What to cook during Lent: recipes for Lenten dishes for every day. Recipes for fasting every day with photos - step-by-step delicious dishes for the Lenten menu

19/04/2017 19:49

Great Lent is 40 days of both spiritual and dietary abstinence. However, this is not the only post of the year. There are also Peter's Fast, the Assumption Fast, and the Nativity Fast. And each of them requires certain dietary restrictions.

During the weeks of fasting, many housewives are happy to limit themselves in food, following a diet for the sake of losing weight, but at the same time they are seriously worried about the diet of the rest of the family members. And for good reason - after all, many men and children resist the Lenten table and may reject another lunch consisting of porridge and boiled beets.

Contrary to the established opinion about crackers and water, meals during fasting can and should be varied and nutritious. To do this, meat, eggs and dairy products should be replaced with lean counterparts, and then lunch will no longer look unappetizing.

Here are 15 delicious dishes that you can prepare during Lent.

1. Oatmeal jelly - a replacement for yogurt

Not everyone likes oatmeal jelly, and almost no one prepares such a dish during Lent. Because of this, few people know that sour jelly is very similar to yogurt.

To prepare, 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 and fill with cold water. The jar should be left for 12-24 hours, 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 stirred constantly to prevent it from burning. Pour the hot jelly into jars and place in the refrigerator.

2. Rice with honey and nuts with lean milk

Lenten porridge can be made very tasty and nutritious without adding sugar to it. You can also cook porridge in water - the taste will not suffer much from this. If you are used to cereals with milk, you can take soy or peanut milk.

Peanut milk is easy to prepare – grind the nuts into very fine crumbs, add water, mix and strain.

Rice porridge needs to be salted (after cooking) and add honey and your favorite nuts. You can please your loved ones on holiday with such a healthy and tasty dish.

Even Lenten cookies can be tasty, healthy and satisfying.

For cookies you need oatmeal, frozen cranberries or jam, and vegetable oil. Oatmeal should be fried in sunflower or coconut oil, then placed in a sieve and allowed to drain off excess fat.

Grind the oatmeal in a blender (you don’t have to grind everything, depending on your taste), mix with the berries. Form the dough into flat cakes, place on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven until golden brown.

4. Broccoli stew with peas and avocado

This “green” stew will come in very handy during Lent. It will help replenish energy, as well as vitamins.

Take fresh broccoli, you can also add cauliflower to the dish. To add variety to the stew, add green beans.

When the broccoli, beans and green peas are cooked, you can add the avocado and season the dish with garlic sauce. Serve hot.

5. Nutella

What would breakfast be 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.

To prepare, you will need whole hazelnuts, honey, cocoa powder and coconut oil. Hazelnuts need to be soaked overnight in cold water. In a blender, grind the hazelnuts into fine 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 get back to our sandwich. A meatless sandwich should be satisfying to satisfy your hunger for a long time.

For the sandwich we will need lettuce, rye or whole grain bread, canned beans, cucumber, and tomato to taste. Cut the vegetables into small slices, mash the beans in a plate and add butter and salt. Now the beans will act as lean mayonnaise.

Grease the bun itself with bean mayonnaise, and place all the vegetables evenly on top. Cover with the second part of the bun (or bread). Bon appetit!

7. Kale chips

Lent has begun and you want some chips? Regular potato chips are considered lean, but they have little benefit.

You can make chips from white cabbage that you can eat without worrying about your health. To do this, you need to disassemble the head of cabbage into sheets, cut into pieces and grease with oil. Season the future chips with salt and pepper and place on a baking sheet. Place the baking sheet in the preheated oven and dry the chips until done.

This idea is popular not only during fasting, but also during weight loss. These candies are very sweet, they are perfect for tea, and will not harm your figure.

The easiest option is to grind nuts and dried fruits, and then roll the balls in coconut flakes. There is another option, no less tasty.

Take a dried fruit without a pit (for example, dried tangerines will not work, but prunes are just right) and cut a hole with a knife. Place a small nut like hazelnut, almond or peanut inside. The future candy should be coated with honey and then rolled in coconut flakes, sesame seeds or poppy seeds.

Such Lenten sweets will appeal to both adults and children. Be careful - the candy is too sweet!

In Rus', many different pies were prepared during Lent. The peasants added to the filling everything that was left from the meal: porridge, pickles and mushrooms. Pies were eaten instead of bread with soup and main courses.

Salty pies can be prepared with cucumbers, stewed fresh or sauerkraut, mushrooms, potatoes, buckwheat or rice. To make the pies tastier, the filling should be fried in a frying pan with vegetable oil.

Apples, pumpkin, carrots with honey, jam or frozen berries go great in sweet pies. Pumpkin pies are especially delicious, even though many people don’t like this vegetable.

