Components:

• 150 g of pearl barley;
• 2 p. water;
• 3 potatoes;
• 1 carrot;
• 200 g of cauliflower;
• salt, to taste;
• 2 bay leaves;
• 0.25 teaspoon;
• 6-8 sprigs of green dill;
• a jar of pitted olives;
• 50 ml. vegetable oil

For soup, you can use fresh or frozen cauliflower. In the first case, it must be washed and divided into an inflorescence, and in the second it is not even necessary to defrost it.

Preparation:

Soak the pearl barley in water 2 hours before cooking, and then rinse thoroughly. Boil water in a soup pot and add the cereal. Reduce gas to minimum and cook barley 35-40 minutes.

Prepare vegetables: peel them off, wash them, cut them into neat cubes. Chop the carrots into strips, sticks, or halves. After the barley is cooked, place the carrots in the pan, after 5 minutes - the potatoes, after another 3 minutes - the cauliflower. Add salt, bay leaf, ground cloves to the dish and cook the vegetables until tender.

Put the olives together with the brine and keep for another 7-8 minutes. At the end, pour some vegetable oil, add chopped dill, stir everything, boil and turn off the gas. Take your time to serve, let the soup sit for 15 minutes.

On a note

In this recipe, it is possible to replace the ingredients: instead of pearl barley millet or rice, replace cauliflower with spinach, potatoes with boiled or canned beans. It will also come out delicious.

Pumpkin puree soup

Ingredients:

• a piece of sweet pumpkin 300-400 grams,
• 1 pc. carrots and onions,
• 3 potatoes,
• water, oil (optional).

Preparation:

Peel the pumpkin, cut it into chunks average size... Peel potatoes, onions and carrots, also chop coarsely. Lubricate the form with vegetable oil, put the pieces of vegetables. Add some water (a couple of spoons), and add oil if desired (1-2 tablespoons). Just take peeled so that it doesn't add any extra flavors to our dish. Bake vegetables at 180 degrees for 30 minutes.

Transfer to a saucepan. Pour in boiling water to cover the vegetables just a little, and cook on the stove.

Try with a fork, as the potatoes and pumpkin become soft, remove from heat. Pour the yushka into a separate cup or saucepan. Use a hand blender to puree.

Add seasoning, pour in as much soup as you like, adjusting the consistency of the soup. Someone loves it more deeply, someone will like it thinner. Sprinkle with ground pumpkin and sesame seeds before serving.

Croutons are ideal for soup, and you can make them yourself without buying store-bought ones stuffed with chemistry. It is enough to cut slightly stale bread into small cubes, put in a mold, and dry them for 10-15 minutes at a low temperature (about 160 degrees).

Carrot puree soup

Ingredients:

• carrots - half a kilo,
• onion head,
• a handful of rice (3 tablespoons),
• vegetable broth or water - 1.5 liters,
• spices to taste
• vegetable oil - 10-15 ml.

Preparation:

Peel and cut the carrots and onions into medium pieces.

Bring the broth to a boil, boil the carrots in it for 5 minutes, remove with a slotted spoon.

Heat the oil, put the onion with the blanched carrots, fry, salt, add a pinch of sugar.

Transfer the vegetables back to the broth, simmer for a quarter of an hour after boiling. Add prepared rice and cook for 25 minutes.

Cool, transfer to a blender and chop. Return the mashed potatoes to the saucepan, bring to a boil again, and serve.

Lean Bean Meatballs

Components:

• a glass of beans;
• 4 onions;
• 40-50 ml. sunflower oil for frying;
• seasonings to taste;
• large carrots;
• 2-3 garlic cloves;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of tomato sauce or paste;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour;
• 0.5 cups water

Preparation:

Soak the beans in advance and leave in water for 8 hours. It is advisable to do this in the evening, and in the morning, boil, rinse and cool. Clear onion, rinse, chop into small pieces. Place part of the chopped vegetable in a bowl, fry the rest in a pan with sunflower oil until light golden brown. Grind the beans (through a meat grinder or blender), add fried onions to them, stir, add a little salt and pepper or other spices.

Make small balls (meatballs) from the bean mixture. Place them in the refrigerator while the sauce is cooking.

Peel, wash and rub the carrots on a medium grater. Crush the garlic with a knife or grate it. Heat sunflower oil, add chopped onion, fry it, add carrots and garlic. Then put in the tomato sauce, stir everything. If the mixture is too thick, add some boiled water. Simmer all ingredients in a skillet for 5 minutes for a nice vegetable sauce for the meatballs.

Dip each ball in flour and place in the vegetable mixture. Place the bean meatballs on low heat and cook for 20 minutes.

Serve them with potatoes and mushrooms, then the lean treat will be delicious.

Boiled pollock

Components:

• 2 fish;
• 2 carrots;
• 2 onions;
• 1 teaspoon curry;
• 1-2 bay leaves;
• black peppercorns;
• salt;
• greens.

