Fasting days are not a reason to fundamentally change the principles of nutrition, and if during the afternoon tea you are used to eating something sweet, then why not continue the tradition by replacing the usual cookies with lean ones. Simple recipes with photos described in this article will diversify ideas for baking without high-quality products, making it possible to continue your usual daily schedule without major changes.
Oatmeal cookies
The traditional recipe for lean oatmeal cookies can be slightly improved in this way: grind two cups of Hercules flakes in a coffee grinder in flour and combine with 4 tbsp. l honey, add six tbsp. l coconut oil and 1/2 tsp. soda. Stir, add a handful of steamed raisins and as many chocolate chips, knead the dough, leave it for half an hour in a warm place, covering the dishes with a towel.
Next, with your hands dipped in water, fashion small balls and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Bake in the oven at a temperature of 220 degrees to a tender blush. Cookies are incredibly aromatic, crumbly and very tasty.
"Fingers" from soda
This recipe for lean cookies is special: in spite of the fact that its composition is rather strange, as for baking, but the prepared “fingers” to taste can compete with other confectionery products on eggs, butter and sour cream. What makes them so tasty? To find out, it is necessary to prepare and understand that the best is always the simplest. List of required ingredients:
- one glass of highly carbonated water and vegetable oil;
- four glasses of flour;
- thick jam: apple or pear.
The cookie dough is prepared as follows: mix the oil with soda in one bowl and add flour, knead the dough. Let it rest for ten minutes, and then divide into eight equal parts, each of which form into a ball, and then roll into a circle 5 mm high. Divide with a knife into equal eight segments and put a little jam on the wide edge of each piece, roll it into a bagel. So do with the whole test, spreading the "fingers" on a dry baking sheet. Bake in the oven at a temperature of 190 degrees to a light golden color, roll in icing sugar.
With coconut
Another recipe (with photo) of coconut butterless cookies will please lovers of shortcrust pastry. This product is an excellent substitute for butter, makes baking more friable, crumbly, and if you use cold-pressed oil (as adherents to a healthy diet do), then the cookies will be breathtakingly fragrant.
For the test you will need:
- 200 grams of flour;
- 100 grams of coconut oil;
- two tbsp. l honey;
- 60 grams of coconut flakes;
- 2 tbsp. l sugar (can be completely replaced with honey);
- 1 tsp soda (without a slide);
- 1/2 tsp vanilla.
Step cooking
Almost all lean biscuit recipes are simple in cooking principles: dry and wet ingredients are mixed separately, then combined in one bowl and the dough is kneaded. If it does not form well in a lump, you can add a few tablespoons of warm water. Set the mode in the oven to 200 degrees, with the help of spoons set the cookies and bake until creamy, sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Dried fruit gingerbread cookie
Delicious lean biscuit recipes can even be based on vegetables, because there is squash pie, pumpkin cake, why not be a carrot liver? If you carefully study the components, it becomes clear that this is a very useful baking, which will not affect the thickness of the waist. What is included in such cookies:
- two carrots;
- three apples;
- 10 tbsp. l Hercules flakes;
- three tbsp. l wheat flour;
- three tbsp. l vegetable oil (refined);
- 1 tsp ground ginger;
- 1/3 tsp cinnamon
- a handful of dried apricots, prunes, walnuts or other nuts.
How to cook?
Preparation of lean cookies according to the recipe begins with the fact that you need to thoroughly wash the carrots, remove the top skin and grate, do the same with apples, only you do not need to remove the peel from them, but it is desirable to remove the core.
Grind half oatmeal in a coffee grinder, mix with the remaining oats, spices and flour. Next, combine the grated mass with dry, mix and leave it warm for half an hour so that it swells. If initially there was little apple juice, then you can add a couple of spoons of warm water. Chop dried fruits into small pieces, chop nuts. Add the whole cut to the dough with butter. To stir thoroughly. From the resulting dough, sculpt small cakes and spread on a baking sheet with parchment, optionally sprinkle raisins on top, gently squeezing it into the dough. Bake cookies in the oven at 190 degrees to a soft golden color. If to taste it does not seem too sweet (for an amateur), then the finished chilled product can be sprinkled with powdered sugar.
With orange zest and icing
For some simple lean biscuit recipes, one ingredient is enough to completely transform the taste: in this case, oranges. We take two fruits, carefully wipe with a damp towel and remove the zest. Next, remove the white skin, seeds and partitions, chop the pulp with a blender in mashed potatoes. Add to it one hundred grams of honey, two tbsp. tablespoons of odorless vegetable oil, zest and mix thoroughly until a uniform consistency. In a separate bowl, combine two glasses of flour, one hundred grams of sugar and 1 tsp. baking powder. Pouring liquid into the dry mixture, knead the dough. It will be quite sticky and viscous, so it’s better to put the cookies on a baking sheet using a pastry bag in the form of curls or eights. Be sure to line the baking sheet with oiled paper.
Bake at a temperature of 180 degrees, trying not to dry out: on average, the baking time lasts ten minutes. When the cookie cools down, cover it with icing in any way: completely the entire surface or just small asymmetric strips.
Orange glaze is prepared very simply: you need to squeeze the juice of one large orange and mix with a glass of powdered sugar until a homogeneous consistency, you can also add a little orange food coloring - cookies will look more fun. Using a pastry bag or syringe, we decorate ready-made and chilled cookies, and then let the glaze harden in free air.
On tomato juice
Some enterprising craftswomen learned to cook delicious pastries from a variety of products, which at first glance were completely unsuitable for this. Confirmation of this: a recipe for lean cookies from brine, in which tomatoes were rolled for the winter:
- One glass each: brine, vegetable oil, sugar.
- 1 teaspoon of soda.
- 100 grams of light sesame seeds.
- Five glasses of flour.
If desired or possible, you can replace vegetable oil with coconut, then the baking will be more magnificent and fragrant. Mix the butter, sugar and brine until the grains are completely dissolved, separately - sifted flour and soda. Combine the mixture and knead a lump of dough, let it lie under a napkin for twenty minutes. Roll out with a thickness of 7 mm, evenly sprinkle sesame on it and lightly walk with a rolling pin, pressing seeds into the dough. Cut cookies into cookie cutters, put on a baking sheet and bake until cooked in the oven at 180 degrees.
Ready cookies turn out to be unusually tasty. In the same way, you can cook home-made lean cookies according to the recipe from tomato juice, pickle brine or sauerkraut. Each time the taste will be a little different, but this is the special charm of a universal recipe.
Chocolate Chip Cookies
After trying it, I can’t even believe that cookies are lean. And having learned the principle of preparation, you are amazed: it cannot be that such yummy was prepared so simply! Step-by-step actions are as follows:
- One hundred grams of vegetable oil mixed with 1/4 cup honey and three tbsp. l brewed coffee (ground in a coffee grinder), add a glass of sugar and mix well.
- A third cup of cocoa powder mixed with vanilla on the tip of a knife, a pinch of soda and a half cups of flour.
- Combine honey and chocolate. Knead the dough.
- In a separate bowl, mix an incomplete glass of peanut butter, 100 grams of icing sugar, three tbsp. l honey and as much ground coffee. Roll balls of the size of a small walnut from the resulting mass. From this amount of dough, they produce no more than 25 pieces.
- Divide the chocolate dough into as many parts, make a cake from each, into the center of which roll a peanut ball, forming a round cookie.
Line a baking sheet with parchment or cooking paper, put cookies on it at a distance from each other (it will blur a little). Bake in the oven for ten minutes at 190 degrees, but do not remove immediately from the pan - let them stand for ten minutes. Cookies are soft, slightly stretched, with a delicate filling.