Dry eating and Lent: how not to harm your health? Dry eating in fasting - what is it in Orthodoxy Dry eating in Orthodoxy

On the first and last weeks of Great Lent, as well as on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, fasting is prescribed dry eating. This means that you can only eat food.

No butter, no coffee, not even porridge. The post is very strict. But strict does not mean hungry. Even on days of dry eating, you can eat varied, tasty and interesting.

In our arsenal are: any vegetables and fruits, nuts, honey, dried fruits (except bananas), bread (despite the fact that heat treatment is used in its preparation). You can also drink tea, as it is not a decoction, but an infusion.

Even cereals we can use in these strict days. For example, there is not cooked, but only soaked buckwheat porridge. Or cook oatmeal with dried fruits.

We offer you an original menu for strict fasting.

Breakfast

Oatmeal

1 cup oatmeal

A handful of pitted dates

1 glass of water

1 tbsp honey

Liquid vanilla to taste

Strip of lemon zest

sprig of mint

Step 1. Soak the flakes for 15 minutes.

Step 2 Mix cereal, honey, dates and water with a blender. Add vanilla and oil. Mix again. You should get a homogeneous mass.

Step 3 Arrange on plates, decorate with zest and mint, sprinkle with honey.

Dinner

Salad

carrot

3 large carrots

4 garlic cloves

1 bunch of parsley

1 tsp salt

1 tsp honey

70 ml apple juice

50 g raisins

1 tbsp sesame

Step 1. Soak raisins in hot water for 15 minutes.

Step 2. Peel the carrots and grate on a fine grater. Peel the garlic and chop finely. Cut greens.

Step 3 Mix carrots, raisins, garlic and herbs. Sprinkle salad with sesame seeds.

Step 4. Add honey and a little salt to apple juice. To mix everything. Fill the salad.

gazpacho

2 cups tomato juice (you can add any vegetable)

250 g tomato

2 celery stalks

1 green pepper

70 g green onions

1 tooth garlic

some parsley

Black and red pepper

Step 1. Peel and chop the tomatoes (or grate).

Step 2 Grind celery, cucumber, pepper and green onion in a food processor, add tomatoes, juice, salt, parsley and black pepper. Mix again and leave in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours.

Step 3 Serve chilled with greens.

Main course

Buckwheat porridge with vegetable puree

1 cup buckwheat

3 glasses of water

2 avocados

½ head of cauliflower

2 tbsp lemon juice

1 tsp sea ​​salt

Step 1. Rinse the buckwheat and pour cold water over night.

Step 2 Peel the avocado, remove the stone, disassemble the cabbage into inflorescences.

Step 3 Grind the avocado and cauliflower in a food processor and puree. Add juice and salt.

Step 4. Serve with buckwheat porridge.

Dessert

Nut and fruit cookies

2 cups cashews

¼ cup dried apples

¼ cup dried figs

¼ cup dried apricots

Filling:

½ cup fresh or thawed blueberries

1 tbsp honey

Step 1. Nuts and dried fruits turn through a meat grinder 2 times.

Step 2 Roll this stuffing into medium-sized balls and make small indentations for the filling.

Step 3. Mix honey and blueberries with a blender. Spread the filling into the grooves.

afternoon tea

Milk from pumpkin seeds

2 cups pumpkin seeds

5 cups of water

½ cup raisins

2 tbsp honey

1 tsp nutmeg

¼ tsp sea ​​salt

Step 1. Soak pumpkin seeds overnight.

Step 2 Combine all ingredients in a food processor or blender until smooth.

Step 3 Strain.

Dinner

Salad

Pear salad with arugula

½ cup hazelnuts

200 g arugula

70 g seedless raisins

100 ml grapefruit juice

Black pepper

Sugar to taste

Step 1. Soak raisins in warm water for 15 minutes. Then drain and dry. Chop nuts.

Step 2. Mix juice, salt, pepper and sugar, shake until smooth.

Step 3. Peel the pears, cut out the cores, cut into large slices.

Step 4 Put the arugula, raisins and nuts in a salad bowl, pour over the dressing, mix, add the pear.

