By eating lean foods, a person will not feel weakened, since such food fully satisfies the needs of the body. A person adheres to the restrictions during the fast, feels cheerful and light. A person who adheres to the restrictions during fasting feels cheerful and light, and not weak and drained, as some believe. Many people follow a similar diet all their lives and feel very good about it. In order for the lean food to be tasty and look beautiful on the table, we created this section on the site. It is important to know the history of fasting and the importance of lean cuisine in Russia.
- Great Lent begins 49 days before Easter.
- His goal is to prepare for the Easter holiday within 7 weeks.
- The first 40 days are considered a type that Jesus fasted in the wilderness for 40 days after his baptism.
- Subsequent: 1 day is Lazarev Saturday, the second day is Palm Sunday and Holy Week - the final 6 days.
- The last week is the most important, as it helps to refresh the memory of the last week of our Lord's life. These are the resurrection of Lazarus, the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on the donkey and the Last Supper and Jesus' sermons.
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A selection of 100 recipes for lean dishes, now you will always know what you can cook and eat in Lent.
Lean kharcho soup contains rice, potatoes, onions, garlic, nuts, and tomatoes. Kharcho is abundantly decorated with greenery. It simply smells of sour tomatoes and spicy garlic. Lick your fingers!
It is very easy to prepare lean cabbage soup in a slow cooker. The peculiarity of the multicooker is that the vegetables do not boil in it, they remain dense and full of taste. We will cook cabbage soup from fresh vegetables.
Lean dumplings are a versatile dish that can be served in broth, fried, and served as an appetizer or side dish. I will fry the dumplings and it will take me 30-40 minutes to prepare the dish.
Lenten salad with mushrooms is made with mushrooms, blue onions, spinach, pine nuts. Dressed with olive oil. The salad turns out to be fresh, aromatic, nourishing and healthy. Try it!
Lean borsch with sprat is prepared very quickly and easily. For him, you need to chop all the vegetables, fry, throw them into a saucepan, add sprat in tomato and cook until tender. Lick your fingers!
You will cook a lean pickle with barley in less than an hour. The pickle turns out to be rich, satisfying, with sourness. The pearl barley will need to be soaked for half an hour. And then it's simple.
Lenten borscht with mushrooms is a fragrant and bright first course that will delight home-grown people with an abundance of vegetables and various tastes. This includes not only beets and mushrooms, but also cabbage, beans, bell peppers, etc.
Lean pancakes are easy to cook. It is very tasty to serve such pancakes with smoked salmon and a sprig of dill. The dish turns out to be hearty, beautiful and should appeal to all potato lovers.
Lean crab salad can be made from crab meat or lean crab sticks, add herbs, vegetables, light yogurt to them. It will turn out delicious, satisfying, bright, beautiful and original. Let's try!
Shchi is a national Russian dish, delicious and loved by everyone. Lean cabbage soup with mushrooms is good for a fasting day. They will restore strength, fill the body with vitamin C, which is in abundance in cabbage.
Making lean gingerbread can be fun. The dough is prepared simply, they bake quickly, and I advise the whole family to color the gingerbread cookies, children will especially like it.
As you know, avocado is a very nutritious fruit. Therefore, during Lent, when the fasting lacks nutrients, I suggest making a lean avocado salad. Both tasty and satisfying.
Lean squid salad is made from ready-made canned squid, fresh vegetables, herbs and spices. Such a salad turns out to be not only tasty, but also healthy. Plus, it's light and crisp.
Lenten borscht in a slow cooker is prepared from vegetables for two hours. It turns out a very tasty thick borscht filled with vegetable aromas. In a multicooker, they open up remarkably and retain their shape.
If during the fast you feel like chebureks, do not despair - they can be prepared with both lean filling and lean dough. I used lentil filling - it turned out very tasty.
Lean strudel is cooked without oil. It turns out fragrant pastries with a lot of apple filling, which are ideal for tea drinking. This lean strudel takes about two hours to prepare.
Use this recipe and make lean bean cutlets that no one can tell from meat. Very tasty and satisfying.
Bright, tender and fragrant carrot lean cutlets will diversify and decorate your table on fast days. Tasty and healthy at the same time. I share the recipe.
Very appetizing lean cakes that can be served with almost any dish instead of bread. A simple recipe for lean cakes is relevant not only for fasting, but also for vegetarians.
During the fast, you also sometimes want to pamper yourself with fragrant pilaf - and this is quite possible if you replace meat with mushrooms! The recipe for cooking lean pilaf with mushrooms - for fast days and not only.
The lean coleslaw is very refreshing and light. A find for those who are losing weight - a minimum of calories from cucumber and vinegar. It is good to include it in a complex side dish for poultry or fish.
If you are fasting or just want a light, low-fat meal, then you should check out this simple recipe for lean cabbage patties. Tasty and healthy!
Lenten dumplings with two types of turnip and sauerkraut fillings are a budget dish that can feed a horde of hungry adults. A fantastically tasty dish, despite its cheapness.
