In days when meat is banned, meditations on what to cook for a lean dinner are often very painful. Especially if the post is long. It seems that all your favorite recipes have already been prepared, you want to feed your family varied and tasty, and the fantasy has already run out. Cheer up! Our article will enrich you with very interesting ideas on how to cook a fasting dinner fast and tasty. Here you will find recipes from the most familiar products (even from the remnants of dinner), and unusual ones.
Potato casserole
If you are limited in time (for example, you were late at work), we suggest building a fasting dinner in haste from all the revered tubers. Potatoes are boiled - enough to be enough for the whole family. It is made of puree, of course, lean. If vegetable oil is not banned on this day, it is added, if the rules are more strict, we dispense with salt and potato broth. A small amount of mushrooms is fried with onions. Finely chop it is not necessary, all the same, these vegetables will go through a blender. Half the mashed potatoes are spread on a greased baking sheet or in a mold, mushroom paste is distributed over it and closed with the second part of the potato. On top of the casserole can be sprinkled with lean mayonnaise or sprinkled with oil. Ten minutes later, your fasting dinner is ready. And if the mashed potatoes remained from the previous meal, then he will be ready even faster.
Oatmeal with fruit
Most often, it’s hard to think of what to cook for kids lean for dinner . In the short days they happen to be capricious, but here the choice is more limited. There is a wonderful exit. Take half a glass of oatmeal (not "instant"). They are poured with boiling water for a third of an hour. Raisins are steamed, filtered and poured into oatmeal. A pair of tangerines is cleaned, divided into slices and added there. A green apple is cut into cubes (as an option, it rubs coarsely). A pair of spoons of any nuts your child likes best is not chopped finely. Everything is mixed, flavored with honey, can be seasoned with cinnamon - and the child happily eats a delicious fasting dinner, considering that he was made happy with dessert.
Cauliflower with garlic in the oven
A very beautiful, fragrant and delicious fast fast dinner can be prepared even from frozen cauliflower. Her head is washed and disassembled for inflorescences (if it is fresh) or is first thawed (if taken from the freezer). "Heads" are folded into a wide container, sprinkled with the zest of one lemon with salt and oregano; sprinkled with olive oil (you can take another plant product) oil, and then transferred to a greased form. The oven is heated to 190 degrees, the form is put in it for half an hour. Sometimes it is advisable to stir. Then a couple of crushed garlic cloves are added to the cabbage. Then everything goes to the oven for another five minutes. Before serving, lean dinner is poured over with lemon juice and sprinkled with chopped parsley and mint. By the way, the recipe is suitable for those who protect the figure.
Vegetable meatballs
The main thing in their preparation is to chop everything finely, but not into a mess. Then all the vegetables will simultaneously contrast and emphasize the taste advantages of each other. Two large potatoes are boiled, separately - a quarter kilo broccoli. The white part of the leek is chopped and fried, and the onion is ground on a grater (to collect the juice). In a bowl, chopped potatoes with cabbage and both types of onions with the juice of one of them are combined. Poured: chopped dill, half a spoonful of oregano, pepper and salt and a couple of spoons of flour. From the resulting mass, cakes are molded, breaded and fried. Such a lean dinner is good with tomato or mushroom sauce, with a salad of fresh vegetables.
Potato and mushroom zrazy
When you come up with a lean dinner, recipes that include potatoes most often come to mind. And no wonder: it turns out satisfying, the product is combined with any other vegetables and is always at hand. To cook zrazy, five large potatoes are boiled, with bay leaf and peppercorns added to the water. A slightly dry mashed potato is made, into which chopped dill, ground nutmeg and flour are added, about three spoons. A large onion is chopped, fried for five minutes, after which finely chopped champignons are poured into it - a quarter kilogram. All together it is fried for a couple of minutes, peppered and dressed. Not too large balls are rolled from the puree, flattened; in the middle put a spoon of the filling, the edges are stuck together so that there is no seam left. Zrazy are fried until golden brown on both sides. They don’t need a side dish, but they harmonize well with pickles and salads.
Rice in a pot
Lenten dinner in the form of porridge does not seem particularly attractive - but this is if you do not get creative. If you follow the proposed recipe, the dish will be ordered on short days. A glass of basmati should be washed, soaked for half an hour and drained. Green big apple should be cut into cubes. Defrost a third kilo of Brussels sprouts, fry half a cup of cashews. Lay in a pot in layers: first rice, then apple, on top cabbage, and finally nuts. Add a little pepper and allspice, a couple of tablespoons of oil (gourmet - olive) and hot water not to the very top. The pot is placed in a cold oven, in which the temperature is gradually brought to two hundred degrees. After three quarters of an hour, the oven turns off, and the bowl remains in it for another ten minutes. Then this lean dinner is sprinkled with any greens and decorated with cucumber slices.
Simple, delicious and lean!
And here’s another fasting fasting dinner made from cereals, this time buckwheat. It's just that porridge is, of course, boring, so we suggest doing otherwise. Two medium onions finely chopped and fried until transparent. A third kilogram of chopped mushrooms, for example, champignons, is added to them. When they let the juice and darken, the contents of the pan are complemented by an incomplete glass of buckwheat. After five minutes of frying and stirring, one and a half glasses of hot water is poured, and the dish is simmered until the cereals are friable. At the end, the lean dinner is seasoned, wrapped up and infused for five minutes.
Lobio
Georgian cuisine, famous for its spice and aroma, can make a post more tasty. You can’t call such a fasting fast dinner, but the stomach will rejoice. An incomplete glass of red bean is soaked overnight, then washed and boiled for an hour and a half in fresh water without salt. Then the beans are filtered off, and the broth is poured into a cup. A clove of garlic and a large onion are chopped and fried over high heat for no longer than three minutes. When cooled, they are passed through a meat grinder along with two tablespoons of walnuts. Cilantro leaves are chopped and crumpled a little in a mortar to let the juice go. Beans, herbs and nut mixture are combined; if too thick - the mass is diluted with bean broth. For another hour, lobio should be kept covered - and you can call for dinner.
Mushroom Rice Noodles
Macaroni is a completely lean poison. Unless they contain eggs! Therefore, to cook a lean dinner, you better buy rice noodles, there is definitely no one in it. It is boiled according to the instructions, and the main attention is paid to other components. First, the sauce is made: half a tablespoon of corn starch mixed with a spoon of brown sugar is poured into a half glass of vegetable broth. As brewing, add two tablespoons of soy sauce. Grams of 100-150 shiitake or oyster mushroom are cut into strips, like two garlic cloves with a slice of ginger. In preheated sesame oil, the chopped celery stalk is first fried , in two minutes ginger joins in, in half a minute - garlic, in another minute - mushrooms and grated half of a small carrot. All together, roasted for about four minutes. Then the prepared sauce is poured, it is necessary to stir everything with a spoon for another five minutes. The noodles are distributed on plates, on it - an exotic dressing and large segments of green onions. Fans of Asian cuisine will definitely enjoy such a fasting dinner!