During fasting days, special attention is paid to dishes that are suitable for this period of abstinence from a wide variety of foods. Sometimes it’s hard to cook in fasting, as there are very few proven recipes. In such cases, you can use the selection of lean recipes below, which will help prepare delicious and healthy desserts.
Lean pancakes with bananas
Product Composition:
- Ripe bananas - 4 pieces.
- Flour - 450 grams.
- Sugar - 5 tablespoons.
- Oatmeal - 100 grams.
- Cinnamon - a dessert spoon.
- Oil - 50 milliliters.
- Baking powder - dessert spoon.
- Water - 1 liter.
- Honey - upon serving.
Step cooking
Using the recipe with a photo of lean baking in fasting, you can prepare a delicious and healthy breakfast for all family members. You need to take ripe large bananas, peel them, cut into several pieces and put in a large bowl. Then, using a blender, grind them to a puree state. Then, using a coffee grinder, grind all the oatmeal into flour in small portions.
After that, following the recipe with a photo of simple lean baking, sift the wheat flour into a separate bowl, and add all the dry ingredients. Stir them well and put them in a bowl with bananas. After adding two tablespoons of sunflower oil, beat the dough with a mixer until a homogeneous magnificent state. Dough for fritters, prepared according to the recipe with a photo of lean baking, is ready.
Now, from the lean dough, you need to fry the lush pancakes. To do this, you first need to put a frying pan, preferably a pancake pan, on the fire and pour two or three tablespoons of sunflower oil into it. Heat well and, using a tablespoon, put the prepared dough into it. Reduce the fire to medium and fry all the pancakes for about three to four minutes on each side. Tasty and lush pancakes with bananas prepared according to the recipe for lean baking are served warm, watering with natural honey.
Pumpkin baked in pita bread
Essential Ingredients:
- Thin pita bread - 10 sheets.
- Pumpkin - 1.5 kilograms.
- Sugar - 200 grams.
- Oil - 50 milliliters.
How to cook pita bread with pumpkin
Since the preparation process takes very little time, the oven must be turned on in advance. The pumpkin according to a simple recipe for lean baking must be peeled, cut into pieces and rub through a grater. Thin lavash cut into two parts. Grease a baking sheet on which rolls will be baked. Then put four tablespoons of grated pumpkin filling in the middle of each part of the pita bread. Sprinkle one or two tablespoons of sugar on top, if desired. Form rolls from pita and pumpkin and arrange them on a prepared baking sheet.
Then, according to the selected recipe with a photo of lean baking, using a brush, grease the rolls with sunflower oil. Place the baking sheet in the oven, heated to a temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees. Bake lean rolls from pita bread with pumpkin for 25-30 minutes until tender. Ready-made wholesome and very tasty, golden-baked rolls will be enjoyed by both adults and children during Lent.
Lenten Potato Pies
Product List for Test:
- Wheat flour - 500 grams.
- Oil - 2 tablespoons.
- Sugar - a dessert spoon.
- Dry yeast - one sachet.
- Salt is half a teaspoon.
- Water - 250 milliliters.
For filling:
- Potato - 500 grams.
- Oil - 20 milliliters.
- Onion - one head.
- Salt is a teaspoon.
- Ground pepper - two pinches.
- Bay leaf - one piece.
For frying pies:
- Sunflower oil - 150 milliliters.
Cooking pies
Cooking pies based on the recipe for lean baking at home should begin with the preparation of potatoes. It must be peeled, washed well and cut into small pieces. Place the potatoes in a pan and pour boiling water over it. Put on fire and cook until cooked.
While boiling potatoes, you need to peel onions and chop into cubes. Place the frying pan with oil on a small fire and, after the oil has warmed up, put chopped onion. Stir and fry the onion until slightly golden. Turn off the fire, cover and set aside for now.