Main course

Sandwich with vegetables

4 slices wholemeal bread

1 avocado

1 tomato

1 tsp sesame

Several sprigs of dill

Salt and pepper

Step 1. Peel the avocado, remove the pit, cut into thin slices

Step 2. Cut tomatoes into thin slices.

Step 3 Put avocado on bread, sprinkle with sesame seeds, tomatoes on top. Salt and pepper, garnish with dill.

Dessert

chocolate cream

7 brazil nuts

4 tbsp honey

½ tsp cocoa

A pinch of salt

Step 1. Grind all ingredients in a blender until a homogeneous paste is obtained.

Step 2. Spread on bread, you can just eat with tea, like jam

What to eat on days of strict fasting? On strict days of fasting is not allowed:

• hot food, everything boiled, fried, stewed
• sunflower or other oil

On days of dry eating, it is allowed:

1. Bread. Black, rye or bran bread can be rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with salt and herbs. Crackers.
2. Baked potatoes (cold). Bake potatoes in their skins in the oven or in the microwave. Eat with salt and herbs, drink juice or water.
3. Fruits and vegetables without heat treatment, fresh.
4. Pickles, sauerkraut, pickled and pickled cucumbers, mushrooms. Any workpiece without oil.
5. You can porridge from bags, not boiled, but also infused.
6. Juices, mineral water and chilled compotes.
7. Honey and nuts. Tea (since this is not a decoction, but an infusion).
8. Compotes, as well as berries and fruits from compotes.
9. Salads from cabbage, beets, turnips and fresh radish. In this case, you can scald turnips or radishes with boiling water (to get rid of bitterness), but do not boil.
10. Dried fruits, nuts, raisins. Including soaked ones.
11. Roasted seeds, cumin, gozinaki.

Salads can be seasoned with vinegar, balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, soy sauce.

On my desk in general, fasting is required fresh fruits (apples, bananas, kiwi, grapes). Dried fruits: dried apricots, figs, raisins, candied fruits. Compotes, fruit drinks and knots.

You can bake pumpkin and turnips along with potatoes. Natural greens green onions, dill, parsley. A variety of bread: rye, bran, pita bread - but we still try to coarse grind.

With oil or without oil to eat in fasting?

In general, each person determines for himself how he can limit himself during fasting days. Realizing that you need not harm the body if you are sick. Therefore, some people completely deny themselves hot food, baked vegetables, hot cereals and drinks. Let us clarify once again that there is no strict restriction on the days of dry eating in Scripture. Feel the strength in yourself - limit yourself.

Also, many claim that any vegetable oil is lean, because it does not contain animal fats. We leave this question to your discretion, because. it is an individual choice.

Here are a few simple recipes, we did not put them on separate pages, because they are quite short.

1. Salad "Freshness"

Radish - 1 pc.

Carrot - 1 pc.

Apples - 2 pcs.

Garlic - 1 clove

Lemon juice - 3 tbsp. l.

Salt - to taste
Grate radishes, carrots and apples on a coarse grater and season with garlic and lemon juice. Salt a little

2. Pumpkin with apples and honey

You will need: 300 g pumpkin, one sour apple, 4 tbsp. spoons of honey or lemon juice, a handful of peeled seeds.
Cut the pumpkin into thin slices. Rub the apple and mix with honey (or lemon juice) and seeds. Pour the pumpkin with this mass and let it brew for about 2 hours.

3. Radish with honey.

Grate the radish and season with honey. Add sesame seeds or walnuts. It will turn out spicy, but very tasty and nutritious.

4. Salad "Spring"

Cucumbers, fresh tomatoes, herbs, salt, lemon juice or soy sauce.

5. Potatoes with herbs.

Baked potato in uniform 3 pcs. crush or cut into cubes, chop onion and 2 cloves of garlic, dill, parsley and add tomato juice 3 table. spoons. To mix everything.

6. Tomatoes with tofu.

Tomatoes 3 pcs. cut into cubes, add green salad, bell pepper, soy tofu cut into cubes and sprinkle a little with soy sauce or lemon juice. Salt to taste and pepper.

7. Breakfast for dry food.

Soak raisins in water (100 grams), add muesli (soak in boiling water) and 1 teaspoon of honey, sprinkle with lemon juice.

