12 Meatless dishes for Christmas - traditional Christmas meatless recipes - some dishes prepared for Christmas

12 traditional dishes for Christmas in the Orthodox and Greek Catholics comprise only meatless Christmas recipes. To be precise, these dishes are prepared on Christmas Eve (Holy Evening, Svyatvecher or Holy Supper), which is celebrated on the night before Christmas, from 6 to 7 January (from 24 to 25 December on the Gregorian calendar, it was at this time is celebrated today, as the title of , Catholic Christmas). Meat dishes are placed on the Christmas table just after the Christmas - January 7. Today we consider the traditional meatless dishes on Christmas, that is, on Christmas Eve -.. Svyatvecher, and find out what they ate for Christmas, our ancestors and, based on these traditions, we'll decide what to cook for Christmas to us today, some traditional Christmas dishes to choose and how to make yourself a quick, easy and tasty lean Christmas menu 2019.

Before proceeding to digest food, you need to answer a simple but important question - how many meals should be at Christmas and why cook 12 dishes. Possible answers - the number of the Apostles in Jesus Christ and / or the number of months in a year. Now, we will choose what to cook meatless meals for Christmas.

Christmas kutya

Kutya, sochivo, kutstsya, kutsya or kolivo - this dish is a symbol of unity with God and with the departed ancestors, as well as prosperity and opportunity purification. Its structure, too, is symbolic: grains of wheat - the revival of life, poppy - link our souls with the souls of the dead, and honey - the sweetness of the earthly life and the joy of the birth of Christ. Kutya leads all traditional Christmas recipes begin with her meal and it is left on the table after the meal end as a feast, and homage to the souls of departed ancestors. The so-called Christmas kutya preparing during the winter celebrations three times:

• on the night before Christmas - a rich kutia;
• in the night on the eve of the Old New Year - Generous kutya;
• on the eve of Epiphany - Hungry kutya.

Christmas kutyu, depending on the region, traditionally prepared from different cereals. This delicious ritual porridge can be cooked whole grains of wheat, rice, barley, pearl barley, too, you can find recipes kuti millet. To a well cooked-grain honey added (at honey intolerance can be sugar), milled or poppy tenderized, chopped nuts, raisins steamed and / or other dried fruits. All the ingredients are well mixed and infused. In our time, quickly, easily and conveniently, you can cook in kutyu multivarka. Its classic, traditional recipe for how to cook kutyu of wheat at Christmas shows Natasha Parkhomenko on YouTube. We offer to view it simple, delicious, and detailed step by step video recipe.

What are baked for Christmas

Following traditional dishes for Christmas is baking. By a holiday hostess always baked homemade bread, cakes, donuts and dumplings, meatless pies and cakes with fish, cabbage, mushrooms, potatoes, cheese, apples or jam. Lenten pastries put itself at the head of the table as a symbol of male energy, strength, and health given to each person and the whole nature of God. Simple and interesting step by step recipes with photos decorated a lean Christmas baking will find by clicking on the links apart. And if you decide to bake donuts in garlic borscht from lean yeast dough, you can use a video-recipe from youtube channel attribution Delicious minute.

If you want to prepare a tasty, light and airy as a feather Lenten donuts for dessert, it will certainly pay attention to this video recipe from the YouTube channel KreativnayaKuhnya.

Lenten salads for Christmas

At least one of the 12 Christmas dishes should be meatless salad. If desired, you can be prepared, and several such light and delicious dishes. Recipes may be very different. Prepare simple and tasty meatless salads for Christmas with beans and squid with mushrooms and fish with crab sticks and from canned fish, beet, cabbage, with canned corn or pot and other vegetable salads. All suitable for the occasion, and the ingredients are not listed. Numerous meatless salad of cooked dishes, mainly based on vegetable oil, coupled with different aromatic and savory spices. You surely have your favorite recipes and salads, but if you want something fresh and new, then try to do, for example, the lean salad with mushrooms and beans.

The most famous meatless salad - a classic salad has a lot of cooking options. In addition to traditional recipes (with pickles and sauerkraut), you can make vinaigrette with herring or olives. New unusual step by step recipe with photos can choose on our website at the link above.

Loved by many mistresses Shuba salad if to cook it without eggs and replace the classic mayonnaise on a lean, easy and can simply take pride of place in the Christmas menu. Do you want an unusual and original recipe, you can use a recipe coats with nori. In addition, you can replace the red herring fish and salmon under a fur coat made into a removable form or in the form of a roll.