Great Lent is the time to cleanse the body. But what if the stomach insists on rich soups? The simple answer to this question is a lean hodgepodge. Well, how to cook it - read on.
Do everyone's favorite and well-known lean dumplings with potatoes need an introduction? Despite the cheapness of the ingredients, dumplings with potatoes are always popular. I share the recipe.
If in Great Lent you decide to cook pies, then a simple recipe for lean dough for pies will definitely come in handy. Kneading a lean dough for pies is quite easy - I'll tell you how.
Lenten pies with potatoes are pies that contradict the laws of physics. They can be eaten more than physically fit into a person. Verified personally. A simple recipe for lean pies with potatoes is for you!
Lenten pies with cabbage are classic Russian pies that are usually cooked during Lent, although in principle it can be successfully cooked all year round. The recipe is extremely simple and worth trying.
Lean cabbage soup is a great hot soup for those who are fasting or just want to have a fasting day. The cabbage soup is prepared simply and from the available ingredients, but the result is simply delicious.
If you love beans, then the recipe for stewed beans with tomatoes will surely please you and come in handy. An easy way to cook deliciously trivial food like beans.
Beetroot cutlets are a great low-calorie recipe for anyone on a healthy diet. They can be served simply with sour cream as an independent dish, or they can be served with any side dish.
Make a light zucchini snack! I offer zucchini in Algerian. Zucchini are spicy with a sweet and sour taste. All my friends like it, I recommend it!
The recipe for cooking potatoes in Greek will delight all vegetable lovers. This bright, beautiful and tasty dish will ideally fit into a vegetarian menu, but it will be quite appropriate on the table of meat eaters! :)
Fried potatoes, mushrooms ... And even sour cream, and onions, and fresh herbs .. Well, salivating? Then let's try to cook mushrooms with potatoes - millet, fast, very tasty!
The easiest and fastest way to make beetroot salad is in this recipe. Minimum ingredients and many benefits!
Borscht with mushrooms and beans is a treasure trove of protein for vegetarians and a very satisfying dish for those who are fasting. The classic recipe for borscht with mushrooms and beans - from our table to yours!
Rice with corn in a slow cooker will be an excellent side dish for meat or fish, or a completely independent dish on your everyday table. It's easy to cook with a slow cooker, but it's nice to eat!;)
This beautiful and bright salad can rightfully be considered an off-season, but in autumn, when the tomatoes have not yet lost their summer flavor, it turns out to be especially tasty. White Bean Salad Recipe - For You!
This is a simple, but bright, beautiful and very tasty salad that does not conflict with the requirements of the fast, is suitable for dietary meals and vegetarian menus. Try it! :)
In fact, this wonderful salad is very similar to a vinaigrette, so this is a wonderful combination of sauerkraut, peas and beets, not only very tasty, but also healthy.
A wonderful tasty and healthy side dish that goes well with meat or fish, but at the same time can be an independent dish for every day.
The classic recipe for lean gingerbread will be useful not only for Orthodox believers, but also for everyone who tries to limit themselves in the consumption of butter dough. Details - in the recipe!
A simple recipe for lean bread in a bread maker is relevant not only on fasting days - it is useful for everyone who monitors their health and weight, regardless of the season!
A simple recipe for breaded broccoli will enrich your menu with yet another easy and delicious vegetable side dish. With sesame seeds and soy sauce - it's just magical! :)
A light, tasty and very healthy dish made of carrots is suitable for lovers of vegetarian food, as well as those who are fasting or keeping fit.
Stewed cabbage with carrots is a versatile dish that can be prepared both on holidays and on ordinary days. In addition, stewed cabbage with carrots can be served as a side dish.
Korean-style potatoes are not a hot dish or a side dish, but a delicious spicy salad. Fans of everything "spicy" should definitely learn how to cook potatoes in Korean!
I think this recipe for making lean bean soup might come in handy for more than just fasting. First of all - to the attention of vegetarians, but everyone else is welcome at our table! :)
A recipe for making a lean pie with jam without eggs and dairy products is useful to anyone who is fasting, and also monitors their health and weight.
A wonderful seasonal side dish of fresh vegetables that goes well with any meat. You can use it as an independent dish, in any case it is very tasty.
Can't vegetable cutlets taste good? In fact, this is far from the case. Try to cook cabbage zrazy and you will be surprised how delicious vegetables can be.
A simple, but no less delicious vegetable salad, which will be a great addition to meat and poultry dishes. So, the recipe for salad with cabbage and corn is a delicious, easy and healthy dish!
Dedicated to lovers of delicious and healthy food - a simple recipe for a salad with mushrooms with a photo!
Beet cutlets are a great alternative to meat cutlets. Moreover, they are much more useful than the latter!
I offer you a simple recipe for lobahashu Armenian bean soup - tasty, healthy and completely vegetarian! At the same time, it is so satisfying that even inveterate meat eaters will appreciate it;).
I suggest you learn how to cook bell peppers with vegetables, and another tasty and healthy dish will appear on your summer menu!
Carrots with cheese and garlic are a wonderful salad with excellent taste and beneficial properties. Plus, this salad is very easy to prepare.
