During the fasting period, the issue of preparing lean food becomes very relevant . Many housewives are not ready to give up their usual food. In fact, the selection of lean dishes is quite wide. In our article we want to give recipes for lean dishes, which can be included in the daily menu. We hope that our selection is useful to you.
Ratatouille
The lean recipe is quite simple. Ratatouille can be served as a side dish for meat, a variety of cheese or eggs. However, we are interested in the lean version of the dish.
Ingredients:
- eggplant (320 g),
- 1 kg of tomatoes
- two onions
- zucchini (320 g),
- sweet pepper (2 pcs.),
- olive oil,
- Provencal herbs,
- garlic,
- salt.
Before you start cooking, you need to prepare the vegetables. In eggplant and zucchini, remove the tails, and in the pepper - seeds. All tomatoes must be divided into two equal parts. Pour boiling water over one of them and remove the skin.
Now you can start cooking the sauce. To do this, grind onions, and then fry it in olive oil. Skinless tomatoes and Bulgarian pepper finely chop and add to the pan. Fry vegetables until soft. Our sauce is ready.
Next, cut the tomatoes, eggplant and zucchini in equal circles of equal thickness. In a deep plate, mix the garlic, passed through the press, with olive oil and Provencal herbs. Mix the mass and add a little salt.
Now we take the baking dish, spread the sauce on its bottom with an even layer. On top we lay out rows of vegetables, alternating circles of blue, tomatoes and zucchini. The dish is generously sprinkled with olive oil with herbs and garlic. Close the form with a sheet of foil and put in the oven. Bake vegetables for thirty minutes. After we remove the foil and cook another twenty minutes.
Red cabbage salad
Red cabbage can be used to make lean salad. The taste of such a dish is slightly different than that of white cabbage. However, it only benefits from this. It is preparing very quickly.
Ingredients:
- head of cabbage,
- parsley,
- bow,
- sugar,
- pepper,
- vegetable oil,
- vinegar,
- salt,
- black pepper.
Cut the onions in half rings, add sugar, pepper, salt and pour in a mixture of boiling water and vinegar. Leave the onion to marinate for five minutes.
Next, wash the cabbage and chop it finely. Add sugar and salt, then mash hands. In a salad bowl, mix cabbage, pickled onions and chopped greens. We season the dish with vegetable oil.
Potato salad
Lenten salads are a real salvation for those who fast. Among the variety of dishes, you can find recipes that allow you to cook a very satisfying and tasty food. Potato salad, for example, can be a full dinner or breakfast.
Ingredients:
- jacket potatoes (480 g),
- a can of peas
- Korean carrots (270 g).
For refueling:
- garlic,
- dill,
- vegetable oil and salt.
For salad, we need potatoes boiled in their uniforms. As for Korean carrots, you can cook it yourself. However, purchased in the store is also suitable.
Peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes. Mix it with carrots with a fork. Next, add a can of peas to the salad. Mix everything again. As a dressing we use a mass of vegetable oil, minced dill and garlic. The resulting sauce is added to the salad and mix it. The dish is ready to eat.
Lenten Dumplings
Some of our favorite dishes can be made lean. So, for example, you can cook lean dumplings.
Ingredients:
- water (170 ml)
- flour (320 g),
- salt,
- 2 tbsp. l vegetable oil.
For filling:
- dried mushrooms (20 g),
- six potatoes
- vegetable oil,
- bow,
- pepper.
Let's start cooking lean dough. Sift the flour into a wide basin , then add vegetable oil and salt, pour water. Using a wooden spoon, knead the dough. Next, continue to knead it on the table with his hands. Roll the finished mass into a ball, cover with a film and leave for an hour to make the dough infused.
Meanwhile, you can begin to prepare the filling. Dried mushrooms are transferred to a bowl and pour boiling water. They must infuse in the water for at least thirty minutes. After mushrooms, wash and fill them with strained mushroom infusion. Bring them to a boil and cook for about thirty minutes. We take out the ready-made mushrooms with a slotted spoon and cut into small pieces.
On the resulting mushroom broth, you can cook lean soup.
By the way, you can use fresh or frozen mushrooms for cooking. To do this, they must be fried.
Peel the potatoes and put them in water. Turn on the fire and bring to a boil. Add salt and cook until tender. Knead the finished potatoes until mashed.
Potato broth should not be poured, because it can still be useful to us. For example, you can add it a little in mashed potatoes so that it is not so dry.
Finely chop the onion and fry in a pan. Then add the mushrooms and cook together a couple of minutes. Then we shift the mass in mashed potatoes. We mix all the ingredients. Filling for lean dumplings is ready. You can add salt and pepper to it.
Now roll out the dough. Cut the same circles with a glass, put the filling in the center of each and fasten the edges. We put a large pot of water on the fire and bring it to a boil. Dip dumplings in boiling water. Mix the mass very carefully with a spoon so that the dough does not stick to the bottom. After boiling dumplings, cook another five to seven minutes. The finished dish can be served with fried onions and vegetable oil.
