At the onset of fasting, many are puzzled by the question of compiling a menu for a period of restrictions on dishes. A well-chosen diet is important not only for maintaining vitality, but also avoids the weakening of immunity, which inevitably accompanies most diets. Let's take a closer look at what dry eating is and how to put this term into practice during fasting.

What does it mean

Dry eating refers to the consumption of foods that are not subjected to heat treatment. Persons close to the clergy are required to observe this strict fast at the appointed time.

How long does it take

The Church has established certain days throughout the Lent when the principles of dry eating should be used. This is the beginning, middle and end of the working week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday). Also, the beginning and end of Lent is marked by dry eating during the week.

Contraindications

• young children;
• pregnant women;
• suffering from diseases, especially dystonia, diabetes, tuberculosis and anemia.

What products are prohibited

A strict restriction applies to the following products:

• meat and sausage products, including lard and offal;
• dairy products;
• oils, including vegetable oils;
• alcoholic drinks;
• fatty food.

In addition, it is forbidden to subject the products to heat treatment. This restriction applies to all types of food, including drinks. As an indulgence, the use of bread is allowed.

How to start fasting

When preparing for fasting, there are spiritual rules. It would not be superfluous to get acquainted with the opportunities that the dry food menu provides, since many who wish to join the fast are stopped by ignorance. The established restrictions do not imply fasting.

Strict followers of fasting make up their menu of bread, sauerkraut and raw cabbage, as well as carrots, fresh vegetable salads and water.

Basic dry food recipes

For those who decide to fast for the first time, strict abstinence is contraindicated. It is worth noting once again that this style of eating does not imply starvation. Saturation occurs with a limited list of products.

There are many recipes for dry eating, so you can diversify your diet and eat deliciously. The reduction in the number of products goes on a par with the reduction in portions and the frequency of meals.

1. Kashi

Oatmeal and buckwheat porridge can be cooked without using heat. It is enough to pour buckwheat with water at the rate of one glass of cereal - one glass of water. Leaving it overnight, in the morning you can already savor porridge for breakfast. Oatmeal swells faster, making it even easier to cook. You can enhance the taste of dishes with salt.

Acceptable flavor enhancers:

• dried fruits;
• nuts;
• flax seeds, whole or ground;
• fresh vegetables and fruits;
• soy sauce;
• various herbs and spices (mint, cinnamon, lemon).

2. Salads

They can be prepared at your discretion from fresh vegetables, changing the compositions and experimenting within what is permitted. You can add some fruits. For example, carrots and an apple in a salad go well together. An indispensable assistant in the kitchen during the fasting period will be a grater for Korean carrots, which will allow you not only to quickly chop salad products, but also to serve them beautifully.

Acceptable additions to salads:

• sesame and flax seeds (ground or whole);
• raisins pre-soaked in water;
• pumpkin;
• pears and apples;
• dried fruits;
• garlic;
• pepper;
• greenery;
• soy sauce.

To enhance the taste of the finished salad, you can let it brew for a couple of hours. During this time, the ingredients will release some of the juice and the taste will become richer.

A dressing with a rich and piquant taste can serve as honey and soy sauce mixed in equal amounts.

3. Soups

It is difficult for many fasting people to pass the test of food restriction without first courses. In this case, you can resort to the Spanish recipe for cold soup - gazpacho. It is prepared from tomatoes, which are the main ingredient (250 g).

They are ground into juice, to which 2 cucumbers, a bunch of onions, celery (root), green peppers, and garlic are then added. All these components are pre-crushed to a mushy state. After insisting for several hours, the soup is ready to serve.

4. Desserts

For children or just lovers of sweets during the period of dry eating, you can prepare special cookies. To do this, you need four glasses of cashew nuts, half a glass of a mixture of dried fruits to choose from (dried apricots, apples, figs). The components are passed through a meat grinder to obtain a sticky homogeneous mass.

Then the balls are rolled, which are given the desired shape. If you make a recess in the center of the cookie, you can put berries in it fresh or in the form of a paste mixed with honey. From the specified amount of ingredients, the amount of cookies is obtained, sufficient to pamper a large company with sweets.

5. Snacks

For those who are used to eating often, snacking will come to the rescue. In this capacity, you can use any dried fruits, seeds and seeds. And you can also mix their various combinations in different proportions with honey.

Salt, nutmeg, cinnamon will help to enhance the taste. By grinding the components in a meat grinder or in a blender, you can get an attractive, healthy and tasty dessert that you can eat between meals.

