The approaching Easter holidays makes many people think about what dishes are included in the daily diet. It is often forgotten that on the eve of Easter it is necessary to cook according to special recipes for fasting days. In the post you need to almost completely exclude many products from the menu, so cooking becomes much more difficult. In order not to spend long hours searching for lean recipes, you can use a little help. For example, the selection of the best recipes in this article will facilitate the preparation of the Easter menu.
Based on the recipes checked by time and hostesses, you can cook a wide variety of dishes that will not be fresh or tasteless. Soups, solyanki, meatballs, pilaf, cabbage rolls, salads and desserts. All these dishes will still be included in the usual diet, but will be lean.
Prescription Bean Soup in Fasting
Grocery list:
- Beans - 250 grams.
- Carrots - 1 piece.
- Rice - 0.5 cups.
- Potato - 2 pieces.
- Red onion - 1 head.
- Flour - 1 dessert spoon.
- Ground pepper - 0.25 teaspoon.
- Oil - 20 milliliters.
- Salt - 1 dessert spoon.
- Parsley - 0.5 bunch.
- Water - 2.5 liters.
Cooking Bean Soup
There are many recipes for fasting every day. One such is lean bean soup. To prepare it, red beans must be carefully sorted, washed well, pour cold water and leave for the whole night. The next day, cook beans without changing the water, until cooked for one hour. Then drain the water and leave under the lid.
While the beans are boiling, you need to prepare the rest of the products, observing the recipe for fasting every day. Peel the potato tubers, wash well and cut into small pieces. Peel, rinse and chop finely. Peel the carrots, wash well and cut into small strips. Rinse the rice several times until the water is clear. Rinse parsley, shake and finely chop. The ingredients for the prescription in the post are prepared, and you can begin the process of cooking the soup.
Boil water in a separate pan and put the red boiled beans in it. When the water and beans boil, put potato slices, washed rice and only half of the chopped onions and carrots into the pan. Cook after boiling for twenty-five to thirty minutes. At this time, put the remaining half of onions and carrots in a frying pan heated with butter until slightly golden. Sprinkle with wheat flour, mix and continue to simmer for about five minutes.
Carefully transfer the stewed vegetables according to the recipe for fasting every day from the pan to the pot with boiling beans. Then cook the soup for another fifteen minutes over low heat. Add chopped fresh parsley, boil for a couple of minutes and turn off the heat. Leave the soup under the closed lid for about fifteen to twenty minutes. Then, lean bean soup, cooked according to the recipe for fasting, spilling on plates, serve for dinner.
Lean hodgepodge with mushrooms
Essential Ingredients:
- Potato tubers - 6 pieces.
- Champignons - 400 grams.
- Olives - 100 grams.
- Tomatoes - 5 pieces.
- Lemon - 1 piece.
- Carrots - 2 pieces.
- Dill - 1/3 of the beam.
- Onion - 2 pieces.
- Oil - 50 milliliters.
- Salted cucumbers - 8 pieces.
- Salt - 1 teaspoon.
- Pepper - 1/4 teaspoon.
- Water - 5 liters.
Step by step recipe
The first thing to do is put a pot of water on a big fire. After that, using the recipe on fasting days, prepare all the products for the future hodgepodge. Cut the peel from the potatoes, wash and cut into small pieces. Peel and finely chop the onion. Peel, rinse and chop the carrots with straws. Washed champignons cut into thin slices. Cut salted cucumbers into small cubes. Wash the tomatoes, pour over with steep boiling water, peel and rub through a fine grater. Dill greens, rinse well under the tap, shake off excess water and chop. All ingredients are prepared for prescription fasting.
After the water in the pan boils, dip the potato slices into it and cook for about twenty minutes. Put a frying pan on fire, pour oil and heat over a fire. Then put slices of champignons, carrots and onions into it immediately. Pass over low heat for about ten minutes, stirring occasionally. After that, add small cubes of cucumbers and grated tomatoes to the pan. Strain for another ten minutes and transfer the vegetables to the pan.
Stir and boil the hodgepodge over low heat for fifteen minutes. Sprinkle with chopped dill and after five minutes remove the pan from the heat. Close the lid and leave for twenty minutes. After the lean hodgepodge with mushrooms is infused, pour it into portioned plates. Add a few olives and a slice of lemon to each. This will give the hodgepodge a brighter flavor and aroma. The first recipe for fasting is ready to be served on the dining table.
Cabbage cutlets
Product List:
- White cabbage - 2 kilograms.