Cabbage soup
Lean cabbage soup is a traditional Russian dish, though without meat. If at any other time they can be cooked with meat, then during the fasting period you will have to limit yourself only to vegetables. Lean cabbage soup can be prepared not only from sauerkraut, but also from fresh cabbage. A variety of cereals can also be used for a dish.
Ingredients:
- sauerkraut (650 g),
- dried porcini mushrooms (7 pcs.),
- potatoes,
- two onions
- carrot,
- Art. l buckwheat
- parsley root
- garlic,
- Bay leaf,
- dill greens,
- vegetable oil,
- pepper peas.
Cabbage soup is a fasting dish for every day. For its preparation, you can use fresh or dried mushrooms. We will use the second. Pre-soak the mushrooms, and then boil. Pour sauerkraut with 500 ml of boiling water and send to the oven for 30 minutes. After this, the broth must be drained into a separate container. Next, the vegetable oil is heated in a pan with herbs. Then add it to the cabbage and chopped onion. Pour vegetables with mushroom broth, add buckwheat and boil until tender. Serve the dish with greens and garlic.
Cabbage cutlets
Since meat dishes are inappropriate during the fasting period, you will have to be content with lean cutlets. You can cook a delicious dish of cabbage.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of cabbage,
- bow,
- flour (120 g),
- as much semolina
- garlic,
- greens,
- spice,
- crackers,
- salt.
Lean cutlets are very easy to prepare. We divide the cabbage into four parts and boil them in slightly salted boiling water for no more than ten minutes. Then we discard the vegetable in a colander and let it drain water. Grind the cabbage in a meat grinder. The resulting flesh is outgrown from excess juice. Grind onions, herbs and garlic. Mix all the vegetables and add salt, flour and semolina. You can spice up. The resulting minced meat is thoroughly mixed and form patties. Bread them in crackers, then fry them in vegetable oil.
Carrot cutlets
We offer another recipe for lean dishes. Carrot cutlets are a wonderful and healthy dish.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of carrots,
- ½ cup semolina and water,
- bow,
- sweet paprika (tsp),
- ground pepper
- salt.
Cut the carrots into thin slices and simmer in a pan with water. After it becomes soft, add semolina. Mix and cook for another seven minutes. Finely chop the onion and fry in a pan.
After mix it with carrot mass. After the minced meat has cooled, we form cutlets from it and lightly fry. Such cutlets can be a good fast breakfast or dinner.
Lenten Cupcakes
There are many options for delicious pastries, but not all of them are suitable for fasting. For this reason, we offer a lean baking recipe. Cupcakes are prepared from simple products - honey, water, vegetable oil and flour. To the best of sweet pastries everyone will like.
Ingredients:
- liquid honey (two tbsp. l.),
- the same amount of vegetable oil
- flour (1.5 cups.),
- sugar (1/2 cup.),
- salt,
- glass of water,
- baking powder.
Mix vegetable oil with honey and water. Add salt and sugar. Mix everything thoroughly. Next, pour the baking powder and sifted flour. Mix the ingredients. We should get a fairly dense mass. If necessary, you can add water. The dough should have a consistency, as for the preparation of classic muffins.
For further preparation of lean baking, you will need molds. You can take metal and grease them with oil. Silicone is also suitable. They are good because they do not need lubrication. You can also use paper forms. In each we put lean dough, filling only 2/3 of the volume. Cooking baking for 20-25 minutes.
Lean apple pie
In the old days in Russia they prepared a lot of such dishes, for which they used purely lean products - vegetables, berries, flour, cereals, nuts, fruits. In those days, baking played a huge role. She was always present on the table.
Now lean pies are also very relevant during the fasting period. They are prepared on the basis of vegetable oil. However, it is worth knowing that oil is allowed to be used only on Sundays and Saturdays.
Ingredients:
- two glasses of water (warm),
- four glasses of flour
- a glass of vegetable oil
- sugar (120 g for toppings and tablespoons for making dough),
- yeast pack
- lemon juice,
- zest,
- five apples,
- tea bag.
The dough is incredibly simple to make. Dissolve the yeast in warm water and add sugar, vegetable oil and flour. Next, knead the dough and leave it to infuse in a warm place. As the filling, we will use apples. We clean them from the skin and cut into slices. Sprinkle lemon juice on top. Add sugar to the filling.
We make tea in a cup and put some sugar in it. From the dough we roll out the base for the pie. Next, we line it with a shape. Lubricate the cake on top with tea and spread the apple filling evenly. Bake the cake for no more than thirty minutes. Such a lean dessert will appeal to all the sweet tooth.
Lenten roll with poppy seeds
This recipe for a lean dish allows you to cook a wonderful dessert with poppy seeds and honey.
Ingredients:
- three glasses of flour
- water (2.5 glasses),
- a pack of yeast
- vegetable oil (3/4 cup.),
- honey (tbsp),
- a little ground almonds.
For filling:
- according to Art. l honey and sugar
- two glasses of poppy
- another handful of almonds.
