The New Year's holiday falls on the time of the Nativity Lent. To make the Lenten menu no less festive, we have collected the best for you.

I would like to meet according to all the rules: in the family circle and with the most delicious festive dishes on the table. But what to do and cook if your family adheres to the Nativity Fast? In no case should you give up fun, but compose an original lean one, which can be not only tasty and healthy, but also very festive.

We offer you a few that will be appropriate on the festive New Year's table 2019.

Lentils with mushrooms for the New Year 2019

This festive New Year's lentil dish will brighten any New Year's table in 2019!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup lentils
• 200-300 grams of champignons
• 1-2 onions
• 1-2 cloves of garlic
• 1-2 carrots
• Ground pepper
• Greens
• Vegetable oil

Lentil lean recipe:

1. We wash the lentils, put them in a saucepan and fill them with three glasses of water. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, salt and cook until tender.
2. Chop the onion, garlic and mushrooms. In a preheated frying pan, fry the onions with garlic, then add the carrots, and then the mushrooms. Fry until tender.
3. Add lentils to vegetables, stir and cook for another 5 minutes. Add salt and pepper.
4. Serve with herbs.

Avocado with shrimps on New Year's table 2019

Making a versatile avocado snack is quick and easy.

Ingredients:

• 3 avocados
• 200 grams of shrimp
• 1 kg of cucumbers
• 1 cup olive oil
• 50 grams of cilantro
• Ground pepper
• 1 lemon

Lean recipe for the New Year: avocado with shrimp

1. We peel the cucumbers, cut, salt and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
2. Peel the avocado, cut it in half and remove the pit.
3. Remove the peel from the lemon, squeeze the juice and mix it with salt and pepper. Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil and a couple of tablespoons of cucumber juice. Beat with a whisk.
4. Season the shrimp with juice and butter, put them in an avocado.
5. Beat the cucumbers in a blender with herbs, slowly pouring in the olive oil. Fill the avocado with shrimp with cucumber mousse and serve on the New Year's table 2018.

Lean tomato puree soup for the New Year

An original New Year's Lenten first dish for the festive table.

Ingredients:

• 150 grams of tomatoes
• 20 grams of carrots
• 20 grams of onions
• 5 grams of garlic
• 20 grams of celery
• 10 grams of rice
• 5 grams of basil
• Pepper

Lean recipe for the New Year: tomato puree soup

1. Fry chopped onions, garlic, celery and carrots in a well-heated skillet.
2. We clean tomatoes, cut and add to vegetables. Add rice to the pan and cook until cooked.
3. Beat the ingredients in a blender, add salt and pepper.
4. Serving for the New Year's table 2019, decorating with basil.

Lenten brownie for New Year 2018

- a favorite dessert of many. Someone says that it is difficult and takes a long time to cook it. Others are afraid to spoil the figure. But lean brownie as a dessert will definitely decorate your New Year's table 2018 and delight your guests.

New Year's Brownie Ingredients:

• 2 cups of flour
• 2 cups sugar
• 65 grams of cocoa
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 glass of water
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar

Lean Brownie Recipe:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.
2. In a large container, mix flour, sugar, cocoa, salt and baking powder. Add water, vanilla and vegetable oil. Stir.
3. Put the resulting mass in a baking dish. bake for 25-30 minutes.
4. Let it cool for 10 minutes before serving and delight our guests with an original New Year's dish.

from beans and corn

This lean bean and corn salad will brighten up your holiday table.

Ingredients:

• 2 cans of beans
• 250 grams of frozen corn
• 1 avocado
• 1 lime
• 1 pinch cayenne pepper
• 1 bell pepper
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 2 tomatoes

The recipe for a lean dish for the New Year's bean and corn salad:

1. To prepare this salad for the New Year 2018, combine olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper and lime juice in a small container. Mix well.
2. Combine beans, corn, chopped avocado, bell peppers, onions and tomatoes. Combine all the ingredients and mix again.
3. Our delicious New Year salad is ready!

