12 delicious lean dishes for Christmas: the best recipes. Traditional dishes and decorations of the Christmas table

Prepare for Christmas 12 delicious lean dishes according to recipes from this article.

On January 7, Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas. On the eve of January 6, the Christmas post lasted 40 days ends, the Holy of Holy of Complement. Needless to say, Christmas has popularized?

Many consider him one of the New Year holidays, the reason to meet friends, eat at the table, skip a strong glass. They do not just not fast, but do not even know the elementary Christmas traditions.

But for our ancestors, Christmas had a special meaning, they were preparing for it very carefully: they put things in order in the dwelling, went to church, observed religious canons, called only the closest and loved ones this evening. Perhaps you should think about the resumption of traditions? First of all, to prepare the right lean dishes for Christmas.

What holiday dishes are served for Christmas?

Those who follow the Orthodox canons, on January 6, do not eat anything until the first star is lit in the sky in the sky. She informs the world that Jesus Christ was born. This means that you can sit at the table and eat deliciously.
Festive dishes are served on Christmas, observing certain rules:

1. There should be 12 dishes, exactly so many apostles had Jesus Christ. The Slavs also believed that 12 dishes on the table in the holy show symbolize 12 months, and how delicious the dishes are so generous for food and crop will be these months.
2. Dishes should be lean. That is, on the festive table there should not be butter, milk, sour cream, eggs and meat. You can eat fish.
3. Before preparing each of the dishes, you need to read a prayer.
4. It is desirable that all family members take a certain participation in the preparation of food for the festive table.

IMPORTANT: there should not be alcohol on the table in the HEARTER!

Choose what lean dishes will be included in the festive menu, every housewife in the right herself. But two will be mandatory:

1. Kutia. - A symbol of resurrection after death, it is necessarily prepared for the wake. You can read about how to cook it deliciously in this article.
2. The Uzvar is also a symbolic drink that was necessarily prepared when a child was born in the family.

Together, Kutia and Uzvar denote the memories of the birth and death of the Savior and every person who lived on earth.

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12 delicious lean dishes for the Christmas table

So, the approximate Christmas menu, in addition to Kuti, can include the following dishes:

Uzvar

The tradition of brewing a zero was filled up in Ukraine, later residents of many Eastern European countries adopted it. In fact, the drink is a compote of dried fruits, dried berries, honey and sugar. But not simple, since after boiling water it is not cooked, but immediately removed from the fire.

The Uzvar is concentrated, since it is customary for him to take 0.5 kg of dry berries and fruits for 2 liters of water. Which ones - to solve the hostess. Honey for the specified volume of the drink is taken 3 tbsp. tablespoons, sugar - to taste.

Here is one of the recipes of the knot for which they take:

• apple drying -100 g
• plum drying or prunes - 100 g
• pear dry - 100 g
• raisins - 100 g
• kuraga - 50 g
• dried cherry - 50 g
• honey - 3 tbsp. tablespoons
• sugar - 3 tbsp. tablespoons

1. Dried fruits and dried berries must be soaked. They do it differently: at night, for 2 hours or 15 minutes.
2. Pour straightened, soaked fruits and berries, pour them with water, bring to a boil and immediately remove. Sometimes they do it differently-just pour the ingredients with boiling water.
3. Honey and sugar can be added immediately. But in boiling water, honey loses strength, becomes harmful. Therefore, it is better to put his already cooled Uzvar.
4. They prepare a zero 3-4 hours before the feast so that he can brew. Serve and drink either chilled or slightly warm.

Important: the Uzvar on the table in the Christmas Eve replaces alcohol. It is drunk throughout the feast both adults and children. Sometimes a knot is poured with kuta.

Lenten hodgepodge.

