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.
Buckwheat bread is a healthy and gluten-free product, ideal for weight loss on a diet and for people with gluten allergies, and just for those who follow their diet.
Spicy buckwheat porridge with curry and paprika, cabbage and vegetables. Fragrant, crumbly, it not only serves as a side dish, but will also be an excellent independent dish!
This salad is especially good in spring and summer, it has a bright refreshing taste. The green apple itself is refreshing, in combination with celery, this effect is enhanced. Daikon gives sharpness, but not like our black radish, but delicately, carefully. Cabbage can be taken both ordinary white and red. I took the Chinese one, which contains both cabbage and salad. It is softer and more pliable, more amenable to a simple filling.
Fruit joy, cool hot summer day, delicious vitamin day in spring and winter – it’s all about smoothies!.. Very easy to prepare and delicious to drink!… There are an infinite number of options: I have natural yogurt (or matsun), honey, apple juice, banana and kiwi.
Delicious, healthy, light and very fast salad with an unusual taste! For those who like asparagus with a taste of garlic and the sweetness of raisins, this salad will be to your taste!
In the previous recipe, I already wrote about such fish as macrurus, and that it is very difficult to work with it. Today I will show you another way of cooking it and tell you about the little tricks necessary for such cooking.
I suggest you bake bread from rice and flaxseed flour. Such pastries will be the most useful, low-calorie and gluten-free. The taste and aroma are unusual, original, pronounced, unusual and specific. Dense, moist structure with a pleasant brownish tinge. Help yourself to health!
