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Is it possible to eat seafood during Lent - squid, shrimp, etc.?
Hello, dear visitors of the Orthodox website “Family and Faith”!
There is probably no more pressing issue among fasting people than the issue of seafood. Of course, deep down we would like to hear an affirmative answer from some respectable and spiritual priest (or even better, a Patriarch) who would say that you can definitely eat seafood during Lent! But this is only our desire...
So, is it possible to eat seafood during Lent - squid, shrimp, and other similar foods?
Fasting has spiritual goals, answers Hieromonk Job Gumerov. - However, bodily abstinence is also a certain sacrifice that we make to God. According to the teachings of the Holy Fathers, bodily fasting is an average virtue. Fasting must be done within one's ability. He teaches us moderation, the ability to control our desires. If the food mentioned in your letter is a treat for you, then refuse it. And one more piece of advice: if you haven’t eaten this food before during Lent, if you have developed an image of fasting for years, then do not deviate from your usual. Otherwise, from time to time you will have the thought that you have weakened the feat.
If we approach the issue from the point of view of the charter, then we must recall that the criterion for lean food is clear - plant food. Taxonomy includes squid, shrimp, etc. to the animal kingdom. Fish, which the statute allows on holidays, is considered semi-lenten food. Also seafood (shrimp, etc.).”
As you can see, our dear visitors, shrimp, squid and other seafood, with all our great desire, cannot be classified as plant foods. This is the animal world of the sea.
And if you find the opposite answer on some other Orthodox site and act on it (that is, you eat shrimp, squid, etc. during Lent), you will feel how your conscience will resist this food.
In fact, you are already great!
Since you are looking for an answer to this question (and not immediately, when you heard from someone about the possibility of eating seafood, you included them in your fasting diet), this indicates that you are taking Lent seriously!
P.S. Of course, if you are sick with a serious illness, or get a lot of physical activity at work, then you need to go to the priest and get his blessing to relax your fast.
God bless you all and help you approach the great holiday of Easter with a pure heart!
Before you, our dear visitors, Culinary section, which contains four subsections:
Mushroom caviar
Salted mushrooms - 70 g, dried - 20 g, vegetable oil - 15 g, onions - 10 g, green onions - 20 g,
vinegar 3-5 percent - 5 g, garlic, salt and pepper to taste.
This caviar is prepared from dried or salted mushrooms, as well as from a mixture of them.
Wash and cook dried mushrooms until tender, cool, finely chop or mince. Salted mushrooms should be washed in cold water and also chopped. Finely chopped onions, fried in vegetable oil, add mushrooms and simmer for 10 - 15 minutes. In 3 min. Before the end of stewing, add crushed garlic, vinegar, pepper, and salt. Place the finished caviar in a heap on a plate and sprinkle with green onions.
Rassolnik Novo-Troitsky
5 ruffes, 400 g pike perch, 400 g fresh (frozen) fatty fish, preferably sturgeon, 400 g salted fish,
10 - 15 crayfish, 2 parsley roots, 5 pickles, 2 tbsp. l. flour, cucumber pickle, salt, pepper to taste,
1 tbsp. l. tomato puree, 1 bunch of dill.
Place the ruffs in gauze, tie it into a knot and place it in a pan of water. Add parsley root, salt and cook the fish soup. When the soup is cooked, remove the gauze with ruffs from it and strain. Then cook portioned pieces of large fish in it. Place the cooked fish in cold salted water. Boil salted fish separately. In a heated pan, fry the flour, dilute it with hot cucumber brine, bring to a boil, add the broth from cooking fresh fish and boil again. Then put the side dish in the pan: pieces of boiled fish, cucumbers simmered with tomatoes until soft, boiled crayfish tails. Place dill in plates with pickle sauce.
Fish cutlets
1 kg hake or cod, 2 onions, 150 g bread, flour, 100 g vegetable oil, black pepper, salt,
1 tsp. Sahara.
Clean the fish, wash it, separate the fillets from the bones and grind through a meat grinder along with fried onions and squeezed out bread, season with sugar, pepper, add flour, mix to form thick minced meat. Form cutlets, roll in breadcrumbs, fry in vegetable oil until golden brown. Place the cutlets in a saucepan, add fish broth, and place in the oven for 20 minutes. Serve with potatoes.
Cupcake with raisins and nuts
Wheat flour - 4 tbsp., sugar - 2 tbsp., vegetable oil - 1 tbsp., walnuts - 1 tbsp., apple broth - 2 tbsp., soda - 1 tsp., ground cinnamon - 1 tsp. , vinegar 3 percent - 1 tbsp. l., salt to taste.