Pour water into the pan and add the yeast. Stir the mass and fill the flour. Knead the dough and leave it to rise. After cracks appear on the mass, it is necessary to knead it. Then add salt and a quarter cup of vegetable oil. We also fall asleep chopped almonds and honey. Knead the dough until you get a consistency like for pies. Kneading it is necessary until then, until it ceases to stick to the hands. Next, cover the dough and give time to rise.
In the meantime, we ourselves will be preparing the filling. Pour poppy into the container and pour it with boiling water. Cover the pan on top and leave for an hour. After filtering the poppy and rub it in a mortar. In the process of cooking, add honey, chopped almonds, sugar to the poppy. Mix the finished stuffing thoroughly.
Roll out the dough on the table and lay out the filling. Then we roll the roll and send it to the baking sheet. Top greasy dessert greased with oil. Cooking baking for about thirty minutes.
Lenten sweets
Real sweet tooth will have a hard time during fasting. However, you can make delicious desserts from lean foods. So, for example, we offer to cook sweet caramel tangerines.
Ingredients:
- ten tangerines
- sugar (380 g),
- orange juice (270 g).
Tangerines are peeled and peeled. We put a thick-walled pan on the stove. Pour orange juice into it and add sugar. Boil the mass until caramel is obtained. Pour the pulp of tangerine on top with caramelized juice and send it to the refrigerator. After an hour, you can eat dessert.
Tomato soup
Lean soups are an integral part of the menu. We offer to cook tomato soup with the addition of beans. You can supplement the dish with garlic croutons.
Ingredients:
- bow,
- garlic,
- olive oil,
- chilli,
- 4 l Art. tomato paste
- Provencal herbs,
- a can of tomatoes in its own juice,
- sugar (1.5 tbsp. l.),
- as much wine vinegar
- pepper,
- salt,
- can cons. beans.
For croutons:
- garlic,
- olive oil,
- baguette french
- salt.
In a deep large saucepan, heat the oil. We put chopped onion in it, which we pass for about five minutes. Add garlic there and cook for a couple of minutes. After we put tomato paste, chopped canned tomatoes and Provence herbs.
Open a can of beans, drain the liquid and rinse the beans well. Add water to the frying container and bring the mass to a boil. After pour the beans and cook it for fifteen minutes. You also need to add pepper, sugar, salt and vinegar. We cover the pan with a lid and cook another ten minutes.
Now we start preparing croutons. In a plate, mix vegetable oil and chopped garlic. Cut the baguette into cubes. We shift them into the garlic mass and mix thoroughly. We put the bread on a baking sheet and bake in the oven. Croutons are ready in just five minutes. We serve soup with croutons on the table.
Meatless pies
Ingredients:
- vegetable oil (120 g),
- water for the test (740 g),
- dry yeast (packaging),
- sugar (480 g)
- flour,
- bow,
- cabbage (head of medium size),
- salt.
Sugar, salt, yeast dissolved in heated water. Sift flour (one and a half kg). Next, knead the dough. It should not be too malleable. Cover the mass with a towel and put in a warm place. Forty minutes later, the dough must be kneaded.
Now you can start preparing the filling. Finely chop the cabbage, transfer it to a deep container and pour boiling water. Fifteen minutes later, drain the water and fry the cabbage with onions in a pan.
One and a half hours after we have kneaded the dough, you can knead it again. Next, we roll it into a layer and cut out the same circles with a glass. In the middle of each we spread cabbage stuffing. We fasten the edges of the pies and transfer them to a baking sheet with parchment. Baking should stand for about fifteen minutes.
Next, send the pies to the oven. Bake them for about 15 minutes. So that they do not burn, you can put a pan with water under a baking sheet. Ready cakes can be greased with sweet tea.
Lean pancakes
During fasting, you can treat yourself to lean pancakes. It would seem what kind of pancakes without milk and eggs. However, there are recipes that allow you to cook a wonderful dish. Lean pancakes are low-calorie and lighter. They can be diversified by adding the filling, or just serve them with honey or jam. If you like sweets, you can fill the pancakes with a mixture of dried fruits, nuts and honey. Salted fillings are no less popular - mashed potatoes, buckwheat mushrooms, stewed cabbage and more.
Ingredients:
- two glasses of water
- flour (1.5 cups.),
- vegetable oil,
- soda (1/2 tsp),
- salt,
- vinegar.
Dissolve salt and sugar in warm water, and then pour in the flour. Add soda with vinegar. Knead the mass until smooth. Pour a few tablespoons of vegetable oil. Mix well again. We bake pancakes in a heated pan greased with vegetable oil. This dish can be served for a Lenten breakfast.
What can I eat during fasting?
According to the rules, you can only cook Lenten meals in Lent. Of course, for such a long time it is very difficult to eat such food. To understand what you can cook and what not, you need to figure out which products are lean.
These include: all cereals, mushrooms, vegetables, legumes, peas, fruits, vegetable fats, pickled and salted vegetables, soy products, greens, pasta, olives, dried fruits, candied fruits, seeds, nuts, jams, jam, halva, marmalade, fish.
But poultry, meat, dairy products, sour-milk, sour cream, cheeses are strictly forbidden. Also, you can not cook dishes based on such components.