The time of fasting for Orthodox Christians is considered a time of work on oneself, both in the spiritual and in the physical sense. Refusal of entertainment, empty talk, forgiveness of past grievances, observance of religious rituals are an integral part of fasting. You can find an example of a lenten menu in this article.

Rules for eating during fasting

Before deciding to fast, you should think about your readiness for restrictions. Pregnant women, pensioners, people with stomach problems, it is better to confine themselves to spiritual fasting. The main thing in this process is to be honest with yourself and calculate your strengths. An empty stomach should not distract from eating spiritual food.

During fasting, the consumption of meat, dairy and seafood is limited. Sometimes it is allowed to eat fish. It all depends on how strict you decide to fast.

The strictest option is to completely refuse food for the whole day. It is suitable only for completely healthy people who are not subjected to physical exertion.

In the Orthodox calendar, there are days of fasting, on which the use of hot and oily food is prohibited. Residents of northern cities should think several times before deciding on such an experiment.

The easiest option for fasting is well suited for beginners in this matter. It consists in limiting meat, fish, dairy products, including eggs. Otherwise, you can not deny yourself when compiling a lenten menu. There are a lot of delicious recipes, meat is replaced with beans or soy products, nori leaves are suitable instead of fish, and bananas will replace eggs.

Preparing for the post

A week before fasting, it is customary to refuse meat dishes. This will allow you to get used to the new way of eating a little and not drive the body into a stressful state. At this time, believers celebrate Maslenitsa, bake pancakes, using fish, eggs, cottage cheese, honey, and jam as fillings.

The menu must be maintained on the last day of Shrove Tuesday. On this day, it is customary to ask for forgiveness from loved ones and let go of grievances.

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During fasting, the stomach adapts to a new rhythm, so new foods can harm it. That is why you need to return to your usual food gradually, expanding the lenten menu. Delicious meat dishes, sweets, pastries and alcohol should be consumed in small quantities.

On the first day of Easter, one should not load the stomach with heavy food. It is better to start by adding dairy products to the diet, then fish and meat.

The lenten menu for everyone can include a simple, hearty and uncomplicated salad with beans, chickpeas and vegetables. Beans should be soaked in water overnight before cooking.

Ingredients:

• a glass of beans;
• a glass of chickpeas;
• three hundred grams of green beans;
• greenery;
• two cucumbers;
• cherry tomatoes;
• 45 ml olive oil;
• spices;
• lime or lemon juice to taste.

Recipe for vegetable salad with beans:

1. Boil beans and chickpeas.
2. Cut green beans in half and boil for 20 minutes.
3. Cut cucumbers and tomatoes.
4. Combine legumes, vegetables, oil, lemon juice and herbs in a bowl.

Vegetables, like legumes, in this dish can be any. Don't be afraid to experiment.

Couscous is used in many oriental dishes. It is famous for its mild and delicate taste. Like many cereals, it contains useful substances and minerals, has a positive effect on the digestive system, and leaves a feeling of satiety in the stomach for a long time. Couscous is often found in lenten menu recipes. During fasting, one should not forget about proper and balanced nutrition. Couscous with vegetables is suitable for both breakfast and lunch.

Required components:

• a glass of cereal;
• bulb;
• carrot;
• two bell peppers;
• three tomatoes;
• chili pepper;
• vegetable marrow;
• glass of water;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• olive oil;
• greenery;
• spices.

Cooking steps:

1. Wash vegetables well. Peel carrots, onions and zucchini.
2. Cut carrots, onions, tomatoes, garlic into small layers and heat them in a pan.
3. Courgette and pepper cut into larger pieces, place with other vegetables.
4. Mince the chili pepper as much as possible and put in the pan.
5. After five minutes of stirring, add seasonings.
6. Pour in water and add couscous.
7. Simmer for five minutes with the lid closed.

To add freshness and juiciness to the dish, add greens and a drop of lemon juice.

This dish can be prepared using other vegetables you like. For example, eggplant, cabbage, beets are suitable for them. Couscous with vegetables will perfectly complement the mushrooms.

Solyanka with mushrooms is an unusual, original and tasty dish. It will undoubtedly become a highlight in your Lenten menu. In fasting, hodgepodge can be consumed on any day, as it is eaten both hot and cold.

This is a dish that can be prepared when guests are on the doorstep. It will surprise them with its aroma and pleasant sour taste.

The ingredients in this dish are interchangeable. You can use whatever vegetables you find in your fridge. There is also a variant of the dish using sauerkraut.

Ingredients needed to make hodgepodge:

• pickled cucumber;
• bulb;
• five potatoes;
• two hundred grams of mushrooms;
• one hundred grams of pickled mushrooms;
• a small spoonful of tomato paste;
• 45 grams of vegetable oil;
• spices to taste.

Cooking:

1. Fill a bowl with water and place on the stove.
2. Wash, peel and cut potatoes. Drop into boiling water.
3. Make a fry. Chop carrots and onions. Fry in vegetable oil.
4. Fry the mushrooms in another bowl.
5. Combine ready mushrooms with frying.
6. Put the pickled cucumber cut into small pieces into the pan.
7. Stir for a couple of minutes, add pickled mushrooms.
8. Keep the frying on the fire for another minute and throw it into the pan with boiled potatoes.
9. Add seasonings, bay leaf, chopped dill or parsley.
10. Boil for a couple of minutes and turn off.

Put a piece of lemon on top of the soup in a plate, it can be replaced with olives or capers.

Peppers stuffed with vegetables and couscous

Stuffed peppers are usually prepared using minced meat. In this version, meat is replaced with couscous and vegetables. Such a dish can be safely included in your lenten menu for every day. Instead of this cereal, you can use rice or buckwheat.

Recipe Ingredients:

• bell pepper (about 7 pieces);
• 30 grams of couscous;
• 30 grams of pumpkin;
• half a red onion;
• half a small spoon of soy sauce;
• 300 ml filtered water;
• a little olive oil;
• a sprig of cilantro;
• sprig of parsley;
• a clove of garlic;
• spices to taste.

Cooking steps:

1. Heat one hundred milliliters of water in a container, and when it starts to boil, throw cereal into it.
2. Close the container with a lid. After five minutes, the couscous is ready.
3. Peel the pumpkin, chop the pulp and mix with the finished cereal.
4. Finely chop the onion and fry it in a well-heated pan. When ready, transfer to a bowl with pumpkin and couscous.
5. Add chopped parsley and cilantro, spices. Mix well. The filling is ready.
6. Wash the peppers, cut out the cores. Fill with the stuffing.
7. Pour the remaining 200 ml of clean water into the dishes. Spread the pepper evenly into it.
8. Stew the dish under a closed lid.

After 20 minutes, the pepper is ready to eat.

There are a large number of recipes for a lenten menu with the addition of lentils. This type of bean is a storehouse of vitamins, useful minerals and substances. Eating dishes with lentils has a positive effect on the digestive and cardiac systems.

Before cooking, lentils must be soaked in water overnight.

Required ingredients for curry:

• 220 g legumes;
• 200 g boiled rice;
• bulb;
• 460 g of tomato paste;
• 150 ml coconut milk;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• a large spoonful of olive oil;
• one large spoonful of curry spices;
• a small spoon of garam masala;
• a small spoon of turmeric and ginger.

Cooking steps:

1. Cook beans.
2. Heat oil in a hot frying pan, add chopped onion and garlic. Fry until golden brown.
3. Add pasta, milk and spices to them. Cook for about six minutes.
4. Add beans, stir. In 20 minutes your dish will be ready.

Serve curry with rice.

It's hard to believe that cabbage rolls can be lean. The menu during fasting can be replenished with this dish, made from mushrooms and rice.

Ingredients for vegetable cabbage rolls:

• a glass of filtered water;
• cabbage;
• half a glass of rice;
• 300 grams of fresh champignons;
• carrot;
• tomato paste to taste.

Cooking:

1. Boil the rice so that it is half cooked.
2. Wash the cabbage, divide it into leaves. Place them in boiling water and cook for a little less than a minute.
3. Place hot sheets under cold water to cool.
4. Grind carrots and mushrooms, mix. Combine the resulting mass with rice.
5. Distribute the filling among the leaves. Roll up carefully. If the sheet opens, then fasten it with a toothpick.
6. Pour water and tomato paste into a cooking dish. Lay out the doves.
7. Simmer for 20 minutes over medium heat.

