The section contains interesting and simple Lenten dishes, recipes for every day, for weekdays and weekends, salads, soups, desserts, main courses and, of course, baked goods. A Lenten menu is not at all synonymous with boring. It's time to learn how to bake delicious homemade bread (using flour and water), custard potato cakes and sweet Lenten muffins. Try unusual tasting creamy soups, cook mushroom noodles and deliciously delicious lean borscht. And, of course, make instant marinades. I would advise you to try all the recipes presented in our collection of Lenten recipes every day, expanding your culinary collection and enriching your culinary experience.

Lenten potato cutlets

Is it possible to cook potato cutlets without eggs so that they do not fall apart, have a neat shape, excellent taste and an appetizing crust? Try it, you will appreciate this Lenten recipe.

Lenten gingerbread with jam

One of the simplest and most accessible recipes for Lenten baking is gingerbread, for which you do not need either honey or molasses. The dough is kneaded with regular jam and strong tea.

Flatbreads made with water and flour

An excellent option for replacing white bread during Lent is flatbread made with water and flour. They are prepared simply. And thanks to a simple secret, they remain soft and fluffy for a long time. The flatbreads taste so good that many people get hooked on them and include this Lenten recipe in their daily menu.

Simple soup with "Mexican" vegetable mixture

The simplest Lenten soup. It contains a ready-made frozen mixture of vegetables and legumes, fried onions and carrots and cereals. Any one to suit your taste will do. The soup with bulgur is especially good.

Salad with beans, fried mushrooms and cucumbers

A hearty lean salad with an original taste. It contains canned beans, fried mushrooms and onions, pickled or pickled cucumbers and a lot of fresh herbs.

Candied orange peels

A leisurely method for preparing candied fruits from a waste product - orange peels. Several days of soaking and cooking give excellent flavor results. Candied fruits turn out so bright and fragrant that they can be presented as sweet gifts during Lent.

Lenten recipe from ancient Russian cuisine - juicy, fragrant dough envelopes with mushrooms and buckwheat. They prepare slowly, with feeling, sensibly, with arrangement.

Barley cutlets

The trick recipe is how to make cutlets from ordinary pearl barley that look more appetizing than meat cutlets. Very tender, light, with fried onions, carrots and garlic. The recipe is a find for those who are looking for interesting and unusual Lenten dishes.

Lenten oatmeal cookies with honey

To make your fast tasty and varied, try these wonderful Lenten cookies with honey, cinnamon and other spices. Amazing aroma, crispy, crumbly texture. The recipe is very simple and suitable for beginner cooks.

Country-style potatoes in the oven

A very simple and very tasty dish that is ideal for Lent. The potatoes are poured with vegetable oil, sprinkled with spices and sent to the oven to bake until fully cooked.

Simple brine cookies

The recipe is hello from the half-starved 90s. Vegetable oil, flour, baking powder and cucumber brine, a little raisins, nuts or candied fruits - and now the dough is ready for wonderful crumbly cookies, which are called “from nothing”.

Lenten pie with apples

You've probably already been surprised at how tasty, varied and rich a Lenten menu can be. Among Lenten dishes for every day, apple pie takes pride of place. And not some dubious, but supposedly useful pancake. And a lush, shiny yeast cake-braid.

Lenten honey gingerbread

One of the most popular budget recipes for Lenten baking, which is suitable for beginners because it is simple, understandable and has a successful composition of ingredients. You can bake the gingerbread in water, in tea, or in apple juice.

Lenten borscht with beans

A bright accent in the Lenten menu is rich borscht with beans. The recipe gives detailed instructions on how to achieve the exact same color as in the photo. I hope you enjoy both the cooking process and the resulting result.

Cabbage stewed with mushrooms

A very tasty and simple Lenten dish for every day. Mushrooms, onions, cabbage and tomatoes – that’s all you need to prepare a hearty lean lunch.

Armenian bean paste

During the fasting period, it is extremely important to support the body with food containing protein of plant origin. Legumes and nuts are considered an ideal alternative to dairy and meat foods. Armenian-style Lenten bean paste will definitely add variety to the diet of fasting days, and will also delight you with its availability and nutritional value.

Lenten cabbage rolls with rice and mushrooms

Lenten cabbage rolls can fit perfectly into a Lenten menu for every day, if you use one trick - make a lot of them and freeze some of them - this will not affect the taste of the cabbage rolls in any way.

Classic red bean lobio

A hearty, lean dish of beans, nuts and vegetables.

Lenten mayonnaise

A recipe from the category of culinary miracles. Looking at the list of ingredients, you can’t believe that they will turn out what you see in the picture - a delicate, thick lean mayonnaise that can be used, for example, to dress salads or serve as a sauce for lentil cutlets.

Lenten manti with vegetable filling

You probably already realized how extensive the menu of Lenten recipes for every day can be. We expand the variety with a recipe for manti with vegetable filling. Try it, you might like this option more than usual.

Lentil and rice meatballs in tomato sauce

A decoy dish - minced lentils with rice are really difficult to distinguish from ordinary meatballs. The shape holds perfectly without adding eggs or flour. If you steam them, you can even do without vegetable oil, which is extremely important during Lent.

Canned Bean Soup

A hearty, bright, cheerful quick bean soup to add to your collection of Lenten recipes.

Lenten pancakes with mineral water

A popular Lenten pancake recipe. Try them - they really turn out tastier than the fast ones. And baking them is much easier.

Lenten pea soup

Peas are an excellent product for a Lenten menu. It is filling and gives a lot of thickness. Try a simple and delicious pea soup with potatoes, carrots and onions.

Indian samosas with vegetables

Samosas are a dish of Indian cuisine - fried pies made from simple lean dough with vegetable filling, the composition of which can be customized at your discretion. Ideal for a Lenten table.

Fresh cabbage soup

A recipe relevant for Lent for delicious cabbage soup in water, with fried vegetables, herbs and aromatic freshly ground pepper. The recipe is filmed in detail, step by step and is suitable for beginner cooks.

