Fast food in the Christmas post.

There are four great posts, of which two are strict (Great, Uspensky), and two not strict (Petrov, Rozhdestvensky). In this article, we will focus on nutrition in the Christmas Lent, which lasts from November 28 to December 6 inclusive, and ends with a great Christian holiday - the Nativity of Christ.

Monday, Wednesday and Friday are supposed to eat vegetable food without oil (vegetable oil), on Tuesdays and Thursdays - the same with oil, and on Saturdays and Sundays and church holidays (before January 2) fish is added to the diet. Eggs, dairy and meat products are completely excluded. However, even without them, the fasting meals on the Christmas Eve are very diverse, and the skilful mistress will always find how easy and inexpensive to feed the household.

As the first dishes are popular lenten soup, rassolniki, soup, soups and borsch. Soup base can be prepared from many products, most often using beans, peas, mushrooms, also popular cabbage for cabbage soup, salted cucumbers for pickleweed, well, on Saturday and Sunday - fish expanse. The second dishes are very different, how much you will vary them, depends entirely on the stocks that you could make for the winter, or on your financial possibilities. Lenten dishes in pots are especially good for any home celebration. If you close the pot before cooking (and this can be fish or mushrooms with vegetables), a cake made from unleavened dough, then before serving it will look especially elegant and appetizing.

Fast food in the Christmas post. Recipe number 1. Vegetable soup with Hercules.

• 2 liters of filtered water,
• ½ kg cauliflower,
• 1 large onion,
• Several tablespoons of "Hercules"
• Garlic for your taste, a spoonful of flour, greens,
• 2 carrots.

Boil cauliflower in salted water and, without draining the vegetable broth, crush the blender. In the prepared soup base, pour the oatmeal and place the saucepan on a small fire so that it swells. Make a dressing of onions and carrots, at the end add the flour. Combine the fried vegetables with soup, boil, put the chopped garlic, a little nutmeg and sprinkle with greens.

Fast food in the Christmas post. Recipe number 2. Stewed cabbage with red beans.

• · 1 medium fork of cabbage,
• · 1/5 kg of beans (or can),
• · Vegetable oil, onion, tomato paste.

Slice the cabbage, warm up the dishes with a thick bottom, pour in the oils and stew the cabbage until soft. Separately fry the onions. If you plan to use dried beans, pour it in advance (3-4 hours) with hot water for swelling and boil. Connect all components shortly before the readiness, if necessary, add ketchup or tomato paste at the same time.

Fast food in the Christmas post. Recipe number 3. Fritters from oatmeal.

• ½ kg of oatmeal,
• Water - 1 glass,
• 2 onions and 2 garlic cloves / 2 apples,
• It grows. butter.

Cook a thick oatmeal porridge, cool. Raw and peeled onions, garlic and greens finely chop, preferably in a blender. Combine the porridge with vegetables, pepper and salt. Well, warm up the frying pan with enough oil (if it is not enough - it will stick), lay out the pancake loafers with a spoon and fry on both sides.

You can make a sweet version of fritters. To do this, you need to add 2 tables in the process of cooking the Hercules. A spoonful of sugar and, until the porridge cools, finely chop two apples. Then mix, if the mass is liquid, you can add flour. Bake the same way as the first option.

Sweet Christmas fasts are always present on the daily and festive table. You can make honey rugs, yeast pancakes or on brine, pies with various fillings, bagels on mineral water with jams and jam, cookies and even lean cake.

Fast food in the Christmas post. Recipe number 4. Pyshki on the brine.

For this recipe it is better to take brine from under pickled tomatoes, so it turns out tastier and more aromatic. Mix the dough of medium density from 1 cup of brine and 1 kg of flour, 1 teaspoon of soda, 1 cup of sugar and a few spoons of vegetable oil. Bake as usual.