This dish can be garnished with herbs.

Buckwheat cutlets

Lenten menu recipes are full of options for cooking buckwheat cutlets. You can use ordinary cereals, but if you saw green buckwheat on the shelves in the store, then opt for it. This kind of buckwheat is a more natural product, and when cooked, it becomes more sticky than ordinary cereals.

For buckwheat cutlets you will need products:

• 300 grams of cereals;
• bulb;
• 12 grams of garlic;
• greens to taste;
• spices to taste.

1. Place the boiled porridge in a blender and beat until a paste. Transfer to a bowl.
2. Finely chop the greens, onion and garlic. Combine with buckwheat mass. Mix.
3. Form circles. If the cutlets fall apart, then you need to add breadcrumbs.
4. Fry in a hot pan.

If you want to make cutlets lighter and more dietary, then bake in the oven until golden brown.

The dish can be supplemented with vegetable salad or boiled potatoes.

Pancakes are one of the favorite treats for both children and adults. They can serve as a main dish and as a dessert.

By stuffing pancakes with zucchini caviar or hummus, you will create a hearty lunch dish that will fit the Lenten table menu. Filled with jam, marmalade or honey, pancakes become a delicious dessert.

To prepare lean pancakes, we need:

• glass of water;
• a glass of sifted flour;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 50 ml of vegetable oil;
• 5 grams of soda;
• 2 grams of vanillin.

1. Gradually combine flour with water. Stir frequently to prevent lumps from forming. You can use a blender.
2. Add sugar and vanilla to flour mixture. If you're making savory pancakes, don't add sugar.
3. Add oil and lastly soda. Mix until bubbles appear.
4. Pour the resulting mass into a hot frying pan. To prevent pancakes from falling apart, take more dough.
5. Fry on both sides.

The dish is designed for eight people.

Blackcurrant can be replaced with any other berries. This recipe is for twelve cupcakes. By adding this recipe to your Lenten menu, you will delight yourself and your loved ones with a delicious dessert.

For cupcakes we need:

• a glass of berries;
• a glass of wheat flour;
• a glass of oatmeal cereal;
• a tablespoon of flaxseed flour;
• half a glass of sugar;
• a tablespoon of baking powder;
• 250 ml soy milk;
• three tablespoons of applesauce;
• three tablespoons of vegetable oil.

Cooking steps:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
2. In a bowl, mix milk, puree and butter.
3. In another bowl, combine cereal, both flours, sugar and baking powder.
4. Mix the contents of the first bowl with the contents of the second.
5. Spread the resulting mass into molds.
6. Bake 25 minutes.

Ready-made pastries acquire a golden brownish tint.

Berry smoothie will be a great addition to the Lenten menu. Instead of berries, kiwi, an apple or other fruits are also suitable. Since it is difficult to find fresh berries in the winter season, frozen ones can be used.

Required components:

• a glass of cherry juice;
• 60 grams of ripe banana;
• 100 grams of frozen strawberries;
• 100 grams of frozen cherries.

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend well. The drink can be consumed both warm and cold, adding a little ice.

Of course, the main goal of fasting is the spiritual growth of a person, the correction of sins, the purification of the soul from passions. No wonder there is such a saying - fasting is not in the belly, but in the spirit. Therefore, before talking about the “food” component of fasting, I will cite one wonderful saying of St. Basil the Great: “Do not limit the benefits of fasting to one abstinence in food, because true fasting is the elimination from evil deeds ... Forgive your neighbor an insult, forgive him his debts. You do not eat meat, but you offend your brother... True fasting is the removal of evil, the abstinence of the tongue, the suppression of anger in oneself, the excommunication of lusts, slander, lies and perjury. Refraining from this is true fasting.”

Thus, fasting should not be considered as a diet for weight loss. This article will talk about how to rationally compose your menu so that you do not violate the rules of food abstinence in fasting, and do not harm your health.

Speaking about proper nutrition in fasting, it is worth noting that each person has his own measure of abstinence in food. Someone is healthy, and someone has chronic diseases that require a therapeutic diet. Someone studies, someone performs hard physical labor. For pregnant and lactating mothers, fasting is also usually relaxed. The measure of abstinence in food during fasting is best discussed with your confessor.

Great Lent is now underway, which implies the exclusion of meat, fish, poultry, dairy products, and eggs. There are days of dry eating, days of eating food without oil. In less strict multi-day fasts - the Christmas and Peter fasts, fish and fish caviar are blessed on some days.

Among fasting people, there is a controversial attitude towards the use of soy products and seafood (bloodless sea reptiles) in fasting, as well as eating foods such as lean mayonnaise, lean sweets and cakes, etc. Again, if there are doubts and questions, all controversial points are better decide with your confessor. If eating squid and soy cheese is a delicacy and temptation for you, of course you should refuse such food. However, one should not condemn one's neighbor in the use of such products - perhaps a person has the blessing of a confessor for eating certain products.

Basic principles of proper nutrition in fasting

1. During fasting, most of the diet of a fasting person is carbohydrate food, and very little protein is consumed. Meanwhile, protein is essential for human health, it is the "building material" of our body. Animal protein is excluded during fasting, but vegetable protein is allowed. Sources of vegetable protein - nuts, seeds, legumes, mushrooms, cereals, bread, soy products. Marine reptiles - shrimp, squid, mussels, etc., are also very rich in protein.
2. If a person leads an active lifestyle, foods that are a good source of energy and give a feeling of satiety for a long time are mandatory - these are pasta, potatoes and cereals. But keep in mind that instant porridge is "fast" carbs! Such porridge quickly saturates, but also “burns out” quickly, and after a couple of hours you can feel hungry. Choose hercules with a cooking time of 15-20 minutes. If there is no time for cooking in the morning, you can fill the oatmeal with cold water in the evening, and in the morning just warm up the porridge.
3. It is useful to season salads with olive oil, for your serving - 1 tablespoon of oil.
4. Useful moderate consumption of dried fruits in the post - dried apricots, prunes, dates, and nuts. They can be added to morning porridge, take with you for a snack. Dried fruits and nuts have a high calorie content, so they quickly saturate.
5. Instead of sugar, use honey - you can add it to morning porridge, tea, use honey as a natural sweetener in baking. Bitter chocolate, marmalade and dried fruits in moderation are preferable to sweet lean flour products that can be found on store shelves. These foods tend to be high in fat, and their consumption can lead to weight gain.
6. A very important principle of proper nutrition in fasting is the daily use of fresh and / or thermally processed vegetables and fruits. Vegetables and fruits are great for a snack - for example, if it is a vegetable salad (you can diversify it by adding mushrooms, legumes, squid, nuts, crackers if you wish), seasoned with olive oil and 1 fruit.
7. It is important not to starve and try to plan your meals so that there are no long breaks between meals. In this case, the digestive system quickly and better adapts to a plant-based diet and the risk of such "troubles" as gastritis, constipation and indigestion will decrease. For those people who observe the monastic rule, eating no more than 2 times a day, observing the days of complete refusal of food, it is better to prepare in advance. Even before fasting, you should gradually reduce the frequency of meals so that the body can more easily adapt to the new regimen.
8. If you have excess body weight, it is important to follow the following rules so that you do not gain weight during fasting.

• First of all, it is necessary to reduce the amount of carbohydrate food in the evening meal as much as possible. Since carbohydrates provide a lot of energy, and in the evening after school or work, energy is usually not spent, it will be deposited in the form of fat “in reserve”. Therefore, in the evening it is better to give up pasta, potatoes, rice, cereals, flour products, bread and sweets. For dinner, you can eat a variety of vegetable dishes and legume dishes. These can be vegetable and bean salads, vegetable casseroles and cutlets, stews, vegetable caviar, baked and stewed vegetables, grilled vegetables, vegetable and bean soups (without potatoes, cereals and pasta). Dinner is recommended no later than 3-4 hours before bedtime! If you consider it obligatory for yourself to have a snack after dinner (for example, if dinner took place 5-6 hours before bedtime), then have a snack no later than 2 hours before bedtime.
• If the use of marine reptiles and soy products is acceptable for you, you can also include them in your menu in the evening.
• On days when fish is allowed, an excellent dinner option would be fish + any vegetables (except potatoes).
• In the evening with tea (not sweet), you can eat a few nuts. Sweets for dinner should be excluded.
• Eating potatoes is acceptable for lunch or breakfast, but not every day. Rice and pasta are preferred over potatoes. Cereals are best consumed for breakfast, fruits and dried fruits - before 7 pm. Diversify your diet with frequent consumption of vegetables, both raw and thermally processed.
• Pay attention to the moderate consumption of vegetable oil - the most high-calorie product known!
• The use of a variety of soups is welcome, both for lunch and dinner (for dinner, vegetable / bean soups without cereals, pasta and potatoes).
• Further, in the examples of the Lenten menu, you will see the mark (dietary breakfast/lunch/dinner), this means that this dietary option is suitable for people with excess body weight. On days of dry eating, there is no such mark, since the diet of such days is dietary in itself.

