Menu for laymen for Lent by days for 40 days of 2020

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

Lent is a time of prayer, humility of desires and striving for a secluded lifestyle. Of all the four multi-day fasts, Lent 2020 is the longest for the laity, therefore, in order not to harm your health, you need to fast correctly and think over the menu every day for 40 days.

Lenten menu: prohibited and permitted foods

Great Lent 2020 for the laity is the fight against temptations and temptation, therefore, for all 40 days, all animal products, milk and dairy products, eggs, sweets, pastries, including white bread, as well as coffee will have to be excluded from the menu every day and alcoholic drinks.

Allowed foods that can be included on the daily menu for Lent 2020 for 40 days include all types of cereals and nuts, dried and fresh fruits, vegetables, including pickled, salted and pickled, mushrooms. And also tea, compotes, jelly, natural kvass.

On the days of relaxation, as well as on Orthodox holidays, you can eat fish, seafood and a little red wine.

Laymen who wish to observe Great Lent 2020 in accordance with all the canons of the church, when drawing up a menu for 40 days each day, should know that the first week of fasting is the most strict. On the first day, you will have to completely refuse food, on the other days you can eat raw food without oil and heat treatment, but on the last day of the first week, you can cook food on fire with oil and even drink wine.

The second, third, fourth and fifth weeks are no longer so strict, on certain days you can eat hot food with butter, on others - only raw. The last week, like the first, is strict. In the first three days, only raw food, on Thursday - hot, on Friday - a complete refusal to eat, on Saturday - some boiled food, on Sunday - Easter.

Orthodox holidays such as Annunciation, Lazarev Saturday and Palm Sunday fall on Great Lent 2020, which means that the menu for 40 days for laymen can be diversified with fish and seafood dishes.

Lenten recipes

Great Lent 2020 for laity is refusal of abundant food, but not exhaustion of the body, therefore the menu for 40 days should be useful and varied every day. Today there are many recipes with photos that will not allow you to break the fasting rules. but also will not let the body weaken.

Potato pancakes without eggs and flour

Very tasty and tender pancakes can be made from ordinary potatoes. The recipe with the photo is simple, so this dish can be quickly served for breakfast or dinner.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of potatoes;
• 1-2 onions;
• salt and pepper to taste;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Preparation:

On a fine grater, first rub the onion, and then the potatoes. If the house has a food processor with special attachments, then it is better to use a technique to grind the ingredients

Transfer the resulting gruel to a sieve and leave for 5 minutes to drain excess liquid from it

• Now add salt and pepper to taste, mix.
• Heat the oil in a frying pan, spoon out the potato dough and fry the pancakes until golden, about 2-3 minutes on each side.

• Put the finished pancakes on a napkin to remove excess fat from them.
• Potato pancakes are very tasty, but it all depends on the potatoes themselves, it is better to give preference to starchy varieties.

Oatmeal with coconut milk

In the menu for Great Lent 2020, by days for laymen for 40 days, you can include different dishes from cereals. For example, boil porridge in any vegetable milk. We offer a recipe with a photo of a very tasty and healthy oatmeal with fruits and fresh berries.

Ingredients:

• 150 g of rolled oats;
• 1 cup coconut milk
• 50 g dried apricots;
• 50 g raisins;
• 1 banana;
• 25 g cane sugar;
• berries;
• cinnamon stick;
• powdered sugar.

Preparation:

1. Pour 500 ml of water into a saucepan, put on fire and bring to a boil.
2. Put raisins, chopped dried apricots, cane sugar into boiling water and put a cinnamon stick.
3. Then we fall asleep the rolled oats and cook until tender.
4. Add a banana to the almost ready-made porridge, which we grind on a coarse grater, and pour in coconut milk, cook for 3-4 minutes.
5. Put the finished porridge on a plate, decorate with any berries and, if desired, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

For the recipe, you should not buy coconut milk, which is expensive at the price, but rather buy the coconut itself. Separate the flesh from the shell, grate it, add hot water and leave for 30 minutes. Then squeeze the finished milk with gauze or cotton napkins. From half a coconut, you can get 200 ml of milk.

Rice with vegetables

During the fast, you can not only cook porridge from rice, but also cook other dishes. For example, you can cook rice with vegetables. The dish turns out to be not only tasty, but also beautiful, as in the proposed photos. And rice is prepared very simply, for the recipe you can use vegetables both fresh and frozen.

Ingredients:

• 0.5 cups of rice;
• 1 bell pepper;
• 1 carrot;
• 0.5 cups sweet corn;
• 0.5 cups green peas;
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• salt and spices to taste;
• 150-200 ml of water.

Preparation:

• Cut sweet peppers and carrots into small cubes and immediately pour into a pan with heated oil, fry vegetables for 5-7 minutes.
• Now pour the green peas with corn, mix and fry for another 5 minutes.

After the vegetables, salt and add any spices to taste, pour in water, simmer under the lid for 10 minutes

• Next, add rice pre-boiled in salted water to the vegetables, mix.
• Simmer rice with vegetables for another 10 minutes.

You can not cook the rice, but after the vegetables are fried, pour in the cereals, pour in water and stew the rice with vegetables until tender. Also, if you wish, you can add mushrooms, you get a very tasty and aromatic vegetable pilaf

Carrot puree soup with ginger

The menu for the day for Lent 2020 for laymen for 40 days should also include the first hot dishes. There are a lot of recipes, for example, you can cook such an appetizing and beautiful, as in the photo, carrot puree soup with ginger. The dish turns out to be so appetizing that you will want to cook it not only during fasting, but also on ordinary days.

