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Lean casserole: recipe with pumpkin and potatoes. Video
Lenten casserole is an old Russian dish also known as noodle and krupennik. Casseroles are prepared from vegetables, cereals, meat, fish, cottage cheese, pasta, which are poured with sauce and baked in the oven. This simple, versatile meal is perfect for breakfast and dinner. It can be a main course or a delicious dessert.
Lean Young Potatoes and Beans Casserole Recipe
To make a delicious and nutritious lean vegetable casserole, you will need:
– 400 grams of beans; – 500 grams of young potatoes; – 2 heads of onions; – 250 grams of zucchini; – 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil; – 1 glass of tomato juice; – 100 milliliters of vegetable broth; – 200 grams of lean sour cream; – ground black pepper; – salt.
Before cooking, the beans must be sorted out and soaked in cold water for 6–8 hours. Then the water must be drained, and the beans are poured with fresh water and put to cook over medium heat.
First of all, boil the beans until tender. Wash the potatoes, peel and boil and cut into slices. Peel the zucchini, cut into cubes and fry a little in vegetable oil. Peel the onions, cut into large rings and fry until golden brown.
Grease a teflon or glass heat-resistant dish with oil and lay the prepared vegetables in layers: first the potatoes, then the beans, onions and zucchini. Pour tomato juice and broth on each layer, season with salt and pepper. Leave the form for 10 minutes, let the vegetables soak.
Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Pour lean sour cream over the casserole and place in the oven for 20-25 minutes.
Pumpkin casserole with dried apricots
This is a recipe for a sweet casserole that can be served as a dessert. To make a pumpkin casserole with dried apricots, you need to take:
– 500 grams of pumpkin; – 200 grams of dried apricots; – 100 grams of peeled walnuts; – 100 grams of granulated sugar; – 2 tablespoons of semolina; – 50 milliliters of vegetable oil; – 100 grams of lean sour cream; – 50 grams of peeled pumpkin seeds; – salt.
If the pumpkin casserole is not cooked in fasting, in the recipe you can replace the lean sour cream with two eggs, and the vegetable oil with butter
Peel the pumpkin, cut into small cubes and sprinkle with granulated sugar. When the juice appears, put the dishes with the pumpkin on a low heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, until tender.
Wash dried apricots, boil in a little water and chop finely.
Combine pumpkin with dried apricots, add semolina, lean sour cream, put in a greased ovenproof dish, sprinkle with peeled pumpkin seeds and put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees to bake until tender.