Meals during Lent: the second - the main meatless meals

Lent - the most severe, it is believed that at this time a man follows the path of purification, just as the Lord within 40 days of fasting in the wilderness. During this Lent should refrain from many of the foods, but that does not mean that the power is reduced to two or three dishes - delicious meatless meals there, and a lot of them!

During the whole time of Lent to eat eggs, meat, milk, cheese and wine is forbidden. Unfortunately, these products are in our country is one of the basic daily food we consume milk, cheese, and eggs, and meat. Nevertheless, in spite of the restriction is the most common in the diet of Russian human food, food in Fasting can be very varied and tasty.

In the first week of Lent fasting falls particularly hard - can not be used in food and even vegetable oil, which is required for the preparation of so many second and first courses. At this point everyone decides for himself, strict adherence to the rules - not the law, but there are a lot of full-fledged main dishes that can be cooked without oil.

Recipe lean baked beans without oil "monk-style"

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Need: beans, onions, parsley, dill, salt.

How to cook lean beans without oil. Bust and pour boiling water over beans, drain the beans and pour warm water so that only slightly on its covers, until soft boil, salt the, put the chopped onions, boil for another 30 minutes, put the chopped herbs, mix well. Serve beans monk-style hot or cold with the broth.

Recipe lean carrots, baked with honey

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You will need: 700 g carrots, 300 ml of orange juice, 2 tablespoons honey, 1 leek, 1 clove garlic, 1 tablespoon spices (nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon), 1 tbsp poppy, pepper, thyme, and salt.

How to cook lean roasted carrots. Carrots cut into thin strips, cut leeks, crush the garlic. Carrots and leeks, boil 5-6 minutes dipped in a pot of boiling salted water, then drain the water and put the vegetables in the baking dish. Stir honey with garlic, orange juice, thyme and spices, pour the vegetables, pepper and salt them, cover with a lid shape and bake in a preheated 180 degree oven for half an hour before serving sprinkle with poppy seeds.

Recipe lean casserole of potatoes and mushrooms

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You will need: 750 g fresh or frozen mushrooms, 3-4 potato tuber, onions, spices to taste.

How to cook lean casserole. Boil until cooked mushrooms, twist them in a meat grinder, then twist the raw potatoes. Finely chop the onion and mix with the potatoes and mushrooms, season to taste with spices, to shift the mixture into a baking dish and bake in the preheated oven until done. Instead, you can use onion and garlic.

In our country, due to the climate lean food is particularly difficult, but in search of interesting vegetable dishes can refer to the cuisines of other countries in which the vegetable light meals for whatever reasons are more common.

Recipe vegetable "Mhali" (Georgian cuisine)

You will need: 200 g cabbage / pepper / beet / spinach / onion and green onion, 90 g walnuts, 20 g of green (cilantro, parsley, dill), 15 g of vinegar, garlic 5 g, 6 g of red pepper, 3 Mr. hops-suneli, salt.

How to cook mhali Georgian. Prepare vegetables by washing and removing all unnecessary, boil until tender with a little water (or you can bake it in the oven, or scald - young cabbage), recline in a colander, allow to cool, squeeze and chop finely. Crushed nuts and garlic, add chopped finely greens, spices, pepper, salt, vinegar and mix. Pour vegetable sauce and stir.

Meatless vegetable recipe in Chinese

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You will need: 2 cups of water, 1-2 onions, 3-4 mushroom cap without legs, 1 carrot average, 1 cup broccoli florets 1 cup Chinese cabbage, 1.5 tbsp white starch, soy sauce.

How to cook meatless vegetables in Chinese. Onion cut into half rings, mushrooms without feet soak in a little water, carrots, chop sticks, Chinese cabbage cut diagonally into pieces 2.5 cm wide. Water bring to a boil in a saucepan, put the mushrooms and onions, make a fire minimum, cover, simmer 45 minutes, add the broccoli and carrots, cover, boil for 2-3 minutes, put the cabbage, boil for 1 minute. Starch dissolve 2-3 tablespoons water, pour the mixture into the pan with constant stirring, when the sauce becomes almost transparent and acquires a creamy consistency, sprinkle with soy sauce all. Meatless vegetables served in Chinese to the rice or noodles.

As a main dish can be cooked just boiled potatoes, rice, lentils, macaroni, spaghetti or barley, buckwheat. Give any of these dishes taste more interesting without oil is very simple - cook meatless sauce avocado and cucumber.

Recipe vegetable vegetable sauce

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You will need: 1 piece of avocado, 1 part fresh cucumber, salt and spices to taste.

How to cook meatless sauce. Avocado and cucumber peeled, cut into pieces randomly by small and grind until pasty consistency using a blender, and season with salt the spices to taste. The greater the cucumber is added, the more liquid will sauce.

Meals can be really delicious and varied, even during the most rigorous - Lent. God bless you!

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