What to cook at home from rice in fasting? TOP 4 lean delicious recipes with rice. Culinary Cooking Tips and Chefs' Secrets.
Have you decided to observe Great Lent? Then correctly rebuild your body to a new mode of work. In order not to feel hungry and not to give up familiar foods, we offer TOP-5 lean recipes with a familiar product like rice. Lean rice dishes will easily tune the body to a new diet, and you will have a varied diet.
Cooking Tips & Chef Secrets
- Rice accepts the aromas of the accompanying products well. Therefore, do not rush to reject pilaf without meat. Combine rice with most vegetables: onions, carrots, garlic. It can be mixed with mushrooms for a salad. Also, rice is combined with a variety of fruits and dried fruits (raisins, dried apricots, prunes). All kinds of spices will add flavor to the rice.
- There are many types of rice. For a regular side dish, choose any long grain varieties. Round or medium grain rice is not suitable for side dishes.
- Choose a package of rice with as much whole grains as possible. Broken rice cooks faster than whole rice, so in the finished dish they will be boiled and stick together into lumps.
- The classic proportion of cooking rice is a 1: 2 ratio of rice to water. Then it will not turn into rice porridge. Usually, water is used to boil rice, but rice will taste better if boiled in vegetable broth.
- A beautiful and tasty side dish will turn out if dry rice is pre-fried in a pan in vegetable oil, and then pour over with liquid and boil.
Cabbage rolls with rice, mushrooms and olives
Lean cabbage rolls with rice, mushrooms and olives have a rich taste due to stewing in tomato sauce. You can add fried pumpkin pieces and boiled white beans to the stuffing for stuffed cabbage rolls.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 169 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 1 hour 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Rice - 250 g
- Champignons - 400 g
- Olives - 100 g
- Tomato paste - 100 g
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- White cabbage - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 2 pcs.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Seasonings to taste
- Salt to taste
Cooking cabbage rolls with rice, mushrooms and olives:
- Wash the head of cabbage, remove the top dirty inflorescences and stick a large knife into the stump. Dip the cabbage in boiling salted water and cook the cabbage by the handle for a few minutes. With another knife, cut the top leaves at the base of the stump and remove them. Thus, gradually remove the required number of leaves from the fork and cool them slightly.
- Rinse the rice in several waters to wash off all the gluten and boil in salted water until half cooked.
- Wash the mushrooms, cut into slices and send to fry in a heated pan with vegetable oil.
- Peel the onions, wash, chop finely and add to the pan to the mushrooms. When all the moisture released from them has evaporated.
- Season with mushroom seasoning and sauté onion with mushrooms until golden.
- Peel the carrots, grate on a coarse grater and fry them separately in a pan until golden brown.
- Cut the olives into rings.
- Combine all foods except cabbage leaves with carrots and stir.
- Cut the seals off the cabbage leaves, place them on the countertop and place the filling on top of them.
- Wrap the cabbage leaves in an envelope or roll and fry in a pan until golden brown on both sides.
- Place the cabbage rolls in an ovenproof dish, cover with fried carrots on top and pour over with tomato sauce. If thick, dilute with water.
- Simmer cabbage rolls with rice, mushrooms and olives in the oven at 200 ° C for 20 minutes.
Lean Rice Soup
Lean Rice Soup is a great option for a hearty, healthy, everyday fasting first course. Although it can be cooked on ordinary days, and it is permissible to modify the composition, and add mushrooms, zucchini, green beans, etc. to the basic ingredients.
Ingredients:
- Rice - 120 g
- Potatoes - 250 g
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Bulb onions - 1 pc.
- Bulgarian pepper - 0.5 pcs.
- Green peas - 50 g
- Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
- Parsley - 10 g
- Tomatoes in their own juice - 2 tablespoons
- Salt to taste
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
Making Lean Rice Soup:
- Peel the potatoes, wash, cut into medium cubes and place in a cooking pot. Fill the tubers with water and cook on the stove.
- Wash the rice well to wash off all the gluten and add to the pot with the potatoes.
- Season with salt and black pepper and cook the soup for 15 minutes until the potatoes and rice are almost cooked.
- Meanwhile, peel the onions and carrots, wash and chop finely. Send vegetables to a preheated skillet with vegetable oil.
- Peel the bell pepper from the seed box, cut into small cubes and add to the pan to the onions and carrots.
- Saute vegetables until golden brown, stirring occasionally, and place in a saucepan.
- Then add green peas, you can use it frozen.
- Add tomato slices or substitute tomato puree.
- Taste potatoes with rice until done. Adjust the flavor with salt and pepper and add finely chopped parsley.
Fish meatballs
Lean fish balls are a great alternative to meat counterparts. They turn out to be no less tasty, soft and juicy. At the same time, the recipe for minced fish with rice is minimalist.
Ingredients:
- Rice - 200 g
- Fish fillet - 400 g
- Bulb onions - 0.5 pcs.
- Soy sauce - 50 ml
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Water - on demand
- Semolina - 2 tablespoons
- Salt to taste
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
Cooking fish balls:
- Wash the rice well, cover with water in a ratio of 1: 2 and boil under a lid over low heat after boiling for 10 minutes until half cooked.
- Peel the onions, wash, cut into small pieces and fry in a frying pan in vegetable oil until transparent.
- Wash the fish fillet, dry it and turn it twice through a meat grinder. Or purée with a food processor or blender until completely homogeneous.
- Combine minced fish, boiled rice, fried onions and semolina. Pour in the soy sauce, salt, pepper and stir. Leave the minced meat to stand for 15 minutes so that the semolina absorbs all the moisture and increases in volume, and the minced meat becomes more sticky.
- Use your hands soaked in oil to form balls and fry them on all sides in vegetable oil in a preheated skillet over moderate heat.
- Pour 200 ml of boiling water into a pan with fried meatballs so that the bottom is covered by at least 1 finger.
- Boil, cover the skillet with a lid and simmer the fish balls covered over low heat for 15 minutes.
Rice salad
The low calorie content allows this dish to be attributed not only to lean, but also dietary. Lean rice salad is light enough, but nutritious and healthy. consists of a variety of vegetables.
Ingredients:
- Rice - 8 tablespoons
- Cucumbers - 1 pc.
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Green peas - 100 g (frozen or fresh)
- Sweet red peppers - 100 g (frozen or fresh)
- Corn - 100 g (frozen or fresh)
- Parsley - a small bunch
- Chives - 4 feathers
- Olive - 5 tablespoons
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Lemon - 0.5 pcs.
- Salt to taste
- Ground black pepper –0.5 tsp.
Making Lean Rice Salad:
- Wash the rice with cold water, pour into a saucepan with a thick bottom, pour in 500 ml of water, salt and cook under a lid over medium heat until tender. Cool the cooked rice completely and transfer to a salad bowl.
- Peel the carrots, wash, grate on a coarse grater and add to the rice.
- Wash the cucumber, cut into cubes and send after the carrots.
- If using frozen bell peppers, corn, and green peas, pour boiling water over them for 5 minutes. Then drain the hot water and add to the bowl to the ingredients.
- If using fresh peppers, wash, peel and cut into small cubes. Pour boiling water over fresh corn with green peas and cook separately for 2-5 minutes.
- Chop the parsley and selenium onions and add to the lean rice salad.
- Peel the garlic and pass through a press. Add the squeezed juice from half a lemon, olive oil, salt and pepper.
- Season the salad with the prepared sauce and stir the mixture thoroughly.
