It is rare to meet someone who does not love sweet - more sweets. Home baking is a distinct advantage compared to the purchase. First, you have the ability to dream and to create masterpieces of culinary art. Secondly, unlike the purchase, homemade fudge is only natural. And if the other days we can easily treat yourself to cakes and pastries, then what do you do during Lent? Can refuse such a favorite goodies?
Everyone knows that during fasting can not eat animal products, which are part of almost any baking. These products include eggs, cow's milk, butter. Sometimes it seems that without these products to cook pastries is unlikely to succeed, because they are indispensable in cooking. It's hard to imagine the dough for baking without eggs and milk. Can you something to replace these products and make delicious pastries without them? One variety of pastries while fasting is a lean cookies.
In contrast, cakes, biscuits faster prepared and usually does not require the use of large amounts of ingredients. It can be prepared quickly and without much hassle.
So, what are recipes for lean cookies exist? Cooking baking lean slightly different from normal cooking.
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Banana cookie recipe vegetable
This recipe does not require the use of those products that are not allowed to use during strict fasting. The amount of the resulting cookie is good - get it a lot, and that's enough for the whole family. For the preparation of such cookies, we need the following ingredients:
flour - 3-4 cups;
baking soda - 2 teaspoons;
sugar - 1, 5-2 cups;
honey - 4 tablespoons;
Bananas - 2 pieces.
The cooking process is quite simple. It is necessary to knead two bananas a homogeneous slurry, and then to mix them with honey and sugar. Next, you need to put the prepared mixture in a water bath and keep up until all the sugar has dissolved and turns into a syrup. Once the mass is smooth, it is possible to add the baking soda, all carefully stir. The mixture should become lighter and increase in volume by half. When you need to remove it from the heat and cool to room temperature. Stirring constantly mass necessary to gradually pour into it the flour and knead the dough.
Flour is poured until the dough is soft but still a bit will stick to your hands. The finished dough is rolled into the reservoir, and using the molds or cups of it are cut figures. On a lightly greased baking tray with sunflower oil to be put cookies and send it in the oven on medium heat for 10 minutes, after which it is necessary to get and you can sprinkle with powdered sugar. Lenten cookies ready.
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Recipe lean honey cookies
Immediately is to say that to this pastry was fragrant and spicy taste, the dough can add a mixture of gingerbread, prepared from ground cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg.
To prepare honey lean cookies we need the following products:
flour - about 2 cups;
Honey - half cup;
Sugar - 50 g;
baking soda - 1 teaspoon;
gingerbread mix - 1 teaspoon;
Salt - a pinch.
The preparation begins with the mixing of honey and sugar to be heated in a water bath. Once the sugar is completely dissolved, the mass can be removed from the heat and add to baking soda. Signal that the soda has gone out, it will change the color weight (it should turn white) and its increase in volume.
After that, the weight you need to add salt and a mixture of gingerbread, and only then should gradually add flour. The consistency of the dough should be pliable and should not stick to hands. Further procedure is the same as in the previous recipe. The dough is rolled out into a reservoir from which the extruded various figures. Once the figures are laid out on a baking sheet, you can send them in the oven. Bake cookies need no more than 10 minutes, or it may simply be a solid. The temperature in the oven must be 160 degrees. When the time is taken out biscuits, and you can proceed to tea.
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Recipe lean assorted cookies
To get assorted cookies, ready-made dough should be divided into several parts, to be added at the request of nuts, dried fruit, cocoa, spices and various others.
To prepare the cookies require the use of the following ingredients:
corn starch or potato - 1 cup;
flour - 3 cups;
vegetable oil - 2/3 cup;
drinking water - 2/3 cup;
Sugar - 1 cup;
soda - 1/2 teaspoon (you must repay vinegar);
Salt - a pinch.
Food algorithm is as follows: the flour to be mixed with the starch, after which all screened. In this mixture are added salt and sugar, then poured warm water, sunflower oil and soda, vinegar, slaked. The dough is kneaded quickly. It turns out it is quite steep. Then the finished dough is divided into several parts, each of which interferes with the desired additive. Give the dough a little time to soften it and then unroll it into a thin layer and using the same molds cut out the desired figures. Next cookie is sent to the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes at 200 degrees. Baking ready.
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Recipe vegetable fruit pastry
This recipe is perfect is if you still have unused berries and fruit compote or juice or syrup from the canned fruit.
