What sweets can you eat in Lent so as not to sin. What can I eat in fasting Is it possible to eat vanilla crackers in fasting
Orthodox Christians observe Great Lent to express their love for Christ. Forty-eight days of bodily and spiritual humility express the humility and repentance of the laity.
The whole period is divided into Forty and Holy Week. The first forty days are devoted to the parable of the awakening of the Savior on a lonely mountain near Jericho. The last, Holy Week, is designed to remind believers of his last seven days. It precedes the feast of the Holy Resurrection of Christ (Easter).
Humility of the flesh is the first step to humble the spirit. Starting a limited diet, you need to limit yourself spiritually. During abstinence, Christians are cleansed of bad emotions, do not experience envy, anger and other negative emotions. Without spiritual purity, the whole ceremony becomes just a diet. In addition, dietary rules may be relaxed for health reasons.
AT recent times it has become fashionable to fast, true believers know that during the year there are many fasts and fasting days. However, many people prefer to fast during Lent, which is the longest and therefore the heaviest. Many who have withstood the fast rejoice in their victory and completely do not pay attention to how they begin to eat after fasting. An abundance of fatty, protein-rich foods can be detrimental to your health. Therefore, it is extremely important to know how to get out of fasting without harm to the body.
In almost a month and a half, your body gets used to working in an economical mode and, naturally, on day 49 it is not ready to immediately begin to absorb kebabs, eggs, salads with mayonnaise and often alcohol. With such a celebration of the end of the fast, you introduce your body into shock. During fasting, your metabolic processes slow down, the synthesis of enzymes slows down and the body spends internal reserves. It often happens that during fasting people lose weight.
Orthodox believers are now preparing to observe the Advent fast. This is one of the most serious and long fasts leading us to the great feast of the Nativity of the Savior. It lasts from November 28 to January 6 (on the night of Christmas), that is, only 40 days. It is also called Philip's Fast or Forty Days (as well as Great Lent). It is the last multi-day fast of the year.
Christmas Lent Rules
During the period of fasting, the Orthodox are prescribed the following rules:
It is forbidden to eat meat, eggs, dairy products (including cheese, butter); fish is allowed on Saturdays, Sundays, as well as on Tuesdays, Thursdays on the days of the great saints, temple holidays, on the day of the Entrance of the Mother of God into the Temple (December 4); fish is also allowed on Monday, Wednesday, Friday only subject to upcoming all-night vigil(on the patronal feast); You can cook food in vegetable oil on Tuesday, Thursday, and without it on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Dry eating in fasting
What is dry eating in fasting? Unknowing people, based on the phrase, will decide that this is nothing more than eating dry food. But no. It means something else under the concept of "dry food". AT this case food should not be cooked with water, should not be lubricated with other liquids, for example, vegetable oil, vinegar. Food baked in the oven, in the microwave or in a slow cooker can be consumed during such a period of fasting.
What foods are consumed on days of dry eating during fasting? Fasting people should focus on such foods in their diet as:
Bread (rye, bran);
vegetables;
fruits;
berries;
dried fruits;
any greens;
honey;
nuts.
Priests answer questions about fasting
Why in Orthodoxy are there so many restrictions on pleasures, food, sexual relations? It seems that no harm is done to others, the commandment to love one's neighbor is not violated. Why is it necessary to “kill your body”, your desires? Why such lack of freedom?
Our body is not killed by restrictions on food and other pleasures, but by excess in them. And besides, even if we do not harm others and do not violate the commandment to love our neighbor, we still need to love God. This is where certain limitations in pleasure come from, since love, when it exists, is manifested in action, in our actions.
Some fasting people are not averse to snacking on hastily so-called teenage food - chips, crackers, soda. Can you use them every day?
Of course not. There is also a lot of salt. Somehow they conducted an experiment: they soaked these crackers in water, and then evaporated them. Try it yourself and see what's left? And chips that are fried in rancid oil? Goodbye liver, goodbye stomach, hello gastritis and pancreatitis. In general, in everything you need to know the measure. If you drink one bottle of soda a week, then probably nothing bad will happen, but if you drink a day, anything can develop, because it also has very aggressive components.
Great Lent is the most strict and significant of all fasts.
On all days of fasting, smoking and drinking are prohibited. alcoholic drinks. You can not eat animal products (meat, fish, milk and eggs), butter (white) bread, sweets, buns, mayonnaise. Allowed only plant foods (fruits, vegetables, dried fruits), pickles (sauerkraut, pickled and pickled cucumbers), crackers, dryers, tea, mushrooms, nuts, black and gray bread, kissels, cereals on the water. And on the holidays of the Annunciation Holy Mother of God and Palm Sunday is allowed to eat fish.
In the first and last week post is the strictest. Complete abstinence from food is accepted on Clean Monday. On Friday of the first week, you can only eat kolivo (boiled wheat sweetened with honey or sugar).
The rest of the time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday - dry eating (water, bread, fruits, vegetables, compotes); Tuesday, Thursday - hot food without oil; Saturday, Sunday - food with vegetable oil.
But giving up certain types of food is not the main purpose of fasting. Its main purpose is to spiritually elevate a person. Bodily cleansing must be combined with the transformation of the soul. “True fasting is the removal of evil, the curbing of the tongue, the putting off of anger, the taming of lusts, the cessation of slander, lies, perjury.”
Reasonable abstinence from food in fasting is good for the body. But the church allows the sick, the elderly, and those who have not eaten regularly during the year (for example, low-income families) not to fast. But it is best to get permission from the priest. And if this is not possible, think: will fasting harm your health? After all, a person who deliberately harms his health commits a mortal sin.
For the period of fasting, our ancestors canceled the usual amusements, baked “tuzhik bread” (“I mourn for abundant food”). Everyday food utensils were replaced by “watchmen” made of clay.
BREAKFASTS
For breakfast, you can eat muesli (on water or juice).
Try:
Muesli: Boil (do not boil) oat flakes or cereal mixture. Put prepared chopped walnuts, honey or sugar, prunes, raisins, you can dried apricots, figs. Cover with a lid and let stand for 5 minutes.
Buckwheat flakes with sugar
Semolina porridge (thin) with honey
fried semolina(lightly brown semolina in a pan before cooking,
stirring constantly) with sugar or salt.
Pumpkin porridge: Boil rice until half cooked. Add the same amount of grated pumpkin. Cook so that the porridge comes out semi-liquid. At the end, you can add raisins, cinnamon. Sweeten.
WHAT IS AT WORK
In general, it is hard to stick to the post at the workplace. But at our work they found a way out, a little funny - they made vegetable shawarma. Bought Korean carrot, brought sauerkraut with them, added fresh vegetables, wrapped the whole thing in pita bread (thin) rolled up and ate. In general, you can take the same crackers, bagels, nuts, seeds, dried bananas, jam, seaweed (at worst) and salads to work with you.
During Great Lent, for the first two and a half days (until the liturgy of the third day), those who are strong do not eat anything except the morning prosphora with holy water. Others eat only bread with sweet tea. Some eat, as in the following days, food without oil. The same strict and last - passionate
week (week). On the remaining days - Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri of the following weeks - they eat food without oil, on Sat and Sun - food with oil.
