As you know, Lent introduces a number of food restrictions into our lives. You will have to give up many familiar products, and it may seem that there is simply nothing to cook delicious dishes from. However, housewives need to prepare even lean dishes in such a way that they delight the household with excellent taste and variety. This is especially true of lean second courses, because during fasting on our tables, they can be considered the most satisfying. Soups, salads and all kinds of gingerbread are, of course, also delicious, but no one will refuse a hot, aromatic, hearty lean second course.

Try a familiar but lean main course. This means that you can cook the most ordinary dishes, but use lean foods for this. So, during the fast, lean cabbage rolls, pilaf, cutlets, etc. are popular. Instead of meat, you can use peas or beans, many vegetables are great for making cutlets, nuts and dried fruits can be added to pilaf. With the advent of supermarkets, you don't have to rack your brains over the absence of fresh vegetables, now you can easily find frozen corn, peas, broccoli or cauliflower, zucchini, eggplant and many other delicious and healthy vegetables, which means that you can cook a wide variety of lean main dishes.

All lean second courses can be prepared using vegetable oil, and without it. As you know, vegetable oil is allowed to be consumed during Lent only on weekends, the rest of the time you need to try to do without it and at the same time prepare equally tasty and satisfying dishes. We have selected recipes with and without oil so that you can choose a dish for any day of Lent.

Lean second courses without oil

Nut meatballs in garlic sauce

Ingredients:
2 tbsp. purified walnuts,
4 potatoes,
1 tbsp. oatmeal
1 onion
3-4 cloves of garlic,
1 tbsp. tomato juice
parsley,
dill greens
flour,
pepper,
salt.

Preparation:
Pass the walnuts through a meat grinder. Peel and grate potatoes. Mix the minced nuts, grated potatoes, oatmeal and finely chopped greens, salt and pepper. Stir until the minced meat is smooth. Roll meatballs from the minced meat, roll them in flour, put in a baking dish and put in a preheated oven for 15 minutes. Cut the onion into half rings and finely chop the garlic. Heat some water in a frying pan and simmer onion and garlic in it, add to them tomato juice and simmer until the onions are tender. Pour the meatballs with the resulting sauce and send them back to the oven for 15 minutes.

Ingredients:
300 gr. flour,
250 ml. water,
500 gr. frozen pitted cherries,
sugar,
salt.

Preparation:
Bring the water to a boil and pour the resulting boiling water over the flour and about ½ tsp. salt. Very carefully, so as not to burn yourself, knead the lean dough until elastic, cover with a napkin and leave alone for 30-40 minutes. Ready dough roll out a thin layer, cut out circles with a glass. Put cherries on each circle, sprinkle with sugar and mold the dumplings. Boil the dumplings in boiling salted water, 5 minutes after boiling, they will be ready.

Ingredients:
3 potatoes,
1 sweet bell pepper,
½ tbsp. millet,
1 sweet and sour apple
1 onion
1 carrot,
1 tbsp. sauerkraut,
½ tsp honey,
2 cloves of garlic,
Dill,
parsley.

Preparation:
Peel and cut the potatoes into small cubes. Peel and grate the carrots and apple. Remove the seeds from the pepper and cut into strips, and the onion into half rings. Bring 1 liter of water to a boil, add potatoes, millet and pepper. Cook until all ingredients are cooked. Fry onions, apples and carrots in a pan, add 100 ml of water and a glass of sauerkraut. Simmer for 15-20 minutes, then transfer to a saucepan with potatoes and millet and cook for another 15 minutes over low heat. Chop the dill, parsley and garlic finely. Add to the saucepan, season with ½ tsp. honey, stir and serve immediately.

Ingredients:
200 gr. lentils,
200 gr. champignons,
½ sweet bell pepper,
1 onion
1 tomato,
greens,
pepper,
salt.

Preparation:
Rinse the lentils and place in a saucepan. Pour 3 cups of water over lentils, put on fire and bring to a boil. As soon as the lentils come to a boil, reduce heat to low, season with salt, pepper and cook, constantly skimming, for 20 minutes. During this time, the lentils should become soft, but at the same time they will retain their shape. If not all of the liquid is absorbed into the lentils during cooking, drain the excess. Fry mushrooms with finely chopped onions, peppers and tomatoes, add half a glass of water, salt, pepper and simmer for 7-10 minutes. Then add lentils to the mushrooms, stir and serve.

Vegetable cabbage rolls

Ingredients:
head of cabbage,
2 carrots,
2/3 st. rice,
1 onion
1 tbsp tomato paste
garlic to taste
vegetable oil,
greens,
salt.

