Lent is one of the main events of the Orthodox year. Believers prepare for the celebration of Easter, purifying the soul, mind and body. What can be eaten during this period and what can be prepared during fasting, you will learn from the article.

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In order not to break the fast and prepare a dish that is allowed on a particular day of abstinence, you need to know which foods are allowed and which are forbidden to eat. Lent is considered the most stringent among the rest. Particularly difficult to comply with are the first and last weeks.

On the very first day you need to completely refrain from eating. Cold, vegetable-free meals during Lent are permitted from Tuesday to Friday. Such days are called dry-eating.

On Saturday and Sunday, the fasting is the least strict. So, in the first week of fasting these days it is allowed to eat hot dishes seasoned with vegetable oil.

In the remaining 5 weeks of Lent, you should eat this way: dry eating should be observed on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and hot food can be eaten on Tuesday and Thursday, on weekends it is allowed to season food with vegetable oil, it is permissible to sip a little red wine. You can also cook holiday dishes in fasting, but they also should not contain prohibited foods.

On Lazarev Saturday, you can put fish caviar on the table. And the next day, Palm Sunday, and the use of fish dishes is allowed. But it should be noted that if the above holidays fall on the calendar for Holy Week, then during this period the use of any food of animal origin is prohibited. On Good Friday it is recommended to refrain from food, and on the day before Easter, dry eating is allowed. Dishes prepared in fasting should not only not contain prohibited foods, but also be charged with positive energy and pure thoughts of the cook.

During fasting, they are prepared only from products of plant origin. Prohibited animal foods: meat, dairy products, butter, eggs and all derivatives. You can not eat fast foods, snacks, carbonated drinks and the like. Food should be of natural vegetable origin. Dishes should not be too spicy, sharp or sweet. Such food is also an excess on the table.

From the point of view of dietetics, it can be noted that fasting dishes during fasting not only do not harm health. On the contrary, they cleanse the body of deposits and toxins, strengthen vitamins and minerals. Proper observance of fasting does not harm health due to the fact that the absence of animal food and all necessary substances is compensated by plant components. Thus, the lack of animal protein is replaced by vegetable protein due to the use of beans, peas, wheat, nuts and mushrooms. Apples, bananas and buckwheat will cover iron deficiency. Dried fruits with honey will support the immune system. Often the main dishes during fasting are prepared on the basis of various cereals. The latter carry healthy carbohydrates that will saturate the body. All kinds of vegetables and fruits will give energy and make up for the lack of nutrients, trace elements and vitamins.

From the allowed products you can cook a wide variety of simple but tasty dishes: soups, salads, snacks, main hot and cold dishes and even pies. We offer you simple, but extraordinary recipes for meals during fasting.

Italian Bean Soup

Nourishing, rich and unusual in taste, the soup will become a decoration. For its preparation you will need:

• canned beans - 200 g;
• green beans (can be frozen) - 300 g;
• 1 onion head;
• clove of garlic;
• half a liter of tomato juice;
• eggless noodles (can be prepared independently from flour and water) - 250 g;
• greens (dill, parsley, young green onions) to taste.

Cooking method

1. Cook the string beans until cooked. Throw it in a colander.
2. Chop onion and garlic finely. Strain in water in a deep soup pot. In the days when vegetable oil is allowed, you can fry.
3. Pour tomato juice into onions with garlic. Sweat for 15 minutes with the lid closed.
4. In a separate pan, boil the noodles in salted water.
5. In the languishing tomato juice with onions and garlic, add the rest of the ingredients: green beans and canned beans, noodles. Salt to taste and boil for 15 minutes.
6. Sprinkle soup with fresh herbs before serving.

Vegetable salad with avocado

What dishes to cook in fasting on dry days? Try making an unusual avocado salad. This fruit is high in calories. Therefore, the proposed salad will not only enrich with vitamins, but also saturate the body of a fasting person.
To cook it, you will need these products:

• tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
• avocado - 1 pc.;
• middle head of onion;
• cucumber - 2 pcs.;
• radish - 200 g;
• lemon juice;
• salt.

Making a salad is very simple. To do this, cut all the vegetables and avocados into cubes. Finely chop the onion and soak for 5-10 minutes in lemon juice. Then mix all the ingredients, salt. You can also fill with lemon juice or on permitted days with olive oil.

Ratatouille

From vegetables, you can also prepare delicious dishes in fasting. Recipes of vegetable salads, stews and stewed vegetables surprise with a variety of flavors. We suggest you try the original Italian vegetable dish Ratatouille. In a classic recipe, all vegetables are deep-fried before baking. We slightly modified the cooking technology and got no less tasty and even more healthy dish.

To prepare the "Ratatouille" you will need these products:

• red bell pepper - 1 pc.;
• 1 head garlic;
• 1 onion;
• zucchini - 2 pcs.;
• blue ones - 2 pcs.;
• tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
• half a liter of tomato juice;
• sea \u200b\u200bsalt;
• fresh greens.