Annunciation - fish, caviar, oil and wine are allowed at the meal.
Lazarus Saturday - fish caviar, wine (and oil) are allowed.
Palm Sunday - fish, caviar, wine (and oil).
Holy Week. From Fri to Sun (morning) - the same as the first days. And in the morning, after the liturgy, everything is possible - Easter! - but they start with a consecrated egg, Easter (curd, not baked) and Easter cake (baked pastry with dried fruits and spices). At the same time, food, as always, is blessed (at least baptized) and does not overeat.
The first thing to do is a base of fried onions and carrots, you can add ketchup or tomato paste, then the soup will be tastier. Bulgarian pepper can be added to lean borscht or cabbage soup to improve the taste. Perfectly saves pea or bean soup, mushroom soups, sorrel soup. Also, for density, cereals (rice, barley) are usually added to lean soups.
Try:
Soup with pumpkin: boil potatoes, add the same amount of pumpkin, the same amount of onion. Greens - in a bowl. Serve with toasted bread.
Soup with noodles: a lot of onions, carrots. Noodles at the end. Greens in bowls. Soup is better to eat immediately, before the noodles become sour.
Potato puree soup: boil potatoes, grind separately into a smooth puree, combine with potato broth, add crushed garlic, dill. Maybe black pepper. Serve with croutons. You can add a little wild garlic instead of garlic.
Soup with cereals: boil potatoes, add any cereal (buckwheat, rice, millet ...), a lot of onions, carrots and other roots to taste (parsley, parsnip, celery). Garlic, greens in plates. You can add a little tomato (preferably not pasta, but homemade, or ketchup, such as “Veres - sauce with
mushrooms"). Instead of garlic, you can use wild garlic.
French soup: do not boil the potatoes, but cook until tender; green peas (preferably frozen, but you can also canned), white or cauliflower cabbage, carrots, onions. You can add broken asparagus. Greens - in a bowl.
Soup with beans: boil beans, onions; add 2 tomatoes (from spin) or homemade tomato juice, boil. Parsley, (ramson) in plates.
Vegetable pickle: boil potatoes, rice, carrots, then parsley, turnips (straws), leeks, finely chopped pickles without peel. Fresh parsley in bowls. Serve with toasted bread.
Soup with mushrooms: mushrooms, onions, carrots, black pepper - boil. Add finely chopped potatoes, season with flour (separately dilute the flour in cold water and pour into the soup in a thin stream). At the end - greenery, laurel. sheet.
Soup with peas: boil potatoes, then onions, carrots and how many potatoes, the same amount of green peas. Greens in bowls.
Sweet soup: Boil friable rice, boil dried fruit compote, sweeten. Pour rice compote with pieces of dried fruit. Eat cold. (Serve cold in summer).
SECOND DISHES
The most delicious, in my opinion, lean dish is fried potatoes with sauerkraut. Potatoes will most likely be the main food: french fries, mashed potatoes, potato cutlets, potatoes with gravy, baked potatoes ... In short, everything that used to be a side dish will suit you for the main meal: green peas, beans (in jars with sauce), corn. Fried mushrooms completely replace meat. If you are already tired of everything, remember the vegetable stew and hodgepodge. If it’s immediately clear what a hodgepodge can be made of, then you can put everything that comes to hand into a vegetable stew. You can add nuts (walnuts or hazelnuts) to any dish when cooking - this is both tastier and more satisfying. You can buy frozen vegetables for future use (broccoli, Brussels sprouts, green beans, mixed vegetables).
Try:
Olive Noodles: Any pasta boil, wash cold water, add juice from olives there, chop the olives themselves, tomato or ketchup like “Veres - mushroom sauce”, garlic or wild garlic, basil (dried or fresh). When possible, grow well there. butter, grated cheese. Instead of noodles, you can cook green beans.
Sweet beans: Boil beans with onions. Make a sweet sauce from the broth: Stir flour into the cooled broth, brew, add sugar.
Stewed potatoes with peas or mushrooms: boil 3 parts of potatoes until half cooked, add 4 parts of diced carrots, 1 part of chopped celery roots, cook for half an hour; then 1 part onion, 1 part mushrooms (fresh or dried and boiled) or peas (any: fresh, frozen, dried and boiled) cook for 5 minutes. Greens in bowls.
Monastic beans: Boil the beans until half cooked, add a lot of finely chopped onions, cook for another half hour. Greens in bowls.
Stewed cabbage: Stew until softened 1 kg of cabbage, add red ground pepper, 2 cf. potatoes and simmer until done. Pour in 200 g of tomato juice (or fresh tomatoes, or canned). Dill at the end. Can be stewed with bell pepper(ice cream).
Cabbage with mushrooms: Boil the mushrooms until half cooked, finely chop. Simmer the onion in in large numbers mushroom broth, then chopped cabbage, add red pepper, then mushrooms. Make a sauce from the remaining broth (dissolve the flour in the broth, add spices, cook until thickened).
Season the prepared cabbage with sauce and herbs.
Salad with corn (peas): Boil potatoes in their skins. Cut into small cubes, add finely chopped onion (preferably green, you can wild garlic), pickled (pickled) cucumbers (zucchini) without skin, canned corn with juice (peas).
Add some cucumber marinade. Greenery. It is possible with olives and juice from olives.
Salad with beetroot: bake 2 beets, grate coarsely; 2 pickled cucumbers without skin finely cut into cubes, 1 onion cut into half rings. Season with sugar, lemon juice, cumin, brine. Sprinkle with green onions.
Carrot salad with apples: Coarsely grate 3 carrots; 2 apples cut into strips. Soak raisins, mix with apples and carrots, season with honey diluted with water. You can sprinkle the apple with lemon juice (1 tsp) so that it does not darken.
DRINKS AND DESSERTS
Juices, kissels, compotes, tea, fruit drinks. For dessert, you can cook such a wonderful dish for children - apple and carrot puree. Remember how it used to crackle behind your ears? Or other fruit purees.
Try:
Fanta: Pour the zest from 3-5 oranges with 1-1.5 liters of warm water, add sugar to taste and let it brew overnight. Strain. Add juice of 0.5-1 lemon.
Happy posting everyone!
We are gradually starting to prepare for the great holiday. People who are just starting out in the Church tend to have a lot of questions about rules and traditions. We tried to collect the most typical questions and asked them to Archpriest Alexei Mityushin, rector of the temple Life-Giving Trinity in Kosino.
We need the Advent fast in order to prepare our souls for the meeting of the great holiday - the Nativity of Christ. In the Orthodox Church, two events are celebrated in a special way: these are the Resurrection of Christ and the Nativity of Christ.
People have been waiting for the Nativity of Christ for many centuries in order to get rid of the power of the devil over themselves with the birth of the Lord. We continue to celebrate the joy of this birth of the Savior in the world until now. Therefore, Christians prepare themselves for this event in advance, by fasting.