Grind sugar and butter, add salt, raisins, finely chopped nuts, dilute with a decoction of dried apples, add soda. Gradually add flour, cinnamon, vinegar and mix. Place the dough in a greased pan. Bake for 50 - 55 minutes. in a preheated oven. Serve with tea or coffee, cut into portions.
Lenten lunch No. 12. Delicious recipes for Lent
Hello, our dear visitors!
Lent is coming to an end. There are only 10 days left until Easter! These calculations make my soul happy! But the stomach, which has received only plant foods for more than five weeks, is waiting for Easter any day now! So that he doesn’t get offended at us at all, we can offer him delicious Lenten dishes.
Vegetable soup with pumpkin and Brussels sprouts
In olive oil, sauté leeks cut into thick rings, carrots cut into slices and pumpkin cubes. Bring salted water to a boil. Add Brussels sprouts, diced celery and peppers and sautéed vegetables, add beans and olives and cook on low for 15 minutes. Before serving, sprinkle with chopped parsley.
1 leek (white part only), 1 red sweet pepper, 1/4 celery tuber, 1 carrot, 100 g beans, 10 heads of Brussels sprouts, 200 g pumpkin, 3 tbsp. l. olives, 3 tbsp. l. olive oil, a few sprigs of parsley, salt to taste.
Salad with tofu and beans
Wash the lettuce leaves, sort and dry, then tear into large pieces or cut into strips. Drain the liquid from the can of beans and cut the tofu into cubes. Grate the walnuts and garlic on a fine grater. Mix the prepared lettuce leaves with beans, add soy cheese, walnuts, garlic and cilantro leaves, add salt to taste and sprinkle with sesame oil.
1 head of iceberg lettuce, 1 can (400 g) canned red beans, 200 g soy cheese tofu, 100 g walnuts, 1 clove garlic, a few sprigs of cilantro, 2 tbsp. l. sesame oil.
Honey cake with cherries
Pour hot water into a bowl, add sugar, honey, cocoa, ginger, cinnamon, lemon juice and zest. Stir until sugar and honey are completely dissolved. Add baking powder and flour and mix thoroughly. Cover the pan with parchment and pour in the dough. arrange frozen cherries, chocolate broken into random pieces and sprinkle with almonds. Bake at 175 degrees for 1 hour.
250 g flour, 150 g brown sugar, 3 tbsp. l. liquid honey, 50 g lean dark chocolate (90%), 50 g almond petals, 1 cup frozen cherries, 2 packets of baking powder, 200 - 250 ml hot water, juice and core of half a lemon, 1/4 tsp cinnamon , 1/4 tsp. ground ginger, 3 tbsp. l. cocoa powder
Lenten pancakes
Mix flour, sugar, water and yeast and place in a warm place for 1.5 hours. Do not stir the finished dough! Place in a frying pan with vegetable oil with a spoon dipped in cold water and fry until golden brown. Serve with jam or honey. 2 cups flour, 1.5 cups warm water, 3 tbsp. l. sugar, 1.5 tsp. dry yeast, vegetable oil
Excellent fish and vegetable lunch with pie!
Trout soup
1 trout, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 3 - 4 stalks of celery, parsley root along with herbs, 3 - 4 cloves of garlic, rice, salt, herbs, lemon.
Cut off the fins from the trout, cut off the head and tail, and remove the skin along with the scales. Place cleaned and thoroughly washed trout in a saucepan with water, add salt and bring to a boil over high gas, skimming off foam and excess fat. In a dry frying pan, lightly brown 1 onion and 1 carrot. Reduce gas, add onions and carrots, as well as celery stalks, garlic and parsley root to the soup and cook for about 30 - 40 minutes until the fish is cooked. Remove the fish, separate the bones and prepare portioned pieces in a separate bowl. Strain the broth and boil. Separately, cook fluffy rice (preferably long-grain varieties; jasmine variety works well). Place rice, a few pieces of fish in plates, pour in broth and sprinkle with herbs. Serve thinly sliced lemon separately and add it to the soup if desired.
Risotto with vegetables
1 package of frozen green beans, some frozen cauliflower, 300 g of rice, 1 onion, vegetable oil, salt, sugar, a few green onions for decoration.
Risotto is a traditional dish of Italian cuisine. During cooking, this dish must be constantly stirred to obtain a creamy consistency. Arborio rice is best suited for risotto, as this rice has a neutral taste and has the ability to highlight the taste of other foods.
