You can't even imagine how many lean gravy can be prepared for a wide variety of side dishes. As the first recipe, I present to you my favorite mushroom sauce.

We need the following ingredients:

• 30 g dried porcini mushrooms
• 250 gr onions
• 2 tablespoons premium wheat flour
• 3-4 tablespoons of vegetable oil
• salt and spices to taste

How to Make Lean Mushroom Gravy

Chop finely onions, heat a skillet and add vegetable oil, then fry the cooked onions in it until golden brown. At this time, place the dried mushrooms in a saucepan with water and boil, let them absorb moisture. Then rinse the mushrooms again with cold water and pass through a meat grinder. Combine them with onions and fry. about 5 minutes. Next, in a separate skillet in the remaining oil, fry two tablespoons of flour until its color turns golden brown. Then combine the flour with the broth remaining from the cooking of the giibs and boil a little for about 10 minutes. Combine the fried onions and mushrooms with the resulting sauce and let it simmer again. The result is a thick and tasty lean gravy.

Shall we continue to amaze our families with our culinary skills during Lent?
Let's get started!

Squid sauce

Fresh frozen squids - 0.5 kg

onions one large head

one large carrot

1 liter of water

4 tbsp. tablespoons of premium flour with a slide

Bay leaf, salt and pepper to taste

Peel fresh squid from entrails and skins, cut them into small strips. Finely chop the onion with a sharp knife, grate the carrots on a fine grater and fry them with onions in vegetable oil. Dissolve the flour in small portions in cold water, then combine all the prepared ingredients for the gravy and simmer for 5-6 minutes.

Lean flour sauce

Fry the flour in a dry skillet until golden brown. To overcook finely chopped onions and carrots, grated on a fine grater. Transfer the overcooking to a saucepan and, when it cools down, add the fried flour, stir. Add boiled cold water, mix everything and cook until thickened, add salt and spices to taste.

You can make a similar gravy even without oil. Then the carrots and onions should not be fried, but stewed in a small amount of water.

Products for the main gravy:

half a glass vegetable oil, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vinegar or lemon juice, 0.5 teaspoons each of sugar and salt, ground black pepper to taste. Mix all components thoroughly in a glass container and beat. The sauce can be prepared with a margin, be sure to shake it before each use. To this basic sauce you can add:

for onion gravy

1 teaspoon of grated onion or chopped leeks thoroughly pounded with salt; for mustard sauce - 0.5-1 tsp of ready-made table mustard and another 0.5 tsp of sugar; for tomato sauce - 1 teaspoon of tomato paste or 2 tbsp. tablespoons of tomato juice and 0.5 tsp of grated onions;

for gravy with herbs

1.5 teaspoons of finely chopped parsley, 1 teaspoon of chopped dill and 0.5 teaspoons of chopped green onions.

Here's another interesting recipe:

Gravy with caraway seeds and horseradish root

In wine vinegar, diluted to taste with cold boiled water, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of caraway seeds scalded with boiling water, 1-5 tbsp. tablespoons of grated horseradish. Add the juice of 1 lemon. Mix everything thoroughly and use for colored beans with boiled vegetables (beets, carrots and others to taste).

Red tomato sauce

Stock up in oil 3 tbsp. tablespoons of flour, dilute with 1 glass of mushroom, vegetable broth or boiling water, stirring so that the mass is free of lumps, and boil over low heat for 10-15 minutes. Separately fry finely chopped roots (carrots, parsnips, parsley) and onions, taking them to taste, 2-3 tbsp. tablespoons of tomato paste, pepper, bay leaf and add everything to the sauce.
Boil the sauce for another 5-10 minutes, strain, rub the mass through a sieve, add 2-3 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil, bring to a boil. Use a gravy hot or cold.

Garlic sauce

Separately, in a frying pan, prepare a thick white sauce from fried in oil flour and boiling water, lightly salt and pepper. When ready, add another 1-2 tbsp. tablespoons of flour. Can be diluted with cucumber pickle. Add garlic, crushed with salt, into the prepared hot sauce and, covering the pan with a lid, let stand for 3-5 minutes.

And lastly, you can't get around the recipe for lean béchamel sauce.

Thoroughly sift 60 grams of wheat flour. Dissolve it in a little water and fry in a pan until tender. It is important to wait until the flour changes color a little. But so that it does not turn brown and burn.

