Fasting for a believer is a special time, a time of prayer and deep thoughts.
During this period, a person’s diet changes greatly, and serious restrictions are imposed on him. With improperly organized nutrition during fasting, a deterioration in the general condition and even exacerbation of certain diseases is possible. On the other hand, fasting is a time of cleansing, including physical cleansing. Therefore, from a medical point of view, fasting is a completely reasonable event, only with the caveat that you need to approach it thoughtfully.
Let me make a reservation right away that you can find out about the spiritual meaning of fasting by contacting your spiritual mentor. Here I want to look at the post from a nutritionist's point of view.
Basic principles of proper nutrition during fasting
- The main rule is the exclusion of all animal foods: meat, fish, poultry, milk and dairy products, eggs. Respectively, The basis of the diet will be plant products– cereals, legume products, vegetables, fruits, nuts, mushrooms.
- Try not to let your diet. Don't skip breakfast, don't forget about snacks.
- In the absence of animal foods, which are rich in protein and promote a long-term feeling of fullness, frequent bouts of hunger are possible. During this period, there is a great temptation to overeat baked goods and sweets. However, there is no talk of any cleansing in this case. To avoid feeling hungry, eat regularly and include in your daily diet foods rich in complex carbohydrates and containing plant protein - whole grains and legumes.
- Particular attention should be paid during the period of fasting soy products. There are a great many of them now - soy milk, cheese-tofu, all this should be included in your diet.
- Sometimes it's not so difficult to start a post correctly as to end it. It would seem that everything is over, the prohibitions have been lifted, you can eat forbidden foods. However, I want to warn you against overeating after fasting. Gradually begin to include animal foods in your diet after fasting. and be sure to combine it with plant foods - vegetables and grain products.
Lenten menu for the week
MONDAY
Nutritionist's comment:I would like to start the Lenten menu with traditional breakfast V unusual performance. Oatmeal contains complex carbohydrates, alimentary fiber, vegetable proteins, B vitamins. To maintain health, an adult should consume at least 400 g of vegetables daily (preferably more). Unfortunately, few people can boast of such a diet. One way to enrich your menu with vegetables is light vegetable salads. These salads are “light” both in execution and in terms of calorie content. Lentils besides vegetable protein contains folic acid and iron. In the green beans recipe butter must be replaced with olive oil. |
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Orthodox Christians will celebrate the Holy Resurrection of Christ on April 28 in 2019. The holiday is preceded by Lent, which in 2018 begins on March 11 and will last seven weeks.
Lent is the strictest and longest of all four multi-day fasts established by the Orthodox Church. Therefore, it can be difficult to start fasting without any preparation, and it won’t harm your health for long if you don’t know how to eat properly.
The main goal of fasting is to achieve internal qualitative changes, as well as the desire of a Christian to follow the feat of Jesus Christ, who fasted for 40 days in the desert.
Compliance with fasting today is a voluntary act and is deeply individual in nature. During Lent, free time should be devoted to prayers, subdue desires for food, excluding any excesses and idleness, and strive for a more secluded lifestyle.
For seven weeks you will have to give up meat, eggs, milk, cottage cheese and other animal products. At the same time, food intake per day is limited.
Lenten menu
Fasting is, first of all, abstinence from rich food, and not exhaustion of the body, so the fasting menu should be varied and rich in vitamins.
The Lenten menu can be quite varied - during Lent you can prepare various porridges, lean pilafs, pasta, soups, cutlets, salads and so on.
Porridges - corn, buckwheat, rice, oatmeal, millet, barley, peas, beans, pearl barley and others - can be cooked in water. For example, rice porridge can be varied by adding pumpkin, mushrooms, raisins, dried fruits or jam.
You can and should eat any vegetables - at your service all kinds of cabbage, carrots, beets, radishes, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, green bean and others that exist in nature.
It is important to eat a lot during this period bell pepper and fresh greens, as they are rich in many vitamins and minerals needed to maintain health.
You can also eat any fruit that is available this season - apples, pears, bananas, oranges, and so on. You can eat jams, dried fruits, pickles, honey, nuts and spices.
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Xerophagy
According to church canons, create a menu Lenten cuisine It is necessary according to the following principles - in the first and last (Holy) weeks of Lent, as well as on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays - dry eating.
These days it is allowed to eat fruits, vegetables, dried fruits, nuts, that is, eating exclusively raw, thermally unprocessed food and lean bread. On this day it is not even recommended to drink tea or compote.