How to cook:

Prepare the fish - peel, rinse, dry with a napkin, cut into portions. Place pollock chunks in a saucepan, pour hot waterso that it covers the pieces. Bring to a boil and remove the resulting foam. Cut the onion into half rings, and cut the carrots into circles, chop the herbs. After the fish has boiled, add the cooked vegetables. After 10 minutes, season with spices and cook for 5 minutes.

Fried roach

Products:

• fish - 1 kg,
• vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons,
• flour - 10 tbsp. spoons,
• salt to taste.

Preparation:

The fish must be rinsed thoroughly, the belly must be carefully ripped open and the entrails removed. Dry the fish a little so that water does not flow from it. Salt the fish, if you like spicy food, you can pepper it. Roll the salted fish in flour on both sides, shake off the excess flour so that it does not burn in the pan.

Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat well. Put the fish, boneless in flour, in a frying pan.

Fry the fish on both sides, about 10 minutes on each side, periodically turning the fish over for even frying.

In order for the fish to turn out not boiled, but crispy, fry the first few minutes without a lid, then you can close the pan, not forgetting to periodically turn the fish over. The fish is ready if the eyes are strongly white. Serve both separately and with a side dish such as boiled vegetables.

If the fish is with caviar, then you should not throw it away. Salt the caviar, roll in flour and fry. Caviar is fried for several minutes on each side. Caviar is not only very useful product, but will also be a great decoration for your dish.

Lean vegetable salad with beans

Components:

• onion head;
• bell pepper;
• carrot;
• 5 tbsp. tablespoons of olive oil;
• 3 potatoes;
• 2 pickled or pickled cucumbers;
• 2 garlic cloves;
• 100 g of canned beans;
• 2 teaspoons of mustard;
• salt and ground pepper, to taste

Preparation:

Peel the carrots and onions, wash and cut into medium cubes. Separate the seeds and stalk from the pepper, rinse and cut into the same pieces. Heat 3 tablespoons of olive oil in a frying pan, fry the vegetable slices until tender. To save money, olive oil can be replaced with sunflower or corn oil.

Cook the potatoes in their skins, let them cool, peel and cut into medium slices, then place them in a large salad bowl. Chop the cucumbers, wait for the brine to drain from them, add them to the potatoes. Crush the garlic, put it over the vegetables.

Drain the sauce from the pickled beans, rinse them under cold water, and place them in a common salad bowl along with the fried vegetables from the skillet.

Now you need to go to the gas station. Pour olive oil, salt, ground pepper and mustard into a small bowl. Pour the sauce over the salad and stir well.

You can also add each spice separately.

Lean pies with sauerkraut

Components:

• 0.5 cups vegetable oil;
• 2 cups of flour;
• 0.5 cups of water;
• a pinch of salt and sugar;
• 2 cups sauerkraut
• sunflower oil

How to cook:

Pour water and oil into the bowl, add salt. Add flour gradually and make the dough in this way. It should be oily and not sticky to your hands. Cover it with a damp, warm cloth. Juice the sauerkraut and fry it in oil. You can add some more onions and carrots.

Make 12 identical lumps of the dough. Place the filling inside closer to the edge, not in the center. Cover it with dough from the sides and wrap the rolls.

Bake lean pies in the oven, but sprinkle each one with sweet water first. Optimum temperature for baking - 200 degrees, and the time is 20 minutes. It is better to lay them on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.

Petrov post is one of two summer posts. It prepares Christians for the Day of Remembrance of the Holy Chief Apostles Peter and Paul (July 12) and is established in memory of how the Apostles fasted before preaching Christianity to the whole world. We will tell you about the rules and folk traditions of Petrov Lent.

How to fast on Petrov Lent

The beginning of Peter's Lent is always on Monday, a week after the feast of Trinity (Pentecost). The date of Trinity depends on the date of the celebration of Easter, therefore, the beginning of Peter's Lent falls on different dates. And it can last from 8 to 42 days. Petrov Fast always ends on July 12th. This is the day of remembrance of the holy foremost apostles Peter and Paul. In honor of this holiday, the fast is called Petrov, or Apostolic. This year, Petrov Lent begins on June 24th.

Peter's fast is not as strict as the Great one. On all days of fasting, except Wednesday and Friday, believers can eat fish. Fasting people cannot eat meat.
But even starting this, not the strictest, fast, you need to consult with your confessor, and if you have any chronic diseases, with your doctor. In general, laymen are supposed to fast not as strict as monks. If, for some reason, you cannot observe all the rules of fasting (and the monastery Statute provides for stricter rules, for example, dry eating (food without vegetable oil) on certain days of Peter's Lent), you can limit yourself to other, non-gastronomic things. For example, do not watch TV or use social networks on the Internet during the post.

Petrov post - what can you eat?

Peter's fast is not strict. On all days of fasting, except Wednesday and Friday, believers can eat fish. Fasting people cannot eat meat.

So that the meal is not harmful to health and at the same time, indeed, lean, you can actively use vegetables, mushrooms, berries and fruits in dishes. There is a huge variety of dishes for Petrov Lent.