Bring two cups of vegetable broth to a boil. Add to it in flour, stirring with a wooden spoon. Stir for a long time and thoroughly until the sauce thickens and the lumps disappear (4 or 5 minutes), then remove from heat. Add a pinch of salt, some lemon juice, grated nutmeg and chopped herbs.

Such gravies go well with boiled potatoes, buckwheat rice or wheat porridge, as well as boiled vegetables or fish.

Fasting is a difficult task to prepare for lunch or dinner. However, if you and your loved ones love pasta or pasta, then we will make this difficult culinary work a little easier for you. How to make lean pasta dishes, pasta recipes with lean vegetable sauce and spaghetti with mushrooms read on.

Lean dishes: recipes for pasta (pasta) with lean sauces

Pasta or spaghetti in fasting is a real lifesaver. The dish is hearty and can be served with any sauce.

Spaghetti with mushrooms and red pepper recipe

Ingredients:

• 300 gr. spaghetti
• greens
• 200 gr. cabbage
• onion
• 2 tooth. garlic
• Red bell pepper
• 7-10 pcs. fresh champignons
• vegetable oil
• pepper

Cooking method:

1. Peel the onions and garlic. Chop the garlic and onion into small cubes.

2. In a saucepan, heat 2-3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil. Sauté the garlic and onion in boiling oil until golden brown.

3. Wash the mushrooms, dry and cut into slices.

4. Wash sweet red bell pepper, remove seeds and stalk. Cut the pepper into large strips, then into cubes.

5. Chop white cabbage with a sharp knife into thin shavings.

6. Put mushrooms in a saucepan with onions and garlic, then bell pepper.

7. Mix everything and simmer for 5 minutes. Put the cabbage on top of the roast.

8. Cover the saucepan with a lid and reduce heat to low. Simmer vegetables with mushrooms until tender. At the end, add salt and pepper to the dish.

9. Boil spaghetti in salted water.

10. Discard the finished spaghetti in a colander, drain the water and immediately transfer to a stewpan for vegetable frying.

11. Stir the spaghetti thoroughly with the vegetable sauce.

12. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Heat spaghetti over low heat for 2-5 minutes.

Season with fragrant fresh herbs before serving. Serve spaghetti with mushrooms for lunch or dinner. Bon Appetit!

I offer you one more lean recipe pasta with sauce, it will be especially appreciated by lovers of Italian cuisine.

Italian Style Pasta Recipe

Ingredients:

• 300 gr. spaghetti or any other pasta
• onion
• 2 tooth. garlic
• 2 red bell peppers
• 50 gr. tomato paste
• 100 ml of water
• 1 tsp dry basil
• 10 pieces. pitted olives
• basil and parsley greens
• olive oil

Cooking method:

1. Pour some good olive oil into a saucepan.
2. Peel the garlic and fry it whole in hot olive oil.
3. Peel and cut onions into small cubes. Add the onion to the garlic.
4. Bake bell peppers on the grill or in the oven.
5. Peel the peppers and remove the seeds.
6. Cut the flesh of the peppers into pieces and transfer to a saucepan with the onion and garlic.
7. Fry the tomato paste in a separate frying pan with 1 tbsp. l. olive oil.
8. Pour hot water into the paste.
9. Boil the sauce and immediately pour into a saucepan with the pepper and other ingredients.
10. Season the sauce with dry basil.
11. Salt to taste.
12. Cut the olives into rings and pour into the sauce.
13. Gently stir the sauce, heat over the fire for 1-2 minutes, then close the lid and remove from heat.
14. Boil pasta or spaghetti in salted water, drain the water and arrange on plates.
15. Put 2-3 tbsp on top of the pasta. l. sauce. Decorate with fresh herbs.

By the way, fasting is a great reason and a way to lose weight. And don't be surprised that pasta with the right lean sauce can really help. Watch the video recipe for healthy pasta with vegetables and cook lean dishes with us!

While people observe Orthodox fasts, they should not eat much. Such food is called modest food and it is completely excluded from the fasting diet for a while. Not many foods are allowed to eat. During the period of the pre-Easter fast, the list of permitted dishes is reduced even more, compared to the menu of other fasts throughout the year.

