I always liked sweet foods. But recently, due to the dominance of sites about healthy eating, a healthy lifestyle, and other free “countries of advice”, you have to choose recipes with caution. Sometimes you read so many interesting things about the same product that it even becomes scary to eat. For example, oatmeal cookies. Its recipe includes oatmeal, which everyone vying to consider a very, very useful product, but butter and margarine are a threat to a good figure.
Dear ladies, do not worry so much about the small piece of butter that is in the dough so that the cookies are cookies, and not pressed muesli. Better worry about the amount of cookies you ate for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. And better to consider everything together in the evening.
Oatmeal cookies, ordinary recipe
It is necessary to take:
3/4 cup oatmeal
Glass of sugar
A glass of wheat flour
250-300 g butter or margarine
Soda ½ teaspoon, slaked.
Let's start?
Dry the oatmeal in a dry frying pan over low heat. Stir the flakes for about ten minutes until a characteristic odor appears, but the color of the flakes should not change. You don’t need to fry the flakes, this procedure will make your liver look darker, but the taste will remain the same.
Flakes must be chopped. For example, in a blender. Remove oil or margarine from the refrigerator first so that you don’t have to fight it later. It should be soft and complaisant. Beat butter with sugar together. Pour oatmeal , flour and soda into our sweet butter . Knead the dough.
Any dough based on margarine or butter does not like if it is kneaded for a long time by hand. On the contrary, it prefers cool. Because as soon as the ingredients have become a single mass, you can put the dough for 10 minutes in the refrigerator, and only then roll it out and cut circles (I usually make it with a glass).
If you don’t want to wait until the dough cools down a little and comes to your senses, then you can immediately roll balls from it and put it on parchment for baking. In the oven, cookies will increase in size, you need a small distance between the balls.
The baking time is 20 minutes. Temperature - 180 - 190 degrees.
Now let's move on to modernizing this recipe. So, dietary oatmeal cookies are made as follows:
1. Reduce the amount of sugar, it can be replaced with honey. Just don't sprinkle the sweetener. The dough does not like to be deceived. Calculation of approximately one part of honey to two parts of oatmeal. You can make a quarter glass of honey and half a glass of cane (or other more healthy) sugar.
2. Add nuts and dried fruits to your taste. You can add a little (50 grams) of dark chocolate, grated or finely chopped.
3. If you are attracted to experiments, try adding pulp of pumpkin or apple instead of butter or margarine and sugar. It turns out pretty original taste. The pulp needs about a glass, maybe a little less. And don't forget to add a couple of egg whites.
Variations of additives in oatmeal cookies, the recipe of which is easy to find both on the Internet and in cookbooks, amaze me with their diversity. Depending on the taste that you want to get, you can use fruits (apples, pears, bananas), dried fruits (dried apricots, prunes), nuts (peanuts, cashews, walnuts), seeds (sunflower, pumpkin, sesame). And you can add cinnamon, vanilla or even cloves.
Oatmeal cookies, the recipe of which includes eggs, I did not give. They can be added to butter or fruit pulp for whipping. Then the dough is more fluffy.
Lean oatmeal cookies. Vegetable Oil Recipe
For half a cup of oatmeal, a couple tablespoons of honey and oil is used. A teaspoon of baking powder or soda on the edge of the spoon.
First, mix the crushed flakes and all the dry ingredients, then add the oil, mix, then add the honey. And leave the dough for half an hour in the refrigerator. Bake as described above, only 15-20 minutes.
Enjoy your meal!