This video recipe will help you prepare just two delicious meatless salads. In both recipes base - boiled potatoes in their jackets. In the first case it is connected to the potato sauerkraut, and the second - with beans and mushrooms pickled. UNITY - piquant, original and very interesting.

marinating and pickles - vegetables, mushrooms, fish

Thinking about what to eat for Christmas, we can not ignore such cold meatless meals like pickles. Each summer and fall of the family make such blanks from crunchy cucumbers, bright juicy tomatoes, vitamins and appetizing cabbage, wild mushrooms ... and many more from what. Therefore, such a cold appetizer, for the majority, not the problem. ???? But, even if you did not at the time of these blanks, no reason to get upset. Our simple step by step recipe photos will help you to easily make, for starters, marinated mushrooms fast food.

This is a quick and very tasty vitamin salad of cabbage, carrots, beets and other fresh vegetables successfully replace missing sauerkraut.

From the unusual cold fish appetizers can be prepared marinated sea bass.

Or pink salmon salted Fast food. Pink salmon, salted salmon under will appear on your desktop if you are using this simple recipe and step decorated with photos.

Following the link Home salting fish, you can easily and easy to cook at home the original pickled pike, delicious salted herring or pickled mackerel.

Lean Christmas soup - delicious and easy

One of 12 traditional dishes for Christmas should be lean first dish that serves as a symbol of harmony, simplicity and modesty. This can lean beet soup with lugs or classic vegetable soup with garlic donuts, delicious mushroom soup with rice and vegetables or kapustnyak, cabbage or, simply, cabbage soup.

You do not know how to cook a beet vegetable soup with ears? Boil this is not very simple, but very tasty Christmas soup will help video recipe from the YouTube channel Home Restaurant. I note only that the filling in the ears can be not only a mushroom. Mushrooms in the stuffing can easily be replaced by potatoes or sauerkraut.

If you choose to include in their festive menus for Christmas lean kapustnyak with mushrooms, then cook it recommend using a video recipe for Maxim Grigoriev. Before watching the video, I note that if you do not want to cook cabbage soup with millet, simply replace it with rice. If you do not have dried porcini mushrooms, then they can be replaced and the budget available mushrooms. Of course, Christmas kapustnyak will be no longer the flavor and aroma, but is also very tasty. ????

Meatless dumplings on Christmas table

Thinking about what dishes to prepare for Christmas, be sure to remember the dumplings - a symbol of family income and procreation. It was one of the most important festive dishes you ate for Christmas, our ancestors. Popular dumplings were not only in most Slavic countries, but also, for example, Chinese and Italian cuisine. In the old days they were prepared only for major holidays. Therefore, do not ignore it is a traditional dish in the preparation of their menu for Christmas.

On meatless dumplings knead the dough without eggs, and stuffing cooked in vegetable oil. Stuffing for dumplings for Christmas can be easy - simply out of potatoes, mushrooms and cabbage. If you need a simple, yet delicious cabbage stuffing for dumplings, just watch the video and be sure to repeat this step by step recipe at home.

But as Christmas a great holiday, then preparing for it, housewives prefer more complex mixed stuffing and cooking, for example, dumplings with mushrooms and potatoes or cabbage and mushrooms.

Channel Author IrinaCooking on Youtube in his video recipe in detail and step by step shows not only how to mix the lean dough to dumplings and cook two types of stuffing - potatoes with mushrooms and pumpkin with onions and herbs, but also how to cook and serve them to lean table. If you need this information, then see the video, and if you do not need, then go ahead. ????

Meatless dumplings to the table, you can submit just a fried onion, and you can cook lean mushroom gravy or Machanka. Full details of the author demonstrates in his video. If the video does not go on the site - see link on Youtube.

Fish for Christmas - fried or baked in the oven

If you want to set the table on Christmas Eve or the Holy Supper properly, do not forget a part of the Christmas menu include the delicious fried fish or a fragrant and delicate fish baked in the oven. Fish in Christmas symbolism has two meanings - the feminine and the symbol of Christ. In Greek, the name of Christ, written as ІHTІOS, at the same time means "fish". Therefore, meatless dishes on Christmas Day must be a fish.

In many countries, popular and traditional hot snack stands Christmas carp. Recipes cook it there very much. I chose and I would venture to suggest two. The first video will show how to prepare the recipe for Christmas carp in the Czech Republic. The author, or rather, the authors carp baked in the oven in the beer. Of video at the same time learn how to cook the world-famous traditional Czech bramborovy salad.

This recipe, also from Czech cuisine. But in the oven baked fish is not a whole, but only the fillet, and even under a fur coat from onions, mushrooms, apples and cheese with mayonnaise. This unique combination of products gives baked Christmas carp unique taste. Video bit overcast, but be patient - it's worth it. ???? The proposed recipe baked carp simple and delicious.

