Fasting is a great celebration that for baking lovers often becomes a difficult challenge.
They really find it difficult to keep it to the end, because they have to give up not only their favorite animal products, but also sweets, pastries, and baked goods, because almost all of them include eggs and butter or margarine.
But, as it turned out, in the days of great fast, you can indulge yourself with all sorts of goodies. Lean pastries without eggs and dairy products are easy, but, nevertheless, incredibly tasty. All kinds of berries, fruits, vegetables give a special aroma and taste to the lean liver. Preparing delicious lean cookies is simple, its recipes are clear and easy, the number of ingredients is minimal. But, despite all the simplicity, the pleasure of eating is maximum.
Lean Cookies - General Cooking Principles
The main feature of lean cookies is the absence of any dairy products and eggs, ingredients such as vegetable oil, flour, oatmeal, sugar, water, starch can be included in the composition of lean cookies. And, of course, various dried fruits, nuts, honey, citrus and much more, thanks to which the lean cookies turn out to be not only surprisingly tasty, useful, but also beautiful.
• Vegetable oil for lean cookies, choose no odor, cold-pressed.
• Flour before baking, be sure to sift, it will enrich the product with oxygen, so that the dough will be airy and incredibly tender.
• Sugar can be used any: plain, brown or reed.
• Nuts and dried fruits must be of high quality. Honey for lean cookies fit both floral and buckwheat, lime and other, to your taste.
• To add flavor, use cinnamon, ginger, mint, vanilla, citrus zest.
• Berries can be used both fresh and frozen. The last ones before cooking should be removed from the freezer beforehand so that they thaw out.
• Starch in the composition of lean cookies will be an excellent connecting element instead of prohibited eggs. Use potato or corn starch.
You should not take the great post as a forced rejection of snacks. Let this period be for you a wonderful opportunity to dream and create unique tasty lenten cookies, the best recipes presented in this article.
1. Lenten cookies with poppy seeds
Ingredients:
• 400 grams of whole grain flour;
• 50 ml of water;
• 170 grams of sugar;
• 70 ml grow. oils;
• 50 grams of poppy;
• 15 grams of baking powder.
Cooking method:
1. In a container of a suitable size, mix the dry ingredients: sifted flour, sugar, baking powder.
2. Pour in vegetable oil.
3. Knead the crumbly butter dough directly with your hands.
4. Add poppy seeds, mix.
5. Heat water, but do not boil. Pour it into the finished mass. Knead sticky, but less crumbly dough.
6. From the flour mass form a kind of ball.
7. Put it on a baking tray covered with parchment paper.
8. Use your hands to form a layer from the ball, which you then cut with a sharp knife into small cubes or diamonds.
9. Bake fifteen minutes at 180 degrees.
10. Cool the prepared layer in the oven, then remove and break it into neat little meatless cookies on lines drawn with a knife.
2. Ginger Lenten Cookies
Ingredients:
• 380 grams of flour;
• 90 ml grow. oils;
• 80-100 grams of sugar;
• one banana;
• 1 tbsp. orange peel;
• 15 grams of baking powder;
• 10 grams of cinnamon;
• 20 grams of ground ginger;
• one third teaspoon of salt;
Cooking method:
1. Mash a peeled banana puree.
2. Mix sugar and vegetable oil in a deep bowl with a mixer.
3. Add sifted flour, banana puree, oil mixture, orange zest, salt and spices. Knead the dough.
4. Warm up the oven to 200 degrees. Cover baking paper on a baking sheet.
5. Make small balls out of dough, shape them into cookies.
6. Bake ten minutes.
3. Coffee oatmeal cookies
Ingredients:
• 60 grams of flour;
• 220 grams of chopped oatmeal;
• 20 grams of ground coffee;
• 5 grams of cinnamon;
• 120 grams of powdered sugar;
• 50 ml grow. oils;
• 1/4 tsp. salts;
• 120 ml of water.
Cooking method:
1. Mix in a saucepan or in any other container sifted flour, coffee, cinnamon, salt and powder.
2. Pour in oil and water, mix.
3. Knead the elastic, elastic dough.
4. Roll a large tortilla with a width of no more than half a centimeter, cut the cookies.
5. Bake ten minutes.
6. The oven must be heated to 200 degrees in advance.
4. Fast cookies in a hurry
Ingredients:
• 800 grams of wheat flour;
• 300 grams of potato starch;
• 400 ml of water;
• 450 grams of sugar;
• 400 ml of vegetable oil;
• 10 grams of soda;
• Pinch of salt and citric acid.
