What to cook for a lean table? As a rule, this question puzzles many housewives who adhere to religious traditions. As practice shows, it is rather difficult to choose a dish that will contain only acceptable ingredients. For those who do not know how to set a delicious fasting festive table, it is proposed to consider the top 10 recipes, which include only permitted products. In addition, they are all perfect for celebrating any occasion.
Solyanka with mushrooms
It's no secret that on a lean table, such a common ingredient as meat is a wonderful substitute for mushrooms. It is with them that you can cook an excellent dish - hodgepodge.
To create it, you need to very finely chop the average head of white cabbage. In a deep frying pan, you need to heat a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil and place the vegetable on a roasting pan. To it, you need to add half a glass of purified cold water. In this composition, the ingredients must be fried for a short time (until the cabbage is soft). In the process, add a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste to the pan, salt to taste, a small amount of ground black pepper (or assorted), half a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, and one dried bay leaf. The ingredients must once again be well mixed, cover and put out for several minutes, remove from heat.
Mushrooms should be cooked in a separate pan. To do this, you need to heat a couple tablespoons of sunflower oil in a bowl and fry the finely chopped onion on it. After a couple of minutes, you need to pour half a kilogram of chopped mushrooms to it (it is better to take mushrooms or honey mushrooms). In this form, foods must be fried over high heat until all of the liquid has evaporated. As soon as this happens, finely chopped pickles must be added to them, mix again and remove from heat.
When all the main components of the dish have been prepared, you need to take a heat-resistant form, grease it with vegetable oil, and then put the cabbage on the bottom, and on top of it - mushrooms with onions. The ingredients must be evenly leveled, and then sent to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. It is necessary to cook such a dish for 20-30 minutes, periodically checking the readiness.
For a more piquant look of the finished culinary creation, some chefs recommend sprinkling the contents of the pan with breadcrumbs before sending it all to the oven.
Salad "Monastic"
This recipe for lean salad on the festive table is definitely suitable for housewives who want to surprise guests with their culinary talent.
To prepare such a dish, you need to take a head of fresh cabbage, wash and finely chop, after cutting off the hard elements. To the vegetable, add a small amount of sugar, black pepper, and then mix the ingredients thoroughly, kneading the cabbage with your hands. After the vegetable has let out a small amount of juice, two sliced fresh cucumbers and half-sliced bell pepper should be added to it (in order to make the picture of the finished dish the most vivid, it is better to use a red vegetable).
In an almost ready salad, you need to send chopped greens of dill and parsley, as well as several feathers of onions. Refill this dish with vegetable oil (it is better to use not refined - it gives an amazing aroma). Salad on the holiday table should be salt to taste and mix all the ingredients well. The dish is ready - it can be served to guests.
Salad with shrimp
It's no secret that during fasting you can eat such healthy seafood as shrimp. This is what you can use in order to prepare a great lean salad on the festive table.
To create it, boil the shrimp. To do this, boil water, salt it, put a bay leaf and a small amount of ground black pepper there. In boiling water, pour 200 g of pre-cleaned shrimp (it is better to use not the largest) and cover. Boil seafood for 1.5 minutes, then immediately get it. The peculiarity of this process is that if the processing takes a little longer, the product will become “rubber” and will chew poorly. In addition, he will lose most of his taste. Cooked shrimp must be cooled.
After the shrimp become cold, they must be cut in half (if large ones were taken, then they should be cut into 3-4 parts). To seafood should be added one pre-washed and peeled Bulgarian pepper, which must be cut into small cubes. To prepare such a salad, it is better to take a red vegetable - in this case, on the festive table, the dish will look more piquant. The same thing must be done with one fresh cucumber.
After all the ingredients for the salad have been collected, a small amount of olive oil, salt, and black pepper to taste should be added to them. Shrimp with vegetables should be mixed until smooth. Salad ready.
Pumpkin with vegetables
A dish made from pumpkin with seasonal vegetables looks great on a lean table. Practice shows that such a work of culinary art is best created in the autumn, when all the ingredients that are in its composition can be easily found on the market and in summer cottages. This dish will undoubtedly please the hostesses, because in order to purchase the ingredients for it, you will not need a large supply of cash.
To prepare a pumpkin with vegetables, you need to take an eggplant on a lean table, wash it, remove all unnecessary elements, and then cut the fruit into half-circles of medium thickness. It is necessary to salt the vegetable and, pouring cold water, leave it in this form for an hour. During this period, possible bitterness will be eliminated from it.
