Spend the Post with us! The "cook" knows a lot of fasting dishes with photos and is ready to share them with those who are fasting. In our Lenten Recipes section on Povarenka, you will find a complete menu for each Lenten day from options for various dishes.

For example, for a good start to the day, here you will find breakfast recipes for fasting people for every taste, simple, easily digested by the body, not weighing it down and energizing for the whole working day.

On the first for dinner, we offer to cook either fresh cabbage soup, or a fragrant mushroom soup ... Or maybe you would like to taste a hearty pickle with pearl barley? The first Lenten dishes and their recipes are at your service!

Do not forget to serve lungs for the lenten menu at lunch. And as a snack after breakfast or for an afternoon snack, you can make a dessert salad of fruits and berries, smoothies with ice from fresh fruits whipped in a blender.

We will share with our readers recipes for homemade lean pastries (large pies, miniature pies, bread, pancakes ...).

It is during the post that it is advisable to get a bread machine from the far corner, if you have long forgotten about it, and cook fragrant homemade bread in it, the cooking methods of which we provide you with. Here you will also find dough recipes for various pastries, in which the ingredients will be only vegetable. At the same time, the dough will delight you with its splendor and excellent taste.

In fact, for the preparation of many lenten dishes, step-by-step photographs are not needed, because they (dishes) are simple, affordable, very easy both in terms of the set of products and the principle of their preparation. That's why they are lean, because they contain not only the simplest herbal ingredients, but also preparing such food is easy, fast and simple.
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Together with us, the Lenten cuisine of your Lent promises to be varied, vitamin-rich, tasty, “colorful”, digestible, pleasing to the eye and cleansing for the whole organism.

According to the rules, you must adhere to fairly strict food restrictions during fasting, and not everyone is able to withstand this, so you can start small, for example, fasting on Wednesday or Friday. It is worth remembering that on such days you can not eat any dairy products, meat and eggs, it is also advisable to refuse vegetable oil, as it is only allowed to be consumed on weekends.

But even with such strict restrictions, you can eat not only healthy, but also tasty food, because today a fairly large number of various simple lean dishes are known.

Vegetarian borscht

During Lent, it is forbidden to eat meat, but you can cook no less delicious vegetarian borscht. The recipe for such borscht is very simple, besides, it cooks much faster, and the ingredients practically do not change. However, vegetable oil is used to prepare this borscht, which, according to the rules of fasting, is allowed to be eaten only on weekends. But this recipe is also suitable for those who do not adhere to fasting very strictly.

Ingredients:

50 g cabbage
200 g tomato juice,
1 bunch dill,
1 tsp mustard (can be replaced with wasabi if desired)
1 st. l. flour,
2 garlic cloves,
1 medium beetroot
1 medium carrot,
1 onion
4 medium potatoes
spices and salt - a little, to taste,
vegetable oil - a little, for frying.

Cooking:

First, take a saucepan and pour 2 liters of water into it, put it on the stove. Using this lean recipe, you can easily cook a delicious vegetarian borscht in a slow cooker.

While the water is boiling, let's prepare other products. We take a potato, peel it and cut it into relatively small cubes. After the water boils, put the chopped potatoes in a saucepan, turn the heat down to a minimum and cook for a quarter of an hour.

Now we are preparing the frying. Peel the garlic and onion, wash well and chop finely. We clean the carrots, wash them, three on a coarse grater. We put a frying pan on the stove, pour a little vegetable oil (about 2 tablespoons). As soon as the oil is hot, put the onion, garlic into the pan, and then fry until the vegetables acquire a pleasant golden hue.

Next, add the carrots to the onion and garlic, cover the pan with a lid and fry the vegetables over low heat for about 5 minutes. Now we take the beets, peel, wash and grind on a coarse grater. Put the prepared beets into the pan with the vegetables, mix everything well and simmer under the closed lid for another 5 minutes (it is important that there is a minimum fire).

After about 5 minutes, remove the lid and sprinkle the whole mass with a small amount of flour, and then add mustard (you can use wasabi) and mix everything again.

Now add to the pan tomato juice, season the frying with salt and a little pepper, cover the pan again with a lid and leave for 10 minutes.

By this time the potatoes should be half cooked. Now lightly add water in a saucepan with potatoes and put the whole frying into the broth, mix well and let it boil for about 10 minutes.

Wash and chop fresh dill. Place shredded cabbage into a bowl with borscht. We cook the dish for about 3 more minutes, after which we turn off the stove, cover the pan with a lid and leave for half an hour so that the borscht can brew well.

Vegetarian borsch is completely ready, we can pour it into portioned plates, add some fresh herbs and sour cream, serve to the Lenten table.

Cabbage with mushrooms

On Saturday and Sunday, when it is allowed to use vegetable oil during fasting, you can cook not only a tasty, but also quite satisfying dish, besides, it is not only very quick and easy to prepare, but also contains a minimum amount of calories, that is, it is dietary. That is why it can be cooked not only in fasting, but also on any day, if there is a desire to lose weight a little.

Ingredients:

1 large onion
300 g mushrooms
500 g sauerkraut,
1 kg fresh cabbage
pepper and salt - a little, to taste,
vegetable oil - a little, to taste.

Cooking:

Thanks to the use of fresh cabbage, the dish is tender and juicy, and sauerkraut adds a little piquancy, making the taste more interesting and piquant.

First, we prepare fresh cabbage - finely chop it. Then thoroughly wash the mushrooms with cold running water, and then cut into thin slices. In the event that pickled champignons are used, they must also be cut into slices.

Now take the onion, peel and finely chop. We put a frying pan on the stove, pour a little oil and simmer the onion over low heat until it becomes translucent and soft. Next, add the prepared mushrooms to the onion.

Fry the mushrooms with onions until they are half-cooked, then season with a little salt and pepper (if desired, you can not add ground pepper at all, then the taste of the dish will turn out to be more tender and soft). We shift the mushrooms with onions to a separate plate.