8. Turnip salad.

Peel and cut the turnip into thin slices, scald with boiling water (this will remove the bitterness), salt and add dressing (1 teaspoon of vinegar + 3 tablespoons of water). Mix and eat chilled.

9. Fresh cucumber salad with honey.

Cut 3-4 fresh small cucumbers into thin slices and add 2 teaspoons of honey. Stir, let the honey dissolve in the cucumber juice. You can eat.

10. Sandwich with fresh caviar (vegetable).

We take a fresh tomato, 1 teaspoon of tomato paste, 1/2 bell pepper, onion, a couple of cloves of garlic and pass through a blender or meat grinder. Three carrots on a fine grater. We mix everything, salt and add spices: ground sweet paprika, nutmeg, ground black pepper and a little lemon juice. Mix on black bread. VERY TASTY!

11. Gazpacho tomato soup.

Peel and chop 250 g tomatoes. Also grate two fresh cucumbers, one bell pepper and two stalks of celery. Add salt, lemon juice, black pepper, red paprika, basil (if any) and parsley. Place the finished soup for two or three hours in the cold. Sprinkle with fresh herbs before serving. Serve cold.

12. Salad with radish or daikon with potatoes.

For salad, clean the daikon or radish, grate it on a coarse grater. Cut 1 boiled potato into cubes, add greens to the salad. Season: a little salt, black pepper and suneli hops. You can add nuts or sesame seeds. Season to taste, if you like: balsamic vinegar, lemon juice or soy sauce.

13. Eggplant baked in the oven.

Cut eggplant into slices, slightly obliquely or lengthwise. Lay out on parchment paper. Salt a little. Grind the tomato with a blender, drain the liquid. Pepper, salt a little, squeeze 2 cloves of garlic into the mass. Stir and put the tomato mass on the eggplant slices. Bake for 15 minutes at 180 degrees.

15. Cabbage salad with apple and carrots.

Chop 200 grams of cabbage, 1 carrot, 1 apple. Take juice from half a lemon, 2 cloves of garlic, 2 pinches of sugar, salt and black pepper to taste. We often eat this standard salad on ordinary days. On dry days, omit the oil and sprinkle the salad with lemon juice mixed with water.

On our video channel there is a playlist "Lenten recipes".

Another month of Lent is ahead. If you follow it, then you have probably already encountered the most difficult days - the days of dry eating. They are so strict that you can not eat not only meat, butter, fish, milk and its derivatives, you cannot even boil porridge in water and stew vegetables! Established a ban on all boiled and fried. However, we are not going to starve at all. And to begin with, let's decide what kind of animal such a dry diet is, and what is it supposed to eat on such days?

There is no exact wording and instructions for dry eating in the scriptures. That is why the answers of the priests differ. In particular, in matters of baked vegetables and tea. Some clergy argue that dry eating, if you already observe it, imposes a ban on all heat-treated food, others allow baked vegetables and teas. Since tea, in their opinion, is not a decoction, but an infusion. It is equally important to note that dry eating is a very strict form of fasting and is prescribed by the Church Charter mainly to monks. The laity may not adhere to it.

So, the first, stricter version. On the "dry" days of fasting, it is supposed to eat raw or dried vegetables and fruits, bread. Vegetable oil and wine, although cooked without heat treatment, are strictly prohibited these days. The use of pickled, salted and pickled vegetables and mushrooms is allowed, if no oil was used in their preparation. Nuts and honey are also held in high esteem. Hot drinks: tea, coffee, decoctions and compotes are not allowed. Drinks are limited to juices and water.

The second, less strict version of dry eating sounds reassuring. Boiled, stewed food is not allowed, but baked food is welcome. You can easily bake potatoes there or pumpkin, zucchini, carrots and turnips in the oven and have a good lunch. It is also allowed to pour boiling water over porridge from a bag, drink teas. It turns out that instant coffee is also possible, boiled in a Turk is prohibited. Well, otherwise, everything is the same as in the first version. Vegetables (raw and pickled), fruits, frozen berries and dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots, figs, dates), bread, honey, nuts are allowed.

In the Church Slavonic Dictionary of Dyachenko it is written: "Dry eating is the use of dry and rough food." The priests of the Pskov-Pechersk Holy Assumption Monastery comment on this on their website as follows: “Consequently, every fasting person can, taking into account his state of health and lifestyle, determine what kind of food is “dry and coarse” for him and establish a feasible rule for fasting, having previously consulted with his confessor.