How to cook Ratatouille

1. Peel the eggplant, cut into circles up to 1 cm wide and soak them in cold water for half an hour.
2. Peel the tomatoes by dousing them with boiling water.
3. Peel the zucchini peel.
4. To prepare the sauce, finely chopped onions and sweet peppers with a few cloves of garlic, simmer in half a glass of tomato juice until the vegetables are ready. Salt. Grind the mixture in a blender until a thick sauce is formed.
5. Put food parchment in a baking dish, pour sauce about 1 cm thick on top.
6. Spread the vegetables, alternating eggplant, zucchini, tomato so that the vegetables end-to-end fill the form, as in the photo below.
7. Now prepare the dressing. To do this, in a mortar, you need to knead the greens, sea salt and a few cloves of garlic. On permitted days, you can add olive oil. Lubricate the vegetables with the finished dressing.
8. Put the form in the oven and bake at a temperature of 180 degrees for an hour and a half - until the vegetables are ready.

Dumplings with sauerkraut

What dish to cook in fasting, surprising households and even guests? Make dumplings! Few people know that such a traditional dish can be lean and at the same time no less tasty than the original. Only the filling will have to be replaced with a vegetable one. For dumplings with sauerkraut, you need such products:

• flour - 500 g;
• glass of water;
• sunflower oil - 100 g;
• sauerkraut - 500 g;
• salt to taste.

Cooking such a dish during fasting will not take much time. First you need to cook the dough. Unfortunately, it is impossible to make it without vegetable oil - the dough will crumble. Therefore, such dumplings can please loved ones only on certain days of Lent.

In order to prepare the dough, you need to mix flour, water, and add salt to taste. Send the cool dough to the fridge for an hour. Then roll out the "sausages" from the dough. Cut them into pieces, roll out circles. Then you need to squeeze sauerkraut from excess juice. Place the filling in the middle of each circle from the dough and stick in the form of dumplings. It remains only to cook the product in salted boiling water for 5-7 minutes. Lenten dumplings with sauerkraut are ready!

Pilaf with dried fruits

What dishes to cook in the post on the main? Indeed, in Russian cuisine it is customary to consider meat treats as the main table decorations. You can offer to cook vegetable stew, cereals with mushrooms in pots, sauté, on certain days, the highlight of the diet will be fish. We offer you a satisfying pilaf. To prepare it, you need the following ingredients:

• rice (it is better to choose long-grain varieties) - 1.5 cups;
• a pair of large onions;
• carrots - 750 g;
• sun-dried dates - 150 g;
• dried apricots - 350 g;
• ginger root;
• lemon juice - 4 tbsp. l .;
• ground zira;
• ground coriander;
• ground cinnamon;
• vegetable broth - 3 glasses;
• liquid honey - 2 tbsp. l .;
• sprig of mint;
• salt.

How to cook pilaf

1. Rinse the rice and soak it in cold water for half an hour.
2. Peel the vegetables.
3. Cut the carrots into large pieces, onions into rings.
4. Finely chop the ginger.
5. Fry chopped vegetables in a saucepan. Add all the spices, salt.
6. Dried and washed dates with dried apricots in a separate pot with honey and lemon juice for 3-5 minutes.
7. Add the honey mixture to the sauté pan with sauteed vegetables.
8. Fold the rice in a colander. Then pour into a saucepan, smooth the surface and fill with vegetable broth. Cover, reduce heat and simmer without stirring while the lid is closed until rice is cooked (about 20 minutes).
9. Remove from heat. Release steam by opening the lid. Put a sprig of mint on top and close the lid. Let the dish brew for another 10-15 minutes. Fragrant pilaf is ready!

Honey gingerbread cookies

You can even cook sweet foods for fasting. Cooking home lean honey gingerbread cookies. They can pamper household members in any They will become a worthy decoration of the festive table. However, do not forget that sweet foods during Lent can not be consumed in excess.

To prepare them you will need:

• a glass of sugar;
• 500 g of liquid honey;
• a pinch of soda;
• 7 glasses of flour;
• 1 tsp lemon juice;
• 4 cups chilled purified water.

How to cook

1. Mix water, honey and sugar in a saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. Melt until sugar is completely dissolved. Then remove from heat. Let the mixture cool.
2. Knead the dough by mixing honey with flour and slaked soda with lemon juice. Put the dough in the refrigerator for half an hour.
3. Roll out the dough 2 cm wide. Squeeze out the tins.
4. Bake gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet at a temperature of 220 degrees 20 minutes.
5. You can decorate baked goods with powdered sugar or jam.

Recipes of meals during the post can be created independently, slightly modifying the classic and replacing the necessary products. Thus, original fasting dishes are obtained, which the hostess can safely serve to the festive table.

Fruit cake

What to cook holiday meals in fasting? Of course the real cake! To prepare a delicious biscuit-fruit cake, you will need such products:

• flour - 3 cups;
• one and a half glasses of fruit juice to taste;
• sugar - 400 g;
• zest from 2 oranges;
• sunflower oil - 4 tbsp. l .;
• 2 sachets of baking powder;
• vanillin - 2 packs;
• salt to taste.

For the cream, you need to prepare the following ingredients:

• sugar - 5 tbsp. l .;
• any juice - 2 glasses;
• semolina (groats) - 3 tbsp. l

Soaking cakes requires 2 large tablespoons of sugar and 500 g of juice.