Then we take a new frying pan, add literally a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil and wait until it is hot. Now we put fresh cabbage in the pan and fry over medium heat, season with salt, cover with a lid (so the cabbage will release the juice much faster). Periodically, so that the cabbage does not burn, it must be mixed. Simmer the cabbage in this way for 5-7 minutes.

After the specified period of time, we put all the sauerkraut in the pan, and simmer again for 7 minutes (now you don’t need to cover the pan with a lid). Then add cabbage and mushrooms to the pan, mix everything well and simmer for about 5 minutes, turn off the stove.

It is very important not to overexpose the cabbage on the fire, since only in this case it will be juicy and crispy enough, and it will also not fall apart. The advantage of this recipe is not only its taste and minimum calorie content, but also the fact that, under the condition of moderate heat treatment, all beneficial features and vitamins.

Lean stuffed pepper

By preparing this simple and very tasty dish, you can diversify the Lenten table and pleasantly surprise loved ones. The advantage of this dish is that it is not necessary to use vegetable oil, so it can be cooked on any day of Lent.

Ingredients:

1/3 of a small head of cabbage
100 g of rice
5 large champignons,
1 small carrot
3 large bell peppers,
pepper and salt - a little, to taste.

Cooking:

Before you start cooking this dish, take the rice and pre-soak it in cold water. Thus, all excess starch will leave the rice much faster and easier, so that the rice will turn out to be more tasty, tender and crumbly.

Next, take the mushrooms and cut them into small pieces. It is worth remembering that during the frying process, the pieces of mushrooms will curl up, as a result of which they will become several times smaller, so you need to cut them into such pieces that they are felt in the filling.

Now take the onion, peel it and finely chop it. In a frying pan for 20 minutes, under a closed lid, simmer onions with mushrooms (vegetable oil can be omitted).

Rice can be cooked in a pan or in a double boiler. If we cook rice in a pan, it is important to remember that the lid cannot be lifted until all the liquid has completely evaporated (just enough water must be poured so that it is only a finger above the level of the rice).

Shred the cabbage finely, as it should not be too long, otherwise it will be very difficult to mix with the rest of the filling ingredients. We clean the carrots, wash them and three on a coarse grater. In a frying pan, simmer cabbage with carrots for about 20 minutes under a closed lid.

While the cabbage is stewing, let's prepare the pepper for stuffing. First, carefully cut off the top of each pepper, after which I wash them not only from the outside, but also from the inside. Cut off hats are not thrown away, as they will still come in handy. Now we take a knife and carefully remove all internal membranes, wash out the remaining seeds with water.

As soon as all the components for the filling are ready, mix them, lightly season the filling with a little pepper and salt. We take a teaspoon and stuff each pepper, after which we cover each pepper with caps and cook them in water for about half an hour, until fully cooked.

Lenten stuffed peppers are ready, and this dish can be worthy of respect for any table, not only in fasting, but also on any other day. If desired, stuffed peppers can be served with herbs and lean mayonnaise.

Lean pea patties with rice

Fasting is just the perfect time to cleanse your body by eliminating animal products from your diet, therefore, you should give up fish, meat, eggs, milk, and also minimize the use of a variety of sweets. You can try to cook delicious and very healthy lean pea cutlets with rice.

Ingredients:

1 slice plain bread
4 tbsp. l. flour,
1 st. peas,
1 st. rice,
breadcrumbs ki or semolina - a little,
spices - a little, to taste,

Cooking:

First, we take two saucepans, since we will cook peas in one, and rice in the second. So, we take peas, pour them into a saucepan, pour water (cold!) And move it to the stove. At the same time, put the rice to cook. As soon as the rice and peas are completely cooked, pour them into one container and mash them. Now add a small amount of pre-chopped greens to the rice and pea puree and mix everything well.

Spices play one of the main roles in the preparation of delicious lenten dishes, because thanks to their addition, the dish acquires a brighter taste and rich aroma. We add a small amount of your favorite spices, as well as flour, to the rice and pea puree, as it gives the mass additional stickiness. Next, add a slice of plain bread.

We mix the mass until it acquires a homogeneous consistency, and then you need to wait a bit, since the finished rice and pea puree should cool completely. Now we proceed directly to the formation of the cutlets themselves. Then each cutlet is rolled on both sides in semolina or breadcrumbs.

It is worth remembering that you need to fry pea cutlets in vegetable oil, so it is advisable to cook this dish on the weekends, since it is on these days during the observance of Great Lent that vegetable oil is allowed.

Pea cutlets are fried in a pan with hot vegetable oil on both sides until fully cooked (cutlets should be fried over medium heat). It is recommended to serve this dish hot with any side dish.

Diet potatoes

Diet potatoes are not only allowed to eat in fasting, but also if there is a desire to get rid of a couple of extra pounds, as it contains a minimum amount of calories. To cook potatoes according to this recipe, you need to add vegetable oil, so this dish is suitable for those who do not adhere to fasting very strictly.

Ingredients:

1 kg potatoes
2-3 garlic cloves,
salt - a little, to taste,
vegetable oil - a little, for lubrication,
fresh herbs - a little, to taste.

Cooking:

We clean the garlic and potatoes. In the event that a large potato is taken, then cut it into several pieces. Now squeeze the garlic into the potatoes. We wash fresh herbs and tear them with our hands, as in this way they will retain all their aroma.

Season everything with salt and mix well, grease with a small amount of vegetable oil and transfer the potatoes to a pre-prepared baking sleeve.

Tie the sleeve tightly on both sides and place in a preheated oven. We bake the potatoes until they are soft (we check the readiness of the potatoes with a fork).

We transfer the finished diet potatoes to a beautiful dish, decorate with a few leaves of fresh mint, you can add tomatoes, and serve.

Such dietary potatoes are suitable not only for fasting, but will also become a worthy decoration of any holiday table.

Now you know how to cook simple meatless dishes.