Lenten lasagna

During Lent, it becomes possible to see that classic dishes can be just as tasty without the use of seemingly obligatory ingredients. Try making juicy vegetable lasagna without cheese and using lean dough.

Green pea soup

The king of the Lenten menu is green, like March grass emerging from under the melting snowdrifts, and just as tender, brewed from four ingredients, including water.

Buckwheat noodles with vegetables

If you have never tried buckwheat noodles, then fasting is a very good time for this. The noodles turn out exceptionally tasty with a spicy vegetable sauce, which is made from the most common ingredients - onions, carrots, sweet peppers and green beans.

Potato cutlets with peas

A very funny Lenten recipe - at first glance, the most ordinary cutlets, but when you bite into them, inside there is tender mashed potatoes and funny peas. Be sure to try it!

Potatoes in a pot

A simple Lenten dish for every day, which can be found in cookbooks called “church-style potatoes.” Unremarkable in appearance, these potatoes taste delicious.

Classic vinaigrette recipe

A traditional dish of Russian cuisine with a French name. Ingredients: boiled beets, carrots, potatoes, onions, pickles and green peas. The ideal solution for a Lenten table.

Mushroom noodles

A very nourishing, rich, wonderfully tasty soup, easy to prepare! You can cook it every day.

Homemade Peanut Butter

Psychologists have proven that any restrictions activate a person’s creative abilities. Lent is the time to learn how to cook something unusual that you wouldn’t even think of making at home. For example, hearty and delicious honey peanut butter. I made a jar, put it in the refrigerator and eat it every day.

Korean beets

Learning to prepare homemade salads in Korean is a great way to diversify your Lenten menu, make it rich and interesting. Making this salad is not difficult at all. You can immediately make large volumes, because it stays well in the refrigerator for two to three weeks.

Korean cabbage

During Lent, please your household with delicious instant pickled cabbage. It gets its bright golden color thanks to the addition of turmeric.

With sour cream and jam, the time of Lent comes. Much has been written and said about what can be eaten during Lent and what cannot be eaten, but I still want to quote the words of Hieromonk Oleg, priest of the Ascension Pechersk Monastery about the observance of fasting by the laity: “...first of all, we must think about spiritual fasting...”. For those who are not confident in their abilities, the hieromonk advises to start small. First, fast on Wednesdays and Fridays. Do not eat eggs, meat or dairy products these days. Then gradually observe other fasting restrictions.

What can you eat during Lent?

Lent 2016 begins on March 14 and ends on April 30. During fasting, you are supposed to eat lean food, this is the one that is of plant origin. All kinds of pickles are allowed (pickled and pickled cucumbers, sauerkraut), as well as mushrooms, nuts, tea, crackers, gray or brown bread; you can cook compotes, fruit jelly and various porridges in water with the addition of raisins, prunes and dried apricots.

How to eat healthy during Lent

• On Mondays- dry eating (water, brown bread, fruits and vegetables)
• On Tuesdays- hot food without vegetable oil
• On Wednesdays- dry eating (vegetables, fruits, brown bread, water, compotes)
• On Thursdays- hot food cooked without vegetable oil
• On Fridays- dry eating (water, brown bread, vegetables and fruits)
• On Saturdays- food with vegetable oil and grape wine are allowed
• On Sundays– food cooked in vegetable oil, wine
You are supposed to eat once a day, in the evenings, with the exception of Saturday and Sunday, when you are allowed to eat twice, at lunchtime and in the evening.

Meals for Lent on holidays

• March 14th– complete abstinence from any food
• April 7 (Annunciation) – you can eat fish dishes
• April 23 (Lazarev Saturday) – you can eat dishes with fish caviar
• April 24 (Palm Sunday) – fish and seafood dishes are allowed
• April 29 (Good Friday) – no food should be taken before the shroud is taken out during a church service
• May 1 (Easter)– fast food is allowed

Lenten dishes

A very tasty Lenten dish made from pumpkin, potatoes, onions and tomatoes. Vegetables seasoned with spices are baked in the oven. See the detailed step-by-step recipe...

Beans are not only tasty and nutritious, they are also famous for the fact that they contain vitamins, proteins and amino acids essential for the human body...

An ideal dish during fasting, tasty and nutritious, containing vegetable protein and vitamins. This dish is quite simple to prepare, and if you have canned beans and lecho, it’s generally done instantly...

This dish is simply irreplaceable during fasting, it is tasty and nutritious, and contains vegetable protein (mushrooms). At the same time, these zrazy do not contain meat, milk, or eggs...

During fasting, you are allowed to eat only lean foods. In order for the body to receive the proteins it needs, one should consume proteins of plant origin. And the leader among such plants is beans...

Despite the fact that this borscht is prepared without meat, it turns out to be so rich, tasty and aromatic that many meat soups pale in comparison...

This pate turns out to be very tender, tasty and nutritious. An excellent recipe for those who are fasting. Also, this recipe for lean pate will be very useful for vegetarians, as well as anyone who adheres to proper nutrition...

This dish needs no introduction, everyone knows it. Vinaigrette is healthy, nutritious and tasty. You can cook it with beans or without, and what’s most important is that even without adding oil it remains tasty...

Prepare this delicious and healthy soup with mushrooms and barley. Natural protein of plant origin will fill the body with strength and energy, only during fasting it should be eaten without sour cream...

Eating tasty and varied food during fasting is not so difficult; just show a little imagination and boring potatoes turn into a real delicacy. Try it, tasty, fast and affordable...

Beans are a source of very valuable vegetable protein, vitamins and amino acids. During fasting, it is very important to have a balanced diet; cabbage soup and beans will help you with this...

The most delicious mushrooms are pickled ones. Moreover, you can pickle mushrooms yourself at home. I offer a very simple and quick recipe, just a few hours and the delicacy is ready!

A tasty and inexpensive Lenten dish. In addition to buckwheat, you will need any edible mushrooms (champignons, porcini mushrooms, etc.), onions, carrots, etc. oil. An ideal dish during Lent...