Cooking cake

1. Knead the dough with the ingredients needed for the cake. Divide it in half and bake 2 biscuit cakes at a temperature of 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
2. Send one cake to the refrigerator. Leave the other on the table with a napkin.
3. Prepare the impregnation by mixing the juice with sugar. Soak her sponge cake. Then also let it cool in the refrigerator.
4. Make a cream. To do this, mix the juice with sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Then gradually introduce semolina and cook like regular porridge until cooked.
5. Cool the cream and beat thoroughly with a blender.
6. Remove the cakes from the cold. Lay them on top of each other and coat with cream on all sides.
7. Optionally, top can be decorated with nuts, coconut or fruit slices.

Conclusion

Even from a seemingly meager list of products, you can cook unusually tasty dishes in fasting. The recipes offered by us, if desired, can be improved independently, with a little imagination.

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A selection of 100 recipes for lean dishes, now you will always know what you can cook and eat in Lent.

The composition of lean kharcho soup includes rice, potatoes, onions, garlic, nuts, tomatoes. Kharcho is richly decorated with greens. It just smells sour tomatoes and spicy garlic. Lick your fingers!

Lent soup in a slow cooker is very simple to prepare. The feature of the multicooker is that the vegetables in it do not boil, remain dense and full of taste. We will cook cabbage soup from fresh vegetables.

Lenten dumplings is a versatile dish that can be served in a broth, fried and served as a snack or side dish. I will fry the dumplings and it will take me 30-40 minutes to prepare the whole dish.

Lenten salad with mushrooms is prepared from champignons, blue onions, spinach, pine nuts. Dressed with olive oil. The salad is fresh, fragrant, hearty and healthy. Give it a try!

Lenten soup with sprats is cooked very quickly and simply. For him, you need to chop all the vegetables, fry, drop them in a pan, add sprats in tomato and cook until cooked. Lick your fingers!

You can cook lean pickle with pearl barley in less than an hour. The pickle turns out to be rich, satisfying, with sourness. Barley will need to be pre-soaked for half an hour. And then it's simple.

Lenten borsch with mushrooms is a fragrant and bright first dish that will delight home with an abundance of vegetables and various tastes. This includes not only beets and mushrooms, but also cabbage, beans, bell peppers, etc.

Lenten pancakes are easy to cook. It is very tasty to serve such pancakes with smoked salmon and a sprig of dill. The dish is hearty, beautiful and should appeal to all potato lovers.

Lean crab salad can be prepared from crab meat or lean crab sticks, add herbs, vegetables, light yogurt to them. It will turn out tasty, satisfying, bright, beautiful and original. We try!

Russian cabbage soup is a national Russian dish, delicious and beloved by everyone. Lean cabbage soup with mushrooms is good for a fasting day. They will restore strength, fill the body with vitamin C, which in cabbage is abundant.

Cooking lean gingerbread can turn into an exciting experience. The dough is prepared simply, they are baked quickly, and I advise the whole family to paint the gingerbread cookies, children will especially like it.

As you know, avocado is a very nutritious fruit. Therefore, during Lent, when fasting lacks nutrients, I propose to prepare a lean avocado salad. And tasty, and satisfying.

Lenten salad with squid is prepared from canned squid, fresh vegetables, herbs and spices. This salad is not only tasty, but also healthy. In addition, it is light and fresh.

Lean borsch in a slow cooker is prepared from vegetables for two hours. It turns out a very delicious thick borscht, filled with aromas of vegetables. In a slow cooker, they open remarkably and retain their shape.

If during the post you wanted chebureks, do not despair - they can be prepared with lean filling, and with a lean test. I used a filling of lentils - it turned out very tasty.

Lenten strudel is cooked without oil. It turns out fragrant pastries with a lot of apple filling, which is ideal for tea drinking. Preparing such a lean strudel for about two hours.

Use this recipe and cook such lean bean cutlets that no one can distinguish from meat. Very tasty and satisfying.

Bright, delicate and fragrant carrot lean cutlets will diversify and decorate your table on fasting days. Tasty and healthy at the same time. I share the recipe.

Very tasty lean cakes, which can be served with almost any dish instead of bread. A simple recipe for lean cakes is relevant not only for fasting, but also for vegetarians.

During fasting, I also sometimes want to treat myself to aromatic pilaf - and this is quite possible if you replace the meat with mushrooms! The recipe for lean pilaf with mushrooms - for fasting days and not only.

Lenten coleslaw is very refreshing and light. A find for those who are losing weight is a minimum of calories due to cucumber and vinegar. It is good to include it in a complex side dish to a bird 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. Tasty and healthy!

Lenten dumplings with two types of fillings made of turnip and sauerkraut - a budget dish that can saturate a whole horde of hungry adults. Fantastically delicious dish, despite its cheapness.

Lent is the time to cleanse the body. But what if the stomach insistently requires rich soups? The simple answer to this question is a lean hodgepodge. Well, how to cook it - read on.

Do all beloved and well-known lean dumplings with potatoes need to be introduced by everyone? Despite the cheapness of the ingredients, dumplings with potatoes are always a success. I share the recipe.

If during Lent you decided to make pies, then a simple recipe for lean dough for pies is sure to come in handy. Knead a lean pastry for pies is easy enough - I tell you how.

Lenten pies with potatoes - pies that contradict the laws of physics. They can be eaten more than physically fit into a person. Verified personally. A simple recipe for lean patties with potatoes - for you!