Pie dough should be yeast: Put a teaspoon of yeast in a bowl, grind it with sugar, add a glass of water and knead into a thin dough. When it rises, you can add salt and flour to the desired thickness.

10. Lenten borscht

Lent is a time of restrictions, and many, especially men, want hearty food. Unfortunately, the classic borscht recipe contains meat and is not suitable for Lent. But what happens if you replace meat with mushrooms?

Borscht with mushrooms is more reminiscent of mushroom soup, and therefore it is necessary to add beets, parsley and beans to it. You need to prepare borscht in the same way as classic, removing only the stage of cooking the beef.

11. Dumplings

Meat and completely non-lean dumplings can be replaced with dumplings. They can be with anything: potatoes, mushrooms, cranberries or raspberries. On some major holidays, fish is allowed, so on such days you can cook dumplings with fish.

For the dumpling dough you only need flour, water, oil and salt. This dough does not require yeast.

All ingredients must be mixed carefully and thoroughly, gradually adding flour to salted water. You need to mix flour into the resulting dough until it stops “absorbing” it into itself.

This dish came to us from Lithuania. It has a very unusual taste and fills you up quickly. Be sure that you will like this porridge!

First you need to boil the pearl barley. Before cooking, pearl barley is soaked overnight. In the morning you can drain the water and cook it. Please note that this process will take a long time.

Next you need to grate the raw potatoes. Place barley and grated potatoes in a hot frying pan greased with vegetable oil. Fry the glass porridge until golden brown.

The Lithuanian dish must be served warm, first garnished with fresh herbs.

13. Salad with mushrooms and pine nuts

To prevent vitamin deficiency from taking away all your strength during fasting, you need to fortify yourself with a vitamin salad. The mushrooms in its composition will be saturated with healthy and high-quality vegetable protein.

To prepare the salad you will need blue onions, mushrooms, spinach and pine nuts. Finely chop the onion, pour boiling water over it and place in a bowl. Finely chop the spinach and mushrooms, add pine nuts. The salad can be dressed 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 variety of dishes: chips, French fries, casseroles. You can make cutlets from this product during Lent.

To prepare the cutlets you will need potatoes, flour, onions and carrots. Carrots need to be fried together with onions in a frying pan. Please note that these ingredients must be chopped very finely so that whole pieces of onion do not end up 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 potato pancakes.

From this “dough” you need to make small cutlets, then place them in 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. Mostly such days are Sundays and holidays.

And as you know, crab sticks are made from surimi - minced white fish meat. Corn and sweet peppers are ideal for this product. The salad is perfect for a second course and will fill you up for a long time.

To prepare the salad you need crab meat or sticks, canned corn, red or yellow pepper and herbs. You can season the salad with mashed ripe avocado paste.

Fasting is a religious tradition of abstaining from food. And it is precisely this abstinence that causes housewives to think a lot 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 fast during fasting, as this can lead to adverse consequences in the future. You can also supplement your diet with essential vitamins during fasting.

So, let's start with salads. This is one of the simplest, but at the same time healthy dishes that must be prepared during fasting. It is worth noting that the Nativity fast also covers the New Year holiday, and those who strictly adhere to fasting have to limit themselves in foods. What would New Year be without Olivie, and for those who fast, an alternative can be found.

Take:

• 300 g potatoes
• 100 g carrots and onions each
• 100 g asparagus or beans
• 100 g of your favorite mushrooms
• 100 g lean mayonnaise
• spices

Preparation:

• Boil the first three ingredients and cut into cubes
• If you are marinating the mushrooms, chop them as well. Pre-boil fresh mushrooms
• Chop pickled onions into cubes
• Mix the ingredients, add spices and season with mayonnaise
• Leave to infuse for 60 minutes and serve

Delicious salad with corn and croutons:

• 300 g Chinese cabbage
• 1 can of corn
• 1 onion
• 100 g crackers
• 100 g lean mayonnaise
• Spices

The advantage of this salad is that after fasting you can prepare it with regular mayonnaise:

• Chop the onion and cabbage
• Mix with corn
• Season with spices and mayonnaise
• Sprinkle croutons on top

Salad with crab sticks is a universal holiday dish that will decorate both the holiday and everyday tables:

• 200 g sticks
• 100 g rice
• 1 onion
• 200 g corn
• 250 g mushrooms
• 100 g lean mayonnaise
• spices

• rinse the rice and boil until done
• chop crab sticks, mushrooms and onions
• mix all ingredients and season with mayonnaise

You can also cook very simple salads:

• from cabbage with vegetable oil
• from tomatoes and cucumbers
• beet salad with vegetable oil

Lenten baking: recipes

Very tasty and easy to bake during Lent oat cookies. To do this, take:

• 300 g oatmeal
• 50 g each 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 frying pan
• Mix with remaining ingredients
• Form cookies with a spoon and place on a baking sheet
• Bake at 120 C for 60 minutes

Adults and children love delicious food pancakes. And during Lent they can be no less sweet and fluffy. To do this, take:

• 500 g flour
• 300 g warm water
• 1 tsp each yeast and salt
• 1 tbsp sugar

Prepare pancakes like this:

• Pour salt, sugar and yeast with warm water
• While the yeast is rising, sift the flour.
• Mix the ingredients with flour and, cover with cling film, send to a warm place to infuse.
• When you see that the dough has almost doubled, use a spoon to place the pancakes on the heated frying pan.
• Lush and delicious baked goods are ready. People with a sweet tooth can increase the amount of sugar by 1.5-2 times

Kovrizhka It is cooked very often during Lent. But now we suggest preparing not just baked goods, but diversifying the gingerbread with 2 apples and 50 g of walnuts, as well as:

• 200 g sugar and water each
• 1 tsp each soda and lemon juice
• 2 tbsp honey
• 300 g flour
• 5 g baking powder

Preparing the gingerbread:

• Chop the walnuts
• Mix flour and baking powder
• Mix sugar and water and place in a water bath
• Add honey and cook until honey dissolves
• Extinguish the soda and pour into the mixture
• Remove the mixture from the water bath and add the nuts
• Add flour with baking powder 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 delicious and easy to prepare:

• 750 g each of 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 done.
• Drain the broth from the rice, this is what you will need.
• Chop the onion and fry.
• Knead the dough by adding rice water to it. You can do this by hand or using a bread machine.
• When the dough has stood and risen, divide it into 3 parts.
• Roll out each piece and arrange the onions, stack the dough on top of each other.
• Cut the cake into 16 pieces and roll each into a bagel.
• Place bagels in pan and bake for 30 minutes.
• The delicious pie is ready, you can invite guests and serve them tea with homemade cakes.

Lenten first courses, recipes

One of the most satisfying first courses is borscht. And even during Lent it can be prepared in quite a variety of ways. We offer 2 main options for lean borscht:

For classic Lenten borscht stock up:

• 2 pieces of potatoes, beets and tomatoes
• 1 carrot and 1 onion
• half a cabbage
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 tbsp. l sugar and salt
• spices to taste

Naturally, there is no meat in this dish. Prepare as follows:

• cut the vegetables as you would for regular borscht
• chop the cabbage and mince the garlic
• pour 2 liters of water into the pan and, when it boils, put the potatoes in the container
• fry carrots and onions in a frying pan
• In a separate pan, also simmer the chopped beets
• Grind the tomatoes in a blender and add to the pan
• when the beets, carrots and onions are ready, add them to the pan
• add salt and sugar, as well as your favorite spices
• bring to a boil and leave to simmer

Excellent version of Lenten borscht with beans and mushrooms. Add to the previous ingredients:

• 200 g champignons
• 10 prunes
• 100 g dry beans
• 1 tbsp tomato paste

Prepare Lenten borscht like this:

• Rinse the beans and leave to soak overnight
• In the morning, boil it in the same water for 45 minutes.
• Remove the beans and add the chopped potatoes to the water.
• Fry onions and carrots with tomato paste
• In another frying pan, simmer beets and finely chopped prunes
• Pour the contents of two frying pans into the pot with the potatoes.
• Fry the mushrooms in an empty frying pan
• While everything is cooking, chop the cabbage
• When the ingredients in the borscht have softened slightly, but are not yet soft enough, add mushrooms, cabbage and previously cooked beans.
• Borscht should be cooked for another 10-15 minutes
• Sprinkle the first dish with herbs and invite your family to the table

Another dish that is famous during fasting days is pickle. The ingredients for such a dish for 2 liters of water are as follows:

• 100 g pearl barley
• 5 potatoes
• 1 carrot and onion each
• 2 pickled cucumbers with 100 g brine
• spices

Cooking process:

• Rinse the cereal and leave to swell for 30 minutes
• Cook the barley until done
• Meanwhile, cut the potatoes into cubes.
• Add potatoes and spices to softened cereal
• Fry grated carrots and chopped onions
• Add frying to the pickle when the potatoes are already soft enough
• Slice the cucumbers and also add them to the pickle
• Finally, add the brine and bring the dish to a boil.
• Lenten pickle is 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 onion with spices until golden brown
• Chop the celery, carrots and also add to the onions for just a couple of minutes
• Place the ingredients in a saucepan and add 2 liters of water, cook until boiling.
• Next add the noodles and cook until done
• If desired, sprinkle with herbs and you can try your creation

It will also be very tasty lean pea soup. For it you need:

• 3 potatoes
• 1 carrot and onion each
• 100 g peas
• Spices and herbs to taste

Preparing the soup:

• Leave the peas to swell in cold water overnight
• In the morning, set it to cook, and at this time peel the carrots, onions and potatoes
• Cut the last ingredient into cubes and add to the peas
• Chop and sauté the remaining peeled vegetables
• Add them to the soup and cook until the potatoes soften
• Sprinkle with herbs before serving
• It’s very tasty to complement this soup with croutons or croutons.