Lenten dishes: what are they? Is it necessary to stock up on recipes for delicious lenten dishes, if fasting is the time to limit oneself in bodily pleasures in order to grow spiritually?

There is a time church year when the Orthodox are allowed to cook and eat only fast food. Of course, fasting imposes certain restrictions. But the Church does not forbid trying to diversify the Lenten menu with simple recipes delicious fast food. Many fasting people (for example, children) may not be able to fast if they do not make a delicious lenten menu. It is important not to forget that the main thing in fasting is prayer, dialogue with God and an attempt to get closer to Him. Lenten dishes are usually very light and easy to prepare, which helps in fasting to think less about the body and more about the spiritual.

Many secular establishments, cafes and restaurants start a special menu of lenten dishes during the fasting period, but vegetable cutlets, dishes from a variety of vegetables and lean borscht can be cooked at home. In addition, the food of the lean table, as a rule, is among the dietary dishes. And for many, these recipes can be useful outside of fasting. After all, they are made up of available ingredients and will be an excellent side dish and diversify your usual menu.

Do not forget that God does not require us to harm ourselves, and if, for health reasons, you cannot observe a strict fast, it is better to consult with your doctor and confessor before switching to fasting dishes. In such cases, relaxation of the fast is allowed.

The Orthodoxy and the World portal has prepared for you an extensive list of recipes and information on cooking during Lent.

In our rational and scientific age, with its abundance of information, shocking upheavals of catastrophes and misfortunes, there is a lack of a good miracle that brings quiet joy, peace of mind. And we forget that this miracle is always near us, even within us, it is given by God through our repentance and the desire to change our lives internally, to harmonize it with God's will for us. This miracle is the transformation of a person. Is it not a miracle when a person, accustomed to living according to the flesh, aspires to the spiritual, who has never known prayers, finds sweetness in church hymns, comprehends the joy of doing good, the consolation of repentance for sins. All this drives us great post with all its system: long biblical readings, penitential prayers and hymns, charter about food. During the Holy Week of Great Lent, the strictest fast is observed.

Great post. How do we fast?

We fast with a fast that is pleasing to the Lord. true fasting is the alienation of evil, abstinence of the tongue, renunciation of wrath, excommunication of lusts, utterances, lies and perjury. This impoverishment is a true and auspicious fast. (from the Liturgy of Great Lent)

People say: " good start- half the job“. Apparently, therefore, many Christians fast more strictly in the first week of fasting. Great Lent implies the exclusion from the diet of meat, dairy, fish food and eggs, but the measure of your fast must be agreed with the confessor, not forgetting to remind you of your state of health.

And the Orthodox hostess is concerned with how to make the Lenten meal varied enough so that those who are fasting do not lose heart, and at the same time not arouse the passion for gluttony. Therefore, it is not bad if the food is prepared in the usual way and at the same time does not contain non-lean components.

Lenten cereals

If you regularly cooked porridge for your family, then you can also cook it in fasting, only not with milk, but with water, and not season with oil, but serve sauce, or sweet to it: based on jam or jelly, berries, steamed and chopped dried fruits, nuts, honey, cocoa, vegetable corn cream, or unsweetened: vegetable, mushroom; in both cases, variations using spices are very interesting. Do not forget about the diversity of the main component - cereals: rice, buckwheat, pearl barley, oatmeal, semolina ... whole, crushed, flakes. Play on the consistency of porridge: from a mash close to soup-puree to crumbly “grain to grain”. Additional components can not only be served in the form of a sauce, but also added during the preparation of porridge.

It's great if soups are common in your family diet. Most of them have very nice fasting options or are easily adapted to fasting. The main point of the technology of lean soup: the timely laying of the components, so that by the end of cooking they are all ready at the same time, first harder, then more tender, for example, for borscht, beets and carrots are laid before potatoes and cabbage. Slightly toasted vegetables pleasantly improve the taste of the soup. Most lean vegetable soups get their best flavor and aroma by adding minced garlic cloves at the very end. Do not forget about other spices, herbs, bay leaf. Can also be used ready mixes or cubes for broth, you just have to monitor their composition: are there any non-lean components added. It is also possible to cook vegetables separately, grind all or part of the components in a puree soup, serve with croutons or crackers, or even, in an oriental way, with unleavened rice (it makes sense to cook soup with a very pronounced taste, spicy or salty).

A thematic excerpt from the Prologue of Prot. V. Gurieva:

Spiritual fasting

(A word about fasting, and about slander, and about condemnation)

Some of the simple Christians think that fasting should consist in abstaining from food and drink, and nothing more. Do not eat fish during fasting or do not eat oil and wine - this, in their opinion, exhausts the whole commandment about fasting. But is it? No. It is true that fasting should be bodily as well, but spiritual fasting must certainly be combined with bodily abstinence. This is what the Holy Church teaches. “By fasting,” she says, brethren, bodily, let us fast spiritually.”

What kind of spiritual fasting is this, and why is it necessary?

The Holy Fathers define it this way. “If you fast, show from your deeds. What? Seeing a beggar, have mercy; make peace with the enemy; do not envy a person who is in happiness; do not look at a woman shining with beauty. Fast without hypocrisy; fast with your eyes, and your heart, and your ears, and your hands, and all your members ... Keep your hands from appropriating what does not belong to you, your feet from going to games; keep your ears from hearing slander and lies, and let your mouth also fast, refraining from condemnation” (Prol., Apr. 9).

