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

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

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

Basic principles of proper nutrition in fasting

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

Lenten menu for the week

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Neither the body will be cleansed without fasting and prayer, nor the soul without mercy and truth. (Philokalia)

holiday recipes meatless dishes You will find in this article. Lenten pies, main courses, soups and salads - we have selected for you only the best recipes.

Lenten Recipes

Lean salads

Salad of cabbage, carrots, apples and sweet peppers

washed white cabbage cut into strips, grind with a small amount of salt, drain the juice, mix with peeled chopped apples, carrots, sweet peppers, season with sugar and vegetable oil. Sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.

300 g cabbage, 2 apples, 1 carrot, 100 g sweet pepper, 4 tablespoons vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon sugar, herbs.

Beet caviar

Finely chop the onion, grate the carrot coarse grater. Fry everything in vegetable oil until golden brown. Then add grated fresh beets. Five minutes before it's ready, add salt to taste and tomato paste.

1 onion, 1 carrot, 3-4 medium beets, 100 g vegetable oil, 1/2 cup tomato paste diluted with water, salt.

Radish salad with butter

Peel and rinse the radish well, put it in cold water for 15-20 minutes, then let the water drain, chop the radish on a grater, season with vegetable oil, salt and vinegar, put in a salad bowl, garnish with herbs. You can add chopped onion sautéed in vegetable oil to the grated radish.

Radish 120 g, vegetable oil 10 g, vinegar 3 g, onion 15 g, greens.

vitamin salad

Finely chop fresh cabbage, grate carrots on a coarse grater. Mix everything and salt. Add green pea(canned). Pour vinegar, vegetable oil, sprinkle with black pepper and herbs. Can add fresh cucumbers and green onions.

300 g fresh cabbage, 1 large carrot, 5 tablespoons of peas, salt, 1 tablespoon of vinegar. 10 g vegetable oil, 2 g black pepper.

Tomatoes stuffed with mixed vegetables

Wash the tomatoes, cut off the top with a sharp knife, take out the core with a spoon. boiled carrots finely chop, chop the apple finely, grate the cucumbers on a coarse grater. Put all vegetables in a bowl, add peas, salt, vegetable oil and stir. Stuff the tomatoes with this stuffing. Sprinkle dill on top.

5 small tomatoes, 1 carrot, 1 apple, 2 pickles, 100 g green canned peas, 2 tbsp vegetable oil, 1/3 tsp salt, dill.

rice salad

Boil rice in salted water. Chop vegetables, mix with chilled rice, salt, sprinkle with pepper, add sugar and vinegar to taste.

100 g rice, 2 sweet peppers, 1 tomato, 1 carrot, 1 pickled cucumber, 1 onion.

Lenten first courses

Vegetable soup

Fry chopped onion, parsley and celery in vegetable oil, add water, put chopped carrots, turnips and shredded cabbage and cook over low heat for 20-30 minutes. Approximately in the middle of cooking, add crushed garlic, seasonings; put applesauce or grated apple at the very end. Serving on the table, sprinkle the soup with chopped herbs.

2 onions, 1 parsley root, celery, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 1 liter of water, 2 carrots, 1 slice of rutabaga, 1 cup of finely shredded cabbage (150 g), a clove of garlic, 1 Bay leaf, 1/2 teaspoon cumin, 1 apple or 2 tablespoons applesauce, salt, herbs.

Lean pea soup

Pour peas in the evening cold water and leave to swell, prepare the noodles.

For noodles, half a glass of flour should be mixed well with three tablespoons of vegetable oil, add a spoonful of cold water, salt, leave the dough for an hour to swell. Thinly rolled and dried dough cut into strips, dry in the oven.

Boil the swollen peas, without draining the water, until half cooked, add the fried onion, diced potatoes, noodles, pepper, salt and simmer until potatoes and noodles are done.

Peas - 50 g, potatoes - 100 g, onions - 20 g, water - 300 g, onion frying oil - 10 g, parsley, salt, pepper to taste.

