coconut chips,
  10 pieces. cashew nuts
  3 tablespoons honey.
For cream:
  2 bananas,
  150 g almonds,
  1-2 tbsp. water.

Preparation:
  Separately, beat the ingredients of the dark, light and cream layers to a smooth creamy consistency. Lay out the layers in the prepared form so that the cream is in the middle. Close the top of the film and put in freezerto make our ice cream cool. The finished delicacy can be cut and served.

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

Preparation:
  Rinse the raisins, brew with boiling water and drain in a colander. Mix flour, baking powder, cloves and cinnamon, add butter and mix well. Add lemon zest, raisins, walnuts, liqueur, cocoa, raisins, sugar and water. Stir, put the dough in a greased form, and bake in the oven for an hour at 180 ° C. Determine the degree of readiness with a wooden stick. Cool the prepared cake in the form, put on a dish, chop and sprinkle with walnuts.

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

Preparation:
  Grind walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts in a blender, but not very fine - large pieces will give our sweets a brighter taste. Then mix the nuts with honey.
  Fry the peanuts in a pan without butter and chop them separately in a blender, this time rather finely. Roll the resulting nut-honey mass into balls and roll peanuts in a hammer. Put the sweets on a dish with a napkin and place in the fridge.
  This interesting dessert can be stored for a long time in the cold and is perfect for lean tea drinking.

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

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

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

Bon Appetit!

Larissa Shuftaykina