Such, brethren, is spiritual fasting. We need it, because without it, bodily fasting loses all meaning. “What is the use, he says, to thin the body by abstinence, when the spirit puffs up with pride? What praise shall we have for being pale from fasting when we turn pale from envy? What virtue is it not to drink wine, but to revel in anger and hatred? (Ep. 14, vol. 2). - “There is nothing, says the Prologue, if you do not eat meat or fish, but eat the flesh of the brethren by slander” (Prol., Apr. 9). So, fasting bodily, we also fast spiritually, i.e. the outer actions of fasting are compatible with the inner ones. Purifying the body by abstinence, let us cleanse the mind from vain thoughts, and the heart from evil desires. Mortifying the body with fasting, let us also mortify the passions: anger, evil lust, greed for gain, and similar evils. Decorating the body with bodily fasting, let us decorate the soul with virtues: mercy, meekness, humility, reconciliation with enemies, almsgiving. This will be a true fast, and pleasing to God, and for us, therefore, saving. Amen. (Arch. V. Guryev, Prologue, April 9)

Lenten dishes - the best recipes

Mushroom cutlets. Boil mushrooms in water and finely chop. Boil rice in water with salt and parsley, mix with mushrooms and add nutmeg. It is advisable to grind the mass (for example, in a blender). Form cutlets, sprinkle them lightly with flour or dip each in batter, fry in oil. Drizzle well with sauce when serving.

Finely chop the cabbage, put in a saucepan, add water, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and simmer until half cooked. Pour semolina into the boiling mass in a thin stream, cook, stirring constantly, for 10-15 minutes

2-2.5 liters of water, 1/2 cup buckwheat, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of oil, 3 salted / lightly salted cucumbers, 2-3 potatoes, 1 glass of cucumber pickle, bay leaf, pepper, salt and herbs to taste.

2 tbsp. flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 2/3 tbsp. sugar, 120 g of margarine for baking (butter can be used on non-fast days).

Pour sugar into a bowl, pour water and vegetable oil, heat a little, add honey. Stir to dissolve sugar and honey. Mix soda, cocoa or coffee, spices in a separate bowl, then add this to a mixture of oil, water and honey and knead thoroughly so that there are no lumps.

The field of Holy Lent is coming to an end, and Pascha is already near. We live in anticipation of special days preparing us for this Great Feast. And behind this expectation, it is important not to become fussy, not to lose the repentant attitude, not to forget to turn your thoughts into the heart and check its arrangement with the commandment of God.

Sift flour with salt. Add sugar. Gradually pouring in water, knead the dough of the same consistency as sour cream. Cover bowl with cling film and leave in a warm place for 40 minutes. Heat up the pan. Add some vegetable oil. Pour in 1 ladle of batter.

We are all so accustomed to them that we don’t even think that a hundred years ago they were not in the diet of our compatriots. Many of the Korean salads are quite suitable for a lenten meal, but we must remember that, firstly, these are appetizers that increase appetite, which is not always good, because. in fasting, one should strive to limit the amount of food taken; secondly, it's spicy food

Finely chop the green part of the leek into rings, fry in margarine with garlic and thyme. Add the white part of the stems. Fill with white wine...

The very first thing that comes to mind is the usual yeast dough, on the water (you can add vegetable cream), bake sweet buns, pies or pies with a wide variety of fillings. Gingerbread dough can be considered no less traditional in Lent ...

If you are fasting, this does not mean at all that you need to eat only noodles and rolls. On the contrary, this is a great chance to improve your gastronomic skills and learn how to cook something new. Therefore, today I offer you a large selection of wonderful lenten dishes for every day. This can be useful and not only fasting. In my recipes you will find a lot of original simple side dishes that can diversify any diet. BUT lean soups after fasting, it is quite possible to cook with meat.

Here you will find a real Lenten menu - salads, soups, mains and even pastries. Delicious recipes for Lent and beyond.

It is clear that fasting is a time not to indulge in gluttony, but this is not a reason to indulge in laziness and eat anything. When there are many healthy recipes- despite the fact that the food remains simple and ordinary.

One indisputable advantage of lean meals is that they are cheap, easy to prepare and easy on the body. And at the same time very interesting and tasty. All these recipes are based on the simplest products that everyone has - cabbage, carrots, potatoes, frozen vegetables, tomato paste, green peas.

For those who also want to make dishes more dietary, you can completely replace vegetable oil with lemon juice in salads, and fry for baking in the oven without oil (you can add a little water), or stewing with water.

What you will find in this article

Lean salads

Lettuce and green pea salad

Light and tasty salad.

Products:

Lettuce leaves (packing lettuce in pots), or can be replaced with chinese cabbage, and ideally - iceberg lettuce - two-thirds of a head of cabbage
half pepper

half an onion
carrots - 1 pc.
garlic - one or two cloves
Vegetable oil (for a dietary option, you can replace lemon juice)
salt pepper
Cut the onion and pepper into small pieces. Carrots - rub on a coarse grater. Cut lettuce. Put the peas, squeeze the garlic. Salt, pepper, season with vegetable oil or lemon juice! You can also chop greens here.

Cabbage salad with cucumbers and peppers

We've all tried this salad, but not everyone knows the art of making tender, vinegar-sour cabbage!

Products:

Cabbage - one kg,
sweet pepper - one large

cucumbers - two pieces
sugar - one tbsp. spoon with slide
salt - one tsp With a slide
nine percent vinegar - one or two tbsp.
Dill fresh
vegetable oil

Slice the cabbage very thinly. To do this, it is necessary, as it were, to slide a knife along the surface of the cabbage, cutting off very thin strips.
Salt, pour in vinegar, sprinkle with sugar. Add chopped dill. Lightly knead with your hands so that liquid appears, but not much.
Pepper cut into small squares. Cucumbers - straws. Add vegetables to cabbage, pour in oils and stir.

Lean soups

Lean vegetable soup

Simple and very tasty lean soup!

Products:

Cabbage - one kg
Carrots - three pieces
Potatoes - five pieces
Onions - two pieces
Garlic - six cloves
vegetable oil
Greenery
salt
1. Chop 1 kg of cabbage into square pieces. Pour two and a half liters of water, salt. Let it simmer for 30 minutes on low heat
2. Cut the potatoes into cubes.
3. Cut carrots and onions into small pieces.
4. Fry the garlic for a couple of minutes, then add carrots and onions to it. Fry for fifteen minutes until golden brown.
5. When the cabbage broth is cooked for 30 minutes, throw potatoes into the pan and cook for another ten minutes.
6. After that, put the rest of the vegetables. Bring to a boil and remove from heat after 5 minutes.
7. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and dill. Cover with a lid for fifteen minutes, and you can eat!