Lean pies with cabbage are classic Russian pies, which are usually made during fasting, although, in principle, you can successfully cook them all year round. The recipe is extremely simple, worth a try.

Lean cabbage soup is an excellent hot soup for those who fast or just want to arrange a fasting day. Cabbage soup is prepared simply and from the available ingredients, but it turns out - just a jumble.

If you like beans, then the recipe for stewed beans with tomatoes you will surely like and come in handy. A simple way to cook such a trivial product like beans is delicious.

Beetroot patties are a great low-calorie recipe for anyone who follows a healthy diet. Serve them to the table simply with sour cream as an independent dish, or with any side dish.

Make a snack of zucchini! I offer zucchini in Algerian. Zucchini is spicy with a sweet and sour taste. All friends like it, I recommend it!

The Greek recipe for potatoes will delight all vegetable lovers. This bright, beautiful and tasty dish will fit perfectly into the vegetarian menu, but it will be quite appropriate on the meat-eaters table too! :)

Fried potatoes, mushrooms ... Yes, even sour cream, and onions, and fresh herbs .. Well, how did salivating flow? Then try to cook champignons with potatoes - millet, fast, very tasty!

The easiest and fastest way to make beetroot salad is in this recipe. Minimum ingredients and many benefits!

Borsch with mushrooms and beans is a real storehouse of protein for vegetarians and a very hearty meal for those who fast. The classic recipe for borsch 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. Cooking with a slow cooker is easy, but eating is nice!;)

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 simple, but bright, beautiful and very tasty salad does not conflict with the requirements of fasting, it is suitable for diet food and a vegetarian menu. Try it! :)

In fact, this wonderful salad is very similar to vinaigrette, so this is a wonderful combination of sauerkraut, peas and beets, not only very tasty, but also useful.

A wonderful tasty and healthy side dish, which is perfect for meat or fish, but at the same time it can be an independent dish for every day.

The classic recipe for lean carving is useful not only for Orthodox believers, but also for everyone who is trying to limit themselves in the consumption of butter dough. Details are in the recipe!

A simple recipe for lean bread in a bread maker is relevant not only during fasting days - it is useful to everyone who monitors their health and weight, regardless of the time of year!

A simple breaded broccoli recipe will enrich your menu with another light and tasty vegetable side dish. With sesame seeds and soy sauce - it's just magical! :)

A light, tasty and very healthy dish of carrots is suitable for lovers of vegetarian food, as well as for those who keep the fast or follow the figure.

Braised cabbage with carrots is a versatile dish that can be cooked both on holidays and on ordinary days. In addition, stewed cabbage with carrots can be served as a side dish.

Korean style potato is not a hot dish or a side dish, but a delicious spicy salad. Fans of everything "spicy" should definitely learn how to cook potatoes in Korean!

I think this recipe for preparing lean bean soup can be useful not only for fasting. First of all, to the attention of vegetarians, but we ask all the other favors at our table! :)

The recipe for making lean pie with jam without eggs and dairy products is useful to everyone who observes fasting, as well as monitor their health and weight.

Wonderful seasonal side dish of fresh vegetables, which is perfect for any meat. You can use it as an independent dish, in any case it is very tasty.

Can't vegetable cutlets be tasty? In fact, this is far from the case. Try to cook cabbage zrazy and you will be surprised how appetizing vegetables can be.

A simple but no less tasty vegetable salad, which will be a great addition to meat and poultry dishes. So, the salad recipe with cabbage and corn is a tasty, light and healthy dish!

Dedicated to lovers of tasty and healthy food - a simple salad recipe with mushrooms champignons with a photo!

Beetroot patties are a great alternative to meat patties. Moreover, they are much more useful than the last!

I offer you a simple recipe for Armenian bean soup lobahash - tasty, healthy and completely vegetarian! At the same time, so satisfying that even inveterate meat-eaters will appreciate;).

I suggest you learn how to cook bell peppers with vegetables, and another tasty and healthy dish will appear in your summer menu!

Carrots with cheese and garlic - a wonderful salad with excellent taste and healthy properties. In addition, this salad is very easy to prepare.

Solyanka is not only a delicious soup, but also a wonderful side dish of cabbage, the preparation of which, in the presence of a slow cooker, turns into a real pleasure!

Probably every housewife has her own signature recipe for eggplant rolls. What only they do not wrap - carrots, cottage cheese, cheese, greens, tomatoes! - but most of all I like such rolls with nuts. Give it a try!

Young potatoes in a slow cooker are easy and simple to cook. This is the first dish that I have mastered by buying a slow cooker. It turned out fine - delicious golden brown potatoes and all in one bowl!

Champignons - an indispensable product during fasting. There are many recipes for lean mushroom dishes, 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 cook stewed celery with vegetables - a simple and very tasty dish.

Beetroot patties are very healthy, tasty and satisfying. This dish will delight everyone: from lovers of delicious food to people who want to lose a couple of extra pounds.

Many people like asparagus in Korean. But usually the price for this salad in the market decently bites. And let's cook it ourselves! And as much as we want.

I bring to your attention a delicious, fragrant potato with vegetables in a pot. You can cook this dish from what is in the refrigerator, the ingredients in this option can be replaced by others.