Cabbage stew with mushrooms - Salt or kapustnyak

Recipes cabbage on Christmas menu, as well as all the other dishes considered here, too, came not in vain. Strong and stiff Kachan cabbage symbolizes simplicity and strength. As all the leaves tightly together around a solid and reliable basis, and all the people come together around God.

Names like recipes, this Christmas dishes are different. Cooking can be used as fresh and sauerkraut or a mixture thereof. Mushrooms, too, can take different. The most refined version - white mushrooms. But, if you do not, then it's not much reason to be upset. feel free to use any other forest mushrooms. Suitable and available today for all the mushrooms or oyster mushrooms. In any case, you get a very tasty and fragrant Christmas dish.

The first option that I want to offer - fresh cabbage with mushrooms. Step by step recipe with photos will quickly learn and repeat the preparation steps.

Next Christmas recipe - pickled cabbage stew with mushrooms. Author video demonstrates in great detail all the stages. The finished dish out very tasty and perfect for the holiday table at Christmas.

Beans, peas or beans

Christmas dishes from beans serve as a symbol of the unity of, the opportunity to be reborn after the fall, a symbol of spring and rebirth of the Divine. And it was thought that the beans, bring prosperity. So what is eaten on Christmas Day of beans or peas? What dish can be prepared for the Holy Supper? By the Christmas table can be boiled whole beans and serve as a food, which is now known to all as lobio. Similarly, you can cook both white and red kidney beans.

Another dish that can be made at Christmas and served hot - a puree of peas or beans. In our time, a tasty pea puree fast enough, you can cook in multivarka.

How to make mashed beans learn from the video recipe. Author, shooting video, shows a variant of cooking this dish with meat, but in our case, we can not put it simply and save money. ????

And of boiled white beans or red bean paste can be prepared and used in cold snacks as a separate dish or spreads on sandwiches. Step by step recipe with photos to help you add an option of cooked beans in his Christmas menu.

Nut, too, of the legume family. Therefore, I recommend to prepare a fragrant and delicious hummus, too, a kind of mashed potatoes, but of chickpeas. Although not a traditional Christmas dish, but if you like variety, then it deserves to be on the holiday table at Christmas.

Meatless cabbage rolls

From time immemorial, cabbage leaves served as a symbol of procreation. Where children and parents are today? That's right - in the cabbage. ???? A stuffed (and pigeons), a symbol of God's love, beauty and strength.

Meatless cabbage rolls for the holiday table can be prepared with a variety of fillings. There cabbage recipes with millet, barley, buckwheat, mushrooms and potatoes, rice and fish, and even with raw potatoes. Clicking on the links, you can use your favorite recipe with step by step photos, and you can, using a video recipe from Olga Matthew, make a simple but very tasty stuffed with mushrooms.

Uzvar of dried fruits

And so, they drink for Christmas? Traditional drink of the Holy Night, or Christmas Eve, it uzvar - simple, healthy, flavorful and delicious compote of dried fruits. It should be noted that kutia uzvar and - most important of all the 12 courses which prepare for Christmas. The Christmas menu uzvar - a symbol of life, which is given by God to all people on Earth. Water - the basis of the traditional drink - a symbol of purification of both soul and body. How can cook uzvar dried fruit? It must be repeated again that cooking Uzvara has so many options. The initial composition of products, too, may be very different: dried pears with apples, prunes and apricots, rosehips, cherries, raisins ... A good option is the one that you no longer have to taste. But to brew the drink properly, and it was useful, it is necessary when preparing to follow the simple rules. What kind? If interested, ask them from the video recipe from the YouTube channel Delicious dialogue with Elena Bazhenova.

On it, maybe it was possible to stop, but today rarely manages the kitchen without Multivarki. Therefore, I recommend to view still and video recipe from Olga Matthew - Christmas uzvar in multivarka.

Baked apples for dessert

Apples in the Christmas menu symbolize the connection with ancestors, sort of a fortress, a symbol of love and the importance of the feminine. Therefore, it is desirable that you have selected meatless dishes on Christmas came and the oven baked apples. Again, I recommend the recipe from the charming Olga Matthew. It is very detailed step by step recipe recommends adding in every little piece of apple butter, but Svyatvecher easy and simple, you can do without it. Otherwise, the recipe is simple and perfectly suited to the Lenten festive table on Christmas Eve. But when you bake the apples for Christmas, be sure to try to prepare as the author suggests. ????

Of course, we collected on fasting traditional Christmas recipes for meatless dishes are not exhausted. On cooking sites on the Internet and on YouTube skilled and experienced hostess offer their favorite, tested and taken root in theirs families options 12 Christmas dishes. And every version of dishes that are prepared for Christmas, for their own interest, and certainly unique. Therefore, learn, what they ate and eat other and lay out their best and favorite, simple and delicious, new, interesting and original Christmas recipes.