Lean soup with vegetables and rice

Products:

Pepper - one piece
bulb
carrot (large) - one piece
garlic - four cloves
rice - 4 tbsp. l. riding
potatoes - three pieces
broth or water - two liters

bay leaf, dill
vegetable oil

Cut potatoes into chunks
put in two liters of broth or water, salt and bring to a boil. Cook for 15 minutes when it boils.

At this time, chop the onion into rings and rings into quarters. Grate carrots (large). Pepper cut into squares. Garlic cloves - round.

Fry the onion with carrots for about five minutes, until they change color a little. Move the roast to the edges of the pan and add the bell pepper to the center.

Fry the pepper, 5 minutes, until it changes color, then mix with the onions and carrots. And again move the mass to the sides. And in the middle, put chopped garlic, and fry for a minute. Then stir in the vegetable mixture and remove from heat.

Put the fried into the soup and also throw in 4 tablespoons of rice. Let it boil, cook for 5 minutes no more.
Remove from the burner, add the parsley and chopped dill. Do not stir yet, leave to brew for 20 minutes under the lid. During this time, the rice will ideally reach readiness.

You can also season the soup with paprika.

Lean soup with green peas

Red lentils - two hundred gr
carrot - two hundred gr
onion - one hundred gr
garlic - one or two cloves
sesame - one tbsp with a slide
sunflower oil
Cook lentils in two and a half liters of water. Add 1 tbsp. salt.
Finely chop or grate the carrot. Chop the onion into small pieces. Fry the onions and carrots on low power while the lentils cook. To golden, but not brown.

When the lentils are almost done, add the stir-fried vegetables. Cook for 5 more minutes. Toast the sesame seeds in a dry frying pan to darken a little. Remove soup from heat, add sesame seeds. Let it brew for fifteen minutes.

Lean pea soup

We all see packs of frozen Brussels sprouts in the store. But how they can be deliciously cooked, we know not so many options. I knew before only - fry with meatballs. But here is another very tasty recipe that diversifies the lenten menu.

Products:

Frozen Brussels sprouts (400 grams)
soy sauce - two tbsp. l.
mustard seeds - one tsp
Tomato paste - one tablespoon
Garlic - three cloves

Put the cabbage in water, bring to a boil and let it boil for fifteen minutes.
Chop the garlic, crush the mustard seeds a little.
Put the cabbage in a pan with hot oil, and everything else - garlic, tomato paste, soy sauce, mustard seeds. Add 0.5 tbsp. water, cover with a lid and heat for five minutes. Salt is not required as there is soy sauce.
Salt is not required.

Rice with peas and beans

Very tasty fast food

And here is another basic recipe that not every housewife knows how to cook. Because there are tricks! But if the potatoes are fried correctly, then McDonald's fries are resting!
Peel potatoes.
Take a thick-bottomed pan, such as cast iron. At the beginning, put on a hot burner for a couple of minutes to the maximum so that the pan warms up.
At this time, cut the potatoes into rounds. When the pan is hot, pour in the vegetable oil and place over medium heat (four out of six). Let the oil heat up for another minute.
Put all the potatoes to fry, close the lid and do not touch for ten minutes.
Attention, do not interfere with the potatoes! With a spatula, gently pry under the fried potato layer in the middle. And turn the whole layer over as much as you can pry. Also carefully flip the potatoes over the sides of the pan.
Again, mark exactly ten minutes. And again fry under the lid. Again, carefully flip the entire layer of potatoes.

And one more time - ten minutes, fry under the lid. Then - add salt. Turn over again carefully in the same way as before. You can literally wait a couple of minutes this time, or also ten, if you want browner. This is delicious!

mushroom rice

I advise everyone to try this recipe, not only the fasting ones!

Products:

Potato - one and a half kg,
mushrooms, preferably fresh - two hundred gr. (can be a pack of frozen)
breadcrumbs
onions - two pcs.
Boil potatoes in salted water (can be cut into cubes to speed up the process).
Pour out the water. Pour puree. Let cool to room temperature.
Chop the mushrooms into small pieces. Fry for fifteen minutes.
Divide the mashed potatoes into 8 lumps (so as not to stick, wet your hands). Make mashed potatoes. Add mushrooms. Roll up the zrazy so that the filling is inside.
Sprinkle with breadcrumbs, place on a sheet that has been drizzled with oil. Put in a hot oven 180 degrees and cook for half an hour.
Can be garnished with fried onion rings. And for those who are not afraid of calories, pour each finished zrazu with the oil in which these rings were fried.

Lean pancakes

Yeast lean stuffed pancakes

Products:

Flour - one and a half glasses,

water - two glasses,
activated yeast - one tsp
Sugar - one tablespoon
half a spoonful of salt
vegetable oil

Filling:

about a glass of boiled buckwheat
onion - one pc.
dried mushrooms - handful

We make yeast dough for pancakes. Dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water. Leave for fifteen minutes. Next, salt, sift the flour, mix so that there are no lumps. Add 2 tbsp. sunflower oil. Let the dough rest for forty minutes.

Grease the pan with a thin layer of oil. Wipe off excess with a tissue. Fry pancakes.

While the dough is resting, make the filling. Boil dry mushrooms and crumble.
Fry with buckwheat, chopped onions and carrots. Or bake in the oven.
Start pancakes with minced meat. You can also fry ready-made pancakes in vegetable oil until golden brown, but I don’t do this for calorie reasons. Step by step recipe read lean pancakes with photos.