Preparation:
Remove the top large leaves from the cabbage head; you will need about 10-12 leaves. Boil them slightly until soft, beat off the petioles. Prepare the minced meat. To do this, boil rice. Peel the carrots and cut them into thin strips, peel the onions and chop finely. Fry the onions and carrots in vegetable oil. Combine rice, fried onions and carrots, garlic pressed through a press. Stir the minced meat thoroughly and fill the cabbage leaves with it. Wrap the leaves in an envelope and place in a deep saucepan. Separately mix the water, tomato paste, finely chopped herbs and salt, pour the cabbage rolls with the resulting sauce and simmer until tender.

Ingredients:
potato,
breadcrumbs,
vegetable oil,
salt.

Preparation:
Peel and boil the potatoes in salted water until tender. Drain the water and mash the potatoes until they have cooled down. Then cool the resulting puree a little, it should not burn your hands. Moisten your hands with water and divide the puree into equal parts, it should hold its shape. Pour the breadcrumbs onto a cutting board, add some of the mashed potatoes and use a wide long knife to form a cutlet, repeat with the remaining mashed potatoes. Grease a baking sheet generously with vegetable oil and place the cutlets on it. Place the patties in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 15 minutes. Then remove the baking sheet, let it cool for 15-20 minutes, then gently turn the patties and place them back in the oven for another 15 minutes. If the cutlets are not allowed to cool, it will be difficult to turn over, the cutlets may crumble.

Ingredients:
500 gr. zucchini,
2 carrots,
2 onions,
1-2 cloves of garlic,
Dill,
pepper,
salt.

Preparation:
Zucchini can be used both fresh and frozen. Wash, pat dry and cut into cubes. Peel and grate the carrots, and finely chop the onion. Fry onions and carrots in vegetable oil until golden brown. Add zucchini and simmer covered for 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Season with salt and pepper. A couple of minutes until tender, add finely chopped dill and garlic cloves, cut into several pieces.

Ingredients:
9 bell peppers,
½ tbsp. rice,
6-7 tomatoes,
1-2 carrots
2 onions,
3 cloves of garlic,
2 tbsp tomato paste
1/3 tsp Sahara,
vegetable oil,
greens,
pepper,
salt.

Preparation:
Wash 8 peppers, cut off the top and remove the seeds. Rinse the peppers again and pat dry. Fry the prepared peppers on all sides in vegetable oil. Prepare the filling. Rinse the rice and boil until tender. Wash 1-2 tomatoes and cut into cubes. Peel and finely chop 2 cloves of garlic. Wash greens and chop finely. Peel and cut 1 onion into small cubes, grate the carrots on a coarse grater. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet and fry the onions and carrots in it, then remove the skillet from the heat and cool slightly. In a deep bowl combine rice, fried onions and carrots, tomatoes, herbs and garlic, salt and pepper and stir. Fill the peppers with the resulting filling. Prepare the sauce. Wash the remaining tomatoes, dry and grate on a coarse grater, chop the onion and bell pepper into small cubes, finely chop a clove of garlic. Fry onion and garlic in vegetable oil, add pepper and after 3-4 minutes pour in grated tomatoes. Simmer the sauce for 15-20 minutes, until it begins to thicken. Add tomato paste, salt and pepper, add sugar, stir and reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 40 minutes. When serving, pour stuffed peppers sauce and sprinkle with herbs.

Of course, during Lent, the list of permitted foods is very limited, but even it can be used to make many lean second courses, and it is possible that during fasting your diet will become more varied than during normal times. Choose a recipe and please your family with delicious, hearty and original meatless dishes!

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 pump your gastronomic abilities and learn how to cook something new. Therefore, today I offer you a large selection of wonderful lean 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. BUT lean soups after fasting it is quite possible to cook with meat.

Here you will find a real lean menu - salads, soups, second and even pastries. Delicious recipes for fasting and more.

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

One undeniable advantage of lean meals 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 most simple products that everyone has - cabbage, carrots, potatoes, frozen vegetables, tomato paste, green pea.

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

What will you find in this article

Lenten salads

Lettuce and green peas salad

Light and tasty salad.

Products:

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

half onion
carrots - 1 pc.
garlic - one or two cloves
Vegetable oil (for dietary option can be replaced lemon juice)
salt pepper
Cut the onions and peppers into small pieces. Carrots - rub on a coarse grater. Cut the salad. Put in the peas, squeeze out the garlic. Salt, pepper, season with vegetable oil or lemon juice! You can also shred greens here.