6. Sandwiches

During the fasting period, you can treat yourself to sandwiches that are not only tasty, but also healthy. It is better to use rye bread as a base. The filling can be avocado, tomatoes, sesame seeds, salt and pepper for taste, and dill for decoration.

Food restrictions are not the only tool of fasting. During this period, one should also refrain from evil and envious thoughts and deeds, try to cultivate love and respect for one's neighbor. And adherence to the principles of dry eating will allow you to tune in to the right wave. And at the same time - to achieve lightness in the whole body, start the metabolism at a new speed, cleanse, rejuvenate and improve health.

Skoromnaya food translated from old Russian - fatty

More and more people are fasting, and many have decided to fast this year for the first time. Public catering contributes to this. Starting from this Monday, in addition to the regular menu, many cafes and restaurants also offer lenten menus. Some stores have special discount promotions for lean products, so it’s better to stock up on everything you need for a lenten table in advance. It is not customary to go shopping during fasting and it is generally prescribed to deal less with money.

In pre-revolutionary Russia at that time, life generally changed radically. In the book “Russian Orthodox Lent”, published by the publishing house of the Moscow Danilov Monastery, we read: “In the cities, with the beginning of Lent, all kinds of spectacles were forbidden. First of all, this concerned city theatrical performances, balls and masquerades - they were canceled. Bathhouses and shops that sold meat and other modest products were also closed, except for those selling basic necessities; court proceedings were suspended. In the 30s and 40s of the 19th century in St. Petersburg during Lent, not only in Russian, but also in German restaurants, Lenten dishes were served. In the "Stroganov" tavern on Nevsky Prospekt, the food on the first and Holy weeks was no different from the monastery: they prepared only dishes from mushrooms, peas and jelly. They drank tea with raisins and honey, cooked sbiten.

Great Lent, which begins today, will last 40 days, it is joined by another week - called Holy Week by believers, that is, in total, fasting will last about seven weeks until Easter, which this year is celebrated on April 15. At this time, according to the church charter, it is forbidden to eat fast food (“soon” - translated from Old Russian - “fat”): meat, poultry, all dairy products, eggs and fish, as well as refined (refined) flour - you can eat bread from flour coarse grind.

• A particularly strict fast must be observed in the first and last weeks.
• On the first Monday of Lent, which the believers call clean, it is prescribed to go without food all day. We can only drink water.
• On other days of the first Lenten week (through Friday), it is allowed to eat only raw and dried vegetables and fruits, frozen berries, nuts, honey, bread. That is, products that have not been boiled in water are “dry”. And it is supposed to eat once a day after sunset. It is also allowed to use pickled, without the use of vegetable oil, vegetables and mushrooms and cooled vegetables baked in the oven. Such food is called dry food. Experienced people say that dry eating is the most difficult thing for beginners to fast.
• On days of dry eating, you can not drink hot drinks - tea, coffee, as well as compotes, herbal decoctions, wine. Allowed drinks are water and juices.
• On Friday of the first week of Lent, according to the church charter, it is customary to eat boiled wheat with honey - “kolivo”, consecrated in the church. However, in our time, this rule is observed most often only in monasteries.
• During the rest of the Great Lent, you should eat according to the following schedule: on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, it is supposed to adhere to dry eating. On Tuesdays, Thursdays you can eat hot food without oil. On Saturdays and Sundays, meals with vegetable oil are allowed, as well as meals twice a day. And so on until Holy Week.
• On Good Friday during Holy Week, no food is allowed at all. Many believers also do not eat anything on Holy Saturday until Easter.
• It is allowed to eat fish during fasting only on the feast of the Annunciation (April 7) and on Palm Sunday (April 8). On Lazarus Saturday, you can eat fish caviar.
• On Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, it is also allowed to take hot food flavored with vegetable oil, if the memory of the most revered saints falls on these days.

The same book “Russian Orthodox Lent” says that in “Central Russia the main food during fasting days was bread, water, cabbage soup, soups, stews with the addition of cabbage, potatoes, peas, beans or lentils, cereals, boiled and fried mushrooms with adding a small amount of sunflower, linseed or hemp oil, kissels, vegetables, steamed turnips, pumpkin, lingonberries, cranberries, raisins, honey ... cabbage soup.