Before the Advent, Christians do not fast for more than three months (after Dormition Fast). We relax spiritually and physically, and before Christmas comes the time to gather inwardly. When fasting disappears from our lives, we give slack both spiritually and physically.
The Advent fast is needed in order to worthily, in a Christian way meet the great holiday of Christmas. To bring gratitude to God for the fact that He did not disdain our human nature and became, like us, a perfect Man, taking upon Himself all the hardships of our earthly existence, diseases of the flesh and spirit.
How to observe the Advent fast?
The Christmas fast is not so strict and complicated, it is called the fish fast. The secular tradition of fasting is easier than the monastic one. Lay people can eat fish during this fast on all days except Wednesday and Friday.
And the monks, according to the church charter, eat fish only on Saturdays and Sundays; on Tuesdays and Thursdays - only if these days fall on holidays. For example, Memorial Day of St. Spyridon of Trimifuntsky (December 25), Celebration of the icon Mother of God"The Sign" (December 10) or patronal feast. After the first of January, monks no longer eat fish.
How to keep the Christmas fast for the laity?
It must be said that in the tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church, the laity should imitate the monks in their abstinence. Whoever has the strength can fast according to the church charter. Whoever does not have such an opportunity, let him not despair, do not lose heart, but during this fast he better exercises in humility, in love for others, in reading spiritual literature, in reading the Gospel.
What can not be done on Christmas Lent?
First of all, during the Nativity Fast, one should not sin with everyday sins. If during the fast we do not eat fast, but continue to be crafty, angry, irritable, we quarrel with our neighbors, condemn others, chat in vain - this will be a violation of the fast. Fasting is an opportunity to refrain not only from food, but also from such moral daily sins that we are used to not noticing in everyday life.
Is it possible to play a wedding (get married / get married) in the Christmas post?
Orthodox Christians cannot, of course, have a wedding during Advent. The wedding does not take place at this time. For those who decide to marry in the registry office, the Christmas post is also not the best time. It is important to remember that there is a time for everything: a time of joy and a time of abstinence. If a person considers himself an Orthodox Christian, then he must heed the voice of the Church.
Can you have sex on Advent?
This is a very subtle, personal question. The apostle Paul, in his first letter to the Corinthians, says: « Wife not has power over her body, but her husband; likewise the husband has no power over his own body, but the wife” (1 Corinthians 4:7). If a husband and wife fast in bodily continence, then by mutual agreement.
If Orthodox Christians have a spiritual father, then this issue must be resolved with him. Such a question is much more personal than, for example, abstaining from meat. Maybe a Christian wife has an unbelieving husband, such abstinence is completely incomprehensible to him, this can lead to a quarrel in the family. Therefore, it is better to solve this problem with your confessor.
What can you eat on Advent?
In the Christmas fast you can eat fish, seafood, vegetables, fruits, bread. You can not eat meat, poultry, dairy products and eggs.
Can you eat fish on Advent?
In worldly tradition, in condescension to our infirmities, fish can be eaten on all days except Wednesday and Friday. For the laity, this is rather not a rule, but an indulgence. A modern person spends several hours a day on the road, gets tired at work, is at home in constant household chores, so we, as residents of megacities, are given such condescending indulgences.
Can you drink wine on Advent?
Wine is allowed to be drunk during Advent on Sundays and major holidays that fall during Lent. For example, the Entry into the Church of the Most Holy Theotokos (December 4), the Day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (December 19), the day of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called (December 13), the Memorial Day of St. Spyridon Trimifuntsky (December 25), patronal holidays.
As King David said in the Psalter: “…And wine gladdens the heart of man, and bread strengthens him” (Ps. 103:15). Wine is allowed to be drunk both on holidays and on fasting days, but in moderation.
Separately, it is worth mentioning the night from December 31 to January 1. January 1st is Monday in 2018. If you are going to receive communion on this day, then you must observe complete abstinence from food and drinks from midnight (this restriction does not apply to very young children and medication). In all other cases, the celebration of the New Year should also be modest, since the Orthodox continue the Christmas fast.
Is it possible to baptize on Advent?
Baptism can be performed on any day of Advent. There are no barriers to baptizing a child or an adult during Advent. Another thing is that you need to prepare for the sacrament: call the temple, agree on the time of baptism, talk with the priest. Now there is a rule of obligatory catechesis for adults and adolescents who are about to be baptized, and godfathers or mothers at the baptism of small children.
Be sure to ask about the preparation for baptism in the temple where you are going to be baptized yourself or baptize a child. You can find this out on the parish website, by phone or for candle box.
Is it possible to receive communion on Christmas Day?
It is possible and, moreover, it is desirable to take communion more often than usual during the Christmas Fast. Since fasting is a time that helps prepare for communion. We are in abstinence, prayer. Therefore, observing the rules of fasting, we can approach the sacrament with the fear of God.
How to Prepare for Communion on Christmas Day?
Fasting, if observed, is in itself a preparation for communion. It is necessary to read the following to Holy Communion, read the penitential canon to the Savior, the prayer canon to the Most Holy Theotokos and the canon to the guardian angel.
What prayers are read in the Christmas fast?
Since not all of us have time to read the daily morning and evening rules outside of Lent, it would be best to start with them during the Christmas Lent and try to read them regularly. This will be the best prayer work for us, which it is desirable to leave in our ordinary life after the Advent.
In addition, in Christian tradition during fasting, the Gospel should be read more often: either in a row, or the one that is read that day in the temple (this can be seen in church calendar, where the reading for each day is indicated). And for those who follow the daily rules and regularly read the Gospel, it is worth reading the Psalter.
Is it possible to read akathists during the Nativity Fast?
At home you can read any Orthodox prayers for the laity (without priestly exclamations). There is a well-known expression "The cell does not have a charter." Another thing is that the akathist is a solemn, joyful, thanksgiving prayer, which, perhaps, is not very appropriate, for example, on Good Friday - the day of the crucifixion of Christ. But during the Nativity Fast, you can read an akathist, especially since in December the days of memory of such famous saints as the Apostle Andrew the First-Called, Spyridon Trimifuntsky or St. Nicholas Archbishop Mir of Lycia are celebrated.
What can be commemorated in the Christmas post?
It is necessary to commemorate the dead at any time of the year with a prayer: submitting notes for proskomidia (part of the liturgy), funeral services, home prayer for deceased relatives and friends.
If we are talking about the memorial meal, then it should be lenten. The measure of abstinence and the possibility of relaxing fasting requirements should be discussed with your confessor or priest, whose opinion you trust.
Is it possible to conceive a child during Advent?
There is a tradition to refuse marital intimacy during fasting, so it is not worth conceiving a child on Christmas fast. On the other hand, the apostle Paul says: “Do not deviate from one another, except by agreement, for a time, for the exercise of fasting and prayer, and then be together again” (1 Cor. 7:5), so the question of the possibility of marital relations during Advent should be discussed with the spouse. If the conception of a child nevertheless occurred, do not pay attention to the superstitious ideas associated with this - the date of conception does not affect the child in any way.
Is it possible to eat marshmallows during Advent?
