Lenten baking - 294 cooking recipes

Most of any baked goods can be considered Lenten if they do not contain any dairy products or eggs. However, if there are natural substitutes for both, any baking recipe can be made lean. For example, replace eggs with bananas or starch. Butter - lean margarine, milk - vegetable broth, and so on.

For reference: you need to focus on Lenten baked goods not because they are supposedly “low-calorie” (because they are not!), but because they are suitable for serving during Lent. When eating animal products is prohibited for religious reasons. Or when a person leads a vegetarian lifestyle. If you are hoping to eat something like Lenten cakes and pies while losing weight, then this is a harmful myth that cannot be believed. It is better for a person who wants to normalize their weight to switch to a healthy, balanced diet. And it extremely rarely includes all kinds of pies, even if they are lean.

Lenten baking recipes can be prepared based on yeast, unleavened, puff pastry, shortbread, and biscuit dough. They can be: pies, pies, buns, cookies, gingerbread, shortcakes, rolls, cakes, pastries, muffins. Almost any pastry with sweet or savory filling.

Russia’s favorite mannikas, charlottes, gingerbreads, baked with one layer of jellied dough, can be made lean, without eggs, butter, milk, kefir or sour cream. And they will taste no worse than their buttery versions. By the way, even Easter baking can be made Lenten, if you so desire.