These lean recipes will help diversify the 2019 New Year's menu and make your festive table even richer and more appetizing.

Lenten menu is a topical issue for the New Year's table. As you know, we celebrate the New Year at Christmas fast, and many of us are fasting. Therefore, the question is what to cook for the New Year's table so that it is festive, tasty and does not break the fast.

I have selected recipes for lean dishes and propose to include them in the lean menu:

1. SNACKS

3. HOT DISHES

1 snacks

Pickled champignons or oyster mushrooms

Pickled champignons

We need: exit 2 jars of 350 ml

• 500 g of mushrooms
• 120 ml vegetable oil
• 60 ml 9% vinegar
• 2 tsp Sahara
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 3 pcs bay leaves
• 15 pieces of peppercorns

Preparation:

1.Wash the mushrooms, peel and cut into 4 parts. Chop the garlic and combine with the mushrooms.

2. Pour vegetable oil, vinegar into a saucepan, add sugar, salt, bay leaf and peppercorns. We put on fire and bring to a boil.

3. A mixture of mushrooms with garlic, put into a saucepan and boil, from the moment of boiling, for 5 - 7 minutes.

We transfer to jars while still hot, cool and put in the refrigerator, they are ready for consumption in 4 hours.

Can also be stored for 2 to 3 months in a cool place.

Pickled oyster mushrooms

We need:

• 500 - 700 g oyster mushrooms

For the marinade for 1 liter of water:

• 100 g vinegar 9% table
• 1 tbsp salt
• 1 tbsp Sahara
• 5 pcs of cloves
• 1 bay leaf

Preparation:

1. Put all the ingredients for the marinade in a saucepan and put on the fire, bring them to a boil.

2. My oyster mushrooms, cut from the bush, cut large mushrooms into pieces and throw into the boiling marinade. Turn off the heat, cover and let cool completely. After that, strain, season with chopped onions and vegetable oil. You can eat.

HERRING IN TOMATO SAUCE

We need:

• 2 pcs fresh frozen herring
• 4 tablespoons tomato paste or ketchup
• 100 ml vegetable oil
• 0.5 tsp chili peppers
• 1 tbsp salt
• 3 tbsp 9% vinegar
• 1 s.l. Sahara
• 3 pieces of onions

Preparation:

1. Put tomato or ketchup, vegetable oil, chili pepper, salt, sugar in a saucepan, mix everything and put on fire, bring to a boil. Cool down.

2. Dismantle the herring into fillets and cut into portions.

3. Cut the onion into thin rings.

4. Put in bowls with balls: onion + herring + sauce and so on until the food runs out.

We put in the refrigerator for 3 hours and can be consumed.

LAST SNACK "MANDARINKI"

We need:

• 3 carrots, medium
• 150 g rice (2/3 tablespoons)
• 500 g of mushrooms (oyster mushrooms or champignons)
• 2 onions, medium
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 3 g salt
• 1/2 tsp each favorite spices

Preparation:

1. Wash the rice well and boil it in salted water. After cooking, rinse the rice with cold water.

2. Wash and boil carrots. Salt the water. Then peel and grate on the finest grater.

3. Finely chop the mushrooms and onion and fry, until the liquid evaporates, salt and season with spices.

4. Add mushrooms, finely chopped garlic to the rice, season with salt and spices, to taste, mix. The filling is ready.

5. Form small balls from the filling, press them a little to make them elastic.

Then, with the carrots, we sculpt a cake on our hand, put a ball with the filling in the center and wrap it with carrots.

We form a tangerine in the shape, put on a dish, decorate with basil or parsley leaves, you can make tails from carnations.

2. Salads

SALAD "TWO JARS"

We need:

• 1 can of canned beans
• 1 can of pitted olives
• 20 g walnuts
• 1 onion
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1 tsp Sahara
• 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
• 100 ml of water
• 1 bunch of parsley
• olive oil
• salt, to taste

Preparation:

1.Sliced ​​onion in half rings, pickle. For the marinade, take water, sugar, vinegar and pour onions with them, let stand for 20 minutes.