According to the monastic charter, milk and eggs are prohibited during the Nativity Fast. If these products are part of the marshmallow (which can be read on the product packaging), then it is impossible. Recall that the measure of abstinence and the possibility of relaxing fasting requirements must first be discussed with your confessor or priest, whose opinion you trust.
Is it possible to get married on Christmas Lent?
It is not entirely clear what is meant by the word "marry". If we are talking about a marriage proposal or meeting the parents of a chosen one or chosen one, then this is not prohibited. If we are talking about a wedding, then in the Orthodox Church during many days of fasting this sacrament is not performed.
By fasting, you can “sign at the registry office”, and postpone the wedding for later, but it’s better to ask the confessor for this blessing, consult with him on how best to proceed.
Is it possible to sew in the Christmas post? Is it possible to embroider with beads in the Christmas post?
Certainly you can. Sewing is a calm and pacifying activity that is quite consistent with the Lenten mood. It is better to embroider and sew than to waste time on TV or after hours on the Internet. By the way, according to church tradition, the Most Holy Theotokos herself was engaged in sewing - she sewed a veil for Solomon's temple. On the icons of the Annunciation, the Mother of God is often depicted with sewing accessories.
The main thing is that embroidery should not replace prayer in the temple. Otherwise, there are no prohibitions on doing embroidery at any time.
Any occupation must be approached with inner spiritual reasoning.
Where can one gather on Advent?
Unction during the Advent is a rarer phenomenon than unction during the Great Fast.
Nevertheless, in many Orthodox churches there is a tradition of unction during many days of fasting.
You can find out how to congregate in the temple of your choice on the parish website, by phone, or at the candle box. You will be told when you can confer and how best to prepare for the sacrament.
Residents of the sleeping areas of Moscow are better off choosing a temple in the city center, where there can be significantly fewer people than on the outskirts.
Unction is a sacrament in which we ask God for forgiveness of our forgotten sins. These do not include sins that a person deliberately concealed in confession.
Is it possible to eat crackers in the Christmas post?
Of course, you can eat crackers during the Christmas Fast - this is one of the leanest types of food, unless they are stuffed with milk.
Recall that the measure of abstinence and the possibility of relaxing fasting requirements must first be discussed with your confessor or priest, whose opinion you trust.
The most important component of fasting is a special nutrition system, which is designed to help a person cleanse himself physically, as well as prepare the body for spiritual renewal. At the same time, nutritionists warn that ill-conceived fasting in fasting can significantly reduce the intake of essential vitamins and minerals, as well as adversely affect the metabolism. You can avoid such problems only with the help of a well-balanced lean diet ...
Nutrition during fasting provides for the rejection of the use of all types of meat products, poultry, milk and its derivatives, fish, eggs and animal fat. Wherein Orthodox Church distinguishes between special days of strict fasting and times when Christians are allowed to eat certain foods. For example, on the day of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Palm Sunday, the lenten menu is supplemented with fish and seafood.
Scientists say that the daily requirement of an adult for protein is approximately 90 grams. During fasting, the intake of protein foods in the body is sharply reduced. Compensate for the lack of animal proteins with soy and other legumes, sunflower seeds, mushrooms, nuts, which are very close to meat products in their amino acid composition. In addition, the lack of protein foods is easier to bear for those who sleep well and spend a lot of time outdoors.
On days when you can eat seafood, include shrimp or squid in your diet. They are distinguished by high nutritional value and well absorbed by the body.
While fasting, keep track of the calorie content of your meals. It is important that the food consumed provides the body with required amount energy. Supplement boiled and raw vegetables with cereals, which contain a large amount of healthy carbohydrates. An important source of energy in fasting is sugar, but sweets should not be abused.
Do not start fasting without prior preparation: a sharp change in your usual diet can be detrimental to health. Prepare the body for a new diet in advance (at least 2 weeks before fasting). It is also impossible to quickly return to modest dishes after the lifting of church prohibitions. Introduce animal products to the menu gradually and in small portions.
In order for fasting in fasting to be beneficial, enter proper nutrition into a habit: avoid fried and smoked foods, limit the consumption of alcohol, sweets and salt, try to eat in small portions, etc. Only under these conditions will the dietary restriction be effective, and fasting will not become a difficult test for the body.
Lenten Recipes for Lent 2013
Lenten table- not only considered good for health, lean foods: vegetables, cereals - the most refined culinary products, often requiring special cooking skills and giving the most amazing results ...
In Lent, meat, eggs, dairy products, animal fats are excluded from the diet. Fish is allowed on the Annunciation and on Palm Sunday. Fish caviar is allowed on Lazarus Saturday ...
Salads
Cooking salads in a strict fast can greatly diversify the table. In Great Lent, of course, fresh vegetables are less available than in summer fasts, but preparations can be widely used: frozen, dried, pickled vegetables and fruits, tofu, add boiled rice or other cereals.
For dressing salads, sunflower oil, soy mayonnaise, sauces are used, or enough juicy ingredients are selected so that the salad is tasty without additional ingredients.
Salad from different vegetables
100 g kohlrabi, 50 g canned green peas, 2 carrots, 2 fresh apples, cucumbers, 50 g lettuce or green onion, 50 g plums or prunes, 1 fresh sweet pepper or tomato, 1 teaspoon sugar, 200 g .soy mayonnaise, pepper, salt to taste, dill.
Peeled boiled young kohlrabi, carrots cut into thin slices. Rinse prunes, pour hot water for swelling, remove the bones from it and cut into slices. Also cut pitted plums.
Tomatoes cut into 5-6 pieces, fresh Bell pepper, removing the stalk along with the grains, cut into strips. Peel the apples, remove the seed boxes from them and cut them in the same way as vegetables. Cut the washed lettuce leaves into 2-3 parts, and chop the cucumbers into slices.
Mix chopped vegetables and fruits, add canned green peas, lightly salt, pepper and season with mayonnaise when serving. Sugar (powdered sugar is better) and lemon juice can be added to the salad. Vegetable salad can be prepared with other vegetables available.
The vinaigrette
Peel boiled potatoes and beets, cut into small cubes or thin slices. Cut pickled cucumbers and onions into cubes. Sort the sauerkraut, cut into large pieces.
If sauerkraut has a very sour taste, rinse it with cold water or even soak it for some time, squeeze it, chop it. Finely chop the onion. Then mix all the vegetables, salt and season with vegetable oil. Potatoes can be partially or completely replaced with boiled beans.
Lean seaweed salad
Dried sea kale soaked, boiled, washed thoroughly,. Separately, chopped onions are fried, mixed with prepared cabbage, seasoned with soy sauce, ajinomoto, and other spices to taste.
Korean salads
A lot of Korean salads have lean ingredients and therefore are quite suitable for a Lenten meal. You can buy them ready-made or make your own. To prepare salads, you need a special grater (only an experienced hand can cut as thinly as necessary).
Here are a few classic options: 1) carrot (thinly chopped), 2) carrot and green radish (the second one is smaller, chop both products), 3) cabbage (cut into 2x2 cm squares, add either chopped carrots or beets, but the latter is very small, for color only). Prepared vegetables are salted, mixed, crushed, allowed to stand until juice is obtained, the juice is drained or squeezed.
