Lenten cookies: recipes with photos

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Lent days are not a reason to radically change the principles of nutrition, and if you are used to eating something sweet during afternoon tea, then why not continue the tradition by replacing the usual cookies with lean ones. The simple recipes with photos in this article will greatly diversify the ideas for baking without fast foods, making it possible to continue your usual daily schedule without drastic changes.

Oatmeal cookies

The traditional recipe for lean oatmeal cookies can be slightly improved in this way: grind two cups of Hercules flakes into flour in a coffee grinder 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 the same amount of chocolate chips, knead the dough, leave it for half an hour in a warm place, covering the dishes with a towel.

Further with 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 until a gentle blush. The cookies are incredibly fragrant, crumbly and very tasty.

"Fingers" fromsodas

This recipe for lean cookies is special: despite the fact that its composition is rather strange, like for baking, but ready-made “fingers” can compete with other confectionery on eggs, butter and sour cream in taste. What makes them so delicious? To find out, you need to prepare and understand that the best is always the simplest. Ingredient List:

• one glass each of highly carbonated water and vegetable oil;
• four cups of flour;
• thick jam: apple or pear.

Dough for cookies is prepared as follows: mix butter with soda in one bowl and add flour, knead the dough. Let it rest for ten minutes, and then divide it into eight equal parts, form each of which into a ball, and then roll it into a circle 5 mm high. Divide with a knife into eight equal segments and put a little jam on the wide edge of each piece, roll into a bagel. Do this with the whole dough, laying out the “fingers” on a dry baking sheet. Bake in the oven at 190 degrees until light golden brown, roll in powdered sugar.

With coconut flakes

Another recipe (with photo) for lean coconut oil cookies will delight lovers of shortcrust pastry. This product is a great substitute for butter, makes pastries more fluffy, crumbly, and if you use cold-pressed butter (as adherents of a he althy 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 art. l. honey;
• 60 grams of coconut flakes;
• 2 tbsp. l. sugar (can be completely replaced with honey);
• 1 tsp soda (no slide);
• 1/2 tsp vanilla.

Step cooking

Almost all recipes for lean cookies are simple in the principles of preparation: dry and wet ingredients are mixed separately, and then combined in one bowl and the dough is kneaded. If it is poorly formed in a lump, you can add a few tablespoons of warm water. Set the oven mode to 200 degrees, use spoons to deposit cookies and bake until creamy, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Gingerbread cookies with dried fruits

Recipes for delicious lean cookies can even be based on vegetables, because there is a zucchini pie, pumpkin cake, why not be a carrot cookie? If you carefully study the components, it becomes clear that this is a very useful pastry that will not affect the thickness of the waist. What is included in the composition of such cookies:

• two carrots;
• three apples;
• 10 art. l. oatmeal flakes;
• three art. l. wheat flour;
• three art. 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?

Preparing lean cookies according to the recipe begins with the fact that you need to thoroughly wash the carrots, remove the top skin andgrate on a fine grater, 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 of the oatmeal in a coffee grinder, mix with the remaining oatmeal, spices and flour. Next, combine the grated mass with dry, mix and leave warm for half an hour so that it swells. If initially there was not enough apple juice, then you can add a couple of tablespoons of warm water. Cut dried fruits into small pieces, chop nuts. Add the whole sliced \u200b\u200bto the dough along with the butter. To stir thoroughly. From the resulting dough, sculpt small cakes and spread on a baking sheet with parchment, if desired, you can sprinkle raisins on top, slightly pressing it into the dough. Bake cookies in the oven at 190 degrees until soft golden brown. If it doesn’t seem too sweet to taste (for an amateur), then the finished chilled product can be sprinkled with powdered sugar.

With orange peel and icing

For some simple recipes for lean cookies, one ingredient is enough to completely transform the taste: in this case, it's oranges. We take two fruits, carefully wipe them with a damp towel and remove the zest. Next, remove the white skin, seeds and partitions, grind the pulp with a blender into a puree. Add to it one hundred grams of honey, two tbsp. tablespoons of odorless vegetable oil, zest and stir thoroughly to a uniform consistency. In a separate bowl, combine two cups of flour, one hundred grams of sugar and 1 tsp. baking powder. Pouring into a dry mixture of liquid,knead the dough. It will be quite sticky and viscous, so it is 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 180 degrees, being careful not to overdry: the average baking time is ten minutes. When the cookies are cool, cover them with icing in any way: the entire surface or just small asymmetric strips.

Orange glaze is very easy to prepare: you need to squeeze the juice of one large orange and mix with a glass of powdered sugar until smooth, you can also add a little orange food coloring - the cookies will look more fun. Using a pastry bag or syringe, decorate the finished and chilled cookies, and then let the glaze harden in free air.

On tomato juice

Some enterprising craftswomen have learned how to cook delicious pastries from a variety of products, at first glance, completely unsuitable for this. Confirmation of this: a recipe for lean brine cookies, in which tomatoes were rolled up for the winter:

• One glass each: brine, vegetable oil, sugar.
• 1 teaspoon baking soda.
• 100 grams of light sesame.
• Five glasses of flour.

If desired or possible, you can replace vegetable oil with coconut oil, then the baking will be more magnificent and fragrant. Mix butter, sugar and brine until the grains are completely dissolved, separately - sifted flour and soda. Combine the mixtures 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 seeds on it and lightly walk with a rolling pin, pressing the seeds into the dough. Cut cookies into molds, put on a baking sheet and bake until cooked in the oven at 180 degrees.

The finished cookies are unusually tasty. In the same way, you can cook lean cookies at home according to a recipe from tomato juice, cucumber pickle or sauerkraut. Each time it tastes a little different, but that's the beauty of the all-in-one recipe.

Chocolate cookies with filling

When you try it, you can't even believe that the cookies are lean. And having learned the principle of cooking, you are amazed: it cannot be that such a yummy is prepared so simply! The steps are as follows:

1. 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.
2. Mix a third of a cup of cocoa powder with vanilla on the tip of a knife, a pinch of soda and one and a half cups of flour.
3. Combine honey mass and chocolate. Knead the dough.
4. In a separate bowl, mix an incomplete glass of peanut butter, 100 grams of powdered sugar, three tbsp. l. honey and the same amount of ground coffee. Roll the resulting mass into balls the size of a small walnut. From this amount of dough, no more than 25 pieces are obtained.
5. Chocolate dough divided into the same number of parts,from each to make a cake, in 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 spread a little). Bake in the oven for ten minutes at 190 degrees, but do not immediately remove from the baking sheet - let them stand for ten minutes. The cookies are soft, slightly stretchy, with the most delicate filling.