They try the first one. Further, traditionally move to a hot liquid dish. Most often, borscht or cabbage is cooked. But you can be more original and prepare a delicious lean hodgepodge.
For a beautiful spicy soup, they take:

• potatoes - 5 pcs.
• carrots - 2 pcs.
• onion - 2 pcs.
• salt cucumbers (medium) - 5 pcs.
• parsley root (small) - 2 pcs.
• tomato paste - 2 tbsp. tablespoons
• lemon
• the greens are different
• salt, sugar, pepper
• olives and olives
• water - 3 l

1. The first to the salted water is sent potatoes. To do this, it is cleaned, washed, cut quite finely. There, if desired, you can throw a bay leaf.
2. At this time, refueling is being prepared in a pan: they pass on a finely chopped bow, grated carrots, parsley root, cucumbers.
3. Add tomato paste and pepper to passed vegetables. They will seem to stew, as cucumbers and pasta will give a lot of liquids.
4. Add refueling to the potato welded until cooked. Cook the hodgepodge under the lid for 5 minutes. If desired, brine from cucumbers, a little sugar is added to it.
5. When serving, the hodgepodge is decorated with lean with chopped greens, rings of olives or olives, lemon slices.

The cabbage is stewed with mushrooms.

Cabbage with mushrooms seems like a simple dish? It will turn out to be festive if instead of champignons take dried white mushrooms and beautifully decorate stew.

We need:

• white cabbage - 1 kg
• dried white mushrooms - 300 g
• carrots - 1 pc.
• onion - 1 pc.
• tomato juice - 0.5 cups
• salt, pepper, greens

1. White mushrooms are soaked for 1 hour.
2. Prepare a roy of onions and carrots.
3. Finely chopped cabbage, send it to stew. If at the very beginning it is salt and slightly sink it, there will be a lot of juice, you will not have to add water.
4. Smartly chopped white mushrooms are added to the cabbage, cover the stewpan with a lid. Stuff for 20 minutes.
5. Add frying, tomato juice and pepper to the prepared dish, stew for another 10 minutes.
6. When serving, put the dish with a neat slide and decorated with herbs.

Champignons cutlets.

They need:

• champignons - 0.5 kg
• onion -1 pcs.
• baton - 200 g
• milk - 200 ml
• starch - 1 teaspoon
• salt pepper
• flour or breading crackers

1. Champignons are cleaned and cut into quarters, fry with finely chopped onions for 10 minutes.
2. Onions and mushrooms are twisted on a meat grinder. They also twist the loaf in milk.
3. Salt, pepper, diluted in 30 ml of water, starch (it is needed, so that the cutlets “grab”) are added to the mushroom minced meat.
4. Cutlets are formed from minced meat, they pan them and fry on each side for 2-3 minutes.

Lenten cabbage rolls.

Lenten cabbage rolls are filled with rice and carrots. We need:

• cabbage with wide sheets - 1 head
• carrots - 4 pcs.
• onion - 1 sh.
• rice - 0.5 cups
• vinegar - 50 ml
• vegetable oil - 50 ml
• greens, salt, pepper, sugar

1. The rice is boiled like this: pour 1 part in 2 parts of salted water, bring to a boil, boiled under the lid to boiling water.
2. To make the sheets of cabbage be separated easily, do not tear, it is boiled directly in a boiling water for 5 minutes.
3. The peeled carrots are cut into strips or rubbing on a Korean grater, passing along with finely chopped onions.
4. Combine rice with carrots, add pepper.
5. They fill sheets of cabbage with minced meat, form pigeons. They are laid out in a pan one on one, pour boiled water so that the cabbage rolls are covered.
6. When the water boils, vinegar, vegetable oil, pepper, sugar and salt are added to it.
7. Stuff for 20 minutes.
8. Greens are used for decoration.

The vinaigrette

A simple, but beloved dish, vinaigrette, is quite suitable for the Christmas table.
It is prepared from:

• buraka - 3 pcs.
• potatoes - 3 pcs.
• sucky cucumbers - 4 pcs.
• carrots - 2 pcs.
• salad onion - 1 pc.
• green peas - 200 g
• olive oil - 100 ml
• dining or apple vinegar - 50 ml
• salt, pepper, greens

1. You can either boil beets or bake in an oven (2 hours are baked in foil).
2. Potatoes and carrots are cleaned of the skin, washed and boiled.
3. If the peas are frozen, it is boiled in boiling water for 5 minutes.
4. All vegetables are cut into cubes, approximately equal to the size of peas.
5. They prepare a dressing of oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.
6. They season the salad, add chopped greens to it.
7. Mix it.
8. If desired, sauerkraut is added to the vinaigrette.