- Wheat flour - 1 cup.
- Onion - 2 heads.
- Ground pepper - 1/3 teaspoon.
- Garlic - 10 cloves.
- Semolina - 1 glass.
- Oil - 200 milliliters.
- Chives - 1 bunch.
- Breadcrumbs - 1 pack.
- Salt - 1 dessert spoon.
Recipe for Cutlets
Among the wide variety of recipes during Lent, you can find a lot of interesting and tasty things. For example, you can cook delicious cabbage cutlets. But first you need to prepare all the ingredients. Cut off all leaves from a head of cabbage and put in a saucepan. Fill with water and put on fire. Cook after boiling for fifteen minutes and, removing from heat, drain the water. Peel the onion heads and garlic cloves and rinse.
Then, following the recipe for Lent, you can start making cabbage cutlets. Skim the boiled cabbage leaves through a meat grinder. Divide the onion into four parts and, together with the cloves of garlic, also grind in a meat grinder. Add semolina, salt and pepper. Stir well and pour wheat flour on top, mix again and use a tablespoon to form workpieces from minced cabbage.
Roll them in breading, shape the patties and flatten them a little. Pour oil into a pan and heat over high heat. Place the cabbage cutlets in the pan. Fry on both sides until cooked. Serve a lean dish with green onions and fresh vegetables.
Lenten pilaf with rice and vegetables
List of ingredients:
- Rice - 2 cups.
- Onion - 4 heads.
- Spices for pilaf - 1 tablespoon.
- Canned corn - 600 grams.
- Oil - 100 milliliters.
- Carrots - 3 pieces.
- Salt - 1 dessert spoon.
- Ground pepper - 3 pinches.
Step by step cooking pilaf
To prepare delicious lean dishes, you need to use a variety of recipes on fasting days. One of these is this vegetable pilaf. First you need to peel and wash the onions and carrots. Then chop the onion into small cubes, and grate the carrots on a coarse grater. After this, sort and rinse thoroughly in several waters with rice. Open jars of canned beans and drop it into a colander.
Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil. Place chopped onions and carrots in it. Simmer for about five minutes and add canned corn, sprinkle with salt, pepper and seasoning for pilaf. Stir and spread the washed rice on top. Pour boiling water two centimeters above the rice. Cover and cook over the smallest fire for forty-five minutes. After cooking, lean pilaf with rice and vegetables served for lunch or dinner.
Lean stuffed cabbage with mushrooms
Ingredients for cabbage rolls:
- White cabbage - 2 large forks.
- Champignons - 1 kilogram.
- Rice - 2 cups.
- Hot peppers - 1 pod.
- Tomato - 400 grams.
- Onions - 2 large onions.
- Peppercorns - 1 dessert spoon.
- Ground pepper - 0.5 teaspoon.
- Dill - 1 bunch.
- Bay leaf - 3 pieces.
- Ground coriander - 1 dessert spoon.
- Oil - 200 milliliters.
- Salt - 1 tablespoon.
How to cook cabbage rolls
To cook cabbage rolls with mushrooms, we use a proven recipe for fasting. And the first thing you need to boil rice. This is best done in a multicooker. Pour well-washed two glasses of rice into a multicooker bowl and pour two glasses of water. Close the lid, select the "Pilaf" mode and set the time - fifteen minutes. Now you need to prepare the cabbage leaves. To do this, cut a small part in the area of the stump.
Put a head of cabbage in a large pot, pour water so that the cabbage is completely immersed in water. Put on fire and, after the water boils, add a teaspoon of salt. During cooking, it is necessary to periodically check the softness of the sheets with a fork. If the top sheets have become soft enough, they need to be separated from the stump using a knife and fork. In this way, separate all the leaves in turn. Cut cabbage leaves should be in hot water for about fifteen minutes, but no more. Otherwise, they will tear when minimized.
Peel the mushrooms, rinse, remove excess moisture and finely chop. Peel and chop the onion in a blender. Pour oil into the stewpan and put the mushrooms in it. Salt, mix, cover and simmer until all excess moisture evaporates. Then transfer the mushrooms to a separate bowl. Then add oil to the same stewpan and place chopped onion. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and fry until the onion is browned.
Then return the stewed champignons to the stewpan, stir and add rice. Stir again and simmer for ten minutes under the lid. Now, if necessary, you can add salt and pepper. Stuffing for lean stuffed cabbage is ready. After this, it is necessary to spread three or four cabbage leaves to the bottom of the multicooker bowl so that cabbage rolls do not burn.