While the eggplant is soaked, you can do the cooking of other ingredients. It is necessary to take 300 g of ripe pumpkin, peeled and peeled. It should be cut into large cubes. The same should be done with one carrot and 5-6 potato tubers.
When the eggplants are ready, it is necessary to drain the water from them, dry each piece with a paper towel, and then add to the rest of the vegetables. In a container with the listed ingredients, pour a number of spices to taste: marjoram, black pepper, rosemary, dried basil, salt. In addition, several garlic cloves (4-5 pieces) should be crushed into vegetables, then mix everything well.
The baking sheet chosen for baking should be covered with a sheet of foil, greased with olive oil and put on it a mixture made of pumpkin and other vegetables. From above they also need to be covered with a sheet made of foil. It is necessary to bake such a dish for a delicious lean table for 45 minutes, provided that the oven is preheated to 190 degrees.
Dumplings with Cherry
Many lovers of delicious food prefer to eat cooked dough products with delicious toppings. For a lean holiday table, you can cook aromatic, tasty and very tasty-looking dumplings with cherries, which contain no ingredients forbidden for such a diet.
To create a dish, you must first prepare a delicious and juicy filling. It should consist of fresh cherries, which are recommended to take a little more than half a kilogram. Bones should be removed from the berries, covered with 3-4 tablespoons of sugar (if the berries are very acidic, you can use a larger amount of sweetener), mix and leave in this form for insisting for a couple of hours. During this time, juice is formed from the berries, which at the very end of the infusion will need to be drained.
At the end of the preparation of the filling for dumplings, you should prepare the dough for the lean dish on the festive table. To do this, take 2.5 cups of sifted flour. Add half a teaspoon of salt and sugar to it. After that, you need to pour a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil into the flour, and then a glass of boiling water. Now the ingredients must be gently mixed using a spoon for such a purpose (it will be hot - you can burn yourself). After the dough has cooled slightly, it should be thoroughly kneaded with your hands until a thick and tender mass is formed. In this form, the dough must be left on the table for 20-25 minutes, previously covered with a towel.
After this period, the dough for dumplings must be rolled into a thin layer, using a glass to make circles of the same size from it. In the center of each juicy fruit, several berries of candied cherries should be put, then fold the circles in half and cover their edges. Thus, beautiful dumplings are obtained. Spread the finished product on a surface sprinkled with a small amount of flour.
As for cooking, this process requires a small amount of culinary knowledge. First of all, it should be borne in mind that it is necessary to lower the prepared semi-finished products only in boiling water. Cooking is recommended for 2-3 minutes after they surface.
This delicious and very tasty dish for a lean table should be served by pouring it with a small amount of vegetable oil or with syrup boiled from cherry juice, which was drained during its infusion.
Mushroom and Bean Salad
During fasting, you can please your household with such an amazing and original dish. This salad on a lean table can be cooked in a hurry, without spending a lot of time on processing the ingredients.
Cooking should begin with the preparation of onions and garlic. To do this, the medium-sized onion head must be cut in half, and then chopped into thin half rings. Using a knife or garlic ginger, chop a clove of garlic. Separately, cut into thin plates 250 g of champignons, which must first be washed and dried.
After all preparations for the main ingredients have been done, you must fry the mushrooms in a hot pan using a small amount of sunflower oil. Together with them, it is also necessary to fry the onions, which, ultimately, should become transparent. As for the mushrooms, at the end of cooking, they should acquire a delicious golden color. Literally 1-1.5 minutes before the ingredients are ready, pour a can of white canned beans (without marinade), as well as half a teaspoon of dried thyme, to them.
On the dish in which the ready-made salad will be served, you need to lay the washed spinach leaves (for decoration), and on top of them - fried ingredients from the pan. On top of the whole mass formed, sprinkle with a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar, add a small amount of salt and black pepper (to taste). Delicious lean salad is ready for the holiday table - it can be served.
Chocolate Banana Pie
Sweet treats cannot fail to enter the top 10 best recipes for dishes for the festive table, because even in such a period it is impossible to deny yourself all kinds of goodies. That is why any housewife should know the recipe for chocolate biscuit - a delicious lean dish on the festive table.