Surprisingly, but true: dough without milk and eggs can be delicious! And not just tasty, but very tasty. Preparing lean dough is quite simple, you can make any filling...

A quick, tasty and healthy dish, suitable for both the everyday menu and Lent. Or rather, these are even two lenten dishes, because... This recipe allows you to prepare delicious boiled fish and aspic...

An ideal dish for vegetarians and fasting people. Green beans are full of vitamins and minerals, mushrooms provide vegetable protein, and pasta is a carbohydrate source of energy...

During fasting, prepare a delicious and nutritious soup. Gazpacho is made from fresh tomatoes, cucumber, garlic and lettuce. During Lent, instead of white bread, we put gray bread...

Diversify your menu during Lent with delicious sauerkraut. It cooks very quickly. Just three days and the vitamin dish is ready. You can eat it sour, or you can stew it and make dumplings...

On Saturdays and Sundays, when hot food cooked in vegetable oil is allowed, you can make this tasty and healthy stew. To prepare it you will need carrots, zucchini.....

A very tasty and healthy Lenten dish. First, boil the eggplants or bake them in the oven, then cut them together with onions and lettuce peppers. A little salt and a little butter, and our dish is ready...

During Lent, when the menu is not so varied, ferment cauliflower. This simple Lenten dish will not only decorate the table, but will also add an element of novelty to your diet. Try it, very tasty cabbage...

A simple and delicious recipe for a lean dish. To prepare pickled eggplants you will need eggplants, carrots, onions, garlic and just a little vegetable oil...

This is a traditional dish for fasting people and vegetarians. It cooks very quickly and always turns out delicious. With appropriate decoration it turns into a Lenten holiday dish...

The ascetic and often bland taste of Lenten dishes can be pleasantly complemented by spicy carrots prepared according to the Korean recipe, which is so loved by our people...

Ratatouille, although it is a Lenten dish, is worthy of a festive table in its taste and appearance. Therefore, on the holidays of Lent, remember this dish...

A very tasty and satisfying lean dish. Mushrooms are one hundred percent protein of plant origin, which during fasting will more than replace animal proteins.

Boiled rice is a very healthy and nutritious dish; it helps cleanse the body. Supplement boiled rice with stewed vegetables and you will get an excellent lean, healthy lunch...

During those days of Lent when eating fish is allowed, you can prepare this beautiful appetizer with avocado, shrimp, fried fish and cherry tomatoes. Kebabs are preparing in the oven...

There are many different recipes for making potatoes. Among the simple and lean recipes, I recommend this one. Using paprika powder will give the dish a special golden color, and the garlic will give it an appetizing aroma...

An ancient recipe that comes from the origins of folk cooking. A very simple dough without eggs or milk that sticks together well. Delicious filling and delicious fried onions...

Stew with potatoes and vegetables is prepared very quickly and simply, and to ensure that the potatoes boil quickly and the stew turns out thick, use a simple tip on how to cut potatoes correctly...

Fried potatoes with mushrooms are a very high-calorie, filling dish. Prepare it for lunch and you will have energy for the rest of the day, which is very important for the modern business person...

Don't be scared by the overseas tricky name Brava sauce. In fact, making the sauce is not difficult at all. We take tomato sauce, garlic, paprika, flour and a little spicy Tabasco sauce...

During fasting, you cannot eat meat soups and broths, but liquid boiled food is necessary for the body. Here we are all helped out by fish soup, which can be prepared on those days when it is allowed to eat fish...

Silver carp is a very common and affordable fish, the meat is tender and juicy. It cooks quickly and can be fried with a minimum amount of oil. This modest but delicious dish will expand your diet during Lent...

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 are cabbage of all types, carrots, beets, radishes, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, green beans and others that exist in nature.

It is important to eat plenty of bell peppers and fresh herbs during this period, as they are rich in many vitamins and minerals necessary 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, you need to create a menu for Lenten cuisine 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 fresh cucumber, apple or orange into cubes. Pour lemon juice, salt, pepper and mix all ingredients. This unusual and spicy salad will energize you for the whole day.

Days without oil

On Tuesdays and Thursdays you can eat hot food of plant origin without 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.

You can expand your menu these days by adding baked potatoes and other vegetables. You can also prepare lean spaghetti - boil the pasta in salted water and season it with tomato paste. These days you can drink tea and compotes.

The second dishes on the menu during Lent can also be mushroom, potato, cabbage, and carrot lean cutlets, in which eggs as a fixative can easily be 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 prepare various dishes - soups, salads, meatless 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 can of canned corn, chopped 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 either boiled or fried, and if you are a fan of 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

Of course, the main meaning of fasting is spiritual cleansing and rejection not only of certain foods, but also of 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 a lot of Lenten sweets have been produced. You can also eat dark chocolate, nuts, fruit and berry preserves, 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 of wheat flour; 100 grams of water; 40 grams of olive oil; 30 grams of 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 the ginger on a 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 it 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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I decided to write an article about what you can eat during Lent, what dishes you can prepare for the Lenten table.

After all, you want to eat tasty, varied, healthy and not boring, so that you don’t eat the same thing every day, right?

I would like to offer you some delicious ideas on how to feed yourself and your family during the fasting period.

From this article you will learn:

What can you eat during Lent - menu for Lenten nutrition

So, many people know that fasting can be strict and not strict.

Moreover, during the same fast there are certain differences in daily nutrition.

Accordingly, the dishes that are consumed are different.

Strict fasting and non-strict fasting - what are their differences?

All posts vary in their degree of severity.

• Strict post:

During strict fasting, only plant foods (vegetables, fruits, cereals) are allowed, and all products of animal origin are completely excluded. Food can be thermally processed or raw (these are days of dry eating).

• Less strict post:

when vegetable oil is allowed in plant-based dishes on some days.

• Not a strict post:

on these days fish and vegetable oil are allowed. Otherwise, all food is plant-based; meat, milk and eggs are not consumed at all.