Cabbage salad with cucumbers and peppers

We've all tried this salad, but not everyone knows the art of making tender, vinegar-tart cabbage!

Products:

Cabbage - one kg
Bell pepper- one big

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

Cut the cabbage very thinly. To do this, it is necessary, as it were, to slide a knife along the surface of the cabbage, cutting off very thin stripes.
Salt, pour in vinegar, sprinkle with sugar. Add chopped dill. Slightly remember with your hands so that liquid appears, but not much.
Cut the pepper into small squares. Cucumbers - straws. Add vegetables to cabbage, add oils and stir.

Lenten soups

Lean vegetable soup

Simple and delicious lean soup!

Products:

Cabbage - one kg
Carrots - three pieces
Potatoes - five pieces
Bow - two pieces
Garlic - six cloves
vegetable oil
Greens
salt
1. Chop 1 kg of cabbage into square pieces. Pour in two and a half liters of water, salt. Let it simmer for 30 minutes on low heat.
2. Cut the potatoes into cubes.
3. Cut carrots and onions into small pieces.
4. Fry the garlic for a couple of minutes, then add the carrots and onions to it. Fry for about fifteen minutes until golden brown.
5. When the cabbage broth has boiled for 30 minutes, add the potatoes to the pot and cook for another ten minutes.
6. Then 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 for fifteen minutes and you can eat!

Lean soup with vegetables and rice

Products:

Pepper - one piece
bulb
carrots (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, salt and bring to a boil. Cook for 15 minutes when it boils.

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

Fry the onion with carrots for about five minutes, until they change color a little. Move the stir-fry to the edges of the skillet and add bell peppers in the center.

Fry the peppers for 5 minutes, until they change color, then stir with the onions 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.

Add the stir-fry to the soup and add 4 tablespoons of rice as well. Let it boil, cook for no more than 5 minutes.
Remove from the burner, add lavrushka and chopped dill. Do not stir yet, leave to brew for 20 minutes under the lid. During this time, the rice will ideally come to readiness.

You can also season the soup with paprika.

Lean Green Pea Soup

Red lentils - two hundred gr
carrots - two hundred gr
onion - one hundred gr
garlic - one or two cloves
sesame seeds - one tablespoon with a slide
sunflower oil
Boil the lentils in two and a half liters of water. Add 1 tbsp. salt.
Finely chop or rub 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 done, add the vegetable fry. Cook for another 5 minutes. Heat the sesame seeds in a dry skillet so that it darkens slightly. Remove soup from heat, add sesame seeds. Let it brew for about fifteen minutes.

Lean Pea Soup

We all see packets of frozen Brussels sprouts in the store. But how you can cook them deliciously, we do not know so many options. I only knew before - fry with meatballs. But here's another very delicious recipe, which diversifies the lean menu.

Products:

Frozen packaging brussels sprouts(four hundred gr.)
soy sauce- two tbsp. l.
mustard seeds - one tsp
Tomato paste - one tablespoon
Garlic - three cloves

Put the cabbage in water, bring to a boil and let it simmer for fifteen minutes.
Chop the garlic, crush the mustard seeds a little.
Put the cabbage in a skillet with hot oil, everything else - garlic, tomato paste, soy sauce, mustard seeds. Add 0.5 tbsp. water, cover and heat for five minutes. Salt is not required as there is soy sauce.
There is no need to salt the dish.

Rice with peas and beans

Delicious lean dish

And here is another one basic recipe, which not every housewife knows how to cook. For there are tricks! But if the potatoes are fried correctly, then the McDonald's fries are resting!
Peel the potatoes.
Take a thick-bottomed skillet, such as a cast iron one. At the beginning, put it on the hot plate at maximum for a couple of minutes to warm up the pan.
At this time, cut the potatoes into rounds. When the pan is hot, pour in the vegetable oil and put on medium heat (four out of six). Let the oil warm for a minute.
Put all the potatoes to fry, cover and leave alone for ten minutes.
Attention, do not interfere with the potatoes! Using a spatula, gently pry under the toasted layer of potatoes in the middle. And flip the entire layer as much as you can pry. Also, gently flip the potatoes over the sides of the pan in layers.
Again, spot exactly ten mines. Fry again under the lid. Again, gently turn over the entire layer of potatoes.