Fasting and pregnancy

Archpriest Igor FOMIN, rector of the Alexander Nevsky Church at MGIMO, tells about how pregnant and lactating women should fast during Peter Lent:

There are different spiritual practices of fasting, I will tell you about the one that developed at the parish of our church in the name of Alexander Nevsky at MGIMO. Pregnant and lactating women are exempt from gastronomic fasting, but not exempt from spiritual posts. What I mean - for example, a post on watching TV, on aimlessly reading Internet sites, and the like. And, of course, in Petrov and any other post any Christian should pray fervently.

If you would like to learn more about how a pregnant and lactating woman should fast, and how to prepare for the Sacrament of the Sacrament, consult your parish priest or confessor.

What is the right way to fast?

Archpriest Igor FOMIN, rector of the Church of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky at MGIMO, answers:

“It befits to testify, as in the fast of the holy apostles, and Christ's Nativity, on Tuesday, and the fourth, we do not eat fish, but oil and wine. On Monday, on Wednesday and on the heel, we eat neither oil nor wine, but we fast until 9 o'clock, and we eat dry food the day before. But on Saturday and Week we eat fish. If the holy one happens on Tuesday, or on Thursday we have praise, we eat fish; even on Monday, like. As well as wednesday and heel, let us allow for oil and wine; We poison in one day. If the saint has a vigil, on Wednesday, or a heel, let us allow for oil and wine and fish. If the memory of the saint happens, he is also a temple, in wednesday, or heel, we create like this ”(Typikon, chapter 33,“ behold ”).

Why even in respected Orthodox publications recent times Is the idea of \u200b\u200bthe difference between monastic and secular fasting being promoted? There is no such difference, and the fasting charter is one for all, and then only the blessing of the confessors, well, or the measure that the person himself is ready to bear. But talking about different charter is fundamentally wrong, and does not set up beginners correctly. And to say that fish can always be except Wednesday and Friday is direct misinformation, since it does not say about the conditions in which it is possible. Look at http://days.pravoslavie.ru/ to better navigate this calendar.

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Those people are wrong who think that fasting means giving up food. The need for food is normal for a person, and this need is not considered wrong or prohibited by the church. Observing fasting means purifying not only physically and spiritually: the body lightens, desires are tamed, the disposition becomes softer, the mind is clear and clear, and peace reigns in the soul.

On June 27, 2016, another Orthodox fast begins - Petrov. Fasting will last this year until July 11 and, in general, will be 15 days.

The fast used to be much stricter than it is now. The Orthodox were allowed to eat only bread, vegetables and dried fruits, and one could take food only once a day - in the evenings. During Lent, one could not have fun, play a wedding, or celebrate any other holidays. In the old days, various events were canceled and even butcher shops were closed, because animal food was prohibited during fasting.

Now many restrictions have been lifted, it is allowed to consume more products, and stores selling meat products do not close, because in modern world not all people fast. But some restrictions are imposed. Therefore, in this article, we will tell you what you can eat in Petrov post in 2016.

Petrov post: what you can eat

During Petrov Lent, you can and should cook dishes that contain a lot of greens: dill, parsley, green onions. It can be okroshka, cold cabbage soup or other cold soup with kefir and herbs.
You can cook and eat porridge, but only in water, not milk.

It is allowed to make dumplings and dumplings. But dumplings should not be with meat, but with vegetables, but dumplings with fruits.
It has long been accepted at this time to bake pies with fish, and the fish in baked goods is used whole and is not covered with dough. When the fish is visible, it turns out tastier and more beautiful.

Sweet lovers can allow some sugar, dark chocolate and jam during the fast.

Of course, it is allowed to eat baked and stewed vegetables: cabbage, zucchini, etc.

You can cook vegetable cutlets, boil rice or cabbage rolls with vegetables and cabbage.

You can drink water and not too strong tea.

If during Lent there are any major Orthodox holidays, it is allowed to eat fish and other foods, except for those that are prohibited at this time. We told you about Petrov Post 2016, what you can eat at this time. But I would also like to highlight the list of products that cannot be eaten in Petrov post in 2016.

What you can't eat in Petrov post

First of all, forget about alcoholic beverages. The maximum you can afford is a glass of red wine and that's it.
Three times a week - on Monday, Wednesday and Friday you will have to give up fish and oils: vegetable and butter.
On other days of the week, you can prepare meals that include fish.

You should completely abandon products such as: milk, yoghurts, eggs, sour cream, milk chocolate, meat. Do not forget about pastries, even if they are with fruits - they use butter dough with eggs and milk.
You shouldn't think that Orthodox Christians are starving during fasting - there are many recipes that will allow you to easily endure this time and ultimately cleanse not only your internal body, but also your soul.