In order to somehow diversify your diet, you can prepare various sauces and gravies for various vegetable dishes, pasta, fish dishes (when they can be eaten). But do not forget that you cannot add to them everything that the soul desires, the ingredients must meet the requirements of the fast.

You can make lean sauce for fish dishes from almost anything. If you can eat fish during fasting, try to cook it for yourself in a new way every time, then the menu will not morally pressure and the body will receive all the necessary vitamins and minerals, which are so lacking in the fasting menu. It is worth trying to make a lean fish sauce based on a natural antiseptic. Sauce with this ingredient will perfectly complement not only fish dishes, but also salads and even soups. In addition, horseradish can soothe headaches, and although the lean diet says nothing about prohibiting drugs, it is still better to try to take natural pain relievers.

Lean sauce recipes are very varied, and almost anything can be used to make gravy, hot pasta, or spicy liquid mixture. You need to be careful about fried sauces as they often have a creamy base, which is prohibited during fasting. Lean tomato sauce is widely used in cooking, even when you do not need to fast. The thing is that for its base they are fried in vegetable oil, they are perfectly "friends" with all herbs and spices without exception, so there is always a chance to make an original sauce to your taste. Tomato sauce is always based on tomatoes, onions, vegetable fat, spices, herbs, broths or decoctions are often added. In all recipes, you must first fry the onions with tomatoes in oil, and then add spices, herbs, and other vegetables to the finished base. It goes well with tomatoes,. To give an oriental touch tomato sauce they add cilantro,. Even simple pasta or in such a union will not leave anyone indifferent.

By the way, lean pasta sauce can be made not only from tomatoes. For example, sweet and sour dressings are much tastier when paired with pasta if you have a seafood dish. In the recipe for such a sauce, an exotic product for our cuisine is a mandatory ingredient -. It is the pineapple sweetness that most subtly emphasizes the taste of unleavened foods. It is great if fresh fruit is added to the dish, but it is also possible to use the usual store fruit - the taste will not change from this.

The lean sauce for vegetable lasagne is also very tasty. Instead, a decoction of vegetables, onion frying and a little spices are added there. It turns out a kind, permissible for use on the days of fasting. You can even make a gravy for lasagna or pasta ahead of time. Unlike the classic bechamel, it does not lose its taste in the least.

Mushrooms are another favorite of Slavic cuisine. Lean mushroom sauce- a classic dish that replaces meat for many. Mushrooms have proven themselves both fresh and dried. Pickled mushrooms can spice up a ready-made dish with any neutral sauce. If you prepare a sauce with dried mushrooms, then they will need to be boiled, if with fresh ones, then fried. Well, pickled mushrooms should be added at the very end to add freshness and spice to the taste of the dish. Greens and onions are obligatory companions of mushrooms. As a rule, if you fry mushrooms, then only together with these ingredients. This will make the dish more aromatic and tasty. For a more viscous and thick texture, you can add flour to the lean mushroom sauce. The consistency of the gravy will turn out to be very appetizing. During those periods when the rules of fasting are allowed to use, it is better to darken the dish on a small amount of dry white Chardonnay. The taste will acquire brightness and festivity.

Lovers know firsthand that even during Lent you can eat varied and very tasty every day. Garlic sauce is a favorite among those who love fried or baked potatoes. It is prepared as easy as shelling pears - oil is added to the garlic pulp, and in such proportions that a thick consistency is obtained. This is a Moldovan recipe called “husbands” in the homeland. For mashed potatoes, the lean sauce is best done as a gravy. This is a thinner sauce based on the liquid in which the main course was previously boiled. For example, for mashed potatoes flour, tomatoes, bell peppers are added to the liquid where the potatoes were cooked and they all simmer a little over low heat.

By the way, you can also make an excellent substitute from the potatoes themselves. Lean mayonnaise sauce needed for dressing salads. The recipe for this mayonnaise is very simple:

• medium-sized chopped potatoes along with chopped onions and pour over any boiling vegetable broth and cook for about 10 minutes;
• hot ingredients are turned into mashed potatoes with a blender, a decoction and a glass of vegetable oil are added to it;
• the resulting liquid puree should be boiled, cooled and seasoned to taste with spices, salt, etc.