And one more time - ten minutes, fry under the lid. Then add salt. Turn over again carefully, just as before. You can just wait a couple of minutes this time, or also ten, if you want a little brown. 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. (can be a pack of frozen ones)
bread crumbs
onion - two pcs.
Boil potatoes in salted water (can be cut into cubes to speed up the process).
Pour out the water. Stir in the puree. Let it cool to room temperature.
Chop the mushrooms into small pieces. Fry, about fifteen minutes ..
Divide the mashed potatoes into 8 lumps (so as not to stick, wet your hands). Make the puree cakes. Add mushrooms. Roll up the zrazy so that the filling is inside.
Sprinkle bread crumbs, put on a leaf that has been drizzled with oil. Put in hot oven 180 degrees and cook for half an hour.
Can be garnished with fried onion rings... And for those who are not afraid of calories, pour oil on each ready-made meal, in which these rings were fried.

Lenten pancakes

Yeast Lean Stuffed Pancakes

Products:

Flour - one and a half glasses,

water - two glasses,
activated yeast - one tsp
Sugar - one tablespoon
a spoonful of salt
vegetable oil

Filling:

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

We do yeast dough for pancakes. IN warm water dilute yeast and sugar. Leave on for fifteen minutes. Next, salt, sift the flour, mix so that there are no lumps. Add 2 tablespoons. sunflower oil. Let the dough stand for about forty minutes.

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

While the dough is infusing, make the filling. Boil dry mushrooms and chop.
Fry with buckwheat, chopped onions and carrots. Or sweat in the oven.
Stuff the pancakes with minced meat. You can also fry ready-made pancakes in vegetable oil until golden brown but I don’t do it for calorie reasons. Step by step recipe read lean pancakes with photos.

Lean-free pancakes with potato filling

Products:

Yeast dough (purchased or homemade, it doesn't matter) - one kg
Potatoes - four
onions - 1-2 pieces
salt, pepper, sunflower oil

Cut the potatoes and onions very thinly, cut the potatoes into slices, and cut the 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 - two more, one of which is twice the size of the second.
The larger one, roll it out thinly and put on a small saucer, while curling the edges down.
We also divide the potato mixture into about ten parts. We spread one on the dough. Now we roll a smaller circle from a small piece, and put it on top of the potatoes. We fold the edges up. Turn over, and roll out the cake again a little.

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

Famous bread sticks

Very simple brine biscuits, 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

Put butter, sugar, brine and one packet of shavings in a bowl and mix. Add flour until the dough is thick, like a shortbread (two or three glasses), that is, so that you can roll it out.
Roll out and sprinkle with the remaining shavings.
Cut out the cookies with cookie cutters or a glass.
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
1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
Apple vinegar- two tablespoons
salt - half a tsp
Half a glass of water
flour - one or two tbsp.
cinnamon - 1-2 tsp
Sunflower oil - four tablespoons l.
Mix dry ingredients: sugar, poppy seeds, cinnamon, salt. Add water and sunflower oil, baking soda and apple cider vinegar. Knead a shortbread-like dough (to roll out).
Cover with plastic wrap and leave for one hour.
Then roll the dough into a layer of about half a centimer. Cut out the cookies with cookie cutters or a glass. Place on baking paper or floured baking sheet. Put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about half an hour.

Lean Coconut Banana Cookies

Products:

Bananas - 2 pcs.
coconut flakes - two hundred and fifty gr.
Half a glass of sunflower oil
sugar (brown is better, but ordinary sugar is possible) half a glass
water and flour
Combine sugar, butter, chopped banana and beat, adding coconut and flour. Until you get a thick dough.
To prepare the dough, you need to mix sugar and butter, add banana, cut into pieces. Using a whisk, we turn everything into a homogeneous mass, gradually adding coconut flakes and flour. The dough should not turn out liquid, but slightly thick, like thick sour cream.
Place small, not thick cookies on a baking sheet with baking paper or floured.
Bake at 180 degrees for twenty minutes, then dry at the lowest temperature until the cookies are golden brown.

Lenten cakes

Lean Carrot Pie

Delicious, delicate, aromatic carrot cake from simple ingredients.

Products:

One hundred 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
sachet vanilla sugar or vanillin
three teaspoons baking powder

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

Sprinkle with the specified products. Mix and rub with your hands until you get a crumb. Put in the refrigerator.

Making the dough. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder. Add vegetable oil. Beat. Three carrots on a coarse grater, put in the dough, add raisins and chopped nuts if desired. If the dough is thick, add a little water to make it like sour cream.
It is baked in a small form - eighteen centimeters. Put 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 readiness with a match. You can then sprinkle the cake with icing sugar.

Lean Chocolate Coffee Cake

Products:

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

COOKING:

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

Super-healthy, super-dietary raw (no baked) lean persimmon and blackcurrant cake

On the form 18 cm.

