Food Lenten: cooking recipes

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

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

The Four Main Christian Fasts

The Christmas fast begins on November 28 and lasts forty days, including January 6th. All his days, except for odd weekdays and Saturdays, it is allowed to eat everything, except for certain products, and vegetable oil and fish can be on weekends and even.

Lenten food in Lent, beginning 49 days before the Easter Resurrection, consists mainly of vegetables and fish, except for the 7th, 4th and 1st weeks.

On the 58th day after Easter, the Petrov fast 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 for weekends.

The Assumption Post lasts 14 days from August 14 to the 27th. Vegetable oil is used on weekends, and you can only eat fish on the day of Apple salvage, on August 19.

What can and can not be eaten in the post

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

• On strict days - dairy products, eggs and fish;
• Meat of poultry and animals.

You are allowed to eat:

• Not baked bakery products;
• Soy and bean products with a high content of vegetable protein;
• Porridge on the water;
• Nuts, fruits, dried fruits;
• Mushrooms;
• Boiled, stewed, salted vegetables;
• Vegetable oil and fish on permitted days.

In the days mentioned, cooking is given considerable attention, for the lean food, the recipes of which we will cite in the article, should contain not only the allowed products, but also be useful, tasty and nutritious.

First Lenten Dishes

Lenten menu must necessarily contain the first dishes, because the food in the soup harms the digestive tract and causes heartburn and other gastrointestinal disorders. Not everyone knows, but favorite by many first dishes, hodgepodge and cabbage soup, you can cook without meat and butter, and the lean food from it will not lose its taste and aroma.

Solyanka

One day before cooking, soak 0.5 tbsp of red beans, cook it for a half to two hours in salted water. When the beans are ready, leave the broth for the saltwort, and put the beans separately in a deep saucer. Cut 1 onion medium sized cubes. 2 pickled cucumber peel, cut into cubes. Onion a little fry, add cucumbers and continue frying along with onions. Vegetables toss in boiling bean broth and add 1 tablespoon tomato paste. Remove the olives from the jar, cut into slices and, when the potatoes are half ready, add to the pan together with the laurel leaf and two peas of sweet pepper.

Shchi

In 3 liters of boiling water add 6-7 pcs. Cut into cubes of potatoes, add to taste. After 5-7 minutes add shredded cabbage (a small head), 1 piece of sweet pepper, cut into cubes. While cooking vegetables, fry in a frying pan a small carrot, onion and grated tomato. When the potatoes and cabbage are cooked, add the dressing, laurel leaves and 3 peas of black pepper to the pan. Serve with finely chopped parsley and grated garlic.

Second courses

Rice porridge with vegetables and mashed potatoes - delicious lean food in fasting, recipes for cooking these dishes are very simple.

Rice porridge with vegetables

Rinse a glass of rice several times until the water becomes clear. Bulgarian pepper (1 pc.) Cut into strips, cut half the head of cauliflower into pieces and inflorescences, cut a small carrot into strips or thin slices. On the heated frying pan pour 2 tbsp vegetable oil and throw spices (cumin / ziru and cloves, after 10 seconds - turmeric). Lay out the vegetables: cabbage, carrots, peppers and a little fry. Then add rice and fry for about 3 minutes. And pour 2 cups of water.

Wait for boiling, cut the tomatoes into cubes, throw them into a frying pan with rice and vegetables, pour out a jar of green peas and put 1 bay leaf on top. Add pepper and salt to taste and simmer under the lid on a small fire for 20 minutes. If the water does not evaporate during this time, cover again and cook until done. Top sprinkled with chopped herbs.

Mashed potatoes

One and a half kilograms of potatoes must be cleaned and boiled. Pour the potato broth into a jar. Finely chop the onion head medium size, fry in sunflower oil until golden brown. Peel potatoes, if the puree is very thick, add potato broth. Add the onions and serve them to the table.

Salad dressing

Lenten food in Lent assumes a predominance in the diet of vegetables, so vegetable salads will be very relevant in this period.

The vinaigrette

Wash and boil 2 pcs. Carrots, 4 pcs. Potatoes, 1 pc. Beets. Cool, clean. Peel the onion and cut all the vegetables into cubes. Three salted cucumbers and two fresh ones also cut into cubes. Add a jar of peas, having drained off water from it. Greens, salt, pepper - to taste. Season lettuce 2 tbsp vegetable oil.

Beetroot salad with nuts and dried fruits

Cook 1 beet. 100 grams of raisins and / or prunes pour boiling water and set aside for 15-30 minutes., Drain the water, rinse and dry. Cut beets and grate on a large grater. Cut the prunes into slices. Strew 3-4 pcs of walnuts, chop. Add 1-2 grated cloves of garlic, raisins, prunes, nuts, pour 1-2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, sprinkle with chopped dill.

