A fasting table does not have to be boring and monotonous, consisting of boiled potatoes and stewed cabbage. There are lots of interesting dishes and even pastries. It is about her that we’ll talk. What to cook for tea, breakfast or for guests? Catch the most relevant pastries for a lean diet!
Ruddy pie: come on, eat me, my friend
Cakes and pies - this is the cheapest, tasty, convenient pastries that can be prepared in a post. The dough is excellent even without eggs and milk, butter can be replaced with vegetable fat. If you do not want to cook with ordinary water, then it is worth trying options with potato broth, brine, broth. Any dough is easy to make lean, you just want to. But all the highlight in the filling.
How to cook lean cakes and pies:
- stewed cabbage, you can add other vegetables and mushrooms to it;
- potatoes can also be seasoned with mushrooms, fried onions, carrots;
- boiled or stewed carrots with raisins;
- jam; jam;
- fresh apples, pears, boiled, dried fruits;
- baked, steamed, salted or sweet pumpkin.
A huge number of options for minced meat pies. You can pamper yourself with such baked goods often, it will not get bored. Just do not forget about the high calorie content of flour products.
Helpful advice! To make the baked pies and pies shine, immediately after the oven you can grease them with a drop of vegetable oil. This should be done immediately, before the products have cooled down.
Mannik: if porridge is tired
Porridge, including semolina, is often prepared in fasting. But without milk and butter, it is not very tasty, which can not be said about the pie. It turns out perfectly without eggs and butter, does not require dairy products, all this can be replaced with fruit juice or compote. Thanks to croup, manna has an interesting structure, it is delicate, crumbly, and it is impossible to obtain such cake from flour.
The easiest recipe:
- 1 tbsp. decoys;
- 0.5 tbsp. rast. oils;
- 0.5 tbsp. flour;
- 1 tbsp. Sahara;
- 1 tbsp. compote or water;
- vanilla to taste;
- 1 bag of ripper.
You need to mix everything, insist, bake. The most interesting point in the supplements. What can be poured into the dough: nuts, raisins and other dried fruits. Cut apples, pears, zest, cinnamon, frozen, dried berries will not be superfluous. You can not add anything to the dough at all, and grease the finished mannik with jam, jam, make a layer of jelly or fruit. It will turn out an amazing lean pie cake, if you make a little effort and turn on your imagination.
Lean cookies are a great treat!
Cookies are pastries that can be served with tea or coffee, taken somewhere with you, and used for a snack. Its advantage is that it does not stale for a long time (unlike pies, pies). There are many cookie recipes. Basically it is made from flour, sugar, vegetable oil, soda can be added for softness. Cinnamon or vanilla is often introduced for taste and aroma, but there are even more interesting options.
How to cook lean cookies:
- with bananas;
- with pumpkin;
- with cocoa, coffee;
- with coconut flakes;
- with poppy seeds;
- with raisins, dried fruits.
In fact, this list can be continued. Sunflower seeds, nuts, various dried berries, jam, slices of candied fruits will definitely not spoil the cookies. All of these options are good, but also variety can be achieved by changing the flour. With oatmeal, corn grits, buckwheat and rice flour, delicious, besides very useful pastries are also obtained. When to experiment with healthy dishes, if not in fasting?
Lenten cakes in a pan
Tortilla is delicious and very fast. The simplest dough consists of water, flour and salt. But you can add oil, soda or yeast to it, it will turn out even better. Spices, dry garlic, herbs and other additives are also not prohibited.
How to fry tortillas:
- in a dry frying pan;
- in a pan with butter;
- in the oven.
So that after dry frying or in the oven they do not turn out tough, you can immediately grease with vegetable oil, cover with a towel. From unleavened dough, all kinds of hitchines, pasties (naturally, with lean filling) and other similar dishes are perfectly obtained. You can make tortillas with herbs, spinach, mashed potatoes inside. Why not?
Lazy lean baking
Even in the post you can not spend a lot of time cooking, if at home there is pita bread. Thin Armenian cakes are made from water with flour and salt. There is nothing forbidden in them, and the possibilities for use are huge.
What to cook from pita bread:
- Lazy shawarma. Vegetable salad, mushrooms, potatoes, ketchup or soy sauce will be an excellent filling.
- Lavash pies with potatoes, cabbage, any sweet and savory fillings. You can quickly fry them in a pan or bake in the oven.
- Brush and chips. Cut the pita bread into small pieces, sprinkle with oil, sprinkle with spices, dry in the microwave or in the oven. Sweet brushwood just cut and dry, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
- Lazy pies. Put the sheets of pita bread in the form, alternating with the filling. Options for lean meats can be found above.
Well, for dessert - lazy strudel! We spread the chopped apples or cherries with cinnamon and sugar on a pita, twist the roll, make cuts from above. Bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes. If the apples are tough, then you can pre-fry them in a pan with a spoonful of vegetable oil or stew a little in your juice.
Tricks of cooking lean and vegetarian pastries
Of course, you can make lean cakes, and pancakes, and pancakes, rolls, various fruit cakes. There are a lot of recipes. To change your favorite dishes, you get something new. The important thing is not to forget about the main points.
Tricks of cooking lean baking:
- Minimum water. In such baking there are few flavoring ingredients, muffins. Therefore, in all recipes, try to replace water with juices, brines, compote, tea, coffee, boiled cocoa.
- The rate of flour. Any dough can be spoiled and stuffed with a lot of flour. Even worse, when it is low in fat, there are no eggs and other muffins. Let the lean dough be weaker and softer in consistency than usual.
- Emphasis on filling. It is difficult to make something really tasty from one lean test. Therefore, it is wiser to choose pastries with filling and in no case to save. Put it from the heart!
The last secret is the aroma of baking. The better the smell of pies, pies, the tastier they seem. Feel free to add zest, vanilla, cinnamon and other spices to the sweet dough. In the dough for salt baking, you can pour spices, dry garlic, add fried onions. Italians make bread with sun-dried tomatoes and peppers, why not try this option?