If desired, you can prepare vegetable or fruit salads, the latter can be seasoned with honey.
Salad "Exotic"
Place the shredded cabbage in a bowl, lightly sprinkle with salt and rub with your hands so that the cabbage softens and releases juice. The juice should be drained. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater and add to the cabbage. Finely chop an onion, a couple of cloves of garlic and a few sprigs of celery. Cut into cubes fresh cucumber, apple or orange. Pour lemon juice, salt, pepper and mix all ingredients. This one is unusual and spicy salad will charge you with energy for the whole day.
Days without oil
On Tuesdays and Thursdays you can eat hot food plant origin no oil. These days you can treat yourself to various cereals and soups, and you can also eat jams, pickles, herbs, and so on.
Bean soup with pasta
Boil red beans, add some pasta, finely chopped onion, garlic and a bunch of cilantro, spices to the pan and cook until tender. Then add salt and the soup is ready.
The menu can be expanded these days by baked potatoes and other vegetables. You can also cook lean spaghetti- boil pasta in salted water and season it tomato paste. These days you can drink tea and compotes.
The second dishes on the menu during fasting can also be mushrooms, potatoes, cabbage, carrots lean cutlets, in which eggs as a fixative can be easily replaced with semolina. On days when oil consumption is prohibited, the cutlets can be steamed.
With butter
On Saturday and Sunday (except for the last Saturday of Lent) food with the addition of vegetable oil is allowed. Here you can give free rein to your imagination and cook various dishes- soups, salads, lean cutlets and pilaf, and so on.
Mushroom soup
Fry finely chopped onion and garlic in a saucepan and pour boiling water over the frying. As soon as the water boils, you need to pour a handful of rice into the pan, and after 10 minutes, put the mushrooms in the pan and cook a little. Then add a few cauliflower or broccoli florets, grated carrots and bell peppers (preferably red), chopped cilantro, dill and cook the soup until tender. Then add salt and start lunch.
Salad "Markitanka"
Boil potatoes and cut into cubes. Add shredded sauerkraut (preferably red), a jar canned corn, sliced green onions, parsley, cilantro, dill, celery, vegetable oil, lemon juice and mix everything well.
Fish day
During Lent, fish is allowed to be eaten only twice - on the Annunciation (April 7) and on Palm Sunday, which in 2017 falls on April 9. These days, fish can be eaten both boiled and fried and if you are a fan Japanese cuisine- you can treat yourself to sushi.
Soup
Place a whole onion and chopped carrots in boiling salted water. Cook for five minutes over medium heat. Add potatoes and cook until tender. Very carefully, one piece at a time, add the fish (both red and white will do), without stirring, so as not to crumble. Bring to a boil over low heat, add Bay leaf, allspice and finely chopped fresh herbs, and remove - the fish will be ready.
Fish baked in foil
You can bake any fish in foil - river, sea, both in pieces and whole (if it is small in size).
Cut the fish into pieces or leave it whole, place on foil, pepper and salt. Greens, preferably oregano or tarragon, can be placed in the belly of the fish, on its carcass or pieces. Then sprinkle with lemon juice, or cover with lemon slices, seal the edges of the foil and bake until done.
Treats
Certainly, main meaning Fasting is a spiritual cleansing and refusal not only from certain foods, but also from harmful passions, evil words and deeds, bad mood and irritability. But I want variety even during Lent.
To the delight of many fasting sweet tooths, in recent years they have produced a variety of Lenten sweets. You can also eat dark chocolate, nuts, fruit and berry jam, jams, dried fruits, halva, natural marmalade, biscuits and so on. The main thing is that desserts do not contain milk or its derivatives or animal fats.
Various delicacies can be prepared at home. For example, you can cook dessert salad.
Cut any fruits - apples, pears, oranges, add raisins, chopped nuts and dried apricots, and season the salad with liquid honey.
For cooking lemon ginger cookies you will need: 100 grams wheat flour; 100 grams of water; 40 grams of olive oil; 30 grams fresh ginger; one lemon; one full tbsp honey; one tsp baking powder for dough.
Remove seeds and skin from the lemon and grind the pulp in a blender. Grate ginger onto fine grater, mix honey with warm water (a little to dissolve). Mix 100 ml of water, sifted flour, diluted honey, baking powder, olive oil, ginger and lemon - the dough should turn out thick, its thickness can be adjusted by the amount of water, or by additionally adding flour if the dough turns out watery.