Yeast-free lean pancakes with potato filling

Products:

Yeast dough (purchased or homemade, it doesn’t matter) - one kg
Potato - four pcs.
onion - 1-2 pcs
salt, pepper, sunflower oil

Cut potatoes and onions very thinly, potatoes - into circles, onions - into rings. Stir, pour 1 tbsp. sunflower oil, 1 tsp salt without a slide, a little ground pepper, stir.
Divide one kilogram of dough into ten pieces. And each of them - two more, one of which is twice as large as the second.
The larger one, thinly roll out and put on a small saucer, while the edges twist down.
We also divide the potato mixture into about ten parts. We spread one on the dough. Now we roll a smaller circle from a small piece, and put it on top of the potatoes. We bend the edges up. Turn over and roll out the cake again a little.

Then fry on a low temperature for five minutes, turn over - and another five.

famous bread sticks

Very simple brine cookies, delicious!

Products:

One glass of brine
One glass of vegetable oil
one glass of sugar
two packs of coconut flakes (you can also use lemon zest, dried berries, dried fruits, etc.)
two or three cups of flour

Put butter, sugar, brine and one pack of chips in a bowl and mix. Add flour until the dough is thick, like shortbread (two or three glasses), that is, so that it can be rolled out.
Roll out and sprinkle with the remaining shavings.
Cut out cookies with cookie cutters or a glass.
Bake on a floured baking sheet at 180 degrees for about ten minutes.

poppy seed biscuits

Products:

Poppy - two hundred gr.
Brown (or regular) sugar - one tbsp.
half a teaspoon of baking soda
apple cider vinegar - two tablespoons
salt - half tsp
Half glass of water
flour - one or two tbsp.
cinnamon - 1-2 tsp
Sunflower oil - four tbsp. l.
Mix dry ingredients: sugar, poppy seeds, cinnamon, salt. Add water and sunflower oil, soda and apple cider vinegar. Knead the dough, similar to shortbread (so that it rolls out).
Cover with foil and leave for one hour.
Then roll out the dough into a layer of about half a centimeter. Cut out cookies with cookie cutters or a glass. Place on baking paper or a floured baking sheet. Put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about half an hour.

Lean Coconut Banana Cookies

Products:

Bananas - 2 pcs.
coconut flakes - two hundred and fifty gr.
Half a glass of sunflower oil
sugar (preferably brown, but you can use regular) half a glass
water and flour
Mix sugar, butter, chopped banana and beat, adding coconut and flour. Until you get a thick dough.
To prepare the dough, you need to mix sugar and butter together, add a banana cut into pieces. Using a whisk, turn everything into a homogeneous mass, gradually adding coconut and flour. The dough should not turn out liquid, but slightly thick, like thick sour cream.
Put small and not thick cookies on a baking sheet with baking paper or sprinkled with flour.
Bake at 180 degrees for twenty minutes, then dry at the lowest temperature until the cookies are golden.

Lenten cakes

Lean carrot cake

Delicious, tender, fragrant carrot cake made from simple ingredients.

Products:

One hundred and fifty grams of flour
100 grams of carrots
a handful of raisins or other dried fruits (optional)
a handful of walnuts (one hundred grams) (optional)
six tablespoons of vegetable oil
one hundred grams of sugar
sachet of vanilla sugar or vanillin
three teaspoons of baking powder

Topping:
fifty grams of flour
two tablespoons of vegetable oil
thirty grams of sugar

Make a sprinkle of the indicated products. Mix and grind with your hands until you get a crumb. Put in refrigerator.

We make dough. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder. Add vegetable oil. Whisk. Three carrots on a coarse grater, spread in the dough, add raisins and chopped nuts if desired. If the dough is thick, add a little water to make it like sour cream.
It is baked in a small form - eighteen centimeters. Put baking paper on the bottom. Pour out the dough. Sprinkle with crumbs. Bake in a hot oven (one hundred and eighty degrees) - about one hour. Check for readiness with a match. The cake can then be sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Lean Chocolate Coffee Cake

Products:

one glass of sugar
a third cup of sunflower oil
third cup cocoa powder
vanillin
one and a quarter glass of flour
a teaspoon of soda
a teaspoon of vinegar
a glass of coffee (or water)

COOKING:

In a bowl, mix dry ingredients: flour, vanilla, sugar, cocoa, soda and salt. Add water or coffee, vegetable oil and vinegar.
Beat everything.
Put in a hot oven at 180 degrees. Bake for about half an hour.
Lubricate the finished biscuit with jam or melted dark chocolate (if you find it without milk). You can also decorate with vegetable cream.

Super-healthy, super-diet raw (no-bake) lean persimmon and blackcurrant cake

For an 18 cm mold.

Products:

The basis:
¾ tbsp (80g) walnuts
12 pcs. (100g) dates
pinch of cardamom

(if you are afraid to do it on such a basis, then you can make shortbread lean - like brine cookies or poppy seeds, the recipes are given above. You can make such a cake in parallel with cookies)

Filling:
persimmon - 2 pcs
dates - 20 gr
cinnamon - 0.5 tsp
Water - 150 ml
agar-agar or pectin 1 tsp.
frozen blackcurrant - 100 gr (or any other berry)
agar-agar 1 tsp
Sugar
Defrost berries
Grind walnuts with a blender. Grind the dates too. Move with nuts, add a little cardamom, mix with a blender into a homogeneous mass. Cover the bottom of the form with parchment, spread the mixture along the bottom.

Place in the refrigerator for an hour and a half, then in the freezer.

If you are confused by such a base, then make shortbread lean dough, as in brine cookies or poppy seed cookies and bake the base.

We make persimmon jelly. Peel the persimmon from the skins, beat with a mixer or blender into a homogeneous puree. Add cinnamon and sugar to taste (you can use two dates instead of sugar).
1 tsp Agar-agar pour 150 ml of water. Bring to a boil with constant stirring.
Pour the agar into the persimmon puree. Remove the base from the freezer and pour the puree with agar on top. Put in the freezer.

fill
Take 150 ml of juice from frozen berries, which appeared during defrosting. Add sugar, but a little, so that it is sweet and sour. 1 teaspoon of agar pour fruit drink, bring to a boil and boil for 1 minute. Take the cake out of the freezer, put the berries on top, pour currant jelly.
Put in the refrigerator for three hours.

