How to cook lean sauces

A person, accustomed to heavy sauces and dressings prepared on the basis of animal proteins and fats, to various dishes, can simply get confused on days when Orthodox believers are prescribed the use of lean dishes. Meanwhile, there is a huge variety of lean sauces and dressings.

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First of all, of course, you should recall vegetable oils. In addition to the well-known sunflower and olive oils, flaxseed, nut, peanut, corn, camelina, sesame, hemp oil, pine nut oil, pumpkin seeds, and milk thistle can be found on sale. All vegetable oils are different in their nutritional value and taste. By adding this or that oil to your sauce, you can get completely different shades of taste and aroma.

Seeds and nuts deserve special attention. To add a unique nutty creamy flavor to the sauce, you can add sesame seeds, cashew nuts, peanuts, sunflower seeds, almonds, walnuts, etc. Before using it for making the sauce, it will pour seeds and nuts with cold water and let stand for several hours, then drain the water, replace it with fresh and puree the fruits using a blender. The resulting thick paste can be used both as an independent sauce and as part of more complex sauces and dressings. It is only necessary to add salt and spices to taste.

How to make lean mayonnaise? Mayonnaise in our country still occupies a leading position as a dressing for salad dressing. As a rule, people use industrial mayonnaise and sometimes with an incredible and scary composition. Meanwhile, you can easily prepare at home light and healthy sauces, similar to mayonnaise, which will serve as a worthy substitute for the usual heavy and harmful sauce saturated with starch, emulsifiers, preservatives, etc.

Lean white bean mayonnaise.

Take 1.5 cups of white boiled beans, place in a blender bowl or rub through a sieve, then add 100 ml of cold water and vegetable oil, 0.5 tbsp. lemon juice, to taste salt, sweeten and add black pepper. Beat thoroughly until a thick, uniform sauce is obtained.

Raw broccoli mayonnaise.

50 grams of broccoli are wiped with a sprig of parsley, celery or cilantro. Gradually pour 50 ml of vegetable oil and water, add 1 tsp. honey, to taste salt and spices.

Raw raw lean mayonnaise.

Grind in a coffee grinder 3 tbsp. peeled sunflower seeds, transfer to a cup, add 1 tbsp. lemon juice, 5 tablespoons vegetable oil, gradually, rubbing the sauce with a spoon, pour 50 ml of water. Salt to taste using black Himalayan salt, which will give the sauce an egg flavor.

Thina - Lenten Sesame Sauce.

Dry in a pan 200 grams of white sesame seeds, pour into a blender bowl and grind to a state of tight paste. Add vegetable oil gradually, continuing to grind the seeds with a blender, until a pulp is obtained. In total, about 6 tablespoons of oil will be needed. Tkhina is added to salads, cereals, desserts, and this paste can also be found in many Arabic dishes.

For example, beet hummus.

Cook or bake 3 small beets in a peel, rub together with 1 clove of garlic in mashed potatoes, add 1 tbsp. lemon juice, 2 tablespoons Tahini, salt and season with ground zira to taste.

Or hummus from chickpeas.

Preparing in the same way, only instead of beets, take 1.5 cups of boiled chickpea.

Indian chutney sauce.

Chutney, as experts say, should be so sharp that it was impossible to eat and at the same time so sweet that it was impossible to stop. Preparing fruit puree chutney with spicy spices and sugar. Chutney is boiled, as it’s bad, closed and kept in a dark place for about 1 week, so that the sauce ripens, the tastes mix and the aroma opens.

Lean creamy mushroom sauce.

In 1 tbsp. stew vegetable oil to a softness of 150 grams of sliced ​​champignons and 1 onion, sliced ​​in half rings. Add 4-5 tbsp. coconut cream, 1 - 2 tablespoons vegetable milk, to taste salt and spices. Remove from heat as soon as the sauce boils.

There are many recipes for raw food sauces that are suitable for use on Orthodox fasting days.

Raw food sesame sour cream.

Sesame seed and water, taken in equal amounts, are rubbed with a blender. Sour cream will be ready in 1-2 minutes.

Raw Nut Dip.

Grind 150 grams of red sweet pepper, 1 cup peeled walnuts, 2 cloves of garlic, gradually adding 2 tbsp. vegetable oil and water, but not more than 50 ml, salt to taste. If usually the sauce is served with a salad, then here it is the other way round, sliced ​​vegetables are served to dip.

Thus, it is obvious that preparing lean sauces and salad dressings is not at all difficult. Sometimes it is enough to replace products of animal origin with their plant equivalent, and sometimes you can show imagination, creating new interesting combinations of tastes.