Peter's post is relatively lax. In addition to Wednesdays and Fridays, fish is allowed at the meal. This is a summer fast, and we have at our disposal fresh early vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, berries and fruits. Summer also allows you to diversify the table with cold soups, your favorite okroshka, for example, and soft drinks. Many people relax outside the city, go fishing, and the catch serves as a good addition to the menu.

SNACKS

Vitamin salad

2 apples, 2 tomatoes, 2 fresh cucumbers, 1 carrot, 1 young celery root, 1 glass of cherries, 1 tablespoon of sugar, half a lemon.

Cut apples, tomatoes, fresh cucumbers into slices, carrots and celery root into thin strips, remove the pit from the cherry. Pour the sliced \u200b\u200bfruits and vegetables with lemon juice and sugar.

White cabbage salad

500 g cabbage, 2 apples, dill, parsley.

Chop the cabbage and grind it with salt until juice is released, add finely chopped apples, herbs, season with vegetable oil.

Salad with mushrooms and vegetables

3-4 potatoes, 150 g fresh champignons, 1 onion, 100 g of sauerkraut, 1 tablespoon of vinegar, 1 teaspoon of sugar.

Boiled potatoes, cut into thin slices, combine with sauerkraut, chopped boiled champignons, onions. Season with vinegar, vegetable oil, sugar, salt and mix gently.

FIRST MEAL

Pea puree soup

2.5 liters of water, 500 g of peas, 1 onion, 1 carrot, salt, black pepper, 100 g of vegetable oil.

Soak dry peas for 2-3 hours in water and cook in the same water with carrots for 2-3 hours. Season with salt, pepper and rub through a sieve. Season the resulting puree with finely chopped onions and fried in vegetable oil. Serve with oven toasted white bread croutons until golden brown.

Summer cabbage soup

500 g potatoes, 500 g cabbage, 200 g tomatoes, 200 g carrots, 15 g parsley, 75 g onions, dill, parsley, salt to taste.

Put peeled and chopped carrots, parsley, onions and early cabbage into boiling water, then add whole peeled potatoes and salt. Before serving, put tomatoes cut into slices in a saucepan, let the cabbage soup boil and pour into plates, putting a slice of cabbage, 2-3 potatoes, tomatoes, dill or parsley into each plate.

Green cabbage soup from nettle

500 g sorrel, spinach or nettle, 2-3 potatoes, 1 carrot, 1 parsley root, 1 celery, 1 onion.

Put diced potatoes, carrots, parsley root, celery into boiling salted water and cook for 20 minutes. Wash sorrel or spinach thoroughly in cold water, finely chop and put in boiling vegetable broth.

Instead of sorrel, you can use young nettles prepared as follows. Free the nettle leaves from the stalks, rinse in cold water, scald with boiling water, quickly discard in a colander, preventing the nettle from letting out the juice, and immediately chop very finely. Boil the nettle in the broth for 10-12 minutes. 5 minutes until ready, put bay leaves and peppercorns.

Potato soup with sorrel

6 potatoes, 250 g of sorrel, 1 carrot, 1 stalk of parsley, 1 head of onion, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon of tomato puree, salt, pepper, bay leaf, herbs.

Put chopped potatoes in boiling water and bring to a boil. Add sautéed vegetables - carrots, onions with tomato puree and cook until tender. 15 minutes before the end of cooking, put chopped parsley into the soup, season with spices, and 5 minutes before cooking add chopped sorrel leaves. When serving the soup, season with parsley or dill.

Fish soup

300 g small fish, 500 g pike perch, 1 onion.

Rinse and clean small fish, boil the broth, removing the foam. Put pieces of pike perch, peppercorns, bay leaves, onion in a saucepan with thick walls, pour over strained broth and cook until tender.

Ear with saffron

500 g small fish, 1 onion, 1 parsley root, saffron.

Boil the fish as usual, but do not put the bay leaf. Remove the fish, and add saffron to the broth, bring to a boil, strain through a colander and boil again.

COLD SOUPS

For okroshka:

Kvass from black bread

10 liters of water, 0.5 kg of crackers, 0.5 kg of sugar, 20 g of yeast.

Cut black bread into slices and dry in the oven, and brown a few slices well. Pour boiling water over, cover with a napkin and leave for several hours (4-6) to infuse, acquire color and bread taste. Then add sugar and yeast. Kvass should ripen on the second day. Strain the finished kvass, pour into bottles, close tightly and put in the refrigerator. It is good to put mint boiled in boiling water in kvass.

Kvass from rusks

10 liters of water, 0.5 kg of rye bread crumbs, 20 g of yeast, 0.5 kg of sugar, a little raisins, mint, black currant leaves.

Dry rye bread in the oven, cool, pour boiled hot water (70-80 degrees), let it brew in a warm place for 1-2 hours, stirring occasionally. Drain and strain the wort. Pour the rusk sludge again with hot water and leave for another 2 hours. Strain and drain into the infusion obtained earlier. Cool to 20-25 degrees, add sugar, yeast, mint or blackcurrant leaf, a little raisins. Leave the kvass for fermentation in a warm place for 8-12 hours. Strain, bottle, refrigerate for 2-3 days. Instead of raisins, you can put 2-3 tablespoons of cumin.