Solyanka is not only a delicious soup, but also a wonderful side dish of cabbage, the preparation of which, with a multicooker, turns into a real pleasure!
Probably, every housewife has her own signature recipe for eggplant rolls. What is not wrapped in them - carrots, cottage cheese, cheese, herbs, tomatoes! - but most of all I love these rolls with nuts. Try it!
Cooking young potatoes in a slow cooker is easy and simple. This is the first dish I mastered by buying a multicooker. It turned out great - delicious golden potatoes and all in one dish!
Champignons are an indispensable product during fasting. There are many recipes for lean mushroom dishes, and I want to offer you another one - a delicious and nutritious soup. Read the recipe!
For a light dinner or a diet lunch, you can prepare stewed celery with vegetables - a simple and delicious dish.
Beet cutlets are very healthy, tasty and satisfying. This dish will delight everyone: from lovers of delicious food to people who want to lose a couple of extra pounds.
Many people love Korean asparagus. But usually the price for this salad on the market bites decently. Let's cook it ourselves! And as much as we want.
I bring to your attention a delicious, aromatic potato with vegetables in a pot. This dish can be prepared from what is in the refrigerator; the ingredients in this version can be replaced with others.
Bean salads are always appetizing and satisfying. I suggest you prepare a bright salad that will impress any gourmet. I promise it will be beautiful and tasty!
When you want not only healthy, but also delicious vegetables, try cooking spicy carrots with marinade. This dish will be an excellent side dish for meat.
Boiled potato salad is great for a side dish. You can serve it with a meat or fish dish. Or as a snack.
I suggest you cook carrots in a tomato at home. A universal appetizer - for sandwiches, as a dressing for first courses, and as a sauce for side dishes. Moreover, it is very tasty, healthy and fast!
Most vegetarians understand vegetables and their health benefits better than regular meat eaters. This vegetarian broccoli puree soup recipe was told to me by a vegetarian friend. Very tasty.
White bean pate is one of the most delicious and healthy snacks I make for my family. The pate contains fresh herbs and lemon juice.
I personally cook porridge with carrots at home very often, it is a painfully simple and satisfying dish, so I advise you to try it too. Great with all kinds of salads and cutlets!
Fasting is a religious tradition of abstaining from food. And it is precisely such abstinence that causes many thoughts in the housewives about what to cook. Let's explore some basic recipes.
It should be remembered that good nutrition is the key to your health. Therefore, you should not starve during fasting, as this can lead to adverse consequences in the future. You can supplement your diet with essential vitamins during fasting.
So let's start with salads. This is one of the simplest, yet healthiest foods to prepare during Lent. It is worth noting that the Christmas fast also covers the New Year's holiday, and those who strictly adhere to the fast have to limit themselves to food. And what is the New Year without olivie, and an alternative can be found for those who are fasting.
Take:
- 300 g potatoes
- 100 g of carrots and onions
- 100 g asparagus or beans
- 100 g of your favorite mushrooms
- 100 g lean mayonnaise
- spice
Preparation:
- Boil the first three ingredients and cut into cubes
- If the mushrooms are pickling, then chop them as well. Pre-boil fresh mushrooms
- Chop the pickled onion into cubes
- Mix ingredients, add spices and season with mayonnaise
- Leave to infuse for 60 minutes and serve
Delicious salad with corn and croutons:
- 300 g of Chinese cabbage
- 1 can of corn
- 1 onion
- 100 g croutons
- 100 g lean mayonnaise
- Spice
The advantage of this salad is that after fasting you can cook it with regular mayonnaise:
- Chop onion and cabbage
- Mix with corn
- Season with spices and mayonnaise
- Sprinkle with croutons on top
Crab stick salad Is a versatile festive dish that will decorate both festive and daily tables:
- 200 g sticks
- 100 g rice
- 1 onion
- 200 g corn
- 250 g mushrooms
- 100 g lean mayonnaise
- spice
- rinse the rice and boil until tender
- chop crab sticks, mushrooms and onions
- mix all the ingredients and season with mayonnaise
You can also cook very simple salads:
- cabbage with vegetable oil
- tomato and cucumber
- beetroot salad with vegetable oil
Lean baking: recipes
Delicious and easy to bake while fasting oat cookies... To do this, take:
- 300 g oatmeal
- 50 g of raisins and honey
- 200 g apple jam
- Dried fruits (optional)
- 50 g sunflower oil
Prepare cookies as follows:
- Dry the flakes a little in a pan
- Mix with the rest of the ingredients
- Form cookies with a spoon, and spread on paper spread on a baking sheet.
- Bake at 120 C for 60 minutes
Adults and children love delicious pancakes... And in fasting they can be no less sweet and lush. To do this, take:
- 500 g flour
- 300 g warm water
- 1 tsp each yeast and salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
Prepare pancakes like this:
- Pour the salt, sugar and yeast with warm water
- While the yeast is dissolving, sift the flour
- Mix the ingredients with flour and, covered with cling film, send to a warm place to infuse
- When you see that the dough has almost doubled, place the pancakes with a spoon in a preheated pan.