Lent is considered the strictest. The rest are less strict.

What can you cook during Lent?

Many people think that fasting means only carrot cutlets, sauerkraut and “empty” rice... But, in fact, everything is not so scary at all, friends!

How do you like lasagna, spaghetti, pizza, various pancakes, dumplings, pancakes, pies and pies? It is not necessary to cook with white wheat flour if we do not want to gain weight! Can be prepared from buckwheat, corn, oatmeal, pea, etc.

How do you like various delicious sandwiches with hearty pates, vegetable and mushroom caviar, jelly, mushroom aspic, sweet porridges, dumplings with different fillings and “lazy” dumplings (gnocchi, dumplings, dumplings), julienne, various salads with such a satisfying composition, that they can be called the main course and dumplings?

Borscht, cabbage soup, soups, dishes made from mushrooms and nuts, and even “scrambled eggs” without eggs!

And how many sweets you can prepare, it’s completely incomprehensible!

And sweets, and kozinaki, and pies, and cookies, and even cakes with cream!

Including cakes without flour, without eggs and without sugar, this is already “aerobatics”, but you can also learn this!

And this is not a complete list of those dishes that are called lean...

And if fish is allowed, then it’s generally a holiday: fish soup, cutlets, meatballs with rice, fish pastes (pates), steamed fish, fried, grilled and oven-baked.

With vegetables, stuffed, stewed with mushrooms and onions, various fillings with fish for pies and pancakes... You can’t list it all!

What products can be used in preparing Lenten dishes?

• Cereals:

millet, wheat, pearl barley, barley, rice of all varieties, . Also buckwheat, bulgur, couscous, spelt, corn grits. As well as oatmeal and cereals from several types of grains.

• We prepare from them:

porridge, add to vegetable dishes, make cutlets, zrazy, fillings for pies and pies, prepare cereal soups and various casseroles.

We prepare our own baked goods and bread from buckwheat, oatmeal, rice, barley, corn flour, rye flour, and spelled flour.

• Vegetables - absolutely everything

We prepare from them:

soups, vegetable stews, vegetable purees, puree soups, various fillings, vegetable sauces and cutlets.

We add them to pates, make salads from raw and boiled vegetables, casseroles, stew, bake, boil, fry, steam them.

We add cereals and mushrooms to them, pour all sorts of delicious sauces over them and eat them just like that, cut into pieces.

Berries, fruits and dried fruits - absolutely everything

We prepare from them:

fruit purees, pastilles, compotes, fruit drinks, jelly, jams and confitures for tea. We also swirl freshly squeezed juices, add them to baked goods, prepare fillings for pancakes and pies, and add them to porridge. We eat it just like that, whole or cut into beautiful pieces.

• Greens - any

We prepare from it:

“green” salads, add to smoothies, cut boiled and raw vegetables into salads, generously sprinkle on your prepared dishes, make “green” fillings for your pancakes and pies.

• Legumes:

peas, beans of all kinds, beans, chickpeas, mung beans, lentils.

• From legumes we prepare:

soups, puree soups, add to salads, boil and puree, add to vegetable stews, prepare bean pastes, fillings, etc.

• Nuts – all the ones you like

From nuts we prepare: nut sauces (sweet and salty), nut muffins, nut cutlets, make kozinaki and halva, prepare delicious nut milk, add to pates and fillings, sprinkle our porridge with chopped nuts and add to any other dishes and baked goods.

We make cheese from nuts. We prepare nut butters and nut urbechi. We gnaw just like that

• Seeds:

sunflower, sesame, flax, poppy seeds, chia seeds, hemp seeds.

We prepare from them:

We add it to baked goods, make kozinaki, sauces for dishes (sweet and salty), sprinkle our porridge with crushed seeds and add it to other dishes.

We prepare plant-based milk (sweet and unsweetened), urbechi from seeds, cheese from seeds, tahini (tahini, tahini) from sesame seeds and a paste mix for sandwiches from various seeds.

• Mushrooms - absolutely everything

We fry them, stew them, bake them, grill them, and steam them.

We cook them with various fillings, make pates out of them, cook julienne, add them to vegetable dishes, soups, prepare mushroom soups, mushroom fillings, add them to porridges, and salads.

• Vegetable oil - any you want

For salads, cold dishes and snacks, and in ready-made dishes, it is best to use first cold-pressed vegetable oils. Their taste and aroma are simply divine!

Choose those that you like: olive, flaxseed, camelina, and hemp, grape seed oil and walnut oil, sesame.

As well as mustard oil, coconut oil, rice oil, sunflower oil and pumpkin seed oil.

For frying, boiling and stewing, 100% and refined oils are suitable, they are odorless and can be used for cooking, as well as coconut oil.

Where to get protein in a lean diet?

Mushrooms are our “meat” for the period of fasting. This also includes legumes, nuts, greens and seeds.

All of these foods are very nutritious, containing plenty of protein, healthy fats (nuts and seeds), and vitamins and minerals.

During fasting, all these products are MANDATORY in the daily diet. In this case, you will not have any “protein fasting”.

What kind of porridges are prepared during Lent?

Our Russian porridge is not just food, it is a whole “philosophy”! We are, of course, not talking about quick, instant porridges that you “poured and ate right away.”

Although, this is also an option: simple oatmeal or a mixture of cereals, doused with boiling water or vegetable milk, and with the addition of berries, nuts, fruits and seeds - what’s not a hearty, tasty breakfast?

And porridge with vegetables and mushrooms is not a wonderful and satisfying dish for lunch?

The main idea here is this: porridge is never NOT tasty. The porridge just needs to be cooked correctly.

Here's an example: pearl barley. Do not love? You just don’t know how to cook it!…

Here you need to know the secret of delicious pearl barley. Try to do this: rinse it, pour a fairly large amount of boiling water, wrap it in a warm blanket and let it brew all night, 8–10 hours. If all the water is not absorbed, then drain it, add a small amount of water again and cook for 10 minutes.

Fry separately the onion, cut into beautiful rings and grated potatoes, add spices and mix with the prepared pearl barley.