Bean salads are always appetizing and satisfying. I suggest you cook a bright salad that will not leave indifferent any gourmet. I promise it will be beautiful and delicious!

When you want not only healthy, but also delicious vegetables, try cooking spicy carrots with marinade. This dish will be an excellent side dish for meat.

Boiled potato salad is great for garnishing. You can serve it with a meat or fish dish. Or as a snack.

I suggest you cook carrots in tomato at home. A universal appetizer - and for sandwiches, and as a dressing for the first dishes, and as a sauce for side dishes. Yes, and very tasty, healthy and fast!

Most vegetarians are better versed in vegetables, their beneficial properties better than regular meat eaters. This recipe for vegetarian broccoli puree was told by a vegetarian friend of mine. Very tasty.

White bean paste is one of the most delicious and healthy snacks that I prepare for my family. The composition of the paste includes fresh herbs and lemon juice.

I personally cook porridge with carrots at home very often, it’s painfully simple and satisfying dish, so I advise you to try. Great for all kinds of salads and cutlets!

Your attention - a classic recipe for stewed potatoes with vegetables, a dish that is ideal for fasting and for the delicious disposal of the abundance of seasonal vegetables. Everything is fast, tasty and at the same time affordable.

The traditional Belarusian dish - draniki - is loved by everyone and always reminds of childhood. Hearty, fragrant pancakes can be prepared in the post. Lenten potato pancakes differ from the modest ones only in the absence of eggs and serve without cream. But this circumstance in no way impairs their taste! Lenten pancakes can be served with mushroom sauce, lean bean or pea mayonnaise, as well as just with fried onions and garlic - it will be delicious anyway. ›

Beans, like all legumes, are the first source of protein in the body during fasting. Lenten bean dishes should be frequent guests on our table. From beans, you can cook both first and second courses, as well as snacks, a filling for pies and even mayonnaise! ›

The tradition of baking dough birds comes from centuries old. The day of the spring equinox was a momentous event, because it was from this day that the Slavic New Year began, and with it new worries and joys. Be that as it may, we will all bake lean larks on this day, and we all spend the winter together in its chambers and finally meet spring! It’s better to cook lean larks together with the kids, because they love to sculpt little birds so much! Moreover, it is not difficult at all. ›

For many centuries, a great many recipes of lean buns from different types of flour, with various additives and fillings, have gathered in the cuisine of many peoples of the world. Our site will share with you only part of these recipes. Lenten buns will be a pleasant sweet addition to your table during fasting. ›

Lenten table can and should be varied! Otherwise, the post turns not just into a rejection of animal products, but into a mockery of oneself. Lenten potato dishes, the recipes of which we have selected for you, prove that even from simple ingredients you can cook many different dishes. This is the first and second courses, and salads, and snacks - in general, there is plenty to choose from. ›

Lent in 2019 is held from March 11 to April 27, marking cardinal changes in the diet of all believers. Lent is one of the strictest fasts in the church calendar, starting seven weeks before Easter and lasting 48 days. ›

There is a post in the yard, and we, as a sin, remember pancakes, and we are asked to cook at home, and so I want to please them with delicious pancakes. And, it seems, what kind of pancakes are without eggs and milk, however, there are lean pancakes in which these important ingredients are replaced by others, as a result they turn out to be no worse than the usual and beloved pancakes. ›

Almost every morning begins with the ringing of the alarm clock, and the time of Lent is no exception, we are still in a hurry to work, managing to drop into the shower, get together and even have breakfast. But if we can usually get by with an omelet or a sandwich with sausage or cheese, then during Lent, breakfast should not contain animal products. ›

Fasting is not the time to give up your favorite foods. Do you want cutlets? Let's cook lean cutlets, there are so many recipes that just your eyes run wide. ›

Lent is not only time for the spiritual, but also for physical cleansing. Many worry that they will have to eat tasteless dishes, but this is not entirely true, because today there is simply a huge number of delicious recipes for lean dishes without oil. ›

The upcoming post gives our body a great opportunity to take a break from mayonnaise and other dressings based on it and eat plenty of live vitamins, so needed in the spring. ›

As you know, Lent brings a whole series of food restrictions to our lives. You will have to give up many familiar products, and it may seem that there is simply nothing to cook tasty dishes from. However, housewives even need to prepare lean dishes so that they please the home with excellent taste and variety. ›

The main meaning of fasting is not a restriction in food, but a cleansing of the soul. However, soul health and bodily health are closely related.

Therefore, do not go to extremes and make your own lean menu for every day from water and bread.

We offer a menu in which excluded products are prohibited. The composition of the ingredients of the recipes meat and meat products, milk and dairy products, fish, eggs are not included.

At the same time, nutrition remains varied and beneficial for health: it contains a lot of vegetables, fruits, legumes, cereals. The menu even includes lean baking, but if you decide to do without sweets during the post, you can exclude it. All links are clickable and lead to pages with lean recipes. At the very end there is also a list of products on the menu for every day.

Monday

Breakfast.
Dinner.
An afternoon snack.
Dinner.