The time of fasting for Orthodox Christians is considered a time of work on oneself, both in the spiritual and in the physical sense. Refusal of entertainment, empty talk, forgiveness of past grievances, observance of religious rituals are an integral part of fasting. You can find an example of a lenten menu in this article.

Rules for eating during fasting

Before deciding to fast, you should think about your readiness for restrictions. Pregnant women, pensioners, people with stomach problems, it is better to confine themselves to spiritual fasting. The main thing in this process is to be honest with yourself and calculate your strengths. An empty stomach should not distract from eating spiritual food.

During fasting, the consumption of meat, dairy and seafood is limited. Sometimes it is allowed to eat fish. It all depends on how strict you decide to fast.

The strictest option is to completely refuse food for the whole day. It is suitable only for completely healthy people who are not subjected to physical exertion.

In the Orthodox calendar, there are days of fasting, on which the use of hot and oily food is prohibited. Residents of northern cities should think several times before deciding on such an experiment.

The easiest option for fasting is well suited for beginners in this matter. It consists in limiting meat, fish, dairy products, including eggs. Otherwise, you can not deny yourself when compiling a lenten menu. delicious recipes a great many, meat is replaced by beans or soy products, nori leaves are suitable instead of fish, and eggs will be replaced by a banana.

Preparing for the post

A week before fasting, it is customary to refuse meat dishes. This will allow you to get used to the new way of eating a little and not drive the body into a stressful state. At this time, believers celebrate Maslenitsa, bake pancakes, using fish, eggs, cottage cheese, honey, and jam as fillings.

The menu must be maintained on the last day of Shrove Tuesday. On this day, it is customary to ask for forgiveness from loved ones and let go of grievances.

Leaving a post

During fasting, the stomach adapts to a new rhythm, so new foods can harm it. That is why you need to return to your usual food gradually, expanding the lenten menu. Delicious meat dishes, sweets, pastries and alcohol should be consumed in small quantities.

On the first day of Easter, one should not load the stomach with heavy food. It is better to start by adding dairy products to the diet, then fish and meat.

The lenten menu for everyone can include a simple, hearty and uncomplicated salad with beans, chickpeas and vegetables. Beans should be soaked in water overnight before cooking.

Ingredients:

• a glass of beans;
• a glass of chickpeas;
• three hundred grams of green beans;
• greenery;
• two cucumbers;
• cherry tomatoes;
• 45 ml olive oil;
• spices;
• lime or lemon juice to taste.

Recipe for vegetable salad with beans:

1. Boil beans and chickpeas.
2. Cut green beans in half and boil for 20 minutes.
3. Cut cucumbers and tomatoes.
4. Combine legumes, vegetables, oil, lemon juice and herbs in a bowl.

Vegetables, like legumes, in this dish can be any. Don't be afraid to experiment.

Couscous is used in many oriental dishes. It is famous for its mild and delicate taste. Like many cereals, it contains useful material and minerals, has a positive effect on the digestive system, leaves a feeling of satiety in the stomach for a long time. Couscous is often found in lenten menu recipes. During fasting, one should not forget about proper and balanced nutrition. Couscous with vegetables is suitable for both breakfast and lunch.

Required components:

• a glass of cereal;
• bulb;
• carrot;
• two bell peppers;
• three tomatoes;
• chili pepper;
• vegetable marrow;
• glass of water;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• olive oil;
• greenery;
• spices.

Cooking steps:

1. Wash vegetables well. Peel carrots, onions and zucchini.
2. Cut carrots, onions, tomatoes, garlic into small layers and heat them in a pan.
3. Courgette and pepper cut into larger pieces, place with other vegetables.
4. Mince the chili pepper as much as possible and put in the pan.
5. After five minutes of stirring, add seasonings.
6. Pour in water and add couscous.
7. Simmer for five minutes with the lid closed.

To add freshness and juiciness to the dish, add greens and a drop of lemon juice.

This dish can be prepared using other vegetables you like. For example, eggplant, cabbage, beets are suitable for them. Couscous with vegetables will perfectly complement the mushrooms.

Solyanka with mushrooms is an unusual, original and tasty dish. It will undoubtedly become a highlight in your Lenten menu. In fasting, hodgepodge can be consumed on any day, as it is eaten both hot and cold.

This is a dish that can be prepared when guests are on the doorstep. It will surprise them with its aroma and pleasant sour taste.

The ingredients in this dish are interchangeable. You can use whatever vegetables you find in your fridge. There is also a variant of the dish using sauerkraut.

Ingredients needed to make hodgepodge:

• pickled cucumber;
• bulb;
• five potatoes;
• two hundred grams of mushrooms;
• one hundred grams of pickled mushrooms;
• a small spoonful of tomato paste;
• 45 grams of vegetable oil;
• spices to taste.

Cooking:

1. Fill a bowl with water and place on the stove.
2. Wash, peel and cut potatoes. Drop into boiling water.
3. Make a fry. Chop carrots and onions. Fry in vegetable oil.
4. Fry the mushrooms in another bowl.
5. Combine ready mushrooms with frying.
6. Put the pickled cucumber cut into small pieces into the pan.
7. Stir for a couple of minutes, add pickled mushrooms.
8. Keep the frying on the fire for another minute and throw it into the pan with boiled potatoes.
9. Add seasonings, bay leaf, chopped dill or parsley.
10. Boil for a couple of minutes and turn off.

Put a piece of lemon on top of the soup in a plate, it can be replaced with olives or capers.

Peppers stuffed with vegetables and couscous

Stuffed peppers are usually prepared using minced meat. In this version, meat is replaced with couscous and vegetables. Such a dish can be safely included in your lenten menu for every day. Instead of this cereal, you can use rice or buckwheat.