If you want, you can add mushrooms too.

No one will refuse such porridge!

It’s a similar story with buckwheat porridge. Do you like it with milk? Please: grind the seeds or nuts with water in a blender, strain, and you will have the healthiest milk in the world! Any porridge is good with vegetable milk, and buckwheat is especially good. Make the porridge sweet or salty as you wish.

An excellent option for buckwheat porridge is buckwheat with onions, carrots and other fried vegetables.

Buckwheat with mushrooms and onions - who can refuse it, right?

Very tasty buns, pancakes are prepared from buckwheat flour, and “grechaniky” are fried.

In stores, look for spaghetti or any other pasta made from buckwheat flour. It's very tasty and unusual!

Prepare sweet pilaf from rice: add steamed raisins, nuts, seeds, any fresh berries or fruits to boiled rice, pour over sweet nut sauce or honey. This is delicious!

What about rice with mushrooms and vegetables? Why not pilaf? A very tasty and satisfying dish, you won’t even notice the absence of meat...

You can serve any porridge with a sauce you prepare yourself. It’s as easy as shelling pears to make a sauce from the same seeds or nuts. You can make vegetable sauce, tomato sauce, sweet fruit and berry sauce.

Be sure to add spices to any porridge. This will enrich the taste of your cereals, give them an incredible aroma and make them more healthy and easily digestible.

Dried fruits for fasting

Of course, dried fruits are eaten during Lent.

The amount of vitamins in them, of course, decreases, but the amount of sugar increases.

But, despite this, the benefits of dried fruits are still beyond any doubt, because all trace elements are stored there in the necessary and sufficient quantities.

They are available for sale, they are not so expensive in price, especially since you can’t eat too many of them. Of course, it is better to buy those that have not been processed, that have been dried and stored without being subjected to “chemical influence.”

They are not as beautiful and glossy as those that were first filled with sugar syrup and dried at high temperatures, and then also treated with sulfur dioxide, etc., but you know 100% that you are not doing harm to yourself by consuming their.

You can eat dried fruits just like that, say, with tea. To do this, it is better to first soak them in water. They will acquire juiciness and softness, and will look like fresh.

You can make a delicious dessert treat from any dried fruit.

Particularly good in this dessert will be: figs, cherries, large prunes.

You need juice from red berries. If it’s not the season, then feel free to take your preparations off the shelves and get started! Add the following spices to the juice: vanilla, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, nutmeg, black pepper and sugar. Add dried fruits cut into large pieces, mix and boil it all over very low heat: first without a lid for 50-60 minutes, then under the lid for another 40 minutes. Watch, it may take less time. The main thing is that the syrup becomes thick.

This dessert can be served with tea, served with porridge, or simply cracked with a spoon...

The use of dried fruits is not limited to this.

Many amazing things are done with dried fruits: for example, they are added to the filling for stuffing tomatoes, sweet bell peppers and eggplant. They are stewed with red beans and fried onions.

It turns out unusual, original and piquant.

How to cook mushrooms during Lent?

If we do not take into account the “newfangled” soybeans, then mushrooms are exactly the “meat” that will be on our table during the entire Lent.

Mushroom soup, potatoes with mushrooms and onions, vegetable stew with mushrooms, mushroom julienne, mushroom caviar, potato cutlets stuffed with mushrooms, with mushroom sauce (zrazy), mushroom risotto and dumplings with mushrooms...

All this, of course, can be easily prepared from dried or frozen mushrooms. Not only boring champignons and oyster mushrooms are suitable. Honey mushrooms, chanterelles, boletuses, porcini mushrooms – anything goes!

Recently, you can also find Japanese shiitake mushrooms. They are “world champions” in the fight against cancer. In addition, they are incredibly tasty, the Japanese know a lot about them!

And the huge, simply gigantic portobello mushrooms? It tastes like pure chicken! And they are quite often sold in regular supermarkets, check them out!

Mushrooms have a simply fantastic variety, and this is a great reason for daily “mushroom experiments” in order to cook with mushrooms often, cook a lot and taste delicious.

Here are some options for you:

1. You can make sandwiches with tapenade from wild mushrooms: grind capers with olive oil, add lemon juice, season with salt and pepper. The result is a paste that is perfectly spread on toasted slices of bread, and between two slices are slices of mushrooms fried until crisp.
2. And from the good old oyster mushrooms a salad “emerges” by itself: mushrooms, apples, celery stalks, lettuce and large dark grapes fried until beautifully golden brown. Everything is topped with a dressing of lemon juice with crushed pine nuts, salt, pepper and a little cinnamon. Mmm…
3. What about mushrooms fried with soy sauce, honey, sesame seeds and green onions? Served hot right away, they are incredible!

How to eat nuts and seeds during fasting?

Nuts play a fairly important role in our lean diet.

You can not only sprinkle them on cakes and add them to beetroot and garlic salad...

During Lent, when almost every protein counts, nuts are simply irreplaceable!

If the nuts are fresh, then consider it “almost a panacea” in the autumn-winter period, when all sorts of colds and ARVI bother us.

It’s just so nice to chew nuts and make nut butters from them. It doesn’t have to be peanuts; very tasty pastes can be made from absolutely any nut! It’s even better to make it from nuts, and from raw ones. Still, peanut butter is a controversial product...

Although, if you really want to, then you can, just not a lot. It can be prepared very easily at home: fry peeled peanuts in the oven, grind them in a meat grinder twice, add salt and water to the desired consistency.

Or blend everything at once in a blender - peanuts + salt + water.

