For dinner, mainly main dishes are served.
For dessert, prepare pastries and drinks.
Light salads are also great for dinner.
Lenten dinner - the basic principles of cooking
During fasting for dinner, you can prepare many tasty and interesting dishes. The main thing is to show fiction and are not afraid to experiment.
Cutlets for dinner are made from vegetables or legumes, without adding eggs. They are replaced by flour or starch.
Pancakes are cooked as sweet, with the addition of pieces of fruit and vegetables.
For dinner, cereals are served. They are boiled with vegetables or fruits. Instead of cow's milk, you can use soy or coconut.
Baking and fruit and berry desserts will appeal to children.
Option 1. Meatless dinner "It does not happen easier"
Buckwheat porridge recipe in a slow cooker sauce
Ingredients
a glass of buckwheat;
a pinch of oregano, salt and sugar;
two glasses of water;
60 g of vegetable oil;
600 g of tomatoes;
two cloves of garlic;
two onions;
some flour;
a bunch of greenery.
Cooking method
1. Peel the vegetables and wash. Spoon the buckwheat and rinse under running water until the water is clear. Put the cereal in a multicooker container, cover it with water and place it in the unit. Close the lid, and cook on the program "Porridge".
2. Pour boiling water over tomatoes, shift to cold water and remove the skin. Cut the tomatoes into small cubes.
3. Greens, garlic and onions chop finely with a knife. Heat the butter in a pan, and fry the onion in it until soft. Then add the tomatoes and simmer for about ten minutes. In a water, dissolve a spoonful of flour, and pour into the frying pan, stirring constantly. Salt, add sugar and season with garlic, oregano and greens. Stir and simmer on low heat until the sauce is thick.
4. Put buckwheat in a plate and pour it with sauce, you can drag it with chopped greens on top.
Vegetable Salad with Olives Recipe
Ingredients
fresh cucumber and tomato;
80 g of olives;
salt and greens;
20 ml of olive oil;
green onion.
Cooking method
1. Rinse the tomato and cucumber under the tap, rub and chop finely. Put in a deep plate.
2. Drain the liquid from the olives and cut them into slices. Send to vegetables.
3. Finely chop the green onion and place in the salad. Season the vegetables with olive oil, salt and mix.
Dried fruit jelly recipe "Winter"
Ingredients
litere of water;
lemon juice;
200 g of dried fruits;
citrus zest;
60 g of potato starch;
sugar, cloves and cinnamon.
Cooking method
1. Throw the dried fruits in a colander, rinse them in warm water and scald with boiling water. Put in a deep plate, add spices and zest and pour boiling water. Leave the dried fruit to swell.
2. After some time, add sugar in them and put them on the stove. Dissolve starch with cold water, and enter it in a thin stream when the fruit is soft. In this case, do not forget to constantly stir. At the end add a few drops of lemon juice.
Option 2. A hearty dinner for the whole family
Recipe for rice with Brussels sprouts and apples in pots
Ingredients
rice - a glass;
hot water - one and a half glasses;
large green apple;
olive oil - 50 ml;
roasted cashews - 100 g;
black salt and pepper;
Brussels sprouts frozen - 300 g;
allspice - three peas.
Cooking method
1. We sort and wash rice. Soak it for half an hour. Wash my apple, wipe off with a napkin, remove the core and cut it into small cubes.
3. Chop a few nuts and chop them for decoration.
4. Put rice in the pot, apples on it, then Brussels sprouts and sprinkle with nuts. Salt, add fragrant black peppers, pour olive oil and pour all hot water. Cover with a lid.
5. Send the pots to the cold oven and set the temperature to 200 C. Cook for about an hour. Turn off the oven and leave the pots in it for another quarter of an hour. Before serving, sprinkle with chopped greens and chopped nuts.
Recipe for Healthy Muesli Bars
Ingredients
two tbsp. oat flakes;
50 g of brown sugar;
100 g sesame;
five pieces figs;
banana;
100 g of prunes;
pear;
100 g dried apricots;
lemon.
Cooking method
1. Wash dried fruit and cut into thin strips. Peel the banana. Wash the pear and wipe with a napkin. Grate the fruit with coarse chips. Sprinkle them with lemon juice.
