The post table

For some people, the fasting table is not only an attribute of their faith, but also of everyday life, because our health depends on what we eat. And in fasting days the body receives additional discharge, because it turns to healthy and healthy food.

Almost everyone knows that there are four great posts that begin before the big holidays, for example, Christmas or Easter. But not everyone knows what a festive table looks like . It must be said that on such days it is allowed to eat raw or cooked vegetable food, adding butter at will, as well as fish, crabs, crayfish, that is, bloodless animals (only two days a week). Not allowed to eat meat, dairy products and eggs. Thus, it can be concluded that Christians use these days only vegetables and fruits.

Consider some of the dishes that make up the table.

1. Soup with mushrooms.

Ingredients: two hundred grams of champignons, several potatoes, one carrot, one onion, salt and spices, greens, vegetable oil.

Roots are washed, cleaned, cut into small cubes together with onions. Potatoes are put in boiling water, the rest of the vegetables are roasted in a saucepan with spices and salt. When they turn rosy, add to them mushrooms, stew for several minutes and pour water. Then add a little boiled potatoes and cook for fifteen minutes, after which add chopped greens.

2. Salted salmon (lean table with seafood).

Ingredients: one kilogram of salmon fillets, two tablespoons of sea salt, one spoon of brown sugar, ground pepper to taste.

The fillets are rinsed with water and dried with napkins. Then remove all the bones present, separately in the dishes combine sugar, salt and pepper, mix. Half of the resulting mixture is spread in another dish, on top put the fish and sprinkle with the remaining salt. The bowl is wrapped in a food film and placed in a cold place for sixteen hours, after which it is drained and the salt is peeled off the fish, cut into it and sprinkled with chopped green onions.

3. Brussels sprouts with mushrooms (Lenten New Year's table).

Ingredients: five hundred grams of Brussels sprouts, three hundred grams of champignons, two onions, two cloves of garlic; One spoonful of flour, three hundred grams of water (broth), one spoonful of lemon juice, as well as five spoons of vegetable oil, salt, spices and greens.

Cabbage is washed, put in boiling water with lemon juice and boiled for ten minutes (if it is frozen, it is not previously defrosted).

It should be said that Brussels sprouts are well suited for lean table, as it contains a large number of useful substances and vitamins, which are necessary for the human body.

Onions are cut into half rings, garlic is passed through the garlic, the mushrooms are cut into slices.

Champignons are put in a frying pan with one spoon of butter and fried until the moisture evaporates, add one more spoon of oil and salt, and continue to fry until ready, after which they are removed so that all the oil remains in the pan. In it, add onion and fry, combine with mushrooms and garlic, add flour, and after a few minutes - water, and cook until the sauce thickens. Next, pepper and salt, add cabbage, cover and leave for fifteen minutes.

Such a dish can be cooked not only on a lean table, but also on a typical day.