Recipe Ingredients:

• bell pepper(about 7 pieces);
• 30 grams of couscous;
• 30 grams of pumpkin;
• half a red onion;
• half a small spoon of soy sauce;
• 300 ml filtered water;
• a little olive oil;
• a sprig of cilantro;
• sprig of parsley;
• a clove of garlic;
• spices to taste.

Cooking steps:

1. Heat one hundred milliliters of water in a container, and when it starts to boil, throw cereal into it.
2. Close the container with a lid. After five minutes, the couscous is ready.
3. Peel the pumpkin, chop the pulp and mix with the finished cereal.
4. Finely chop the onion and fry it in a well-heated pan. When ready, transfer to a bowl with pumpkin and couscous.
5. Add chopped parsley and cilantro, spices. Mix well. The filling is ready.
6. Wash the peppers, cut out the cores. Fill with the stuffing.
7. Pour the remaining 200 ml into the bowl clean water. Sprinkle pepper evenly into it.
8. Stew the dish under a closed lid.

After 20 minutes, the pepper is ready to eat.

There are a large number of recipes for a lenten menu with the addition of lentils. This type of bean is a storehouse of vitamins, useful minerals and substances. Eating dishes with lentils has a positive effect on the digestive and cardiac systems.

Before cooking, lentils must be soaked in water overnight.

Required ingredients for curry:

• 220 g legumes;
• 200 g boiled rice;
• bulb;
• 460 g of tomato paste;
• 150 ml coconut milk;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• a large spoonful of olive oil;
• one large spoonful of curry spices;
• a small spoon of garam masala;
• a small spoon of turmeric and ginger.

Cooking steps:

1. Cook beans.
2. Heat oil in a hot frying pan, add chopped onion and garlic. Fry until golden brown.
3. Add pasta, milk and spices to them. Cook for about six minutes.
4. Add beans, stir. In 20 minutes your dish will be ready.

Serve curry with rice.

It's hard to believe that cabbage rolls can be lean. The menu during fasting can be replenished with this dish, made from mushrooms and rice.

Ingredients for vegetable cabbage rolls:

• a glass of filtered water;
• cabbage;
• half a glass of rice;
• 300 grams of fresh champignons;
• carrot;
• tomato paste to taste.

Cooking:

1. Boil the rice so that it is half cooked.
2. Wash the cabbage, divide it into leaves. Place them in boiling water and cook for a little less than a minute.
3. Place hot sheets under cold water to keep them cool.
4. Grind carrots and mushrooms, mix. Combine the resulting mass with rice.
5. Distribute the filling among the leaves. Roll up carefully. If the sheet opens, then fasten it with a toothpick.
6. Pour water and tomato paste into a cooking dish. Lay out the doves.
7. Simmer for 20 minutes over medium heat.

This dish can be garnished with herbs.

Buckwheat cutlets

Lenten menu recipes are full of options for cooking buckwheat cutlets. You can use ordinary cereals, but if you saw green buckwheat on the shelves in the store, then opt for it. This kind of buckwheat is a more natural product, and when cooked, it becomes more sticky than ordinary cereals.

For buckwheat cutlets you will need products:

• 300 grams of cereals;
• bulb;
• 12 grams of garlic;
• greens to taste;
• spices to taste.

1. Place the boiled porridge in a blender and beat until a paste. Transfer to a bowl.
2. Finely chop the greens, onion and garlic. Combine with buckwheat mass. Mix.
3. Form circles. If the cutlets fall apart, then you need to add breadcrumbs.
4. Fry in a hot pan.

If you want to make cutlets lighter and more dietary, then bake in the oven until golden brown.

The dish can be supplemented vegetable salad or boiled potatoes.

Pancakes are one of the favorite treats for both children and adults. They can serve as a main dish and as a dessert.

By stuffing pancakes with zucchini caviar or hummus, you will create a hearty lunch dish that will suit the Lenten table menu. Filled with jam, marmalade or honey, pancakes become a delicious dessert.

To prepare lean pancakes, we need:

• glass of water;
• a glass of sifted flour;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 50 ml of vegetable oil;
• 5 grams of soda;
• 2 grams of vanillin.

1. Gradually combine flour with water. Stir frequently to prevent lumps from forming. You can use a blender.
2. Add sugar and vanilla to flour mixture. If you're making savory pancakes, don't add sugar.
3. Add oil and lastly soda. Mix until bubbles appear.
4. Pour the resulting mass into a hot frying pan. To prevent pancakes from falling apart, take more dough.
5. Fry on both sides.

The dish is designed for eight people.

Blackcurrant can be replaced with any other berries. This recipe is for twelve cupcakes. By adding this recipe to your Lenten menu, you will delight yourself and your loved ones with a delicious dessert.

For cupcakes we need:

• a glass of berries;
• a glass of wheat flour;
• a glass of oatmeal cereal;
• a tablespoon of flaxseed flour;
• half a glass of sugar;
• a tablespoon of baking powder;
• 250 ml soy milk;
• three tablespoons of applesauce;
• three tablespoons of vegetable oil.

Cooking steps:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
2. In a bowl, mix milk, puree and butter.
3. In another bowl, combine cereal, both flours, sugar and baking powder.
4. Mix the contents of the first bowl with the contents of the second.
5. Spread the resulting mass into molds.
6. Bake 25 minutes.

Ready-made pastries acquire a golden brownish tint.

Berry smoothie will be a great addition to the Lenten menu. Instead of berries, kiwi, an apple or other fruits are also suitable. Since in winter time year it is difficult to find fresh berries, you can use frozen ones.

Required components:

• a glass of cherry juice;
• 60 grams of ripe banana;
• 100 grams of frozen strawberries;
• 100 grams of frozen cherries.

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend well. The drink can be consumed both warm and cold, adding a little ice.