RECIPES for LENTEN BREAKFAST / LUNCH / DINNER on dry days

Oatmeal and fruit smoothies: Fill the hercules with cold water overnight. In the morning, add 1-2 teaspoons of honey and diced fresh fruits - banana, kiwi, orange. Blend with a blender, adding water as needed. You can use other fruits and any berries to make smoothies. If desired, you can add dried fruits, nuts.

Fruit and nut salad: 1 apple, 1 banana, 1 orange cut into pieces, mix, season with lemon juice, cinnamon and 1 tsp. honey. If desired, add any dried fruits and nuts. If desired, any fruits and berries can be added to such a salad.

Oatmeal muesli with soy milk: pour muesli with soy milk, wait 10 minutes until the flakes swell.

Carrot and apple salad: grate apple and carrot, mix, season with lemon juice, 1 tsp. honey, garnish with nuts if desired.

Strawberry-Pear-Carrot Salad: Grate 2 carrots on a coarse grater, add strawberries and pear cut into large cubes (peel the pear and remove the core), add 1 tsp. honey and 1 tsp. lemon juice. Mix.

Vegetable salad: chop the tomato, cucumber, radish, corn, leek, lettuce, dill, parsley, sesame, mix. In such a salad, you can add grated celery root, young zucchini, crackers. Fill with lemon juice.

Salad "hearty": mix canned beans, corn, green peas and diced tomato. You can add crackers, avocado and garlic if desired.

Cabbage and Pea Salad: chop white cabbage, mash with salt with your hands, add diced fresh cucumber and green peas, sprinkle with lemon juice, mix.

Salad with wheat: chop lettuce leaves, add wheat germ, diced avocados, corn, pine nuts, olives. You can add crackers. Mix.

Avocado salad 1: cut the avocado into cubes, mix with chopped lettuce, croutons and sprinkle with lemon juice.

Avocado salad 2: cut the avocado into cubes, mix with chopped fresh cucumber, dill and corn, sprinkle with lemon juice.

Carrot and Pumpkin Salad: grate carrots and pumpkin, season with 1 tsp of granulated sugar or 1 tsp. honey. Sprinkle with lemon juice.

Sandwiches with avocado and tomato: Grease black bread with crushed garlic, put sliced ​​​​avocado on top, and sliced ​​\u200b\u200btomato on top of the avocado.

Sandwiches with avocado pate: Mash the avocado with a fork, add a little lemon juice, dried basil, a pinch of salt and paprika. Mix until smooth and spread on bread. Top with sesame seeds or toasted pine nuts.

Examples of lenten breakfast on dry days:

— Any salad/smoothie from the list of dishes + tea/coffee/cocoa with dried fruits/nuts.

— Oatmeal muesli with soy milk + tea/coffee/cocoa with dried fruits/nuts.

- Corn flakes with soy milk + tea / coffee / cocoa with dried fruits / nuts.

- Vegetable salad from the list + fruit salad / smoothie from the list + tea with lemon.

- 2 avocado sandwiches + tea with dried fruits / nuts.

- Vegetable salad from the list + fresh fruit 1-2 pieces + tea with honey and lemon.

Examples of fasting meals on dry days:

- Any salad / smoothie from the list of dishes + 1-2 avocado sandwiches + tea with honey and dried fruits / nuts.

- Any salad / smoothie from the list of dishes + 1-2 slices of bread + 1-2 fruits.

Examples of fasting dinner on dry days:

- Vegetable or bean salad from the list of dishes + 1-2 avocado sandwiches + tea with lemon and nuts.

- Vegetable or bean salad from the list of dishes + bread + tea with lemon and nuts.

- Vegetable or bean salad from the list + bread + fresh fruit 1 pc + tea with lemon.

RECIPES for LENTEN BREAKFAST / LUNCH / DINNER on oil-free days

Oatmeal, boiled in water with 1 tsp. honey, a handful of fresh berries / fruits or dried fruits (prunes, dried apricots, raisins, dates) or nuts.

Baked apples with oatmeal, berries and nuts: Take out the middle of the apples, put oatmeal in the middle, 1 tsp. honey, berries and nuts. Put in a mold, bake in the oven at 200g. 15 minutes.

Millet porridge on the water with pumpkin and / or prunes: Rinse the millet, pre-soak the prunes in warm water. Cut pumpkin pulp into cubes. Put everything together in boiling water, cook until viscous. At the end of cooking, salt the porridge to taste. Before serving, add 1 tsp. honey and garnish with nuts if desired.

Borsch lean thick: Pour water into a large saucepan, add spices: bay leaf 2-3 pcs, cloves 4-5 pcs, allspice 2-3 pcs, black pepper 1-2 pcs. and 1-2 medium-sized peeled potatoes, boil over medium heat. Pour 2-3 ladles of water into a separate small saucepan, add the onion cut into small cubes and grated carrot, cook over medium heat. Grate 1 large beetroot, sprinkle it with 1-2 tsp. lemon or 1 tsp vinegar, mix and put in a small saucepan 10 minutes after the carrot, without stirring. Beets should be slightly covered with water. Remove spices and boiled potatoes from a large saucepan. Mash the potatoes in a separate container with a pestle and return to the pan. Separately, cut 3-5 tubers of raw potatoes into cubes, put in a large saucepan. When the beets turn opaque, put the contents of the saucepan into a large saucepan. Cabbage can be taken both sauerkraut and fresh. Rinse sauerkraut lightly with water, put in a saucepan. Shred raw cabbage, put in a saucepan. Add 2-3 tablespoons of tomato paste, mix thoroughly. Salt the borscht to taste and cook until tender. 5 minutes before readiness, add chopped parsley and dill.

Mushroom soup with potatoes: Soak dry mushrooms in hot water. Pour water into a saucepan, add spices: bay leaf 2-3 pcs, allspice 2-3 pcs, cook with spices for 5-10 minutes, remove the spices. Cut 4-5 potato tubers into cubes, put in a saucepan, salt the soup. Cut the onion and carrot into cubes, put in a pan with 2 tbsp. water, simmer for 5-10 minutes. Grind mushrooms as desired, put in a pan with onions and carrots, simmer for another 10 minutes. Put the contents of the pan into a saucepan with soup, mix, cook until tender. 5 minutes before readiness, add chopped parsley and dill.

Bean soup with potatoes: Soak the beans overnight in cold water with 1 tsp. baking soda. In the morning, drain the water, rinse the beans, put them in a pot of water and cook until almost cooked. When the beans become almost soft, cut 4-5 potato tubers into cubes, put in a saucepan, salt the soup. Cut the onion into cubes, grate the carrots, put in a pan with 2 tbsp. water, simmer for 5-10 minutes and put in a pot with soup. Salt the soup, add spices to taste and cook until tender. 5 minutes before readiness, add chopped parsley and dill.

Vegetable stew: Mushrooms cut into large pieces, fry in a pan with a non-stick coating. Vegetables (you can take a frozen mixture of vegetables, you can use any of your own, diced, if desired) put in a pan with mushrooms, salt, add spices, 1 tbsp. tomato paste and some water. Simmer under a lid over low heat until tender.

Mashed potatoes with mushrooms: Boil potatoes and puree with a small amount of potato broth. Mushrooms chop, salt, stew in a pan. Serve the dish sprinkled with chopped dill.

Potatoes with pumpkin and mushrooms in the sleeve: Cut potatoes, pumpkin, fresh mushrooms randomly, salt and add spices / herbs to taste, mix. Put the mass in the sleeve. Pierce the sleeve in several places with a toothpick (so as not to burst during cooking). Bake in the oven at 180g for 40-50 minutes. Serve sprinkled with fresh herbs.