Russian lean soup

Weld pearl barley, add fresh cabbage cut into small squares, potatoes and roots cut into cubes into the broth and cook until tender. In summer you can add fresh tomatoes, cut into slices, which are laid simultaneously with potatoes.

Sprinkle with parsley or dill when serving.

Potatoes, cabbage - 100 g each, onions - 20 g, carrots - 20 g, pearl barley - 20 g, dill, salt to taste.

Borscht with mushrooms

Prepared mushrooms are stewed in oil along with chopped roots. boiled beets grated or cut into strips. Potatoes cut into oblong pieces are boiled in broth until soft, other products are added (flour is mixed with a small amount of cold liquid) and everything is boiled together for 10 minutes. Greens are put in the soup before serving. If tomato puree is added, then it is stewed together with mushrooms.

200 g fresh or 30 g dried porcini mushrooms, 1 tbsp vegetable oil, 1 onion, some celery or parsley, 2 small beets (400 g), 4 potatoes, salt, 1-2 liters of water, 1 teaspoon flour, 2 -3 tbsp. spoons of greens, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of tomato puree, vinegar.

Peppers, eggplant, stuffed zucchini

Peel peppers, eggplants, young zucchini from stalks and seeds (cut off the peel from zucchini) and stuff minced vegetable, which includes finely chopped onions, carrots, cabbage, taken in equal shares, and 1/10 of their total parsley and celery. All vegetables going to minced meat, pre-fry in vegetable oil. Also fry eggplants, peppers and zucchini stuffed. Then put in a deep metal bowl, pour 2 glasses tomato juice and place in the oven for 30-45 minutes. for baking.

Tikhvin porridge

Rinse the peas, boil them in water without adding salt, and when the water is boiled down by 1/3 and the peas are almost ready, add the prodel and cook until tender. Then season with finely chopped onion, fried in butter, and salt.

1/2 cup peas, 1.5 liters of water, 1 cup of buckwheat, 2 onions, 4 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil.

Simple stew

Cut the raw potatoes into large cubes and in a wide frying pan, in vegetable oil, as quickly as possible (over high heat) and fry evenly on all sides until golden brown. As soon as a crust forms, fold the still half-baked potatoes into clay pot, cover with finely chopped herbs, onions, salt, add boiling water, close the lid and put in the oven for 1 minute. Ready stew is eaten with cucumbers (fresh or salted), sauerkraut.

1 kg potatoes, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 1 tbsp. dill spoon, 1 tbsp. parsley spoon, 1 onion, 1/2 cup water, salt.

Stewed cabbage

Finely chop the onion, put in a pan with vegetable oil and fry until golden brown. Then add finely chopped cabbage and fry until half cooked. For 10 min. before the end, add salt, tomato paste, red or black ground pepper, sweet pea and bay leaf. Close the pan with a lid. Sprinkle with herbs before serving.

2 medium onions, 1 small cabbage, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, salt, pepper, 2-3 peas allspice, 1 bay leaf, 1/2 cup tomato paste, thinned with water.

Potatoes in garlic sauce

Rinse the peeled potatoes and dry with a towel. Cut each potato in half. Heat most of the vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the potatoes until golden brown. Then cook garlic Sause. To do this, rub the garlic with salt, add 2 tablespoons sunflower oil and stir. Drizzle fried potatoes with garlic sauce.

10 small potatoes, half a glass of sunflower oil, 6 cloves of garlic, 2 teaspoons of salt.

Rice and oatmeal porridge

Rinse rice and oats, mix and pour the mixture into boiling water. Keep on high heat for 12 minutes, then reduce the heat to medium and hold for another 5-8 minutes, then remove from heat, wrap warm and only after 15-20 minutes. open the lid. Ready porridge season with fried onion and finely chopped garlic and dill. Heat in a frying pan over low heat for 3-4 minutes.

1.5 cups of rice, 0.75 cups of oats, 0.7 liters of water, 2 teaspoons of salt, 1 onion, 4-5 cloves of garlic, 4-5 tablespoons of sunflower oil, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of dill.

Potato cutlets with prunes

Make a puree from 400 grams of boiled potatoes, salt, add half a glass of vegetable oil, half a glass warm water and enough flour to make a soft dough.

