You can not deny yourself the pleasure of eating cookies, but at the same time watch the figure? An ideal solution would be to replace wheat flour with diet rice. Rice cookies are a tasty and healthy delicacy that has a relatively low calorie content.
Features of Rice Flour
In cooking, two types of rice flour are known - white and brown. Their color depends on the source material. White flour is made from polished rice, and brown, respectively, from brown. They differ not only in appearance, but also in chemical composition. Darker flour contains more beneficial minerals and vitamins.
This flour is very common in China, Japan and Asia. In Russia, it is used much less often than wheat and corn. It is worth noting that when baking, rice flour is usually mixed with other types, since it does not contain gluten and it is almost impossible to cook anything from a pure product.
Benefits of Rice Flour
Surprisingly, not many housewives have rice flour in the kitchen. The fact is that few people know about its benefits. Compared to wheat flour, which is usual for us, rice is much less high-calorie. Another advantage of this flour is the absence of gluten.
Cookies made from rice flour, as well as noodles, pancakes and other dishes are ideal for those who monitor their health and adhere to proper nutrition. Be sure that this ingredient does not harm your figure.
The addition of rice flour to the menu helps to prevent liver diseases, musculoskeletal system, improve blood circulation and heart function. Also, rice flour favorably affects the condition and color of the skin.
How to make rice flour at home
On the shelves of the store you can rarely find rice flour. Although the growing interest in healthy nutrition has contributed to the popularization of many products, including this one.
If you decide to make cookies from such flour, but did not find it in the nearest supermarket, do not despair. We will tell you how to make rice flour yourself. It is easier than you think.
Rice flour is made from regular rice. If you buy brown rice, you will get a more mineral-rich product.
To grind rice into flour, you can use a kitchen blender, mixer, and even a coffee grinder. Pour the rice into a container and chop until smooth, occasionally stirring the mass so that unnecessary lumps do not form.
Another way to make rice cookie flour is to pre-fry the rice in a pan.
If after chopping it seems to you that the flour is slightly damp, dry it in the oven for 10 minutes at a temperature of 140 degrees.
The finished product is stored in an airtight container in a dry, dark place.
Diet Cookies
We bring to your attention the simplest and most economical recipe for dietary cookies made from rice flour.
To prepare, prepare the following components:
- 240 grams of rice flour;
- 120 grams of butter;
- 120 grams of sugar;
- one egg;
- half a teaspoon of baking powder;
- vanilla essence and ground cardamom.
The cooking technology is as follows:
- Beat butter and sugar with a mixer until a lush, creamy mass is formed.
- Add one egg and 5-6 drops of vanillin to the mass. Beat well.
- Sift flour with baking powder, add a teaspoon of cardamom.
- Mix the creamy mass with flour and knead the soft dough.
- Wrap the finished dough in a film and send in the refrigerator for 7 hours.
- After the required time, remove the dough and roll out small cakes out of it. Note that rice flour does not bake well, so the dough should be thin.
- Preheat the oven to one hundred and sixty degrees.
- Cover it with parchment and sprinkle lightly with flour.
- Bake cookies for 15-20 minutes.
Thanks to cardamom and essence you will receive fragrant cookies, and rice flour will give it a special crisp. This is a great tea snack. Try it and you won’t regret it.
Rice Flour Cookies for Kids
Rice flour is actively used in the preparation of baby food due to the high content of vitamins and minerals.
Therefore, we offer a rice cookie recipe that will replace other sweets for children.
If a child is allergic to wheat flour, gluten-free cookies are an ideal alternative. It can be given even to babies up to a year old.
Afterwards, you can add raisins, nuts, dried apricots and other goodies to cookies.
To prepare children's cookies with rice flour on kefir you will need:
- eight tablespoons of rice flour;
- three tablespoons of kefir;
- 150 grams of butter;
- one hundred grams of sugar;
- two eggs;
- lemon juice;
- a teaspoon of soda;
- some salt.
- Lightly heat the kefir, remove the oil from the refrigerator (so that it melts a little and becomes soft).
- Dice the butter, add salt, sugar and grind this mass until smooth.
- Add soda quenched with citric acid to the mixture.
- Enter warm yogurt and eggs.
- Pour in flour and knead the dough.
- Leave the dough for half an hour.
- Preheat the oven to one hundred and eighty degrees.
- Cover the deco with parchment and lay thin cakes on it. Note that the dough will turn out quite rare, so it can spread during baking.
- Bake baby cookies in the oven for 10 minutes.
If desired, ready-made pastries can be sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Cookies with cottage cheese
Another wonderful recipe that we want to share with you is the most delicious and delicious cottage cheese and rice cookies. We are sure that you have not tried this before. Pretty simple to prepare, it will not leave indifferent your household.
How to make cookies from rice flour with cottage cheese, see in this video.
Rice flour is an indispensable product in the kitchen. It will help not only to diversify the daily menu, but also to maintain health and beauty.