Use the same principle to make raw nut paste:

• Do you want something sweet? No problem: add honey and cinnamon.
• Do you want something unusual? Please: add pepper, just a little honey and spices. The nut butter has a very original taste!
• Want something more filling? Then combine lightly roasted nuts in a blender (walnuts are perfect for this snack, but you can use any nuts, depending on your taste), fried onions, salt, pepper and water. Very, very tasty, filling and aromatic snack! It smells so good that you immediately need to spread it on your own bread and eat it before your family “grinds it”, otherwise you won’t get it, believe me!
• If you want to make something “more substantial” for a snack, you can add boiled beans and a little garlic to this recipe. Again: we scroll everything in a blender with adding water to the desired paste-like consistency.
• You can do the same with seeds - prepare a paste, and every morning spread a thin layer on a piece of bread, crispy toast, cookies (can be sweet or salty) or whole grain bread. Nourishing, tasty, healthy, what more do you need, right?

Make sweet pastes, make savory ones, whatever you want!

Who said tahini has to be salty?

Aren't you afraid of experiments? Then prepare sweet tahini: sesame seeds (can be raw, or fried in a dry frying pan, with fried seeds it turns out much more fragrant) + honey + cinnamon + salt.

This is such an awesome thing, friends! To say that it’s delicious is to say nothing! Therefore, as soon as you prepare it, grab yourself a spoonful of bread, and only then call your family, although you won’t need to call them, I’m sure: the aroma of fried sesame seeds is something that they will come running to, believe me!

Here’s another very, very original idea for a snack: raw almonds, lemon juice, a little honey, fresh basil leaves, salt, a little garlic and ginger (the proportions are arbitrary, to your taste), grind through a meat grinder or in a blender, adding as much water as you like. to obtain a paste of the desired consistency.

Then you take apples, carrots, celery stalks, cucumbers and whatever else you can think of, cut them into pieces and eat them, dipping them in the prepared sauce.

Very tasty, unusual, nutritious and mega-healthy snack! Be sure to cook it, you will definitely like it!

I really love preparing various pastes and pates from seeds and nuts, it’s so helpful when you don’t have time, but you need to eat something quickly, preferably healthy!

And don’t be afraid of the calorie content, even if you want, you won’t be able to eat a lot, it’s very filling!

Such pastes can not only be spread on bread, they can be used as fillings, added to your own porridge, and to spaghetti - instead of sauce.

You need to store nut or seed butter in the refrigerator.

Lenten first courses

Friends, try to do this, and buckwheat soup will become your “favorite” for the Lenten period, honestly!

What do you think of the idea of ​​kharcho soup, gazpacho, pickle soup? You can continue the list. All this can be prepared without meat, and it’s all quite tasty and nutritious!

This, friends, is what I wanted to tell you today. I really hope that you will take some ideas for yourself and apply them.

If you liked the ideas from this article, then share with your friends on social media. networks, friends and co-workers at work.

Write in the comments what you can eat during Lent, your ideas for Lenten nutrition. What are you cooking? It will be very interesting for me, I'm always looking for something new and cool.

And other readers will also be interested to know, write!

See you later, my dears!

Alena Yasneva was with you, Health and Delicious Fasting to all!

If you are fasting, this does not mean at all that you have to eat only noodles and rolls. On the contrary, this is a great chance to improve your gastronomic skills and learn how to cook something new. Therefore, today I offer you a large selection of wonderful Lenten dishes for every day. This can be useful not only for those who are fasting. In my recipes you will find a lot of original simple side dishes that can diversify any diet. And lenten soups after fasting can be prepared with meat.

Here you will find a real Lenten menu - salads, soups, main dishes and even baked goods. Delicious recipes for Lent and beyond.

It is clear that fasting is not a time to indulge in gluttony, but this is not a reason to indulge in laziness and eat anything. When there are many healthy recipes - despite the fact that the food remains simple and ordinary.

One indisputable advantage of Lenten dishes is that they are cheap, easy to prepare and easy on the body. And at the same time very interesting and tasty. All these recipes are based on the simplest products that everyone has - cabbage, carrots, potatoes, frozen vegetables, tomato paste, green peas.

For those who also want to make their dishes more dietary, you can completely replace vegetable oil with lemon juice in salads, and fry for baking in the oven without oil (you can add a little water), or stew with water.

What you will find in this article

Lenten salads

Lettuce and green pea salad

Light and tasty salad.

Products:

Lettuce leaves (lettuce packaging in pots), or can be replaced with Chinese cabbage, and ideally - Iceberg lettuce - two-thirds of a head of cabbage
half a pepper

half an onion
carrots - 1 pc.
garlic - one or two cloves
Vegetable oil (for a dietary option, you can replace it with lemon juice)
salt pepper
Cut the onion and pepper into small pieces. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Cut the salad. Place the peas and squeeze out the garlic. Salt, pepper, season with vegetable oil or lemon juice! You can also chop some greens here.

Cabbage salad with cucumbers and peppers

We've all tried this salad, but not everyone is familiar with the art of preparing tender, vinegary cabbage!

Products:

Cabbage - one kg,
Sweet pepper - one large

cucumbers - two pieces
sugar - one tbsp. heaped spoon
salt - one tsp. With a slide,
nine percent vinegar - one or two tbsp.
Fresh dill
vegetable oil

Slice the cabbage very thinly. To do this, you need to slide a knife along the surface of the cabbage, cutting off very thin strips.
Salt, pour in vinegar, sprinkle with sugar. Add chopped dill. Press lightly with your hands to release liquid, but not too much.
Cut the pepper into small squares. Cucumbers - into strips. Add vegetables to cabbage, add oil and stir.

Lenten soups

Lenten vegetable soup

A simple and very tasty Lenten soup!

Products:

Cabbage - one kg
Carrots - three pieces
Potatoes - five pieces
Onions - two pieces
Garlic - six cloves
vegetable oil
Greenery
salt
1. Chop 1 kg of cabbage into square pieces. Fill with two and a half liters of water and salt. Let simmer for 30 minutes on low heat.
2. Cut the potatoes into cubes.
3. Cut the carrots and onions into small pieces.
4. Fry the garlic for a couple of minutes, then add carrots and onions to it. Fry for about fifteen minutes until golden brown.
5. When the cabbage broth has cooked for 30 minutes, throw the potatoes into the pan and cook for another ten minutes.
6. After this, add the rest of the vegetables. Bring to a boil and remove from heat after five minutes.
7. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and dill. Cover with a lid for about fifteen minutes and you're ready to eat!

