Lent before Easter is the longest and strictest in the Orthodox calendar. It excludes dairy products, meat and eggs. The fish can only be eaten on Annunciation and Palm Sunday (Lord's Entry into Jerusalem). You can cook food from cereals, vegetables and fruits. Sugar and honey are allowed.
A tasty and easy-to-prepare dish is rice with apples. Place a layer of rice on the bottom of a saucepan and place apples, cut into wedges and peeled. Sprinkle the apples with granulated sugar. Add layers of rice, apples and sugar as desired. The last layer should be rice. Pour boiling water so that the water covers the cereal by 2-2.5 cm. Put the pan in an oven preheated to 150 degrees. When the water boils, reduce heat to low.
Ingredients:
- rice, 1 glass;
- apple, 3 pcs.;
- sugar to taste.
Vegetable stew is not hard to make. Cut the onion into half rings and fry in well-heated sunflower oil until golden brown. Add the carrots grated on a coarse grater and simmer all together, covered over low heat. When the carrots are soft, add 2 tablespoons of tomato paste, add salt and sugar to taste.
On the bottom of a thick-walled saucepan, place the fried root vegetables, then finely chopped cabbage and small diced potatoes. Add hot water and place the pan in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. When the liquid in the saucepan comes to a boil, stir the vegetables and reduce the heat to 70 degrees. Season with salt and bay leaves before cooking. Dried or fresh herbs can be added to the stew before serving.
Ingredients:
- bow, 2 heads;
- carrots, 2 pcs.;
- potatoes, 6-7 pcs.;
- cabbage, 1 small head of cabbage;
- water, 150 g.
The popular Georgian dish lobio is simply being prepared. Soak the beans for several hours in cold water, then drain this water and pour fresh so that the beans are covered by 2-2.5 cm. Cook over very low heat so that the dish only slightly gurgles. Cut the onion into half rings and fry over high heat in plenty of vegetable oil until golden brown. A few minutes before cooking, salt the beans, add the fried onions, chopped walnuts, bay leaves and chopped greens to taste, you can dry them.
Ingredients:
- beans, 2 cups;
- bow, 2 heads;
- bay leaf, 1 piece;
- parsley;
- dill;
- cilantro.