Products:

The foundation:
¾ 1 cup (80g) walnuts
12 pcs. (100g) dates
Pinch of cardamom

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

Filling:
persimmon - 2 pieces
dates - 20 gr
cinnamon - 0.5 tsp
Water - 150 ml
agar-agar or pectin 1 tsp ..
frozen black currant - 100 gr (or any other berry)
agar-agar 1 tsp
Sugar
Defrost berries
Grind the walnuts with a blender. Grind dates too. Stir in the nuts, add a little cardamom, and blend until smooth. Cover the bottom of the form with parchment, spread the mixture along the bottom.

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

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

Making persimmon jelly. Peel the persimmon, 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 Pour 150 ml of agar-agar into water. Bring to a boil with constant stirring.
Pour the agar into the persimmon puree. Remove the base from the freezer and pour the agar puree on top. Place in the freezer.

Fill
Take 150 ml of juice from frozen berries, which appeared during defrosting. Add sugar, but a little to make it sweet and sour. Pour 1 tsp of agar with fruit drink, bring to a boil and boil for 1 minute. Take the cake out of the freezer, put the berries on top, pour in the currant jelly.
Refrigerate for three hours.

Post with us! "Povarenok" knows a lot of lenten dishes with photos and is ready to share them with those who are fasting. In our section of lean recipes on Povarenka, you will find a complete menu for every day of fasting with options for various dishes.

For example, for a good start to the day, here you will find breakfast recipes for people who observe fasting, for every taste, simple, easily digestible by the body, not burdening it and energizing for the whole working day.

On the first for lunch, we offer to cook either fresh cabbage soup, or mushroom fragrant soup... Or maybe you would like to taste a hearty pickle with pearl barley? The first meatless dishes and their recipes are at your service!

Do not forget to serve lungs to the Lenten menu for lunch. And as a snack after breakfast or for an afternoon snack, you can make dessert salad from fruits and berries, smoothies with ice from fresh fruits whipped in a blender.

We will share with our readers homemade recipes lean baking(large pies, miniature pies, bread, pancakes ...).

It is during the post that it is advisable to get a bread maker from the far corner, if you have forgotten about it for a long time, and cook a fragrant homebaked bread, the methods of preparation of which we provide to you. Here you will also find recipes for dough for various baked goods, in which the ingredients are only herbal. At the same time, the dough will delight you with its splendor and excellent taste.

In fact, for the preparation of many lean dishes, you do not need step by step photos, because they (dishes) are simple, affordable, and very light in terms of the set of products and the principle of their preparation. That is why they are lean, that they contain not only the simplest herbal ingredients, but also prepare such food easily, quickly and easily.
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Together with us lean cuisine your post promises to be varied, vitamin, tasty, "colorful", digestible, pleasing to the eyes and cleansing for the whole body.

When Rozhdestvensky, Petrovsky, Uspensky, Great Lent or other Orthodox fasts approach, many think about what they can eat. Lean second courses are the staple of the fasting meal. Many people cook cereals, dishes from vegetables, mushrooms, fish ... Nevertheless, sometimes there is not enough imagination to prepare a tasty and original, at the same time lean second dish. This section was created precisely so that you can find new lean main dishes that will be easy to prepare. In order to make the preparation of recipes easier, all dishes have step-by-step photos.
Recipes for lean second courses will help you in drawing up a menu for the time of fasting. Many recipes can easily substitute meat for you during fasting. For example, legumes are a great substitute and can be used to make almost anything.
You will find recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Believe me, a lean second can be not only nutritious, but also delicious.

19.07.2018

Pollock marinated with carrots and onions

Ingredients: pollock, carrots, onions, tomato paste, vinegar, lemon juice, salt, pepper, bay leaf

Recipe for lovers fish dishes... Cooking a delicious hot appetizer - pollock marinated with vegetables. Simple, affordable, tasty and healthy for the whole family.

Ingredients:
- 1 kg of pollock,
- 4 onions,
- 4 carrots,
- 3 tablespoons of tomato paste,
- 2 tablespoons of table vinegar (lemon juice),
- pepper to taste,
- salt to taste,
- Bay leaf.

12.07.2018

Microwave baked potatoes (in a bag)

Ingredients: potatoes, salt, vegetable oil, dried paprika, black ground pepper, granulated garlic, Provencal herbs

Baking potatoes in the microwave will save you tons of time. But at the same time, the taste of the dish will not suffer at all. For a holiday or for a family dinner - a great side dish option.