Lenten cabbage recipe

Cabbage makes a great addition to salads and first courses. You can also make Lenten baked goods with cabbage. But an excellent and simple option during fasting is braised cabbage:

• 1 onion
• 500 g white cabbage
• 7 g each of 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 onion, spices and tomato paste to it.
• Add flour to the finished cabbage, stir and simmer for another 5-7 minutes.

Delicious and lean cabbage is ready. You can supplement it with potatoes or lean porridges.

Lenten mayonnaise: recipe

There are several varieties of Lenten mayonnaise on sale, which are great for seasoning dishes during Lent. But you can prepare such a product at home. This way you can be sure that you are using a quality product:

• 750 g water
• 250 g flour
• 3 tbsp each lemon juice and mustard
• 2 tbsp each sugar and salt
• 120 g vegetable oil

Preparing mayonnaise is not at all difficult, for this:

• Sift the flour and add a little water to it, grind until a homogeneous mass is formed.
• Add the rest of the water and cook until thick, leave to cool.
• Mix the rest of the ingredients in a separate bowl and, while beating with a mixer, add the 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 Lenten borscht, as well as salads during Lent, you can also make wonderful baked goods with them. Fragrant and fluffy pies or pies with mushrooms will come in handy with tea.

An excellent option would be to cook fried potatoes and mushrooms with herbs. By mixing these ingredients you will get a great lunch or dinner.

But one of the favorite recipes for fasting people is cabbage rolls with mushrooms and rice. To prepare you will need:

• 400 g cabbage leaves
• 100 g each of rice and mushrooms
• 1 onion
• 50 g each of flour and tomato paste
• Spices
• Mushroom broth

Preparing cabbage rolls is not difficult:

• Boil rice and mushrooms in separate containers, then cut the latter into strips
• Chop the onion and fry, add spices
• Stir in rice and mushrooms
• Wash the cabbage leaves and trim off any thick spots
• Place the filling on the cooled leaves and fry in a frying pan.
• While the cabbage rolls are roasting, mix the flour with the tomato and broth
• Place cabbage rolls in a saucepan, add broth and simmer for 45 minutes

Another very tasty recipe with mushrooms is stuffed champignons. The filling can be any lean - this includes rice, mushroom stems with herbs, as well as various vegetables. You just need:

• Remove stems from mushrooms
• Place them on a baking sheet and stuff them with your chosen filling.
• Lightly spread lean mayonnaise on top and bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 C

Lenten pumpkin recipes

You can prepare quite a lot of dishes from pumpkin. We offer you several very simple, but at the same time delicious dishes:

First, try the first one - pumpkin soup, for which you will need:

• 400 g pumpkin
• 1 onion
• 4 cloves garlic
• 500 g vegetable broth
• Spices

This soup will be in the form of a puree soup:

• Place the chopped ingredients in a baking dish and place in the oven at 200 C
• After this, place the ingredients in a blender bowl, adding broth, and beat
• Garnish the soup with herbs and serve

An unusual but tasty dish - pumpkin in batter. For it you only need flour and pumpkin in a ratio of 1:5, as well as a little oil for frying. If you wish, you can add your favorite spices. The cooking process is very simple - roll small pieces of pumpkin in flour and fry in oil until golden brown.

Try it as a snack 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 each of onion and arugula
• Olive oil
• Spices

The warm salad is prepared as follows:

• Place the chopped pumpkin in a baking dish
• Place chopped tomatoes on top, add oil and spices
• Roast vegetables for 15 minutes
• At this time, chop the greens
• Sprinkle the warm salad with herbs, mix and serve before it cools down.

You can also prepare oatmeal, to which you add chopped nuts, pumpkin and cinnamon.