Cover the kneaded dough and leave for 10-15 minutes at room temperature. Heat the oven to 150 degrees, line a baking sheet with foil, make cookies of the desired shape from the dough and bake for 15 minutes.
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Many Orthodox Christians pay special attention to nutritional issues, however, limiting animal products during Lent is not really the key point; what happens in the human soul is much more important. However, not thinking or talking about the Lenten menu at all is fundamentally wrong, because through restrictions comes purification - the main task of Great Lent.
So, let's talk about what to cook during Lent and what a Lenten menu might look like?
Let's start from afar. How often do you cook strictly following a recipe? Experienced chefs and those who simply cook often, as a rule, add their own “zest” to any dish, or even do without a recipe, taking the main idea as a basis and developing it into their own masterpiece. Products that are on hand are used, some ingredients are replaced by others, cooking in a frying pan gives way to food in the oven, and so on. The recipe as such in this case is required solely in the form of a push and an idea.
The second reason I wrote this article is the constant search for inspiration. Working housewives are familiar with the annoying thought drilling into their heads: what to cook for dinner today? So that thoughts do not drill into your head, but soar, waving culinary passion like a flag, we offer an approximate Lenten menu for the week - only ideas, no exact proportions and recipes, one continuous inspiration that you can use at your own discretion.
Regarding detailed culinary instructions, then they exist- in the form of links to pages with recipes that Magic Food has collected for you.
Monday
- Maslenitsa is not all for the cat - Lent has also arrived.
BREAKFAST
Lenten coffee pancakes
Pancakes during Lent are a very real story with the aroma of home comfort, grandmother’s hands and memories of sweet childhood. All that is needed for this delicacy to appear on the table during Lent is to replace the milk with any other drink ( mineral water, fruit juice or even regular strong tea), and instead of eggs add a little more flour or starch. Let the dough sit, then bake the most ordinary thin pancakes. Delicious, tender and lean.
This time, try using strong, freshly brewed coffee as a base - the pancakes with it will have a very unusual taste, the color will be caramel-cream. The drink should be warm - it will brew the flour, making the dough elastic and strong. Fragrant Lenten pleasure!
The vinaigrette
This undeservedly forgotten dish will come in handy during Lent. To make your vinaigrette as tasty as possible, do not forget to buy unrefined sunflower oil, which smells like seeds and contains much more useful substances than its purified "relative".
Alternative: “white” vinaigrette without beets(potatoes, beans, sauerkraut, onions, sunflower oil).
AFTERNOON SNACK
Lean Banana Smoothie
Peeled banana, some berries (raspberries, strawberries, blueberries or cherries from the freezer), half a cup of any fruit juice or compote, a pinch of cinnamon, a minute in the blender - and you have an amazingly delicious lean smoothie in your glass! Thick smoothies without cream, milk or yogurt are just what you need to make Lent enjoyable.
Alternative: mango or pineapple smoothie (bananas, carrots, apple, orange, ginger, mint.
DINNER
Pilaf with seafood
Lightly fry the carrots and onions in vegetable oil, add mussels and squid rings, then add rice, add water and simmer until the cereal is ready - this is a great Lenten dinner.
Stuffed tomatoes
Not the best budget dish However, if you do not give yourself regular small joys, Lent will be a very difficult test. So, take a couple of tomatoes, cut off the “cap” and remove the core, put inside the filling of half-cooked rice, finely chopped and fried mushrooms, onions, carrots, herbs, spinach, celery and bake until done. Very juicy, tasty and aromatic!
DINNER
Spaghetti with champignons
A little onions, cut into half rings - into a frying pan, fry until golden. Champignons in stripes - there too. A couple of spoons soy sauce- to mushrooms and onions. Salt, pepper, parsley, add spaghetti boiled al dente... magical! Allow yourself half a glass of wine with today's dinner, and then the feeling of a fairy tale will be complete and all-encompassing.
Wednesday
- In the middle of Lent, Mother is simple.
BREAKFAST
Lavash with vegetables
Sheet purchased in the evening thin pita bread unfold on the board, grease with any lean mayonnaise(for example, apple or nut). Place vegetables on one edge - tomatoes, Korean carrots, fried or pickled champignons, lettuce leaves, greenery. Roll it up and have a tasty and healthy breakfast.
Alternative: You can use it instead of lavash corn tortillas tortillas.