Tatyana Smolina, a parishioner of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ, said that she had been fasting for about ten years:
- It only seems at first that it is very difficult to endure fasting, but when you try it once or twice, you already begin to wait for it, like a holiday. Fasting hardens the soul and body, she says.

At the request of the "Consumer", Tatyana compiled a Lenten menu for our readers.

Meals for days on which dry eating is prescribed

There are not so many recipes for dry eating, they cannot be found in the cookbook. Therefore, they are passed on by believers from hand to hand.

Jacket baked potatoes
Ingredients: a few medium-sized potatoes, salt to taste.
Wash potatoes, but do not peel. Preheat the oven to 220 - 240 degrees, put the potatoes on a baking sheet and put in the oven. Bake for approximately 30 minutes. When the potatoes are ready, they must cool. Only then can it be served on the table. You can eat with salt. You can also bake other vegetables: carrots, beets, turnips, pumpkins and serve them with nuts, honey, herbs.

Pumpkin with apples and honey
Ingredients: 300 g pumpkin, one sour apple, 4 tbsp. spoons of honey, a handful of peeled seeds.
Cut the pumpkin into thin slices. Rub the apple and mix with honey and seeds. Pour the pumpkin with this mass and let it brew for about 2 hours.

Fresh tomato appetizer
Ingredients: 2 medium-sized tomatoes, herbs (parsley, dill, cilantro, etc.), salt to taste, half a small head of garlic, black bread.
Grind tomatoes and herbs in a mixer. Add salt and garlic. We spread the finished mass on black bread.

Vegetable salad with cranberries
Ingredients: a glass of cranberries, one medium carrot, one small turnip, 1/3 of a medium celery root, sugar to taste.
Mash the washed cranberries with a wooden spoon, sprinkle with sugar. Then add grated carrots, turnips, celery. Mix.

Carrot salad with kohlrabi
Ingredients: 3 - 4 carrots, 200 g of kohlrabi, a teaspoon of honey, a tablespoon of ground walnuts, a quarter cup of lemon, cranberry, cherry, apple or pomegranate juice, a sprig of greens.
Rinse carrots and kohlrabi well, grate on a fine grater and mix. Season with a well-mashed mixture of honey and juice. Decorate the salad with nuts. You can snack on black bread, grated garlic and sprinkled with salt.

Dishes for the days when it is allowed to eat boiled food and fill it with vegetable oil

Potato Russian salad
Ingredients: 3 - 4 boiled potatoes, 1 - 2 boiled carrots, 2 pickled cucumbers, one apple, celery root, 200 g green peas, vegetable oil, salt to taste.
Cut potatoes, carrots, cucumbers, celery, apple into small cubes, finely chop salted mushrooms. Combine everything, add green peas. Season with oil, salt.

Vinaigrette with beans and mushrooms
Ingredients: 2 beets, 2 - 3 potatoes, 1 glass of beans, 2 - 3 cucumbers, 200 g of salted mushrooms, vegetable oil, juice of 1/2 lemon, salt to taste.
Boiled beets and potatoes cut into cubes and mix with boiled beans. Add finely chopped salted mushrooms and cucumbers, pour over lemon juice. Salt, season with oil.

Lean cabbage soup
Ingredients: 5 - 6 potatoes, 2 carrots, onion, 300 - 400 g cabbage, 2 - 3 garlic cloves, one tomato, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil, salt, pepper, bay leaf - optional.
In boiling salted water, dip the diced potatoes, chopped cabbage and cook until almost cooked. At the end of cooking, season the cabbage soup with chopped onions, carrots and tomatoes, fried until golden brown. Put finely chopped garlic and herbs into the finished soup.
Sour cabbage soup is prepared in the same way. Only instead of fresh cabbage they put sauerkraut in them.

Lentil soup
Ingredients: a glass of lentils, onions, 7 potatoes, one carrot, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Soak lentils for 2-4 hours, boil in the same water, add diced potatoes and finely chopped carrots and onions fried in oil. Cook until potatoes are cooked through, about 20 minutes. It is good to put some olives in the soup along with the brine. Or add liquid from green peas.

Pea porridge with barley groats
Ingredients: a glass of peas, a glass of barley groats, one carrot, 2 onions, vegetable oil for frying, salt to taste.
Soak the peas in the evening. Put it to boil in the same water. After 20 minutes, add the washed barley groats. Stir often so that the dish does not burn. Make sure you don't run away. When the peas become soft, mash them, add chopped onions fried in vegetable oil with coarsely grated carrots, cook for another 10 minutes. Serve sprinkled with herbs or green onions. Barley groats can be replaced with hercules. In this case, it is added already at the end of cooking 15 - 20 minutes before readiness.