Nutritionist Comment: Wheat porridge. Wheat is an excellent source of dietary fiber, gives a feeling of satiety. It also contains Vit E, F, B1, B2, B6, C, PP, carotene, niacin, choline, biotin, folacin and trace elements (potassium, magnesium, sulfur, selenium, chromium, zinc). Pea soup. Legumes as a source of protein - a mandatory component of the lean menu. A fruit basket cake is a fairly high-calorie dessert, but if you lead an active lifestyle, you can treat yourself. If you have a sedentary lifestyle, then such a dessert can be transferred to lunch. Sauerkraut salad with potatoes and mushrooms. In order not to gain excess weight, it is preferable not to eat more than 50 g of potatoes in the evening.

Tuesday

Breakfast.
Dinner.
An afternoon snack. Fruit of your choice
Dinner.  (without butter and eggs) +

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Wednesday

Breakfast.
Dinner.
An afternoon snack.Fruit of your choice
Dinner.

Thursday

Breakfast.
Dinner.
An afternoon snack.
Dinner.

Friday

Breakfast.
Dinner.
An afternoon snack.
Dinner. +

Saturday

Breakfast.
Dinner.
An afternoon snack.
Dinner.

Sunday

Breakfast.
Dinner.
An afternoon snack.
Dinner. +

The proposed menu must be supplemented with fresh vegetables and fruits in sufficient quantities.

List of Essential Products for Lenten Menu

Vegetables, fruits, mushrooms, greens

Zucchini - 3 pcs.
  Zucchini - 1 pc.
  Onions - 1 kg
  Tomato - 2 kg
  Garlic - 3 heads
  Chili pepper - 1/2 pod
  White cabbage - 1 kg
  Sauerkraut - 200 g
  Potato - 2 kg
  Carrots - 500 g
  Sun-dried tomatoes - 15-20 pieces
  Cucumber - 3 pcs.
  Eggplant - 1 pc.
  Sweet pepper - 4 pcs.
  Banana - 1 piece
  Apple - 3 pcs.
  Orange - 3 pcs.
  Lemon - 3 pcs.
  Pomegranate - 1/2 pcs.
  Pear - 3 pcs.
  Strawberry - 100 g
  Raspberries - 100 g
  Blueberries - 100 g
  Fruit - to taste and availability for baskets
  Parsley - 4 buns + to taste
  Mint - 1 bunch
  Cilantro - 1 bunch
  Dill - 2 tbsp. l + to taste
  Basil - 1 bunch
  Forest mushrooms - 550 g
  Champignons - 12 amount (large)
  Dry mushrooms - 30 g
  Any fruit - as much as you want for snacks

Cereals, pasta, legumes

Wheat - 350 g (coarse, medium wheat, bulgur)
  Peas - 1 tbsp.
  Oatmeal flakes - 160 g
  Rice - 0.5 tbsp.
  Bulgur - 0.5 tbsp.
  Pearl barley - 200 g
  Noodles - 40 g (or vermicelli or other small pasta)
  Chickpea - 200 g
  Macaroni - 300 g
  Buckwheat - 1 tbsp.

Nuts, dried fruits, seeds

Dried apricots - 6-8 pcs.
  Almonds - 70 g
  Pine Nuts - 30 g
  Walnuts - 50 g
  Cashew Nuts - 190 g
  Pumpkin seeds - 3 tbsp. l

Groceries and other products

Tomato paste - 300 g
  Tomatoes in their own juice - 150 g
  Brown Sugar - 200 g
  Sugar - 250 g
  Powdered sugar - for sprinkling
  Vegetable oil - 600 g
  Olive oil - 500 g
  Grape Seed Oil - 150 g
  Honey - 125 g
  Wheat flour - 1 kg 750 g
  Whole grain flour - 140 g (wheat)
  Flaxseed flour - 1 tbsp. (ground flaxseed)
  Dough baking powder - 1.5 tsp.
  Dry yeast - 10 g
  Live yeast - 20 g
  Vinegar - 1 tsp.
  Apple cider vinegar - 1 tsp.
  Wine red vinegar - 1 tbsp. l
  Balsamic vinegar - 1.5 tbsp. l
  Canned beans - 650 g
  Soda - 0.5 tsp.
  Coconut flakes - 40 g
  Black tea - 1 tbsp.
  Caper - 1 tbsp. l
  Rye bread for toasts and sandwiches
  Coconut milk - 1 dessert spoon
  Vegetable broth - 2.5 L
  Dry white wine - 70 g
  Apple juice - 420 ml
  Soy milk - 255 ml

Seasonings, spices

Salt - 15 g + to taste
  Cinnamon - 2 tsp. ground + 2 sticks
  Caraway seeds - 1 tsp. (seeds)
  Bay leaf - 3 leaves
  Black pepper - to taste
  Ankara - 1 star
  Ground nutmeg - 1 tsp.
  Sweet paprika - 1 pinch
  Suneli hops - 1/2 tsp.
Sesame paste - 1 tbsp. l (Thina)
  Zira - to taste
  Thyme - 0.5 tsp dried
  Oregano - 0.5 tsp. dried
  Rosemary - 2-3 branches
  Grain mustard - 1 tsp.
  Soy sauce - 2 tbsp. l
  A set of spices to taste

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

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

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

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

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

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

We will need:

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

Cooking:

1. Flaxseed grind in a coffee grinder in flour. Then pour it in 2.5 tbsp. tablespoons of flour and let stand for 15 minutes. Get a thick jelly-like mass that will replace us with eggs.