DINNER
Cream of mushroom soup
Mushrooms are what give any dish a special touch of satiety and solidity, so soup prepared with the addition of butter or champignons will be especially appropriate during Lent, when the calorie intake to which you are accustomed is reduced. Do not spare the vegetables - thanks to them the first dish will be even more flavorful.
AFTERNOON SNACK
Sesame milk
Pour a couple of handfuls of sesame seeds hot water and leave to brew for 3-5 hours, after which thoroughly chop the mass with a blender and pass through a piece of linen cloth. Add honey, cinnamon or vanilla - a delicious drink is ready!
DINNER
Stuffed bell peppers
You definitely have a supply of frozen bell peppers, right? Boil some rice, mix with sautéed onions, carrots, parsley and celery root, add salt, stuff peppers and lightly simmer in the oven or steamer. No more boredom, dinner is ready!
Thursday
“They don’t die from fasting, but from gluttony.”
BREAKFAST
Toast with fruit Nutella
Place lightly dried nuts and pitted dates in equal proportions into a blender bowl, add a little citrus zest for flavor, if desired, a couple of tablespoons of cocoa powder and sugar. Grind everything into a homogeneous, rather thick, lumpy mass, then, without turning off the blender, add a little plant milk(sesame, pumpkin, poppy seed, almond or any other), achieving a smooth structure and the desired consistency. This paste is an excellent spread on dried pieces of toast bread. In company with a cup of coffee - the most elegant Lenten breakfast, which will charge you with energy for the whole day.
DINNER
Assorted vegetable soup
Take a large, capacious saucepan and heat it in a small amount of vegetable oil (olive would be great!), sauté onions, carrots, parsley root, add diced bell peppers, divided into florets cauliflower and broccoli, don’t forget about peeled tomatoes, add a handful of green peas, don’t be greedy and add a little corn. We sauté, sauté... and then - oops, a little white wine and regular boiling water, spices and herbs, salt and pepper. When serving, be sure to sprinkle with herbs. Consolidation!
AFTERNOON SNACK
Cranberry jelly
Good old jelly that smells of childhood and naivety... Why not? All you need is sugar, starch and some cranberries.
DINNER
Potato dumplings
Unleavened dough mashed potatoes with fried carrots, pot-bellied dumplings, golden onion sauce... Be careful: it’s so tasty that you might burst!
Friday
“Bread and cabbage won’t let you get mad.”
DINNER
Lenten pickle
A simple science - take pearl barley, boil pearl barley in it, add diced potatoes, striped carrots and finely grated pickles. Nourishing, rich, tasty.
Vegetables in Chinese style sweet and sour sauce
In a wok frying pan, fry coarsely chopped carrots, onions, bell peppers, pumpkin, celery root, add a little soy sauce, garlic, salt, pepper, and then pour in half a glass of a weak starch solution mixed with sugar and lemon juice. A couple more movements and great vegetables ready in sweet and sour sauce.
DINNER
Vegetable cutlets
Grind boiled broccoli, cauliflower, sauteed carrots, fried onions in any way convenient for you, add herbs, spices, sun-dried tomatoes, add a couple of tablespoons of starch, form cutlets and fry them until golden brown crust. Delicious!
Saturday
— During fasting, food is simple.
BREAKFAST
Lenten potato pancakes
A couple of potato tubers grated, a little dill, a spoonful of flour, salt, pepper and a frying pan with vegetable oil - that’s probably all you need to get a wonderful and tasty Saturday breakfast. Of course, fast.
Rice with vegetables
Fry onions, carrots, bell peppers in a deep saucepan, green beans, stem celery and everything else that you find in your refrigerator and freezer, and then add a glass of rice and simmer until done. A colorful lunch lifts your spirits!
DINNER
Country-style potatoes in the oven
Well, who can come up with something more appetizing than oven-baked potato slices sprinkled with... aromatic herbs and seasoned with garlic? Don't forget to take a jar of pickles out of the pantry - you're in for a great dinner.
Sunday
- Fasting is not in the belly, but in the spirit.
BREAKFAST
Homemade Lenten buns
Take as a basis any recipe for yeast dough, which you always succeed in, set the dough, wait for it to rise. Knead lean dough, add dried fruits and herbs, poppy seeds and nuts, berries and candied fruits, form into balls - and delight your family with hot homemade breakfast buns.
Eggplant caviar
Peel the baked eggplants, add some nuts and garlic, herbs and bell peppers, grind with a blender into a paste - you have an excellent vegetable snack on your table.