Pilaf with mushrooms
Ingredients: 500 g of mushrooms - fresh champignons, 2 - 3 onions, 3 medium carrots, 500 g of rice, vegetable oil, dill and parsley, salt to taste.
Mushrooms fry in vegetable oil. Fry finely grated carrots and onions in a separate pan. Along the way, cook rice. Then put everything in a pan with mushrooms and stir hot. Salt. Oil can not be spared when frying - it will be tastier. Sprinkle pilaf in bowls with herbs.

Sbiten
Ingredients: a glass of honey, 0.5 liters of strawberry jam, a glass of cranberry juice, ginger to taste, cinnamon to taste, cloves to taste.
Boil 3 liters of water, add jam and honey. Cook for 5 - 7 minutes. Add juice, cook for another 5 minutes. Add spices - cook for another 5 minutes. The drink is ready.

Bread kvass
Ingredients: 0.5 kg of rye bread, 3.5 liters of water, a quarter cup of sugar, a quarter cup of raisins, 15 g of yeast.
Bread cut into slices. Dry in the oven until dark brown. Pour boiled hot water and let it brew for 6-8 hours. After that, strain, add yeast and sugar diluted with warm water. Add raisins and set to ferment. At room temperature, kvass will be ready in two to three days.
Pour ready kvass into bottles and keep in a cold place, otherwise fermentation will continue.

Before entering a strict fast, you need to find out what dry eating means, how to eat right so as not to weaken the immune system.

Ask with fasting and prayer, as the Holy Letter teaches. Fasting is not a fashionable diet, it is humility, obedience before God to purify a sinful soul.

What is dry eating for?

You can free your soul from anger, gossip, resentment and unforgiveness, you can receive healing in prayer with humility. Only by clearly understanding the meaning of the post, you can enter it.

Important! A complete rejection of thermally processed food is recommended by the church on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the entire abstinence. Lent begins and ends with a week of dry eating.

Relaxation is made for children, pregnant women, sick people. Those suffering from severe types of diabetes, tuberculosis, dystonia, anemia can receive relief from the confessor for fasting.

During the refusal of the main, familiar food, the following products are not included in the diet:

• dairy products;
• meat;
• salo;
• offal;
• vegetable oils;
• wine;
• fats.

It is forbidden to thermally process all foods, including vegetables, fruits, cooking hot drinks, but it is allowed to eat bread.

When and how to refuse hot food

The Great and Assumption fasts consist in the strict observance of the canons. Thus, believing people humble their sinful flesh in order to come to the great feast with reverence and trepidation and receive God's blessing.

Some lay people do not even begin to fast, fearing that they will not endure, not knowing what it means to eat dry food during fasting.

Restriction in food does not mean hunger. For lay people who have not practiced dry eating before, the first approach can be done with unlimited lists of dishes.

Deeply religious people who practice strict dry eating consume bread, sauerkraut and raw cabbage, carrots, fresh salads, and water on days of abstinence.

How to quickly cook sauerkraut

Each housewife has a unique recipe for making sauerkraut. The recipes below are a 100% guarantee of obtaining cabbage that will be stored for a long time, without peroxide, without freezing even in winter, remaining crisp and firm.

Recipe for shredded cabbage

Cabbage is stored in jars that should be washed before use. There is no need to sterilize, because the vegetables will be laid raw.

At the bottom of each jar for a special taste, add a bay leaf, a few pieces of black pepper and, if available, half a teaspoon of dry dill seeds.

Boil and cool water. Prepare a one-liter jar, in which pour 1 tbsp. rock salt and ½ tsp. sugar, pour everything with water, mix. Russell is ready.

Chop the cabbage, grind it a little with your hands, add carrots, everything is done “by eye”.

Put a mixture of cabbage and carrots in a jar of spices, add in parts, tamping and adding brine. A three-liter jar will take 1 liter of water with salt and sugar.

Keep the jars filled and filled with brine warm, pierce with a knife, releasing the resulting gas. After 3 days, take it to a cold place.

Sauerkraut

Recipe for cabbage, cut into pieces, with beets and horseradish

Prepare a brine: for 2 liters of water, take 100 g of sugar and salt, boil, cool.