Boil 1.5 liters of water with a pinch of salt and 1/2 tsp. Sahara. Boil frozen green beans for 10 minutes, remove and set aside. Boil several inflorescences of frozen cauliflower in the same water and remove. Finely chop the onion and simmer it until transparent in a deep frying pan in vegetable oil, add 300 g of rice, stir and also bring until transparent. Gradually add vegetable broth to the rice, stirring with a fork. Bring the rice to readiness and mix with the prepared vegetables. Garnish with green onions.
Pie with apples and lingonberries
Yeast dough, 5 - 6 sour apples, half a glass of lingonberries, 1.5 tbsp. l. starch, half a glass of sugar.
Prepare the yeast dough, roll it out into a layer 1.5 cm thick and place in a round pan lined with baking paper. Prepare the filling; Peel the apples, cut into small pieces, mix with lingonberries, add sugar and simmer lightly in a thick-bottomed saucepan over low heat. When the juice stands out, add 1.5 tbsp. l. starch and stir the filling until the starch is completely dissolved. When the filling thickens, cool it and place it on the prepared dough. Raise the sides. Roll out several strips of dough thinly and place on the pie in the form of a lattice. Bake for 35 minutes at 200 degrees.
Sweet pies can be decorated by sprinkling them with powdered sugar. To ensure that the powder is distributed evenly, it is convenient to use a special fly sieve or simply pour the powder through a strainer with small holes. Only completely cooled pies can be decorated with powdered sugar.
Angela at mealtime!
Fish lunch. Recipes
Cabbage soup with fresh cabbage and fish
300 g sturgeon with head or 350 g pike perch, or 1 kg head, 800 g fresh cabbage, 1 carrot, parsley root, 2 onions, 1/2 turnip, 50 g butter, 3 tablespoons of tomato puree, greens, 1 bay leaf, 3 pcs. peppercorns; salt, 1 tablespoon flour.
Cut the filleted fish into pieces and simmer or boil until tender.
Cut white cabbage and vegetables into strips. Place fresh cabbage in strained boiling fish broth and bring to a boil.
After this, add the sauteed vegetables (onions, carrots, turnips, parsley), tomato puree and cook for 15-25 minutes. Then add peppercorns, bay leaf, salt, add flour, previously diluted with broth, and boil for another 5 minutes. You can cook cabbage soup without tomato puree.
When serving, place 2-3 pieces of fish or pieces of head flesh on a plate and sprinkle with chopped herbs.
Fish baked in Russian style
700-800 g fish fillet, 2 tablespoons butter, 1/2 cup grated cheese, 5-8 potatoes, 1/2 cup garlic mayonnaise, salt and ground pepper to taste.
Cut the fish fillet with skin into portions, place in a greased frying pan, add salt and pepper. Place slices of half-cooked potatoes around the fish, pour garlic mayonnaise over everything, sprinkle with grated cheese, sprinkle with butter and bake in the oven until golden brown. Before serving, drizzle with melted butter and sprinkle with parsley.
Lenten squid lunch for flu
Good afternoon, our dear visitors! Now it’s December outside the window, a cold month with a peak in colds and, of course, flu (where would we be without it). Our immunity is persistently fighting against all this viral invasion, which also requires good calories. But it's the Nativity fast. Meat, chicken and dairy products should not be eaten.
What to do?
The answer is simple - you need to switch to seafood, which contains such a wide variety of vitamins and minerals that not every fast food can have its equivalent.
For example - squid! The recipe for an excellent squid dinner is in front of you. Cook, eat and strengthen your immunity!
Squid with nuts
4 squid carcasses, a handful of walnuts, 2 slices of white bread, 3 cloves of garlic, 1/2 spoon of vegetable oil.
Clean the squids and boil them for five minutes in boiling salted water. Cool, remove any remaining skin. Cut into strips and mix with the sauce (grince the nuts and garlic through a meat grinder; squeeze out the bread crumb soaked in water and, while whisking, gradually add in the nut-garlic paste, lemon juice and vegetable oil). Garnish with thin lemon slices.
Sailor's ear
100 g squid 100 g potatoes 1 parsley root 1 onion tablespoon vegetable oil 1 tbsp. spoon tomato paste 5 allspice peas 1 bay leaf salt
Wash the squid, cut into pieces, cover with cold water, add salt, peppercorns, bay leaf and cook for 5-10 minutes. Fry finely chopped onions with tomato paste in butter. With the finished strained broth, add chopped potatoes, parsley root and cook until half cooked. Add fried onions, bring to readiness, sprinkle with herbs.