- Lush and delicious pastries are ready. Sweet teeth can increase the amount of sugar by 1.5-2 times
A gingerbread during the fast they cook very often. But now we propose to cook not just baked goods, but to diversify the gingerbread with 2 apples and 50 g of walnuts, as well as:
- 200 g each sugar and water
- 1 tsp each soda and lemon juice
- 2 tbsp honey
- 300 g flour
- 5 g baking powder
Cooking gingerbread:
- Chop walnuts
- Mix flour and ripper
- Mix sugar with water, put in a water bath
- Add honey and cook until honey dissolves
- Quench the baking soda and pour into the mixture
- Remove mixture from water bath and add nuts
- Add flour with a ripper and knead the dough
- Pour the dough onto a baking sheet and place the chopped apples on top
- Bake the gingerbread for half an hour at 180 ° C
Another delicious baking recipe - onion pie... After all, not everyone loves sweet pastries, but this dish is very refined and easy to prepare:
- 750 g each flour and water
- 125 g rice
- 100 g sugar
- 15 g salt
- 1 kg onion
- 10 g yeast
Onion pie is prepared like this:
- Rinse the rice and add to boiling water, cook until tender.
- Drain the broth from the rice; that is what you need.
- Chop the onion and sauté.
- Knead the dough by adding rice water to it. You can do it manually or with a bread maker.
- When the dough has stood and rises, divide it into 3 pieces.
- Roll out each piece and spread the onions, fold the dough on top of each other.
- Cut the cake into 16 pieces and roll from each bagel.
- Arrange the rolls in a pan and bake for 30 minutes.
- A delicious pie is ready, you can call your guests and give them tea with homemade cakes.
Lean first courses, recipes
One of the most satisfying first courses is borscht. And even in fasting it can be prepared in a variety of ways. We offer the main 2 options for lean borscht:
For classic lean borscht stock up:
- 2 pcs of potatoes, beets and tomatoes
- 1 carrot and 1 head of onion
- half cabbage
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 1 tbsp. l sugar and salt
- spices to taste
Naturally, there is no meat in this dish. Prepare as follows:
- cut vegetables as you would for regular borscht
- chop the cabbage and chop the garlic
- pour 2 liters of water into a saucepan and, when it boils, put potatoes in a container
- fry the carrots and onions in a pan
- in a separate skillet, also stew the chopped beets
- chop the tomatoes with a blender and add to the pan
- when the beets, carrots and onions are ready, add them to the pan
- salt and add sugar, as well as your favorite spices
- bring to a boil and leave to infuse
Great option for lean borscht with beans and mushrooms... Add to the previous ingredients:
- 200 g champignons
- 10 pcs prunes
- 100 g dry beans
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
Prepare lean borscht like this:
- Rinse the beans and leave to swell overnight.
- In the morning, boil it in the same water for 45 minutes.
- Pull out the beans, and pour the chopped potatoes into that water
- Fry onions with carrots with tomato paste
- In another skillet, simmer the beets and finely chopped prunes
- Pour the contents of two pans into a pot of potatoes
- Fry the mushrooms in the empty pan
- While everything is cooking, chop the cabbage
- When the ingredients in the borsch have already softened slightly, but are not yet soft enough, pour mushrooms, cabbage and previously cooked beans into it
- Borscht should be boiled for another 10-15 minutes
- Sprinkle the first course with herbs and invite your family to the table
Another dish that is known in the days of fasting is pickle... The ingredients for such a dish for 2 liters of water are as follows:
- 100 g barley
- 5 potatoes
- 1 carrot and 1 onion
- 2 pickled cucumbers with 100 g brine
- spice
Cooking process:
- Rinse the cereal and leave to swell for 30 minutes
- Boil the barley until tender
- At this time, cut the potatoes into cubes.
- Add potatoes and spices to the softened cereal
- Saute grated carrots and chopped onions
- Add stir-fry to the pickle when the potatoes are soft enough
- Cut the cucumbers and also pour into the pickle
- Pour in the brine at the end and bring the dish to a boil
- Lean pickle ready
Well, how can you do without lean soup. One of the traditional options is noodles soup:
- 2 small onions and 2 medium carrots
- 200 g noodles
- A couple of celery stalks
- Spices to taste
- Fry the spiced onion until golden brown
- Chop celery, carrots and also send to the onion for just a couple of minutes
- Put the ingredients in a saucepan and cover with 2 liters of water, cook until boiling
- Next, add the noodles and cook until tender.
- Sprinkle with herbs if desired and you can taste your creation
It will also turn out very tasty lean pea soup... For him you need:
- 3 potatoes
- 1 carrot and 1 onion
- 100 g peas
- Spices and herbs to taste
Soup preparation:
- Leave the peas to swell in cold water overnight.
