During lent, Orthodox Christians abstain from eating meat and any food of animal origin, eggs and dairy included. I am not really a fan of potato pie day in, day out, so I prefer to use this time to prepare and eat more Asian dishes. Hummus is lent-friendly and so is my pickled kale and beetroot salad.
Indian palak paneer, a spinach - cheese dish in a traditional cumin-red chili-tomato masala made with tofu instead of cheese, here with homemade eggless rye noodles.
The picture does a great disservice to this dish! It tasted a zillion times better than it looked.
Of course, you will not see many Serbs eating either hummus or palak paneer at the time of Easter lent (or at anytime, for that matter).
Dry fruits and nuts comprise some of the more standard lent foods.
My mother's take: mushroom pie made from homemade buckwheat crusts...
...with lots of pepper! The Pie of All Pies, if you ask me, though I am no authority on the subject.
And then her breads...
One more buckwheat-rye affair or....
... this peasant's pogacha (sourdough bread). It doesn't get any simpler than this.
Flour, salt, water and baking soda. That's all.
A thing of beauty.
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