Unscented sunflower oil is heated in a frying pan. At this time, vegetables are seasoned with vinegar, red pepper, ajinomoto, coriander. Finely chop the garlic and place a slide on the vegetables, pour the heated oil directly on the garlic, mix everything. Let stand, cool.
Salad of cabbage, carrots, apples and sweet peppers
The washed white cabbage is cut into strips, ground with a small amount of salt, the juice is drained, mixed with peeled chopped apples, carrots, sweet peppers, seasoned with sugar and vegetable oil. Sprinkle with finely chopped herbs.
300 g of cabbage, 2 apples, 1 carrot, 100 g of sweet pepper, 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, herbs.
Beet caviar
Finely chop the onion, grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Fry everything in vegetable oil until golden brown. Then add grated fresh beets. Five minutes before cooking, add salt to taste and tomato paste.
1 onion, 1 carrot, 3-4 medium beets, 100 g vegetable oil, 1/2 cup tomato paste diluted with water, salt.
Radish salad with butter
Peel and rinse the radish well, put it in cold water for 15-20 minutes, then let the water drain, chop the radish on a grater, season with vegetable oil, salt and vinegar, put in a salad bowl, garnish with herbs. You can add chopped onion sautéed in vegetable oil to the grated radish.
Radish 120 g, vegetable oil. 10 g, 3 g vinegar, 15 g onions, greens.
vitamin salad
Finely chop fresh cabbage, grate carrots on a coarse grater. Mix everything and salt. Add green peas (canned). Pour vinegar, vegetable oil, sprinkle with black pepper and herbs. You can add fresh cucumbers and green onions.
300 g of fresh cabbage, 1 large carrot, 5 tablespoons of peas, salt, 1 tablespoon of vinegar. 10 g vegetable oil, 2 g black pepper.
Salad “Summer”
Put the tomatoes in a colander, pour over boiling water, and then immediately - cold water. Remove skin. Cut peeled tomatoes into thin slices. Cut the peeled apple in half and remove the core. Cut the apple into slices too. Cut the onion and pepper into small strips. Mix everything. Salt, add sugar, add lemon juice and pour vegetable oil.
2 ripe tomatoes, 1 apple, 1 small onion, 1 sweet peri pod, 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, salt, sugar, 1 tablespoon lemon juice.
Tomatoes stuffed with mixed vegetables
Wash the tomatoes, cut off the top with a sharp knife, take out the core with a spoon. Finely chop the boiled carrots, finely chop the apple, grate the cucumbers on a coarse grater. Put all vegetables in a bowl, add peas, salt, vegetable oil and stir. Stuff the tomatoes with this stuffing. Sprinkle dill on top.
5 small tomatoes, 1 carrot, 1 apple, 2 pickled cucumbers, 100 g canned green peas, 2 tbsp vegetable oil, 1/3 tsp salt, dill.
rice salad
Boil rice in salted water. Chop vegetables, mix with chilled rice, salt, sprinkle with pepper, add sugar and vinegar to taste.
100 g rice, 2 sweet peppers, 1 tomato, 1 carrot, 1 pickled cucumber, 1 onion.
Leek
Finely chop the green part of the leek into rings (four stalks are needed), fry in margarine with garlic and thyme. Add the white part of the stems. Pour all this white wine in half with vegetable broth, before placing the container in the oven, cover with food paper, put in the oven and leave for 30 minutes.
4 stalks of leeks, 2 cloves of garlic, a bunch of fresh thyme, 115 g of butter (can be vegetable margarine), 2 glasses of chardonnay, 285 ml of vegetable broth, sea salt and black pepper.
Buckwheat crumbly with mushrooms and onions
3 cups of water, 1.5 cups of unground buckwheat, 2 onions, some dry porcini mushrooms. Fill the core with water, cover with chopped mushrooms and put on a strong fire, closing the lid.
When it boils, reduce the heat by half and continue to cook for 10 minutes until thickened, then reduce the heat again to low and cook for about 5-7 minutes more. until the water is completely evaporated. Remove from heat, wrap in warm water for 15 minutes. At the same time, fry finely chopped onion, salt. Add the fried onion to the porridge, stir evenly.
Mushroom pilaf
For pilaf, thick-walled dishes are preferable, evenly warming up and slowly giving off heat. The ratio of the main components: rice \ carrot \ mushrooms (frozen, fresh or soaked dry) is equal, i.e. for a pound of rice, exactly the same number of carrots and mushrooms.
It is possible to partially or completely replace mushrooms with soy meat, however, it should be remembered that soy meat itself does not have the same taste qualities as mushrooms, and when using it, you should finish the dish with seasonings and spices.
We heat the cauldron and the oil in it (do not spare the oil for pilaf: its taste improves significantly), fry the mushrooms and carrots, add salt and spices, cover from above, without stirring, with a layer of washed rice and pour gently with water (1.5 volumes from rice), so that rice is obtained covered with water with a margin of not a couple of centimeters. close the lid tightly, trying not to open the lid further unnecessarily.
When we hear that the contents of the cauldron are boiling, reduce the heat to a minimum, at this time we will prepare the garlic: we will need a few small cloves. They are placed directly in a cap of rice (rice has already swollen absorbed all the water above it) whole and lightly pressed down, immersed in rice, after which the cauldron is already turned off, but the pilaf continues to cook due to residual heat.
After ten or fifteen minutes, you can mix everything up and serve it to the table. Homemade pickles or tomatoes or sauerkraut serve as a good addition to pilaf.
Sweet barley porridge with poppy seeds
Rinse the barley groats and begin to boil in plenty of water over moderate heat, removing the foam. When the cereal begins to secrete mucus, drain the excess water and cook until the cereal is soft and thick, stirring occasionally.
Prepare poppy seeds (less than half a glass of poppy seeds for a glass of cereal): pour boiling water over it, let it steam, after 5 minutes. drain the water, rinse the poppy seeds, pour boiling water again, drain it immediately as soon as droplets of fat begin to appear on the surface of the water. Then grind the steamed poppy, adding a little boiling water.
Mix prepared poppy seeds with thickened, softened barley porridge, adding honey, heat over low heat for 5-7 minutes, stirring continuously, remove from heat, season with jam.
Millet porridge with pumpkin
Boil small pieces of pumpkin in water for 10-15 minutes. Rinse the millet thoroughly and add it there, lightly salt, sweeten. Stirring, cook until thickened (min. 15-20). You can put "walk" for a short time in the oven. The proportions between pumpkin and millet are chosen to taste, the amount of water is taken depending on the previous components, and with more pumpkin, less water is required.
FIRST MEAL
Adaptation to fasting kharcho soup
Pour half a glass of rice into two or three liters of boiling water. Fry 3-4 onions, put them in water with rice, Bay leaf, allspice (crush the peas). After 5 minutes, add half a cup of crushed walnuts.
After a short time, add half a glass of tomato paste (in a more classic version: tkemali plums, which we do not meet, or half a glass pomegranate juice): dried herbs (basil, parsley), red pepper, a little cinnamon, suneli hops (a key seasoning for the taste of the soup).