Let stand for about twenty minutes so that the flour swells, at this time prepare the prunes - peel it from the stones, pour boiling water over it.

Roll out the dough, cut into mugs with a glass, put prunes in the middle of each, form cutlets, pinching the dough in the form of pies, roll each cutlet in breadcrumbs and fry in a frying pan in a large amount of vegetable oil.

Potato fritters

Grate some of the potatoes, boil some, drain the water, salt and add the onion finely chopped and fried in vegetable oil. All potato mass mix, add flour and soda and bake pancakes from the resulting dough in vegetable oil.

750 g grated raw potatoes, 500 g of boiled potatoes (mashed potatoes), 3 tablespoons of flour, 0.5 teaspoons of soda.

Rice with vegetables

Heat oil in a frying pan, fry onions, carrots, Bell pepper. Then add lightly boiled rice, salt, pepper, a little water and simmer for another 15 minutes. Bring to readiness, rice should absorb all the liquid. Then add green peas, parsley and dill.

2 full glasses of rice, 100 g of vegetable oil, 3 onions, 1 carrot, salt, pepper, 3 sweet peppers, 0.5 l of water, 5 tablespoons of green peas.

lean mushrooms

mushroom vinaigrette

Mushrooms and onions are chopped, boiled carrots, beets, potatoes and cucumbers are cut into cubes, mixed. The oil is seasoned with vinegar and seasonings, they are poured over the salad. Sprinkle with herbs on top.

150 g pickled or salted mushrooms, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 small beetroot, 2-3 potatoes, 1 pickle, 3 tbsp vegetable oil, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vinegar, salt, sugar, mustard, pepper, dill and parsley.

mushroom caviar

Fresh mushrooms stewed in own juice until the juice has evaporated. Salted mushrooms are soaked to remove excess salt, dried mushrooms soak, boil and let the water drain in a colander. Then the mushrooms are finely chopped and mixed with chopped onion, lightly fried in vegetable oil. The mixture is seasoned, sprinkled with finely chopped green onions on top.

400 g fresh, 200 g salted or 500 g dried mushrooms, 1 onion, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil, salt, pepper, vinegar or lemon juice, green onions.

stewed mushrooms

The oil is heated, put into it thinly sliced ​​mushrooms and chopped onions. TO boiled mushrooms add the broth fresh mushrooms stew in its own juice for 15-20 minutes. By the end of the stew, salt and herbs are added. Served as a side dish boiled potatoes and raw vegetable salad.

500 g fresh or 300 g boiled (salted) mushrooms, 2 tbsp. tablespoons vegetable oil, 1 onion, salt, 1/2 cup mushroom broth, parsley and dill.

Lenten pies

Lean dough for pies

Knead a dough of half a kilogram of flour, two glasses of water and 25-30 g of yeast.

When the dough rises, add salt, sugar, three tablespoons of vegetable oil, another half a kilogram of flour to it and beat the dough until it stops sticking to your hands.

Then put the dough in the same pan where the dough was prepared and let it rise again.

After that, the dough is ready for further work.

Pea pancakes

Boil the peas until soft and, without draining the remaining water, grind, adding 0.5 cups wheat flour for 750 g pea puree. Form pancakes from the resulting dough, roll in flour and bake in a pan in vegetable oil.

Pies with pea filling

Boil the peas until cooked, mash, add the onion fried in vegetable oil, pepper, salt to taste.

cook simple yeast dough. Divide the dough into balls the size of Walnut and roll into cakes 1 mm thick. Put the filling. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes.

Using the materials "Orthodox cuisine recipes". - St. Petersburg: "Svetoslov" – 1997

According to the rules, you must adhere to fairly strict food restrictions during fasting, and not everyone is able to withstand this, so you can start small, for example, fast on Wednesday or Friday. It is worth remembering that on such days you can not eat any dairy products, meat and eggs, it is also advisable to refuse vegetable oil, since it is allowed to be consumed only on weekends.

But even with such strict restrictions, you can eat not only healthy, but also delicious food, because today it is known enough a large number of variety of simple meals.