Summer vegetable okroshka

1 liter of kvass, 0.5 cups of cucumber pickle, 2 turnips, 1 cup of diced boiled potatoes, 2 fresh cucumbers, 1 cup of green onions, 2 tablespoons of dill, 0.5 tablespoons of parsley, 1 tablespoon of grated horseradish, 0, 5 teaspoons of ground black pepper.

Cut all components, mix and pour in kvass.

Okroshka fish

1.25 liters of kvass, 1 cup of cucumber pickle, 1 cup of finely chopped fish, 2 boiled carrots, 1 cup of boiled potatoes, diced, 1 cup of green onions, 1 chopped onion, 2 fresh cucumbers, 1 tablespoon of parsley, 2 tablespoons each tarragon and dill, 0.5 lemon, 0.5 teaspoon of black pepper.

From fish to okroshka, tench, pike perch, cod are suitable. Pre-boil the fish, separate from the bones and chop. Add to the rest of the prepared ingredients and pour in kvass.

SECOND COURSES

Monastic rice

200 g of rice, 2 onions, 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, 2 carrots, 1 tablespoon tomato paste or tomato sauce, dried celery, dill, ground black pepper, salt.

Rinse the rice in seven waters, pour boiling water in a ratio of 1: 2, cook for 10 minutes so that the rice is "grain from grain", drain into a colander. In a deep frying pan, fry finely chopped onions in vegetable oil until golden brown, add boiled carrots and tomato grated on a coarse grater, mix. Add rice, season to taste with herbs, pepper and salt. Serve hot.

Pilaf with mushrooms

1 glass of rice, 500 g of mushrooms, 3 onions, 3 carrots, 120 g of vegetable oil.

Finely chop onions, carrots, fry them in vegetable oil. Rinse rice, fry with vegetables. Cook the peeled and washed finely chopped mushrooms in salted water, add rice, carrots and onions to the pan. Put on a baking sheet and bake over medium heat in the oven until the water has completely evaporated. The rice should become crumbly.

Buckwheat porridge with mushrooms

1 cup kernel, 20-30 dried mushrooms, 2.5 cups water, 1 onion

Rinse dry mushrooms and soak for 2-3 hours in cold water, then boil until tender. Then discard the mushrooms in a colander, strain the mushroom broth, pour into a pot, bring to a boil, salt, dip the chopped mushrooms, calcined buckwheat into it, stir.

Put the thickened porridge in the oven and bring it to readiness. When serving, add fried onions to the porridge.

Mushroom pancakes

500 g potatoes, 250 g mushrooms, vegetable oil, salt.

Peel raw potatoes, rinse and grate. Finely chop the peeled mushrooms, mix them with potato mass and a little salt. Spoon the pancakes into a hot frying pan with vegetable oil and fry on both sides.

Chanterelles stewed with cabbage

1 kg of mushrooms, 500 g of white cabbage, 50 g of vegetable oil, 2 onions, salt.

Finely chop fresh chanterelles. Combine onion chopped and fried in vegetable oil with mushrooms, pour 4-5 tbsp. spoons of water and simmer for 15-20 minutes. Then add chopped fresh cabbage, salt and simmer until tender.

Mushrooms stewed with potatoes

400 g mushrooms, 4-5 potato tubers, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of tomato puree, onion, salt, pepper, bay leaf, dill.

Peel the mushrooms, rinse and for 5-6 minutes. dip in boiling water. Then put it in a colander and let the water drain. Cut the mushrooms into slices, put in a deep frying pan, pour over with oil. Add tomato puree, salt, pepper, bay leaf to the same pan. Put a frying pan over medium heat and simmer for a little (7-10 minutes). Peel potatoes, rinse, cut into slices, fry, mix with chopped fried onions and combine with mushrooms. Cover the pan with a lid. Simmer until all products are fully cooked. Sprinkle with herbs when serving.

Green peas with new potatoes

500 g green peas, 500 g potatoes, 100 g young carrots, 100 g vegetable oil, dill or parsley, salt.

Put peas and carrots cut into circles in a little oil and water. Peel and boil the potatoes separately (cut the large potatoes in half), then simmer slightly in the rest of the oil. Add stewed peas and carrots to the potatoes. Pour a glass of water in which the potatoes were boiled, sprinkle with chopped dill or parsley, cook for a few minutes over low heat.

Pepper stuffed with rice

10 pepper pods, 125 g vegetable oil, 350 g tomatoes, 200 g rice, 2 onions, 1 bunch of green onions, 2 slices of white bread, parsley, dill, salt, pepper. For dressing: 50 g of vegetable oil, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour.

