Despite all the simplicity to primitivism, oatmeal cookies continue to firmly maintain a leading position among diet baking. And this is no accident: oat flakes, even in flour-ground form, continue to bring great benefits to the body, and if you add some zest in the form of an additional ingredient to a simple oatmeal cookie recipe, then the benefit can be doubled, or even tripled.
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The composition of oatmeal cookies in the traditional version includes butter, although some cooks insist on margarine. In fact, the difference in finished products is small: baking on butter is more aromatic, and not with an obsessive smell of fat. If you use spices in the correct proportions, the difference will be almost imperceptible.
List of necessary ingredients for making oatmeal cookies according to state standard:
- 350 grams of wheat flour;
- 150 grams of oatmeal;
- 170 grams of oil;
- 150 grams of drinking water;
- 350 grams of sugar;
- 50 grams of raisins;
- a teaspoon with a hill of cinnamon;
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla;
- 1 teaspoon of salt and soda.
Classic oatmeal cookies do not contain eggs, which is why it is so beloved by vegetarians who use vegetable margarine or coconut oil, which is famous for its unsurpassed aroma and amazing property to make baked goods friable and tender instead of prescription oil.
How to cook oatmeal at home?
You may notice that a cookie is prepared according to a recipe made from oatmeal, but it can not always be found on store shelves, especially in small towns. It doesn’t matter. It can be prepared from the most common oatmeal, from which instant oatmeal is prepared.
It would be ideal to use whole grain oats for the preparation of flour, but it is even more difficult to find. Therefore, to cook flour at home, you just need to grind the cereal in a coffee grinder. It is also worth considering that when grinding, the mass decreases in size by about a third, so initially you should take more so that the proportions of the recipe coincide, and the dough has the necessary consistency.
Cooking Cookies
To make oatmeal cookies according to the recipe above, you should step by step follow these steps:
- Grind raisins with a blender into a viscous mass, add spices.
- There, send sugar, salt and butter and beat lightly again.
- Mix both types of flour with soda, sift and add to the sweet mass.
- To it, add water in small portions, kneading the dough.
Place it on the table a little and then divide it into small lumps, each roll out with a rolling pin into a cake, forming oatmeal cookies. It is very convenient to do this between two layers of parchment. Then the dough does not stick, and the cookies are easy to move on a baking sheet. A treat is baked at a temperature of 200 degrees to a light brown color, usually it takes no more than 15 minutes.
Simple cereal recipe
If for several reasons there is nothing to grind cereal into flour in the house, then you can make cookies from whole cereal. The composition for oatmeal cookies in this option will be slightly different:
- 2 cups Hercules flakes;
- 1 egg
- a handful of walnuts;
- 150 grams of oil;
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar;
- zest of one lemon.
How to cook?
The first step is to sift the oatmeal through a regular sieve and save the resulting amount of flour. We distribute the clean flakes on the surface of the baking sheet, which we place in the oven, heated to a temperature of 190 degrees. Stirring occasionally, they need to be dried to a light brown color and a nutty flavor. On average, it takes no more than half an hour, while it is important to prevent the product from burning, otherwise oatmeal cookies will turn rancid in taste.
Grind the butter at room temperature with sugar into a uniform fluffy mass, add zest and egg. Stir and pour in the nuts, previously crushed into small pieces. Then add flour to the mass, which came from sifting the oats and mix everything thoroughly until smooth and combine with oatmeal, kneading the dough. It will be quite soft, so you should leave it for twenty minutes, covering the dishes with foil.
Cover the baking sheet with parchment. Spread lumps of dough on it with a tablespoon, forming rounded cookies. Bake in the oven at 200 degrees until rosy. When broken, such cookies will be dry and crumbly, it is very tasty to soak them in milk, which is very popular with children. Using the same principle, you can cook oatmeal cookies with raisins, which we press into each product before baking (4-5 pieces per cake).
With dried fruit
Oatmeal cookies with raisins and dried cherries, prepared according to this recipe, will become a good stimulant of strength during the working day: only two or three cookies with a cup of hot tea can give activity for several hours. To understand what their secret is, you should study the recipe in more detail:
- 3 cups cereal;
- 2 eggs;
- 180 grams of wheat flour;
- 180 grams of butter (cream or coconut);
- 50 grams of honey;
- 1 cup dried pitted cherries;
- a handful of raisins;
- 130 grams of sugar;
- 10 grams of cinnamon;
- a pinch of nutmeg;
- 1 teaspoon of soda.
If you want honey to completely replace sugar in such a dietary oatmeal cookie, then you should double it.
