What dishes to cook during fasting?

Lent is one of the main events of the Orthodox year. Believers prepare for the celebration of Easter, cleansing the soul, thoughts and body. What you can eat during this period and what you can cook dishes during fasting, you will learn from the article.

How to eat right in fasting?

In order not to break the fast and prepare a dish, allowed on a specific day of abstinence, you need to know what products are allowed and which are forbidden to eat. Lent is considered the most strict among the rest. Particularly difficult to comply with are the first and last weeks.

On the very first day you should completely refrain from eating. Cold, non-vegetable oil dishes during Lent are resolved from Tuesday to Friday. Such days are called dryness.

On Saturday and Sunday the post is the least strict. So, in the first week of fasting these days it is allowed to eat hot dishes, dressed with vegetable oil.

In the remaining 5 weeks of Lent you should eat this way: dry eating should be observed on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and hot food can be eaten on Tuesday and Thursday, on weekends it is allowed to refuel with vegetable oil, it is acceptable to sip a little red wine. You can prepare and celebratory dishes in a post, but they also should not contain the products forbidden to the use.

In Lazarev Saturday you can put fish eggs on the table. And the next day, on Palm Sunday, and in the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the use of fish dishes is allowed. But here it should be noted that if the above holidays fall on the calendar for the Passion Week, then during this period the use of any food of animal origin is prohibited. On Good Friday, it is recommended to refrain from food, and on the day before Easter, dry eating is allowed. Dishes prepared for fasting should not only not contain prohibited products, but also be charged with positive energy and pure thoughts of the cook.

Dishes for the post: cooking at home

During the post they cook only from products of vegetable origin. Animal food is prohibited: meat, dairy products, butter, eggs and all derivatives. You can not eat fast food, snacks, carbonated drinks and the like. Food should be of plant origin. Dishes should not be too spicy, spicy or sweet. Such food is also an excess on the table.

From the point of view of dietetics, it can be noted that fasting dishes during fasting not only do not harm health. On the contrary, they purify the body of sediments and toxins, strengthen vitamins and minerals. Proper fasting is not harmful to health due to the fact that the lack of animal food and all the necessary substances is filled with plant components. So, the lack of animal protein is replaced by vegetable protein due to the use of beans, peas, wheat, nuts and mushrooms. Apples, bananas and buckwheat will cover iron deficiency. Dried fruits with honey will support immunity. Often the main dishes during the meal are prepared on the basis of various groats. The latter carry useful carbohydrates, which will saturate the body. All kinds of vegetables and fruits will give energy and fill the lack of nutrients, trace elements and vitamins.

From the allowed products you can cook a variety of simple but delicious dishes: soups, salads, snacks, basic hot and cold foods and even pies. We offer you simple, but unordinary recipes of dishes during the fast.

Italian bean soup

A rich, rich and unusual to taste soup will be an ornament of a lean table. To prepare it you will need:

• Canned beans - 200 g;
• String beans (can be frozen) - 300 g;
• 1 onion head;
• Clove of garlic;
• Half a liter of tomato juice;
• Lactose noodles (you can cook yourself from flour and water) - 250 g;
• Greens (dill, parsley, green young onions) to taste.

Cooking method

1. Cook the string beans until they are ready. Throw it in a colander.
2. Finely chop onion and garlic. Stew in water in a deep soup pan. In days when vegetable oil is allowed, you can make a roast.
3. Pour tomato juice into the onion with garlic. Strain for 15 minutes with the lid closed.
4. In a separate saucepan, boil the noodles in salted water.
5. In tomato tomato juice with onion and garlic add the remaining ingredients: pod and canned beans, noodles. Salt to taste and boil for 15 minutes.
6. Sprinkle the soup with fresh herbs before serving.

Vegetable salad with avocado

What dishes to prepare for fasting during the days of dry eating? Try to make an unusual salad with avocado. This fruit has a high calorie content. Therefore, the proposed salad will not only enrich with vitamins, but also saturate the body of a fasting person.
To make it, you need these products:

• Tomatoes - 2 pcs .;
• Avocados - 1 piece;
• Middle head of onion;
• Cucumber - 2 pieces;
• Radish - 200 g;
• lemon juice;
• salt.

Prepare a salad is very simple. To do this, you need to cut all the vegetables and avocados into cubes. Onions finely chop and soak for 5-10 minutes in lemon juice. Then mix all the ingredients, salt. You can also fill with lemon juice or on permissible days - with olive oil.

Ratatouille

From vegetables, you can also cook delicious meals in fasting. Recipes of vegetable salads, stew and stewed vegetables surprise with a variety of tastes. We suggest you try the originally Italian vegetable dish "Ratatouille". In a classic recipe, before baking, all the vegetables are deep-fried. We have slightly modified the technology of cooking and got no less tasty and even more useful dish.

To prepare "Ratatouille" will need these products:

• Red bell pepper - 1 pc .;
• 1 head of garlic;
• 1 onion;
• Zucchini - 2 pieces;
• Blue - 2 pcs .;
• Tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
• Half a liter of tomato juice;
• sea salt;
• Fresh greens.

How to cook Ratatouille

1. Peel the eggplant from the peel, cut into circles up to 1 cm wide and soak them in cold water for half an hour.
2. Peel the tomatoes from the peel, pouring them with boiling water.
3. Peel the squash of courgettes.
4. To prepare the sauce, finely chopped onions and sweet peppers with a few cloves of garlic stew in half a glass of tomato juice until the vegetables are ready. Add salt. Grind the mixture in a blender until a thick sauce is formed.
5. In the baking dish, put food parchment, pour out the sauce about 1 cm thick on top.
6. Spread the vegetables, alternating eggplant, zucchini, tomato in such a way that the vegetables end up filling the shape, as in the photo below.
7. Now prepare the gas station. To do this, in the stupa you need to mash greens, sea salt and a few cloves of garlic. On permitted days, you can add olive oil. With a dressing, grease the vegetables on top.
8. Form put in the oven and bake at a temperature of 180 degrees and a half hours - until the ready vegetables.