Salad of radish and wild garlic, green onions and avocado

Ingredients:

Radishes (you can use radish leaves) - 200 g

Ramson - 25 g

Green onions - 75 g

Avocado - 1/3

Salt - to taste

Cooking:

Radishes, my greens, finely chopped, salt to taste. We scroll the avocado in a blender and season the salad with it. Avocados make an excellent moist dressing that binds all the ingredients together like butter.

baked pumpkin

Ingredients:

Medium-sized pumpkin - 1 piece

Honey or sugar - to taste

Nuts or sesame - to taste

Cooking:

We take a pumpkin of a sweet variety, clean it, cut it into large pieces and place it on a baking sheet covered with parchment. We heat the oven to 213-250 °. Bake a pumpkin for an hour. You can also determine the degree of its readiness by the intense smell. We take the pumpkin out of the oven, pour over with honey or sprinkle with sugar, decorate with nuts or sesame seeds.

Cabbage with nuts

Ingredients:

Cabbage - 1 head

Onion - 1 pc.

Walnuts - 1 handful

cilantro - 1 bunch

Saffron - to taste

apple cider vinegar - to taste

Salt - to taste

Cooking:

We cut a small head of cabbage into two parts, remove the stalk and chop finely. Put it in a large saucepan, salt and cover with a lid for 20 minutes. During this time, the cabbage will give juice. Then we grind it with our hands, squeezing out excess juice. Add finely chopped onion head, crushed walnuts, finely chopped cilantro to the cabbage, add salt. Add saffron. Season with apple cider vinegar. Mix everything well and put in a salad bowl.

Recipe tip:

Walnuts can be substituted for roasted cashews. Also very tasty!

Artichoke and grapefruit salad

Ingredients:

Marinated artichokes - 80 g

Grapefruit - 80 g

Leaf lettuce - 30 g

Grated almonds - 10 g

For sauce:

Lemon juice - 1.5 tbsp. l.

Honey - 1 tsp

Grapefruit juice - 2.5 tsp.

Salt - to taste

Pepper - to taste

Cooking:

Remove the marinated artichokes from the jar, bake them for ten minutes in the oven. When the artichokes are slightly charred, remove the burnt "skin" from them, cool and cut each into four parts. Then peel the grapefruit from the zest, inner skin and seeds. Cut each slice with a sharp knife to make 3-4 thin segments. Lettuce leaves (lollo rossa, frise, etc.) wash, dry and tear into pieces with your hands.

Prepare the sauce by mixing lemon and grapefruit juice, runny honey, salt and pepper. It should be a sweet and sour dressing.

Mix all the salad ingredients, sprinkle with grated almonds and pour over the prepared sauce.

Salad Secrets:

1. Artichokes are fleshy unopened flowers of the plant Cynara Scolymus, widespread in the Mediterranean countries and the Canary Islands. The vegetable is served as an independent dish, as a side dish, salads and pizzas are made with it, it is added to pasta and pies. Even desserts and bread are cooked with artichokes. Today, this vegetable can be bought in almost every domestic supermarket. True, a jar of canned vegetables, which is enough to prepare 5-6 servings of salad, costs 250-300 rubles.

2. The main feature of this salad is a combination of slightly spicy marinated artichokes and sour grapefruit. If you do not find the right ingredients, you can replace the artichokes with pickled cucumbers.

Pear salad with arugula

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The church calendar has a large number of holidays, Christmas time, as well as fasts. There are posts with different meanings. But even in them there are also days during which food can be severely limited. Such days are called days of dry eating.

Dry eating: what can you eat? During this period, it is allowed to eat all foods without heat treatment. Starving is not desirable, because it can harm the body.

Dry eating is considered one of the strictest degrees of fasting. It partially equates to fasting, but certain foods can still be used as food. The clergy say that it should be food that has not been subjected to heat treatment.

There is some controversy about whether tea can be dry eaten or not. Some believe that if you pour boiling water over it, then you can, but brew coffee – it is forbidden. But many ministers of the church say that these strict rules are written for those who serve in the church and steadily follow all the laws and adhere to all posts. But the laity can do some concessions.