Lenten potato dishes: recipes

The simplest dish is boiled or fried potatoes. You can add your favorite spices to this dish, as well as complement it with delicious salads. But you shouldn’t stop at 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
• Spices

The casserole is very easy to prepare:

• Boil and mince the mushrooms and potatoes
• Sauté the onion and mix with the potato-mushroom mixture
• Place the future casserole in a baking dish and bake until browned

A delicious and healthy dish is potatoes with prunes and raisins. For 0.5 kg of potatoes take:

• 100 g dried fruits
• 20 g vegetable oil
• Herbs and spices

Potatoes are prepared as follows:

• Cut the potatoes into cubes and, stirring with dried fruits, simmer until half cooked
• Next, add oil, spices and herbs and continue to simmer until done.
• Serve hot, you can sprinkle freshly chopped herbs on top

And how can you avoid it? potato zrazy. But let's complement them with rice and vegetables. This will make them even tastier:

• 0.5 kg potatoes
• 100 g rice
• 1 onion and 1 carrot each
• Spices

Cooking method:

• Boil the potatoes in their jackets and mash or grate
• Boil rice and fry vegetables
• Mix the ingredients, add spices and form into balls
• Fry until golden brown

You can prepare a lot of dishes with potatoes; during Lent, this is a product that will help you out more than once.

Lenten cutlets: recipes photos

Don't think that cutlets are only meat. The variety of options is simply amazing. Let's 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 the cutlets in breadcrumbs, oatmeal or sesame seeds.

Eggplant and potato cutlets:

• 4 potatoes
• 2 small eggplants
• 1 onion
• 2 cloves garlic
• 50 g semolina
• Spices

Vegetable cutlets:

• Boil 2 potatoes
• While the tubers are boiling, chop the eggplants and onions in a meat grinder, squeeze out the juice
• Grate the rest of the potatoes and add to the chopped vegetables
• Add mashed boiled potatoes and semolina there.
• Mix well, if desired, roll in breading and fry
• Eat hot

Bean cutlets, in this case we use mung beans - small peas:

• 500 g peas
• 1 onion
• Spices

Pea cutlets:

• Soak the mung beans for 2-3 hours in cold water
• Drain the water and add new water, cook for 20 minutes after boiling.
• Grind the peas in a blender
• Fry the onion and mix with the pea mixture
• Make cutlets and fry

You can also cook great oatmeal cutlets– simple and tasty:

• 250 g flakes
• 1 onion and 1 potato each
• 5 champignons
• 2 cloves garlic
• spices

Cooking cutlets:

• Steam oatmeal for 20 minutes
• Peel the potatoes and grate them finely
• Grind the onions and mushrooms in a blender along with the herbs
• Mix the ingredients and form into cutlets, fry

Lenten holiday and New Year's dishes: recipes

One of the traditional dishes for the festive table is Olivier. At the beginning of the article we present a recipe for Lenten Olivier, take note of it. This article offers a variety of options that can be used for New Year's Eve. But we still want to offer you a few more interesting dishes:

Vegetable aspic:

• 1 each eggplant, zucchini and bell pepper
• 350 g tomato
• Gelatin packet
• Greenery
• Spices

Step by step:

• Place sliced ​​vegetables on a baking sheet in a 190°C oven and 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 dissolved.
• After this, pour in the rest of the juice.
• Place cling film in the mold and arrange the peppers, pour in some of the liquid
• Next, alternately eggplants and zucchini, also alternating them with liquid
• Place in the refrigerator until hardened.

Delicious and festive stuff the eggplants:

• Tomatoes
• Mushrooms
• Prunes
• Nuts

You can use this filling or any other to stuff vegetables:

• Cut the eggplant into strips and add salt
• Bread in flour and fry
• Place the chosen filling on the strips and twist
• Decorate with greenery

You can cut the eggplant not into strips, but into rings, and then you just need to lay the filling on top.

For the above salads you can also prepare fruit salad:

1. To do this, cut kiwi, banana, orange and pear.
2. Mix and top with soy milk or honey. This is very tasty, children especially love it.

Get creative, use the above recipes for your holiday table and supplement them with the desired ingredients.

Menu on fast days

It is not true that you cannot eat well during Lent. We offer you a sample menu for several days. You can supplement and improve it depending on your imagination and the availability of products:

• Morning: Fruit salad
• Lunch: noodle soup, buckwheat porridge and vegetable salad
• Dinner: potato zrazy with mushrooms

• Morning: Oatmeal with dried fruits
• Lunch: Borscht with beans, cabbage salad
• Dinner: Vinaigrette, honey gingerbread for tea

• Morning: Toast with honey, tea
• Lunch: Rassolnik, beet salad, baked potatoes
• Dinner: Mushroom lasagne

• Morning: Lenten pancakes or pancakes
• Lunch: Pea soup, 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 cleansing the soul and body. Anyone who has fasted once can no longer deny himself this. Try it too - feel the lightness in your body and the strength of your own will.

Video: Cooking Lenten dishes

Orthodox Christians will celebrate the Holy Resurrection of Christ on April 28 in 2019. The holiday is preceded by Lent, which in 2018 begins on March 11 and will last 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 harm your health for long if you don’t know how to eat properly.

The main goal 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 for 40 days in the desert.