Features of flour sauces

Lean sauces and dressings taste better if flour is added to the base during their preparation. Flour dressings are quite viscous, they are nutritious and satisfying, moreover, they easily replace oil in dry and unleavened cereals. Both red and white sauces can be made on the basis of flour. Here are some tips on how to ideally prepare them:

• strong fire is the enemy of flour sauces, flour begins to burn and take in lumps, so always use the smallest fire;
• if, according to the recipe, the flour in the dish does not need to be fried, then it is worth diluting it a little with water or vegetable broth and boiling along with the base of the dish;
• sifted flour will give a silky texture, so it is always best to sift the flour before adding it to the dish;
• when frying flour for a white sauce recipe, it should not be allowed to darken, but for dark gravies it should acquire a brownish-golden hue;
• flour sauces become tastier from prolonged boiling, but simmering them on the fire is not worth more than 25 minutes;
• slices of vegetables, fruits and herbs add flavor to your meals.

Flour-based gravies and dressings are very diverse. There are classic or basic recipes for such dishes. The recipe for flour red sauce is very simple:

• heat a spoonful of vegetable oil in a frying pan, pour a spoonful of flour into it, stir constantly and bring the flour to the desired color;
• boil several glasses of mushroom or any other lean broth and pour into a frying pan with golden flour;
• everything is cooked together, boiled, and then filtered;
• at the end, the sauce must be salted, add fried onions and herbs, lemon juice and, if you can and want, white wine.

White sauce is prepared in the same way, only the degree of flour roasting is different. These are the basics of flour sauces, and if you need to cook something special, then it is in them that other ingredients are added.

Bread and nut sauces for fasting

It turns out that even on the basis of and crackers, you can make excellent sauces. On fast days, these foods help you avoid hunger and add flavor to monotonous meals. Sometimes, to make a lean sauce from crackers, just them and vegetable oil are enough - just brown the crackers in a pan and add spices. This addition will perfectly emphasize the taste of traditional vegetables - cabbage, potatoes, asparagus. In addition, it can be cooked and eaten even on strict days of fasting, which is very rare.

Bread crumb can also make a good gravy. If you can eat fish dishes during fasting, such a sauce will be very useful. It is very simple to cook it, it is enough to boil bread without a crust and zest in fish broth. The dish turns out to be delicious and very aromatic.

On fish days, the variety of gravies and dressings you can make is great. To add to the dishes, you need to prepare nut sauces. There are a lot of their recipes, it is better to use those nuts that most of all impress in taste, and supplement them with products that have a pronounced aroma. For example, in nut and bread sauces, recipes often include vinegar, onions, and herbs. Sometimes nut sauce is also prepared on the basis of tomatoes, it turns out very tasty and unusual. Many fasting people who know the recipes for sauces for all occasions, even after the end of the fast, continue to prepare them for ordinary speedy meals. From delicious sauce it is very difficult to refuse, because it forces the taste buds to perceive the usual food in a new way every time and brings a sense of conviviality to the everyday menu.

Recipes for lean sauces will be appropriate during the days of Lent and will help to further diversify the light menu during this period. These sauces cook very quickly. The taste turns out to be quite expressive and, most importantly, they are combined with most lean dishes.

From tomatoes

How to make tomato lean sauce is described in detail in the recipe presented on Elena's Vegetarian and Lean Cuisine YouTube channel.

Ingredients:

1. Tomatoes - 300 g
2. Sweet bell pepper - 100 g
3. Fresh basil - 1 bunch
4. Salt to taste
5. Black pepper - to taste

Step 1

Rinse the tomatoes well in running water and cut them first into slices and then into cubes. Place in a separate bowl.

Step 2

Free the bell peppers from the core and cut first into strips, then into cubes. Add to the bowl with the tomatoes.

Step 3

Rinse the basil, dry and chop. Remove thick stems. Ground thin can also be cut and added to vegetables.

Step 4

Salt the vegetables. Pepper. If you like spicy food, add more pepper. If not, a pinch of scent is enough.

Step 5

Grind the vegetable mixture with a blender. Basil tomato sauce is ready.

From mushrooms

Irina Belaja explains how to make lean mushroom sauce on her YouTube channel.