- In the morning, put it to boil, and at this time, peel the carrots and onions with potatoes
- Cut the last ingredient into cubes and send to the peas
- Chop and sauté the rest of the peeled vegetables
- Add to soup and cook until potatoes soften
- Sprinkle with herbs before serving
- It is very tasty to supplement such a soup with croutons or croutons
Lean cabbage recipe
Cabbage perfectly complements salads and first courses. You can also make lean baked goods with kale. But a great and easy option while fasting is stewed cabbage:
- 1 onion
- 500 g white cabbage
- 7 g each vinegar, sugar and flour
- 15 g tomato paste
- 100 g water
- 30 g sunflower oil
Cooking instructions:
- Chop the cabbage and simmer with butter for about 20 minutes
- Then add chopped onions, spices and tomato paste to it
- Add flour to the finished cabbage, mix and simmer for another 5-7 minutes
Delicious and lean cabbage is ready. You can supplement it with potatoes or lean cereals.
Lean mayonnaise: recipe
There are several varieties of lean mayonnaise on the market that are great for dressing meals during fasting. But you can cook such a product at home. So you can be sure that you are using a quality product:
- 750 g water
- 250 g flour
- 3 tablespoons of lemon juice and mustard
- 2 tablespoons of sugar and salt
- 120 g vegetable oil
Making mayonnaise is not at all difficult, for this:
- Sift flour and add a little water to it, mash until smooth.
- Add the rest of the water and boil until thick, leave to cool.
- Mix the rest of the ingredients in a separate bowl and, whisking with a mixer, add flour.
- When the mass becomes homogeneous, the mayonnaise is ready. Simple and fast!
Lenten mushroom recipes
In addition to the fact that mushrooms can be added to soups and lean borscht, as well as salads during fasting, they can also be great baked goods. Fragrant and fluffy pies or pies with mushrooms will come in very handy with tea.
An excellent option would be to cook fried potatoes and mushrooms with herbs... By mixing these ingredients, you will get an excellent lunch or dinner.
But one of the favorite fasting recipes is cabbage rolls with mushrooms and rice... For cooking you will need:
- 400 g cabbage leaves
- 100 g of rice and mushrooms
- 1 onion
- 50 g flour and tomato paste
- Spice
- Mushroom broth
Preparing cabbage rolls is not difficult:
- Boil rice and mushrooms in separate containers, then cut the last into strips
- Chop the onion and fry, add spices
- Toss with rice and mushrooms
- Wash the cabbage leaves and trim off the nubs
- Put the filling on the cooled leaves and fry in a pan
- While the cabbage rolls are toasting, mix the flour with the tomato and broth.
- Place the cabbage rolls in a saucepan, cover with broth and simmer for 45 minutes
Another delicious mushroom recipe is stuffed champignons... The filling can be any lean - this is rice, and the legs of mushrooms with herbs, as well as various vegetables. You just need:
- Remove stems from mushrooms
- Spread them out on a baking sheet and stuff with the chosen filling
- Lightly anoint the top with lean mayonnaise and bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 C
Lean pumpkin recipes
You can cook a lot of dishes from pumpkin. We offer you some very simple, but at the same time delicious dishes:
Try the first one first - pumpkin soupfor which you will need:
- 400 g pumpkin
- 1 onion
- 4 cloves of garlic
- 500 g vegetable broth
- Spice
This soup will be in the form of a puree soup:
- Place the chopped ingredients in a baking dish and send to the oven at 200 C
- Then place the ingredients in a blender bowl, add the broth and whisk
- Garnish the soup with herbs and serve
An unusual but tasty dish - pumpkin in batter... For her, you only need flour and pumpkin in a 1: 5 ratio, as well as a little oil for frying. You can add your favorite spices if you like. The cooking process is already very simple - roll small pieces of pumpkin in flour and fry until golden brown in oil.
For a snack, try pumpkin salad with tomatoes... The peculiarity of this salad is that it is served warm. Ingredients:
- Pumpkin without skin - 600 g
- 300 g tomato
- 1 bunch of onions and arugula each
- Olive oil
- Spice
A warm salad is prepared as follows:
- Place the chopped pumpkin in a baking dish
- Spread chopped tomatoes on top, add oil and spices
- Roast vegetables for 15 minutes
- At this time, cut the greens
- Sprinkle warm salad with herbs, stir and serve until cool.
You can also make oatmeal with chopped nuts, pumpkin and cinnamon.
Lean potato dishes: recipes
The simplest dish is boiled or fried potatoes. You can add your favorite spices to this dish, as well as complement with delicious salads. But do not dwell on the achieved results. Let's try a few more options.
Let's start with potato casserole with mushrooms:
- 3 potatoes
- 700 g mushrooms
- 1 onion
- Spice
The casserole is very simple to prepare:
- Boil and mince the mushrooms and potatoes
- Saute the onions and mix with the potato-mushroom mixture
- Arrange the future casserole in a baking dish and bake until golden brown
An exquisite and healthy dish is potatoes with prunes and raisins... For 0.5 kg of potatoes, take:
- 100 g of dried fruits
- 20 g vegetable oil
- Herbs and spices
The potatoes are prepared as follows:
- Cut the potatoes into cubes and, stirring with dried fruits, simmer until half cooked
- Next, add oil, spices with herbs and continue to simmer until tender
- Serve hot, sprinkle with freshly chopped herbs on top
And how to get around potato zrazy... But let's supplement them with rice and vegetables. This will make them even tastier:
- 0.5 kg potatoes
- 100 g rice
- 1 onion and 1 carrot
- Spice
Cooking method:
- Boil potatoes in their skins and mash or grate
- Boil rice and fry vegetables
- Mix ingredients, add spices and shape into meatballs
- Fry until golden brown
You can cook a lot of dishes with potatoes; during Lent, this is a product that will help you out more than once.