What do they eat on a dry diet?

There is no consensus on the exact interpretation of this term even among the priests. The clergy are adherents of one of 2 versions of this period:

1. Strict. These days are characterized by food such as: bread, dried or raw vegetables, pickled, pickled and salted vegetables and mushrooms, if they were not prepared with the addition of vegetable oil. It is forbidden to drink wine and vegetable oil. You can eat honey and nuts, drink only water and juices.
2. Less strict. Cooked food is allowed. Teas and instant coffee are allowed. Custard - you can't. And in the rest, everything is possible the same as in the strict version.

What can you eat on dry days? In the church dictionary about dry eating it is said that this is the use of rough and dry food. Priests often point out that everyone who fasts should take into account their lifestyle and state of health, and also determine for themselves those foods that are coarse and dry food.

Before starting a fast, it is advisable to properly distribute your strength, consult with your confessor and set goals for yourself that will be within the power of you and your body.

With dry eating in fasting: what can you eat?

• Pickled, pickled, salted, soaked and raw vegetables
• Greens

What do they eat in dry food in fasting? The diet of the laity during fasting depends not only on certain requirements, but also on their capabilities. So, for example, dry foods in the winter will be much cheaper if they consist of pickled and salted vegetables than fresh ones. But it is also necessary to remember that the laity is also allowed to relax the laws of fasting.

Dry eating, recipes

It is generally accepted that laymen are allowed to fast according to the following scheme: on odd days of the week - dry eating, on even days - hot food without oil is allowed, and on weekends - food with vegetable oil. It is important to remember that the main component of fasting is prayer, and fasting without prayer can be called nothing more than a diet or body cleansing.

Recipes for lay people with dry eating mainly consist of various salads. It can be fruit, mixed and vegetable. The use of oil is prohibited, but lemon juice can be used to improve the taste. You can also add seeds and nuts to salads. And baked fruits and vegetables can be used as a dessert or a main dish.

Despite such a limited number of products, the dry food menu can be varied, including desserts. The recipes for fasting dry food, which we will present to you, will help diversify the menu and prepare full-fledged meals.

• For the first, you can cook a cold soup. To do this, you will need: buckwheat, cucumber, green onion, tomato, herbs, water. Grind the cucumber and tomato on a grater. Fill the cereal with water. Chop the onion and greens and mix everything. Add salt to taste. Dilute with water.
• Gazpacho tomato soup is also good. To do this, peel 250 grams of tomatoes. Grind them together with 2 cucumbers. Add chopped 2 celery stalks, 1 green pepper. Season with salt, lemon juice. Refrigerate for 2 hours. Sprinkle with herbs before serving.
• As a salad, you can cook walnut-cabbage salad. To do this, chop the head of cabbage. Salt and crush with your hands. Put in a saucepan to release the juice. After 20 minutes, add finely chopped greens and nuts. Season with apple cider vinegar.
• For the carrot salad, soak the raisins for 15-20 minutes. Grate 3 carrots on a coarse grater. Chop 4 cloves of garlic, greens. Mix everything and add honey and salt to taste.
• You can also take carrots, apples and radishes. Grate everything on a fine grater. Separately, make a dressing with 1 minced garlic clove, 1/4 teaspoon lemon zest, and 3 tablespoons lemon juice. Mix all this and add to the grated mass.
• The main dish can be buckwheat with vegetable puree. To do this, rinse and fill a glass of buckwheat with cold water overnight. Peel 2 avocados and disassemble half a head of cauliflower into florets. Remove the pit from the avocado and grind everything in a blender. Add lemon juice and salt. Eat with buckwheat.
• As a dessert, you can cook a spectacular dish - stuffed pumpkin. To do this, take a pumpkin for 1.5-2 kg. Wash her. Cut off the top and remove some of the pulp. It is necessary to leave the fortress of the walls. Then take 250 grams of pears and apples. Cut them into strips. Then add 100 grams of pitted cherry plum. Remove seeds from pumpkin pulp, chop and mix with other fruits. Add some cinnamon and honey and stuff the pumpkin. Cover with the top and put in the oven for baking. Duration - 1.5-2 hours. The filling can be changed according to taste preferences. You can also add raisins, dried fruits, muesli.

