Menu For The Lacto-ovo Vegetarian: Top Summer Dishes

Lacto-ovo vegetarian is a plant-based diet that includes eggs and dairy products.

Lacto-ovo vegetarian is a plant-based diet that includes eggs and dairy products. Adherents of this diet exclude animal products from the diet - meat, poultry, fish and seafood. Most often this is due to ethical considerations (people feel sorry for animals, they care about the state of the planet and how animal husbandry affects the environment and climate) or health.

If you decide to stick to a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet, then your diet should include: eggs, whole grain cereals with milk, cottage cheese or cheese, yogurt, kefir or milk, avocados or nuts, dried fruits, legumes and grains, cereals, fruits , green vegetables, vegetable oil.

 

This is what a sample lacto-ovo vegetarian menu for the day looks like.

Breakfast: a bowl of porridge with milk and butter, coffee or tea.

Snack or second breakfast: yogurt with breadcrumbs, granola bar or crackers.

Lunch: creamy soup with vegetables or mushroom puree soup, potatoes with cheese, vegetable salad, compote or juice.

Snack: fruit or dried fruit, cheese sandwich, tea or coffee.

Dinner: cottage cheese casserole, kefir.

Herbal tea before bed.

We present a selection of interesting summer dishes with dairy products, vegetables, greens and eggs, which can be prepared not only by lacto-ovo vegetarians, but also by meat-eaters.

Eggplant, egg and tomato salad

 

An interesting combination and only three ingredients! For dressing, use vegetable oil or homemade mayonnaise.

Ingredients:

150 g eggplant; 100 g of tomatoes; egg; 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil; salt, spices to taste.

Cut the eggplant into pieces and fry in vegetable oil with salt, pepper, dried garlic. Hard boil the egg. Cool, clean, grind. Cut the tomatoes into cubes. Mix all ingredients and serve.

Grilled pickled cheese

 

A snack that will fly away in minutes.

You will need:

300 g "Adyghe" cheese; 3 cloves of garlic; 3 art. l. olive oil; salt and Provence herbs to taste.

Cut the cheese into large pieces. In a bowl, mix the oil, salt, spices and crushed garlic. Roll the cheese in aromatic oil and grill over coals over moderate heat until golden brown. Serve immediately.

Green soup with egg

 

Summer soup of vegetables and seasonal greens with a boiled egg. Simple, healthy and very quick to prepare.

Ingredients:

3 potatoes; carrot; bulb; 100 g of sorrel or spinach; 2-3 hard boiled eggs; a bunch of green onions; a small bunch of dill; 2 liters of water; salt to taste; a couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil.

Wash and clean vegetables and herbs. Cut the potatoes into cubes, put in a large saucepan, cover with water and put on fire. After boiling, cook until tender.

Fry the diced onions and carrots in a frying pan in oil until soft, add to the potatoes.

Sorrel or spinach, chop greens with a knife. Peel the eggs and chop coarsely.

When the potatoes are ready, throw the sorrel (spinach), eggs, herbs into the pan, cook for two minutes and turn it off. Let the soup brew under the lid for 10 minutes before serving. Sour cream is a must!

Salad rolls with spicy filling

 

Juicy, bright and hearty lettuce rolls with cheese, eggs and garlic can be served both on weekdays and on holidays.

Ingredients:

10 lettuce leaves; half a bell pepper; 2 boiled eggs; 100 g of hard cheese; 2 cloves of garlic; mayonnaise to taste.

Boil the eggs, cool and peel. On a fine grater, grate the eggs, cheese. Pass the garlic through a press. Cut the bell pepper into long strips. Mix cooked cheese, eggs, garlic with mayonnaise in a bowl. In the middle of a lettuce leaf, washed and dried with a paper towel, put a spoonful of filling, a strip of pepper and roll it into a roll. You can fasten the rolls with a skewer.

Potato salad with egg, cucumber and onion

 

A simple and hearty salad of your favorite potatoes with a boiled egg and pickles. Take note!

You will need:

2 potatoes; pickle; a bunch of green onions; egg; some fresh parsley and dill; 30 ml of vegetable oil; salt and black pepper to taste.

Boil unpeeled potatoes and eggs until tender. Cool, peel and cut into cubes. Chop the cucumber. Finely chop the washed and dried herbs. Mix all the ingredients in a salad bowl, season with salt, pepper and vegetable oil.

Fritters with pear

 

Prepare tender and fluffy pancakes with pear for breakfast. We will make the dough on kefir or yogurt.

Ingredients:

250 g flour; a spoonful of sugar; big pear; egg; half a spoonful of soda; a glass of kefir or yogurt; a pinch of salt; vegetable oil for frying.

Grate the peeled pear into a bowl. Beat the egg, sugar, kefir. Stir. Add flour, salt and soda. You should get a thick dough, like fat sour cream.

Pour oil into the pan, heat up. Spoon the batter over and fry the pancakes on both sides over medium to medium-low heat until golden brown. Serve with sour cream.

Vegetable soup

 

Vegetable soup is a must in the summer! Cut any seasonal vegetables into cubes and send to the pan. Pour in water, boil until the ingredients are soft. Fast and easy! Before serving, add greens and sour cream.

Ingredients:

bulb; carrot; tomato; small bell pepper; 2-3 potatoes; a couple of cloves of garlic; a handful of green peas; 150 g of white cabbage, cauliflower and zucchini; one and a half liters of water; salt, spices to taste; a few tablespoons of vegetable oil.

Wash and clean vegetables. Cut the potatoes into cubes, disassemble the cauliflower into inflorescences, chop the white cabbage.

Pour the cooked vegetables into a pot of boiling water and cook over medium-low heat.

Prepare a roast of diced onions, carrots, peppers and zucchini. To do this, fry them until soft in a pan with oil over medium heat. At the end of frying, add coarsely chopped tomato without skin, garlic, spices passed through a press. Simmer for two minutes and send to the pan.

Add salt and cook until vegetables are soft. Add peas and chopped herbs to taste. Turn off the heat and let the soup brew covered for 10 minutes.

White cabbage dumplings

 

Serve tender vegetable cabbage dumplings with herbs and sour cream. Delicious!

You will need:

150 g of white cabbage; egg; 50 ml of milk; 3-4 st. l. flour; salt to taste.

Chop the cabbage, put it in a saucepan, pour in some water, salt and cook until soft. Then drain the water, and beat the cabbage with a blender. In a bowl, beat the egg with milk, add the cabbage puree and, stirring, add the flour. The dough should be the consistency of fat sour cream.

Pour water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Drop the dough into the boiling water with a teaspoon. As soon as the dumplings float, cook for another three minutes. Then select with a slotted spoon and serve with butter or sour cream. Bon appetit!

Casserole like mom's

 

A casserole of rice and cottage cheese with berries or dried fruits is sure to decorate a family dinner. Just an hour and a dish on the table!

Ingredients:

a glass of rice, boiled until half cooked; 400 g cottage cheese (preferably homemade); 2 eggs; a spoonful of two sugars; 1 tsp soda; 50 g butter.

Combine the cottage cheese whipped with a blender in a bowl with half-boiled rice (cook rice in two glasses of water for half the time indicated on the package). Beat eggs, add sugar, soda and mix. You can add fresh or dried berries, dried fruits to the dough.

Spread pieces of butter along the bottom of the mold, put the curd-rice mass on top. Bake for 25 minutes at 180 degrees. Enjoy!