Pour a tablespoon of salt and coriander into a pot of water in which the cabbage was boiled. Put bay leaf and peppercorns. Stir and put the tomato and try. If the broth is too acidic, you can pour a couple of tablespoons of sugar. Now you need to remove the thickening from each cabbage leaf. Stuffing and leaves are ready, and you can begin to form lean cabbage rolls.
Place a tablespoon of minced meat in the middle of the cabbage leaf and gently wrap. Put all cooked lean cabbage rolls with mushrooms into a multicooker bowl. Cover with cabbage leaves from above and pour in the broth so that the liquid is two centimeters higher. Close the lid and set the "Extinguishing" mode, and set the timer for two and a half hours. After the signal, lay the prepared lean cabbage rolls on portioned plates, pour over the broth and sprinkle with chopped dill. Serve immediately hot.
Peking cabbage and juicy pear salad
The list of ingredients:
- Beijing cabbage - 6 leaves.
- Red onion –1 pieces.
- Juicy pear - 2 pieces.
- Lemon juice - 1 tablespoon.
- Mustard - 1 teaspoon.
- Dill - 5 branches.
- Lemon zest - 1 dessert spoon.
- Oil - 2 tablespoons.
Cooking process
Light and tasty cabbage and pear salad can be used as one of the recipes for the days of fasting. It will take very little time to cook it, but it turns out to be very tasty and healthy. Juicy and soft pears must be washed and dried. Cut in half and core. Set aside half of one pear to decorate a lean salad, chop the remaining parts finely.
Peking cabbage leaves cut into thin strips. Peel the red onion, rinse, and cut into four parts, finely chop. Rinse dill well under a tap, shake and chop. Combine all chopped lean salad ingredients in a deep bowl.
Separately, it is necessary to prepare a salad dressing. Pour oil, lemon juice into a small bowl, and add mustard and lemon zest. Mix everything well. Pour the salad ingredients with the resulting dressing and mix gently. Place on a large dish on one side a quarter of a juicy pear sliced in slices, and top with a hill lay out a lean salad of Beijing cabbage. Leave on for ten minutes so that all the ingredients are well soaked, and serve a light, lean salad for dinner.
Sweet Lenten "Brushwood"
Required Products:
- Flour - 1 kilogram.
- Sugar - 4 tablespoons.
- Water - 1 cup.
- Powder - 1 cup.
- Rum - 100 grams.
- Salt - 2 pinches.
- Oil - 500 milliliters.
Cooking Brushwood
One of the sweet recipes for fasting every day is a delicious homemade brushwood. It is prepared very simply and quickly. Sift wheat flour into a deep bowl, add sugar, rum and water to it. Stir and knead the dough consistency approximately as for homemade noodles. Roll out a layer two to three millimeters thick. Cut dough strips from two to four centimeters wide. Cut each strip in the form of a rhombus seven to eight centimeters long.
In each rhombus, make a longitudinal cut in the middle and turn one end of the strip through it. Pour oil into a deep saucepan and put it on a large fire to warm up. Then lay the rhombuses in a few pieces together and fry until golden brown. After roasting, brushwood to transfer to a sieve and let the oil drain. Then transfer to a large bowl, sprinkling powdered sugar on top. Tasty and at the same time lean, dessert will surely delight your loved ones during Lent.
Banana Hash Browns
Product Composition:
- Bananas - 4 pieces.
- Flour - 3 cups.
- Cinnamon - 1 teaspoon.
- Oatmeal - 100 grams.
- Baking powder - 2 tablespoons.
- Sugar - 0.5 cups.
- Water - 4 glasses.
- Oil - 150 milliliters.
- Jam - 200 grams.
Cooking recipe fritters
Ripe bananas peel and cut into small pieces. Fold in a blender bowl and add water. Using a blender, grind the bananas until mashed. Grind oatmeal in a coffee grinder. Pour dry fritters into a suitable bowl. Add to the prepared banana puree three tablespoons of oil and mix everything properly. It is good to heat a pan with oil poured into it over a fire. Spread the dough in small portions in a pan and fry on both sides until golden.
Serve the finished lean banana pancakes with jam. This delicious homemade dessert is perfect as a breakfast for a cup of unsweetened tea or any other favorite drink. Even those who strictly observe all days of fasting can afford this fasting, but at the same time very tasty dessert made from banana fritters with jam, syrup or honey.