Vegetarian borscht

During Lent, it is forbidden to eat meat, but you can cook no less tasty vegetarian borscht. The recipe for such borscht is very simple, besides, it cooks much faster, and the ingredients practically do not change. However, vegetable oil is used to prepare this borscht, which, according to the rules of fasting, is allowed to be eaten only on weekends. But also this recipe suitable for those who are not very strictly adhere to the post.

Ingredients:

50 g cabbage
200 g tomato juice,
1 bunch dill,
1 tsp mustard (can be replaced with wasabi if desired)
1 st. l. flour,
2 garlic cloves,
1 medium beetroot
1 medium carrot,
1 onion
4 medium potatoes
spices and salt - a little, to taste,
vegetable oil - a little, for frying.

Cooking:

First, take a saucepan and pour 2 liters of water into it, put it on the stove. Using this lean recipe, you can easily cook a delicious vegetarian borscht in a slow cooker.

While the water is boiling, let's prepare other products. We take a potato, peel it and cut it into relatively small cubes. After the water boils, put the chopped potatoes in a saucepan, turn the heat down to a minimum and cook for a quarter of an hour.

Now we are preparing the frying. Peel the garlic and onion, wash well and chop finely. We clean the carrots, wash them, three on a coarse grater. We put a frying pan on the stove, pour a little vegetable oil (about 2 tablespoons). As soon as the oil is hot, put the onion, garlic into the pan, and then fry until the vegetables acquire a pleasant golden hue.

Next, add the carrots to the onion and garlic, cover the pan with a lid and fry the vegetables over low heat for about 5 minutes. Now we take the beets, peel, wash and grind on a coarse grater. Put the prepared beets into the pan with the vegetables, mix everything well and simmer under a closed lid for another 5 minutes (it is important that there is a minimum fire).

After about 5 minutes, remove the lid and sprinkle the whole mass with a small amount of flour, and then add mustard (you can use wasabi) and mix everything again.

Now add tomato juice to the pan, season the frying with salt and a little pepper, cover the pan with a lid again and leave for 10 minutes.

By this time the potatoes should be half cooked. Now lightly add water in a saucepan with potatoes and put the whole frying into the broth, mix well and let it boil for about 10 minutes.

Wash and grind fresh dill. Place shredded cabbage into a bowl with borscht. We cook the dish for about 3 more minutes, after which we turn off the stove, cover the pan with a lid and leave for half an hour so that the borscht can brew well.

Vegetarian borscht is completely ready, we can pour it into portioned plates, add some fresh herbs and sour cream, serve to the Lenten table.

Cabbage with mushrooms

On Saturday and Sunday, when it is allowed to use vegetable oil during fasting, you can cook not only delicious, but also enough hearty meal, moreover, it is not only very quick and easy to prepare, but also contains minimal amount calories, that is, is dietary. That is why it can be cooked not only in fasting, but also on any day, if there is a desire to lose weight a little.

Ingredients:

1 large onion
300 g mushrooms
500 g sauerkraut,
1 kg fresh cabbage
pepper and salt - a little, to taste,
vegetable oil - a little, to taste.

Cooking:

Thanks to the use of fresh cabbage, the dish is tender and juicy, and sauerkraut adds a little piquancy, making the taste more interesting and spicy.

First, we prepare fresh cabbage - finely chop it. Then thoroughly wash the mushrooms with cold running water, and then cut into thin slices. In the event that pickled champignons are used, they must also be cut into slices.

Now take the onion, peel and finely chop. We put a frying pan on the stove, pour a little oil and simmer the onion over low heat until it becomes translucent and soft. Next, add the prepared mushrooms to the onion.

Fry the mushrooms with onions until they are half-cooked, then season with a little salt and pepper (if desired, you can not add ground pepper at all, then the taste of the dish will turn out to be more tender and soft). We shift the mushrooms with onions to a separate plate.

We take further new frying pan, add literally a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil and wait until it is hot. Now we put fresh cabbage in the pan and fry over medium heat, season with salt, cover with a lid (so the cabbage will release the juice much faster). Periodically, so that the cabbage does not burn, it must be mixed. Simmer the cabbage in this way for 5-7 minutes.