Ingredients:

1. Onions - 1 medium head
2. Wheat or corn flour - 1 tbsp. l.
3. Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l.
4. Frozen champignon mushrooms - 300 g
5. Marjoram, oregano, curry, salt - ½ tsp.
6. Purified drinking water - 300 ml

Step 1

Peel the onion. Cut into rings, then into cubes. Mushrooms, if using fresh, cut into slices, then into cubes. The recipe uses frozen mushrooms, which in the sauce will give a hint of forest.

Step 2

Place the mushrooms in a saucepan. Pour 300 ml of water over them. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to moderate, and simmer for 15-20 minutes.

Step 3

Saute finely chopped onions over low heat in vegetable oil. Stir continuously. Make sure the fire is not too strong. Season with salt and fry until golden brown. Add the spice mixture.

Step 4

Add 1 tablespoon flour to the fried onions. Mix well.

Step 5

Add the mushroom broth with mushrooms to the pan. Continue stirring. Stir very quickly to prevent lumps from forming. The mushroom sauce will turn out to be quite thick and rich in flavor.

With garlic

How to make lean garlic sauce is detailed on the YouTube channel AllrecipesRU.

Ingredients:

1. Garlic - 3 cloves
2. Ready lean mayonnaise- 165 ml
3. Salt - ¾ tsp
4. Ground black pepper - ½ tsp.
5. Lemon juice - 2.5 tsp

Step 1

Peel the cloves of garlic and place in a mortar.

Step 2

Season the garlic with salt and pepper. Then crush well until a homogeneous mixture is obtained.

Step 3

Transfer the garlic gruel to a deep bowl, add lean mayonnaise.

Step 4

Add lemon juice to the sauce and mix well.

Step 5

Transfer the prepared sauce to a special container. If desired, you can add finely chopped dill. Outside the fasting period, mayonnaise can be replaced with natural yogurt or sour cream.

Notes (edit)

You have already seen that lean sauce not only tastes bright, as it is prepared with a wide variety of ingredients, but also goes well with most side dishes and vegetables. Outside the fasting period, tomato sauce can be combined with meat dishes especially grilled. Mushroom and garlic sauce is a great addition to vegetables and cereals.

The lean sauce doesn't even have a hint of animal products. Its tasks are to deliver the necessary nutrients to the human body and improve the taste of dishes.

The history of the product goes back more than two thousand years, so it is likely that it was invented for believers. Today, vegetarians have also become fans of the lean sauce. He is loved by both ladies who tirelessly counting calories and men who want to get rid of their beer tummy.

You probably won't find a similar dish in a cafe, canteen or restaurant. Most likely, you will have to cook it yourself. And this will be the right decision, because this is how it turns out to be natural and original.

Cooking secrets

In order to diversify at least a little the poor diet of fasting days, a whole arsenal of spices, herbs, vegetables, berries and fruits, vegetable oils, mushrooms are used in the gravy. They are made thick, liquid, spicy, sweet and sour and sweet, salty and bitter, depending on the preferences of the eaters.

As a rule, lean sauce has a uniform consistency, except for those that can contain rather large slices and visually resemble salads.

The sauces of lean days are very diverse. It is customary to combine them with cereals, pasta, vegetable side dishes... Usually delicious is used for dressing salads. If the fast is not strict, then the sauce becomes an excellent addition to fish.

Vegetable or mushroom broth is most often used as a liquid base for a dish. For thickening - starch or premium wheat flour, as well as vegetable and berry purees.

To get the most delicious and healthy product, culinary experts recommend wiping the sauce still hot for homogenization (optimal mixing of various components).

How to eat lean sauce

According to the rules, lean sauces are served as an addition to the main course. In the traditional version, both the base and the gravy must be at the same temperature.

Sauce can be poured over ready-made food, or you can dip pieces of food into it.

Dips are finely chopped and placed directly on a plate. Thus, the chilled dip salad forms a complex side dish. The dishes look very appetizing and may well compete with meat delicacies.

For decoration, lettuce leaves, fresh parsley, basil, dill, cilantro, onion feathers, etc. are used.

For serving, it is customary to use white ceramic dishes, which most favorably emphasize the beauty of the food.

Lean mushroom sauce in Russian

The old recipe includes forest mushrooms (chanterelles, boletus, boletus). If there is no way to get real gifts of the forest, they can be replaced with champignons or oyster mushrooms, which are sold in almost all large stores. Sauce with mushrooms is amazingly suitable for dumplings with potatoes.