Snacks

Snacks - this is the category of recipes that will suit the menu for any feast. Recipes for snacks are chosen in such a way that none of the guests will believe that we have lean food before us, because these dishes are very tasty.

Pepper in Bulgarian

A kilogram of Bulgarian pepper to wash, get rid of the seeds, cut out the peduncles and bake in the oven until a ruddy crust. Peel and cut into slices. In a separate bowl, mix 5 cloves of grated garlic, ½ tsp salt, a teaspoon of vinegar. Pepper pour garlic sauce, put in a jar with tightly closed lid and put in the refrigerator for 24 hours.

Cocktail

Grate 2 tsp horseradish, crush 2 tbsp. L cranberries or cranberries and mix with low-fat mayonnaise. Cut into strips or thin plates 1 red apple and 3 pieces of pickled cucumbers. Clean 2 pcs. Salted herring, remove the bones, cut into neat thin slices. Mix all the ingredients. The bottom of the dish is covered with lettuce leaves, topped with a prepared herring mixture, decorated with greens.

Dessert

Desserts are the most delicious lean food, the recipes of which are so simple that cooking does not take much energy and time, and the result will please both adults and children.

Fruit ice

Clear 3 pcs. Kiwi, wash. A glass of strawberries to sort through, wash, get rid of the tails. In an incomplete glass of water add 2 tbsp. L sugar and 2 tsp lemon juice. Mix. Rinse the strawberries. Kiwi grind in a blender.

Divide the sugar syrup into 2 parts: pour one half of the kiwi puree, the other half - of the strawberry. Small molds or disposable cups are filled half-full with fruit puree, insert a stick from the ice cream into each mold, put in a freezer for an hour. Take the molds and add the remaining mashed potatoes. You can combine kiwi and strawberries by making a striped recipe. And put cool until completely freezing.

Baked apples

Apples of medium size (5-6 pieces) cut into 2 parts, get rid of the core. Put into a baking dish with one layer, sprinkle sugar (sprinkle 1 tsp in the middle, if apples are acid - pour more). In the presence of almond or coconut flakes, use them, dividing 2 tbsp. L on all halves of apples. Put on for half an hour in a preheated oven. Baked apples are lean food, which can be consumed in hot and cold form.

Fruit salad with honey

If necessary, melt half a cup of honey by putting a jar of honey in hot water.

Wash and peel the fruit. Cut out the middle of 1 large apple; 2 bananas, 4 tangerines, 1-2 kiwis and 1 pc. Persimmon peel off. Separate the grapes from the bunch, cut into two halves along with the sinks, get rid of pits, clean 1 garnet, selecting the grains. Cut apples and bananas with small slices, sprinkling with lemon juice so that the fruit does not darken. Slices of mandarin cut into pieces, kiwi as cut into small pieces. Mix the ingredients together, pour with honey, stir again and sprinkle with pomegranate seeds.

Bakery products

Many mistakenly believe that baking is harmful to health, and in the fasting it is not recommended, because it contains eggs and milk. However, to cook lean food in the oven without eggs and milk is quite realistic.

Crazy Pie

Half a cup of flour mixed with a glass of sugar, 0.5 st cocoa, a packet of vanilla sugar, a pinch of salt and nuts (to taste), turn off the soda with vinegar and add to the dry ingredients, mix. In the mixture, pour 150 g of vegetable oil, mix thoroughly, pour a glass of water and knead to a uniform state.

Pour the dough into a greased form and distribute it evenly. Put in the oven for half an hour. While the cake is being cooked, mix 3 tbsp cocoa, 3 tbsp sugar, ½ st water, ½ tbsp. Oil (since lean food is cooked without butter, then in the glaze it is necessary to add vegetable oil), and put in a water bath. Cook until the glaze thickens. After the cake has cooled, cover it with icing, cover and set aside for several hours.

Charlotte

Six apples peeled and finely chopped, sprinkled with lemon juice, so that apples do not darken, and sprinkle them with sugar.

A tablespoon of honey mixed with ½ tbsp. Sugar, ¼ tsp cinnamon, a packet of vanilla sugar and pour ½ acres of boiling water. Stir until the sugar crystals dissolve. Pour ½ tbsp. Vegetable oil, continuing to interfere. After stirring 300 g of flour with 2 teaspoons of baking powder and a liquid mixture, remove the dough and pour into a baking tray. Lay the apples in an even layer. Set the oven for 30-35 minutes.

Preparation of lean food does not take too much time and requires minimal material costs, and this is another plus of respecting Christian traditions.