After the specified period of time, we put all the sauerkraut in the pan, and simmer again for 7 minutes (now you don’t need to cover the pan with a lid). Then add cabbage and mushrooms to the pan, mix everything well and simmer for about 5 minutes, turn off the stove.

It is very important not to overexpose the cabbage on the fire, since only in this case it will be juicy and crispy enough, and it will also not fall apart. The advantage of this recipe is not only its taste and minimum calorie content, but also the fact that, subject to moderate heat treatment everything is preserved in cabbage beneficial features and vitamins.

Lean stuffed pepper

By preparing this simple and very tasty dish, you can diversify Lenten table and pleasantly surprise loved ones. The advantage of this dish is that it is not necessary to use vegetable oil, so it can be cooked on any day of Lent.

Ingredients:

1/3 of a small head of cabbage
100 g of rice
5 large champignons,
1 small carrot
3 large bell peppers,
pepper and salt - a little, to taste.

Cooking:

Before you start cooking this dish, take the rice and pre-soak it in cold water. Thus, all excess starch will leave the rice much faster and easier, so that the rice will turn out to be more tasty, tender and crumbly.

Next, take the mushrooms and cut them into small pieces. It is worth remembering that during the frying process, the pieces of mushrooms will curl up, as a result of which they will become several times smaller, so you need to cut them into such pieces that they are felt in the filling.

Now take the onion, peel it and finely chop it. In a frying pan for 20 minutes, under a closed lid, simmer onions with mushrooms (vegetable oil can be omitted).

Rice can be cooked in a pan or in a double boiler. If we cook rice in a pan, it is important to remember that the lid cannot be lifted until all the liquid has completely evaporated (just enough water must be poured so that it is only a finger above the level of the rice).

Shred the cabbage finely, as it should not be too long, otherwise it will be very difficult to mix with the rest of the filling ingredients. We clean the carrots, wash them and three on a coarse grater. In a frying pan, simmer cabbage with carrots for about 20 minutes under a closed lid.

While the cabbage is stewing, let's prepare the pepper for stuffing. First, carefully cut off the top of each pepper, after which I wash them not only from the outside, but also from the inside. Cut off hats are not thrown away, as they will still come in handy. Now we take a knife and carefully remove all internal membranes, wash out the remaining seeds with water.

As soon as all the components for the filling are ready, mix them, lightly season the filling with a little pepper and salt. We take a teaspoon and stuff each pepper, after which we cover each pepper with hats and cook them in water for about half an hour, until fully prepared.

Lenten stuffed peppers are ready, and this dish can be worthy of respect for any table, not only in fasting, but also on any other day. If desired, stuffed peppers can be served with herbs and lean mayonnaise.

Lean pea patties with rice

Post is easy perfect time to cleanse your body by excluding products of animal origin from your own diet, therefore, it is worth giving up fish, meat, eggs, milk, and also minimizing the use of a variety of sweets. You can try to cook delicious and very healthy lean pea cutlets with rice.

Ingredients:

1 slice plain bread
4 tbsp. l. flour,
1 st. peas,
1 st. rice,
breadcrumbs or semolina - a little,
spices - a little, to taste,

Cooking:

First, we take two saucepans, since we will cook peas in one, and rice in the second. So, we take peas, pour them into a saucepan, pour water (cold!) And move it to the stove. At the same time, put the rice to cook. As soon as the rice and peas are completely cooked, pour them into one container and mash them. Now add a small amount of pre-chopped greens to the rice and pea puree and mix everything well.

Spices play one of the main roles in the preparation of delicious lenten dishes, since thanks to their addition, the dish becomes more bright taste and rich aroma. We add a small amount of your favorite spices to the rice and pea puree, as well as flour, as it gives the mass additional stickiness. Next, add a slice of plain bread.

We mix the mass until it acquires a homogeneous consistency, and then you need to wait a bit, since the finished rice and pea puree should cool completely. Now we proceed directly to the formation of the cutlets themselves. Then each cutlet is rolled on both sides in semolina or breadcrumbs.

