Festive food: recipes

Many people in our country adhere to the Great Lent. However, it should be noted that no one can cancel the namesday, March 8, birthdays and so on. That's why you should know how to prepare lenton festive meals that will make your dining table beautiful and varied.

We make a tasty and satisfying second course

If you want to surprise your guests with lean, but at the same time satisfying and tasty lunch, then we suggest using the recipe below. Thanks to it, you can make an unusual vegetable stew with mussels and mushrooms.

So, we need:

• Fresh champignons - about 300 g;
• Frozen mussels - about 250 g;
• Bulb large - large head;
• Garlic teeth - 5 pcs .;
• Fresh tomatoes - 3 pcs .;
• Wheat flour - 3 large pcs .;
• Vegetable oil without aroma - about 45 ml;
• Green beans - about 200 g.

Processing components

Lenten festive dishes, the recipes of which we are considering, are made easy and simple. To prepare a vegetable stew, you should alternately treat all the ingredients. First you need to cut large bulbs and fresh tomatoes into cubes, and then chop mushrooms into plates. Then you need to defrost the mussels and fill them with flour with crushed garlic teeth.

Heat treatment

After preparing the ingredients, fresh mushrooms and bulbs should be placed in a sauté pan with oil and fry a little. Next to them you need to lay out fresh tomatoes and stew for about ¼ hour under the lid. In the end, the frozen green beans must be poured into the mushrooms and continue the heat treatment until it is completely soft.

While ingredients are stewed on the stove, you should mushroom the mussels. Mixing them with flour and garlic, they are required to put in a separate pan with butter and cook over medium heat for literally 5-6 minutes. During this time, seafood should be well roasted.

In the end, almost ready mussels must be mixed together with mushrooms and green beans. After standing under the lid for about 3 minutes, the sauté pan should be removed from the plate.

Correctly served to the table

Knowing how to prepare the fast food festive, you can cover a very rich and beautiful table. After the vegetable stew with mussels and mushrooms is cooked, it should be distributed to plates and immediately served.

Make a delicious mackerel salad

Festive fish fasts are made quickly and fairly easily. To prepare a salad yourself, we will need:

• Hot smoked mackerel - 1 medium unit;
• Medium potatoes - 4 pcs .;
• Celery stalks - about 6 pcs .;
• Green onions - use to taste and discretion;
• Mustard in beans - 3 large spoons;
• Lean mayonnaise - about 6 large spoons;
• Oil without vegetable flavors - 2 large spoons.

Preparing ingredients

All lean festive meals should be started with the processing of the main ingredients. To create a delicious salad, you need to clean the smoked mackerel from the viscera, skin and bones, and then divide the fillets into flakes. Next, you should wash the roots of celery and cut them into thin slices. You also need to chop the green onions.

As for the average potato, it should be boiled in a uniform, cooled, cleaned and chopped into slices.

We make refueling

Eating meals in the form of snacks and salads should be prepared only with the use of lean mayonnaise. It can be purchased at almost any store.

To create a delicious salad it was decided to use a special dressing. For its preparation, you need to mix lean mayonnaise, vegetable oil without flavor, and also mustard seeds. In this form, the sauce should be kept warm for about ¼ hours.

Forming a salad

Lenten festive dishes and snacks are formed quite easily and simply. To prepare a fragrant salad, you need to take a large bowl and put into it the following components: the fillet of smoked mackerel, slices of boiled potatoes, celery stalks and green onions. Then all the ingredients are required to fill with lean mayonnaise with mustard seeds and mix thoroughly. In addition to the snack, you can pour in pepper and salt.

Correctly present to the table

Now you have an idea of how salads are made festive lean delicious. Their recipes may include not only the mentioned ingredients, but also other products. The main thing is that they are not forbidden.

Having made a fragrant salad with smoked mackerel and filling it with mayonnaise sauce, it should be put in a deep plate and immediately served to invited guests. If desired, this dish can be placed in a serving bowl.

We make lean dessert for the festive table

Not everyone knows what can be cooked fasting festive dishes of Orthodox cuisine. That is why in this section of the article we decided to present a detailed recipe for a delicious apple pie. For him we will need:

• Flour sifted light - a full glass;
• Manka - a full glass;
• Sugar white - a full glass;
• Apples fresh non-acidic - 6-8 pcs .;
• Margarine is common (based on vegetable raw materials) - about 200 g;
• Baking powder is a dessert spoon.

Preparation of the basis

Postal festive dishes, recipes of which do not provide for the use of products of animal origin, can be used not only during the great Orthodox fasting, but also, for example, if you are a vegetarian.

So, for self-preparation of lean dessert, you should knead loose dough. To do this, sifted light flour should be laid out a soft margarine and carefully grind it with hands until a homogeneous crumb is obtained. After that, you need to add semolina, white sugar and baking powder. In the end, you should get a dry and loose foundation.

Processing of apples

You should always keep your birthday recipes in your own cookbook. This is due to the fact that not all housewives have an idea of how to cook a pie without eggs, milk and other "forbidden" products.

To make a lean dessert to a festive table, you should carefully handle the apples. They need to be washed well, and then peeled and cut into thin slices. In this case, it is required to remove the entire seed box.

The process of forming a pie

To form lean dessert, take a deep baking dish and lightly grease it with cooking oil. Next, you need to pour ¼ of the loose base into the dishes, and then put some of the apples on it. Next, the fruit must be filled up again with a dough and similarly placed the filling. To carry out these actions should be until all the ingredients you do not run out. And the last layer should be made margarine crumb.

The baking process in the oven

Having formed a lean pie, it must be immediately placed in a preheated oven. Bake it is recommended at a temperature of 210 degrees for half an hour (you can slightly more). During this time, the top part of the dessert will be well-charred, and all its thickness will be completely baked.

Correctly present to the table

After preparing a lean festive cake in the oven, it should be carefully removed and cooled. If you try to get the dessert out of the form right away, then it can immediately break down. Moreover, it is very easy to get burned with such a delicacy.

Thus, after cooling the apple pie, it should be carefully removed from the dishes and placed on a large cake plate. Then it must be cut into parts. Putting pieces of dessert on a saucer, it is necessary to distribute it to invited guests along with a cup of black tea.

Let's sum up the results

As you can see, lean dishes are not as difficult to prepare as it might seem from the very beginning. Moreover, they do not require expensive components for their preparation. After all, they do not include products such as meat, eggs, milk and so on.