AFTERNOON SNACK
Rice ice cream
You'll be surprised what a normal rice porrige. If you mix it with sugar and apple marshmallow, add a little lemon zest and vanilla, and then grind everything with a blender, freeze, stirring occasionally, you will get amazing ice cream that melts on the tongue, leaving a delicate aftertaste. And yes, it’s absolutely lean!
DINNER
Lenten vegetable pizza
Classic pizza dough is prepared lean, that is, without the addition of milk and eggs. Great, that suits us! Everything else is the same as always, except for one thing: we remove the cheese, but add a lot different vegetables, mushrooms, greens, onions. Bake and enjoy with a glass of dry wine.
We are all people, weak and mostly greedy for goodies, and therefore it is worth making sure that during Lent you always have small amenities for snacking on hand.
The simplest option is a secret jar with your favorite dried fruits: fill a beautiful container with nuts, dried apricots, raisins, prunes, dried cherries and open it when you have a very strong desire to “break away” from your chosen diet and eat cake with butter cream or buy three kilograms of Doktorskaya and make yourself such a sandwich.
Lenten cookies help: a little sweet - and everything seems simple and real again. Study carefully the composition of the chocolate offered in stores - among the “black joy” bars there are often those made without milk and dairy products. Many caramel candies are also suitable for Lenten menu, and therefore can cheer you up and help you not succumb to quick temptation.
Have a light and delicious Lent!
Lenten dishes: what are they? Is it necessary to stock up on recipes for delicious Lenten dishes if fasting is a time to limit yourself in bodily pleasures in order to grow spiritually?
There is a time of the church year when Orthodox Christians are allowed to cook and eat only lean food. Of course, fasting imposes certain restrictions. But the Church does not forbid trying to diversify the Lenten menu with the help of simple recipes for delicious Lenten dishes. Many fasting people (for example, children) may not be able to fast unless they create a delicious Lenten menu. It is important not to forget that the main thing in fasting is prayer, dialogue with God and an attempt to get closer to Him. Lenten dishes are usually very light and easy to prepare; this helps during Lent to think less about the physical and more about the spiritual.
Many secular establishments, cafes and restaurants, have a special menu of lenten dishes during the period of fasting, but vegetable cutlets, dishes from a variety of vegetables and Lenten borscht can be prepared at home. In addition, food Lenten table, as a rule, refers to the number dietary dishes. And for many, these recipes may be useful outside of Lent. After all, they are made up of available ingredients will become great side dish and diversify your usual menu.
Do not forget that God does not require us to harm ourselves, and if for health reasons you cannot observe strict fasting, then before switching to lenten dishes, it is better to consult with your doctor and confessor. In such cases, a relaxation of fasting is allowed.
The Orthodoxy and Peace portal has prepared for you an extensive list of recipes and information on cooking during Lent.
In our rational and scientific age, with its abundance of information, shocking shocks of catastrophes and misfortunes, there is such a lack of a good miracle that brings quiet joy and peace of mind. And we forget that this miracle is always near us, even within us, it is given by God through our repentance and the desire for an internal change in our life, to coordinate it with God’s will for us. This is a miracle - human transformation. Isn’t it a miracle when a person, accustomed to living according to the flesh, strives for the spiritual, who has never known prayer, finds sweetness in church hymns, comprehends the joy of doing good, the consolation of repentance for sins. Lent encourages us to do all this with its entire structure: long biblical readings, penitential prayers and chants, regulations on food. During the Holy Week of Great Lent, strict fasting is observed.
Great Lent. How do we fast?
Let us fast a pleasant fast, pleasing to the Lord. true fasting is alienation of evil, abstinence of the tongue, putting aside rage, excommunication of lusts, speaking, lying and perjury. In this impoverishment, fasting is true and favorable. (from the Great Lent service)
People say: “ a good start is half done“. Apparently, this is why many Christians fast more strictly during the first week of Lent. Lent implies the exclusion of meat, dairy, fish and eggs from the diet, but the extent of your fast must be agreed upon with your confessor, not forgetting to remind you of your state of health.
And the Orthodox housewife has the responsibility: how to make the Lenten meal varied enough so that those fasting do not become discouraged, and at the same time not awaken the passion for gluttony. Therefore, it is not bad if the food is prepared in a familiar way and at the same time does not contain non-lenten components.