Cooking method:
1. Mix pre-sifted flour with potato starch.
2. Pound dry mixture with vegetable oil. The result should be a viscous adhesive mass.
3. Add a little salt and citric acid, a spoon of soda. Stir.
4. Pour sugar, pour in water. Knead the dough.
5. Roll out a thin layer of dough, cut cookies of any shape.
6. Bake for fifteen minutes in the oven, preheating it to 180 degrees.
5. salted lenten cookies
Ingredients:
• 270 grams of wheat flour;
• 80 grams of wholegrain flour;
• 130 ml volume juice;
• 60 ml grow. oils;
• 20 grams of sugar;
• 10 grams of baking powder;
• a teaspoon of salt;
• 1/2 tsp. fine salt;
• 1/2 tsp. oregano
Cooking method:
1. Mix all the ingredients in the recipe, except for two types of flour, which will need to be mixed in a separate bowl and sift.
2. Slowly pour the flour into the resulting liquid mass, kneading the dough.
3. Roll out a thin layer.
4. Cut the cookies.
5. Bake at 180 degrees for about twenty minutes, putting the cookies on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
6. Sprinkle ready lean cookies with fine salt and oregano.
6. Honey Lean Cookies with Apple, Raisins and Cranberries
Ingredients:
• 300 grams of wheat flour;
• 10 grams of baking powder;
• 5 grams of soda;
• quarter spoon of salt;
• 10 grams of cinnamon;
• 5 grams of powdered ginger;
• 70 ml of water;
• one banana;
• 60-80 ml grow. oils;
• 60 grams of cranberries;
• 150 grams of sweet apple;
• 50 grams of raisins;
• 40-60 ml of honey.
Cooking method:
1. Stir the soda, salt and baking powder. Add flour, cinnamon and ginger.
2. Wash the apple, dry it. Cut the skin, core, cut into small cubes.
3. Grind banana and mix with vegetable oil.
4. Add the washed raisins and cranberries, sliced apple and honey. Stir.
5. Put dry ingredients and fruit mixture in one bowl. Mix well.
6. Put a spoonful of dough on baking paper lined on a baking sheet.
7. Bake for about twenty minutes. The oven must be set to 180 degrees.
7. Lemon Lean Cookies
Ingredients:
• 550 grams of wheat flour;
• 250 grams of sugar;
• 100 ml grow. oils;
• one large lemon;
• pinch of soda.
Cooking method:
1. Pour vegetable oil into the bowl, add soda and sugar, mix.
2. Rinse lemon, remove all bones, chop in a blender.
3. Mix the lemon mass with the butter, sugar and soda.
4. Add flour, mix.
5. Divide the mass into two parts: from the first knead the elastic elastic dough, from the second - sand.
6. Cover the parchment paper on a baking sheet, lay out the elastic dough rolled into the layer, sprinkle the dough on the top with a neat even layer.
7. Bake at 200 degrees for twenty minutes.
8. Cut the prepared cool cake into small squares.
8. Pumpkin Lean Cookies
Ingredients:
• 250 grams of flour;
• 100 grams of pumpkin puree;
• 100 grams of brown sugar;
• 50 ml grow. oils;
• 50-70 grams of any ground nuts;
• 1/2 tsp. salts;
• 1/2 tsp. nutmeg;
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon;
• 1/2 tsp. soda;
• 10 ml of lemon juice.
Cooking method:
1. Prepare pumpkin puree: boil the vegetable in slightly salted water or steamed, chop in a blender or the usual tolkushkoy for potatoes.
2. Add sugar, butter, soda and lemon juice to the puree. Beat until smooth.
3. In another bowl, mix the spices with the millet flour, chopped nuts and a pinch of salt.
4. Mix both mixtures, mix well.
5. Put the fragrant spicy mass in the refrigerator for half an hour to thicken it.
6. Spread on a baking sheet, covered with parchment, biscuits, formed with oiled hands.
7. Bake for about fifteen minutes at 180 degrees.
9. Lean oatmeal cookies with banana
Ingredients:
• two glasses of small oatmeal;
• two bananas;
• 10 ml of almond oil;
• 30 grams of pure raisins;
• 5 grams of cinnamon;
• 10 grams of vanilla extract;
• 40 grams of liquid honey;
• a quarter of a teaspoon of soda.
Cooking method:
1. Pour the oatmeal into a bowl.
2. Peel and grind bananas.
3. Mix almond oil with honey, banana puree.
4. Put the honey mixture in oatmeal.
5. Add soda, vanilla extract, cinnamon, pre-cleaned and washed raisins.
6. Mix everything thoroughly. You should have a thick, sticky mass.
7. Line out baking paper in a baking pan.
8. Spoon dough, making each cake in the shape of a cookie.
9. Bake for about twenty minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
10. Lean cookies with dried apricots in the form of tubes
Ingredients:
• 360 grams of flour;
• 90 ml grow. oils;
• 80 grams of sugar;
• 100 ml of highly carbonated mineral water;
• 100 grams of dried apricots.
