Delicious meatless recipes for Lent

Pancake week is over, and the hostess who observe Lent, now looking recipes are not pancakes and cakes, and meatless dishes. In this, 2014, Fasting begins on March 18 and will last until May 4. What has made in the post, which products are allowed and which are not, how to make a delicious meatless meals - see this article.

Leave the discussion of Lent and its significance to other portals, because we have here, after all, the main theme - the food. That's about it and will be discussed.

The entire post is divided into Week (week), each allowed or disallowed certain dishes. First Week - the most severe, it even contains a full day out of food. And during the entire post operates one rule: you can not eat any meat, dairy, egg and fish dishes and even vegetable oil. Although, nowadays allowed to use vegetable oil for a secular person. The fish can be eaten only in certain religious holidays. Alcohol, of course, also not worth drinking.

If you adhere to the post, we recommend that you search the Internet for a special calendar days where it is painted, you can eat and what forbidden. We discuss the most simple recipes meatless dishes that are useful and at any other time. They are all delicious, easy to stomach, and most importantly, preparing of those products that are always easy to get.

Remember that observing Lent, we must always bear in mind the age, state of health and the nature of his work (heavy physical or mental work). Therefore, fasting, we should not blindly abandon the usual food, you have to listen to your body and do not bring themselves to exhaustion.

Since Lent in the spring, in the meatless recipes used products this season. It can be pickled, canned, pickled and cooked fruits and vegetables, legumes, berries, herbs, mushrooms, oatmeal water, dried fruits and nuts, juices.

Strange, but many people still believe that meatless meals - it's something monotonous, bland and what can not be sated. Now, of course, lost a lot of recipes and culinary traditions of Lent. Believe me, there was plenty to choose from even the pickiest gourmets! But today is also possible to cook meatless meals and make a variety of lean menu. Perhaps by examining a few recipes, even the most ardent opponents of Lent liked the post.

How to develop a Lenten menu? Look at your daily menu and try to upgrade it a little bit under the tradition of fasting. If you have a family decided to eat porridge, continue to cook for her and in the post, but not in the milk and no added oil. And for a taste of the beauty and add the dried fruit, honey, cocoa sauce or jam or jelly. And if you want to make a savory porridge, you can submit it to the vegetable or mushroom sauce. Try different kinds of cereal, mix them and cook in different consistencies - more liquid or more loose.

Soups or main dish cook well, but without the addition of meat. Try first to lay those vegetables that are cooked stew or longer, and only then those that will qualify. Do not be afraid to add herbs, spices, garlic.

Often severe limitations in food scare many even try fasting. But you try to cook a couple of meatless recipes and make sure that it is very tasty and absolutely nothing to worry about!

Soup of roasted vegetables

Need: 3 liters of vegetable broth, 4 pcs. potatoes, bell pepper 1 red, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 2 tomatoes, 1 tsp cumin, salt, black pepper, bay leaf, vegetable oil.
Preparation:
Potatoes and carrots washed, peeled and cut into cubes. Pepper cut in half, remove seeds and cut into strips. Tomatoes cut into slices (about 8 slices).
In a frying pan heat the oil, add a spoonful of cumin, a little fry until fragrant and remove from heat. Add to the pan all the vegetables (except onions), stir and season with salt, pepper, put the bay leaf. Pour a little water to the vegetables do not burn during baking, cover with foil and place in a preheated 180 � C oven for about 30 minutes, until the vegetables are propekutsya. In a separate pan heat oil and fry it finely chopped onion.
Heat the broth, add the fried onions. Arrange on plates roasted vegetables and pour their broth. Ready soup season to taste, if desired, you can add the greens.

Salad with apples and cabbage with orange sauce

Need: 1/4 small head, 1 carrot, 1 apple, 50 grams of walnuts, salt, ground black pepper.
For the sauce: 1 orange, greens, 1-2 st.lozhek olive oil.
Preparation:
Shred the cabbage finely, add to the bowl, mash well and prisolit. Carrots grate, mix with cabbage. Apple (with peel) cut into thin slices. Nuts coarsely chop. Mix all the ingredients. For the sauce, mix the juice of one orange with olive oil and pour over salad. Mix and let stand for an hour, add the finely chopped herbs and serve.
Pea jelly
Need: 2 cups of dried peas, 5 cups cold water 2 teaspoons of salt, fried onions and mushrooms.
Preparation: 2 cups whole peas, iterate and pulverized in a blender. It turns pea flour. Fill the 5 cups of cold water, add two teaspoons of salt. Cook in a pan with a thick bottom after boiling even 30-40 minutes over low heat, stirring constantly. Ready jelly spread in the form or a deep dish. Let cool in refrigerator. Gat, spread on a plate, cut into slices. Decorate passaged onions or fried mushrooms. Incidentally very tasty and satisfying.

Ragout of cauliflower

You will need: 500 grams of cauliflower, 4 tomatoes, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 2 potatoes, salt, curry (powder), coriander (seeds), vegetable broth or water.
Preparation:
Cabbage disassemble into florets (small). Carrots and onions to clean. Carrots cut into small cubes, onion finely chopped. Scald the tomatoes, remove the peel and finely chop. Peel the potatoes and cut into cubes 1x1 cm.
Boil water, add salt and boil it until half the cauliflower. Preheat a deep frying pan vegetable oil, add the onion and fry it a little bit. Add to the onions carrots, stirring constantly, cook a few minutes. After putting in a pan with vegetables tomatoes (with juice formed), reduce heat and simmer for a few minutes.
Add the potatoes, pour broth or water and simmer for 10-15 minutes under the lid. Add to vegetables cauliflower, season with curry powder and coriander, stir and simmer until cooked potatoes.

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