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Юшка з Квасолі та Гороху — Ukrainian Two-Pea Bean Soup with Dill
Every Slavic village kitchen keeps a sack of dried beans and a sack of yellow peas, and on fasting days they go into ...
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Today's Fast
July 16, 2026
No Fast
Hieromartyr Athenogenes, Bishop of Heracleopolis
Hieromartyr Athenogenes, Bishop of Heracleopolis
Troparion: Holy Martyr Hyacinth: Tone IV. In his suffering, O Lord,/ Thy martyr Hyacinth received an imperishable crown from Thee our God;/ for, possessed of Thy might,/ he set at nought the tormentors and cr...
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Tiropita — Cheese Pie
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Freekeh and Chickpea Pilaf with Spiced Cauliflower
Freekeh is young green wheat, fire-roasted while still soft so the grain keeps a smoky, nutty chew that ordinary bulg...
Middle Eastern
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Bissara — Moroccan Split Fava Bean Purée with Cumin Oil
Bissara is breakfast for working people across northern Morocco — a thick, velvety purée of dried split fava beans, s...
Middle Eastern
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Harira Hamra — Moroccan Tomato, Lentil, and Chickpea Soup
Harira is the soup that breaks the fast across Morocco — a thick, tomato-stained pot of lentils and chickpeas laced w...
Other
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Chana Saag — Chickpea and Spinach Masala
This is what happens when you put chickpeas and a mountain of spinach into the same pot and let them get to know each...
Other
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Rajma — Punjabi Red Kidney Bean Curry
Rajma is the curry that North Indian children grow up on — kidney beans simmered until they are creamy, in an onion-t...
Other
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Sambar — South Indian Toor Dal and Tamarind Stew
Sambar is the everyday backbone of South Indian cooking — a tamarind-soured lentil stew thick with toor dal and studd...
Greek
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Λουβάνα — Cypriot Yellow Split Pea Soup with Lemon and Olive Oil
Louvana is the Cypriot fasting soup — a thick, golden purée of yellow split peas eaten through Lent and on the strict...
Other
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Pasta e Ceci — Roman Pasta and Chickpea Stew with Rosemary
Pasta e ceci is Rome's other great pasta-and-bean soup, less famous abroad than pasta e fagioli but every bit as belo...
Other
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Garbanzos con Espinacas — Spanish Chickpeas and Spinach with Smoked Paprika
This Andalusian classic — garbanzos con espinacas — is what Seville eats during Lent, and it is proof that fasting fo...
Greek
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Φάβα Σαντορίνης — Santorini Yellow Split Pea Purée with Capers and Onion
Fava is the warm, silky purée of yellow split peas that anchors a Greek meze table — golden, dense, and far more fill...
Other
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Mapo Tofu, Fasting-Style (Mushroom Mala Tofu)
Mapo tofu is Sichuan cooking at full volume: numbing, spicy, savory, and slick with chili oil, with cubes of soft tof...
Other
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Agedashi Tofu in Ginger Dashi
Agedashi tofu is a small miracle of texture: blocks of tofu dusted in potato starch and fried until the outside is sh...
Other
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Shiro Wot — Ethiopian Spiced Chickpea Flour Stew
Shiro is the everyday backbone of Ethiopian fasting cooking — and Ethiopian Orthodox Christians fast more than almost...
Other
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Tinga de Setas — Smoky Chipotle Mushroom and Bean Tacos
Tinga is one of the great street foods of Puebla — strands of meat braised in a smoky, sweet-sour sauce of tomato, on...
Georgian
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სოკო ნიგვზის საწებელით — Mushrooms in Garlic-Walnut Sauce
Georgians treat mushrooms with the same reverence they give meat, and on fast days a skillet of browned mushrooms clo...
Georgian
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ლობიო ნიგვზით — Walnut Lobio with Pomegranate and Coriander
Lobio is Georgia's great bean dish, and it shifts shape from house to house. This is the walnut version — kidney bean...
Russian
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Малосольные Огурцы — Russian Half-Sour Salt-Brined Cucumbers
Malosol'nie ogurtsy — "lightly salted cucumbers" — are the quintessential Russian summer pickle. Not a vinegar pickle...
Other
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Pickled Beets with Horseradish (Ukrainian Style)
Ukrainian and southern Russian tradition — pickled beets with horseradish, called "khrin" when it is mostly horseradi...
Russian
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Маринованные Опята — Russian Marinated Honey Mushrooms
Marinated mushrooms are the most distinctly Russian of all pickles. Every autumn in every Russian forest, people harv...
Middle Eastern
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Turşu — Balkan and Middle Eastern Mixed Vinegar Pickles
Turşu (also written torshi, turshi, or tursija) is the preserved vegetable condiment of a huge region — from Iran thr...
Other
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Giardiniera (Italian Mixed Pickled Vegetables)
Giardiniera — "the gardener's pickle" — is the Italian answer to the question of what to do with the end-of-season ga...
Romanian
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Murături de Castraveți — Romanian Vinegar-Brined Cucumber Pickles
Murături is the Romanian word for pickled vegetables, and the winter pantry of every Romanian grandmother is lined wi...
Other
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Quick Pickled Red Onions
The single most useful pickle in any kitchen. Forty minutes from scratch, keeps a month in the fridge, brightens ever...
Other
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Classic Refrigerator Dill Pickles (Quick Vinegar Method)
Every fasting pantry needs pickles. They deliver acid, salt, and crunch — three things plant-based Lenten meals often...
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