Christians believe in the need to respect religious fasts for the salvation of souls. Advent becomes for many a serious test: the period of fasting the whole world celebrates the New Year - a holiday cheerful, abundant, does not fit with any whatsoever restrictions. Create menu for New Year's Advent difficult, but possible: meatless dishes there among a lot of delicious and beautiful dishes.

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New Year - one of the favorite holidays among adults and children. With the New Year involves a lot of superstitions and omens, and almost everything in my heart believe that the desires, make a midnight Jan. necessarily executed.

Many beliefs are associated with New Year holiday table. In some countries, for example, it is usually served on the table exactly twelve dishes - no more and no less; in others it is not recommended to cook the bird not to fly away happiness. But absolutely everywhere I decided to make a New Year's meal abundant rich to then for a whole year in no need.

Follow this fine tradition is not always easy. Believers Orthodox Christians living according to the Julian calendar, the New Year's celebration coincides with Advent - the time limits. During fasting should not eat animal products, and even vegetable oil is not always allowed. Forbidden alcohol, including for the traditional New Year's champagne. Moreover, during this period should be to devote the time thinking about the divine, and not frivolous amusements.

Some religious families radically solve the problem by refusing to celebrate the New Year in principle. But most Christians are not ready to give up the celebration of the holiday favorite since childhood, looking for a compromise between the secular and religious triumph of fasting. In particular, the religious people, as a rule, do not refuse invitations to New Year's parties, but try to behave at such events the most modest restraint. Christmas meal Orthodox believers should be moderate, consisting solely of permitted meatless products.

Lean food should not be delicious: the idea of ​​fasting is to limit any pleasures. However, meatless foods can be cooked many dishes that are tasty, delicious, and perfectly suited for a holiday. Although delicious meatless table is somewhat contrary to the spirit of the recommendations of the Church, all formally religious requirements are met.

On New Year's table must be diversified. In addition to traditional meat and fish dishes should apply and meatless dishes that are quite likely to be a success not only for fasting.

Meatless meals

Lean snack table is very different from skoromnogo. At this table will not be the usual cuts of meat and fish, cheese, sausages, pates, deli. But in abundance will feature a variety of vegetables and mushrooms. Pickles, pickles, sauerkraut, and other home-made cover enable rich and varied table.

Pickles and pickled peppers, eggplant caviar and marinated beet salad greens and pickled mushrooms - perhaps, this table will not look less impressive than the cluttered traditional meat delicacies. And last but not least, this meal requires minimal cost, especially if you use a home-made.

Vegetable salads - healthy and tasty alternative to the traditional "Olivier". A salad with mushrooms and potatoes will be no less satisfying, than the classic New Year's snacks. Salads can be refilled with oil. Lovers of mayonnaise can choose lean varieties of this sauce.

Perfect snack cakes will be from lean dough - with mushrooms, rice, potatoes, onions, and carrots. Small portions of lean salad laid out in baskets of puff pastry Puff pastry: lacy splendor , Decorate the table and become very appetizing snack.

Hot to lean table

Mushroom dishes take on a festive table vegetable central. Baked potatoes with mushrooms or mushrooms stuffed cabbage; peppers stuffed with mushrooms or stewed with mushrooms vegetables; mushroom risotto or buckwheat porridge with "vegetable meat" - a lot of options.

If you wish, you can do without mushrooms. Vegetarian risotto Risotto - rice porridge in Italian   and baked eggplant, rice with spices or hot pie with potatoes and other vegetables will become a real decoration of the table.

For dessert

In the post have to give up a variety of creamy, dairy and egg dessert, forget the biscuits with whipped cream and sand cakes with butter cream, a variety of puddings and meringues, presses, parfait. However, this does not mean that during the whole of Advent sweets banned. In contrast, the sweet dishes of plant products decorate the Christmas table, give it a special charm.

For the preparation of sweets, you can use honey, fruit (fresh, dried, canned, in the form of preserves and jams), nuts. Cow's milk can be successfully replaced by almond milk or coconut (it's at the same time give desserts extra delicate flavor). Instead of butter, you can use margarine or vegetable oil.

Fruit-based prepares a variety of dishes - jelly (gelatin should be used instead of the agar), desserts (agar or semolina), fruit creams, sweet salads and popsicles. Fried sugar nuts or crunchy roasted nuts Grilyazh: French sweetness of Oriental origin , Tender praline and hazelnut paste - for the preparation of these popular delicacies should take hazelnuts, almonds, cashews or walnuts. And the use of whipped cream or a vegetable-based margarine with butter aroma will make meatless favorite sweets: Air cakes and sweet pastries.

Maria Bykov

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