Pancake Week or cheese, that is pancake week - a cheerful folk festival. The next day after the end of Lent begins, during which will have to give up many of the foods.
Tasty Pancake meatless meals without meat.
So long been on Shrove Tuesday people tried to "unburden" all sorts of goodies to eat before a long abstinence.
Before Carnival was one and the orders were all united. Now follow the traditions are not so strict, so there was like two Maslenitsa church with strict rules and canons, and folk, when every chooses for himself what he is, and how to behave during the cheese week. From Carnival in these were only pancakes.
In fact, observe the tradition is not too difficult because there are a lot of very tasty dishes without meat. You can easily create a menu to suit individual tastes and features. For example, such a menu.
The menu, delicious meatless meals
Breakfast.
Tea, coffee, cappuccino - who was accustomed.
Fritters with sour cream, butter or jam.
Species there are so many pancakes. It is safe to say each family has its own recipe. Offer to cook these:
1. Pancakes at yogurt with raisins and apples
Ingredients:
yogurt 0, 5 liters
Eggs 2 pcs.
Sugar to taste
Soda pinch
Raisins, apples
Flour
In a saucepan pour the yogurt. If the yogurt out of the refrigerator, to give it to stand at room temperature.
Pour baking soda and stir. Kefir must rise foam cap. Beat the eggs in a blender with the sugar (who do not have a mixer, can be whipped and manually)
Apples clean, cut into small cubes, add to the mix (it is desirable to cut into cubes, and do not rub on a grater, that was not too finely). Add the raisins.
Gradually add flour, stirring constantly. The exact rules for the flour is no need to add it until the dough is thick enough not work, but that it can spread to the pan with a spoon.
Oil for frying not shed much, otherwise the pancakes will not produce lush. If such fritters frying pan-shaped bottom, they will not only delicious, but also beautiful, and these can apply for the festive table.
Lunch.
Fish soup (fish soup)
Vegetable Casserole.
Salad.
Pancakes different species.
2. Fish soup (fish soup)
Ear is made from different species of fish, river, sea, road, cheap. To prepare the soup there any common rules. Take the usual river carp average.
The fish should be well washed, cleaned of scales. (Some advise to cook fish with scales. No benefit from this, but there is then a difficult fish) to remove from the head of the gills. From the belly to remove all the innards, including a thin black film on the walls.
If the fish have caviar, it can be added in the ear at the end of cooking, after crushing a spoon to eggs were separated from one another. Prepared fish put in boiling water, add salt to taste, spices, onion cleaned.
Cook until tender, but not more than 15 minutes! Sometimes, to cook fish, enough for 7-10 minutes (depending on size) Give broth brew.
After that, remove the fish and place on a separate dish, and be sure to drain the broth. Further from the finished broth can be prepared in various kinds of soup - Rostov, fishing, and other Burlatskii. It all depends on what to add.
Greek ear prepared as follows: in the finished soup is added to peeled potatoes, cut into 4 pieces, carrots, sliced in neat slices, always green. Two minutes until cooked add the dry white wine. No quantitative norms, everything is taste. Serve soup separately from the fish is served fresh vegetable salad.
3. Vegetable Casserole
Ingredients:
Potatoes 3-4 pieces. medium size
Onion 1 pc.
Carrot 1 pc. large or 2 pieces. fine. All the vegetables raw.
Slices of fresh fish (any)
Mayonnaise, salt, pepper, spices.
At the bottom of a deep heat-resistant dish with thick walls drip a little vegetable oil. I note that the final result will depend on the food flavor oils and mayonnaise, this should be considered.
Put an even layer of slices of fresh fish. The next layer - finely chopped onion. Top layer of chopped grated carrots. The last layer - sliced potatoes into small pieces. Season with salt and pepper, add the spices.
It is advisable to repeat the procedure again, layer by layer. Spread all the third time, even if deep dishes. Not recommended, because in this case, the dish will burn around the edges and in the middle of no propechetsya.
Ready layers evenly covered with mayonnaise and bake in the oven at medium temperature.
To be continued....
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