To prepare it, you need to take a quarter cup of peeled almond nuts and lightly dry them in a pan without adding vegetable oil. After they heat up, they should be sent to the blender bowl and chopped well until flour is formed. To this ingredient, add three peeled and broken into pieces banana and grind again so that the mass becomes homogeneous.
Pour 120 g of sugar, a pinch of salt, and a teaspoon of soda, slaked with a few drops of vinegar, into a separate bowl for kneading dough. To these ingredients should be added the zest of orange, taken from one fruit with a fine grater. To prepare such a dish, you can use the zest of any other citrus, such as lemon. To the existing mixture add a pinch of vanillin, half a glass of refined vegetable oil and the same amount of water. After all preparations have been made, the mass should be well mixed and gradually sifted into it a glass of wheat flour. In parallel, the mass must be stirred - thus, the finished dough will turn out perfectly smooth and without lumps.
In order for the biscuit to have an appetizing brown color, it is necessary to melt the milk chocolate bar in a water bath, after which pour the resulting liquid into the dough. At the very last stage, two pears should be mixed into the mass, which are previously peeled and cut into small cubes. Now the dough must be stirred until uniform.
Further, according to the recipe for a delicious lean table, the finished dough for the pie should be poured into a mold covered with parchment (if a silicone mold is used, then simply lubricate it with a small amount of refined sunflower oil). Bake a dessert at a temperature of 180 degrees for 40 minutes (if the product is too thick, this process may take an hour).
For a lenten birthday table, you can easily make such a delicious cake. On this basis, you can even bake a cake by decorating its surface with fresh fruit.
Sweet salad
An excellent lean salad on the festive table can be prepared from pears and nuts. In practice, such a dish is best prepared in late summer and autumn, when all the ingredients that make up it can be easily found in the store.
To create a salad, you need to take one large pear and, cutting it along, remove the core, as well as the tail. After this, the fruit should be cut into thin slices or quarters, then pour the juice squeezed from half an orange and mix well - this procedure will prevent the fruit from darkening.
Now the pear must be put in a bowl for making salad. To it you need to add a tablespoon of chopped walnuts, the same amount of almonds, 10 g of coconut chips, as well as a couple of pieces of chocolate, which must first be crushed using a grater.
All components must be mixed. Now a delicious salad on a lean table is ready - it can be served. In order to diversify the taste of the dish and make it look more piquant, the serving plate, on which the dessert is located, can be decorated with a pair of fresh mint leaves.
Seafood paella
Any lean holiday table can be decorated with paella made with seafood. To prepare, you need to process some of the ingredients separately. A pinch of dry saffron pour a small amount of boiling water and leave to insist for a while. Separately, cut a clove of garlic, and chop a couple of medium tomatoes and one bell pepper into medium-sized slices. The white part of several stalks of green onions should be cut into rings, as well as finely chop the dill and parsley.
After all the ingredients have been prepared, you can do their heat treatment. To do this, heat the pan with a small amount of vegetable oil. It is necessary to fry onions, peppers and tomatoes on it until they become soft. After 2-3 minutes of frying, add the garlic and herbs to the vegetables, then mix everything thoroughly.
In another pan, fry 300 g of fresh seafood (assorted from the store), which will take a minute. After this time, pour a glass of uncooked rice to the assorted seafood. In this composition, the products must be fried for another minute. Now to the ingredients should be added a mixture of vegetables, soaked saffron, as well as half a glass of vegetable broth. For 10 minutes, the mass must be stewed over low heat, covering the pan with a lid. After the specified time has elapsed, a couple of lemon slices and the same amount of broth should be sent there. Next, the mass should continue to simmer for another 10 minutes. After the specified time, the dish for a delicious lean holiday table will be ready.
Vegetable salad with avocado
And finally, the last dish, which is also included in the top 10 recipes for lean dishes for the holiday. Despite the fact that cooking it is quite simple, it will look very bright and original on a lean table.
To create a salad, you should take two cucumbers and tomatoes.The ingredients must be cut into four parts, and then each into thin slices. The same thing must be done with the head of the purple onion. Last but not least, an avocado should be introduced into this bright dish on the Lenten table. From the ingredient, remove the stone, peel it, and then, cut into slices, sprinkle with lemon juice and send it to the salad.
The finished dish should be seasoned with a small amount of olive oil, salt and pepper to taste, and then mix well until smooth.