For 4 kg of cabbage you will need:

• horseradish root cut into small strips;
• peeled head of garlic;
• medium-sized beets cut into circles;
• if available - a bunch of parsley, disassembled into leaves or chopped.

The simplicity in this recipe is captivating. Cabbage is cut into pieces, which are then conveniently laid out on a plate, laid in a bucket with a layer of about 8 - 10 cm, some of all the ingredients are placed on top in order. Repeat the layers, ending with beets with ingredients. Pour in brine, cover with cabbage leaves and oppression for 3-4 days and leave warm. Then leave the finished cabbage in a bucket or arrange in jars. Keep cold.

Cabbage with beets and horseradish

"Delicious" dry food

For beginning laymen, fasting cannot be hungry. If an Orthodox person does not know what to eat with a dry diet: recipes can be found in large quantities, while food can be varied and eaten with pleasure, without feeling hungry. For such people, an indulgence is made.

When compiling a fasting menu for children and the weakened, one should adhere to the rule that abstinence means not only limiting the list of products, but also the quantity and frequency of food intake.

Some lay people are wary of dry eating. What can you eat and drink if nothing can be cooked?

More about Orthodox cuisine:

Delicious cereals

Oatmeal and buckwheat porridges are quite high-calorie foods, and they are easy to cook without heat treatment.

Pour cereal or flakes from it into a 200g glass and pour 200ml of juice or any infusion. Leave overnight. In the morning, swollen cereals are ready to eat.

To taste, add a little salt and any ingredients:

• fruits;
• dried fruits;
• nuts;
• ground flax;
• honey, if porridge should be sweet;
• fresh vegetables seasoned with soy sauce.

Fans of cinnamon, mint, lemon zest can use them to improve the taste of porridge.

Buckwheat porridge without cooking

Salads - a storehouse of vitamins

At any time of the year, the menu of homemade dishes can and should be diversified with salads. Carrots are a root crop that is available in every home, but not everyone has it in due esteem. You can make a sweet and spicy salad from carrots, which perfectly complement the porridge.

In both cases, carrots should be grated on a coarse grater or use the device to get a Korean dish.

Advice! Salads will acquire a special piquancy if you add pre-soaked raisins, ground flax, sesame seeds to them.

Sweet carrot salads are easy to make by adding to carrots:

• pieces of raw pumpkin;
• apples or pears;
• any dried fruit.

Carrot salad with apples and dried fruits

A freshly prepared salad should be infused for several hours so that the ingredients soak into one another.

Spicy salads are obtained by adding garlic and herbs to the carrot mixture. Salt, pepper in this case are added to taste. A special zest for a spicy salad will be given by a dressing of honey and soy sauce, which must be mixed in a 1: 1 ratio.

Unique salad of 2 pcs. avocado, half a head of cauliflower, seasoned with a mixture of lemon juice and sea salt, taken to taste, will decorate any menu.

Arugula has recently appeared on the tables of Russians, having won sympathy for its unusual mustard smell and bitter taste. Arugula salad with the addition of seemingly completely incompatible ingredients will be a pleasant surprise for the family as a dinner.

The recipe for an amazing salad can be varied to your own taste.

Step by step recipe

• Tear a large bunch of arugula into pieces with your hands.
• Chop half a cup of hazelnuts with a knife.
• ½ cup raisins, pre-soak and pat dry.
• ½ cup grapefruit juice mixed with pepper, salt and sugar.
• Cut the peeled pear into pieces.

Mix everything in a deep salad bowl.

First course lovers

Lay people who find it difficult to fast without an entree can prepare the gourmet Spanish dish gazpacho, a cold tomato soup.

To prepare it you need:

• Grind 250 g of tomatoes to the state of juice;
• 2 cucumbers, green peppers, celery root, a small bunch of onions, cut into pieces and beat in a blender;
• gradually suppress tomato juice in the vegetable mixture;
• salt, pepper to taste;
• mince 1 clove of garlic.

Leave the prepared tomato soup for 2-3 hours, sprinkle with finely chopped parsley and serve.

gazpacho

Dessert for children

Cashew and dried fruit cookies are a perfect substitute for sweets and cakes not only during fasting, but also on holidays.

To prepare a delicious dessert for a large company or for a long time, you will need four two-hundred-gram glasses of cashew nuts, ½ cup of dried fruits in the form of:

• figs;
• apples
• dried apricots.