Rinse the pepper, cut off the tops with a stalk and carefully peel off the seeds. Boil the sorted and washed rice for 10 minutes in boiling water, put it on a sieve and fry in vegetable oil until golden brown, pour boiling water, salt and cook over low heat. Mix almost cooked rice removed from the heat with fried onions, finely chopped green onions and parsley and dill, add peeled and seeds, finely chopped tomatoes, soaked bread, ground pepper and mix everything well. Fill the peppers with cooked minced meat, fry in oil on all sides, put in a suitable saucepan, cover with hot water, put tomatoes peeled and seeds and flour mixed with cold vegetable oil. Place in a hot oven for 20 minutes.

FISH MEALS

Boiled fish

Cut the fish into small pieces. Put onion, parsley root in salted water and bring to a boil. Place the pieces of fish in a deep frying pan or in a saucepan, pour it with the cooked broth so that the water does not completely cover the fish, bring it to a boil over high heat, then continue to cook the fish over low heat for 30-35 minutes, constantly adding water.

Remove the finished fish from the broth, carefully examine each piece and remove the bones.

For a side dish, you can serve boiled potatoes, drizzled with sunflower oil and crushed garlic.

Fish stewed with vegetables

Peel carrots and onions, wash, cut into slices and cut each of them into 4 parts.

Peel the fish from bones and skin, rinse in cold running water, cut into small pieces, combine them with vegetables, add a glass of hot water, vegetable oil, bay leaf. Place in a saucepan, cover and simmer for 40 minutes. over low heat. The lid must be tightly closed.

As a side dish, you can serve boiled potatoes, canned green peas.

COOLING DRINKS AND DESSERTS

Kvass petrovsky

1 liter of bread kvass, 25 g of horseradish root, 2 teaspoons of honey.

Dissolve honey in slightly warmed bread kvass, add finely chopped horseradish root. Refrigerate for 10-12 hours in a well-sealed container, then strain. Serve kvass with pieces food ice.

Strawberry compote (strawberry)

550 g fresh berries, 300 g sugar, 1.2 l water, 2 g citric acid.

Pour sugar into boiling water and citric acid and then refrigerate. Sort strawberries, strawberries or raspberries, remove damaged berries, put in a colander, immerse three times in a bucket of cold water, drain, rinse with boiled water, put in glasses or cups, pour chilled syrup and let it brew for 3-6 hours.

Kissel from dried apples or dried apricots

100 g of dried apples, half a glass of sugar, 2 tablespoons of potato starch.

Put the sorted and washed dried apples into a saucepan, pour 3.5 cups of hot water and leave in this form for 2-3 hours. Then put the apples on the fire in the same saucepan and simmer for 30 minutes with a slow boil. Strain the broth through a sieve into another pan, and rub the apples, put in the broth, add sugar, mix it all and boil. Brew the resulting apple syrup with diluted potato starch. Kissel from dried apricots is prepared in the same way, but more sugar is taken.

Rhubarb Kissel

250 g rhubarb, half a glass of sugar, 2 tablespoons of potato starch.

Peel the rhubarb stalks from coarse fibers, rinse in cold water and cut into small pieces. Boil water with sugar and boil rhubarb in it until soft (5-7 minutes), then strain. Pour the diluted potato starch into the strained broth and, stirring, let it boil again. You can tint with the juice of any berries.

BAKERY PRODUCTS

Lean Russian custard pancakes

4 cups flour, 4 cups water, 20 g dry yeast, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon sugar, vegetable oil for frying.

In the evening, pour half of the flour into the pan, pour 2.5 cups of boiling water and immediately mix thoroughly so that you get a thick lump of dough. Cool the dough, pour dry yeast diluted in 1.5 cups of warm water, mix thoroughly, cover with a napkin and leave in a warm place until morning. The next day, pour the rest of the flour into the dough, salt and sweeten, mix thoroughly, beat the dough with a wooden spatula. The pancake choux dough should be slightly thicker than the regular pancake dough, therefore, depending on the quality of the flour, you should add a little more flour to the dough, or vice versa, add a little water. Leave the dough to rise for 2-3 hours, then, without stirring more, pour a small ladle into a hot frying pan greased with vegetable oil and bake the pancakes.

At the very beginning of summer, June 4, 2018, one of the four "long" posts of the year begins. Long means “many days”. Another name for Petrovsky, or Petrov's fast, is Apostolic. This post has its own characteristics, its own traditions, and taking into account the beginning of summer - and its own dishes.

