Simple and delicious monastery-style lean pastries

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

• Category:

  bakery

• Cooking time:

  45 minutes

Ingredients

• tea
• jam
• sugar
• flour
• cinnamon
• baking powder
• vegetable oil

Lenten baked goods should not contain dairy products, pastries and eggs, but even without such ingredients, you can prepare real culinary masterpieces, which are popularly called "in the monastery style". We offer several simple but delicious recipes with a photo of pastries that will make the lean menu varied.

Pie "Monastyrsky"

A monastery pie can be made in just 30 minutes. The recipe with the photo is very simple, all the ingredients are available, lean pastries are delicious, tender and aromatic.

Ingredients:

• 1 glass of strong tea;
• 2-3 st. l. thick jam;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 2 cups of flour;
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon;
• 10 g baking powder;
• 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

Preparation:

We brew black tea and pour the thick jam with a hot drink, stir and cool a little

Mix flour with baking powder, sift, add sugar and cinnamon, stir well until smooth

Now pour tea with jam, butter into the flour and knead a homogeneous dough

Pour the dough into a mold covered with parchment, level it and send it to the oven for 20-25 minutes, temperature 180 ° C

Cool the finished baked goods, take them out of the mold and sprinkle with powdered sugar

For the recipe, you can take any tea, on which the taste of the cake will depend. In addition to cinnamon, you can add ginger or cardamom. And also, if you wish, put nuts, raisins or any dried fruits into the dough.

Interesting! Delicious shortcrust pastry in vegetable oil for pie

Greek Lean Pie

This is a simple but very interesting recipe with a photo of lean pastry, which in Greece is called "Fanuropita" in honor of Saint Fanurius. The pie turns out to be not only tasty, but also rich and incredibly aromatic.

Ingredients:

• 120 g sugar;
• 100 ml of vegetable oil;
• 1 orange;
• 330 g flour;
• 15 g baking powder;
• 2 pinches of salt;
• 50 g walnuts;
• 50 g raisins;
• 50 g dried cranberries;
• vanillin to taste.

Preparation:

• Pour boiling water over raisins and dried cranberries and set aside for now.
• Pour the nuts into a bag and grind them with a regular rolling pin.

• Peel off the zest from the orange and squeeze the juice.
• Add water to the juice to obtain a total volume of 250 ml and oil, stir.

• Pour sugar, salt, flour sifted with baking powder into a bowl, mix everything.
• Now pour the juice and butter into the flour mixture and knead until smooth.

Then we send nuts, raisins, cranberries and orange zest to the dough, mix everything well

Grease the mold with butter, transfer the dough into it and put it in the oven for 45 minutes, temperature 180 ° C

Cool the finished baking in the form, then remove it on the wire rack and leave it to cool completely. Before serving, you can sprinkle the cake with powdered sugar or pour over melted caramel.

Chocolate manna

Mannik is a simple yet satisfying and delicious cake that can also be made during Lent. Today, there are even several options for such lean baked goods. We offer a recipe with a photo of a monastery-style chocolate manna.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup semolina
• 1 glass of water;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 1 cup flour
• 3 tbsp. l. cocoa;
• 0.5 cups vegetable oil;
• 10 g vanilla sugar;
• 1, 5 tsp baking powder;
• nuts, candied fruits, raisins.

For glaze:

• 3 tbsp. l. cocoa;
• 2 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• 4 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 4-5 st. l. water.

Preparation:

• Pour semolina, sugar into a bowl and pour in water, mix and leave for 30 minutes so that the semolina swells.
• Pour in salt, vanilla sugar, pour in oil and stir.

Sift cocoa with flour, add baking powder and knead everything well

• Pour chopped nuts into the dough, but if you wish, you can add raisins, candied fruits or any dried fruits.
• Mix everything again and send the dough into a form covered with parchment. We put in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 40 minutes.

At this time, let's prepare the icing. To do this, pour cocoa with sugar into a saucepan, pour in water and oil

Stir and put on fire. Cook the glaze with constant stirring until thickened

Cool the finished manna right in the mold, then take it out and pour it with icing, serve it to the table.

