Lenten menu can be no less diverse,than usual. And, of course, Lenten dishes can please the delicate and refined, or spicy and tart taste. An example of excellent taste and a huge variety of sweaty dishes can become lean soups, purees.
Delicious lean soup is not so rare asmay seem to an ignorant person. And you can cook it from almost any vegetable, and not only vegetables. For example, soup-mashed potatoes "Mushroom Glade". Prepare this soup of fresh mushrooms (they need about 400 grams), several large potatoes, large carrots, onions, greens and spices. Most of the mushrooms should be finely chopped, but just a few pieces should be left intact, they will be useful for decorating a ready dish. Potatoes are peeled, finely chopped, spread together with mushrooms in a saucepan and poured with water. Then they put it on the fire and bring the water in it to a boil, salt.
While the water is heated, you need to cut the carrots,put it on a frying pan and fry in vegetable oil. To fry it is necessary and beforehand chopped onions. Both are thrown into boiling water, add salt and favorite spices. When the potatoes are ready, part of the broth is poured from the pan, and the rest is poured into a blender and ground to a mashed state. If the soup is too thick, it is bred with a fused broth. Mushrooms, which were put aside aside at the very beginning of cooking, must be cut into plastics and fried in oil until pleasant, golden in color. Soup before serving is poured on plates and gently spread on top of fried mushrooms and sprinkle all with herbs.
Постные супы-пюре на основе грибов наиболее are common among others. That's why it makes sense to bring another recipe for mushroom soup. This time it will be based on white mushrooms, 300 g. You need to cut them with plastics, not too thinly. Cut the mushrooms into the water and bring to a boil. Then the mushrooms are taken out of the broth and fried in a frying pan with grated garlic and a small amount of flour. Then fried mushrooms are transferred back to the broth and boiled again, salt and spices are added, then they are stooled and ground in a blender.
But mushrooms are not the only thing that they make oflean soups-mashed potatoes. Quite often the basis for such soups is a variety of cabbage. Here, for example, one of the cabbage recipes. For this dish, you need 200 grams of broccoli, colored and white cabbage, one Bulgarian pepper, tomato, onion, and a can of red canned beans.
All vegetables are ground and boiled for 20minutes, then all the contents of a can of beans are laid out to them, they are salted and cooked for about 5 minutes. It remains only to grind it all in a blender, and the soup is ready.
Another wonderful soup-puree is brewed from peas.Pea according to this recipe is necessary about a glass. It should be soaked in cold water for about five hours, you can overnight. The eighth part of the celery root and half the root of parsley is cleaned and cut into strips.
In the wetted peas add the roots of celery and parsley and put on fire. When the water boils, the power is reduced to a minimum and left to cook until cooked, an average of about 1.5 hours.
While cooking peas, you need to clean andcut the onions and carrots and fry them in a pan. When the peas are ready, roasted onion and carrots are added to it, mixed and left to boil for another 5 minutes. The resulting mass in the blender is brought to the state of mashed potatoes, poured again into a saucepan and once again brought to a boil, after which the soup can only cool to serve on the table.
Finally, the recipe for pumpkin soup is puree.800 g of pumpkin, 300 g of carrots and 2 onions cut into pieces of medium size. Garlic cloves are cut into two or three pieces. All vegetables are fried in sunflower oil for 5-7 minutes. Then the vegetables are poured with a liter of water. Add grated fresh ginger, a root about 5 cm long and salt. The pan is put on the stove and the soup is cooked for 15 minutes. Then the vegetables are ground in a blender and 100 ml of 20% cream are added to the soup.
It is to be hoped that after this article, lean soups-mashed potatoes will at least be slightly more popular.