Petrov post 2018: food calendar by day

• June 4, 2018. Monastic charter: dying (bread, vegetables, fruits).
• June 5, 2018. Fish allowed.
• June 6, 2018. Food with vegetable oil.
• June 7, 2018. Fish allowed.
• June 8, 2018. Monastic charter: dying (bread, vegetables, fruits).
• June 9, 2018. Fish allowed.
• June 10, 2018. Fish allowed.
• June 11, 2018. Monastic charter: dying (bread, vegetables, fruits).
• June 12, 2018. Food with vegetable oil.
• June 13, 2018. Monastic charter: dying (bread, vegetables, fruits).
• June 14, 2018. Food with vegetable oil.
• June 15, 2018 Monastic Charter: Diet (bread, vegetables, fruits).
• June 16, 2018. Fish allowed.
• June 17, 2018. Fish allowed.
• June 18, 2018. Monastic charter: dying (bread, vegetables, fruits).
• June 19, 2018. Food with vegetable oil.
• June 20, 2018. Monastic charter: dying (bread, vegetables, fruits).
• June 21, 2018. Food with vegetable oil.
• June 22, 2018. Food with vegetable oil.
• June 23, 2018. Fish allowed.
• June 24, 2018. Fish allowed.
• June 25, 2018. Monastic charter: dying (bread, vegetables, fruits).
• June 26, 2018. Food with vegetable oil.
• June 27, 2018. Monastic charter: dying (bread, vegetables, fruits).
• June 28, 2018. Fish allowed.
• June 29, 2018. Food with vegetable oil.
• June 30, 2018. Fish allowed.
• July 1, 2018. Fish allowed.
• July 2, 2018. Fish allowed.
• July 3, 2018. Food with vegetable oil.
• July 4, 2018. Monastic charter: dying (bread, vegetables, fruits).
• July 5, 2018. Food with vegetable oil.
• July 6, 2018. Food with vegetable oil.
• July 7, 2018. Fish allowed.
• July 8, 2018. Fish allowed.
• July 9, 2018. Fish allowed.
• July 10, 2018. Food with vegetable oil.
• July 11, 2018. Food with vegetable oil.

Why do we need Petrov post

In this case, in order to correctly understand the whole essence and purpose of Peter's Lent, it is necessary to turn to the Gospel, which explains the concept of enemies.

According to the scripture, one should look for an enemy not outside, but inside a person, in the soul. Everyone is well aware of situations when people baptized in Christ departed from a righteous life and plunged into sins, forgetting about love for both God and their neighbor.

Thus, with the help of Petrov's fast, the observance of such a Christian tradition tries to remind people of the possibility of such a fall.

Since abstinence from both food and liquids (in particular, from water) is a rather severe test for a person? Such a restriction in Peter's fast is aimed at testing the will of a Christian, at understanding and accepting the exploits of the holy apostles, since martyrdom has always been considered the main key concept of Orthodoxy.

That is why, Peter's fast, as it were, calls on believers to join spiritual exploits by means of humility and torment while refusing a person's natural need for food and water.

Also, on the other hand, Peter's fast helps to make up for missed violations during Great Lent, since many people, due to some circumstances, illness or travel, could not fully follow it according to Christian canons.

How to fast on Peter's fast and what you can eat

Peter's fast is not as strict as the Great one. On all days of fasting, except Wednesday and Friday, believers can eat fish. Fasting people cannot eat meat.

But even starting this, not the strictest, fast, you need to consult with your confessor, and if you have any chronic diseases, with your doctor.

In general, laymen are supposed to fast not as strict as monks. If, for some reason, you cannot observe all the rules of fasting (and the monastery Statute provides for stricter rules, for example, dry eating (food without vegetable oil), you can limit yourself in other, non-gastronomic things. For example, do not watch TV during fasting or not use social networks on the Internet.

Petrovsky post 2018: customs and restrictions

Bans on eating food of animal origin are only a small part of the fast. A person who does not eat meat, but continues a sinful life, will not deserve the forgiveness of sins and will not find the way to the Kingdom of God.

This time is meant for cleansing both spiritual and physical. Ignoring one thing is impossible to know the mystery of fasting.

It is not recommended to conduct idle conversations, watch entertainment programs on television and take part in entertainment activities. A person is allotted time to rethink his life values \u200b\u200band prayer. Worldly vanity will wait. A person's striving will come closer to God, to open his soul to light, above all. And fasting promotes enlightenment.

A slight relaxation exists during the bathing festivities. The Church allows you to take part in them.

What you can eat during the Apostolic fast by day

According to John Chrysostom, those who fast become light, pure, quench their evil thoughts with prayer and become closer to God. Petrov Post lasts 4-8 weeks. It is less strict than the Great Fast.

• On Mondays in Petrov Lent, it is allowed to eat hot food, but without oil.
• Fish allowed on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
• Wednesday and Friday are the strict days of the Apostolic Fast. In these you can only eat cold food without oil.
• Some wine is allowed on Sunday.

If on a strict day fell the day of remembrance of the great saint, it is allowed to add oil to food. For example, the Nativity of John the Baptist (July 7) falls on Peter's fast. The Church Charter permits fish on this day, regardless of what day this memorable date falls.

A strict ban on all days of fasting on meat, eggs, dairy products.

Although fasting is not too hungry, it can be a little costly. If you buy vegetables and fruits of the new harvest in June, it will hit your pocket. To somehow save money, you can use vegetables from the previous season: potatoes, carrots, beets, onions, pickles.

Lenten recipes for Peter's Lent

Potatoes will help out on fasting days. In early summer, a lot of greenery grows: nettles, sorrel, quinoa, lettuce, radishes, green onions, dill, parsley. These products are suitable for making green borscht and salads.