Hot saffron appetizer with tomato
1 cup boiled shredded. seaweed 1 cup boiled squid, cut into strips 1 onion 10-12 dates 2 tbsp. tablespoons vegetable oil 2 cloves garlic 1/2 cup tomato sauce 1/2 teaspoon saffron
Cut the onion into strips, fry in vegetable oil, add boiled shredded seaweed, sliced squid and fry for another 10-15 minutes. Pour the fried products with tomato sauce, bring to a boil, combine with finely chopped dates, sprinkle with chopped garlic and saffron.
Angela at mealtime! (Bon appetit!)
And God grant us all more health, for the main health is in His hands, and not in squids!
Is it possible to eat seafood during Lent: squid, shrimp, mussels? Many of those people who decide to fast do not know the correct answer to this question. Let's figure out together whether seafood is allowed during Lent.
It depends on how you approach it. There are clergy who claim that during Lent you can eat anything, but only in moderation. That is, eat the same way you ate before with only one condition: you must list all the foods by day. For example, fish on Wednesday, dumplings on Saturday.
Of course, if you are not a strongly religious person, then there is no need for you to fast. In old Russian times, under the tsars, peasants were strongly religious. We went to matins and vespers and gathered for veches. Then everyone knew what was possible and what was not.
Today, too, there are many true believers, and they claim that eating any food that is considered a delicacy or delicacy for you during fasting will become a great sin. Even the Bible says, do not take care of your belly, and do not fill your flesh for worldly pleasures.
Sea foods, squid, shrimp, crabs, lobsters are considered by the Orthodox to be the royal fish, and according to the canon, they are not supposed to be eaten during Lent. Is it possible to have seafood during Lent? It turns out that no.
One priest once said: everything must go its own way, and everyone must choose for himself what he can and cannot do, but before a person makes his final choice, he will go through seven circles of earthly hell before he really understands what he needs.
The most interesting thing is that all the grandmothers of Soviet times (the mothers of our grandmothers) knew and adhered to what should be cooked on what day. What day is it fish, and what day is it porridge? And when Holy Week begins, not only is it forbidden to eat fish on certain days, but not all porridge is allowed.
What is fasting
Let's look at what fasting is. Fasting is when a person refuses delicacies, dishes, and delicacies for a certain time of the year. That is, he switches to simple healthy food. But that’s not all, fasting means not swearing, forgetting about threats, reproaches, leading a meek, inconspicuous life, and not attracting much attention to yourself.
For example, you often get drunk, go to restaurants, and swear so that your neighbors can hear you. And here you change radically, stop drinking alcohol, go to restaurants, but order lean food, which is related to ordinary Christian porridge. The neighbors stop hearing you. You begin to go to matins, communicate with the clergy, etc.
If you are very concerned about whether you can eat seafood during Lent, if you are a strongly religious Christian, then go to the priest and talk to him. If you are sick or work hard work, then the priest will give you a relaxation of fasting so that there is no loss of strength or recovery from illness occurs.
During Lent, from March 2 to April 18, 2020, which is the longest and strictest of the year, believers limit their diet, refusing to eat animal products. “Is it allowed to eat seafood during Lent?” – some people are interested.
And if this is allowed by church charter, then what seafood can you eat during Lent? Does this apply to all of their groups or just certain ones? In particular, is it possible to eat squid and shrimp while Lent lasts?” We will answer these and other questions.
Is it possible to eat seafood during Lent?
It must be said that seafood refers neither to fish nor meat, but to cold-blooded, invertebrate, that is, to bloodless living beings. Even the Athonite monks ate such food (although, according to the ancient charter, it was then equated with plants).
But our monks, when asked whether eating seafood is allowed during Lent, answered negatively. After all, they cannot be classified as plant foods; they are marine animals. By the way, modern science also classifies them as animals.
It should be recalled that one of the goals of fasting people is to learn to control their desires, as well as humility and moderation. Bodily abstinence is a certain sacrifice that we make to God. So if you consider seafood a delicacy, then on certain days of fasting it is better to give it up.
It will be easier for you to comply with such dietary restrictions if you create a menu in such a way that it includes foods that are familiar to you, although without ingredients of animal origin.
The basis of the diet these days usually consists of cereals: oatmeal, buckwheat, millet, pearl barley and others. They are used to prepare porridges, soups, casseroles, cereals, lean pancakes, pancakes, etc. Many dishes are prepared from vegetables and fruits. They are boiled, stewed, baked, and eaten raw. Beans, nuts, and greens are also allowed at this time.
Is it possible to eat squid and shrimp during Lent?
As aquatic animals, they are closest to fish, which means it would be logical to eat them on days when fish can be eaten.
In some monasteries, during Lent, it is allowed to include seafood in the diet on holidays that fall during this period, as well as on weekends - Saturdays and Sundays, and in some parishes such dishes are also prepared on days when hot food with butter is possible.
