Diet

Lenten Salads

Olena Vasylchuk Updated 04.11.2026

Lenten dishes with no meat, fish, dairy or eggs: borscht, varenyky, mushroom cabbage rolls, kutia, a lenten honey cake and desserts for fasting days.

Sunomono Cucumber Salad

Sunomono: a Japanese salad of paper-thin cucumber and wakame in a gentle rice-vinegar dressing. Light, crisp and cooling next to fish, rice or ramen.

Hands-on time: 15 min plus waiting time: +20 min Difficulty: Easy

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