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Trail Mix for Fasting Days
This is the most portable and calorie-dense xerophagy food you can prepare. A bag of this in your pocket gets you thr...
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Today's Fast
October 07, 2026
Fast — Fish, Wine and Oil are Allowed
Holy New Martyrs of Alaska
Holy Protomartyr Thecla, Equal to the Apostles (1st c.) / St Stephen, First-crowned King of Serbia (Simon the Monk) (1224)
Troparion: Holy Protomartyr and Equal of the Apostles Thecla: Tone IV. Taught by the words of Paul, O Thecla, bride of God,/ and confirmed through faith by Peter, O divinely called one,/ thou wast shown to be...
Recipe of the Day
Grilled Octopus with Lemon and Oregano
Greek
Fast With Fish
Fasting Recipes
Other
Fast With Oil
Laksa Lemak — Malaysian Coconut Noodle Soup with Tofu Puffs
Laksa lemak is the kind of bowl you build your evening around — a thick, spice-paste coconut broth singing with lemon...
Greek
Fast With Oil
Φασολάδα / Fassolada (White Bean Soup)
Fassolada is the national dish of Greece, and it is a pot of beans. Not a steak, not a roast, not a pastry — beans. T...
General
Fast Without Oil
No-Oil Tofu and Vegetable Steam Bowl with Ginger-Soy Broth
Steaming is the most underused technique on strict days. Without oil, roasting and frying are closed to you, but stea...
Russian
Fast With Oil
Solyanka with Mushrooms and Olives
Solyanka is one of Russia's great soups — tangy, salty, smoky, and layered with bold flavors that hit every corner of...
Russian
Fast With Oil
Грибной Строганов — Mushroom Stroganoff
Forget everything you know about stroganoff needing sour cream. This version uses a silky cashew base and deeply brow...
General
Fast With Oil
Smoky White Bean and Kale Skillet with Garlic Breadcrumbs
Beans and greens is one of the oldest fasting meals there is, and it survives because it works. What lifts this versi...
Other
Fast Without Oil
Coconut Milk Dal
The genius of this dal is that coconut milk provides all the richness you would normally get from ghee or oil. The fa...
Other
Fast Without Oil
Mussels Steamed in Garlic Herb Broth
The classic preparation steams mussels in white wine, but wine is not permitted on no-oil fasting days. The solution ...
Russian
Fast With Fish
Ukha (Russian Clear Fish Soup)
Ukha is one of the oldest dishes in Russian cuisine — a pristine, golden fish soup built from the bones and flesh of ...
Georgian
Fast Without Oil
Ткемали (Tkemali — Georgian Sour Plum Sauce)
Tkemali is to Georgian cooking what ketchup is to American cooking, except that it is vastly more interesting and has...
Other
Fast With Oil
Quick Pickled Red Onions
The single most useful pickle in any kitchen. Forty minutes from scratch, keeps a month in the fridge, brightens ever...
Romanian
Fast With Oil
Ghiveci de Post cu Fasole — Romanian Bean and Vegetable Stew
Romanian ghiveci is a slow-cooked garden in a pot — but the de post version made for the long fasts leans on beans to...
Other
Xerophagy
Cucumber, Tomato, and Olive Salad with Lemon and Salt
This is the xerophagy version of a Greek salad — stripped of its oil, its feta, and its cooked elements. What remains...
Other
Fast Without Oil
Lobya Borani — Azerbaijani Green Bean and White Bean Stew
Lobya is the Azerbaijani way with beans — here both fresh green beans and creamy white beans are simmered together wi...
Georgian
Fast With Oil
Лобио (Lobio — Spiced Kidney Bean Stew)
Lobio is the beating heart of the Georgian fasting table. The word simply means "beans," but the dish itself is anyth...
Georgian
Fast Without Oil
Churchkhela-Inspired Walnut Energy Bites
Churchkhela — walnuts strung on a thread and dipped in thickened grape juice — takes days to make properly. These no-...
Middle Eastern
Fast With Oil
Shakshuka with Tofu
All the warmth and spice of classic shakshuka — cumin-spiked tomato sauce, smoky peppers, a hit of harissa — but with...
Other
Fast With Fish
Sinigang na Bangus — Filipino Sour Tamarind Soup with Milkfish
Sinigang is the comforting sour soup at the heart of Filipino home cooking — a clear, tamarind-soured broth crowded w...
Greek
Fast With Oil
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
Fast Without Oil
Sri Lankan Parippu — Coconut and Red Lentil Curry
Parippu is the dal that appears on every Sri Lankan table — red lentils simmered soft in coconut milk, perfumed with ...
Other
Fast With Oil
Three-Bean Fasting Chili with Smoked Paprika
A pot of chili fills the house with the smell of a long afternoon of cooking, even when it has only been simmering fo...
Georgian
Fast With Oil
Бадриджани (Badrijani — Eggplant with Walnut Paste)
Badrijani nigvzit — eggplant rolls stuffed with spiced walnut paste — is the dish that people who have visited Georgi...
Georgian
Fast Without Oil
Лобио с грецкими орехами (Lobio Salad with Walnuts)
If hot lobio is winter comfort, this cold version is the dish you want on a warm spring fasting day. Cooked kidney be...
Other
Xerophagy
Raw Sprouted Chickpea Spread
Hummus is one of the great fasting foods, but traditional hummus requires cooking the chickpeas and adding tahini (ma...
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