- 8-10 potato tubers;
- a little salt;
- 2-3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
- a pinch of ground paprika;
- a pinch of black pepper;
- 1/3 tsp granulated garlic;
- a pinch of Provencal herbs.

17.06.2018

Fried potatoes with mushrooms

Ingredients: potato, onion, fresh champignons, salt, vegetable oil, seasonings, spices, dill, green onions

Fried potatoes- it's always delicious. And if you cook it with champignons, it will be doubly delicious. In addition, this dish can help you out if you are fasting and you want something satisfying and interesting.
Ingredients:
- 5-6 potato tubers;
- 1 onion;
- 200 grams of fresh champignons;
- salt to taste;
- 5-6 tbsp. vegetable oil;
- seasonings to taste;
- spices to taste;
- dill at will when serving;
- green onions - optional when serving.

30.03.2018

Pepper stuffed with mushrooms and vegetables in the oven

Ingredients: pepper, mushroom, vegetable marrow, eggplant, carrot, onion, salt, spice, mayonnaise

And so, we take Bulgarian pepper and stuff it with mushrooms and various vegetables. Thanks to this recipe, you can make a funky dinner with the simplest ingredients.

Ingredients:

- 1 bell pepper,
- 50 grams of champignons,
- 50 grams of zucchini,
- 50 grams of eggplant,
- 50 grams of carrots,
- 50 grams of onions,
- salt,
- spices,
- 1 tbsp. mayonnaise or sour cream.

21.03.2018

Bean lobio

Ingredients: white beans, garlic, carrots, onions, walnuts, salt, sunflower oil

Lobio is a prominent representative of Georgian cuisine. The original lobio, translated as "beans", is cooked differently in different parts of this small country. Even the variety of legumes affects the taste of the final product. Learn how to make white bean lobio.

Products for the recipe:
- half a kilo of white beans,
- 2 cloves of garlic,
- two carrots,
- onion head,
- 100 g of walnuts,
- salt,
- vegetable oil.

20.03.2018

Canned Red Bean Lobio

Ingredients: beans, onions, garlic, nuts, oil, pepper, salt, vinegar, cilantro, tomato paste

Lobio is gorgeous Georgian appetizer which is made from red beans. Lobio's recipe is quite simple, but such a dish is perfect not only for everyday life, but also for holidays.

Ingredients:
- 380 gr red canned beans in s / s;
- 1 onion;
- 2-3 cloves of garlic;
- 50 grams of walnuts;
- 1-2 tbsp. olive oil;
- hot pepper to taste;
- salt to taste;
- ground black pepper to taste;
- 1 tbsp. white wine vinegar;
- a few sprigs of cilantro;
- 2-3 tbsp. tomato paste or adjika.

17.03.2018

Lahanorizo ​​or Greek cabbage rice

Ingredients: rice, cabbage, carrots, onions, tomato paste, water, oil, salt, pepper, seasoning, garlic, laurel, herbs

I suggest you cook a very tasty second course - lahanorizo ​​or Greek cabbage rice. I described the cooking recipe in detail for you.

Ingredients:

- 100 grams of rice,
- 400 grams of cabbage,
- 1 carrot,
- 1 onion,
- 80 grams of tomato paste,
- glass of water,
- 30 ml. lean oil
- salt,
- spices,
- garlic,
- 1 bay leaf,
- greens.

14.03.2018

Mushroom hodgepodge in the oven

Ingredients: cabbage, cucumber, carrot, mushroom, salt, pepper, laurel, oil, tomato paste, water

Mushroom hodgepodge it is not difficult to prepare with cabbage, but as a result, you will have very tasty and hearty dish, which, by the way, can be submitted even to the post. Such a hodgepodge can be cooked in a pan or, like us, in the oven.
Ingredients:
- 150 grams of sauerkraut;
- 150 grams of white cabbage;
- 1 carrot;
- 100 grams of champignons;
- salt to taste;
- pepper to taste;
- dry garlic to taste;
- 1 bay leaf;
- 50 ml of vegetable oil;
- 1 tbsp. tomato paste;
- 150 ml of water.

13.03.2018

Lean pilaf with prunes and dried apricots in a slow cooker

Ingredients: rice, water, prunes, dried apricots, dates, raisins, salt, honey

Lean pilaf you can cook with vegetables and mushrooms, or you can make it sweet. Our recipe will just tell you how to cook sweet pilaf with prunes and dried apricots in a slow cooker: this is a very tasty and satisfying dish.

Ingredients:
- 300 grams of rice;
- 600 ml of water;
- 100 grams of prunes;
- 100 grams of dried apricots;
- 100 grams of dates;
- 100 grams of raisins;
- 1 pinch of salt;
- honey - optional.