Lean cherry pie

Another recipe with a photo of lean baking is cherry pie. Despite the fact that the simplest ingredients are used for cooking, there are no eggs and dairy products, the cake is delicious, crumbly and tender.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 200 g flour;
• 2 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• 6 tbsp. l. water;
• 5 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• a pinch of salt;
• soda on the tip of a knife.

For filling:

• 500 g cherries;
• 1 tbsp. l. starch;
• 1 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• 70 g almond flour.

For powder:

• 70 g flour;
• 70 g sugar;
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

Preparation:

Pour most of the flour, sugar, soda into a bowl, pour in oil and cold water, mix

• Add salt and the remaining flour, knead the soft dough, wrap it with foil and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
• For the filling, take the cherries, remove the seeds from the berries, add sugar, potato starch, mix.

For sprinkling, pour wheat, sugar and butter into a bowl with almond flour, mix

• Roll out the cooled dough with a thickness of 1.5 cm, transfer it to a mold, distribute it over the entire surface and be sure to make bumpers for the filling.
• Sprinkle the dough lightly with starch and lay out the cherries.

Apply a good layer of powder to the berries

We send the cake to the oven for 40 minutes, temperature 180 ° C

Cool the finished baked goods and serve. Better straight in the mold, as the cake is very crumbly. Almond flour can be substituted for corn flour, but it tastes much better with almonds.

Lean Orange Pie

On fast days, you can make a delicious and aromatic orange pie. For lean baking, you need the most affordable ingredients. And the recipe with a photo of preparation is so simple that even the most inexperienced housewife can handle it.

Ingredients:

• 2 oranges;
• 50 g walnuts;
• 400 g flour;
• 25 g starch;
• 160 g sugar;
• 150 ml of vegetable oil;
• 1 tsp vanilla extract;
• 1/3 tsp salt;
• 100 ml orange juice.

Preparation:

• We peel the oranges, disassemble them into slices, send them into a bowl and grind them with an immersion blender. Also, fruits can be passed through a conventional meat grinder.
• Pour 6 tbsp into the orange puree. tablespoons of sugar, add starch and chopped nuts, mix everything thoroughly. This will be the filling for the pie.

• For the dough, pour orange juice into the remaining sugar, add salt, stir until the salty and sweet crystals dissolve.
• Pour the juice into a bowl with sifted flour, then pour in the oil, vanilla extract and knead the dough. It is not worth kneading it for a long time, we just collect the ingredients in a ball.

• Cut off the fourth part of the total amount of dough. We immediately transfer most of it into a greased and floured form, distribute it along the bottom and walls.
• Now put the filling, distribute it evenly.

Pinch off small pieces from the remaining dough and distribute the filling over the entire surface

We send the cake to the oven for 40 minutes, temperature 170 ° С. Cool the finished baked goods, take them out of the mold, sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.

Jellied Pie with Mushrooms and Cabbage

Lean pastries are not only sweet desserts, but also hearty dishes. We offer a simple recipe with a photo of a delicious monastery-style jellied pie with cabbage and mushrooms.

Ingredients:

• 250 ml of water;
• 1 tsp dry yeast;
• 0.5 tsp salt;
• 2 tsp Sahara;
• 260 g flour;
• 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.

For filling:

• 450 g of cabbage;
• 2 onions;
• 1 carrot;
• 200 g of mushrooms;
• 1 tsp Sahara;
• salt to taste.

Preparation:

• Pour salt, sugar and dry yeast into a bowl of flour, mix.
• Pour oil into warm water, stir and pour into a dry mixture, knead everything well, cover and leave the dough warm for 30 minutes.
• Finely chop the cabbage for the filling. We also finely chop the mushrooms and chop the onions, grind the carrots on a grater.

• Pour salt, sugar into the cabbage, crush it with your hands to make it soft.
• Saute the onion in a pan with heated oil until transparent, then add the carrots to it and fry the vegetables until tender.
• Then we fry the mushrooms, send everything to the cabbage. Add chopped greens if desired, mix.

• Cover the form with parchment and pour out half of the dough.
• Lay out all the filling on top, level it.