After another 5 minutes, you can turn it off completely by adding fresh herbs and chopped garlic, let it brew. In a variant even more adapted to the Russian environment, you can put potatoes in boiling water before rice.
Rassolnik
Soak a small amount of pearl barley for several hours (no more than half a glass for a standard three-liter soup pot). Boil it lightly. In boiling water with barley, lay the potatoes cut into cubes. Separately, fry the onion, add the carrots to the rice and potatoes.
Later, close to the readiness of the potatoes, lay the chopped pickles and season with brine (it’s good to stew these cucumbers in brine a little before). At the end of cooking, add chopped garlic, bay leaf, dried or fresh herbs. Can be served with soy mayonnaise, if available.
Korean soup
For such a soup, you need to have a special soy seasoning: tai. It has a very thick consistency, dark brown color, specific taste and smell. The Japanese have its analogue, it is called “mizo”.
For a lean version of this soup, three or four onion heads are fried with the addition of two or three tablespoons of tea, you can also add steamed soy meat here. After that, water is added (up to three liters), after boiling, potatoes and a little later a “profile” vegetable.
It can be fresh Korean cabbage or dried cabbage, or chopped zucchini, or a couple of green radishes. The soup is cooked until the vegetables are ready. Salinity and sharpness should give tai, if it seems insufficient, you can still salt and add red pepper. Serve with unleavened rice cooked in thick-walled dishes, the ratio of rice and water: two to three, gradually reducing the heat.
Lentil Chowder
Soak lentils for a couple of hours, put to boil, peel and cut potatoes, carrots and onions fried in oil. Successful additives and spices for this soup: coriander, thyme, garlic, herbs. It goes well with soy meat (fried together with onions and carrots), tomato, olives (the brine from them is added directly to the soup) and soy mayonnaise when serving.
Vegetable soup
Fry chopped onion, parsley and celery in vegetable oil, add water, put chopped carrots, turnips and shredded cabbage and cook over low heat for 20-30 minutes. Approximately in the middle of cooking, add crushed garlic, seasonings; put applesauce or grated apple at the very end. Serving on the table, sprinkle the soup with chopped herbs.
2 onions, 1 parsley root, celery, 2 tbsp vegetable oil, 1 liter water, 2 carrots, 1 swede slice, 1 cup finely shredded cabbage (150 g), garlic clove, 1 bay leaf, 1/2 teaspoon cumin , 1 apple or 2 tablespoons applesauce, salt, herbs.
Pea soup with pearl barley
Soak the peas overnight in cold water and, adding the washed barley, put in the same water to boil. Cut carrots, onions and parsley into small cubes, fry in oil and combine with peas when it is half ready. Salt and sprinkle with herbs.
1 liter of water, 1 glass of peas, 1 tbsp of pearl barley, 1/2 carrots, 1/2 onion, 1/2 parsley root, 1 tbsp of vegetable oil, herbs, salt.
Lean pea soup
In the evening, pour cold water over the peas and leave to swell and cook the noodles.
For noodles, half a glass of flour should be mixed well with three tablespoons of vegetable oil, add a spoonful of cold water, salt, leave the dough for an hour to swell. Thinly rolled and dried dough cut into strips, dry in the oven.
Boil the swollen peas, without draining the water, until half cooked, add the fried onions, diced potatoes, noodles, pepper, salt and cook until the potatoes and noodles are ready.
Peas - 50 g, potatoes - 100 g, onions - 20 g, water - 300 g, onion frying oil - 10 g, parsley, salt, pepper to taste.
Russian lean soup
Weld pearl barley, add fresh cabbage, cut into small squares, potatoes and roots, cut into cubes, into the broth and cook until tender. In summer, you can add fresh tomatoes, cut into slices, which are laid at the same time as the potatoes.
Sprinkle with parsley or dill when serving.
Potatoes, cabbage - 100 g each, onions - 20 g, carrots - 20 g, pearl barley - 20 g, dill, salt to taste.
Borscht with mushrooms
Prepared mushrooms are stewed in oil along with chopped roots. Boiled beets are rubbed or cut into cubes. Potatoes cut into oblong pieces are boiled in broth until soft, other products are added (flour is mixed with a small amount of cold liquid) and everything is boiled together for 10 minutes. Greens are put in the soup before serving. If tomato puree is added, then it is stewed together with mushrooms.
200 g fresh or 30 g dried porcini mushrooms, 1 tbsp vegetable oil, 1 onion, some celery or parsley, 2 small beets (400 g), 4 potatoes, salt, 1-2 liters of water, 1 teaspoon flour, 2 -3 tbsp greens, 1 tbsp tomato puree, vinegar.
SECOND DISHES
Peppers, eggplant, stuffed zucchini
Peel peppers, eggplants, young zucchini from stalks and seeds (peel the zucchini) and stuff with minced vegetables, which includes finely chopped onions, carrots, cabbage, taken in equal proportions, and 1/10 of their total volume of parsley and celery.
All vegetables going to minced meat, pre-fry in vegetable oil. Also fry eggplants, peppers and zucchini stuffed. Then put in a deep metal bowl, pour 2 cups of tomato juice and place in the oven for 30-45 minutes. for baking.
Tikhvin porridge
Rinse the peas, boil them in water without adding salt, and when the water is boiled down by 1/3 and the peas are almost ready, add the prodel and cook until tender. Then season with finely chopped onion, fried in butter, and soda.
1/2 cup peas, 1.5 liters of water, 1 cup of buckwheat, 2 onions, 4 cm. tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Simple stew
Cut raw potatoes into large cubes and in a wide frying pan, in vegetable oil, as quickly as possible (over high heat) and fry evenly on all sides until golden brown. As soon as the crust forms, put the still half-baked potatoes in a clay pot, cover with finely chopped herbs, onions, salt, add boiling water, close the lid and put in the oven for 1 minute. Ready stew is eaten with cucumbers (fresh or salted), sauerkraut.
1 kg potatoes, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 1 tbsp dill, I cm. parsley spoon, 1 onion, 1/2 cup water, salt.
Braised cabbage
Finely chop the onion, put in a pan with vegetable oil and fry until golden brown. Then add finely chopped cabbage and fry until half cooked. For 10 min. before the end, add salt, tomato paste, red or black ground pepper, sweet peas and bay leaf. Close the pan with a lid. Sprinkle greens on the table before serving.
2 medium onions, 1 small head of cabbage 1/2 cup vegetable oil, salt, peas, 2-3 allspice peas, 1 bay leaf, 1/2 cup tomato paste diluted with water.
Potatoes in garlic sauce
Rinse the peeled potatoes and dry with a towel. Cut each potato in half. Heat most of the vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the potatoes until golden brown. Then cook garlic Sause. To do this, rub the garlic with salt, add 2 tablespoons of sunflower oil and stir. Drizzle fried potatoes with garlic sauce.
10 small potatoes, half a glass of sunflower oil, 6 cloves of garlic, 2 teaspoons of salt.