Carp from the oven

On Christmas, you can bake carp. In Eastern Europe, they love this river fish and can cook. Often it is baked with sour cream and cheese, but the dish should be lean on Christmas Eve, these ingredients should be abandoned. Instead take:

• carp-carcass of 1-1.5 kg
• onion - 1 pc.
• honey - 4 tbsp. tablespoons
• vegetable oil - 100 ml
• balsamic vinegar - 3 tbsp. tablespoons
• coriander seeds - 3 tbsp. tablespoons
• rosemary twigs - 3 pcs.
• salt pepper

1. Fish is washed, cleaned from scales. He leaves his head. Cut the carcass in the ribs.
2. The marinade is prepared from melted honey, seasonings, balsamic vinegar and vegetable oil.
3. The carp carp is withstand in the marinade for about 1 hour.
4. Put the carp on a greased baking sheet, cover with foil. You can wrap the carcass into the foil completely, pour the remains of the marinade into this “cocoon”.
5. At 200 degrees, bake 40 minutes.
6. You can serve carp baked in this way on a pillow of potatoes or any other vegetables.

Pancakes from beans

Remonies are often made on the holy man, but you can cook pancakes not from potatoes, but from beans. Take:

• beans - 100 g
• flour - 2 glasses
• water - 1.5 cups
• starch - 1 teaspoon
• yeast - 2 g
• sugar, salt
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. a spoon.

1. From warm water, yeast, sugar and a small amount of flour make dough.
2. The beans are boiled and rubbed with a fork in mashed potatoes.
3. Pyla, a spoonful of vegetable oil, diluted in 2 tbsp. spoon of water starch and the remaining flour. Salt the dough.
4. It should rise twice half an hour.
5. Podges from beans are fried in vegetable oil until blurred, on both sides.

Dumplings with potatoes and mushrooms

For this, the dishes are needed:

• potatoes- 4 pcs.
• champignons - 200 g
• onions - 3 pcs.
• flour - 2 glasses
• water - how much the dough will take
• salt, pepper, greens

1. Champignons and 1 pc. Onions are crushed, fry together in vegetable oil for 5 minutes, they will become golden.
2. Potatoes are cleaned, washed, cooked until cooked. Solder and pushing in mashed potatoes.
3. Connect potato puree and mushroom frying.
   From water, flour and salt, knead a steep dough for dumplings.
4. They sculpt dumplings, fill them with potatoes and grib.
5. Dumplings are boiled in salted boiling water until they pop up.
6. 2 pcs. Luke is finely cut and fried until golden in a large amount of oil. Ready dumplings are smeared with this gas station.

There are already ten dishes for the Christmas table. The remaining two can be whatever. For example:

• porridge with frying
  Boiled, stewed or baked potatoes
• says and salads from them
• fresh fruits
• pies with vegetable and fruit filling
• gaskets made of garlic, vegetable oil, greens, so on
• lenten cookies

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Decoration of the Christmas table

In Christmas Eve, the family sit down at a large table:

• a white or decorated with traditional patterns of a tablecloth is
• napkins are chosen in tone for a tablecloth
• under the tablecloth they put straw symbolizing nursery in which Christ was born

Important: today I often set the table in the colors of Catholic Christmas - red and white.

Church candles are also placed on the table, they are lit at dinner.

They always put one more on the device than people at the table. He will be for the deceased relatives who are usually remembered for Christmas. Also, we must be a glass with a knot.

Christmas dinner lasts a long time, followed by measured conversations in a measured manner. Those present must taste each of the dishes. And only then it will be possible to ply or arrange a route, give the children gifts.

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