12.03.2018

Pilaf with chickpeas vegetarian

Ingredients: chickpeas, rice, carrots, onions, spices for pilaf, garlic, vegetable oil, salt

The main secret delicious pilaf without meat just in chickpeas. It is also called chickpeas, usually it is more than two times and differs markedly in taste. Don't miss the recipe, be sure to use it!

Products for the recipe:
- half a glass of chickpeas,
- rice - 300 g,
- one carrot,
- two heads of onions,
- 1 tbsp. a spoonful of spices
- garlic - a whole head,
- vegetable oil,
- salt to taste.

11.03.2018

Chickpeas with mushrooms

Ingredients: chickpeas, mushroom, onion, salt, pepper, oil, dill

Many people fast before Easter, which is why I am describing various lean recipes for you. Today I will tell you how to cook very delicious chickpeas with mushrooms.

Ingredients:

- half a glass of chickpeas,
- 200 grams of oyster mushrooms,
- 100 grams of champignons,
- 80 grams of onions,
- salt,
- black pepper,
- 30 ml. vegetable oil,
- 5-7 sprigs of dill.

05.03.2018

Beet cutlets like in kindergarten

Ingredients: beets, egg, semolina, garlic, salt, pepper, oil

Now I will tell you how to cook delicious beet cutlets, which almost every one of you remembers from kindergarten.

Ingredients:

- 2-3 beets,
- 1 egg,
- 100 grams of semolina,
- 3 cloves of garlic,
- half a tsp salt,
- ground black pepper,
- 30 ml. sunflower oil.

03.03.2018

Pepper stuffed with mushrooms and rice

Ingredients: pepper, rice, mushroom, onion, salt, pepper, spice

Hearty and delicious pepper stuffed with rice and mushrooms - great dish, which will decorate any feast. Another plus is lean recipe so that everyone who is fasting will appreciate it.

Ingredients:
- 2 pieces of bell pepper;
- 100 grams of parboiled rice;
- 100 grams of fresh mushrooms;
- 50 grams of onions;
- salt to taste,
- pepper to taste,
- spices to taste.

27.02.2018

Body from fish

Ingredients: fish, bread, milk, onions, herbs, salt, pepper, oil

If you decide to go on a diet, then you just need to make friends with a steamer. Dishes on a double boiler are very tasty and are considered healthy. Today, for example, I bring to your attention uncomplicated recipe body from fish.

Ingredients:

- 450 grams of fish;
- 100 grams of white bread;
- 30 ml. milk;
- 80 grams of onions;
- 1 tsp parsley;
- salt;
- black pepper;
- vegetable oil.

27.02.2018

Lean potato cutlets

Ingredients: potatoes, salt, flour, vegetable oil

Today we will cook delicious, hearty lean potato cutlets... This dish is easy and fast enough to prepare.

Ingredients:

- potatoes - 5 pcs.,
- salt,
- flour - 1-2 tablespoons,
- vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons

The section contains interesting and simple meatless dishes, recipes for every day, on weekdays and weekends, salads, soups, desserts, main courses and, of course, pastries. A lean menu is by no means synonymous with boring. It's time to learn how to bake delicious homemade bread (with flour and water), custard potato cakes and sweet lean muffins... Try unusual-tasting mashed soups, boil mushroom noodles and deliciously fine lean borscht. And, of course, make marinades fast food... I would encourage you to try all of the recipes featured in our Lean Recipes collection every day, expanding your culinary collection and enriching your culinary experience.

Lean 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 appetizing crust? Give it a try, you will appreciate this lean recipe.

Lenten gingerbread with jam

One of the simplest and available recipes lean baking - a gingerbread for which you do not need honey or molasses. The dough is kneaded with regular jam and strong tea.

Tortillas on water and flour

Great option replacements white bread in fasting - cakes with water and flour. They are preparing elementary. And thanks to a simple secret, they remain soft and lush for a long time. The flatbreads are so delicious that many people get hooked on them and include this lean recipe in their daily menu.

Simple Mexican soup vegetable mixture

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

Bean salad, fried mushrooms and cucumbers

Satisfying lean salad with original taste... It contains canned beans, fried mushrooms with onions, pickled or pickled cucumbers and lots of fresh herbs.

Candied fruits from orange peels

A leisurely method of preparing candied fruits from a waste product - orange peels. Several days of soaking and boiling give an excellent taste result. Candied fruits are so bright and fragrant that they can be presented as sweet gifts during fasting.