Compliance with fasting today is a voluntary act and is deeply individual in nature. During Lent, free time should be devoted to prayers, subdue desires for food, excluding any excesses and idleness, and strive for a more secluded lifestyle.

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

Lenten menu

Fasting is, first of all, abstinence from rich food, and not exhaustion of the body, so the fasting menu should be varied and rich in vitamins.

The Lenten menu can be quite varied - during Lent you can prepare various porridges, lean pilafs, pasta, soups, cutlets, salads and so on.

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

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

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

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

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Xerophagy

According to church canons, you need to create a menu for Lenten cuisine according to the following principles - in the first and last (Holy) weeks of 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, eating exclusively raw, thermally unprocessed food and lean bread. On this day it is not even recommended to drink tea or compote.

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

Salad "Exotic"

Place the shredded cabbage in a bowl, lightly sprinkle with salt and rub with your hands so that the cabbage softens and releases juice. The 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. Cut fresh cucumber, apple or orange into cubes. Pour lemon juice, salt, pepper and mix all ingredients. This unusual and spicy salad will energize you for the whole day.

Days without oil

On Tuesdays and Thursdays you can eat hot food of plant origin without oil. These days you can treat yourself to various cereals and soups, and you can also eat jams, pickles, herbs, and so on.

Bean soup with pasta

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

You can expand your menu these days by adding baked potatoes and other vegetables. You can also prepare lean spaghetti - boil the pasta in salted water and season it with tomato paste. These days you can drink tea and compotes.

The second dishes on the menu during Lent can also be mushroom, potato, cabbage, and carrot lean cutlets, in which eggs as a fixative can easily be replaced with semolina. On days when oil consumption is prohibited, the cutlets can be steamed.

With butter

On Saturday and Sunday (except for the last Saturday of Lent) food with the addition of vegetable oil is allowed. Here you can give free rein to your imagination and prepare various dishes - soups, salads, meatless cutlets and pilaf, and so on.

Mushroom soup

Fry finely chopped onion and garlic in a saucepan and pour boiling water over the frying. 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 cauliflower or broccoli florets, grated carrots and bell peppers (preferably red), chopped cilantro, dill and cook the soup until tender. Then add salt and start lunch.

Salad "Markitanka"

Boil potatoes and cut into cubes. Add shredded sauerkraut (preferably red), a can 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 be eaten only twice - on the Annunciation (April 7) and on Palm Sunday, which in 2017 falls on April 9. These days, fish can be eaten either boiled or fried, and if you are a fan of Japanese cuisine, you can treat yourself to sushi.

Soup

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

Fish baked in foil

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

Cut the fish into pieces or leave it whole, place on foil, pepper and salt. Greens, preferably oregano or tarragon, can be placed in the belly of the fish, on its carcass or pieces. Then sprinkle with lemon juice, or cover with lemon slices, seal the edges of the foil and bake until done.

Treats

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

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

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

Cut any fruits - 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 tbsp honey; one tsp baking powder for dough.

Remove seeds and skin from the lemon and grind the pulp in a blender. Grate the ginger 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 thick, its thickness can be adjusted by the amount of water, or by additionally adding flour if the dough turns out watery.

Cover the kneaded dough and leave it 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.

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During fasting, a deeply religious person does not think about food at all, and many even go for several days without eating anything at all. At the same time, they do not feel hungry. However, there are not so many such people. Most still consider fasting not only as spiritual cleansing, but also as a healthy diet that cleanses the body. No matter how differently someone approaches fasting, no one dares to deny its benefits. In this article we want to tell you about how to eat properly while fasting.

Menu in post for every day recipes

First of all, everyone needs to understand what your menu during fasting should also be varied. You need to eat more vegetables, fruits, grains and nuts. Black bread, of course, also needs to be eaten, especially since it contains substances necessary for the body such as vitamin B. You can provide your body with vitamins A and C by eating sauerkraut, onions and garlic. Buckwheat porridge and spinach are rich in iron and, of course, while fasting, a person should actively consume these foods.

Many people during fasting experience discomfort from the lack of meat and sweets in their diet. Meanwhile, the Church allows you to eat honey at this time, so the longing for sweets can be successfully overcome. As for dark dark chocolate, its composition is a lean product. However, the Church does not recommend consuming it during Lent, since it is a delicacy and not everyday food.

The situation is much more complicated for athletes during fasting. If during this period they do not reduce physical activity on the muscles, then the body begins to experience a colossal lack of animal proteins. The result of this deficiency appears in the form of a loss of muscle mass in the athlete and a loss of previous endurance. Doctors recommend that such people take soy proteins and free amino acids during fasting. These drugs are obtained artificially from plant foods, most often from sprouted wheat grains. Along with this, athletes need to increase the amount of vitamins in their food, especially group B (chromium, vanadium, lipoic acid).