Lenten soup with vegetables and rice

Products:

Pepper - one piece
bulb
carrot (large) - one piece
garlic - four cloves
rice - 4 tbsp. l. with top
potatoes - three pieces
broth or water - two liters

bay leaf, dill
vegetable oil

Cut the potatoes into cubes,
put in two liters of broth or water, add salt and bring to a boil. Cook for 15 minutes when it boils.

At this time, chop the onion into rings and rings into quarters. Grate the carrots (coarsely). Cut the pepper into squares. Garlic cloves - round.

Fry the onion and carrots for about five minutes until they change color a little. Move the roast to the edges of the pan and add the bell pepper to the center.

Fry the pepper for about 5 minutes until it changes color, then stir in the onion and carrots. And again move the mass to the sides. And put chopped garlic in the middle and fry for a minute. Then stir the vegetable mixture and remove from heat.

Place the roast in the soup and also add 4 tablespoons of rice. Let it boil, cook for no more than 5 minutes.
Remove from the burner, add bay leaf and chopped dill. Do not stir yet, leave to sit for 20 minutes, covered. During this time, the rice will be perfectly cooked.

You can also season the soup with paprika.

Lenten soup with green peas

Red lentils - two hundred grams
carrots - two hundred gr
onion - one hundred gr
garlic - one or two cloves
sesame - one tbsp. with a slide
sunflower oil
Boil lentils in two and a half liters of water. Add 1 tbsp. salt.
Finely chop or grate the carrots. Chop the onion into small pieces. Fry the onions and carrots on low power while the lentils are cooking. Until golden but not brown.

When the lentils are almost ready, add the roasted vegetables. Cook for another 5 minutes. Heat the sesame seeds in a dry frying pan until they darken a little. Remove soup from heat and add sesame seeds. Let it sit for fifteen minutes.

Lenten pea soup

We all see bags of frozen Brussels sprouts in the store. But we don’t know many options on how to cook them deliciously. All I knew before was to fry it with meatballs. But here is another very tasty recipe that will diversify the Lenten menu.

Products:

Packaging of frozen Brussels sprouts (four hundred grams)
soy sauce - two tbsp. l.
mustard seeds - one tsp.
Tomato paste - one tbsp.
Garlic - three cloves

Place the cabbage in water, bring to a boil and let it simmer for fifteen minutes.
Chop the garlic and crush the mustard seeds a little.
Place the cabbage in a frying pan with hot oil, along with everything else - garlic, tomato paste, soy sauce, mustard seeds. Add 0.5 tbsp. water, cover with a lid and heat for about five minutes. No salt is required as there is soy sauce.
There is no need to salt the dish.

Rice with peas and beans

Very tasty Lenten dish

Here’s another basic recipe that not every housewife knows how to cook. Because there are tricks! But if the potatoes are fried correctly, then McDonald's fries can rest!
Peel the potatoes.
Take a thick-bottomed frying pan, such as cast iron. First, turn the hot burner to high for a couple of minutes to warm up the pan.
At this time, cut the potatoes into rounds. When the frying pan is hot, pour in the vegetable oil and place on medium heat (4 out of six). Let the oil heat up for another minute.
Place all the potatoes to fry, close the lid and leave undisturbed for ten minutes.
Attention, do not stir the potatoes! Using a spatula, carefully pry it under the fried layer of potatoes in the middle. And turn the entire layer over as much as you can. Also carefully turn the potatoes over in layers on the sides of the pan.
Again, time exactly ten minutes. And fry again under the lid. Again, carefully turn the entire layer of potatoes over.

And one more time - ten minutes, fry under the lid. Then add salt. Turn over again carefully in the same way as before. This time you can literally wait a couple of minutes, or ten if you want it browner. This is delicious!

Mushroom rice

I advise everyone to try this recipe, not just those who are fasting!

Products:

Potatoes - one and a half kg,
mushrooms, preferably fresh - two hundred gr. (you can use a pack of frozen ones)
breadcrumbs
onion - two pcs.
Boil the potatoes in salted water (you can cut them into cubes to speed up the process).
Throw out the water. Mash the puree. Let cool to room temperature.
Chop the mushrooms into small pieces. Fry for about fifteen minutes...
Divide the mashed potatoes into 8 lumps (so as not to stick, wet your hands). Make cakes from the puree. Add mushrooms. Roll the zrazy so that the filling is inside.
Sprinkle with breadcrumbs and place on a sheet that has been sprayed with oil. Place in a hot oven at 180 degrees and cook for half an hour.
You can garnish with fried onion rings. And for those who are not afraid of calories, pour each ready-made immediately with the oil in which these rings were fried.

Lenten pancakes

Yeast lean stuffed pancakes

Products:

Flour - one and a half cups,

water - two glasses,
activated yeast - one tsp.
Sugar - one tbsp.
half a spoon of salt
vegetable oil

Filling:

about a glass of boiled buckwheat
onion - one pc.
dry mushrooms - a handful

Making yeast dough for pancakes. Dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water. Leave for fifteen minutes. Next, add salt, sift the flour, stir so that there are no lumps. Add 2 tbsp. sunflower oil. Let the dough sit for about forty minutes.

Grease the frying pan with a thin layer of oil. Wipe off excess with a tissue. Fry pancakes.

While the dough is resting, make the filling. Boil dry mushrooms and chop.
Fry with buckwheat, chopped onion and carrots. Or simmer in the oven.
Fill the pancakes with minced meat. You can also fry the prepared pancakes in vegetable oil until golden brown, but I don’t do this for calorie reasons. Read the step-by-step recipe for lean pancakes with photos.