The Lord is always with you!

Before entering a strict fast, you need to find out what dry eating means, how to eat right so as not to weaken the immune system.

Ask with fasting and prayer, as the Holy Letter teaches. Fasting is not a fashionable diet, it is humility, obedience before God to purify a sinful soul.

What is dry eating for?

You can free your soul from anger, gossip, resentment and unforgiveness, you can receive healing in prayer with humility. Only by clearly understanding the meaning of the post, you can enter it.

Important! A complete rejection of thermally processed food is recommended by the church on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays during the entire abstinence. Lent begins and ends with a week of dry eating.

Relaxation is made for children, pregnant women, sick people. Those suffering from severe types of diabetes, tuberculosis, dystonia, anemia can receive relief from the confessor for fasting.

During the refusal of the main, familiar food, the following products are not included in the diet:

• dairy products;
• meat;
• salo;
• offal;
• vegetable oils;
• wine;
• fats.

It is forbidden to thermally process all foods, including vegetables, fruits, cooking hot drinks, but it is allowed to eat bread.

When and how to refuse hot food

The Great and Assumption fasts consist in the strict observance of the canons. Thus, believing people humble their sinful flesh in order to come to the great feast with reverence and trepidation and receive God's blessing.

Some lay people do not even begin to fast, fearing that they will not endure, not knowing what it means to eat dry food during fasting.

Restriction in food does not mean hunger. For lay people who have not practiced dry eating before, the first approach can be done with unlimited lists of dishes.

Deeply religious people who practice strict dry eating consume bread, sauerkraut and raw cabbage, carrots, fresh salads, and water on days of abstinence.

How to quickly cook sauerkraut

Each housewife has a unique recipe for making sauerkraut. The recipes below are a 100% guarantee of obtaining cabbage that will be stored for a long time, without peroxide, without freezing even in winter, remaining crisp and firm.

Recipe for shredded cabbage

Cabbage is stored in jars that should be washed before use. There is no need to sterilize, because the vegetables will be laid raw.

At the bottom of each jar for a special taste, add a bay leaf, a few pieces of black pepper and, if available, half a teaspoon of dry dill seeds.

Boil and cool water. Prepare a one-liter jar, in which pour 1 tbsp. rock salt and ½ tsp. sugar, pour everything with water, mix. Russell is ready.

Chop the cabbage, grind it a little with your hands, add carrots, everything is done “by eye”.

Put a mixture of cabbage and carrots in a jar of spices, add in parts, tamping and adding brine. A three-liter jar will take 1 liter of water with salt and sugar.

Keep the jars filled and filled with brine warm, pierce with a knife, releasing the resulting gas. After 3 days, take it to a cold place.

Sauerkraut

Recipe for cabbage, cut into pieces, with beets and horseradish

Prepare a brine: for 2 liters of water, take 100 g of sugar and salt, boil, cool.

For 4 kg of cabbage you will need:

• horseradish root cut into small strips;
• peeled head of garlic;
• medium-sized beets cut into circles;
• if available - a bunch of parsley, disassembled into leaves or chopped.

The simplicity in this recipe is captivating. Cabbage is cut into pieces, which are then conveniently laid out on a plate, laid in a bucket with a layer of about 8 - 10 cm, some of all the ingredients are placed on top in order. Repeat the layers, ending with beets with ingredients. Pour in brine, cover with cabbage leaves and oppression for 3-4 days and leave warm. Then leave the finished cabbage in a bucket or arrange in jars. Keep cold.

Cabbage with beets and horseradish

"Delicious" dry food

For beginning laymen, fasting cannot be hungry. If an Orthodox person does not know what to eat with a dry diet: recipes can be found in large quantities, while food can be varied and eaten with pleasure, without feeling hungry. For such people, an indulgence is made.

When compiling a fasting menu for children and the weakened, one should adhere to the rule that abstinence means not only limiting the list of products, but also the quantity and frequency of food intake.

Some lay people are wary of dry eating. What can you eat and drink if nothing can be cooked?

More about Orthodox cuisine:

Delicious cereals

Oatmeal and buckwheat porridges are quite high-calorie foods, and they are easy to cook without heat treatment.

Pour cereal or flakes from it into a 200g glass and pour 200ml of juice or any infusion. Leave overnight. In the morning, swollen cereals are ready to eat.