Examples of a lean breakfast on oil-free days:(dietary breakfast).

- Oatmeal porridge on the water + green salad + tea with lemon / coffee.

— Baked apples with oatmeal, berries and nuts + vegetable salad + tea / coffee.

— Millet porridge on water with pumpkin and/or prunes + green salad + tea/coffee.

Examples of fasting meals on oil-free days:(diet lunch).

– Lean borscht + 1 slice of bread + vegetable salad + tea with lemon + nuts + tangerine.

— Mushroom soup with potatoes + sandwich with avocado pate + tea with lemon and nuts + apple.

- Bean soup with potatoes + 1 slice of bread + green salad + tea with dried fruits.

Examples of a fast dinner on oil-free days:

— Rice with vegetable stew + vegetable / bean salad + compote.

— Mashed potatoes with mushrooms + vegetable salad + tea with lemon and nuts.

— Potatoes with pumpkin and mushrooms in the sleeve + bean salad + tea with lemon and nuts.

— Vegetable stew + bean salad + tea with lemon and nuts. (diet dinner).

RECIPES for LENTEN BREAKFAST / LUNCH / DINNER on oil days

Apple fritters: Sift flour 1.5 cups, mix with 0.5 tsp. baking powder, 4 tbsp sugar, a pinch of salt, vegetable oil 2-3 tbsp. whisk or mixer until smooth, adding water to the consistency of thick sour cream. Peel and core 1 large apple, grate on a fine grater and add to the dough, mix. Heat the pan, grease with vegetable oil and bake pancakes over medium heat on both sides. You can serve with honey, fresh berries and fruits, jam.

Lean yeast pancakes. Put a dough of 1 tbsp. flour, 1/2 cup water, 1 tbsp. granulated sugar and a bag of dry yeast (1-2 teaspoons, depending on the final amount of dough). Put the dough in a warm place (you can put a bowl of dough in a bowl of hot water and cover with a dry towel) for half an hour. Opara should fit well. Next, add 2-3 cups of sifted flour, a pinch of salt, 1 tbsp to the dough. granulated sugar, 3-4 tbsp. vegetable oil and a glass of water. Beat the mixture with a mixer, adding water to the consistency of liquid sour cream or fermented baked milk. Put the finished dough in a warm place for 20 minutes, covered with a dry towel. When the dough rises, check it. If it becomes too thick, add some water and mix thoroughly. Heat the pans well, and periodically lubricating them with vegetable oil, bake pancakes. Serve with honey, fresh berries, fruits, jam.

Granola: 1.5 cups of hercules, a handful of hazelnuts, almonds, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, coconut flakes, diced dried fruits (optional) mix thoroughly with 2 tbsp. honey, 2-3 tbsp. r oil. Put parchment paper on a baking sheet, spread the mixture and bake at 160g for 40 minutes. Stir every 5 minutes. The mixture should take on a nice golden brown color. Don't overdry! Cool, add coconut and raisins, mix. Can be stored in the refrigerator for several days. Serve with soy milk.

Pea soup: Soak peas overnight with 1 tsp. baking soda. Drain the water in the morning. Boil the peas in new water until half cooked. Cut the potatoes into cubes, fry the carrots and onions in vegetable oil. Roast and potatoes lay out the soup. Salt and add spices to taste. Cook until ready. Serve with crackers.

Lenten soup - kharcho with mushrooms: Soak dry mushrooms in boiling water for half an hour. Fry onions and carrots in a pan. When the onion turns golden, add mushrooms and a little water. Simmer covered for 10 minutes. Put the contents of the pan into boiling water and add rice, cook for 10 minutes. Salt the soup to taste, add 2 tbsp. tomato paste and chopped dill with parsley. Cook for another 5-7 minutes, bringing to a boil.

Baked eggplant with tomato: cut the eggplant into rings, pour salted water for 1 hour (to remove the bitterness). Cut the tomatoes into circles. Squeeze the eggplant from excess water, lightly fry in a pan with vegetable oil. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil, put eggplant mugs, tomato mugs on top, a drop of lean mayonnaise on top (can be replaced with mushroom caviar). Bake in the oven at 200gr. 15 minutes.

Pots with vegetables and mushrooms: Cut the eggplant into cubes, soak in salted water for half an hour to remove the bitterness. Cut the tomato and onion into cubes. Cut mushrooms into large slices. Fry the onion in a pan, when the onion is browned, add the mushrooms, fry for 5-7 minutes, add the eggplants with tomatoes and fry lightly. Carrot cut into circles. Drain water from canned beans. We put all the ingredients in pots and pour salted water so that the water slightly covers the vegetables. We send the pots to the oven and cook at a temperature of 200 degrees for about 1 hour.

Lachanorizo: Fry onions and grated carrots in vegetable oil. Chop 300-500 grams of white cabbage, put it on carrots and onions and fry over high heat until caramelized, stirring constantly. Add 2-3 tbsp. tomato paste and spices. Salt to taste, stir and reduce heat.
Add ½ cup rice and 1 cup water to cabbage. Rice can be added more or less as desired. Simmer covered until the rice is done.

Examples of Lenten Breakfast on Butter Days:

— Apple fritters + green salad + tea with lemon.

– Lenten yeast pancakes + green salad + tea with lemon.

Granola + green salad + coffee with soy milk. (dietary breakfast).

Examples of Lenten Meals on Butter Days:(diet lunch).

- Pea soup + green salad with butter + tea with lemon + apple.

– Lenten kharcho soup + raw vegetables + sandwich with vegetable caviar + tea with lemon.

- Lean thick borsch + green / bean salad + tea with 2-3 pieces of marmalade.

— Lachanorizo ​​+ sandwich with vegetable caviar + fruit salad + tea with lemon.

Examples of Lenten Dinner on Butter Days:

— Spaghetti with vegetable stew + bean salad + tea with lemon.

- Boiled potatoes with 1 tsp. fragrant oil + baked eggplant with tomato + vegetable salad + compote.

– Lachanorizo ​​+ vegetable salad + tea with lemon and nuts.

- Pots with vegetables and mushrooms + bean salad + tea with lemon and nuts. (diet dinner).

RECIPES for LENTEN LUNCH/ DINNER on days with fish

Potato soup with red fish: Pour water into the pan, put the potatoes, cut into cubes. In a pan with 1 tbsp. oil will fry grated carrots and diced onions. After 10 minutes of cooking the potatoes, add the frying and pieces of red fish to the soup. Add spices and salt to taste, chopped dill and parsley. Cook for another 10-15 minutes.

Potato soup with squid meatballs: Meatballs: Cook potato soup. When the soup is almost ready, we make meatballs with a teaspoon: we take squid puree in a spoon, form a ball the size of a walnut on a spoon. Gently lower the spoon with minced meat into the soup, hold for a few seconds to “grab” and turn the spoon over, our meatball will not fall apart. This is how we make all the meatballs. Bring the soup to a boil and the soup is ready!

Salad with rice and fish: Boil rice, cool, add pieces of boiled pink salmon (or canned food), green peas, green onions, dill, vegetable oil, salt to taste and mix.

Squid cutlets: These meatballs can be frozen ahead of time. We take squid carcasses. If with skin, remove it with a stocking, remove the insides. Using an immersion blender, or a meat grinder, we make mashed squid from squid. Salt, pepper to taste, add 2-5 tbsp. breadcrumbs (crackers are only needed so that you can form cutlets from the squid mass), chopped dill, mix. We form cutlets, roll them in breadcrumbs. Freeze for future use, or fry in a pan.

Fish cakes: pass the pulp of any fish through a meat grinder (or take ready-made minced fish), add 2-3 tbsp. Breadcrumbs, salt and pepper to taste. In a frying pan, fry the onion, diced and carrots, grated. Mix with minced meat. Form cutlets.

Tuna and Tomato Salad: Cut the tomatoes into cubes, add pieces of tuna (canned), chopped lettuce, dill and green onions. Drizzle with olive oil, stir.

Examples of Lenten Meals on Fish Days.(diet lunch)

- Potato soup with red fish + bean salad + 1 slice of bread + compote.

- Potato soup with squid meatballs + green salad + 1 slice of bread + tea with lemon.

— Boiled rice + baked fish + green salad + tea with lemon and nuts.

— Vegetable soup + salad with rice and fish + 1 slice of bread + compote .

Examples of Lenten Dinner on Fish Days.