It is worth remembering that you need to fry pea cutlets in vegetable oil, so it is advisable to cook this dish on the weekends, since it is on these days during the observance of Great Lent that vegetable oil is allowed.

Pea cutlets are fried in a pan with hot vegetable oil on both sides until fully cooked (cutlets should be fried over medium heat). It is recommended to serve this dish hot with any side dish.

Diet potatoes

Diet potatoes are not only allowed to eat in fasting, but also if there is a desire to get rid of a couple extra pounds, as it contains a minimum amount of calories. To cook potatoes according to this recipe, you need to add vegetable oil, so this dish suitable for those who is not very strict in fasting.

Ingredients:

1 kg potatoes
2-3 garlic cloves,
salt - a little, to taste,
vegetable oil - a little, for lubrication,
fresh herbs - a little, to taste.

Cooking:

We clean the garlic and potatoes. In the event that a large potato is taken, then cut it into several pieces. Now squeeze the garlic into the potatoes. We wash fresh herbs and tear them with our hands, as in this way they will retain all their aroma.

Season everything with salt and mix well, grease with a small amount of vegetable oil and transfer the potatoes to a pre-prepared baking sleeve.

Tie the sleeve tightly on both sides and place in a preheated oven. We bake the potatoes until they are soft (we check the readiness of the potatoes with a fork).

Ready diet potatoes shift to beautiful dish, decorate with a few leaves of fresh mint, you can add tomatoes, and serve.

Such dietary potatoes are suitable not only for fasting, but will also become worthy decoration any holiday table.

Now you know how to cook simple meatless meals.

great post- one of the main events of the Orthodox year. Believers are preparing for the celebration of Easter, cleansing the soul, mind and body. What you can eat during this period and what dishes you can cook 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 prohibited. Lent is considered the strictest among the rest. The first and last weeks are especially difficult to comply with.

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

On Saturday and Sunday, 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 Great Lent, you should eat like this: 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 fill food with vegetable oil, it is permissible to sip a little red wine. You can cook and festive dishes in the post, but they also should not contain prohibited products.

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

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

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

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

Italian bean soup

Hearty, rich and unusual in taste, the soup will become a decoration. To prepare it, you will need:

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

Cooking method

1. Weld green beans until ready. Throw her in a colander.
2. Finely chop the onion and garlic. Simmer in water in a deep soup pot. On days when vegetable oil is allowed, you can make frying.
3. Pour the tomato juice into the onion and garlic. Sweat 15 minutes at closed lid.
4. In a separate pot, boil the noodles in salted water.
5. In the languishing tomato juice with onion and garlic, add the remaining ingredients: capsicum 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 to do unusual salad with avocado. This fruit has high calorie. Therefore, the proposed salad will not only enrich with vitamins, but also saturate the body of a fasting person.
To prepare it, you will need the following products:

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

Preparing a salad is very easy. To do this, cut all the vegetables and avocado 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 lemon juice or on permitted days - olive oil.

"Ratatouille"

Vegetables can also be used to make delicious fasting meals. Recipes vegetable salads, stew and stewed vegetables surprised by the variety of flavors. We invite you to taste authentic Italian vegetable dish"Ratatouille". IN classic recipe Before roasting, all vegetables are deep-fried. We slightly modified the cooking technology and got an equally tasty and even more healthy dish.

For the preparation of "Ratatouille" you will need the following products:

• Red bell pepper- 1 PC.;
• 1 head of garlic;
• 1 onion;
• zucchini - 2 pcs.;
• little blue ones - 2 pcs.;
• tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
• half a liter of tomato juice;
• sea ​​salt;
• fresh greens.