So, we take:

• 500 grams of mushrooms;
• 1 cube of Gallina Blanca mushroom broth or 0.5 l of boiled mushroom broth;
• 3 tablespoons flour;
• 100 g turnip onions;
• 1 large carrot;
• 50 ml of vegetable oil;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• salt, black pepper to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Prepare the ingredients: rinse the mushrooms under the tap with warm water, wash and clean the vegetables.
2. Put the pan (preferably with a non-stick coating) over medium heat, add flour and brown it until it is pale beige. Calcined flour takes on a nutty flavor. Let's put it aside and cool it down.
3. Pour the oil into the pan. Chop the mushrooms into thin slices and send to simmer for 5-7 minutes.
4. Cut the onion into half rings, finely chop the garlic, grate the carrots on a coarse grater and, stirring with the mushrooms, fry until golden brown.
5. Let's make a broth by dissolving a chopped cube of broth in a half-liter jar with warm boiled water (if you have a ready-made mushroom broth, then just skip this item).
6. Pour the prepared flour into a bowl. In a thin stream, stirring vigorously, pour in the broth. Pour the liquid with flour to the frying. Salt, season the contents of the pan.
7. Reduce the gas, stirring occasionally, boil the sauce for 3-5 minutes until thickened.
8. Whisk the hot semi-finished product in a blender bowl.
9. Serve the sauce by cooling it down to 20-25 ° С (decorate with chopped herbs if desired).

You can store in a clean container with a lid in a refrigerator for no more than a day.

Pink pasta sauce

Such a gravy for an amateur. It does not require heat treatment and is done in a matter of minutes. However, it also has disadvantages - the product cannot be stored for a long time (ideally, cook before serving and eat it during lunch).

We will need:

• tomato paste - 1 glass;
• sweet apple - 1 pc.;
• classic tofu cheese - 1 package (200 grams);
• parsley, dill, green onions - 50 grams each;
• lemon juice (apple cider vinegar) - 1 tsp;
• garlic - 2-3 cloves;
• olive oil (any deodorized) - 1 tablespoon;
• a mixture of peppers, salt, sugar to taste.

• All manipulations will be carried out using a submersible blender.
• Unload into a small plastic bowl or bowl tomato paste.
• Pass the peeled garlic through a press.
• We cut the washed and dried herbs on a towel with a knife.
• Divide the curd soy cheese into cubes.
• Peel the clean apple, remove the core, cut into slices.
• Powder the pepper balls in a coffee grinder or using a pestle and mortar.
• We combine all the components, grinding them with a blender until a puree mass is obtained.
• Pour boiled spaghetti with vitamin and hearty sauce.

Spicy lean dressing

This is very healthy dish... Thanks to the sweet pepper, it is truly a storehouse of vitamins. At the same time, spicy things will not hurt at all in the "lean life".

If you replace honey and soy with salt and sugar, green onions with onions, and add 9% vinegar and a couple of bay leaves to the recipe, then the dressing will be an excellent help in the winter cold, as a preservation.

This sauce is also suitable for people who are not even fasting. It will perfectly fit into the menu with chicken cutlets, sausages and kebabs.

Let's save:

• 2 red and 1 yellow bell peppers;
• 2 young zucchini;
• 3-4 tomatoes;
• 1 pod of hot pepper;
• 3 tablespoons l refined sunflower oil;
• a bunch of onion feathers;
• 35-40 ml soy sauce;
• 1 tea l. natural honey.

• First, wash the vegetables.
• Remove the seeds from the peppers. Finely chop the sweet.
• Grate the zucchini on a coarse grater or cut into thin strips.
• Blanch the tomatoes (cut the spout with a cross, put each fruit in boiling water for 2-3 seconds), remove the skin and divide into 4 parts.
• Cut the hot pepper crosswise into two halves.
• Finely chop the onion feathers.
• Simmer the vegetable mixture in oil over low heat, covered for 20-25 minutes. 5 minutes before the end of cooking, remove the structure and add with honey.
• Serve warm, adding to a plate with baked potatoes, cabbage and carrot pancakes, crumbly rice or buckwheat.