— Buckwheat porridge + baked fish + raw vegetables + tea with lemon.

- Fish cakes + boiled rice + vegetable salad + tea with lemon.

— Tuna and tomato salad + lachanorizo ​​+ tea with lemon and nuts.

— Vegetable stew + fish cakes + slice of soy cheese + tea with lemon (diet dinner).

— Squid cutlets + vegetable stew + vegetable salad + tea with lemon. (diet dinner).

— Grilled vegetables + red fish steak baked in the oven + tea with lemon and nuts. (diet dinner).

Adhering to proper nutrition in fasting, it is important to know one more thing. Exclusion from the diet of certain foods can lead to a deficiency of important vitamins and minerals. For example, if you refuse milk and sour-milk products, the intake of calcium into the body, from which our bones are “built”, is significantly reduced. And if you refuse meat food, there may be a deficiency of iron, which is necessary for blood formation and oxygen "nutrition" of the body. Therefore, to make up for this deficiency, you can supplement your diet with nutritional supplements and multivitamin complexes, the intake of which must be discussed with your doctor.

Do not forget that the end of the post should not be "sharp". Our body needs time to adapt to "heavy" food and rebuild metabolic processes. At the end of the fast, you need to include fast food in your menu as carefully as possible - first introduce dairy products and eggs, after a while - fish and meat. And it is very important not to overeat.

I wish the readers good health!

Endocrinologist Akmaeva G.BUT.

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Working housewives are familiar with the annoying thought boring their heads: what to cook for dinner today? So that thoughts do not drill into your head, but soar, waving culinary excitement like a flag, we offer an approximate lenten menu for a week - only ideas, no exact proportions and recipes, one solid inspiration that you can use at your own discretion.

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Monday

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BREAKFAST

Lean coffee pancakes

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Pancakes in the post - a very real story with the aroma of home comfort, grandmother's hands and memories of a sweet childhood. All that is needed for this delicacy to appear on the table during Lent is to replace milk with any other drink (mineral water, fruit juice, or even ordinary strong tea), and instead of eggs, add a little more flour or starch. Let the dough brew, and then bake the most ordinary thin pancakes. Delicious, tender and lean.

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This time, try to take strong freshly brewed coffee as a base - pancakes with it will turn out with a very unusual flavor, the color is caramel-cream. The drink should be warm - it will brew the flour, so that the dough will come out elastic and strong. Fragrant Lenten Delight!

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Alternative: lean pancakes on tea

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DINNER

Lenten borscht with mushrooms
Thick and rich vegetable broth, thinly sliced ​​beets, finely grated carrots, diced bell peppers, tender strips of cabbage and many, many thin slices of mushrooms - only for the sake of such borscht one can dream of Lent!

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So, take out your proven borscht recipe, instead of meat broth, take vegetable broth, cook as usual, and at the end add a couple of handfuls of finely chopped and fried in vegetable oil champignons or pre-boiled and then fried wild mushrooms to the pan. Amazing result! By the way, such borsch is much tastier on the second day.

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Alternative: lean borscht with prunes

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The vinaigrette
An undeservedly forgotten dish in Lent will come in handy. To make your vinaigrette as tasty as possible, do not forget to buy unrefined sunflower oil, which smells like seeds and contains much more nutrients than its refined “relative”.

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Alternative: "white" vinaigrette without beets (potatoes, beans, sauerkraut, onions, sunflower oil).

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AFTER SNACK

Lean Banana Smoothie
A peeled banana, some berries (raspberries, strawberries, blueberries or cherries from the freezer), half a glass of any fruit juice or compote, a pinch of cinnamon, a minute with a blender - and you have an amazingly delicious lean smoothie in your glass! Thick smoothies without cream, milk or yogurt are just what you need to make the Fasting enjoyable.

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Alternative: mango or pineapple smoothie

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DINNER

Pilaf with seafood
Lightly fry the carrots and onions in vegetable oil, add the mussels and squid rings, then add rice, add water and simmer until the cereal is cooked - here's a great lenten dinner for you.

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Alternative: spinach or beetroot risotto (do not forget to exclude cheese and cream from the recipe).

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Yeast pancakes
Lush, thick, soft pancakes accompanied by amber apricot jam and a cup of chamomile tea… yes, only for such a breakfast you can fast!
We remind you the recommended proportion for the preparation of lean yeast pancakes - 250 ml of warm water will require 1 tsp. dry yeast and 2 cups flour. Do not forget that you need to add sugar, salt and a little vegetable oil to the dough.
Alternative: lean oatmeal.

DINNER

White bean soup
Up to 10 g of protein is hidden in 100 g of beans - it is for this reason that legumes are indispensable in fasting. It's great if you have a supply of young beans in the freezer - it is very convenient to add it to any vegetable broth and cook the soup in just 20 minutes. If you are unlucky, you can go two ways: soak and boil dry beans in advance, or use canned ones.
Alternative: lentil soup.

stuffed tomatoes
Not the most budgetary dish, however, if you do not give yourself regular small pleasures, Lent will be a very difficult test. So - take a couple of tomatoes, cut off the “cap” and remove the core, put inside the stuffing from boiled rice until half cooked, finely chopped and fried mushrooms, onions, carrots, herbs, spinach, celery and bake until done. Very juicy, tasty and flavorful!
Alternative: stuffed eggplant (you just need to omit the cheese from the recipe).

AFTER SNACK

Pumpkin-orange juice
Take out a juicer, and preferably two: a classic one (on which you can make pumpkin juice) and a citrus juicer (for orange juice). Mix two drinks, add a drop of olive oil and enjoy the taste, color, smell, life!
Alternative: vitamin pumpkin drink.

DINNER

Spaghetti with champignons
A little onion, cut into half rings - in a frying pan, fry until golden. Striped champignons - there too. A couple of tablespoons of soy sauce - to mushrooms and onions. Salt, pepper, parsley, add spaghetti boiled al dente ... magical! Allow yourself half a glass of wine for today's dinner, and then the feeling of a fairy tale will be complete and comprehensive.
Alternative: pasta with chickpeas and tomatoes.

Wednesday

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BREAKFAST

Lavash with vegetables
Unroll a sheet of thin pita bread bought in the evening on a board, grease with any lean mayonnaise (for example, apple or walnut). Put vegetables on one edge - tomatoes, Korean-style carrots, fried or pickled champignons, lettuce leaves, greens. Roll up and have a tasty and healthy breakfast.
Alternative: instead of pita bread, you can take corn tortillas tortillas.

DINNER

Mushroom cream soup
Mushrooms are what gives any dish a special touch of satiety and solidity, so soup prepared with butter or mushrooms will be especially appropriate in Lent, when the calorie content of the diet to which you are accustomed is reduced. Do not spare vegetables - thanks to them, the first course will be even more fragrant.
Alternative: dried mushroom soup (just replace the butter with vegetable oil).

Seaweed Salad with Celery Root
Useful, vitamin and simple. Pickled celery root goes well with the specific taste of seaweed, and this is something worth trying.
Alternative: tapenade.

AFTER SNACK

sesame milk
Pour a couple of handfuls of sesame seeds with hot water and leave to infuse for 3-5 hours, then finely chop the mass with a blender and pass through a piece of linen fabric. Add honey, cinnamon or vanilla - a delicious drink is ready!
Alternative: almond milk.

DINNER

Stuffed bell pepper
You definitely have a supply of frozen bell peppers, don't you? Boil some rice, mix with sautéed onions, carrots, parsley root and celery, salt, stuff peppers and lightly stew in the oven or double boiler. Don't be bored, dinner is ready!
Alternative: ratatouille.

Thursday

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BREAKFAST

Nutella fruit toast
Place lightly dried nuts and pitted dates in equal proportions in a blender bowl, add a little citrus zest for flavor, if desired, a couple of tablespoons of cocoa powder and sugar. Grind everything into a homogeneous, rather thick, lumpy mass, after which, without turning off the blender, add a little vegetable milk (sesame, pumpkin, poppy, almond or any other), achieving a smooth structure and the desired consistency. Such a paste is an excellent spread on dried slices of toast bread. In the company of a cup of coffee - an elegant lenten breakfast that will energize you for the whole day.
Alternative: baked apples.