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

3. Add salt, sugar and soda and mix.

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

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

If the dough turns out a little thick, then you can add a little warm water. If you want pancakes to be thin, start the dough thinner.

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

7. Serve can be watered with honey. Eat with pleasure!

  Baked pumpkin and olives salad (olives)

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

We will need:

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

Cooking:

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

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

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

4. Add pumpkin, chopped olives or olives, chopped onion, and sprinkle oregano.

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

  Pickled Beetroot Appetizer

We will need:

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

Cooking:

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

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

3. Onion cut into very thin half rings.

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

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

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

Such beets can be eaten as an appetizer, as an addition to side dishes, or used as dressing for lean borsch. And you can just spread on bread and eat as a small snack.

  Soup - mashed green peas

We will need:

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

Cooking:

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

2. Finely chop the celery. Defrost green peas.

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

4. In a frying pan, warm the oil and fry the onions until golden brown, then add the carrots and simmer all together for another 5 minutes.

5. Then put the contents in a pan to the vegetables, add mint, salt and pepper to taste. Cook together for 5 to 7 minutes.

6. Grind the vegetables in the soup using a submersible blender until mashed. Serve with croutons, which you can cook yourself.

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

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

In addition to soups, you can also cook regular soups. And almost any - and, and, and. We cook everything, as usual, but only without meat.

But I would like to talk separately about legumes and bean soups - this and the soup are also so delicious as lentil soup. Such soups are tasty and nutritious, both with the use of meat products, and without them. And this is no coincidence, legumes are rich in protein, it’s just a storehouse of useful vitamins and minerals.

  Lentil soup

Unfortunately, few people cook lentil dishes now. But in vain, these are not only delicious dishes, but also also healthy. Today we also have on our menu potato casserole with lentil minced meat, but now soup.

You can cook such a soup with meat, it is delicious, but you can cook it in fasting. Moreover, this does not affect the taste.

We will need:

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

Cooking:

1. Sort the lentils and rinse thoroughly. It is necessary to sort it out, since it can contain small pebbles.

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

2. Potatoes cut into medium-sized cubes. Carrots and celery with thin straws, onions in small cubes or thin half rings. Chop the garlic. Cut half a lemon into thin slices.

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

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

5. Pour the remaining oil into the same frying pan and fry the onions first, then the carrots with celery. Passer time will be 5 - 7 minutes. Add spices 2 minutes before cooking. Ground moss and coriander are well suited for masha. And you can add paprika, it will give a good color and add taste.

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

7. Put the stewed vegetables with tomato in a pot with soup. Pour in soy sauce and add chopped lemon. Allow to boil and cook all together for 15 to 20 minutes.

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

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

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

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

  Granola

Granola is homemade granola made from oatmeal, nuts, dried fruits and honey. This delicious and healthy breakfast is often prepared in America, and recently it has become very popular with us. And it is no coincidence that granola is just a storehouse of various vitamins, minerals and useful substances that perfectly affect the metabolism. And such a product will definitely not be superfluous in the post.

We will need:

• oatmeal - 300 gr
• mix nuts - 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 teaspoon
• raisins - 100 gr
• flaxseed - 1 tbsp. spoon
• salt - 0.5 teaspoon

Cooking:

1. Prepare a mixture of nuts, here you can use any nuts - hazelnuts, almonds, walnuts, cashews, etc. They must be chopped, but left with sufficiently large pieces, you can use a blender for this.

2. Squeeze the juice from the orange, it should turn out 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 warm until the honey is completely dissolved, and the mass becomes homogeneous.

4. Pour oatmeal into a large bowl, add sunflower and pumpkin seeds, as well as almond petals and chopped nuts.

5. Pour in a bowl of honey and mix so that all dry ingredients are evenly coated with it.

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

7. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and place a baking sheet in it. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes. Pour out and mix every 10 minutes. All ingredients must be baked evenly.

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

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

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

10. Eat for breakfast, serving with milk.

And below is another recipe that may also come in handy.

This is a simpler recipe with a smaller composition of ingredients, and you yourself can choose which one you prefer. Or cook them in two versions at once. Fasting lasts a long time, so granola will not be superfluous.

  Millet porridge with fruits

We will need:

• millet groats - 0.5 cups
• sugar - 2 tsp
• salt - a pinch
• ground cinnamon - a pinch
• pear (any dried fruit can be) - 1 pc (200 gr)
• apple - 1 pc
• parsley or mint

Cooking:

1. Thoroughly rinse millet in plenty of cold water. Then pour it into the pan and pour cold water so that it completely covers the cereal. Boil. Then drain the water, and rinse millet under running water.

2. Pour millet again with water, this time we need 1.5 cups. Bring to a boil, salt to taste, then reduce the heat and simmer on low heat for 20 minutes. During this time, the porridge should be fully prepared.

3. Grind porridge in a blender bowl until smooth.

4. If you use fresh fruits, then they must be cleaned of 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.

You can also use any canned fruit.