This recipe involves the use of the following products:
sugar - 4 tablespoons;
flour - 2 cups 5-3;
vegetable oil - 1/4 cup;
compote or fruit juice - 1 cup;
orange or lemon peel - 1 tablespoon;
pear or apple - 2 pieces;
baking soda - 1 teaspoon (you must repay vinegar).
The preparation begins with sifting flour, after which must be mixed with sugar. Apples or pears (at your option), peeled, finely chopped. In a deep bowl compote should be discarded (or juice), sunflower oil, add the zest (optional), chopped fruit, soda, vinegar, slaked. All thoroughly mixed, then add the flour and sugar. Then knead the dough, which, by the way, it turns out quite steep.
Disengage the dough, roll down from his small balls and lay them on a baking sheet. Cookies are baked in the oven at 180-200 degrees for about 15-20 minutes.
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Recipe lean oatmeal cookies
For the preparation of the pastry just need 3 ingredients that can not help but be interested. So, we need:
oatmeal - 1 cup;
banana - 2 pieces;
raisins - 2 tablespoons.
The cooking process begins by mixing oatmeal with bananas. To do this, pour into a glass bowl of oatmeal, add to the pre-peeled and broken down into parts of bananas. Use oatmeal can be any - as usual "Hercules" and cereal fast food. No special difference, change the structure of a cookie. With banana plug kneaded and mixed with the flakes until a thick mush.
Raisins should be washed beforehand (you can pour over boiling water) and dry. Then, it is added into the prepared mass The whole was mixed.
In the laid parchment paper baking sheet using a spoon must be ready to shell out a lot, giving it a rounded shape. Baking is sent in a preheated 180 degree oven, which is baked for about 15 minutes. Once browned cookies, you can remove and take with parchment sheet. To taste this cookie lean a little different from the usual traditional. His consistency is a bit sticky, but it turns out very tasty and perfectly suited to tea. Do not forget about the benefits of this batch, containing a variety of vitamins, mineral and children.
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Recipe vegetable carrot cookies
This recipe allows you to experiment with the members of the ingredients include imagination and add something new. For example, well suited as an additive to dough seeds, nuts, dried fruit.
So, you need to prepare:
carrot - 2-3 pieces (depending on size);
sugar - 100 g;
vegetable oil (unscented) - 100 g;
flour - about 5 tablespoons;
oatmeal - 5 tablespoons;
Vanilla sugar - 2 bags.
The recipe is very simple, the preparation takes a minimum of time, and the result is sure to please.
The first thing to do - is to peel and grate on a coarse grater carrots. Thereafter, the carrot is mixed with all remaining ingredients. Weight should get a uniform, if you wish, you can add nuts, dried fruit, candied fruit, sunflower seeds and other ingredients. In the laid parchment paper baking laid rolled up from the resulting mass balls (on request can be made flat biscuits). In a preheated 200-250 degree oven goes baking for 20-30 minutes. When the time cookies can be removed and proceed to tea.
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Recipe lean cookies in brine
For the preparation of the baking handy brine absolutely any - from both rolled in the winter tomatoes and cucumbers, as well as on freshly salted cucumbers. The recipe includes the following products:
any brine - 250 g;
sugar - 1 cup;
vegetable oil - half cup;
baking soda - 1 teaspoon;
flour - to knead not very stiff dough.
If desired, you can add crushed baked peanuts.
The procedure of preparation is as follows: in a bowl mix sugar, pickle, vegetable oil and baking soda. All mix thoroughly whisk, then add the sifted flour and knead not very stiff dough. The dough should be such that it's easy to roll out, and that it does not stick to hands. The finished dough is rolled into the layer (thickness 0, 5-1 cm), and with the help of molds cutouts.
On a greased baking tray with sunflower oil spread resulting figures. Bake should be at 180-200 degrees until golden brown on both sides. Dessert ready.
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Summarizing
So, as has become clear, lean pastries can be not only useful but also delicious. In its taste, it can not yield to baking on the basis of products of animal origin
. Preparing it quickly enough power takes on a minimum, but the result brings to the maximum. This baking sure to please your household and guests. By the huge advantages include the ability to dream and to experiment, to bring something new.
It's not all recipes lean cookies, there are many others: orange, sesame, poppy, Berry and others. All depends only on your preferences. Everyone can choose what he prefer, and please yourself and your loved ones healthy and tasty cooking. You have a choice of the suggested recipes, and can bring something of their own. We wish you success in the culinary arts. Enjoy your meal.