Pelmeni with sauerkraut

What kind of dish to cook in the post, surprising the household and even the guests? Make the dumplings! Few people know that such a traditional dish can be lean and at the same time not less tasty than the original. Only the filling should be replaced with vegetable. For dumplings with sauerkraut they will need such products:

• Flour - 500 g;
• glass of water;
• Sunflower oil - 100 g;
• Sauerkraut - 500 g;
• Salt to taste.

Preparing this dish during the fast will not take long. First you need to make a dough. Unfortunately, it is impossible to make it without vegetable oil - the dough will dissolve. Therefore, such dumplings to please close people can only be on certain days of Lent.

In order to prepare the dough, it is necessary to mix flour, water, sunflower oil and add salt to taste. Mix the steep dough into the refrigerator for an hour. Then roll out the "sausage" test. Cut them into pieces, roll out the circles. Then you need to squeeze from excess juice sauerkraut. Place the filling in the middle of each round of the dough and fill it with dumplings. It remains only to weld the product in salted boiling water for 5-7 minutes. Dumplings with sauerkraut ready!

Pilaf with dried fruits

What dishes to prepare in a post on the main? After all, in the Russian cuisine, meat treats are considered to be the main decorations of the table. You can offer to prepare a vegetable stew, porridge with mushrooms in pots, saute, on certain days, the highlight of the diet will be fish. We offer you a recipe for unusual and satisfying pilau. To prepare it you need the following ingredients:

• Rice (it is better to choose long grain varieties) - 1.5 cups;
• A pair of large bulbs;
• Carrots - 750 g;
• Dried dates - 150 g;
• Dried apricots - 350 g;
• ginger root;
• Lemon juice - 4 tbsp. L .;
• Ground throat;
• Ground coriander;
• Ground cinnamon;
• Vegetable broth - 3 cups;
• Honey liquid - 2 tbsp. L .;
• Sprig of mint;
• salt.

How to Cook Plov

1. Rinse the rice and soak it in cold water for half an hour.
2. Peel the vegetables.
3. Carrots cut into large bars, onions - rings.
4. Finely chop the ginger.
5. Fry the chopped vegetables in the saucepan. Add all the spices, salt.
6. Wash and dried dates with dried apricots in a separate saucepan with honey and lemon juice for 3-5 minutes.
7. Add the honey mixture to the sauté pan with the fried vegetables.
8. Rice throw in a colander. Then pour into the saucepan, level the surface and fill with vegetable broth. Cover with a lid, reduce the heat and simmer, without stirring with the lid closed until rice is ready (about 20 minutes).
9. Remove from heat. Release the steam by opening the lid. Put a sprig of mint on top and close the lid. Allow the dish to brew for 10-15 minutes. A fragrant pilau is ready!

Honey gingerbreads

You can cook even sweet dishes for fasting. Cooking at home honey lean gingerbread. They can spoil the family on any day of fasting. They will become a worthy decoration of the festive table. However, do not forget that sweet foods during Lent can not be used superfluously.

To prepare them you will need:

• A glass of sugar;
• 500 g of liquid honey;
• A pinch of soda;
• 7 glasses of flour;
• 1 tsp. Lemon juice;
• 4 cups of chilled purified water.

How to cook

1. Mix in a saucepan of water, honey and sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. Melt until the sugar is completely dissolved. Then remove from heat. Allow the mixture to cool.
2. Mix the dough, mixing the honey mass with flour and slaked lemon juice soda. Send the dough into the refrigerator for half an hour.
3. Roll out a dough 2 cm wide. Squeeze the molds.
4. Bake gingerbread on a baking sheet at 220 degrees for 20 minutes.
5. You can decorate pastry with sugar powder or jam.

Recipes of dishes during the fast can be created independently, modifying the classical ones a little and replacing the necessary products. Thus, the original lenten dishes are obtained, which the hostess can safely submit to the festive table.

Fruit cake

What to prepare festive dishes in the post? Of course, a real cake! For the preparation of delicious biscuit-fruit cake you need the following products:

• Flour - 3 cups;
• One and a half cup of fruit juice to taste;
• Sugar - 400 g;
• Peel from 2 oranges;
• Sunflower oil - 4 tbsp. L .;
• 2 bags of baking powder;
• Vanillin - 2 packs;
• Salt to taste.

For the cream you need to prepare the following ingredients:

• Sugar - 5 tbsp. L .;
• Any juice - 2 cups;
• Manga (croup) - 3 tbsp. L.

To impregnate the cakes will need 2 large spoons of sugar and 500 g of juice.

Cooking Cake

1. Knead the dough from the ingredients needed for the cake. Divide it in half and bake 2 biscuits at 200 degrees for 20 minutes.
2. Send one cake to the fridge. Another leave on the table, covered with a napkin.
3. Prepare the impregnation by mixing the juice with the sugar. Soak her sponge cake. Then leave it to cool in the refrigerator.
4. Prepare the cream. To do this, mix the juice and sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Then gradually introduce semolina and cook as usual porridge until prepared.
5. Cool the cream and whisk thoroughly with a blender.
6. Take the cakes out of the cold. Put them on top of each other and cover with cream on all sides.
7. If desired, you can decorate with nuts, coconut shavings or fruit sliced on top.

Conclusion

Even from a seemingly meager list of products, you can cook unusually delicious dishes in fasting. Recipes suggested by us, if desired, can be improved independently, with a little imagination.