Yeast-free lean pancakes with potato filling

Products:

Yeast dough (store-bought or homemade, it doesn’t matter) - one kg
Potatoes - four pcs.
onion - 1-2 pcs
salt, pepper, sunflower oil

Slice the potatoes and onions very thinly, potatoes into slices, onions into rings. Stir, pour 1 tbsp. sunflower oil, 1 tsp. salt without a slide, a little ground pepper, stir.
Divide one kilogram of dough into ten pieces. And each of them is two more, one of which is twice as large as the second.
Roll out the larger one thinly and place it on a small saucer, with the edges curled down.
We also divide the potato mixture into about ten parts. Spread one onto the dough. Now we roll a smaller circle from a small piece and place it on top of the potatoes. Fold the edges up. Turn over and roll out the cake a little again.

Then fry at low temperature for five minutes, turn over - and another five.

Famous breadsticks

Very simple brine cookies, delicious!

Products:

One glass of brine
One glass of vegetable oil,
one glass of sugar,
two packs of coconut flakes (you can also use lemon zest, dried berries, dried fruits, etc.)
two to three glasses of flour

Place butter, sugar, brine and one packet of chips in a bowl and mix. Add flour until the dough is as thick as shortbread (two to three glasses), that is, so that you can roll it out.
Roll out and sprinkle with remaining shavings.
Use cookie cutters or a glass to cut out the cookies.
Bake on a floured baking sheet at a temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees for about ten minutes.

Poppy cookies

Products:

Poppy - two hundred gr.
Brown (or regular) sugar - one tbsp.
half a teaspoon of soda
apple cider vinegar - two tbsp.
salt - half tsp.
Half a glass of water
flour - one or two tbsp.
cinnamon - 1-2 tsp.
Sunflower oil - four tbsp. l.
Mix dry ingredients: sugar, poppy seeds, cinnamon, salt. Add water and sunflower oil, soda and apple cider vinegar. Knead the dough, similar to shortbread (so that it rolls out).
Cover with film and leave for one hour.
Then roll out the dough into a layer of about half a centimeter. Cut out cookies using cookie cutters or a glass. Place on baking paper or a floured baking tray. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about half an hour.

Lenten Coconut Banana Cookies

Products:

Bananas - 2 pcs.
coconut flakes - two hundred and fifty gr.
Half a glass of sunflower oil
sugar (preferably brown, but regular is fine) half a glass
water and flour
Mix sugar, butter, chopped banana and beat, adding coconut and flour. Until you get a thick dough.
To prepare the dough, mix sugar and butter together, add chopped banana. Using a whisk, turn everything into a homogeneous mass, gradually adding coconut and flour. The dough should not be liquid, but slightly thick, like thick sour cream.
Place small and not thick cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper or sprinkled with flour.
Bake at 180 degrees for twenty minutes, then dry at minimum temperature until the cookies become golden.

Lenten cakes

Lenten carrot cake

Very tasty, tender, aromatic carrot cake made from simple ingredients.

Products:

One hundred and fifty grams of flour
100 grams of carrots
a handful of raisins or other dried fruits (optional)
a handful of walnuts (one hundred grams) (optional)
six tablespoons of vegetable oil
one hundred grams of sugar
a packet of vanilla sugar or vanillin
three teaspoons baking powder

Sprinkles:
fifty grams of flour
two tablespoons of vegetable oil
thirty grams of sugar

Make topping from the indicated products. Mix and rub with your hands until crumbly. Place in the refrigerator.

Let's make the dough. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder. Add vegetable oil and water. Beat. Three carrots on a coarse grater, put them in the dough, add raisins and chopped nuts if desired.
Baked in a small form - eighteen centimeters. Place baking paper on the bottom. Pour out the dough. Sprinkle with crumbs. Bake in a hot oven (one hundred and eighty degrees) - about one hour. Check for doneness with a match. The cake can then be sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Lenten chocolate coffee cake

Products:

one glass of sugar,
a third of a glass of sunflower oil
one third cup cocoa powder
vanillin
one and a quarter cup of flour
teaspoon of soda,
teaspoon vinegar
glass of coffee (or water)

PREPARATION:

In a bowl, mix dry ingredients: flour, vanillin, sugar, cocoa, soda and salt. Add water or coffee, vegetable oil and vinegar.
Whisk everything.
Place in a hot oven at 180 degrees. Bake for about half an hour.
Grease the finished biscuit with jam or melted dark chocolate (if you find one without milk). You can also decorate with vegetable cream.

Super-healthy, super-dietary raw food (no baking) Lenten persimmon and blackcurrant cake

For a mold 18 cm.

Products:

The basis:
¾ cup (80g) walnuts
12 pcs. (100g) dates
A pinch of cardamom

(if you are afraid to make it on such a basis, then you can make shortbread lean - like brine cookies or poppy seed cookies, the recipes are given above. You can make such a cake in parallel with the cookies)

Filling:
persimmon - 2 pcs
dates - 20 gr
cinnamon - 0.5 tsp.
Water - 150 ml
agar-agar or pectin 1 tsp.
frozen black currants - 100 g (or any other berry)
agar-agar 1 tsp.
Sugar
Defrost the berries
Grind the walnuts in a blender. Grind the dates too. Stir with nuts, add a little cardamom, mix with a blender into a homogeneous mass. Line the bottom of the mold with parchment and spread the mixture over the bottom.

Place in the refrigerator for an hour and a half, then in the freezer.

If you are confused by such a base, then make shortbread lean dough, like in brine cookies or poppy seeds cookies, and bake the base.

Making persimmon jelly. Peel the persimmons, beat with a mixer or blender into a homogeneous puree. Add cinnamon and sugar to taste (you can use two dates instead of sugar).
1 tsp Add agar-agar to 150 ml of water. Bring to a boil with constant stirring.
Pour agar into persimmon puree. Remove the base from the freezer and pour the puree and agar on top. Place in the freezer.

Fill
Take 150 ml of juice from frozen berries, which appeared during defrosting. Add sugar, but a little, so that it is sweet and sour. Pour 1 tsp of agar with fruit drink, bring to a boil and boil for 1 minute. Remove the cake from the freezer, place the berries on top, and pour currant jelly over it.
Place in the refrigerator for three hours.