As for fish, it is allowed by church charter on the Annunciation and Palm Sunday. The holidays celebrated by the Orthodox Church at this time also include Lazarus Saturday, when fish caviar can be served, but only red.
For a long time in Rus', it was considered ordinary food, and not a delicacy, which is why its use is not prohibited by monastic regulations. But you can’t eat black caviar.
When can lay people eat seafood during Lent?
The answer to the question of what seafood can be consumed and when during Lent will be incomplete without mentioning that the strict church regulations are intended mainly for monks. For the laity, various concessions are provided.
Let us remind you that there are several degrees of fasting:
- very strict – dry eating, when they eat only uncooked plant foods without vegetable oil;
- strict - eat boiled vegetable food with vegetable oil;
- usual, when fish is also included in the diet.
There are exceptions for people with poor health: they are allowed to eat all foods except meat. Avoiding consumption of fish and seafood is not recommended for pregnant and lactating women, small children, and people engaged in mental work. Hard physical work is also a reason for fasting to be less strict.
By agreement with the priest, you can adhere to a certain diet during the days of Lent, individually deciding whether you can eat seafood during this period of time.
Seafood contains a large amount of protein (up to 19%), B vitamins, which improve metabolic processes in the body and improve the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract.
Seafood is rich in calcium, magnesium, selenium, copper, while at the same time it is low in fat. Shrimp and other shellfish contain large amounts of iodine, which is necessary for the normal functioning of the thyroid gland.
Also, the meat of shrimp, squid, oysters, mussels, crabs, lobsters, scallops, cuttlefish, and lobsters contains polyunsaturated fatty acids, which normalize blood pressure, remove “bad” cholesterol, improve the functioning of the heart and blood vessels, and help strengthen the immune system.
If giving up animal protein is quite a serious test for you, then in order to withstand fasting, you can allow yourself some fish or seafood, including squid and shrimp, during Lent.
Seafood, by the way, is absorbed by the human body faster and better than meat. They are eaten fresh, boiled, fried, baked, pickled and stuffed.
The choice of them in our stores is quite large, they are available to us literally all year round, and if you wish, you can create a menu from them to your liking. And it’s up to you to decide which seafood is best to eat during Lent.
Is it possible to eat seafood during Lent? During the days of the Great Fast, which in 2020 will last from March 2 to April 18, believers refuse to eat meat, fish, eggs, milk and dairy products (butter, cheese, cottage cheese, cream, kefir), as well as strong alcoholic beverages.
Is it possible to eat squid, shrimp, and mussels during Lent?
Science claims that they belong to achordates, that is, bloodless living beings. It turns out that they can be eaten during fasting.
But church ministers have a different opinion. According to the church charter, animal food is excluded from the diet on these days. Seafood, with all the great desire, cannot be classified as plant food; it is the animal world of the sea.
And to the question: “What seafood can you eat during Lent?” many clergy give a clear answer: none.
However, there are other interpretations about whether it is possible to eat seafood during Lent. After all, during this period various relaxations are provided.
So, Palm Sunday (in 2020 it falls on April 12) you can include fish in your diet. The same applies to the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (celebrated on April 7). However, if this holiday falls during Holy Week, the strict rules of Lent during this period remain in force.
The holidays celebrated by the Orthodox Church at this time also include Lazarus Saturday (celebrated on April 11, 2020), when fish caviar can be served.
Fish, which the charter allows on holidays, is considered semi-lenten food, like seafood. Accordingly, you can eat seafood on Lazarus Saturday and the Annunciation, but not on other days.
So is it possible to eat squid, shrimp and mussels during Lent? Some monasteries allow seafood to be included in the menu not only on holidays, but also on weekends during Lent. Even Athonite monks eat them. However, such dishes are not prepared in Russian monasteries.
What seafood can you eat during Lent?
As for the laity, they do not have to observe strict fasting. Everyone must decide on their nutrition on these days individually.
Clergymen advise planning your diet in accordance with your strengths and state of health.
And they give this advice: if giving up meat is quite a serious test for you, then in order to withstand the fast, you can allow yourself some fish or seafood. They can sometimes be included in the diet, for example, on weekends. No one will judge you for this.
The meat of shrimp, squid, oysters, mussels, crabs, lobsters, scallops, cuttlefish, and lobsters contains a large amount of protein (up to 19%), minerals, and at the same time little fat.
Seafood is absorbed faster and better by the human body than meat. They are eaten fresh, boiled, fried, baked, pickled and stuffed.
Avoiding consumption of fish and seafood is not recommended for pregnant and lactating women, small children, people engaged in mental work and suffering from various diseases.