2. Put dried fruits in a container with grated fruits, add all the loose ingredients and knead the dough well.
3. Deco cover the parchment and spread the mass in an even layer in a centimeter. Make small cuts with a knife, on which you will subsequently cut them.
4. Put in the oven, preheated to 160 ° C for half an hour. Then remove the bars and still hot, cut them into pieces.
Blueberry fruit recipe
Ingredients
sugar - 150 g;
water;
blueberries - 150 g.
Cooking method
1. Sort the berries and rinse well. Put on a disposable towel and dry. Grind the berry through a fine sieve.
2. Wrap the cake in gauze and squeeze the juice. Then put it in a saucepan, pour boiling water on it and boil it on an intense fire. Turn the heat off and continue cooking for another ten minutes. Strain the resulting broth.
3. Dissolve sugar in a hot broth. Cool and pour in the juice. If desired, the juice can be diluted with mineral water.
Option 3. Tasty Lenten Dinner
Recipe for wheat cereal with soy meat in a slow cooker
Ingredients
a pound of soy meat;
one and a half glasses of millet;
salt and black pepper;
bulb;
carrot;
20 g of olive oil;
zucchini squash;
two tomatoes;
Bell pepper.
Cooking method
1. Boil soy meat for seven minutes. Put it in a multicooker container, pepper it and pour in olive oil. We clean and finely chop the onion. We put it to the meat. Close the lid and turn on the unit to the "Extinguishing" program. Cook, stirring constantly, until the onions are transparent.
2. Clean the carrot, rinse and cut into large strips. We spread in capacity and we continue to extinguish.
3. Pepper freed from the seeds and chop straws. My squash wipe, wipe with a napkin and cut into half rings. Rinse the tomatoes and cut into slices.
4. We rinse the millet under the tap several times until it becomes transparent. We spread in capacity multicooker, here also add pepper and zucchini. Salt and add slices of tomatoes. Add water and mix. We set the program "Porridge" and cook for half an hour.
Lean Olivier Recipe
Ingredients
six potatoes;
greenery;
two squids;
lean mayonnaise;
two carrots;
olives;
can of green peas;
two fresh cucumbers;
bulb.
Cooking method
1. Dip squid in boiling water and cook for three minutes. Then we drain the water and cool.
2. Boil vegetables in uniform, cool and clean.
3. Fresh cucumbers washed and cut into cubes. Thus, chop the potatoes and carrots. Onions cleaned and finely crumbled.
4. Squids are cleaned and cut into thin strips. All crushed products put in a bowl. Spread the peas. Rinse and chop the greens. Pepper, salt, add mayonnaise and mix. We shift to a salad bowl.
Recipe for blackcurrant mousse on semolina
Ingredients
300 g of black currant:
100 g semolina;
200 g of sugar;
0.5 l of water.
Cooking method
1. Defrost frozen blackcurrant berries at room temperature, rinse and puree using an immersion blender.
2. Put the berry puree in a saucepan and cover with water. Boil on low heat, from the moment of boiling for a quarter of an hour. Cover and hold in hot comfort for half an hour. Strain the resulting broth.
3. Pour sugar into the filtered broth and send to the stove, bring to a boil. A thin stream vsypte semolina. Do not forget to stir constantly. Turn the heat on and continue cooking for a quarter of an hour.
4. Remove the porridge from the heat and cool, stirring occasionally to prevent film formation. Then whisk well the cooled mass until fluffy. Arrange in a bowl and garnish with berries.
Recipe for Lenten Coconut-Pineapple Cocktail
Ingredients
canned pineapple - can;
sugar - 20 g;
banana;
half a glass of water;
70 ml of coconut milk.
Cooking method
1. Remove the peel from the banana and cut into slices. Put in a bowl. Drain syrup from canned pineapple and place in bananas. Mash everything together with a hand blender.
2. Dilute puree with coconut milk, add water and pineapple syrup and whisk.
Lenten Dinner - Tips and Tricks
- Salads for a lean dinner, season with any vegetable oil or soy sauce.
- Instead of meat, use mushrooms or soy meat. Mushrooms can be used any: dried, pickled or fresh.
- If you grind soy meat in a meat grinder or using a blender, you can use it as minced meat.
- It is worth remembering that even when there is no fasting, Wednesday and Friday are considered to be fast days. These days, it is also advisable to cook lean dishes.