Cooking Cookies
Sugar, honey and butter, as well as spices, combine in one bowl and turn with a mixer into a lush mass, add chicken eggs and beat slightly again. Grind half a portion of oatmeal in a coffee grinder and mix with wheat flour and soda. Then combine both mixtures: flour and sweet together, and after thorough mixing, add the rest of the cereal and dried fruits. According to tradition, cover a baking sheet with parchment and put a cookie in the form of small round cakes on it with a tablespoon. Bake at 180 degrees until rosy. There are many such oatmeal cookies with honey and cherries, so it is better to store the excess in a sealed container so that the pastries do not lose their friable state.
Energy cookies with seeds of different types
Adherents of healthy and vegetarian food also have a recipe for dietary oatmeal cookies: they try to cook only mega-healthy foods that are as rich in nutrients as possible with a minimum of calories.
To prepare you will need:
- 1.5 cups of oatmeal;
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons cold pressed coconut oil;
- 3/4 cup buckwheat or corn flour;
- 5 tbsp. tablespoons of honey or maple syrup;
- 1 large apple, grated on a fine grater;
- 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon and vanilla essence;
- a handful of a mixture of sunflower, flax, pumpkin and sesame seeds;
- 50 grams of raisins or prunes, sliced;
- a pinch of soda and grated nutmeg.
Step cooking
Despite the abundance of ingredients, this recipe for oatmeal cookies is simple: mix flour with spices and soda in one dish, and honey, grated apple, butter, and dried fruit seeds in another. Then combine the two masses in one bowl, mix, add flakes and let the dough stand for ten to fifteen minutes.
Line the baking sheet with parchment paper, spread the cakes at a certain distance from each other with a spoon (the dough will float a little when baking). Bake oatmeal cookies in the oven (180 degrees) to a distinctive rosy color.
With chocolate drops and lemon zest
Homemade oatmeal oatmeal cookies from Hercules can be prepared not only with the usual raisins or nuts, but also with chocolate drops (can be replaced with ordinary black chocolate, crushed into small pieces), marmalade and even M & M´s sweets.
Step-by-step actions will help to cope with the preparation in two accounts:
- Grind 130 grams of oatmeal in a coffee grinder in flour, mix with 250 grams of wheat flour and 1/2 teaspoon of soda mixed with a pinch of citric acid.
- In a separate bowl, 250 grams of soft margarine and a glass of cane sugar beat to a uniform consistency, add two eggs and a tablespoon of honey.
- Pour the flour mixture and grated zest of one lemon into the same mass. Then add 120 grams of whole flakes of oatmeal, mix thoroughly and leave in a warm place for half an hour.
- Then add to the test 30 grams of ground walnuts, 50 grams of chocolate drops and stir well again.
Turn on the oven in 190 degree mode, line the baking sheet with parchment paper. Using a tablespoon, make lumps of dough and spread on a baking sheet at an average distance from each other. Bake for fifteen minutes and lightly sprinkle with powdered sugar and vanilla before serving. This recipe is good because it gives freedom for experiments: zest can be replaced with vanilla or cinnamon with cloves, chocolate with nuts - with prunes and marmalade. Each time, the cookie will taste new, creating the illusion of a variety of pastries. Of course, for fighters for harmony this option is not the best because of the high calorie content, but in any case it is better than cream cakes and cakes.
Soft cookies with sesame seeds and coconut
This oatmeal cookie with honey differs from the usual one in that it is soft and not dense and crunchy like traditional cereal pastries. This is achieved thanks to a new ingredient: yogurt.
- Grind 3 cups of oatmeal into flour.
- Melt 250 grams of oil in a water bath and mix with 2 tbsp. spoons of honey.
- Beat 2 eggs and 120 grams of yogurt to a homogeneous consistency.
- Mix oatmeal with 260 grams of sugar and 380 grams of wheat flour, add 50 grams of coconut flakes.
- Pour a pinch of soda into the yogurt, immediately combine with the honey and flour mixture. Mix thoroughly, kneading a soft dough.
Lightly grease the baking sheet with oil or cover it with parchment paper, form small lumps the size of a ping-pong ball from the dough and spread them at some distance from each other so that they do not stick together during baking. Sprinkle with light sesame seeds, lightly pressing it with a spoon to the dough. Bake cookies in the oven (190 degrees) until soft brown.
Ready-made oatmeal cookies, prepared according to any recipe above, can be poured with icing or fudge. With fresh milk, fragrant tea or just brewed cocoa, this simple dessert can give you a lot of pleasant taste and aesthetic impressions, as well as become a pleasant five-minute break for a long working day. The recipes presented in this article introduce only a small fraction of the possible options for this baking, popular among the sweet tooth.