Meals by day for the Assumption Lent 2020 and menus for the week

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

• Category:

  hotter

• Cooking time:

  1 hour

Ingredients

• carrot
• semolina
• onion
• breadcrumbs
• vegetable oil
• salt
• pepper

The Dormition Fast in 2020 was established in honor of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. It is the shortest, lasting two weeks - from 14 to 27 August. During fasting, the Orthodox will have to give up meat and dairy products, so you need to know the daily nutrition for the laity in order to compose the right menu for the week.

Nutrition rules in the Assumption Lent

By its severity, the Dormition Fast of 2020 is equated to Great Lent. Therefore, meat, eggs and all dairy products will have to be excluded from the daily diet for the laity. But in the menu for the week, you can include dishes from vegetables, mushrooms, all types of cereals, berries and nuts.

Also, according to the church calendar, Monday, Wednesday and Friday are dry days, on Tuesday and Thursday you can cook hot food, but without oil. On Saturdays and Sundays, hot dishes with butter and even a little wine are allowed. But on August 19, for the Transfiguration of the Lord, you can serve fish dishes and wine.

Laymen do not have to observe strict fasting, such rules apply to monks. When compiling a lean menu, one should take into account age, the presence of chronic diseases and the characteristics of the body. Everyone who decides to fast, alone or together with a spiritual mentor, determines the degree of its strictness. We offer a daily food calendar for the laity for the Dormition Fast in 2020, with the help of which it will be possible to compose a lean menu for a week.

Lenten menu: recipes

Despite the fact that for the laity, meals at the Assumption Fast for 2020 should not contain meat and dairy products, the fasting menu for a week can be varied, tasty and healthy.

Carrot cutlets

On the days of fasting, you can cook bright and amazing-tasting carrot cutlets. The dish is prepared from simple ingredients, but the cutlets are very juicy, tender and tasty.

Ingredients:

• 650 g raw carrots;
• 50 g semolina;
• 1 onion;
• breadcrumbs;
• vegetable oil;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation:

Boil the carrots until tender, peel them and chop them on a fine grater

Add salt and pepper to the grated vegetable to taste, semolina and mix. Leave the resulting carrot mass for 15 minutes

• At this time, chop the onion into small cubes and sauté until light golden brown with the addition of a small amount of vegetable oil.
• Add the fried onions to the carrot mass, mix.

Now we sculpt cutlets from carrot dough, bread in breadcrumbs and fry in vegetable oil on both sides until golden brown

If desired, semolina can be replaced with oatmeal. You can also add herbs, paprika, coriander or garlic for aroma and taste

Lean pancakes without milk and eggs

Even without eggs and milk, you can make pancakes. Lean pastries are delicious, fluffy and very appetizing.

Ingredients:

• 250 ml of water;
• 230 g flour;
• 2, 5 Art. l. Sahara;
• ¼ h. L. salt;
• ¼ h. L. soda;
• 10 g live yeast.

Preparation:

Pour 70 ml of warm water into a glass, put pieces of live yeast, add 1 teaspoon of sugar, stir and leave for 10 minutes

• At this time, sift flour into a bowl, add salt, soda, the remaining sugar to it, stir.
• Pour in the yeast mixture and the remaining warm water, knead the dough.

• After that, cover the dough with a napkin and leave it for 15 minutes to rest and rise a little.
• Then we collect the dough with a spoon, put it on a frying pan preheated with oil and fry on both sides until golden brown.

First put the finished pancakes on a napkin to remove excess fat from them, then transfer them to a dish, sprinkle with ordinary sugar or powdered sugar

Rice balls with mushrooms

Rice balls stuffed with mushrooms is a lean but delicious and satisfying dish. It looks very appetizing, so it can be cooked not only during fasting, but also on holidays.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup rice
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 200 g of mushroom filling;
• 5-6 st. l. bread crumbs.

