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.
The soup contains not only beets and thanks to this it turns out to be hearty and fragrant. The result is a very rich taste of beetroot. I added some cream. Adding them to the soup is more of a habit.
Last summer in Greece, we were served this dish at a hotel. I really liked it. Once at home, I cooked it, slightly improving the cooking technology (there was too much oil in the hotel, and the zucchini looked like stew). Now this is one of my favorite zucchini recipes. A frequent dish on our summer table.
I don’t know about you, but I secretly love mayonnaise))) I don’t always want to fill salads with olive oil! I tried this sauce for the first time in 2012, and I liked it! I’m sharing a recipe with you! Plus there is a recipe with mussels seasoned with apple mayonnaise. Lean salad (mussels are allowed on Saturdays and Sundays).
This dish is suitable not only for those who adhere to fasting, but also for all those who just follow their diet and figure. This dish is prepared easily and unpretentiously. And it’s incredibly delicious.
A great option for lunch on the long-awaited Sunday, hooray – you will be able to taste fish and seafood!!! It is prepared easily and unpretentiously. And the taste is just great.
Don’t you like mussels? Yes, you just don’t know how to cook them. Obviously, this is a joke. But I still want to offer you a simple composition and preparation of a salad that will change your attitude to these seafood.
Smoothies of bananas, apples, celery and cilantro with cinnamon, honey and lemon juice. This smoothie is very good for the heart. It should be diluted with water according to your taste. It can be smaller and it will be thick, but you can also drink more and drink it through a straw.
Mussel meat is characterized by a pleasant delicate taste, high nutritional value and highly effective medicinal properties, it is useful for improving metabolism, stimulating the process of hematopoiesis, increasing overall tone, strengthening immunity. It is also recommended for various blood diseases, high radiation. Mussel meat is characterized by a high content of glycogen and minerals.
This dish is prepared very easily. But the filling makes it delicious. Juicy and satisfying. It can be served both independently and as a side dish to fish, boiled meat or shish kebab.