Pass dried fruits and nuts twice through a meat grinder. Form balls from the resulting mixture, flatten them in the form of cookies, making a recess for the filling. As a filling, any berries are used, fresh or frozen, mixed with honey in a 1: 1 ratio.

Dried fruit biscuits

A small snack for those who eat often

A cocktail of pumpkin seeds will surprise even seasoned gourmets.

Beat 2 cups of freshly peeled pumpkin seeds in a blender with 1 liter of water, half a cup of pre-soaked raisins, 100 g of honey. If desired, add cinnamon, nutmeg, salt to taste.

pumpkin seed cocktail

Sandwich lovers

Sandwiches are convenient and easy to prepare. You should not refuse them in the post. For a tasty and healthy sandwich you will need:

• bread, preferably rye;
• avocado, tomato, cut into slices;
• sprig of dill;
• sesame;
• salt pepper.

Put avocado on a slice of bread, sprinkle with sesame seeds, cover with tomato and dill. Salt and pepper if desired. The sandwich is ready.

Avocado sandwich

Advice! The article only opens the veil of what dry eating during fasting is, however, it should be remembered that food does not play a big role in abstinence, the main thing is not to “nibble” your neighbors.

Watch the video about dry eating in the post

Great post ahead. If you follow it, then you have probably already encountered the most difficult days - the days of dry eating. They are so strict that you can not eat not only meat, butter, fish, milk and its derivatives, you cannot even boil porridge in water and stew vegetables! Established a ban on all boiled and fried. However, we are not going to starve at all. And to begin with, let's decide what kind of animal such a dry diet is, and what is it supposed to eat on such days?

There is no exact wording and instructions for dry eating in the scriptures. That is why the answers of the priests differ. In particular, in matters of baked vegetables and tea. Some clerics argue that dry eating, if you already observe it, imposes a ban on all heat-treated food, others allow baked vegetables and teas. Since tea, in their opinion, is not a decoction, but an infusion. It is equally important to note that dry eating is a very strict form of fasting and is prescribed by the Church Charter mainly to monks. The laity may not adhere to it.

So, the first, stricter version. On the "dry" days of fasting, it is supposed to eat raw or dried vegetables and fruits, bread. Vegetable oil and wine, although cooked without heat treatment, are strictly prohibited these days. The use of pickled, salted and pickled vegetables and mushrooms is allowed, if no oil was used in their preparation. Nuts and honey are also held in high esteem. Hot drinks: tea, coffee, decoctions and compotes are not allowed. Drinks are limited to juices and water.

The second, less strict version of dry eating sounds reassuring. Boiled, stewed food is not allowed, but baked food is welcome. You can easily bake potatoes there or pumpkin, zucchini, carrots and turnips in the oven and have a good lunch. It is also allowed to pour boiling water over porridge from a bag, drink teas. It turns out that instant coffee is also possible, boiled in a Turk is prohibited. Well, otherwise, everything is the same as in the first version. Vegetables (raw and pickled), fruits, frozen berries and dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots, figs, dates), bread, honey, nuts are allowed.

In the Church Slavonic Dictionary of Dyachenko it is written: "Dry eating is the use of dry and rough food." The priests of the Pskov-Pechersk Holy Assumption Monastery comment on this on their website as follows: “Consequently, every fasting person can, taking into account his state of health and lifestyle, determine what kind of food is “dry and coarse” for him and establish a feasible rule for fasting, having previously consulted with his confessor.

Well, we have chosen 15 Delicious Recipes for Strict Fasting Days: salads, desserts, second courses. Not just fasting, but allowed even on days of dry eating. Read, cook and ... enjoy your meal!

Salad of radish and wild garlic, green onions and avocado

Ingredients:

• Radishes (you can use radish leaves) - 200 g
• Ramson - 25 g
• Green onions - 75 g
• Avocado - 1/3
• Salt - to taste

Cooking

Radishes, my greens, finely chopped, salt to taste. We scroll the avocado in a blender and season the salad with it. Avocados make an excellent moist dressing that binds all the ingredients together like butter.

baked pumpkin

Ingredients:

• Medium-sized pumpkin - 1 piece
• Honey or sugar - to taste
• Nuts or sesame - to taste

Cooking

We take a pumpkin of a sweet variety, clean it, cut it into large pieces and place it on a baking sheet covered with parchment. We heat the oven to 213-250 °. Bake a pumpkin for an hour. You can also determine the degree of its readiness by the intense smell. We take the pumpkin out of the oven, pour over with honey or sprinkle with sugar, decorate with nuts or sesame seeds.