Now, using a lean baking recipe at home, you need to cook the dough. Wheat flour must be sieved. Next, pour warm boiled water into a convenient dish, pour sugar, salt, dry yeast, and also add three tablespoons of oil. Stir and pour one glass of wheat flour and mix well again. Then add small portions of flour and knead the dough. Then cover the dishes with ready-made kneaded dough with a clean kitchen towel and place in a warm room. After thirty minutes, it must be kneaded and left to come again.
When the potatoes are boiled, the water from the pan needs to be drained and mashed with a nibbler to a puree consistency. Put the fried onions from the pan, sprinkle with ground pepper, salt and mix well until smooth. Allow mashed potatoes to cool. After both the dough and the filling are cooked according to the recipe (the lean pastry looks delicious in the photo), you can start preparing the pies.
The dough must be divided into four approximately identical parts, each of which is rolled up in the form of sausages. In turn, sausages must be cut into pieces, from which small balls are rolled. Roll a flat cake from each ball using a rolling pin. Put the filling of potatoes in the amount of one dessert spoon in the middle of the tortilla. Pinch the edges and carefully shape the pie.
In this way, you need to prepare all the lean pies with potatoes. Next, pour oil into a cast iron and place on a fire for heating. When the oil is well heated, reduce the heat to medium and carefully lower three or four pies into the cast iron with the seam down. Fry the pies on one side for two to three minutes, no more, until golden brown. Turn over, also fry on the other side.
Then put the pies from the iron on a paper towel and, when the excess fat is absorbed, transfer them to a dish. Cooked pies with potatoes prepared in this way according to the recipe for lean baking should be placed on a dish and served in a warm form. Be sure to pamper your loved ones who strictly observe fasting with delicious lean homemade cakes.
Lenten cherry pie in its own juice
The list of ingredients:
- Flour - 5 glasses.
- Sugar - 2 cups.
- Cherry - a liter jar.
- Soda is a teaspoon.
- Cherry juice - 2 cups.
- Oil - 2 cups.
- Salt - 2 pinches.
- Vinegar is a dessert spoon.
Step by step recipe
Making a fragrant cherry pie according to a simple recipe for delicious lean baking should begin by opening a jar of cherry in your own juice. Then take a small saucepan, put a colander on top and put all the cherry from the jar in it. Press the cherry on top to let the whole juice stack in the saucepan.
Fill two glasses of cherry juice from a saucepan and pour them into a bowl of a suitable size. Pour oil into the juice, add sugar and salt, and add baking soda that is slaked with vinegar. Stir and sprinkle the sifted flour in small portions, mix the dough for the pie. After all the flour has been added, the dough for the cake, prepared according to the recipe for lean sweet pastries, is ready. The consistency of the dough should be similar to thick sour cream.
Next, you need to take a baking tray, grease it with butter and sprinkle lightly with flour. Then pour about half the cooked dough into it, into which to lay the cherry. You do not need to lay out a lot of berries, since a large number of cherries will not allow the cake to bake well. Pour the second half of the dough over a layer of cherry. Place a baking tray with a pie in the middle of the oven and bake at a temperature of 180 degrees for 40-45 minutes.
After cooking, a lean and delicious cake with cherries in their own juice should be removed from the oven. Leave it to cool right in the pan. Then, if desired, sprinkle with powder and, cut into portions, serve as a sweet treat, thereby diversifying the daily fasting menu.
Lean curly cookies
Required Products:
- Wheat flour - 3 cups.
- Soda - 2 pinches.
- Sugar - 1 cup.
- Salt is a pinch.
- Deodorized oil - 1 cup.
- Citric acid - a teaspoon.
- Water - 1 cup.
- Starch - 1 cup.
Cooking Cookies
To prepare curly cookies, a recipe for delicious lean baking will help. First you need to take the dishes convenient for kneading the dough and sift the wheat flour with the starch into it. Pour in oil and mix. It should be butter crumb. To this mass, add baking soda, slaked with vinegar, salt, sugar and pour warm boiled water. Knead a smooth and uniform dough well. It is important that the dough does not turn out cool, as in this case the cookies will turn out to be hard and tasteless.