Rice-oatmeal porridge crumbly
Rinse rice and oats, mix and pour the mixture into boiling water. Keep on high heat for 12 minutes, then reduce the heat to medium and hold for another 5-8 minutes, then remove from heat, wrap warm and only after 15-20 minutes. open the lid. Season the finished porridge with onion fried in oil and finely chopped garlic and dill. Heat in a frying pan over low heat for 3-4 minutes.
1.5 cups of rice, 0.75 cups of oats, 0.7 liters of water, 2 teaspoons of salt, 1 onion, 4-5 cloves of garlic. 4-5 tablespoons of sunflower oil, 1 tablespoon of dill.
pusher
Soak the poppy seeds for 10 hours, drain the water, wring out and grind in a mortar.
Soak the beans for 10 hours, boil for 2 hours and grind the boiled beans into a puree, to which, hot, add the crushed poppy seeds, mashed potatoes, finely chopped onion, sugar, pepper, parsley and grind.
5 potatoes, 0.5 cups of beans, 2 tablespoons of poppy seeds, 1-2 onions, 2 teaspoons of sugar, 1 tablespoon of parsley, 0.5 tablespoons of ground black pepper.
Potato cutlets with prunes
Mash 400 grams of boiled potatoes, salt, add half a glass of vegetable oil, half a glass of warm water and enough flour to make a soft dough.
Let stand for about twenty minutes so that the flour swells, at this time prepare the prunes - peel it from the stones, pour boiling water over it. Roll out the dough, cut into circles with a glass, put prunes in the middle of each, form cutlets, pinching the dough in the form of pies, roll each cutlet in breadcrumbs and fry in a pan in a large amount of vegetable oil.
Potato fritters
Grate some of the potatoes, boil some, drain the water, salt and add the onion finely chopped and fried in vegetable oil. Mix the whole potato mass, add flour and soda and bake pancakes from the resulting dough in vegetable oil.
750 g of grated raw potatoes, 500 g of boiled potatoes (mashed potatoes), 3 tablespoons of flour, 0.5 teaspoons of soda.
Rice with vegetables
Heat oil in a frying pan, fry onion, carrot, sweet pepper in it. Then add lightly boiled rice, salt, pepper, a little water and simmer for another 15 minutes. Bring to readiness, rice should absorb all the liquid. Then add green peas, parsley and dill.
2 full glasses of rice, 100 g of vegetable oil, 3 onions, 1 carrot, salt, pepper, 3 sweet peppers, 0.5 l of water, 5 tablespoons of green peas.
Kvass, compotes
Dried fruit compote
Wash the fruits and then separate the apples and pears, as they take longer to cook.
Rinse the sorted fruits 3-4 times, put them in boiling water. Boil pears and apples for 35-40 minutes, other fruits - 15-20 minutes. At the end, add sugar.
200 g of dry fruits, 5 tablespoons of sugar, 1.5 liters of water.
Rhubarb compote
Wash the rhubarb stalks in warm water. Remove the skin from the thickened ends with a knife. Then cut the stems into pieces 2-3 cm long, put in a bowl, pour cold water and leave in it for 15 minutes. Boil sugar syrup. Remove prepared rhubarb from cold water and immerse in boiling syrup, add lemon zest and cook for 10-15 minutes.
200 g rhubarb (petioles), 150 g sugar, 4 cups water, 8 g lemon zest.
Cowberry compote with apples
Wash apples of winter varieties, cut into slices, remove the core from them. Then immerse the fruits in a sugar syrup made from a decoction of apple peel and cores. Bring the syrup to a boil and put lingonberries in it.
150 g cranberries, 150 g apples, 150 g granulated sugar, 600 g water.
MUSHROOMS
mushroom vinaigrette
Mushrooms and onions are chopped, boiled carrots, beets, potatoes and cucumbers are cut into cubes, mixed. The oil is seasoned with vinegar and seasonings, they are poured over the salad. Sprinkle with herbs on top.
150 g pickled or salted mushrooms, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 small beetroot, 2-3 potatoes, 1 pickle, 3 tbsp vegetable oil, 2 cm. tablespoons of vinegar, salt, sugar, mustard, pepper, dill and parsley.
mushroom caviar
Fresh mushrooms are stewed in their own juice until the juice evaporates. Salted mushrooms are soaked to remove excess salt, dried mushrooms are soaked, boiled and allowed to drain in a colander. Then the mushrooms are finely chopped and mixed with chopped onion, lightly fried in vegetable oil. The mixture is seasoned, sprinkled with finely chopped green onions on top.
400 g fresh, 200 g salted or 500 g dried mushrooms, 1 onion, 2 tbsp vegetable oil, salt, pepper, vinegar or lemon juice, green onions.
stewed mushrooms
The oil is heated, put into it thinly sliced mushrooms and chopped onions. Broth is added to boiled mushrooms, fresh mushrooms are stewed in their own juice for 15-20 minutes. By the end of the stew, salt and herbs are added. Served as a side dish boiled potatoes and raw vegetable salad.
500 g fresh or 300 g boiled (salted) mushrooms, 2 tbsp vegetable oil, 1 onion, salt, 1/2 cup mushroom broth, parsley and dill.
PIES
Lean dough for pies
Knead a dough of half a kilogram of flour, two glasses of water and 25-30 g of yeast.
When the dough rises, add salt, sugar, three tablespoons of vegetable oil, another half a kilogram of flour to it and beat the dough until it stops sticking to your hands.
Then put the dough in the same pan where the dough was prepared and let it rise again.
After that, the dough is ready for further work.
Apple charlotte with brown bread
Apples (preferably sour varieties, such as Antonov) - 3 pieces, granulated sugar - 100 g, cinnamon, cloves and vanillin to taste, almonds (I took hazelnuts, because there were no almonds) -20 g, dry white wine - 20 g, black mashed bread - 1 cup (I took 2 cups, it seemed to me that a glass was not enough), vegetable oil - 20 g, zest of 0.5 lemon, orange peels- 20 g. Peel the apples, cut into slices, remove the grains, put 2 tablespoons of sugar, add cinnamon, crushed nuts, orange peels, white wine.
Buckwheat porridge shangi
Roll out cakes from lean dough, put in the middle of each buckwheat porridge cooked with onions and mushrooms, fold the edges of the cake.
After laying the finished shangi on a greased form, bake them in the oven.
The same shangi can be prepared stuffed with fried onions, potatoes, crushed garlic and fried onions.
Buckwheat pancakes
Pour three cups of buckwheat flour in the evening with three cups of boiling water, stir well and leave for an hour. If you do not have buckwheat flour, you can make it yourself by grinding buckwheat in a coffee grinder.
When the dough has cooled, dilute it with a glass of boiling water. When the dough becomes slightly warm, add 25 g of yeast dissolved in half a glass of water.
In the morning, add the rest of the flour, salt dissolved in water to the dough and knead the dough until the density of sour cream, put it in a warm place and bake in a pan when the dough rises again.
These pancakes are especially good with onion fritters.
Pancakes with spices (with mushrooms, onions)
Prepare a dough of 300 g of flour, a glass of water, 20 g of yeast and put it in a warm place.