Lean cutlets: photo recipes
Do not think that there are only meat cutlets. The variety of options is simply amazing. Let's take a look at the most popular ones. Firstly, many housewives will wonder what to add to cutlets instead of eggs so that they do not fall apart. The answer is very simple - semolina... And you can bread cutlets in breadcrumbs, oatmeal or sesame seeds.
Eggplant and potato cutlets:
- 4 potatoes
- 2 small eggplants
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 50 g semolina
- Spice
Vegetable cutlets:
- Boil 2 potatoes
- While the tubers are boiling, chop the eggplant and onion in a meat grinder, squeeze the juice
- Grate the rest of the potatoes and add to the chopped vegetables
- Add mashed boiled potatoes and semolina there.
- Stir well, if desired, roll in breadcrumbs and fry
- Consume hot
Bean cutlets, in this case we use mung bean - small peas:
- 500 g peas
- 1 onion
- Spice
Pea cutlets:
- Soak mung bean for 2-3 hours in cold water
- Drain and fill with new water, cook for 20 minutes after boiling
- Grind the peas in a blender
- Fry the onion and mix with the pea mixture
- Blind cutlets and fry
You can also cook great oatmeal cutlets - simple and tasty:
- 250 g cereal
- 1 onion and 1 potato
- 5 champignons
- 2 cloves of garlic
- spice
Cooking cutlets:
- Steam the oatmeal for 20 minutes
- Peel and finely grate potatoes
- Chop the onion with mushrooms in a blender together with herbs
- Mix the ingredients and mold the patties, fry
Lenten holiday and New Year's dishes: recipes
Olivier is one of the traditional dishes for the festive table. At the beginning of the article, we presented a recipe for lean Olivier, take note of it. This article offers a variety of options that you can use for New Year's Eve. But still we want to offer you some more interesting dishes:
Vegetable aspic:
- 1 eggplant, zucchini and bell pepper each
- 350 g tomato
- Gelatin package
- Greens
- Spice
Step by step:
- In the oven at 190 ° С, place the vegetables cut into slices on a baking sheet, bake for 15 minutes
- Then remove the skin from the pepper
- Pour 1/7 of the tomato and gelatin into a container and heat in a water bath until the gelatin is completely separated
- After that, pour in the rest of the juice
- Spread cling film into a mold and spread pepper, pour part of the liquid
- Next, alternately eggplants and zucchini, also alternating them with liquid
- Send to refrigerator until solid
Tasty and festive you can stuff the eggplant:
- Tomatoes
- Mushrooms
- Prunes
- Nuts
You can use such a filling or any other for stuffing a vegetable:
- Cut the eggplants into strips and salt.
- Breaded in flour and toast
- Put the filling of your choice on the strips and twist
- Garnish with herbs
You can cut the eggplant not into strips, but into rings and then you just need to put the filling on top.
For the above salads, you can also prepare fruit salad:
- To do this, cut up kiwi, banana, orange and pear.
- Mix and drizzle with soy milk or honey. It’s very tasty, especially children love it.
Get creative, use the recipes above for the holiday table and supplement them with the desired ingredients.
Fast days menu
It is not true that you cannot eat well during fasting. We offer you a sample menu for several days. You can supplement and improve it depending on your imagination and availability of products:
- Morning: Fruit salad
- Lunch: noodle soup, buckwheat porridge and vegetable salad
- Dinner: potato zrazy with mushrooms
- Morning: Oatmeal with dried fruit
- Lunch: Borscht with beans, salad with cabbage
- Dinner: Vinaigrette, honey tea
- Morning: Toast with honey, tea
- Lunch: Pickle, beet salad, baked potatoes
- Dinner: Mushroom Lasagne
- Morning: Lean pancakes or pancakes
- Lunch: Soup with peas, pea cutlets, noodles
- Dinner: Pilaf with mushrooms
- Morning: Oatmeal cookies with tea
- Lunch: Vegetable soup, buckwheat porridge with mushrooms
- Dinner: Vegetable salad
Fasting is a time of purification of the soul and body. The one who once fasted can no longer deny himself this. Try it too - feel the lightness in the body and the power of your own will.
Video: Cooking lean meals
Great Lent is 40 days of both spiritual and food abstinence. However, this is not the only post of the year. There are also Peter's Fast, the Assumption Fast, the Nativity Fast. And each of them requires certain food restrictions.