2. Fry the nuts a little and chop with a knife.

3. Finely chop the parsley.

4. Strain beans, olives, onions from the marinade.

5. All ingredients for the salad, mix in a bowl, if necessary - salt, season with olive oil.

Fasting Olive and Fasting Mayonnaise

LEAN OLIVIER

We need:

• 3 pcs potatoes
• 2 carrots
• 1 bunch of green onions
• 300 g of pickled champignons (any)
• 250 g pickled green peas
• 3 pieces of pickles
• 1 pc of fresh cucumber
• 200 ml lean mayonnaise
• salt, pepper, to taste

Preparation:

1. Boil vegetables and cut into small cubes.

2. Chop pickled and fresh cucumbers, pickled mushrooms into cubes. Chives - finely chop.

3. Mix all ingredients and season with lean mayonnaise.

FAST MAYONESIS

Options for making homemade lean mayonnaise can be viewed

We need:

• 1/2 tbsp. vegetable oil
• 1/2 tbsp. vegetable broth (you can use green pea liquid)
• 1 tsp Sahara
• 1.5 tsp apple cider vinegar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp mustard
• 1.5 tbsp any starch

Preparation:

1. Dilute starch with vegetable broth and put on fire, brew, without boiling, stir constantly, as it thickens, remove immediately (3 minutes)

2. Transfer the starch to a container, add salt, sugar, mustard, mix and pour in vegetable oil. Beat the mixture with an immersion blender, with progressive (up-down) movements.

At the end of whipping, add apple cider vinegar and stir.

FAST SALAD WITH RED FISH

We need:

• 100 -150 g lightly salted red fish (trout, salmon)
• lettuce leaves
• 50 g pine nuts or sesame seeds
• 1 pc lemon, use juice
• pitted olives, optional

Preparation:

1. Cut the fish into small strips.

2. Wash and dry lettuce leaves on a paper towel.

3. Lightly fry nuts or sesame seeds.

4. Squeeze the juice from the lemon. Cut the olives into rings.

5. Tear the salad with our hands into small pieces and put on a dish. We put pieces of fish, olives on it, crush with pine nuts and pour with lemon juice. Can be garnished with cherry tomatoes.

CRUSTY SALAD

We need:

• 250 g crab sticks
• 2 cucumbers, fresh
• 1 bunch of green onions
• 200 g canned corn
• 200 g croutons
• 120 g lean mayonnaise

Preparation:

1.Crab sticks cut obliquely.

2. Chop fresh cucumbers into strips. Chives - finely chop.

3. Mix all ingredients, add corn and croutons, season with lean mayonnaise.

Herring in a new coat

We need:

• 1 pc herring fillet
• 2 large onions
• 1 pc of carrots
• 300 g champignons
• 1 bunch of green onions
• spices to taste
• vegetable oil for frying
• 1 bunch of dill

Preparation:

1. Cut the champignons into large pieces. Fry in a pan until the liquid evaporates and add 1 chopped onion. Fry for 3-4 minutes, season with spices, remove from the pan and refrigerate.

2. Fry grated carrots and chopped onions in the same pan until soft.

3. Chop the herring fillet into cubes, finely chop the green onion.

4. Put the herring on a dish, level it over the surface, grind it on top with green onions.

5. On a layer of herring, spread on the 1st half - fried mushrooms,

and on the 2nd half - carrots.