Cabbage with nuts

Ingredients:

• Cabbage - 1 head
• Onion - 1 pc.
• Walnuts - 1 handful
• cilantro - 1 bunch
• Saffron - to taste
• apple cider vinegar - to taste
• Salt - to taste

Cooking

We cut a small head of cabbage into two parts, remove the stalk and chop finely.

Put it in a large saucepan, salt and cover with a lid for 20 minutes. During this time, the cabbage will give juice. Then we grind it with our hands, squeezing out excess juice. Add finely chopped onion head, crushed walnuts, finely chopped cilantro to the cabbage, add salt. Add saffron. Season with apple cider vinegar.

Mix everything well and put in a salad bowl.

Recipe Tip: Roasted cashews can be substituted for the walnuts. Also very tasty!

Artichoke and grapefruit salad

Ingredients:

• Marinated artichokes - 80 g
• Grapefruit - 80 g
• Leaf lettuce - 30 g
• Grated almonds - 10 g

For sauce:

• Lemon juice - 1.5 tbsp. l.
• Honey - 1 tsp
• Grapefruit juice - 2.5 tsp.
• Salt - to taste
• Pepper - to taste

1. Remove the marinated artichokes from the jar, bake them for ten minutes in the oven. When the artichokes are slightly charred, remove the burnt "skin" from them, cool and cut each into four pieces. Then peel the grapefruit from the zest, inner skin and seeds. Cut each slice with a sharp knife to make 3-4 thin segments. Lettuce leaves (lollo rossa, frise, etc.) wash, dry and tear into pieces with your hands.
2. Prepare the sauce by mixing lemon and grapefruit juice, runny honey, salt and pepper. It should be a sweet and sour dressing.
3. Mix all the salad ingredients, sprinkle with grated almonds and pour over the prepared sauce.

Salad Secrets:

1. Artichokes are the fleshy, unopened flowers of the Cynara Scolymus plant, which is widespread in the Mediterranean countries and the Canary Islands. The vegetable is served as an independent dish, as a side dish, salads and pizzas are made with it, it is added to pasta and pies. Even desserts and bread are cooked with artichokes. Today, this vegetable can be bought in almost every domestic supermarket. True, a jar of canned vegetables, which is enough to prepare 5-6 servings of salad, costs 250-300 rubles.

2. The main feature of this salad is a combination of slightly spicy marinated artichokes and sour grapefruit. If you do not find the right ingredients, you can replace the artichokes with pickled cucumbers.

Pear salad with arugula

Ingredients:

• Hard bartlet pears - 2 pcs.
• Hazelnut - 0.5 tbsp.
• Arugula (or lettuce) - 1 pack.
• Small pitted raisins - 1 handful

For refueling:

• Grapefruit juice - 100 ml
• Apple cider vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.
• Sugar - 0.5 tsp
• Salt - to taste
• Ground black pepper - to taste

Cooking

Soak the raisins in warm water for 15 minutes. Then we throw it in a colander and dry it. In a container with a lid, mix vinegar, juice, salt, sugar, pepper and shake until smooth. We clean the pears from the peel and core, cut into 8 slices. Pour lettuce leaves into a large bowl, put raisins and nuts.

Pour dressing over salad, mix, add pears.

Salad "Freshness"

Ingredients:

• Radish - 1 pc.
• Carrot - 1 pc.
• Apples - 2 pcs.
• Garlic - 1 tooth.
• Lemon zest - ¼ tsp
• Lemon juice - 3 tbsp. l.
• Salt - to taste

Cooking

Grate radishes, carrots and apples, mix well, add crushed garlic and lemon zest at the tip of a teaspoon. Squeeze the juice of 1 lemon into the salad, lightly salt and mix.

Honey cake"

Ingredients:

• Rye bread - 500 g
• Honey - 3 tbsp. l.
• Walnuts - 1 handful
• Cinnamon - to taste
• Lemon zest - to taste

Cooking

Bread should be thinly sliced, removing the crusts. We soak each slice of bread with honey, sprinkle with cinnamon and grated zest. We lay the slices on top of each other, sprinkle with crushed walnuts on top and put them in the cold for 2-3 hours.

On the first and last weeks of Great Lent, as well as on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, fasting is prescribed dry eating. This means that you can only eat food.

No butter, no coffee, not even porridge. The post is very strict. But strict does not mean hungry. Even on days of dry eating, you can eat varied, tasty and interesting.