When the dough comes up, pour another glass of warm water, two tablespoons of vegetable oil, salt, sugar, the rest of the flour into it and mix everything thoroughly.
Soak the washed dried mushrooms for three hours, boil until tender, cut into small pieces, fry, add chopped and lightly fried green or onion, cut into rings. After spreading the pastries in a pan, fill them with dough, fry like ordinary pancakes.
Pea pancakes
Boil the peas until soft and, without draining the remaining water, grind, adding 0.5 cups of wheat flour per 750 g of pea puree. Form pancakes from the resulting dough, roll in flour and bake in a pan in vegetable oil.
Pies with pea filling
Boil the peas until cooked, mash, add the onion fried in vegetable oil, pepper, salt to taste.
Prepare a simple yeast dough. Divide the dough into balls the size of a walnut and roll into cakes 1 mm thick. Put the filling. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes.
Fresh dough products
What are the features of unleavened dough prepared in fasting? We cannot put an egg in it to strengthen it. Our actions because of this are more dependent on the “character” of the flour, on the strength of its gluten.
If the flour is good, and you've tried to make a very tight dough (water:flour ratio = 1:3 by volume, and don't forget to add salt - adding salt also strengthens the dough a little), then you will get a great dumpling dough.
But a situation may well arise when the quality of the flour leaves much to be desired, there is not enough strength to knead the dough, no male power on hold. Then you can pour more water (1:2.5), but be prepared for the fact that the dough “floats” during the cooking process, dumplings or other products will be slippery, falling apart. Prayerfully and patiently treat this and with humility (it is always useful) eat.
In the future, when using the same flour, you can “overcome” the weakness of its character by changing the method of preparation: steam it (it will be something like manti), or fry in oil (like pasties).
Both of these methods require a softer dough. Interesting options Tests are obtained by replacing water with brine or another liquid. There are methods that use hot water, while the dough turns out to have a special taste, with a little sweetness, and more water is needed for such a dough.
The dough can be used directly, for noodles, dumplings, for a side dish or as a component for soup, or as a shell for stuffing: fried cabbage or other vegetables, mashed potatoes, mushrooms, onions, greens, fresh or frozen berries with sugar, boiled and twisted dried fruits, bean or pea puree and even porridge: for example, millet or buckwheat.
We prepare the usual unleavened dough, let it rest for about twenty minutes, roll it into small thin circles and fry them on both sides. Serve on the table, where various fillings are prepared: bean paste, fresh vegetable salad, stewed vegetables, and maybe jam, fruit salad. We spread the filling directly on the cakes and eat immediately along with the “plate”.
dumplings
Unleavened dough, kneaded in water, roll out into a cake 1 cm thick, cut into strips 2-3 cm wide, pinching off small pieces from each strip, throw into salted boiling water (or vegetable, mushroom broth). Dough for dumplings can also be prepared from a mixture of wheat and buckwheat flour. Dumplings boiled in water are drained and seasoned with onion fry. Dumplings boiled in broth are eaten with liquid.
Vareniki with mushrooms
Soak and boil 150 g of dry mushrooms, finely chop, add 2 onions fried in oil, 2 tablespoons of crumbs from stale rolls, pepper, salt, a little mushroom broth, knead everything and stew lightly. The dough is the usual for dumplings. Roll out thinly, make small dumplings and cook. Serve drizzled with oil.
Lenten manti with pumpkin
To prepare manti, you need special utensils: a double boiler or a saucepan with a removable top, where grates with manti (kaskan, mantovarka) are inserted. Dough: for 1 kg of flour half a liter hot water, salt - knead well, let lie down.
Minced meat: pumpkin cut into small (half a centimeter) cubes, soy meat in proportionate pieces in equal proportions with pumpkin, spices: salt, red pepper, ajinomoto. Roll out the dough into thin circles the size of a small saucer. Minced meat is laid out in the middle, a tablespoon with a slide.
The dough is pinched from above: with a bag or figured. The grates are lubricated with vegetable oil. Put manti on them (not crowded, otherwise they will stick together), insert into a saucepan, where water is already boiling and steam for 45 minutes.
Serve with sauce: dilute soy sauce (classic, Korean, brown) half with water, add a little vinegar, red pepper (a noticeable amount), chopped garlic.
Vareniki with cherries
Make dough from flour on water, not very steep, roll into a thin cake. Peel cherries, sprinkle with sugar. The juice that drains is digested with sugar. Sculpt small dumplings, boil, strain into a colander, pour juice on a dish. Serve cold.
Vareniki with apples
For the filling, take 800 g of apples, 1/2 cup of sugar. Peel the apples, remove the core, cut into strips, sprinkle with sugar, make dumplings from a not very thin dough and boil them. When serving, sprinkle dumplings with sugar or sprinkle with honey.
desserts
I would like to start talking about desserts with the simplest, what does not need cooking: fresh fruits or washed and steamed dried (dried apricots, raisins, figs, dates, prunes), nuts of the most different types, halvah, kazenaki, marshmallow, jam of different consistencies.
Lenten include many candies and jelly sweets, marshmallows (technologically it can be lean). Of the prepared desserts, we note kissels, jelly, fruit salads. The latter are either prepared from predominantly juicy fruits or seasoned with syrup prepared from canned fruits or prepared on their own. Baking, flour desserts will be considered separately.
apple dessert
Mix chopped baked apples with boiled rice and add ginger and curry. Baked apples can also be served without rice with powdered sugar and cinnamon.
Cereal dessert with dried fruits
Cook the usual compote of dried apricots, raisins or other pitted dried fruits. When the fruit is ready, semolina (or other small cereals) is poured in a thin stream with stirring evenly, in a small amount.
citrus jelly
4 oranges, lemon, 100 g of sugar, 15 g of agar-agar, half a glass of water. Dissolve agar-agar and sugar in warm water, add the zest of half an orange, juice of oranges and lemon, mix, strain, pour into molds and refrigerate. When serving, the molds are lowered briefly under water so that the jelly separates easily.
fruit salad
Boil the pasta until tender, put it in a colander and pour over with cold water, season with grows. oil and mix. Cut the grapes in half and remove the seeds. Cut bananas into slices.
Peel the apple from the core and cut into thin slices. Add tangerines or oranges in slices or half slices. Sprinkle fruit with cinnamon sugar, sprinkle with lemon juice. Finely chop the figs and dates, chop the nuts.
Drain canned fruits in a colander, mix with pasta and other ingredients and add a little canned fruit syrup. Mix everything, sprinkle with coconut flakes and / or chocolate chips.
Jellied pumpkin
Stew the peeled pumpkin in the oven until transparent with a little water. Pour raisins, peeled walnuts (slightly chopped), dried apricots (also cut into 3-4 parts) into a flat dish at the bottom half a finger thick.
Top it all with a pumpkin. Do not pour out the juice remaining from cooking the pumpkin, but use it instead of water to make jelly (see the instructions on the bags with gelatin). Pour the workpiece with ready-made warm jelly, then put in the refrigerator, serve cold.