Preparation:

Boil rice in salted water until dense and viscous

• After cooling, pour in the oil and knead with your hands so that the rice becomes more homogeneous and sticky.
• Sprinkle the cutting board with breadcrumbs, put some rice on top, form a cake, spread the mushroom filling.

After pinching the edges, form a ball and bread in breadcrumbs

Once all the rice balls are ready, fry them until golden brown in a pan with vegetable oil

Mushroom caviar is also very simple to cook. To do this, boil the mushrooms, twist them in a meat grinder, and then fry them with onions. Add some garlic, herbs and spices

Lean pilaf with mushrooms

Pilaf with mushrooms is another dish that can be cooked during fasting. The recipe is simple, pilaf turns out to be hearty, aromatic and very tasty. We use any mushrooms, you can even use ordinary mushrooms.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup rice
• 300 g of mushrooms;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• seasonings for pilaf;
• 2 glasses of water;
• vegetable oil;
• garlic if desired.

Preparation:

• Cut the peeled carrots into strips, chop the onion into quarters.
• Cut champignons or any other mushrooms into large pieces.

• Pour oil into a deep frying pan, put carrots and onions, fry vegetables for 5-7 minutes.
• We put mushrooms to them, fry until all the liquid has evaporated and the mushrooms are brown.

After that, pour out the well-washed rice, put salt and seasonings to taste, mix

• Next, fill the contents of the pan with boiling water, mix again.
• After boiling, cover with a lid and bring the pilaf to readiness over low heat. Add garlic at the end if desired.

In the Assumption Lent for 2020, daily meals for the laity should be not only varied, but also healthy. In the menu for the week, you can also include such a dish as pilaf with dried fruits. To do this, grind carrots, dried apricots and prunes, fry with spices, add rice, water, bring to readiness.

Cauliflower puree soup

During Lent, you can prepare a variety of healthy vegetable dishes. The cauliflower soup is very tasty and nutritious.

Ingredients:

• 500 g of cauliflower;
• 200 g potatoes;
• 1 onion;
• 1 carrot;
• salt and pepper to taste;
• vegetable oil.

Preparation:

Chop the onion into small cubes, grate the carrots on a coarse grater

Pour a little oil into a saucepan and send vegetables into it, fry the onions with carrots for 3 minutes

• Cut the peeled potato tubers into small cubes.
• We transfer to a saucepan with vegetables and then add cauliflower inflorescences.
• Pour in water so that it covers the vegetables. Cook until the potatoes are fully cooked.

At this time, you can make croutons. To do this, cut the loaf into cubes, sprinkle with salt, pour with oil, mix and dry in the oven for 10 minutes at 180 ° C

Once the potatoes are completely cooked, grind the vegetables with a hand blender until smooth

• We return the soup to the stove, salt, pepper, bring to a boil and remove from heat.
• Serve the finished dish with croutons and herbs.

Soup-puree can be cooked from pumpkin, broccoli, mushrooms or lentils, there are many options, so the lean menu will definitely not be boring

Lenten salad "Freshness"

On the Assumption Lent, it is imperative to prepare vegetable salads, because it is not only very tasty, but also healthy. You can season the salad with ordinary vegetable or olive oil, but it is better to prepare a spicy dressing, thanks to which the dish tastes special.

Ingredients:

• 300 g of Chinese cabbage;
• 130 g of radish;
• 130 g fresh cucumber;
• 1 sweet pepper;
• 1 carrot;
• 50 g green onions;
• 20 g of fresh herbs.

For refueling:

• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 1 tspgranular mustard;
• 0.5 tsp Sahara;
• 1 tsp salt;
• 1 tsp lemon juice;
• 1 clove of garlic

Preparation:

Remove the stalk from Chinese cabbage and cut into strips

• Grind the carrots on a regular grater or grater for Korean salads.
• Chop the cucumber, radish and bell pepper into thin strips.