6. Decorate the edges with chopped dill.

3. Hot dishes

COLUMNS WITH FRESH CABBAGE

We need:

• 1 head of fresh cabbage (white or Peking cabbage)
• 500 g champignons
• 150 g rice
• 1 pc of grated carrots
• 2 pieces of onions
• 600 ml tomato juice (2 tablespoons tomato paste)
• 400 ml cabbage broth (vegetable broth)
• ground black pepper, salt, to taste
• vegetable oil

Preparation:

1. Boil the rice until half cooked.

2. Finely chop the mushrooms and onions. We send mushrooms to a dry frying pan to fry, 5-7 minutes, and then add the onion, simmer for another 3-4 minutes, season with salt and pepper and turn off the heat. Let them cool slightly and mix with rice.

Tip: Fresh mushrooms can be replaced with dry ones, then you just need to steam them, and use the water as a vegetable broth, remembering to strain it.

3. Separate the leaves from the cabbage head, put them in boiling water and boil for a couple of minutes. Remove from boiling water and let the leaves cool. Cut off thick veins. We use water as a vegetable broth.

Methods for preparing cabbage leaves for stuffing are possible.

4. In a baking dish (this can be a saucepan with a thick bottom, glass form), put cabbage trimmings on the bottom.

5. Form cabbage rolls and lightly fry them in a pan, and then put them in a bowl.

6. Prepare the filling: fry chopped onions with carrots in a pan, fill them with tomato juice, put pepper, salt and simmer for 7-8 minutes.

Fill the cabbage rolls with filling and add the vegetable broth.

We cover with a lid, send to the oven preheated to 180 degrees, for 1 hour.

RICE WITH VEGETABLES

We need: we use pots or molds 5 cm high, 11 cm in diameter.

• 150 g rice
• 300 g frozen vegetables
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 piece of onion
• herbal sea salt, to taste
• 2 tsp curry

Preparation:

1.Pour boiling water over the rice and leave to steam for 15 minutes.

2. In a frying pan with vegetable oil, fry the chopped onion until transparent. Then add frozen vegetables, salt, curry and simmer for 5 minutes.

3. Put rice in portion pots, then vegetables, again rice and vegetables.

Pour all this with boiling water, cover with foil and put in the oven.

At a temperature of 200 degrees, bake for 15 minutes, after that, add more boiling water and continue to bake for another 15 minutes. We serve the dish hot.

POTATO NEST WITH MUSHROOMS AND BEANS

We need:

• 1-1.5 kg potatoes
• 500 g of mushrooms
• 2-3 onions + 2 for beans
• vegetable oil
• 200 g green beans
• salt, pepper, to taste

Preparation:

1.Peel the potatoes, wash and cook. Mash the finished potatoes in mashed potatoes.

2. Finely chop two onions and fry until golden brown and mix with mashed potatoes. Salt and pepper to taste.

3. Cut mushrooms into small cubes, fry with chopped onions and beans.

4. Grease the baking sheet with vegetable oil.

5. Put the mashed potatoes in a tight plastic bag, cut off one end (we get a pastry bag) and squeeze it onto a baking sheet, thus forming nests.

Inside the nests, put the filling with mushrooms and beans.

We bake in the oven for 15 minutes, at a temperature of 180 degrees. Serve hot.

Happy holidays and delicious food!

New Year's fast is traditionally observed by Orthodox believers in some Eastern European countries. This is because individual Orthodox churches, incl. including the Russian one, they use the Julian calendar, according to which the New Year falls on the Nativity Fast. It is quite strict, during such a fast you cannot eat meat, eggs and dairy products, you can only eat fish. However, fasting cannot be a reason to deny yourself and your loved ones a holiday. Children are looking forward to the New Year! And if in your family there is a tradition of gathering at the New Year's table all together, then you should never break it for the sake of fasting.

Arranging abundant gluttony and libation in this case is not appropriate, the Lenten New Year's table should be special, different from the usual festive table. Moreover, in the arsenal of modern chefs there is a huge variety of Lenten New Year's dishes: vegetable snacks, fish delicacies, all kinds of desserts and other sweets. And in stores we can easily find lean mayonnaise and soy milk. The Lenten menu for the New Year has in its collection the traditional aspic, and even the beloved salad "Olivier". True, all these dishes are lean. But the craftsmen have learned how to set a lean table for the New Year in such a way that you cannot distinguish lean dishes from ordinary ones. Add a piece of salted red fish to your vegetable salad, and you have a wonderful, delicious salad that non-fasting people will love. Lenten salads for the New Year form the basis of such a special table. Lenten dishes for the New Year 2019 are no exception: the same varied and original salads, fish dishes, lean desserts.