During the weeks of fasting, many housewives happily limit themselves to food, dieting for the sake of losing weight, but at the same time, they are seriously worried about the diet of the rest of the family. And not just like that - after all, many men and children resist the lean table and may reject the next dinner consisting of porridge and boiled beets.
Contrary to popular belief about crackers and water, fasting meals can and should be varied and complete. To do this, meat, eggs and dairy products should be replaced with their lean counterparts, and then the dinner will no longer look unappetizing.
Your attention 15 delicious dishes that can be cooked in Lent.
1. Oatmeal jelly - a substitute for yogurt
Not everyone likes oatmeal jelly, and practically no one prepares such a dish during fasting. Because of this, few people know that sour jelly is very similar to yogurt.
For cooking, you need to take a standard package of oatmeal (400 g) and a crust of rye bread. Place the ingredients in a two-liter jar, pour cold water. The jar should be left for 12-24 hours, while stirring occasionally.
Then strain the oatmeal through a sieve, pour the liquid into a saucepan and cook over low or medium heat. The mixture must be constantly stirred so that it does not burn. Pour hot jelly into jars and refrigerate.
2. Rice with honey and nuts in lean milk
Lean porridge can be made very tasty and nutritious without adding sugar to it. You can also cook porridge on water - this will not affect the taste much. If you are used to cereals with milk, you can use soy or peanut.
Peanut milk is easy to prepare - nuts need to be ground into very fine crumbs, add water, mix and strain.
Rice porridge should be salted (after boiling) and honey and your favorite nuts should be added. You can please your loved ones on a holiday with such a healthy and tasty dish.
Even lean cookies can be delicious, healthy, and satisfying.
Cookies require oatmeal, frozen cranberries or jam, and vegetable oil. The oatmeal should be fried in sunflower or coconut oil, then put on a sieve and let the excess fat drain off.
Grind oatmeal in a blender (you may not grind everything - to taste), mix with berries. Form cakes from the dough, put on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven until golden brown.
4. Broccoli stew with peas and avocado
Such a "green" stew will be very useful in fasting. It will help replenish energy and vitamins.
Use fresh broccoli or add cauliflower to the dish. To add variety to the stew, add green beans to it.
When the broccoli, beans, and green peas are boiled, you can add the avocado and season the dish with garlic sauce. Serve hot.
5. Nutella
What's breakfast without Nutella? The classic version of this delicacy is not lean, as it contains milk powder. We offer an alternative recipe without the use of animal products.
For cooking, you will need whole hazelnuts, honey, cocoa powder and coconut oil. Hazelnuts should be soaked in cold water overnight. In a blender, grind the hazelnuts into small crumbs, add cocoa powder to taste, a little butter, just a little honey (or maple syrup) and vanilla if desired.
Grind to a paste and add to lean pancakes mixed with soy milk, or spread on a loaf. Yummy! Try it!
6. Sandwich with lean bean mayonnaise
Let's go back to our sandwich. A lean sandwich should be satisfying to satisfy your hunger for a long time.
For a sandwich, we need a salad, rye or whole grain bread, canned beans, cucumber, and tomato to taste. Cut the vegetables into small slices, mash the beans in a bowl and add oil and salt. The beans will now act as a lean mayonnaise.
Grease the loaf itself with bean mayonnaise, and put all the vegetables evenly on top. Cover with a second piece of roll (or bread). Enjoy your meal!
7. Cabbage chips
Fasting started, and you want chips? Regular potato chips are considered lean, but they are of little use.
White cabbage can be used to make chips that can be eaten without concern for health. To do this, you need to disassemble the head of cabbage into sheets, cut into pieces and grease with oil. Salt and pepper the future chips and put on a baking sheet. Send the baking sheet to the preheated oven, dry the chips until tender.
This idea is popular not only in fasting but also during weight loss. These sweets are very sweet, they go well with tea, and at the same time they will not harm the figure.
The easiest option is to grind the nuts and dried fruit and then roll the balls in the coconut. There is another option, no less tasty.
Take a pitted dried fruit (for example, dried tangerines will not work, but prunes are just right) and cut a hole with a knife. Place a small nut like hazelnuts, almonds or peanuts inside. The future candy should be coated with honey, and then rolled in coconut, sesame or poppy seeds.
Such lean sweets will appeal to both adults and kids. Be careful - candy is too sweet!
In Russia, many different pies were prepared during Lent. The peasants added everything that remained from the meal to the filling: porridge, pickles and mushrooms. Pies were eaten instead of bread with soup and main courses.
Salty pies can be made with cucumbers, stewed fresh or sauerkraut, mushrooms, potatoes, buckwheat or rice. To make the pies tastier, the filling must be fried in a pan with vegetable oil.
Apples, pumpkin, carrots with honey, jam or frozen berries are perfect for sweet pies. Pumpkin pies are especially tasty, despite the fact that many do not like this vegetable.
The pie dough must be yeast: put a teaspoon of yeast in a bowl, mash with sugar, pour a glass of water and knead a thin dough. When it rises, you can add salt and flour to the desired thickness.