A very important point in fasting is that for those people who decide to fast for the first time, a sudden refusal to eat meat can negatively affect their health. Abrupt, abundant consumption of meat after the end of fasting will also negatively affect the body. For such people who are unprepared for fasting, there is a risk of problems with the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. An excellent preventive measure against this threat is to avoid eating meat on Wednesdays and Fridays. When the body of an unprepared person normally accepts the absence of meat on these two days a week, you can begin to fast in full, as the Christian Church teaches.

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In church terminology, this process is called breaking the fast. Its essence is not to immediately start overeating on light food on the first day after the end of fasting. On the contrary, breaking the fast involves consuming only a little meat and dairy products at this time. Moreover, this must be done not in a chaotic mode, but in a certain order. The fact is that during fasting the body has lost the habit of breaking down heavy food and it needs to be given the opportunity to reacquire these abilities. Therefore, the amount of fats and proteins in food when breaking fast should be minimal. If you do not adhere to this recommendation, the consequences for the gastrointestinal tract can be very serious.

Lenten recipes

And so, you already imagine what yours should be like menu during Lent. Now we want to introduce you to some recipes for preparing delicious Lenten dishes, eating which you will not feel hungry.

Lenten Olivier salad

During Lent, you can prepare a delicious Olivier salad without meat and sausage. Instead, you need to use boiled potatoes, green peas, boiled fish, pickles and herbs. You can season the lean Olivier salad with soy moonnaise.

Potato zrazy with mushrooms

Zrazy made from potatoes and mushrooms are very tasty and filling. To do this, you need to boil unpeeled potatoes, crush them into puree, add salt and mix with flour. Form small balls from the resulting dough and place the mushroom filling inside. Such zrazy should be fried on all sides in vegetable oil.

To prepare the filling, you need to soak the dry mushrooms, leaving them in water for two hours. Then boil them in the same fragrant water and drain it. After this, the boiled mushrooms need to be cut into small pieces and fried in a frying pan, adding onions to them. The same filling for this dish can be made from salted or fresh mushrooms. Potato zrazy with mushrooms can be eaten as an addition to Lenten first courses or as a separate dish.

In order to make the dough for zraz, you will need ten potatoes, four tablespoons of flour and a little salt to taste.

To prepare the filling you need to take 70 grams of dried mushrooms, two onions, two tablespoons of vegetable oil and a little ground pepper and salt.

Baked apples

Wash the apples well and carefully cut out the core with a knife. Pour any jam into the resulting space. Then take a frying pan and pour some water into the bottom. Place the apples on the bottom of the frying pan and bake over low heat in the oven. This dish is an excellent dessert during Lent. Typically, for one medium-sized apple you need to take two teaspoons of jam.

Sweet pies made from Lenten dough

First you need to dilute the yeast in dark water. Then knead the dough, add yeast, a little vegetable oil and a teaspoon of salt. Knead the dough well again and add powdered sugar, lemon zest, cinnamon and vanilla. When the dough rises, you need to roll it out into a thick pancake and fold the edges. You can place a sweet filling in the middle and decorate the surface with strips of dough. If you lubricate the surface with honey solution, the cake will turn out more beautiful and more aromatic. Then you need to give the cake time to rise a little more and only then proceed directly to baking.

To prepare the dough, you will need two cups of flour, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, half a cup of granulated sugar, one teaspoon of salt and ten grams of yeast. Spices are added to taste.

Mushroom cutlets

To prepare this dish you need dried porcini mushrooms. They need to be boiled and then finely chopped. Rice and parsley are cooked separately and then mixed with boiled mushrooms. From this mass you need to make cutlets, sprinkle them with flour or coat them with batter. Mushroom cutlets are fried in vegetable oil and are best served with green peas. For one hundred grams of dried mushrooms you need to take one glass of rice and add spices to taste.

In the end I would like to say about the main thing. Do not forget that fasting is primarily intended for the spiritual cleansing of a person. Try to be as polite and friendly as possible with the people around you during this time.

Recently, more and more Russian citizens are turning to religion. But many “newbies” do not yet know how to eat during Lent 2018. You can find out the menu for every day, as well as recipes for lean dishes, below.

In all religions there are periods when believers abstain from eating food and other temptations of life. Thus, they want to purify their body and soul, and get closer to the Almighty.

In Orthodoxy, there are several fasts when the laity struggle with bad thoughts, habits, do not eat anything and try to restore internal harmony. They do all this in the name of God.

The most important and strictest is Lent, which in 2018 will begin on 02/19/18 and end on 04/08/18. Every year it begins at a different time, as it is tied to another important day for Christians - Easter.