DINNER

Assorted vegetable soup
We take a voluminous capacious saucepan, heat a small amount of vegetable oil in it (olive oil would be great!), sauté onions, carrots, parsley root, add diced bell pepper, cauliflower and broccoli divided into inflorescences, do not forget about peeled tomatoes , pour a handful of green peas, do not be greedy and add a little corn. We pass, pass ... and then - op, a little bit of white wine and ordinary boiling water, spices and spices, salt and pepper. When serving, be sure to sprinkle with herbs. Overeating!
Alternative: tomato soup (do not forget to replace the meat broth with vegetable).

Bean pate
We mix boiled beans with onions, carrots, dried walnuts, fried until golden, grind with a blender into a homogeneous paste. Hearty lean pate is ready! Fast and very thorough.
Alternative: hummus.

AFTER SNACK

Cranberry jelly
Good old jelly that smells of childhood and naivete... Why not? All you need is sugar, starch and some cranberries.
Alternative: nut milk cocktail.

DINNER

Potato dumplings
Unleavened dough, mashed potatoes with fried carrots, pot-bellied dumplings, golden onion gravy ... Beware: so tasty that you can burst!
Alternative: lentils with sun-dried tomatoes.

Friday

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BREAKFAST

Salad with tofu
Isn't it time for some salad for breakfast? Do an inspection in the refrigerator: send some cucumbers, tomato, iceberg leaves or Chinese cabbage into a bowl, an apple or pear will go, then chop the onion and greens, add a little vegetable oil and be sure to put a few cubes of tofu. Bright, juicy and nutritious. Breakfast is ready!
Alternative:"winter salad.
DINNER

Lean pickle
A simple science is to take a thick vegetable broth, boil pearl barley in it, add diced potatoes, striped carrots and finely grated pickles. Hearty, rich, delicious.
Alternative: gazpacho.

Chinese vegetables in sweet and sour sauce
In a wok, fry coarsely chopped carrots, onions, bell peppers, pumpkin, celery root, add a little soy sauce, garlic, salt, pepper, and then pour in half a glass of a weak solution of starch mixed with sugar and lemon juice. A couple more movements - and the magnificent vegetables in sweet and sour sauce are ready.
Alternative: pickled pumpkin

AFTER SNACK

Fruit salad
That's where the expanse! Finely chopped mother-of-pearl apple cubes, velvet banana circles, peeled orange slices oozing amber, emerald kiwi slices, full-breasted grapes, tender halves of canned peaches - all in a plate, mix and realize that life is beautiful and amazing!
Oh, and don't forget to get a few strawberries out of the freezer - they make a great salad dressing.
Alternative: pears in syrup.

DINNER

Vegetable cutlets
Grind boiled broccoli, cauliflower, sauteed carrots, fried onions in any way convenient for you, add herbs, spices, sun-dried tomatoes, add a couple of tablespoons of starch, form cutlets and fry them until golden brown. Appetizing!
Alternative: vegetable stew.

Saturday

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BREAKFAST

Lean potato pancakes
A couple of potato tubers on a grater, a little dill, a spoonful of flour, salt, pepper and a frying pan with vegetable oil - that's probably all you need to get a wonderful and tasty Saturday breakfast. Of course, lean.
Alternative: lean zucchini pancakes.

DINNER

Thick rice soup
The basis of all lean soups is vegetable broth. If you take care in advance to cook a large amount of such a useful workpiece and freeze it in portions, the process of preparing the first course will be reduced to a minimum. Pass the vegetables, add rice and potatoes, dilute everything with broth, do not forget about spices and salt - the soup is ready. When serving, crush a clove of garlic into a plate - you will not regret it!
Alternative: lentil soup.

Rice with vegetables
Fry the onions, carrots, bell peppers, asparagus beans, celery stalk and everything else that you have in the refrigerator and freezer in a deep saute pan, then add a glass of rice and simmer until tender. A colorful lunch is uplifting!
Alternative: bulgur with vegetables.

AFTER SNACK

candied pumpkin
Snacking is, of course, evil, however, if we agree to them, they should be tasty and healthy. Give preference to candied pumpkin today: it is not only very bright and positive, but also very vitamin.
Alternative: apple chips.

DINNER

Rustic potatoes in the oven
Well, who can think of something more appetizing than oven baked potato slices sprinkled with fragrant herbs and seasoned with garlic? Do not forget to get a jar of pickles from the pantry - you will have a great dinner.
Alternative: lean potato zrazy with mushrooms.

Sunday

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BREAKFAST

Homemade lean buns
Take as a basis any yeast dough recipe that you always succeed in, put the dough, wait for it to grow. Knead lean dough, add dried fruits and herbs, poppy seeds and nuts, berries and candied fruits, form balls - and delight the family with hot homemade breakfast buns.
Alternative: carrot buns.

DINNER

Minestrone
The classic Italian minestrone is made with vegetable broth, so it's perfect for a Lenten menu. Translated from the original language, this is “big soup” or “soup with a lot of vegetables” - so you should make sure that there is a sufficient selection of products in the refrigerator.
First, onions or shallots are simmered in olive oil, then carrots, celery, fennel, zucchini, pumpkin, garlic are put into the same pan - all in turn and each time simmering the next ingredient until soft. Sometimes cauliflower, bell peppers, tomatoes, asparagus beans, corn are added to the famous Italian soup.
The key to a successful minestrone is slow cooking, so Sunday - a day when you don't have to rush anywhere - is ideal for this dish.
After the vegetables are ready, add vegetable broth, aromatic herbs and spices to the pan, salt, bring to a boil, reduce heat, boil at a minimum for about 10 minutes and turn off. The lean minestrone is ready!
Alternative: minestrone with noodles.

eggplant caviar
Peel the baked eggplants, add some nuts and garlic, herbs and bell peppers, chop into a paste with a blender - you have an excellent vegetable snack on your table.
Alternative: roasted pepper paste.

AFTER SNACK

rice ice cream
You will be surprised to know what ordinary rice porridge is capable of. If you mix it with sugar and apple marshmallow, add some lemon zest and vanilla, and then grind everything with a blender, freeze, stirring occasionally, you will get an amazing ice cream that melts on the tongue, leaving a delicate aftertaste. And yes, it is absolutely lean!
Alternative: oatmeal smoothie.

DINNER

Lean vegetable pizza
The classic pizza dough is prepared lean, that is, without the addition of milk and eggs. Great, this suits us! Everything else is the same as always, except for one moment: we remove the cheese, but add a lot of different vegetables, mushrooms, herbs, onions. Bake and enjoy with a glass of dry wine.
Alternative: fast Greeks.

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SNACKS

We are all people, weak and mostly greedy for goodies, and therefore it is worth taking care that small treats for snacks are always at hand during Lent.

The easiest option is a secret jar with your favorite dried fruits: fill a beautiful container with nuts, dried apricots, raisins, prunes, dried cherries and open it when there is a very strong desire to “break loose” from the chosen diet and eat a cake with butter cream or buy three kilograms of “Doctor’s” and make yourself such a sandwich.

Lenten cookies help: a little sweetness and everything seems simple and real again.

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Study carefully the composition of the chocolate offered in stores- among the tiles of "black joy" there are often those that are made without milk and dairy products.

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Many caramel candies are also suitable for the lenten menu, and therefore they can cheer you up and help you resist the imminent temptation.

Easy and delicious Fasting to you!

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Lent is a period of spiritual and physical cleansing. During fasting, it is necessary to refuse any dishes that contain meat, milk and eggs. However, if you know the recipes for lenten dishes for every day during fasting, you can provide yourself and your family with a complete and balanced diet. In this article you will find delicious and original recipes for lenten dishes with photos.

Lenten borscht

Borscht is a traditional and one of the most delicious first courses. Borscht is most often prepared on the basis of pork, however, during the fasting period, you can cook a vegetarian borscht, which in taste will not differ much from a meat-based dish.

Components:

• Potato - 5 pcs.
• Tomatoes - 2 pcs. or tomato juice - 1 cup.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Carrot - 200 g.
• Beets - 2 pcs.
• Cabbage - 300 g.
• Sunflower oil.
• Salt, sugar, vinegar, garlic and other spices - to taste.

Peel and cut vegetables. Finely chop the cabbage. Remove the skin from the tomatoes and chop with a blender. Onion and garlic cut into small cubes.

Place the potatoes in a saucepan, cover with water and put on fire. After 10 minutes, add cabbage to the potatoes.