Nettle leaves need to be boiled in boiling water for 5 minutes before eating. These herbs can be used in lean pie fillings. Excellent okroshka comes out on kvass from potatoes, radishes and various types of greens.

On Mondays, you can cook vegetable stew or porridge with raisins, dried apricots and nuts. Eat raw vegetable and herb salads on Wednesdays and Fridays.

You can add peeled pumpkin and sunflower seeds, as well as sesame seeds to salads. On laxative days, you can cook fish soup and enjoy fried fish. Exit from the post is traditionally celebrated with fish dishes.

Early cabbage salad

Ingredients:

• 0.5 head of early cabbage,
• juice of 1 lemon,
• fresh dill,
• spices (cloves, coriander, paprika, bay leaf), sugar, salt.

How to cook: Finely chop the early cabbage. Sprinkle it with salt and mash it well with your hands to make the cabbage juice stand out.
Transfer the cabbage to a salad bowl, add the spice mixture and chopped dill to it. Add sugar to the lemon juice to taste and pour over the cabbage. Cover the bowl with a lid and marinate in a cool place for 2 hours.

Lean borscht recipe with nettle and mushrooms

Ingredients:

• 50-100 g of dried mushrooms,
• celery and parsley root,
  1 beet
• 1 carrot,
• 1 onion,
• half a bunch of sorrel,
• a bunch of nettles, dill, parsley, salt.

Preparation: Boil the broth of dried mushrooms, celery and parsley, 1 whole peeled beet, salt to taste. Boil the nettle in salted water for 5 minutes, cool and chop with a knife. Peel and chop the onions and carrots. Dice the onion and coarsely grate the carrots.

Saute onions and carrots in hot oil, add nettles to the vegetables and stew. Remove the beets and roots from the broth.
Grate beets on a coarse grater. Cut the sorrel into strips and pour over with boiling water, leave for 5 minutes.

Bring broth to a boil. Add beets, chopped roots, onions, carrots, sorrel and nettles to it. Boil for 5 minutes and turn off. Add chopped parsley and dill to the borscht.

Lenten sorrel pie

Ingredients:

• 30 g compressed yeast,
• 0.5 cups rice broth,
• 0.5 kg flour, a bunch of sorrel, sugar.

How to cook: Take 0.5 cups of warm rice water, add 1 tsp to it. sugars and compressed yeast. Wait for the yeast to froth and add flour. Knead hard dough and put it in a warm place for 1.5 hours.

Wash sorrel, chop, add a few tablespoons of sugar and flour to it. Roll half of the dough into a layer, put the sorrel filling on it and cover with a second layer of dough. Bake in a preheated oven until golden brown.

Prayers for the beginning of the fast

For their ardent love and unshakable faithfulness to Jesus Christ, Peter and Paul were called by the church the supreme apostles. Their sermons helped many people find true faith. Therefore, first of all, the saints pray for the strengthening of the faith and for intercession from evil thoughts, deeds and demonic power.

Also, Peter and Paul offer prayers for finding their destiny, for help in work, for healing from various ailments. The holy saints will help each convert to observe the entire fast and receive the blessing of the Lord.

First prayer:

“Oh, holy saints of God, Peter and Paul, who dedicated their lives to faith! Hear our prayers and help us with the help of the Lord to fight against lawlessness, recklessness and troubles. Help the weak by their strength not to be separated from their calling and the love of God. For your strong intercession, we ask you to pray for the forgiveness of our immeasurable sins. Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Till the end of time. Amen".

Second prayer:

“Oh, saints Peter and Paul, do not distance yourself from us sinners (name) by your spirit and intercession. On our knees, we ask the mercy and love of the Lord, forgiveness of our sins and distance from temptation. You are an image of godliness in your righteous life. Have pity and pray to God for us, great apostles. In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen".

Third prayer:

“Oh, the chief apostles Peter and Paul, firm in their faith and in the teachings of the Lord, we believe in your help. Descend warmth into our souls, strewn everything with the love of God. Rejoice for our life and direct your help to us. So that we, the sinful fish of our Creator, bow before his strength and might, so that we get rid of pride, sinful rampages, and evil thoughts, reports C-ib.ru. Save and help by your instructions to gain eternal life. In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen."

You can read the sacred words both in the morning and in the evening. The main thing is that the words are backed up by your true faith. Prayers to Peter and Paul at the beginning of the fast will help you live this period righteously, without bad thoughts and vices. Be happy.

Prayers for Peter Lent before and after eating food

Before eating: “Our Father, Thou art in heaven! Hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in heaven and on earth. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we also leave our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. All eyes trust in You, Lord, and You give them food in good time, open Your generous hand and fulfilling every animal favor. "

After eating: “We thank Thee, Christ our God, for Thou hast filled us with Thy earthly blessings; Do not deprive us of Thy Heavenly Kingdom, but as among Thy disciples came Thou, Savior, give them peace, come to us and save us. "