To taste, add a little salt and any ingredients:

• fruit;
• dried fruits;
• nuts;
• ground flax;
• honey, if porridge should be sweet;
• fresh vegetables seasoned with soy sauce.

Fans of cinnamon, mint, lemon zest can use them to improve the taste of porridge.

Buckwheat porridge without cooking

Salads - a storehouse of vitamins

At any time of the year, the menu of homemade dishes can and should be diversified with salads. Carrots are a root crop that is available in every home, but not everyone has it in due esteem. You can make a sweet and spicy salad from carrots, which perfectly complement the porridge.

In both cases, carrots should be grated on a coarse grater or use the device to get a Korean dish.

Advice! Salads will acquire a special piquancy if you add pre-soaked raisins, ground flax, sesame seeds to them.

Sweet carrot salads are easy to make by adding to carrots:

• pieces of raw pumpkin;
• apples or pears;
• any dried fruit.

Carrot salad with apples and dried fruits

A freshly prepared salad should be infused for several hours so that the ingredients soak into one another.

Spicy salads are obtained by adding garlic and herbs to the carrot mixture. Salt, pepper in this case are added to taste. A special zest for a spicy salad will be given by a dressing of honey and soy sauce, which must be mixed in a 1: 1 ratio.

Unique salad of 2 pcs. avocado, half a head of cauliflower, seasoned with a mixture of lemon juice and sea salt, taken to taste, will decorate any menu.

Arugula has recently appeared on the tables of Russians, having won sympathy for its unusual mustard smell and bitter taste. Arugula salad with the addition of seemingly completely incompatible ingredients will be a pleasant surprise for the family as a dinner.

The recipe for an amazing salad can be varied to your own taste.

Step by step recipe

• Tear a large bunch of arugula into pieces with your hands.
• Chop half a cup of hazelnuts with a knife.
• ½ cup raisins, pre-soak and pat dry.
• ½ cup grapefruit juice mixed with pepper, salt and sugar.
• Cut the peeled pear into pieces.

Mix everything in a deep salad bowl.

First course lovers

Lay people who find it difficult to fast without an entree can prepare the gourmet Spanish dish gazpacho, a cold tomato soup.

To prepare it you need:

• Grind 250 g of tomatoes to the state of juice;
• 2 cucumbers, green peppers, celery root, a small bunch of onions, cut into pieces and beat in a blender;
• gradually suppress tomato juice in the vegetable mixture;
• salt, pepper to taste;
• mince 1 clove of garlic.

Leave the prepared tomato soup for 2-3 hours, sprinkle with finely chopped parsley and serve.

gazpacho

Dessert for children

Cashew and dried fruit cookies are a perfect substitute for sweets and cakes not only during fasting, but also on holidays.

To prepare a delicious dessert for a large company or for a long time, you will need four two-hundred-gram glasses of cashew nuts, ½ cup of dried fruits in the form of:

• figs;
• apples
• dried apricots.

Pass dried fruits and nuts twice through a meat grinder. Form balls from the resulting mixture, flatten them in the form of cookies, making a recess for the filling. As a filling, any berries are used, fresh or frozen, mixed with honey in a 1: 1 ratio.

Dried fruit biscuits

A small snack for those who eat often

A cocktail of pumpkin seeds will surprise even seasoned gourmets.

Beat 2 cups of freshly peeled pumpkin seeds in a blender with 1 liter of water, half a cup of pre-soaked raisins, 100 g of honey. If desired, add cinnamon, nutmeg, salt to taste.

pumpkin seed cocktail

Sandwich lovers

Sandwiches are convenient and easy to make. You should not refuse them in the post. For a tasty and healthy sandwich you will need:

• bread, preferably rye;
• avocado, tomato, cut into slices;
• sprig of dill;
• sesame;
• salt pepper.

Put avocado on a slice of bread, sprinkle with sesame seeds, cover with tomato and dill. Salt and pepper if desired. The sandwich is ready.

Avocado sandwich

Advice! The article only opens the veil of what dry eating during fasting is, however, it should be remembered that food does not play a big role in abstinence, the main thing is not to “nibble” your neighbors.

Watch the video about dry eating in the post