After the cookie dough is ready, you need to turn on the oven and prepare the baking sheets for baking. They must be covered with special parchment. Roll out the dough on a table sprinkled with flour into a layer three to four millimeters thick. Then, using special cookie cutters, cut out different shapes. Transfer the resulting cookies to baking sheets.
If desired, cookies can be decorated on top with sugar, chopped walnuts or poppy seeds. Send the baking sheets into the oven and bake cookies for fifteen minutes at a temperature of 170 degrees. Remove the finished lean curly cookies from the oven. You can leave it to cool on a baking sheet, or you can carefully transfer it hot on a large plate. Such homemade lean pastries will especially appeal to children.
Lenten Pie with Apples, Carrots and Tangerines
List of ingredients:
- Flour - 600 grams.
- Apples - 400 grams.
- Carrots - 200 grams.
- Sugar - 200 grams.
- Oil - 1 cup.
- Tangerines - 200 grams.
- Baking powder - 20 grams.
Recipe
This delicious and sweet cake is cooked very quickly and turns out to be airy and tender. Using a lean baking recipe, first prepare the ingredients for the pie. Wash the sweet and sour apples, peel them and cut them in half. Cut the core, cut into pieces and put in a blender bowl.
Peel the carrots, wash well, and cut into slices, add to the apples. Rinse the tangerines, dry, grate the zest and pour into a blender bowl. Then the pulp is also added to the rest of the ingredients. Pour in sugar and pour oil. Beat with a mixer until smooth mashed.
Put the cooked mashed potatoes in a volumetric bowl and sift directly into it wheat flour with baking powder. Knead soft dough. Grease a baking sheet with oil and sprinkle with flour. Spread the dough prepared according to the recipe for lean baking on a baking sheet and put in the oven. The temperature at which the lean pie will be baked should be 180 degrees, and the time is 35-45 minutes.
The readiness of the pie should be checked with a wooden toothpick or skewer. If there is no wet dough left after piercing, then the cake is ready. Then it must be removed from the oven and left to cool on a baking sheet. Then, when the tender and light fasting cake with aromatic filling has completely cooled down, it can be sprinkled with powdered sugar. Next, you need to cut the pie into pieces and serve with a cup of freshly brewed aromatic tea.
Lean pancakes on mineral water
Product List:
- Flour - 2 cups.
- Mineral water - 2 glasses.
- Sugar - 2 tablespoons.
- Boiling water - 2 glasses.
- Oil - 4 tablespoons.
- Salt - 2 pinches.
Making pancakes
Sift the wheat flour into a suitable bowl. Add salt and sugar to flour, pour mineral strongly sparkling water. Stir well and set aside for thirty-five minutes. Then boil water in the kettle. Pour two glasses into a small bowl, pour in the oil and stir. Pour the resulting mixture into a bowl with dough, mix well again. The dough for lean pancakes is ready.
Now you need to heat a pan for pancakes with vegetable oil over a fire. With a ladle of the right size, collect the dough and pour into the pan. Then, in a circular motion, distribute the dough over the entire surface of the pan. Fry the pancake for about two to three minutes on one side and, turning over, fry it on the other. In this way, make pancakes from the whole dough. Serve lean pancakes on mineral water with natural honey or your favorite homemade jam.
Using the above baking recipes, which are perfect for fasting, you can diversify the menu for the whole family at minimal cost. Desserts prepared according to these recipes are tender and very tasty. You can choose your favorite pastries both by the number of ingredients and by the time it takes to prepare. If your family is fasting, this does not mean that you have to limit yourself in everything. There is a wide variety of recipes for lean dishes that turn out so delicious and satisfying that you will not feel any discomfort while abstaining from certain types of foods.