For dressing, pour vegetable oil, lemon juice into a small bowl, add salt, sugar, add mustard and rub the garlic

• Stir everything thoroughly.
• Now we transfer all the vegetables to the salad bowl along with chopped green onions, pour in the dressing, mix, and the delicious salad is ready.

Lean cabbage and mushroom pie

Cabbage and mushroom pie is a recipe for a lean dish that is easy and quick to prepare. This cake turns out to be even tastier than one prepared with dairy products. At the same time, it turns out to be very delicate and soft.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 260 g flour;
• 3 g baking powder;
• 100 ml of vegetable oil;
• 100 ml warm water;
• 0.5 tsp salt.

For filling:

• 300 g cabbage;
• 300 g of mushrooms;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 onion;
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• salt, pepper, herbs to taste.

Additionally:

• ¼ h. L. soda;
• 30 ml of water.

Preparation:

• Since the dough is kneaded quickly, we start with the filling. To do this, chop the onion into small cubes, and chop the carrots on a grater.
• Pour oil into the pan, add vegetables and fry. The onions should be slightly golden and the carrots soft.

• While vegetables are fried, chop the cabbage into thin strips.
• Then we send the vegetable to the pan, mix with onions and carrots.
• Salt, pepper and fry.

Boil wild mushrooms or champignons, cut into small pieces

• As soon as the cabbage has started to fry, add the mushrooms and mix.
• At the end, pour the dill greens, mix and remove from heat.

• Transfer the filling to a flat dish and cool to room temperature.
• For the dough, pour warm water, oil into a bowl, put salt and baking powder, stir.
• Then add flour and knead the dough, which should resemble shortbread in consistency.

• Cover the finished dough, let it rest for 10 minutes, and then divide it into two equal parts.
• Now we roll the first piece into a layer 5 mm thick, put it into a mold, and lay out the filling on top and distribute it in an even layer.

• After that, we also roll out the second piece of dough into the layer, put it on top of the filling and pinch the edges.
• In the middle of the cake we make a small hole for the steam to escape.

• Stir soda in warm water and grease the surface of the cake with the resulting mixture. There will be no soda taste, but a beautiful crust will appear.
• We send the cake to the oven for 30-35 minutes (temperature 180 ° C).

You can also make a pie filled with cabbage (or mushrooms) and boiled potatoes. On ordinary days - from meat and potatoes.

Orange muffins with poppy seeds

During fasting, you can also cook sweet pastries, the main thing is not to use eggs, butter and other dairy products for cooking. There are a lot of lean baking recipes, but we want to offer such an option as orange muffins with poppy seeds.

Ingredients:

• 3 oranges;
• 160 g flour;
• 160 g semolina;
• 40 g poppy seeds;
• 120 ml of vegetable oil;
• 8 g vanilla sugar;
• a pinch of salt;
• 0.5 tsp soda;
• 1 tsp baking powder.

Preparation:

1. Fill the poppy with boiling water for 10 minutes, then drain the water.
2. With the help of a vegetable peeler, peel off the zest from one orange in strips without a white layer, and then cut each into thin strips.
3. Squeeze juice from all oranges. For the test, you will need 220 ml, if it turns out less, then take another orange or just add water.
4. After that, pour sugar to the poppy and grind it a little.
5. Then pour in the oil and juice. Also pour in semolina, sifted flour, salt, soda, baking powder and vanilla sugar. Knead the dough of medium thickness.
6. Now let the dough rest for 10-15 minutes, then add the zest, mix.
7. We lay out the dough in tins and send it to the oven for 30-35 minutes, temperature 180 ° C.
8. Muffins are very tender, so we take them out of the molds only after they have completely cooled down, otherwise the baked goods will simply fall apart.

The Dormition Fast of 2020 falls on the summer, so the food for the laity, like the menu for the week, can be varied, because this is the season of fresh vegetables, fruits, herbs, berries and mushrooms. But do not forget that the main point of fasting is to purify the soul, so on such days you need to refrain from manifesting anger, negative thoughts and actions.