Housewives, in whose families someone from the family observes Great Lent, it is important to be able to cook delicious and varied dishes. Lean meals should saturate the body with useful microelements, satisfy hunger. Unfortunately, not everyone can come up with a menu for the day from the minimum number of products right off the bat. Therefore, it would be nice to have a notebook on hand, which contains recipes for lean dishes for every day.
What meatless meals can you cook for your family so that everyone is full and happy? You can make a hearty pea soup, make a salad, and bake a dessert. Cooking does not take much effort, you just need to know proven recipes.
Lean Pea Soup
To keep everyone satisfied, you need to prepare the first course. The ideal option would be pea soup, which, of course, will be lean.
To prepare the first course you need to take:
- 1 liter of water or vegetable broth;
- 1 pc. carrots and onions;
- 2 pcs. raw potatoes;
- 0.75 cups peas;
- 1 garlic clove;
- 1 tbsp. l. wheat flour;
- 1 tbsp. l. odorless sunflower oil;
- 1 tsp salt;
- 1 tsp soda for soaking peas.
The cooking steps are as follows:
- Pour water into a deep plate, dilute 1 tsp there. soda. Soak peas in the resulting liquid for 30 minutes. Such manipulation will not only speed up the cooking time of the product, but will save from the discomfort that some people experience after eating peas.
- Any vegetable broth is suitable for making the soup. You can, for example, boil a couple of peeled carrots and a washed onion. You do not need to peel it, cook it directly in the husk, this will give the broth a beautiful golden color.
- So, the liquid chosen for making the pea soup: water or broth, put it on gas and boil. Throw the soaked peas in a colander, rinse thoroughly with clean water and send them to a saucepan to boil. He must cook alone for at least 20 minutes.
- While the peas are boiling, wash and peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes. When 20 minutes have passed, send the root vegetable to the pot.
- Now you need to prepare the dressing. To do this, heat a frying pan, pour vegetable oil into it, put onion, previously peeled and chopped into small cubes, carrots chopped on a grater. Simmer vegetables, covered over low heat, until tender.
- While the dressing is being prepared, make flour, it needs to be dried in a pan. This ingredient will make the lean pea soup hearty.
- If the potatoes are boiled in a saucepan, then you can add flour there. This should be done slowly, stirring the soup thoroughly so that no lumps form.
- Once the flour is in the pot, you can add the dressing. All ingredients must be boiled together for 5 minutes. After that, garlic is added to the soup, chopped in a convenient way, as well as salt and spices to taste. After a couple of minutes, the pea soup can be removed from the heat.
It is recommended to serve the dish with chopped green onions.
Lean bean salad
We coped with the first course, now you can learn how to cook an appetizer. An excellent addition to dinner will be a lean salad with beans, for its preparation you need:
- 4 tbsp. l. canned (when buying, make sure that the composition does not contain ingredients prohibited in the post) or boiled beans;
- 1 pc. fresh carrots and onions;
- 2 slices of lean bread;
- 1 tsp soy sauce;
- Vegetable oil and salt to taste.
The stages of preparing a snack are as follows:
- Remove the husks from the onion, cut into not too thin rings. Fry the vegetable until soft in a pan with the addition of sunflower oil. Transfer the finished onion to a deep plate.
- Cut the bread into small cubes, fry until golden brown in the pan where the onion was cooked. Place the breadcrumbs on a flat plate.
- Wash the carrots, peel, grate on a coarse shredder, fry everything in the same pan, after adding vegetable oil to it.
- Combine all the ingredients of the salad together: carrots, onions, crackers and beans. Season the dish with soy sauce, stir, season with spices if necessary and can be served.
- Thanks to the presence of beans, the lean salad will turn out to be satisfying, and the croutons and soy sauce will add spice to the dish.
Lean Pie Recipe
Soup and salad are good, but you can't leave your family without sweets, indulge your family with lean pastries. To make a delicious and aromatic cake, take the following products:
- 2 cups of flour;
- 1 glass of sugar and water;
- ½ cup vegetable oil;
- 1 tsp baking powder;
- 2 tbsp. l. honey;
- 10 g cinnamon (if you like it);
- Apple and orange 1 pc. (fruits can be any).
If all the ingredients are available, you can start cooking:
- Pour a glass of sugar into a convenient saucepan, add water and honey there. Place the container on low heat and, stirring constantly, wait for a boil.
- When the first bubbles appear, pour vegetable oil into a saucepan, boil the mixture again. Then remove from heat and pour into a deep plate.
- Gradually add flour to the warm sugar and butter mixture. Take your time, it is important that the flour does not form lumps. Add baking powder and cinnamon to the dough.
- Take a baking dish, cover it with baking paper, this is necessary so that the baked goods do not stick.
- Spread half of the dough over baking paper. Place the peeled and cut orange slices on top. Distribute the washed, chopped (if desired, peel) apple over them.
- Pour the remaining dough over the fruit. Send the pie to bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 20-25 minutes. The end result is a delicious and juicy lean pie.
The dough inside the finished baked goods turns out to be damp, but this is such a feature of this recipe. For those who want to bake "on land", it is recommended to put 1 tsp in it when preparing the dough. starch. If desired, these fruits can be replaced with dried apricots, prunes.
Eat varied and tasty, bon appetit!
