What you can eat in the post before Easter

The post before Easter is called the Great Post. This is a strict post. If it is properly observed, then at this time it is impossible to eat meat, fish, eggs and dairy products.

The post lasts 7 weeks. The first, sixth and seventh weeks are the most stringent. In these weeks you need to exclude vegetable oil throughout the week.

On the other posts of the post, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, it is impossible to eat boiled food, but only adhere to the trunk (raw food without vegetable oil). Other days of the week to cook lean dishes with vegetable oil. In Good Friday (last Friday, before Easter), you need to refrain from food all day.

Two holidays throughout the post (Annunciation - April 7, Palm Sunday, which will be 9 April in 2017) is allowed to eat fish.

Post, though strict, but it is not starvation. There are many lean delicious dishes.

1

What can be in the post before Easter, in days when it is impossible to eat boiled food?

In the days when you need to stick to dry, you can eat:

• fresh fruits and vegetables;
• canned and sauer vegetables;
• sea \u200b\u200bcabbage;
• saline and canned mushrooms;
• honey and jam;
• vegetable and fruit fruit;
• dried fruits and nuts.

2

What of the first dishes can be in the post before Easter?

The first lean dishes are prepared from vegetables, you can add dried or fresh mushrooms. These are borscht, soups, soup, puree soups from legumes and pumpkins.

Soup with mushrooms and pasta

For soup you will need:

• 1.5 liters of water;
• 300 g of mushrooms;
• 50 g of macaron without eggs;
• 1 on the bulb and carrots;
• 2 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil;
• salt and greens of parsley, dill to taste.

Cooking:

• Fresh champignons clean, mine, cut, if you take dried mushrooms, then only wash, and we send it into a saucepan with water, put on the stove and cook half an hour.
• Finely chopped onions and carrots forzing on vegetable oil.
• We add roaster and pasta to the soup, let's get drunk 2-3 minutes, and turn off - the pasta will reach hot soup.
• Before serving on the table, we sprinkle with greens.

3

What of the second dishes can be in the post before Easter?

From the second dishes in the post you can eat different porridges, puree from vegetables, vegetable stew, vegetable casseroles. The taste of porridge and mashed potatoes can be improved by vegetable oil, tomato sauce, refueling, as well as submit them with cutlets.

Vegetable Cutlets with Chutney Sauce

For the kitlet it will take:

• 0.5 kg cabbage;
• 2 raw potatoes;
• 1 carrot;
• 4-5 tbsp. Wheat flour spoons;
• vegetable oil for frying;
• corn flour for panning the kitlet.

For the sauce "Chutney" will need:

• 0.5 glasses of tomato sauce;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 laurel leaf;
• 3 carnation boutons;
• 1/3 Chain. spoons of mustard seeds;
• 0.5 chain. Spoons of ground chilli pepper, paprika, ginger powder, black pepper.

Preparing the cutlets:

• Cabbage cut and grind the blender so that the pieces remain.
• Potatoes and carrots clean and rub on a small grater.
• Mix vegetables, salt, add flour and mix.
• From the resulting minced meat, we form cutlets, catch in corn flour and roast on vegetable oil.

Cooking the sauce "Chutney":

• On vegetable oil (2 tbsp. Spoons) for about 1 minute all spices, add tomato sauce, crushed garlic, and fry until thickening, 5-7 minutes.
• On the plate lay out the side dish, cutlets and top of the sauce.

4

What from salads can be in the post before Easter?

Vegetable salads, perhaps the most common dishes in the post. They can be twisted with vegetable oil and refueling (mix sugar, salt, finished mustard and lemon juice, can be applex vinegar).

Also in the post can be prepared by vinaigrette with mushrooms, vegetable caviar from beets, carrots.

Beet and beans salad

For lettuce, you will need:

• 2 boiled beets;
• 1 cup of welded beans;
• 1 Salted cucumber or 100 g sauerkraut;
• green onions and dill greens - a few stems;
• 2-3 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil;
• salt to taste.

Cooking:

• Cut the cubes salted cucumbers and beets, greenery grinding.
• We mix the beans, cucumbers, beets and fuel with vegetable oil.

5

What can be baking in the post before Easter?

The furnace is also in the post a variety of pies, pies, pancakes, pancakes, pellets, pizza. And the filling can be mushrooms, thick peas or potato mashed potatoes, rushed and fresh fruit.

In baking instead of margarine and eggs, we can apply vegetable oil.

Prepare for tea peanut halva

For Halva, you will need:

• 150-170 g peanut;
• 1/3 of a piece of glass of flour and sugar;
• 100 ml of water;
• 50 ml of sunflower oil;
• pinching vanillin.

Cooking:

• Peanuts are driving on a dry frying pan and grind on the meat grinder.
• The flour is also separately dried in a pan without oil.
• We mix sugar, water and vanillin, and cook 5 minutes, pour oil and cook another 1 minute.
• Suck the crushed peanuts and flour, we continue to cook all the time, stirring, 2-3 minutes until the mass thickens.
• Any shape we drag the parchment, lay out the mass, spread, and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
• Get out of the refrigerator and cut into pieces.

As you can see, the menu can be very diverse.