With the advent of fasting, any responsible cook thinks about making a menu. Do not assume that Orthodox food is tasteless. This is far from the case. The fast table is observed for a long time several times a year, in addition there are fast days, so recipes for cooking lean dishes are very necessary for many.
Selected recipes for a lean table will help to diversify the diet and improve your health, since vegetarian food helps to relieve the body. For greater comfort, make a specific list of dishes, making it easier to choose and prepare an alternative – every time you go into the kitchen you will not have to think about the menu for a long time.
With prolonged fasting, it is necessary to think over a set of products especially carefully, since not everyone can withstand it. The diet depends on the rigor of fasting. For example, abstinence in the period before Easter is especially strict, so these days you need to choose mediocre dishes, including cereals, vegetables and fruits. A relaxing fast allows the presence of fish, meat or dairy products. In any case, even from a limited list of ingredients, you can prepare nutritious and delicious food.
Here you will learn a lot of options for what you can cook during fasting without using prohibited products, such as meat, eggs, dairy products. In general, representatives of the church teach that in order to achieve the desired effect, it is not enough to observe a lenten menu: in addition, spiritual fasting is also needed. Fast food is good, but the meaning of fasting is not to limit the use of certain foods, but rather to spiritual purification through self—improvement.
As for food, traditionally simple recipes for lean dishes do not contain “fast” products, that is, meat, fat, eggs, milk and dairy products. If you follow the strict prescriptions of the Church Charter, then you need to change your fast table from day to day, from week to week: for example, on certain days it is even allowed to eat fish, on some it is prescribed to eat raw food, on some – boiled, etc. However, modern clergymen emphasize that it is not so important what they eat during lent.
Recipes for lean dishes on non-strict days allow you to cook fish and use vegetable oils. But even from a strictly limited list of lean foods, you can cook delicious dishes of lean cuisine, and sometimes they can be more interesting and more useful than meat or dairy products that we have known for a long time. We must not forget about the beauty of the design, because artfully decorated food is much more pleasant to eat. In addition, a lean menu does not necessarily imply a feeling of hunger. It simply does not contain excesses, since fasting is a time of abstinence and restrictions.
As a rule, we prepare lean dishes at home from the most ordinary products — all kinds of cereals, vegetables, mushrooms, sometimes fish.
Wonderful fish soup. And light, and hearty, and fragrant… It was amazing. I think that in the post-New Year’s days this soup will be a godsend. This will perfectly relieve the body, but it will not leave you hungry.
Fragrant soup with mushroom broth. It’s hard to put into words how delicious it is. This is how my mother cooks soup, who starts fasting tomorrow. It’s a pity that I can’t invite her to visit, because we live far from each other.
Baskets with guacamole, blue potatoes and red fish. These baskets are suitable both for breakfast and for a festive lunch / dinner. Potatoes can be replaced with half an olive or a slice of olive oil.
Guacamole can be used as a pate, sauce or eaten with corn chips. Recommended for lovers of morning sandwiches. You can also prepare elegant baskets for the holiday.
A simple, delicious recipe for fish baked in the oven. The recipe is suitable for cooking almost any red fish. I usually cook ketu and pink salmon like this, both options are good))
Fans of fast food will definitely like this recipe. It turns out very tasty, fragrant carrot fries. I will serve a delicious cheese and garlic sauce with carrot fries. The perfect combination!
Rice is the main national product, the bread of Asian cuisine. Only its neutral taste is able to soften the sharpness of Oriental cuisine. Try to cook spicy crumbly rice according to the recipe of the popular chef and TV presenter Jamie Oliver. In this recipe, it is better to use long-grain basmati rice or jasmine rice. The use of lemon and cloves in the preparation of porridge gives it an unusual and interesting taste.
Bright healthy side dish in oriental style. Rice is cooked the longest in the recipe, the rest is done very quickly! We cook in parallel with the main product, for example, I have chicken.