Ingredients:

• 600 g carrots;
• 1 onion;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• fresh ginger;
• 0.5 tsp curry.

Preparation:

Cut the peeled carrots into arbitrary pieces, put them in a saucepan, fill them with water, put them on the fire and bring the vegetable to softness

At this time, chop the onion in half rings, chop the cloves of garlic and a small piece of fresh ginger on a fine grater

Saute the onion in a frying pan with a little oil, then add ginger and garlic to it, fry for a couple of minutes. Then sprinkle with curry vegetables, pour in a little water and simmer for 3-4 minutes

Now we send vegetables to the ready-made carrots and grind everything with an immersion blender

• Serve the finished soup with fresh herbs.
• If the carrots are sweet, then you can not salt the soup, but add lemon juice to taste. Croutons are also suitable for such a dish, on ordinary days - from wheat bread, and on lean days - from rye.

Salad with cabbage and pickled mushrooms

It is very good to prepare salads during fasting, especially from fresh vegetables, because they have a lot of vitamins. We offer a recipe with a photo of a very tasty and nutritious salad with cabbage and pickled mushrooms.

Ingredients:

• 1, 2 kg of cabbage (white cabbage);
• a large bunch of green onions;
• 1 carrot;
• a large bunch of fresh parsley;
• 2 fresh cucumbers;
• 1 jar of green peas;
• 1 jar of pickled honey mushrooms;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 5 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 3 tbsp. l. apple cider vinegar;
• salt and black pepper to taste.

Preparation:

• Finely chop the white cabbage, chop the green onions, rub the carrots on a coarse grater.
• Chop fresh cucumbers into strips, finely chop parsley.
• Put the cabbage, green onions, carrots, parsley in a large bowl, pour the peas, put the cucumbers and pickled mushrooms, which can be replaced with any other mushrooms.
• Squeeze the garlic into a bowl with the contents through a press, add salt and pepper.
• Also pour in the oil and vinegar, mix and give the salad a little time to brew.
• Salads can be made with a variety of raw vegetables, and fruit vinegar or lemon juice can be used for dressing. Such dishes are suitable for such fast days, when you only need to eat raw food without adding oil.

Potato casserole with mushrooms

On fast days, you need to cook not only healthy, but also hearty food so that a person does not think only about food during the day. For example, you can make a potato casserole with mushrooms. The dish turns out to be nutritious and delicious.

Ingredients:

• 800 g potatoes;
• 400 g fresh champignons;
• 1-2 onions;
• 2 tbsp. l. starch;
• dill, salt, pepper;
• vegetable oil.

Preparation:

Finely chop the onion, fry it in oil until transparent, so that the vegetable in the casserole does not crunch

• We cut the mushrooms into small cubes, send them to the onion vegetable, fry for 5-7 minutes.
• Grind the peeled potatoes on a coarse grater, fill with boiling water, leave for 5 minutes. Then we throw it back in a colander and let the excess liquid drain.

Return the grated potatoes to the bowl, add starch, salt, pepper, other spices and herbs as desired

Cover the form with oiled parchment, spread a little potato mass, on top - half the mushroom filling, potatoes again. Then the remaining mushrooms and potatoes again

We send the casserole to the oven and cook it for 45-50 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C

Potato casserole can be made with a variety of fillings, even lentils. To do this, fry the onions with carrots, and then simmer together with boiled lentils with the addition of spices and tomato paste.

Lean carrot cake with buckwheat flour

You cannot eat baked goods during fasting, but you will not have to completely abandon baking. After all, there is a recipe with a photo of a carrot cake, the peculiarity of which is that buckwheat flour is used here, so the baked goods are tasty and healthy.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 300 g buckwheat flour;
• 50 g wheat flour;
• 200 g brown sugar;
• 200 g grated carrots;
• 200 ml of vegetable oil;
• 100 g raisins;
• juice and zest of 1 lemon;
• 1 tsp cinnamon;
• 10 g baking powder;
• 2 tbsp. l. water;
• a pinch of salt;
• vanillin to taste.

For glaze:

• 200 g icing sugar;
• zest and juice of 1 orange.

Preparation:

1. Pour buckwheat and wheat flour into a bowl, add vanillin with baking powder and mix everything well.
2. Pour brown sugar, cinnamon into another container, add the zest and juice of one lemon, pour in oil and water, and stir everything thoroughly.
3. Now pour well washed and dried raisins into the spicy mixture. Next, lay out the carrots grated on a fine grater and mix.
4. Pour the dry mixture into a bowl with liquid products and knead a homogeneous dough.
5. Put the dough into a mold with parchment and put it in the oven for 40-50 minutes, temperature 180 ° С.
6. We take out the finished cake and cool it completely. For the glaze, mix the icing sugar with the juice and zest of one orange. The consistency of the glaze should resemble condensed milk.
7. Remove the cooled cake from the mold, pour it over with icing and refrigerate for 20-30 minutes to freeze the fudge.
8. Despite the appearance, the baked goods are tender and crumbly, because there is no gluten in buckwheat flour. To make the cake more aromatic, you can add a little masala spice, if there is no such mixture of spices, then take a pinch of nutmeg, cardamom, ginger and ground cloves.

Great Lent 2020 for the laity ends on Bright Sunday. On this day, you can forget about all the prohibitions and about the Lenten menu for 40 days, which every Orthodox Christian thought out day by day. But you also need to get out of the post correctly, you should not immediately lean on heavy food. So, on Easter, you can taste a little cheese, meat, drink wine, be sure to put Easter cakes and eggs on the festive table. And from the next day, you can gradually return to the diet foods that were prohibited during the fast.