Recipes for lean dishes for the New Year are in large quantities and assortment on our website, you should use them. Moreover, the lean recipes for the New Year are simple in the selection of products and easy to execute. Therefore, do not be afraid that something may not work out for you: the Lenten New Year's menu is available even for novice housewives.

It should also be borne in mind that the New Year's lean table is not only light, low-calorie, but also very healthy food. It is worth thinking about this for those who dream of losing weight, improving their health, dieting ...

Before the gala dinner, you need to check if all the guests at your table are fasting. If not, you should definitely think about them and prepare a suitable snack for them;

Fasting people, as a rule, do not want to embarrass anyone by having their own table. Find a way to satisfy everyone's needs;

Lenten meals, especially festive ones, should be tasty, beautiful, they should be different from everyday food;

You need to fill New Year's lean dishes with butter, lemon juice, or lean mayonnaise, in which thickeners are used instead of eggs;

An excellent solution for lean dishes for the New Year is seafood. They are considered lean and are allowed to be eaten by those who are fasting even on days when fish dishes are prohibited;

There are many lean recipes in the national cuisines of some peoples of the former Soviet Union: Georgian lobio, Dagestan chebureks, Moldavian placinths, Uzbek samsa, etc. All of these dishes can be prepared without meat or oil.

What do you need:

• Sweet bell pepper - 2 pieces
• Tomatoes - 2 pieces
• Pitted olives
• Garlic - 2 cloves
• Greens
• Pepper

How to cook:

Peel and cut the pepper in half. Boil the tomatoes for one minute, remove the skin and chop finely. Chop the rest of the ingredients. Season everything with pepper, pour over with vegetable oil. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes at 180 degrees.

For many, New Year is a "salad" holiday. And on the Lenten table, the salad will be in place.

Octopus and squid salad

What do you need:

• Octopus and squid - 250 g each
• Tomatoes - 3 pcs.
• Green onions
• Green olives - 100 g
• Capers (salted buds) - 2 tbsp l.

For refueling:

• Olive oil
• Lemon juice
• Pepper

How to cook:

1. Boil octopus and squid in salted water for 50 minutes, after cleaning. Then dry and chop finely.
2. Chop and mix all other ingredients.
3. Prepare the dressing in a separate bowl, mix 4 tablespoons of juice, 3 tablespoons of olive oil, salt and pepper.
4. Then mix with the bulk.

The salad is ready to serve.

Salmon roll

What do you need:

• Salmon fillet - 400 grams

For filling:

• Canned Green Peas - 150 grams
• Carrots - 1 pc.
• Agar-agar - 1 teaspoon
• Yeast-free lean bread - 150 grams
• Greens, salt, pepper to taste

How to cook:

1. Boil the carrots, finely chop the greens.
2. Soak lean bread in water and add swollen agar-agar. Add green peas, carrots and herbs to the bread mass. To mix everything.
3. Cut the salmon fillet into thin slices.
4. Put the vegetable mass on the fillet and form a roll.
5. Wrap the roll in foil and bake in the oven at 180 gr. Cooking time - 40 minutes.

Cut the finished roll into slices, the New Year's lean dish is ready.

Lenten dish for the New Year "Jellied vegetables"

What do you need:

• Canned Green Peas - 300 grams
• Carrots - 300 grams
• Green beans - 100 grams
• Agar-agar - 50 grams
• Spices pepper, salt, lemon juice.