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

6. Serve with a sprig of mint or parsley.

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

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

And in addition to rice and millet, delicious porridge can be prepared 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

Cooking:

1. Thoroughly rinse the barley and soak in 1 liter of cold water for several hours, or even overnight.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Pumpkin with champignons and celery stewed in a pan

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

Cooking:

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

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

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

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

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

If frozen mushrooms are used, then defrosting them is not necessary. Can be sent to the pan directly from the freezer.

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

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

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

  Potato casserole with lentils - shepherd’s pie

Everyone loves, and as soon as she is not cooked. We prepared it, and even in several different ways. But they all cooked with minced meat. And today we have a lean menu, so I have a great recipe for you, tested. When you eat such a cooked casserole right away and you don’t understand that it is vegetarian, it looks so much and, most importantly, it tastes like usual.

When I first prepared it for my son, he could not believe for a long time that it does not contain a gram of meat, and for a long time he picked his fork, looking for what was wrong with her. But he didn’t pick anything, since everything in her was as it should.

We will need:

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

Cooking:

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

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

3. Peel and dice the onion. Cut the cabbage into strips.

4. Warm the butter in a pan and fry the onion in it until golden brown. Then add the cabbage, fry for a short time and pour the broth. Cover and simmer until cooked.

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

6. Then add the lentils, and stew all together.

7. Mashed potatoes. Out of fasting, you can add a little butter, milk or hard cheese. But we are preparing for the post, so we are not adding 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 walls of the mold with vegetable oil and lay out half the mashed potatoes.

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

10. Top with the remaining mashed potatoes.

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

12. Remove the finished form, allow to cool slightly. Then open it and cut into segments, eat with pleasure!

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

  Dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms

Well, and how without dumplings? This is a favorite dish that is used not only in fasting. And we already cooked, very tasty and mouth-watering. By the way, the recipe also gives the option of making an excellent dough.

And today we’ll make the filling more complicated and prepare dumplings with mushrooms as well. Mushrooms are known to be pure protein. And in the post, in the absence of meat, he will be very welcome.

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

We will need:

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

Cooking:

1. Peel and cut the potatoes into cubes or small slices. Pour a little water, it should only slightly cover the potatoes. Bring to a boil and cook for 20 minutes. You do not need to salt water.

2. Drain the potato broth into a separate pot and add salt to taste. You should get about 500 ml. decoction.

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

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

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

Stir the filling.

5. Now we are preparing the dough. To do this, add vegetable oil to a warm potato broth and add the sifted flour in parts. Each time it must be thoroughly mixed.

When you have added all the flour, put the dough on a table sprinkled with flour and knead the dough thoroughly, kneading it for at least 5 - 7 minutes. It should be sticky, but do not be afraid. Cover the dough with a film or a bowl and let stand at room temperature for 15 to 20 minutes.

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

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

8. Put the filling and connect the edges, while you can curl them up with a pigtail or just connect the edges with teeth.

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

After the water boils again, it is necessary to wait until all the dumplings have surfaced. Now you need to reduce the heat and cook them for another 2 minutes.

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

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

  Potato gnocchi with pumpkin

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

We will need:

• potatoes - 200 gr
• pumpkin pulp - 200 gr
• garlic - 2 cloves
• flour - 2 - 2, 5 cups
• olive oil - 2 - 3 tbsp. spoons
• nutmeg - a pinch
• fresh greens
• salt, pepper - to taste

Cooking:

1. Peel potatoes and pumpkin and cut into 2 by 2 cm cubes. Pour in 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 vegetable broth into a bowl, and chop the vegetables in mashed potatoes using a blender. Allow them to cool slightly.

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

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

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

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

7. Spread the gnocchi on a tray sprinkled with flour and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

8. In a large saucepan, warm the water, salt it and put the gnocchi in it. Shuffle with a slotted spoon so that they do not hit the bottom. After they pop up, cook for another three minutes.

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

  Chickpea hummus

We will need:

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

Cooking:

1. Grind sesame seeds in a coffee grinder in flour, add a spoonful of olive oil and mix. We get tahini paste, it is the main ingredient for hummus. Sometimes it can be bought at a store, but it is rarely sold here.

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

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

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

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

6. Add the two remaining and minced cloves of garlic, squeeze the lemon juice and pour the remaining oil. Beat the mixture until light mashed potatoes.

7. Put hummus on a plate, sprinkle with fresh herbs, pour 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.

  Lenten buckwheat cutlets

It happens that sometimes boiled buckwheat remains. Cook the porridge, don’t eat it right away and it stands in the fridge. 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 this is not in the post, then with the addition of a small amount of minced meat.

The cutlets taste like they are completely meaty.

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

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

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

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

  Lean apple muffins

We will need:

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

Cooking:

1. Wash, dry and cut the apples into halves. Remove the core, do not peel 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. Let cool slightly, then use a spoon to remove all the flesh. Cut the banana and crush everything with a fork until smoothie.

3. Add vegetable oil and mix.

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

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

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

7. Remove from the molds and serve.

  Vitamin Smoothie

Using 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.

Cooking:

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

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

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

You can use apples, pears, kiwi, tangerines and all commercially available fruits for smoothies. And you can cook smoothies with vegetables.

Here is the menu we got for today.

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

I hope that you liked today's recipes, and having prepared them, you will not remain hungry. All recipes turned out as a selection - hearty, nutritious and very tasty.

Enjoy your meal! And fast for HEALTH!