Lenten recipe for old Russian cuisine - juicy, fragrant dough envelopes with mushrooms and buckwheat. Prepare slowly, with feeling, sensibly, with arrangement.

Barley cutlets

Recipe trick - how to cook cutlets from ordinary pearl barley, which look more appetizing than meat ones. Very gentle, light, with fried onions, carrots and garlic. A find recipe for those looking for interesting and unusual lean dishes.

Lenten oat cookies with honey

To make your post tasty and varied, try this wonderful lean cookies with honey, cinnamon and other spices. Amazing aroma, crunchy, crumbly structure. The recipe is very simple and suitable for novice cooks.

Country style potatoes in the oven

Very simple and very tasty dish which is perfect for a post. Potatoes are poured with vegetable oil, sprinkled with spices and sent to the oven to bake until cooked.

Simple brine biscuits

The recipe is hello from the half-starved 90s. Vegetable oil, flour, baking powder and cucumber pickle, a little raisins, nuts or candied fruits - and now the dough is ready for wonderful loose cookies, which is called "out of nothing".

Lenten Pie with apples

You have probably already wondered how tasty, varied and rich a lean menu can be. Among the meatless dishes for every day, an honorable place is taken by Apple pie... And not some dubious, but supposedly useful pancake. And a lush, shiny braided yeast cake.

Lenten honey gingerbread

One of the most popular budget recipes for lean baking, which is suitable for beginners, because it is simple, clear and has a good composition of products. You can bake a gingerbread on the water, you can use tea, or you can apple juice.

Lenten borsch with beans

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

Stewed cabbage with mushrooms

A very tasty and simple lean dish for every day. Mushrooms, onions, cabbage and tomato are all you need to prepare a hearty, lean lunch.

Bean pate in Armenian

During the fasting period, it is extremely important to maintain the body with food containing plant-based protein. Legumes and nuts are considered ideal alternative dairy and meat food. Lean bean pate in Armenian will definitely add variety to the diet fast days, and will also delight you with its availability and nutritional value.

Lean cabbage rolls with rice and mushrooms

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

Classic red bean lobio

A hearty, lean dish made from beans, nuts, and vegetables.

Lean mayonnaise

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

Lean manty with vegetable filling

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

Lentil and rice meatballs in tomato sauce

Dish-blende - minced lentil with rice is really difficult to distinguish from ordinary meatballs... The form holds well without adding eggs and flour. If you steam them, you can even do without vegetable oil, which is extremely important during Lent.

Canned Bean Soup

Hearty, bright, cheerful bean soup on the hastily- into your piggy bank of lean recipes.

Lenten pancakes on mineral water

Popular lean pancake recipe. Try it - it really tastes better than the shallow ones. And baking them is much easier.

Lean pea soup

Peas are a great product for a lean menu. He is hearty, gives a lot of thick. Try this simple and delicious pea soup with potatoes, carrots and onions.

Indian samosas with vegetables

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

Fresh cabbage soup

Recipe, actual for the post, for delicious cabbage soup on water, with vegetable frying, herbs and fragrant freshly ground pepper. The recipe is filmed in detail, step by step and is suitable for novice cooks.

Lean lasagna

During the fast, it becomes possible to make sure that classic dishes can be just as delicious without the seemingly required ingredients. Try to cook juicy vegetable lasagne without cheese and on lean dough.

Green pea puree soup

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

Buckwheat noodles with vegetables

If you have never tried buckwheat noodles, then fasting is a very suitable time for this. The noodles are extremely tasty with spicy vegetable sauce, which is made from the most common foods - onions, carrots, bell peppers and green beans.

Potato cutlets with peas

A very funny lean recipe - at first glance, the most ordinary cutlets, but if you bite through them, inside is tender mashed potatoes and funny peas. Try it!

Potatoes in a pot

A simple lean dish for every day, which can be found in cookbooks called "church potatoes". Unremarkable in appearance, such potatoes taste delicious.

Classic recipe vinaigrette

A traditional dish Russian cuisine with French name... It contains boiled beets, carrots, potatoes, onions, pickles and green peas. The perfect solution for a lean table.

Mushroom noodles

Very satisfying, rich, wonderful tasty soup, preparing is elementary! You can cook it every day.

Homemade peanut butter

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

Korean beetroot

Learning how to cook homemade Korean salads is a great way to diversify the lean menu, make it rich and interesting. Preparing such a salad is not difficult at all. The volumes can be made large immediately, because it stands perfectly in the refrigerator for two to three weeks.

Korean cabbage

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