How to cook:

1. Boil the carrots. Drain excess liquid from canned peas.
2. Dilute agar-agar according to the instructions in water and add to vegetable broth. Add salt, pepper and a little lemon juice to this.
3. Put finely chopped vegetables in a portion form and cover them with prepared agar-agar.
4. After that, you need to put the jellied one in the refrigerator until it solidifies completely.

New Year's snack "Stuffed champignons"

What do you need:

• Large champignons - 10 pieces
• Onions - 2 pieces
• Rice - 100 g
• Pepper, salt

How to cook:

1. Separate the legs from the caps of the mushrooms. Finely chop the onion and champignon legs, fry in butter with pepper, salt and herbs. Boil the rice and mix with the onion fry.
2. Put the resulting filling in the hats, put in the oven.
3. Bake for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.

Fish appetizer for a lean table

What do you need:

• Pollock fillet
• Salt and pepper

How to cook:

Boil rice. Make minced meat from fillet. Mix rice and minced meat, adding pepper, salt and herbs. Shape the mixture into small balls. Fry in a pan with butter.

Desserts become the main ones on the New Year's table, which are served last.

New Year's lean dish "Berry cake"

What do you need:

• Dark chocolate - 150 grams
• Gelatin or agar agar
• Peeled seeds - 70 grams
• Fresh berries - 1 kilogram
• Air flakes - 30 grams

How to cook:

1. Mix chocolate, previously melted in a water bath, with seeds and air flakes.
2. Line a baking dish with cling film and pour the prepared mixture.
3. Smooth the mixture, press down and refrigerate for 40 minutes until it hardens.
4. Place the berries in a baking dish on top of the chocolate layer.
5. Pour the gelatinous mass on top. Put in the refrigerator until it hardens completely.
6. The sides can be garnished with chopped peanuts.

There are a great many lean recipes for the New Year that did not fit into our article. This refutes the fact that the Lenten New Year's table cannot be tasty.

Bon Appetit!

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

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

Lenten recipes

Lenten salads

Cabbage, carrot, apple and bell pepper salad

Cut the washed white cabbage into strips, grind with a little salt, drain the juice, mix with peeled chopped apples, carrots, bell peppers, season with sugar and vegetable oil. Sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.

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

Beetroot caviar

Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Fry everything in vegetable oil until golden brown. Then add the grated fresh beets. Five minutes before cooking, add salt to taste and tomato paste.

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

Radish salad with oil

Peel and rinse the radish well, put it in cold water for 15-20 minutes, then let it drain, grind the radish on a grater, season with vegetable oil, salt and vinegar, put in a salad bowl, decorate with herbs. In the grated radish, you can add chopped onions, sautéed in vegetable oil.

Radish 120 g, vegetable oil 10 g, 3 g vinegar, 15 g onions, herbs.

Vitamin salad

Finely chop fresh cabbage, grate carrots on a coarse grater. Mix everything and salt. Add green peas (canned). Drizzle with vinegar, vegetable oil, sprinkle with black pepper and herbs. You 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 of vegetable oil, 2 g of black pepper.

Tomatoes stuffed with vegetable mixture

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

5 small tomatoes, 1 carrot, 1 apple, 2 pickles, 100 g canned green peas, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 1/3 teaspoon of 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 bell peppers, 1 tomato, 1 carrot, 1 pickled cucumber, 1 onion.

Lenten first courses

Vegetable soup

Fry the onion, parsley and celery chopped into strips in vegetable oil, add water, put the chopped carrots, rutabagas and shredded cabbage and cook over low heat for 20-30 minutes. Add crushed garlic, seasonings in the middle of cooking; put applesauce or grated apple at the very end. Serving, 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 turnip, 1 cup of finely shredded cabbage (150 g), a clove of garlic, 1 bay leaf, 1/2 teaspoon of cumin , 1 apple or 2 tablespoons of applesauce, salt, herbs.

Lean Pea Soup

In the evening, fill the peas with cold water and leave to swell, cook the noodles.