Lenten porridge
If you regularly cooked porridge for your family, then you can cook it during Lent, just not with milk, but with water, and do not season it with oil, but serve it with sauce, or sweet: based on jam or jelly, berries, steamed and chopped dried fruits, nuts, honey, cocoa, vegetable corn cream, or unsweetened: vegetable, mushroom; in both cases the variations using spices are very interesting. Don’t forget about the variety of the main component - cereals: rice, buckwheat, pearl barley, oatmeal, semolina... whole, crushed, flakes. Play with the consistency of the porridge: from a spread close to puree soup to crumbly “grain to grain”. Additional components can not only be served as a sauce, but also added during the preparation of porridge.
It’s great if soups are common in your family diet. Most of them have very nice Lenten options or easily adapt to fasting. Technology Highlight lean soup: timely placement of components, so that by the end of cooking they are all ready at the same time, first harder, then more tender, for example, for borscht, beets and carrots are laid before potatoes and cabbage. Pleasantly improves the taste soup light roasting vegetables. Most lean vegetable soups acquire best taste and aroma when adding chopped garlic cloves at the very end. Don't forget about other spices, herbs, and bay leaves. Can also be used ready-made mixtures or cubes for broth, you just have to monitor their composition: whether non-lenten components have been added. It is also possible to prepare vegetables separately, grind all or part of the components into a puree soup, serve with croutons or crackers, or even, in the Oriental style, with unleavened rice (here it makes sense to cook soup with a very pronounced taste, spicy or salty).
Thematic excerpt from the Prologue of Prot. V. Guryeva:
Spiritual fasting
(A word about fasting, and about slander, and about condemnation)
Some of the simple Christians think that fasting should consist of abstaining from food and drink, and nothing more. Not to eat fish during Lent or not to eat oil and wine - this, in their opinion, exhausts the entire commandment about fasting. But is it true? No. True, one must fast physically, but spiritual fasting must certainly be combined with bodily abstinence. This is what the Holy Church teaches. “When we fast,” she says, brothers, “we fast physically and spiritually.”
What kind of spiritual fasting is this, and why is it necessary?
The Holy Fathers define it this way. “If you fast, show me what you have done. Which ones? Seeing a beggar, have mercy; make peace with the enemy; do not envy a person who is in happiness; Don’t look at your wife, shining with beauty. Fast without hypocrisy; fast with your eyes, and your heart, and your ears, and your hands, and all your members... Refrain your hands from appropriating what does not belong to you, your feet from going to games; keep your ears from hearing slander and lies, and let your lips also fast, refraining from condemnation” (Prol., Apr. 9).
This, brethren, is spiritual fasting. We need it, because without it, physical fasting loses all meaning. “What is the use, he says, of thinning the body with abstinence, when the spirit flares with pride? What praise will we receive for being pale from fasting, when we turn pale with envy? What virtue is there not to drink wine, but to revel in anger and hatred?” (Episode 14, vol. 2). - “There is nothing more,” says the Prologue, “than to eat meat or fish, but to consume the flesh of the brethren with slander” (Prol., Apr. 9). So, while we fast physically, we also fast spiritually, i.e. The external actions of fasting are consistent with the internal ones. By cleansing the body through abstinence, let us cleanse the mind from vain thoughts and the heart from evil desires. By mortifying the body with fasting, we will also mortify the passions: anger, evil lust, greed for profit and other similar evils. By decorating the body with physical fasting, let us also decorate the soul with virtues: mercy, meekness, humility, reconciliation with enemies, almsgiving. This will be true fasting, pleasing to God and, therefore, saving for us. Amen. (Prototype V. Guryev, Prologue, April 9)
Lenten dishes - the best recipes
Mushroom cutlets. Boil mushrooms in water and chop finely. Boil rice in water with salt and parsley, mix with mushrooms and add nutmeg. It is advisable to grind the mass (for example, in a blender). Form cutlets, sprinkle them lightly with flour or dip each one in batter and fry in oil. When serving, pour the sauce over it well.
Finely chop the cabbage, put it in a saucepan, add water, 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil and simmer until half cooked. Pour into the boiling mixture in a thin stream semolina, cook, stirring continuously, 10-15 minutes
2-2.5 liters of water, 1/2 cup buckwheat, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 2 tbsp. tablespoons butter, 3 salted/slightly salted cucumbers, 2-3 potatoes, 1 glass cucumber pickle, bay leaf, pepper, salt and herbs to taste.
2 tbsp. flour, 1 tsp. baking powder, 2/3 tbsp. sugar, 120 g margarine for baking (on non-fast days you can use butter).