How to cook Ratatouille

1. Peel the eggplant, cut into slices up to 1 cm wide and soak them in cold water for half an hour.
2. Peel the skin off the tomatoes by dipping them in boiling water.
3. Peel the skin of the zucchini.
4. To prepare the sauce, stew finely chopped onion and sweet pepper with a few cloves of garlic in half a glass of tomato juice until the vegetables are ready. Salt. Blend the mixture in a blender until a thick sauce forms.
5. Put food parchment in a baking dish, pour sauce about 1 cm thick on top.
6. Lay out 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, you need to knead the greens in a mortar, sea ​​salt and a few cloves of garlic. On permitted days, you can add olive oil. Brush the top of the vegetables with the prepared dressing.
8. Place 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 the household and even guests? Make dumplings! Few people know what is 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 vegetable. For dumplings with sauerkraut you will need the following products:

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

Cooking such a dish during fasting does not take much time. First you need to prepare 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 Great Lent.

In order to prepare the dough, you need to mix flour, water, and add salt to taste. Place the kneaded dough in the refrigerator 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 of dough and roll it into a dumpling shape. It remains only to cook the product in salted boiling water for 5-7 minutes. Lenten dumplings with sauerkraut ready!

Pilaf with dried fruits

What dishes to cook in fasting for the main? Indeed, in Russian cuisine it is customary to count meat treats main table decorations. You can offer to cook vegetable stew, porridge with mushrooms in pots, sauté, on certain days the highlight of the diet will be fish. We offer you and hearty pilaf. To prepare it, you need the following ingredients:

• rice (it is better to choose long-grain varieties) - 1.5 cups;
• a couple of large onions;
• carrots - 750 g;
• dried dates - 150 g;
• dried apricots - 350 g;
• ginger root;
• lemon juice - 4 tbsp. l.;
• ground cumin;
• ground coriander;
• ground cinnamon;
• vegetable broth - 3 cups;
• 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. Clean vegetables.
3. Cut carrots into large bars, onions into rings.
4. Finely chop the ginger.
5. Fry chopped vegetables in a saucepan. Add all spices, salt.
6. Washed and dried dates with dried apricots in a separate saucepan with honey and lemon juice for 3-5 minutes.
7. Add the honey mixture to the saute pan with the sautéed vegetables.
8. Drain the rice in a colander. Then pour into a saucepan, level the surface and pour vegetable broth. Cover, reduce the heat and simmer, without stirring, with the lid closed, until the rice is cooked through (about 20 minutes).
9. Remove from fire. 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 ready!

Honey gingerbread

You can even cook sweet dishes for Lent. Cooking honey lean gingerbread at home. You can pamper your household with them at any time. They will also become a worthy decoration of the festive table. However, do not forget that sweet dishes cannot be consumed in excess during Lent.

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 the sugar is completely dissolved. Then remove from fire. Let the mixture cool down.
2. Knead the dough by mixing honey mass with flour and soda slaked with lemon juice. Send the dough to the refrigerator for half an hour.
3. Roll out the dough to a width of 2 cm. Squeeze out the molds.
4. Bake the gingerbread on a baking sheet at a temperature of 220 degrees for 20 minutes.
5. Can be used to decorate baked goods powdered sugar or jam.

You can create recipes for dishes during Lent yourself, slightly modifying the classic ones and replacing necessary products. Thus, original lenten dishes are obtained, which the hostess can safely serve to the festive table.

Fruit cake

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

• flour - 3 cups;
• one and a half glasses fruit juice taste;
• sugar - 400 g;
• zest from 2 oranges;
• sunflower oil - 4 tbsp. l.;
• 2 bags 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.

To impregnate the cakes, you will need 2 large spoons of sugar and 500 g of juice.

Cooking a cake

1. Knead the dough with the ingredients needed for the cakes. Divide it in half and bake 2 sponge cakes at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
2. Send one cake to the refrigerator. Leave the other on the table, covered with a napkin.
3. Prepare the impregnation by mixing the juice with sugar. Soak her biscuit cake. Then leave it to cool in the refrigerator as well.
4. Prepare 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 ready.
5. Cool the cream and beat thoroughly with a blender.
6. Take the cakes out of the cold. Lay them on top of each other and coat with cream on all sides.
7. You can garnish with nuts on top if you like. coconut flakes or fruit slices.

Conclusion

Even from a seemingly meager list of products, you can cook unusually delicious dishes in the post. The recipes proposed by us, if desired, can be improved on their own, with a little imagination.