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

Cook the swollen peas, without draining, until half cooked, add the fried onions, diced potatoes, noodles, pepper, salt and cook until the potatoes and noodles are done.

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

Russian lean soup

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

When serving, sprinkle with parsley or dill.

Potatoes, cabbage - 100 g each, onion - 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 are rubbed or cut into cubes. The potatoes, cut into oblong pieces, are boiled in the broth until soft, other products are added (the flour is mixed with a small amount of cold liquid) and the whole is boiled for 10 minutes. The greens are placed in the soup before serving. If tomato puree is added, then it is stewed along with mushrooms.

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

Stuffed peppers, eggplants, zucchini

Peppers, eggplants, young zucchini peel off the stalks and seeds (cut off the peel from the zucchini) and stuff with minced vegetables, which includes finely chopped onions, carrots, cabbage, taken in equal shares, and 1/10 of their total volume of parsley and celery. Fry all vegetables for minced meat in vegetable oil. Fry also the stuffed eggplants, peppers and zucchini. Then put in a deep metal bowl, pour 2 glasses of 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 1/3 boiled down and the peas are almost ready, add them and cook until tender. Then season with finely chopped onions, fried in butter, and salt.

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

Simple stew

Cut 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 the crust is formed, put the still half-baked potatoes in a clay pot, cover with finely chopped herbs, onions, salt, add boiling water, close the lid and put in the oven for 1 minute. Ready-made stew is eaten with cucumbers (fresh or pickled), sauerkraut.

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

Braised 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. In 10 minutes. until finished, add salt, tomato paste, red or black ground pepper, sweet peas and bay leaf. Close the pan with a lid. Sprinkle with herbs before serving.

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

Potatoes in garlic sauce

Rinse peeled potatoes and dry with a towel. Cut each potato in half. Heat the greater half of the vegetable oil in a pan and fry the potatoes until golden brown. Then prepare the garlic sauce. To do this, grind the garlic with salt, add 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil and stir. Pour the garlic sauce over the fried potatoes.

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

Loose rice-oatmeal porridge

Rinse rice and oats, stir and pour the mixture into boiling water. Keep on high heat for 12 minutes, then reduce heat to medium and keep for another 5-8 minutes, then remove from heat, wrap warm and only after 15-20 minutes. open the cover. Season the prepared porridge with onion fried in oil and finely chopped garlic and dill. Heat in a skillet 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 mashed potatoes from 400 grams of boiled potatoes, salt, add half a glass of vegetable oil, half a glass of warm water and enough flour to make a not steep dough.

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

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

Potato fritters

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

750 g of 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 peppers in it. Then add lightly boiled rice, salt, pepper, a little water and simmer for another 15 minutes. Bring to readiness, the 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 liters of water, 5 tablespoons of green peas.

Lean mushrooms

Mushroom vinaigrette

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

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

Mushroom caviar

Fresh mushrooms are stewed in their own juice until the juice evaporates. Salted mushrooms are soaked to remove excess salt, dried mushrooms are soaked, boiled and allowed to drain in a colander. Then the mushrooms are finely chopped and mixed with chopped onions, lightly fried in vegetable oil. Season the mixture, sprinkle 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.

Braised mushrooms

The oil is heated, mushrooms cut into thin slices and shredded onions are put in it. Broth is added to the boiled mushrooms, fresh mushrooms are stewed in their own juice for 15-20 minutes. Salt and herbs are added to the end of stewing. Boiled potatoes and raw vegetable salad are served as a side dish.

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

Lenten pies

Lean Pie Dough

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 saucepan 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 of wheat flour to 750 g of pea puree. Form pancakes from the resulting dough, roll in flour and bake in a frying pan in vegetable oil.

Pies with pea filling

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

Prepare a simple yeast dough. Divide the dough into walnut-sized balls and roll out into flat cakes 1 mm thick. Put the filling. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes.

Using the materials "Recipes of Orthodox cuisine". - St. Petersburg: "Svetolov" – 1997