How to prepare for fasting

Christians prepare for such a serious test for three weeks. Moreover, each period has its own name:

• The first week is called continuous or “omnivorous”. As the name suggests, this is the time when you can eat everything without exception and in any quantity. Thus, believers, as it were, try to eat for future use.
• The second week is called motley or meat-eating week. During this period, the first food restrictions appear. On Wednesday and Friday, believers begin to fast. During Parents' Saturday, it is customary to go to the cemetery and remember deceased relatives.
• The third week is called the cheese week. It is during this period that the famous Maslenitsa falls. At this time you can eat eggs, fish, dairy products and of course pancakes. They are especially popular in Russian villages. They are made for every taste with only one exception. On this holiday it is already forbidden to eat meat products. During this period, people try to go out and have fun, because there is a period of restrictions ahead.

At the end of Maslenitsa week comes Forgiveness Sunday, during which all believers ask for forgiveness and themselves forgive their offenders. In this way, people prepare for spiritual and physical cleansing.

Meals during the first and Holy Week

On Clean Monday, believers clean the house, wash and change into clean clothes, showing that they are ready for further purification. From this moment on, church rules begin to work for the laity. This primarily concerns food. So, nutrition in the first week:

To understand what you can eat on other days, let’s try to understand the concepts. So, the Orthodox church charter implies several degrees of strictness of fasting with:

• first, eating food is prohibited;
• second - food is not allowed to be processed thermally;
• third - you can eat hot food, but without oil;
• fourth - you can eat heat-processed food with oil;
• fifth - fish and thermally processed food with oil are consumed.

If we summarize the above, we get the following table of food consumption during Lent:

This is the period of the strictest fasting. According to the above classification, from Monday to Thursday the second degree of abstinence from food is practiced, that is, only raw vegetables and fruits are consumed. On Friday, eating at all is prohibited. The seventh week ends the fast. Each day reminds believers of the last days of Jesus. This table gives an idea of ​​what you can eat during Holy Week:

Lenten recipes

With dry eating

"Cold soup"

Required Products:

• tomatoes – 4 pcs.;
• hot pepper - 1 pc.:
• garlic – 2 cloves;
• vegetable oil (if desired) – 2 tbsp. l.;
• lemon juice – 2 tbsp. l.;
• greenery.

Preparation:

1. Make vegetable puree.
2. Add lemon juice, oil, salt.
3. Add 2 l. water, leave to infuse.
4. Sprinkle with herbs.

Soup "Spicy"

You will need:

• coconut – 1 pc.;
• any nuts - 1 tbsp.;
• sea ​​grass - a couple of branches;
• garlic – 4 cloves;
• vegetable oil;
• honey – 1 tsp;
• celery, cilantro and other greens - 1 bunch.

Preparation:

1. We clean the coconut and take out the pulp.
2. Then add water in a one to one ratio.
3. After this, add chopped butter, nuts and honey.
4. To get a spicy taste, add chopped garlic, seaweed and herbs.

"Hummus"

To prepare the dish you will need:

• peas - 2 tbsp.;
• parsley, cilantro, basil - a bunch;
• sesame seeds – 2 tbsp. l.
• lemon – 1 pc.;
• cold pressed oil – 3 tbsp. l.

Preparation:

1. Before you start preparing this dish, you need to sprout the peas.
2. Then puree it.
3. Add remaining ingredients.

"Bean pate"

Required:

• sunflower seeds - 1 tbsp.;
• walnuts – 1 tbsp.;
• parsley, dill, basil, cilantro, garlic;
• lemon juice;
• chickpeas (sprouted peas) – 2 tbsp.

Preparation:

1. The chickpeas are mixed with nuts and ground thoroughly.
2. Then the herbs and lemon juice are added.
3. Goes out into the cold for a while.
4. After hardening, you can serve.

"Lentil porridge"

To prepare you need:

• lentils – 1 tbsp.;
• carrots – 1 pc.;
• cucumber – 1 pc.;
• garlic – 3 cloves;
• ginger – 1 root;
• dried sea grass;
• greenery.

Preparation:

1. Soak the lentils and then mash.
2. Add grated carrots to it.
3. Cut the cucumber into strips.
4. Mix everything.
5. Add minced garlic, dried sea grass and grated ginger;
6. Decorate with greens.

Heat-treated dishes

In fact, there can be a great variety of such dishes. You can get creative and combine all kinds of products at your own discretion. The main thing is that you like the dishes prepared. On fasting days you can try:

• lean borscht with sprat in tomato;
• soup with beans and vegetables;
• champignon kebab;
• oat cutlets;
• zucchini meatballs;
• pilaf with mushrooms;
• zrazy with mushrooms;
• lentil sausages;
• vegetable caviar from Jerusalem artichoke and much more.