Heat up a frying pan, pour vegetable oil. When it warms up, put the onion in the pan, fry for 2 minutes, adding the carrots. Fry until done. At the end of cooking, add the twisted tomatoes and bring to a boil.

Grate the beets, squeeze out the juice. Roast the beets, sprinkling with lemon juice or vinegar to preserve the rich color. Pour the juice into a saucepan, add a little vinegar. This juice must be poured into borscht at the very end of cooking.

Add beetroot, zazharka, salt, sugar and spices to the pan. Cook until ready. Turn off the borscht by adding garlic, herbs and beetroot juice with vinegar. Serve with black bread, fresh onions, garlic and herbs.

Lenten cabbage rolls

If you can't decide what to cook in the post before Easter, recipes can be taken from the classic ones, only by cooking them without meat. An excellent recipe during fasting is cabbage rolls, in which vegetables should be put instead of minced meat. Lenten cabbage rolls are not inferior in taste to the classic ones, but they contain fewer calories and can be consumed even during Lent.

Components:

• Large cabbage - 1 pc.
• Rice - 150 g.
• Onions and carrots 200 g each
• Tomato juice - 200 ml.
• Dill, green onion - to taste.
• Sunflower oil, garlic, sugar, spices.

Divide the cabbage into sheets, and boil until soft. For medium-sized sheets, it will take about five minutes. Boil rice until tender and let cool. It is best to use round rice - it will provide the necessary stickiness.

Finely chop the onion, grate the carrot. Fry vegetables until tender. Mix rice, fried, chopped or dried garlic and dill. Add spices and salt.

The finished mixture must be laid out on sheets. Roll up the filling. Fry on both sides for 1-2 minutes. Transfer the cabbage rolls to a saucepan, pour over the juice, add spices and simmer for half an hour.

Stuffed cabbage served with green onions, dill and any lean sauce. As a side dish, boiled potatoes with dill are suitable for such a dish.

mushroom stew

Vegetables are the basis of nutrition during Lent. Mushroom stew is a great option for lunch or dinner. It consists of fresh mushrooms, vegetables, herbs and spices. The dish is tasty, nutritious and fragrant.

Components:

• Champignons or other mushrooms - 500 g.
• Onions and bell peppers 300 g each
• Tomato paste - 50 ml or tomato juice - 200 ml.
• Flour - 1 tbsp. l.
• Spices.

Mushrooms must be washed, cut into large pieces. If champignons are used, then the medium mushroom must be cut into four parts. Onions must be peeled, cut into large slices. Peel sweet pepper, cut into large cubes. Cut the garlic into slices.

Fry garlic and onion in olive or vegetable oil. After 2-3 minutes, add sweet pepper and fry for a few more minutes. Then add mushrooms and fry for 10 minutes.

It remains only to put tomato paste, a little flour, 300 ml species and bring to a boil. When the stew boils, add spices and salt. Simmer for 15 minutes on low heat. Serve with parsley, dill or other herbs to taste.

Pilaf with pumpkin, dried apricots and raisins

Slov is a fragrant and satisfying dish, for the preparation of which it is not necessary to use meat. In addition, dried apricots and other dried fruits give the dish an incredible taste. This lean dish will appeal even to those who love pilaf with meat.

Components:

• Brown rice - 300 g.
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Carrots - 300 g.
• Pumpkin - 300g.
• Garlic - 2 heads.
• Seasoning for pilaf and salt.
• Raisins, dried apricots and other dried fruits - a handful.

Pumpkin and carrots should be peeled and cut into strips. Onion cut into cubes. Fry the vegetables one by one in vegetable oil. Pour into a cauldron, adding dried fruits, garlic and spices to it.

Rinse brown rice and fry in vegetable oil for a few minutes. Pour over the rest of the ingredients. It remains to add water or vegetable broth in such an amount that the liquid covers the components by 3 cm.

Cover and cook for 50-60 minutes. Brown rice takes longer to cook than usual, so if you cook pilaf with regular rice, the time should be reduced to 30 minutes.

Ready pilaf served with fresh herbs. As an addition to this dish, a fresh salad or vegetable cuts are best suited. Dried fruits give the dish a rich taste and aroma, so this pilaf is not inferior to a traditional dish with meat.

Barley porridge with olives and vegetables

Barley porridge is a fairly simple side dish. However, if you add vegetables, olives, bright spices and herbs to it, you can turn barley porridge into a full-fledged dish that can be consumed even during Lent.

Components:

• Perlovka - 200 g.
• Carrot - 1 pc.
• Onion - 150 g.
• Olives - 100 g.
• Sesame - 10 g.
• Water - 1 liter.
• Vegetable oil - 60 ml.
• Salt, pepper and other spices to taste.

Pearl barley should be washed, let the water drain. Fry in a dry frying pan until a pleasant aroma of pearl barley appears. Sesame should also be fried in a dry frying pan for a pleasant crunch.

Cut the carrots into thin slices, and finely chop the onion or cut into large cubes. Fry.

Place fried vegetables, sesame seeds, pearl barley in a saucepan and pour water. Cook until tender, adding salt, black pepper and other spices at the end of cooking.

Olives must be cut into thin slices and added to the porridge 10-15 minutes before the end of cooking. On average, the preparation of porridge takes 50 minutes. Serve porridge with fresh herbs or slices of fresh cucumbers.

Vegetarian curry

If you are looking for original Lenten dishes for every day of Lent, pay attention to the vegetarian curry. This is a spicy savory dish that will be the highlight of your Lenten menu. The original combination of vegetables and spices will surprise your friends and acquaintances with your taste.

Components:

• Vegetable frozen mix - 800 g.
• Almonds - two presses.
• Onion - 100 g.
• Ginger root - 20 g.
• Coconut milk - 1 cup.
• Garlic - to taste.
• Vegetable oil - 80 ml.
• Coriander, hot pepper, saffron, turmeric - to taste.

You can use any set of vegetables to prepare this dish. It may include sweet peppers, potatoes, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, asparagus and peas. The most important thing in this dish is the right set of spices. For those who like spicy dishes, you can use more hot peppers.

Fry the vegetable mixture in vegetable oil, add finely chopped onion. Additionally, add garlic and ginger, cut into thin slices. Add almonds, coriander, saffron, turmeric, chili, black pepper and other spices to taste to this mixture.

It remains only to add coconut milk, salt and simmer for 10-15 minutes. This dish is served hot. Additionally, you can decorate the curry with dill and parsley, and also serve with fresh vegetables.

Cabbage, orange and apple salad

A fresh salad is the best dish for those who fast or are fond of proper nutrition. Salad based on red cabbage, apples and oranges - a delicious combination and benefits. Its preparation takes a minimum of time. In addition, this salad can be both a main course and a great addition to cereals or boiled potatoes.

Components:

• Red cabbage - 400 g
• Apple - 200 g.
• Orange - 200 g.
• Olive or sunflower oil - 30 ml.
• Apple or grape vinegar - 30 ml.
• Black pepper and salt - to taste.

Peel apples and oranges and cut into thin slices. Shred the cabbage. Mix all the ingredients by dressing the salad with any vegetable oil and fruit vinegar. Salt and pepper. This salad is suitable as a main meal or addition to other dietary dishes.

Lenten cutlets

Great Lent is a test for every Orthodox person. Of course, meat cannot be replaced with vegetables, but tasty and crispy vegetarian cutlets will become a favorite dish during the fasting period.

Components:

• Cabbage - 1 pc.
• Semolina - 50 g.
• Onion - 100 g.
• Flour - 30 g.
• Garlic - ½ head.
• Salt, spices, dill - to taste.
• Breadcrumbs.
• Sunflower oil.

Boil cabbage for 10 minutes. Take it out of the water and let the water drain. Grind with a blender or meat grinder, and additionally squeeze out the liquid.

Grind onion and garlic with a blender or chop finely. Chop the dill with a hatchet or chop. Combine all ingredients, salt and pepper. Add semolina and flour. Let stand 10 minutes for the semolina to swell.

From the resulting mass, form cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs and fry in vegetable oil. Serve with vegetable salad or pickles.

Lenten cookies

If you are looking for delicious lean recipes for every day, pay attention to lean biscuits. It will be a wonderful dessert or appetizer during Lent. In addition, cookies do not contain sugar, so they can be part of diet food and children's menus.

