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.
Dear friends, I want to bring to your attention a very quick and delicious recipe for baked cauliflower in a creamy sauce, which I called “cream fresh”. This is a very simple, light dish, but also very tasty. It is ideal as a side dish for meat.
A light vegetable side dish with lime flavor and herbs, and even in coconut milk! It was a great addition to the chicken fillet under Borodino bread. No worse than real rice, potatoes or ordinary pasta. Even better!
I am sharing with you a recipe for quick pickled cabbage that I received from my friend’s mom 40 years ago. The recipe is relevant for apartments where there is nowhere to store cans with preservation. You just need to prepare a liter jar of such cabbage, eat it and repeat when you want. The only thing I change in the recipe is the amount of vinegar and its concentration over the years, because I can hardly eat spicy now, then I use grape vinegar in cabbage, and before that I pour the essence with vinegar. This is a very tasty cabbage, sweet, from which it is simply impossible to tear yourself away! The perfect match for it will be fragrant potatoes baked in cream.
Dishes made from seasonal vegetables. The recipe does not use meat, but meat eaters will like it, because all the ingredients complement each other so perfectly.
This time I offer you a diet cake made of corn groats without a gram of flour and with a minimum of butter. Ideally, it is prepared with a large bunch or even two bunches of fresh green onions. But it’s not the season, it’s not on sale, so we’ll do the same with leeks, and if not, then with ordinary sauteed onions. So…
I offer you a very tasty, hearty and almost low-fat soup. Despite the presence of a small amount of fried bacon, the dish is generally balanced in terms of fat and calories, because I have a negative attitude to fatty foods. Read the recipe and, if you want, try to cook it once.
The most popular cookies using oatmeal are easy to prepare, healthy, delicious and have many different variations. In my recipe, instead of oatmeal for the dough, I used granola. This is the same baked porridge with honey. dried fruits and nuts.
Bright juicy pumpkin soup – will cheer up the gloomy autumn! A simple seasonal vegetable filled with a storehouse of vitamins. Children like it for its sweetness, and also sooo suitable for leopard people (with skin problems), because it alkalizes the body well. Good health and bon appetit to all!