Pour sugar into a bowl, add water and vegetable oil, heat a little, add honey. Stir until the sugar and honey dissolve. Mix soda, cocoa or coffee, spices in a separate bowl, then add it to the mixture of oil, water and honey and knead thoroughly so that there are no lumps.
The season of holy Lent is coming to an end, and Easter is already approaching. We live in anticipation of special days preparing us for this Great Holiday. And behind this expectation, it is important not to become fussy, not to lose the repentant attitude, not to forget to turn your thoughts inside your heart and check its structure with the commandment of God.
Sift flour with salt. Add sugar. Gradually pour in water and knead the dough to the same consistency as sour cream. Cover the bowl with the dough with film and leave in a warm place for 40 minutes. Heat the frying pan. Add a little vegetable oil. Pour in 1 ladle of dough.
We are all so used to them that we don’t even think that a hundred years ago they were not in the diet of our compatriots. Many of the Korean salads are quite suitable for Lenten meal, but we must remember that, firstly, these are snacks that increase appetite, which is not always good, because... During fasting, you should strive to limit the amount of food you eat; secondly, this is spicy food
Finely chop the green part of the leek into rings and fry in margarine with garlic and thyme. Add the white part of the stems. Pour white wine...
The very first thing that comes to mind is the usual yeast dough, on the water (you can add vegetable cream), bake sweet buns, pies or pies with the most various fillings. Gingerbread dough can be considered no less traditional during Lent...
What are the characteristics of unleavened dough prepared during Lent? We cannot put an egg in it to strengthen it. Because of this, our actions depend to a greater extent on the “character” of the flour, on the strength of its gluten. If the flour is good, and you tried to make a very tight dough (water:flour ratio = 1:3 by volume, and don't forget to salt - adding salt also strengthens the dough a little), you will get excellent dough for dumplings.
If you have long wanted to try fasting, but the thought of a bland and monotonous Lenten menu stops you, then you are simply unfamiliar with our step-by-step recipes for Lent. After all, if you approach the preparation of meals for fasting rationally and at the same time with imagination, then you can get a varied and very delicious set dishes for every day. Of course, it cannot be said that such food will not be very different from what you are used to, but the very taste of properly prepared lean food will definitely appeal to even gourmets. And do not forget that in addition to traditional monastic recipes for Lent, literally every day new options for healthy Lenten dishes appear, more adapted to taste preferences modern man. So, next you will find simple and delicious recipes in fasting for lay believers with step by step instructions and photo. Also from our article you will learn what you can cook and eat during Lent, and what foods you absolutely cannot eat.
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Basics of the diet during Lent 2017 for the laity by day with examples of recipes
Before we begin to describe specific examples of recipes, it is worth saying a few words about the basics of the diet of lay believers during Lent 2017. To begin with, we note that Lent lasts 47 days and the heaviest (with days of hunger strike) are only the first and last weeks. In the remaining weeks, the diet is divided into 3 groups:
- dry eating, when food is only allowed to be eaten boiled dishes no oil (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
- boiled plant food no oil (Tuesday, Thursday)
- boiled food with butter (Saturday, Sunday)
Based on these basic rules, a Lenten menu is drawn up for the entire week. It is also worth noting that the basis of the diet during Lent for the laity by day (examples of recipes below) should be exclusively natural products nutrition. It is advisable to consume as much as possible fresh vegetables and fruits, homemade preparations for the winter, fermented products homemade. The latter, by the way, are very rich in vitamins, in particular C, which is very important in conditions of reduced immunity in early spring. Below you will find examples of delicious, healthy and fairly easy-to-prepare dishes for every day for the menu during Lent. We are sure that their taste will pleasantly surprise you, and these recipes themselves will definitely be included in your cookbook.
Delicious and simple salad for every day of Lent, step-by-step recipe with photos
First, we present to your attention a step-by-step recipe with photos of delicious and simple salad for every day of Lent. At its core available products- vegetables and fruits, thanks to which such a salad can be prepared every day. But with one amendment - on all days except weekends, the dressing should be made only from lemon juice without oil. Find out how to prepare a delicious and simple salad for every day of Lent from step by step recipe Further.
Required ingredients for delicious salad for every day of Lent
- potatoes - 3-4 pcs.
- pomegranate - 1 pc.
- walnuts(peeled) - 200g.
- red onion - 1 pc.