Spread the remaining dough over the filling

Grease the top with sweet water, then sprinkle with sesame or flax seeds and bake the cake until cooked in an oven preheated to 175 ° C

Biscuits with plums

Plum biscuits - a simple recipe with a photo of very tasty, beautiful and fragrant lean baked goods. For the filling, you can use not only fruits or berries, but also more satisfying ingredients, such as mushrooms and potatoes.

Ingredients:

• 500 g flour;
• 250 g brown sugar;
• 1 tsp dried ginger;
• 2 tsp baking powder;
• 250 ml of vegetable oil;
• a handful of walnuts;
• water.

Preparation:

In a bowl, mix rye and wheat flour, add sugar, baking powder and dried ginger, mix

• Pour in the oil and grind it right into a crumb state.
• Then add water in parts and knead the soft dough, which we give time to rest.

Let's prepare the filling for now. To do this, cut the plums in half, take out the bone and cut each half into slices

• Then we take a piece of dough and roll it out on parchment into a not very thin cake.
• Put the fruit filling in the center, sprinkle with sugar and chopped nuts

Raise the edges of the cake and wrap it as shown in the photo

• We bake biscuits for 30 minutes at a temperature of 200 ° C and 10 minutes at 180 ° C.
• If you want to make biscuits with mushrooms or potatoes, then knead the dough from flour with vegetable oil, water, salt and baking powder.

Lenten pies - a simple recipe

On the days of fasting, it is not necessary to give up delicious pies, because today there are simple recipes with photos of lean pastries. The dough is kneaded in carbonated mineral water, so the pies are soft and airy.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 300 ml of mineral water;
• 2 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• 520 g flour;
• 30 g fresh yeast;
• 100 ml of vegetable oil;
• 0.5 tsp salt.

For filling:

• 2 beets;
• 70 g raisins;
• 70 g cranberries;
• sugar to taste.

Preparation:

Pour carbonated water into a bowl, add sugar, chop fresh yeast, also add 3 tbsp. tablespoons of flour. Stir everything well with a whisk, cover and leave warm for 10-20 minutes

• As soon as the dough comes up, add salt, pour in oil and mix everything well.
• Sift flour in portions and knead the dough. Put it in a bowl, put it in a bowl and, covered with a towel, leave it warm for 20-30 minutes.

For the filling, boil the beets, three on a coarse grater and squeeze out the juice that has evolved

• Pour raisins and cranberries with boiling water for 10 minutes, then chop with a knife or in a blender. Add to the beets and mix.
• Divide the dough into pieces, each roll into a bun. Then we roll each bun into a cake, lay out the filling, sprinkle with sugar and form pies.

Fry the pies in a pan or bake in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C. Hot baked pies can be greased with syrup; for this, just stir sugar in hot water

These pies can be prepared with any filling, be it apples, potatoes, cabbage or mushrooms. The baked goods are very tasty and do not stale for a long time.

Puff onion pies

We offer another simple recipe for delicious lean pastries - puff pastries that can be prepared not only with onions, but also with any other filling.

Ingredients:

• 1, 5 glasses of water;
• 4, 5 cups flour;
• 1 tsp salt;
• 1 kg of onions;
• a mixture of peppers to taste;
• greens to taste.

Preparation:

1. Chop the onion with thin strips, add herbs, salt and a mixture of peppers to it. Mix directly with your hands so that the vegetable gives juice and becomes softer.
2. We send salt and sifted flour into a bowl of water, knead the puff pastry.
3. After that we divide the dough into four equal parts and roll each into a thin layer, grease the surface with vegetable oil.
4. Put the onion filling on the dough in the middle, wrap one edge, also grease with oil.
5. Then we lay out the onion, wrap the second edge and coat with oil again.
6. Next, put the onion in the middle, wrap the edge, oil again, the last layer of onion and the dough.
7. Put the pies on a baking sheet with parchment and bake at 200 ° C until golden brown.
8. If you don't have time to knead the dough, you can buy ready-made and roll it out thinly.

The proposed recipes with photos of delicious lean pastries are a small part of what you can cook in Lent. But if you are preparing meals like a monastery, then remember that the food should be simple, healthy and nutritious.