It so happened that the day of the celebration of the New Year according to the Orthodox calendar falls on the Nativity Fast. And the believing Orthodox people are faced with the question of what lenten festive dishes can be served at the New Year's table.
refers to fasting for many days and lasts 40 days. This fast is not as strict as Great Lent, which Orthodox Christians observe before Easter. However, there are certain rules regarding permitted and prohibited foods, in addition to the general prohibition on eating meat, milk and dairy products, and eggs.
For the convenience of fasting, a special schedule has been developed, which indicates which days and what foods you can eat. So, for the entire period of fasting, there are 15 fish days, most of which fall in the first two weeks. On other days, it is suggested to eat boiled plant foods, and on certain days, vegetable oil should not be eaten. There are also days of Lent, on which only raw plant foods are consumed, including fermented foods and pickles.
So, December 31, 2016 falls on Saturday - one of the days when fasting is the least strict, that is, among other things, fish dishes and seafood are allowed. This greatly simplifies the process of compiling a festive New Year's menu:
- You can cook many festive snacks from: squid shashlik, herring forshmak, salads, rolls stuffed with boiled or stewed fish, fish in sour cream sauce, baked in the oven, and so on.
- From vegetables: raw, boiled, stewed or baked, you can prepare a variety of salads, snacks.
- You can diversify the taste of vegetable dishes in different ways, and also use all kinds of them as an addition. Familiar salads with traditional mayonnaise for the New Year can be prepared in the usual way. You can season such salads with mayonnaise made from vegetable products, based on nuts. Such mayonnaise is not inferior to traditional mayonnaise in taste, moreover, it is much more useful than factory-made sauce.
- From hot dishes to the New Year's table, dishes from boiled or baked potatoes, manti with vegetable fillings, vegan cabbage rolls, fried chickpeas, stewed legumes and cereals, and so on are suitable.
- Also, snack bars prepared without milk, eggs and butter, filled with cabbage, potatoes, onions and other vegetables, and fish, will be appropriate. You can also cook without the use of animal products, muffins, muffins and cakes, gingerbread and biscuits. The dough for pies is prepared with mineral carbonated water, raw apple puree, yeast.
- The delicious ones can be borrowed from the cookbooks of vegans and raw foodists: you will not find animal products in these recipes, which means you can safely serve them to the festive table during the Christmas fast.
Simple recipes for the Lenten New Year's table.
To prepare the salad, you will need red cabbage. This is the only ingredient. We will season thinly chopped cabbage with nut sauce. To prepare the sauce, take about 50 grams of walnut kernels, a few sprigs of parsley, a tablespoon of finely grated sour apple, 200 ml of water, 1 clove of garlic, 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil and salt to taste. All food must be placed in a bowl and wiped with an immersion blender.
Raw carrots, apples, fresh cucumbers, green onions, sprouted chickpeas or mung bean, seasoned with nut-based mayonnaise. To prepare such mayonnaise, pour half a glass of nut kernels with one glass of water, add a little vegetable oil, salt, pepper and lemon juice. Beat with a hand blender. The proportions to your liking.
Prepare yeast dough from 3 cups of wheat flour, 1/3 cup of semolina, 1 tablespoon of dry yeast, 5 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of sugar and 600 ml of water. Everything is mixed until smooth, the dough is thick, like a pancake. Leave the dough for 1 hour in a warm place. For the filling, cut 3-4 onions in half rings, salt a little, sprinkle with ground coriander and add pepper and sumac. Pour half of the dough into a mold, lay out the onion, fill it with the remaining dough and send it to the oven, which must be preheated to 180 degrees for 50 minutes. The pie is delicious both hot and cold.
To prepare this salad, grate raw carrots and beets on a fine grater. Season the salad with raw mayonnaise, the preparation technology of which has already been described above. In the process of cooking in such mayonnaise, it will be appropriate to add a clove of garlic to the beet salad. Put the prepared salad in a salad bowl and sprinkle with grated nuts.
To prepare lean dough, mix 2, 25 cups of flour with 1 teaspoon of salt. Pour 165 ml of cold water mixed with 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil into the mixture. Knead the dough and leave for 30 minutes. During this time, the flour will absorb water and oil, the dough will become elastic, resilient and pleasant to work with. As a filling, you can use radish, cabbage, sauerkraut with mushrooms, potatoes with onions, potatoes with mushrooms, pumpkin.
Yes, you can make pizza without using animal products. To prepare the dough, mix 290 ml of water with 2 tbsp. vegetable oil, add 1 tbsp. Sakhal and 1, 5 tsp. salt. Pour in 3.5 cups of flour and 1 - 1.5 tsp. dry yeast. Knead the dough, leave it to rise for 30 - 60 minutes. Tomatoes, mushrooms, red onions, pre-stewed with tomato paste seitan (wheat meat), olives, tofu cheese, as well as wheat sausages and sausages, which can be purchased at health stores (for vegans and raw foodists), are suitable for quality filling. There are also raw food options for making pizza. At the heart of the dish is a dried cake made from seeds and vegetables; raw tomatoes, mushrooms, greens, onions, and so on are suitable as a filling. To prepare raw cheese, you need to grind seeds or nuts filled with water with a blender, strain, put the cake in cheesecloth, ferment under a press.
This is just a small fraction of the recipes for dishes that Orthodox Christians observing the Nativity Lent can serve to the New Year's table.
