Delicious and simple recipes of Lenten menu.

The time of the next fast comes, and we begin to remember what recipes of the fast-food menu are known to us. A variety of dishes of the Lenten menu do not carry in themselves a single drop of boredom or loss, their variety sometimes puts us before a difficult choice. We will try to pick up not only tasty and original, but at the same time, and simple in the preparation of the menu of the fasting table.

It is not correct to assume that the menu of the table must be gray, boring and monotonous. Not at all, but I will try to present the various dishes of the fast menu as much as possible, and you, in turn, will be able to supplement them with something as much as the flight of your imagination will allow you. We will begin to make out the recipes for the Lenten menu with snacks and salads.

- Salad, the main component of which is prunes.

We need to chop the cabbage as finely as possible. Then you need to rub it with sugar and salt so that the cabbage gives the juice, which will need to be drained. Prunes for salad should be soaked in advance. At the time of preparation, it should already swell, and we will only have to remove the bones from it. We rub lemon on a grater. We connect all the components and mix thoroughly. To the note: a pinch of cumin can give this dish a completely different, original taste.

Salad with pickled cucumber and carrots.

Cucumbers are peeled and cut into two halves along. Of the large cucumbers, you need to remove the seeds. Next, cut the cucumbers into small cubes and fill them with tomato juice. You can, if desired, pepper and leave to stand. This time it is necessary to wash, peel and grate carrots on a large grater. Mix all the ingredients together and you can serve a ready salad on the table.

- Grated carrots with kohlrabi cabbage.

Carrots mine, we clean and we rub on a small grater. The same must be done with kohlrabi cabbage. Mix together grated cabbage and carrots and season. For filling, ideally prepare honey, mashed with lemon juice. On top of the salad you can decorate with ground nuts.

What recipes for lean menus can be offered for the first course?

- For example, a lentil soup.

It includes lentils, onions, carrots, salt and spices. Lentils should be cooked for at least 3 hours. We put in a pan for our soup at the same time all the vegetables and lentils, fill it with water and put it on the stove. Do not forget to stir the future soup from time to time. After a lapse of 3 hours, all the cooked ingredients are wiped through a sieve into the finished broth, in which they are cooked. Add salt and spices to taste and let it boil again. If the soup got thick not as much as necessary, you can add a spoon-two manki and cook for about 10 minutes.

- Cold soup.

It is prepared from dried bread. It is poured with boiling water and left to swell. At this time, boil apples and dried fruits with sugar. At the next stage, the soaked bread should be wiped through a sieve or colander. The fruit broth is cooled and poured into the wiped bread. All carefully mix and add lemon juice and cinnamon.

In conclusion, we will voice the recipes of the lean menu of the second courses.

- Braised cabbage.

Cabbage should be taken apart on leaves, cut out hard parts and chopped. In a deep frying pan, pour a glass of water, allow it to boil and put in it the cut out coarse parts of cabbage leaves. Allow them to extinguish and add the rest of the shredded cabbage. Stew it is necessary until the cabbage ceases to crackle. Then add chopped red bell pepper and potatoes. Stew is necessary until prepared, periodically stirring.

- Buckwheat pancakes.

We need buckwheat flour, which can be made by ourselves, grinding the buckwheat in a coffee grinder. Buckwheat flour from the evening must be filled with hot water and stirred. After about an hour, add the yeast to the practically cooled dough. The next morning you need to stir the mixture with salt and add the flour so that it gets the consistency of sour cream. Again leave in a warm place, but this time not for long. As soon as the dough rises you can bake buckwheat pancakes. It's not bad if the pancakes are with onion buns.