In our arsenal are: any vegetables and fruits, nuts, honey, dried fruits (except bananas), bread (despite the fact that heat treatment is used in its preparation). You can also drink tea, as it is not a decoction, but an infusion.

Even cereals we can use in these strict days. For example, there is not cooked, but only soaked buckwheat porridge. Or cook oatmeal with dried fruits.

We offer you an original menu for strict fasting.

Breakfast

Oatmeal

1 cup oatmeal

A handful of pitted dates

1 glass of water

1 tbsp honey

Liquid vanilla to taste

Strip of lemon zest

sprig of mint

Step 1. Soak the flakes for 15 minutes.

Step 2 Mix cereal, honey, dates and water with a blender. Add vanilla and oil. Mix again. You should get a homogeneous mass.

Step 3 Arrange on plates, decorate with zest and mint, sprinkle with honey.

Dinner

Salad

carrot

3 large carrots

4 garlic cloves

1 bunch of parsley

1 tsp salt

1 tsp honey

70 ml apple juice

50 g raisins

1 tbsp sesame

Step 1. Soak raisins in hot water for 15 minutes.

Step 2. Peel the carrots and grate on a fine grater. Peel the garlic and chop finely. Cut greens.

Step 3 Mix carrots, raisins, garlic and herbs. Sprinkle salad with sesame seeds.

Step 4. Add honey and a little salt to apple juice. Mix everything. Fill the salad.

gazpacho

2 cups tomato juice (you can add any vegetable)

250 g tomato

2 celery stalks

1 green pepper

70 g green onions

1 tooth garlic

some parsley

Black and red pepper

Step 1. Peel and chop the tomatoes (or grate).

Step 2 Grind celery, cucumber, pepper and green onion in a food processor, add tomatoes, juice, salt, parsley and black pepper. Mix again and leave in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.

Step 3 Serve chilled with greens.

Main course

Buckwheat porridge with vegetable puree

1 cup buckwheat

3 glasses of water

2 avocados

½ head of cauliflower

2 tbsp lemon juice

1 tsp sea ​​salt

Step 1. Rinse the buckwheat and pour cold water over night.

Step 2 Peel the avocado, remove the stone, disassemble the cabbage into inflorescences.

Step 3 Grind the avocado and cauliflower in a food processor and puree. Add juice and salt.

Step 4. Serve with buckwheat porridge.

Dessert

Nut and fruit cookies

2 cups cashews

¼ cup dried apples

¼ cup dried figs

¼ cup dried apricots

Filling:

½ cup fresh or thawed blueberries

1 tbsp honey

Step 1. Nuts and dried fruits turn through a meat grinder 2 times.

Step 2 Roll this stuffing into medium-sized balls and make small indentations for the filling.

Step 3. Mix honey and blueberries with a blender. Spread the filling into the grooves.

afternoon tea

Milk from pumpkin seeds

2 cups pumpkin seeds

5 cups of water

½ cup raisins

2 tbsp honey

1 tsp nutmeg

¼ tsp sea ​​salt

Step 1. Soak pumpkin seeds overnight.

Step 2 Combine all ingredients in a food processor or blender until smooth.

Step 3 Strain.

Dinner

Salad

Pear salad with arugula

½ cup hazelnuts

200 g arugula

70 g seedless raisins

100 ml grapefruit juice

Black pepper

Sugar to taste

Step 1. Soak raisins in warm water for 15 minutes. Then drain and dry. Chop nuts.

Step 2. Mix juice, salt, pepper and sugar, shake until smooth.

Step 3. Peel the pears, cut out the cores, cut into large slices.

Step 4 Put the arugula, raisins and nuts in a salad bowl, pour over the dressing, mix, add the pear.

Main course

Sandwich with vegetables

4 slices wholemeal bread

1 avocado

1 tomato

1 tsp sesame

Several sprigs of dill

Salt and pepper

Step 1. Peel the avocado, remove the pit, cut into thin slices

Step 2. Cut tomatoes into thin slices.

Step 3 Put avocado on bread, sprinkle with sesame seeds, tomatoes on top. Salt and pepper, garnish with dill.

Dessert

chocolate cream

7 brazil nuts

4 tbsp honey

½ tsp cocoa

A pinch of salt

Step 1. Grind all ingredients in a blender until a homogeneous paste is obtained.

Step 2. Spread on bread, you can just eat with tea, like jam