Components:

• Oatmeal - 200 g.
• Rye flour - 2 tbsp. l.
• Green apples - 400 g.
• Carrots - 60 g.
• Walnut - 50 g.
• Cranberry - 40 g.
• Dates - 5 pcs.
• Freshly squeezed carrot or apple juice - 60 ml.
• Cinnamon and vanilla - to taste.
• Sesame - 2 tbsp. l.

Chop nuts and dates. Grate carrots on a coarse grater. Grind the apple with a blender or grate on a fine grater. Mix all the ingredients, adding spices, juice, cranberries, oatmeal and flour.

The resulting mass must be left for 20 minutes so that the flour and oatmeal absorb the juice. Form a cookie from the resulting mass, roll it in sesame seeds. Lay out on a baking sheet lined with parchment.

Bake for half an hour at medium temperature. Cookies can be eaten hot or cold.

Okroshka lenten

Despite the fact that okroshka is considered a summer dish, it can be cooked throughout the year. During the fasting period, okroshka can be prepared with salted or pickled mushrooms. It is best to cook such dishes with salted milk mushrooms or mushrooms.

Components:

• Fresh cucumbers - 400 g.
• Soaked apples - 2 pcs.
• Salted mushrooms - 150 g.
• Kvass - 1.5 liters.
• Green onions - 1 bunch.
• Dill - 1 bunch.
• Mustard, apple cider vinegar, salt - to taste.

Mushrooms must be thoroughly washed under running water and finely chopped. Peel the skin of fresh cucumbers and cut them into small cubes. Chop greens. Peel the apple from the peel and core, and also cut into small cubes.

Mix all ingredients and fill with kvass. To give okroshka a piquant taste and aroma, add a little apple or grape vinegar, mustard and black pepper. Salt to taste. Additionally, you can add boiled potatoes and fresh radishes to the okroshka.

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In 2019, the Orthodox will celebrate the Bright Resurrection of Christ on April 28. The holiday is preceded by Lent, which in 2018 begins on March 11 and lasts seven weeks.

Lent is the strictest and longest of all four multi-day fasts established by the Orthodox Church. Therefore, it can be difficult to start fasting without any preparation, and it won’t hurt your health for long if you don’t know how to eat right.

The main purpose of fasting is to achieve internal qualitative changes, as well as the desire of a Christian to follow the feat of Jesus Christ, who fasted in the wilderness for 40 days.

Fasting today is a voluntary act and is deeply individual. In fasting, free time should be devoted to prayers, humble desires in food, excluding any excesses and idleness, and strive for a more solitary lifestyle.

For seven weeks, you will have to give up meat, eggs, milk, cottage cheese and other animal products. At the same time, meals per day are limited.

Lenten menu

Fasting is primarily abstaining from abundant food, and not exhaustion of the body, so the lenten menu should be varied and rich in vitamins.

Lenten menu can be quite diverse - during Lent you can cook various cereals, lean pilaf, pasta, soups, cutlets, salads and so on.

Porridges - corn, buckwheat, rice, oatmeal, millet, barley, peas, beans, pearl barley and others - can be cooked on water. For example, rice porridge can be varied by adding pumpkin, mushrooms, raisins, dried fruits or jam.

You can and should eat any vegetables - cabbage of all kinds, carrots, beets, radishes, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, green beans and others that exist in nature are at your service.

It is important during this period to eat a lot of bell peppers and fresh herbs, as they are rich in many vitamins and minerals necessary to maintain health.

You can also eat any fruits available this season - apples, pears, bananas, oranges and so on. You can use jams, dried fruits, pickles, honey, nuts and spices.

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Xerophagy

According to church canons, it is necessary to draw up a lenten menu according to the following principles - on the first and last (Holy) weeks of Great Lent, as well as on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays - dry eating.

These days it is allowed to eat fruits, vegetables, dried fruits, nuts, that is, the use of exclusively raw, thermally unprocessed food and lean bread. On this day, it is not recommended to even drink tea or compote.

If desired, you can prepare vegetable or fruit salads, the latter can be seasoned with honey.

Salad "Exotic"

Put the shredded cabbage in a bowl, sprinkle lightly with salt and grind with your hands so that the cabbage softens and gives juice. Juice should be drained. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater and add to the cabbage. Finely chop an onion, a couple of cloves of garlic and a few sprigs of celery. Dice fresh cucumber, apple or orange. Pour lemon juice, salt, pepper and mix all the ingredients. This unusual and spicy salad will energize you for the whole day.

days without oil

On Tuesdays and Thursdays you can eat hot vegetable food without oil. These days you can treat yourself to various cereals and soups, as well as jams, pickles, herbs and so on.

Bean soup with pasta

Boil the red beans, add some pasta, finely chopped onion, garlic and a bunch of cilantro, spices to the pan and cook until tender. Then salt and the soup is ready.

You can expand the menu these days with baked potatoes and other vegetables. You can also cook lean spaghetti - boil pasta in salt water and season with tomato paste. These days you can drink tea and compotes.

Mushroom, potato, cabbage, carrot lean cutlets can also be the second dishes on the menu during fasting, in which eggs can be easily replaced with semolina as a fixative. On days when the use of oil is prohibited, cutlets can be steamed.

With butter

On Saturday and Sunday (except the last Saturday of Great Lent), food with the addition of vegetable oil is allowed. Here you can let your imagination run wild and cook various dishes - soups, salads, meatless meatballs and pilafs and so on.

Mushroom soup

Fry finely chopped onion and garlic in a saucepan and pour boiling water over the fry. As soon as the water boils, you need to pour a handful of rice into the pan, and after 10 minutes put the mushrooms in the pan and cook a little. Then add a few inflorescences of cauliflower or broccoli, grated carrots and bell peppers (preferably red), chopped cilantro, dill and cook the soup until tender. Then salt and proceed to dinner.

Salad "Marquitanka"

Boil potatoes and cut into cubes. Add chopped sauerkraut (preferably red), a jar of canned corn, chopped green onions, parsley, cilantro, dill, celery, vegetable oil, lemon juice and mix everything well.

fish day

During Lent, fish is allowed to eat only twice - on the Annunciation (April 7) and on Palm Sunday, which falls on April 9 in 2017. These days, fish can be eaten both boiled and fried, and if you are a fan of Japanese cuisine, you can treat yourself to sushi.

Soup

In boiling salted water, put a whole onion and chopped carrots. Cook for five minutes over medium heat. Add potatoes and cook until done. Very carefully, one piece at a time, lay the fish (both red and white will do), without stirring, so as not to crumble. On low heat, bring to a boil, add bay leaf, allspice and finely chopped fresh herbs, and remove - the fish will be ready.

Fish baked in foil

In foil, you can bake any fish - river, sea, both in pieces and whole (if it is small).

Fish, cut into pieces or left whole, lay on foil, pepper and salt. Greens, preferably oregano or tarragon, can be put in the belly of the fish, on its carcass or pieces. Then sprinkle with lemon juice, or overlay with lemon slices, fasten the edges of the foil and bake until tender.

goodies

Of course, the main meaning of fasting is spiritual purification and the rejection not only of certain products, but also of harmful passions, evil words and deeds, bad mood and irritability. But I want variety even in fasting.

To the delight of many fasting sweet teeth, a plethora of fasting sweets have been produced in recent years. You can also eat dark chocolate, nuts, fruit and berry jams, jams, dried fruits, halva, natural marmalade, biscuits and so on. The main thing is that desserts do not contain milk and its derivatives, animal fats.

Various delicacies can be prepared at home. For example, you can cook dessert salad.

Cut any fruit - apples, pears, oranges, add raisins, chopped nuts and dried apricots, and season the salad with liquid honey.

For cooking lemon ginger cookies you will need: 100 grams of wheat flour; 100 grams of water; 40 grams of olive oil; 30 grams of fresh ginger; one lemon; one full tablespoon of honey; one tsp baking powder for dough.

Remove pits and skin from the lemon, grind the pulp with a blender. Ginger rub on a fine grater, mix honey with warm water (a little - to dissolve). Mix 100 ml of water, sifted flour, diluted honey, baking powder, olive oil, ginger and lemon - the dough should turn out to be thick, its density can be adjusted with the amount of water, or adding additional flour if the dough turned out to be watery.

Kneaded dough, covered, leave for 10-15 minutes at room temperature. Heat the oven to 150 degrees, line a baking sheet with foil, make cookies of the desired shape from the dough and bake for 15 minutes.

Material prepared on the basis of open sources