- cilantro - 1 bunch
- pepper
- vegetable oil
- lemon juice
Instructions for a delicious and simple salad recipe for every day of fasting
A simple recipe for the first course for the Lenten menu, step by step
Hot dishes must be present on the Lenten menu to ensure normal work stomach during Lent. As a rule, cabbage soup and lungs serve as first courses. vegetable soups. The simple recipe for the first course for the Lenten menu, which we offer you below, belongs to the second category. A simple recipe serves as the basis for this first dish for the Lenten menu. vegetable broth. The quantity and type of vegetables in this recipe can be changed at your discretion.
Necessary ingredients for the first course recipe for the Lenten menu
- potatoes - 4-5 pcs.
- champignons - 0.5 kg
- carrots - 2 pcs.
- onion - 1 pc.
- flour - 2 tbsp. l.
- vegetable oil
- dill
- parsley
- Bay leaf
- ground black pepper
Instructions on how to prepare the first dish for the Lenten menu using a simple recipe
Cabbage cutlets for the Lenten menu, step-by-step recipe
Cabbage cutlets for the Lenten menu, a step-by-step recipe for which awaits your attention below, great option delicious snack. Such cutlets can be like a separate dish Lenten cuisine, and a good addition to porridge and boiled potatoes. Even though these meatless cutlets are made from cabbage, they are just as filling and flavorful as their meat counterparts. See for yourself by following our next step-by-step recipe.
Necessary ingredients for cabbage cutlets for the Lenten menu
- cabbage - 500 gr.
- onion - 1 pc.
- semolina - 30 gr.
- flour - 30 gr.
- garlic - 2 pcs.
- dill
- vegetable oil
- breadcrumbs
- pepper
Instructions for a step-by-step recipe for cabbage cutlets for the Lenten menu
Vegetable stew with lentils - step-by-step recipe for the menu during Lent
Another tasty option useful second Menu dishes for Lent - vegetable stew with lentils. In general, lentils are very underrated legume in our everyday kitchen. In the meantime, it is very useful and can greatly diversify the Lenten menu. Find out how to cook vegetable stew with lentils from the step-by-step recipe for the menu for Lent.
Required ingredients for vegetable stew with lentils for Lent
- potatoes - 3-4 pcs.
- tomatoes - 3 pcs.
- onion - 1 pc.
- carrots - 1 pc.
- lentils - 1/3 cup
- cabbage - 1/2 pcs.
- pepper
- vegetable oil
- spices to taste
Instructions for a step-by-step recipe for vegetable stew with lentils in Lent
Recipe raw dessert from dates for every day of Lent, step-by-step instructions
Probably the most common misconception regarding nutrition during Lent is the idea that sweets are completely excluded from the Lenten menu. In fact, you can and even need to eat sweets during Lent, but only natural ones and without eggs. Of the most simple options healthy and allowed desserts - honey and dried fruits. But for those who prefer more complex software flavor combinations desserts we offer a recipe for raw date sweets for every day of Lent. The recipe for raw date dessert for each day of fasting is very simple to prepare and can be easily repeated using the following step-by-step instructions.
Essential Ingredients for Raw Date Dessert for Lent
- dates - 300 gr.
- walnuts/peanuts/cashews - 150 gr.
- cinnamon - 1 tsp.
- cocoa
- kerob
Instructions for a raw date dessert recipe for each day of fasting
On a note! If the variety of dates is dry and they do not give much liquid, you can add a little water or liquid honey for stickiness.
Delicious “Minutka” cookies - a step-by-step recipe for simple baking during Lent
Lenten baking can also be delicious, such as the simple Minutka cookie recipe below. The cookie dough is prepared from three simple ingredients, and you can choose absolutely any filling to suit your taste. But the best thing is the delicious Minutka cookies from the step-by-step recipe for simple baking in the post below, made with homemade thick jam. Read on to find out how to prepare this simple, quick and delicious delicacy.
Necessary ingredients for fasting delicious cookies"Just a minute"
- flour - 300 gr.
- sparkling water - 1/2 cup
- vegetable oil - 1/2 cup
- jam for filling
Instructions for simple recipe delicious Minutka cookies for Lent
Lenten food: recipe for meatless meatballs for Lent 2017, video
As you can see, Lent recipes can be simple and delicious at the same time. And in general Lenten food, like all meals during Lent 2017, is rich in salads, pastries, and second and first courses. Our next video recipe for Lent - meatless meatballs, also applies to Lenten food and is sure to please the lay faithful. Such lean food (recipe for meatless meatballs for Lent 2017), although not a monastery recipe, is perfect for an every day menu.
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