10. Lean borscht
Fasting is a time of restraint, and many, especially men, crave hearty food. Unfortunately, the classic borscht recipe contains meat and is not suitable for fasting. But what happens if the meat is replaced with mushrooms?
Borscht with mushrooms is more like mushroom soup, and therefore it is necessary to add beets, parsley and beans to it. You need to cook borscht in the same way as the classic one, removing only the stage of boiling beef.
11. Vareniki
Meat and completely non-lean dumplings can be replaced with dumplings. They can be with anything: potatoes, mushrooms, cranberries or raspberries. On some big holidays fish is allowed, so on such days you can make dumplings with fish.
For dumplings dough, you only need flour, water, oil and salt. Such dough does not require yeast.
All ingredients must be mixed carefully and thoroughly, gradually adding flour to salt water. You need to mix flour into the resulting dough until it stops "absorbing" it.
This dish came to us from Lithuania. It has a very unusual taste and satiates quickly. Be sure you will like this porridge!
First you need to boil the barley. Before cooking, pearl barley is soaked overnight. In the morning, you can drain the water and boil it. Please note that this process will take a long time.
Next, you need to grate raw potatoes. Barley and grated potatoes should be put in a hot frying pan greased with vegetable oil. Fry the glass porridge until golden brown.
The Lithuanian dish must be served warm, after decorating with fresh herbs.
13. Salad with mushrooms and pine nuts
So that during fasting vitamin deficiency does not take all your strength, you need to fortify yourself with a vitamin salad. Mushrooms in its composition will saturate with useful and high-quality vegetable protein.
To prepare the salad, you will need blue onions, mushrooms, spinach and cedar nuts. Chop the onion finely, pour boiling water over it and put in a bowl. Finely chop the spinach and mushrooms, add pine nuts. The salad can be seasoned with garlic sauce or olive oil. You can also garnish it with arugula or basil.
14. Potato pancakes (cutlets)
Potatoes have long been used to prepare a wide variety of dishes: chips, French fries, casseroles. In the post, cutlets can be made from this product.
To prepare cutlets, you will need potatoes, flour, onions and carrots. Fry carrots with onions in a pan. Please note that these ingredients must be very finely chopped so that whole pieces of onion do not come across in the cutlets.
The fried mixture must be mixed either with mashed potatoes (make sure there are no lumps in it), to which no water has been added, or with finely grated raw potatoes. In the first case, you will get pancakes (cutlets), in the second - classic pancakes.
From this "dough" you need to mold small cutlets, then put on a hot frying pan and fry until golden brown.
15. Salad with crab meat and corn
On some days, a fasting person can afford fish. Basically, these days are Sundays and holidays.
And as you know, crab sticks are made from surimi - this is minced meat from white fish. Corn and bell peppers are ideal for this product. The salad is perfect for the second course, it will saturate for a long time.
To prepare a salad, you need crab meat or sticks, canned corn, red or yellow peppers, and herbs. You can season the salad with a paste of mashed ripe avocado.
Come up with new and original ideas, try new dishes - and then the lean table will not look unappetizing or make you want to buy grilled chicken. Also, do not forget that relaxation is allowed for children and the sick, and besides, spiritual cleansing is more important than abstinence in fasting.
Enjoy your meal!
Neither the body will be cleansed without fasting and prayer, nor will the soul be without mercy and truth. (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
The washed white cabbage is cut into strips, ground with a little salt, the juice is drained, mixed with peeled chopped apples, carrots, bell peppers, seasoned 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. Add salt to taste and tomato paste five minutes before cooking.
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, garnish with herbs. Chopped onion, sautéed in vegetable oil, can be added to the grated radish.
Radish 120 g, vegetable oil 10 g, 3 g vinegar, 15 g onions, greens.
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 of 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 sweet 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, add 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. When 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 swede, 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, into 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. Potatoes, cut into oblong pieces, are boiled in broth until soft, other products are added (flour is mixed with a small amount of cold liquid) and the whole is boiled for 10 minutes. Greens are added to 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 stalks and seeds (cut off the peel from 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. Also fry the stuffed eggplants, peppers and zucchini. Then put in a deep metal dish, 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 out and the peas are almost ready, add them and cook until tender. Then season with finely chopped onions, fried in oil, and salt.
1/2 cup peas, 1.5 liters of water, 1 cup buckwheat, 2 onions, 4 st. 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 stew is eaten with cucumbers (fresh or pickled), sauerkraut.
1 kg of potatoes, 1/2 cup of vegetable oil, 1 tbsp. dill spoon, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of parsley, 1 onion, 1/2 glass of water, salt.
Stewed cabbage
Finely chop the onion, put in a pan with vegetable oil and fry until golden brown. Then add finely chopped cabbage and fry until half cooked. 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 frying 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 and oatmeal
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 butter 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 patties, roll each cutlet in breadcrumbs 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 entire 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. Season the oil with vinegar and seasonings, pour them over the salad. Sprinkle with herbs on top.
150 g pickled or pickled 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 the water is 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 chopped 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 come up 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 balls the size of a walnut and roll into flat cakes 1 mm thick. Put the filling. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes.