Cooking method:
1. Soak the dried apricots washed under running water in boiling water for half an hour.
2. After the time allowed for soaking, pass the dried apricots through the meat grinder.
3. In another bowl, mix sparkling mineral water with vegetable oil.
4. Add sugar and pre-sifted flour.
5. Knead the dough tight.
6. Divide the dough into four equal parts, from each roll a ball and roll a circle.
7. Cut each circle into 8 pieces, like a pizza. You should have 32 pieces.
8. Put the dried apricots stuffing on a wide part of each sector, roll a neat not too wide pipe.
9. Bake twenty minutes at 200 degrees.
10. Ready lean cookies can sprinkle with powdered sugar.
11. Lenten cookies on cucumber brine with coconut flakes
Ingredients:
• 230 ml of cucumber brine;
• 180 ml grow. oils;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 30 grams of coconut chips;
• a pound of flour.
Cooking method:
1. Mix in a bowl the right size of vegetable oil with pickle, sugar, twenty grams of coconut and flour.
2. Knead the shortbread dough.
3. Roll out the dough into the formation, pouring the remaining chips at the time of rolling.
4. Cut interesting figurines.
5. Bake five to ten minutes on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour, setting the temperature to 200 degrees.
12. Lean homemade cookies
Ingredients:
• 450 grams of flour;
• 130 ml of water;
• 160 ml grow. oils;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 180 grams of potato starch;
• 10 grams of baking powder;
• 5 grams of vanillin;
• 1/3 tsp. salts;
• 1 tbsp. strong brewed black tea;
• 20 grams of coarse ground sugar.
Cooking method:
1. Sift the wheat flour into a deep bowl.
2. Add starch, baking powder. Stir.
3. Pour in vegetable oil. Stir until you have a homogeneous adhesive mass.
4. Dissolve sugar, vanillin and salt in water in another small container.
5. Pour the sweet mixture into the flour mass, knead the elastic dough.
6. Cut the cookies out of the thin layer.
7. Put the homemade Lenten cookies on a baking tray covered with special baking paper.
8. Grease each form with strong tea, sprinkle with large sugar.
9. Bake a little more than ten minutes in an oven preheated to 160 degrees.
13. Carrot Lenten Cookies
Ingredients:
• 100 grams of flour;
• 130 grams of medium-sized oat flakes;
• 80-100 ml grow. oils;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• two large carrots;
• 10 grams of vanilla sugar.
Cooking method:
1. Peel and rub carrots on the smallest segment of your grater.
2. Add vegetable oil, granulated sugar, vanilla sugar. Stir until complete dissolution of the two types of sugar.
3. Add sifted flour and oatmeal.
4. Knead the dough.
5. Roll out small neat balls of dough, or flat figures of any shape.
6. Preheat oven to 200 degrees.
7. Bake lean cookies with oatmeal and carrots for about half an hour, laying out on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
14. Corn cookies
Ingredients:
• 220 grams of corn flour;
• 200 grams of wheat flour;
• 120 grams of sugar;
• 100 ml of lukewarm water;
• 100 ml grow. oils;
• 10 grams of soda;
• 15 ml of vinegar.
Cooking method:
1. Mix in a bowl of wheat flour with corn. Sift the resulting mass.
2. Pour in oil and vinegar, add soda and granulated sugar.
3. Knead a soft dough.
4. Form small balls of dough, slightly flatten them with your palms.
5. Bake the lenten corn cookies for about twenty minutes, putting them on a baking sheet, at 180 degrees.
6. Readiness can be determined by the pleasant golden color and amazing aroma.
15. Orange Lean Cookies
Ingredients:
• 600 grams of flour;
• 220 grams of potato starch;
• 180 ml grow. oils;
• 100 ml of orange juice;
• 230 grams of sugar;
• 5 grams of salt;
• 10 grams of baking powder;
• 30 grams of orange peel.
Cooking method:
1. Dissolve sugar in orange juice, add zest, mix.
2. Mix in the small container all the remaining dry ingredients, pour in oil, sweet orange juice.
3. Knead a soft dough.
4. Roll out the dough one centimeter thick. Cut the cookies.
5. Bake for ten to fifteen minutes in a preheated 180 degree oven.
Lean Cookies - Tricks and Tips
• If the ready-made dough is infused a little in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes, it will be much easier to roll out the layer.
• To prevent the knife or special mold from sticking to the dough during cutting, it must be rolled in flour beforehand.
• It is best to mix all the ingredients and knead the dough in a large bowl or bowl, which is convenient and reduces the chance of contamination of the table and the floor.
• From practically any of the above recipes, you can make lean basket-shaped cookies that can be filled with fresh fruits, nuts, and other goodies.
• Any lean cookies can be decorated with icing, chopped nuts, cinnamon, chopped orange peel, lemons, grapefruit.
