How to make lean cookies at home. Lenten cookies

Fasting is a great holiday, which often becomes a difficult test for lovers of baking.

It really can be difficult for them to keep it to the end, because they are forced to refuse not only their favorite animal products, but also sweets, pastries, flour products, because eggs and butter or margarine are part of almost everything.

But, as it turned out, during the days of Lent, you can treat yourself to all sorts of goodies. Lean pastries without eggs and dairy products are easy, but, nevertheless, incredibly tasty. All kinds of berries, fruits, and vegetables give a special aroma and taste to 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 the treat is maximum.

Lean Cookies - General Cooking Principles

The main feature of lean cookies is the absence of any dairy products and eggs; lean cookies may include ingredients such as vegetable oil, flour, oatmeal, sugar, water, starch. And, of course, various dried fruits, nuts, honey, citruses and much more, thanks to which lean cookies are not only surprisingly tasty, healthy, but also beautiful.

Vegetable oil for lean cookies choose odorless, cold pressed.

Flour must be sifted before baking, this will enrich the product with oxygen, so that the dough will be airy and incredibly tender.

You can use any sugar: regular, brown or cane.

Nuts and dried fruits must be of high quality. Honey for lean cookies is suitable for both floral and buckwheat, linden and other, to your taste.

To add flavor, use cinnamon, ginger, mint, vanilla, citrus zest.

Berries can be used both fresh and frozen. The latter before cooking should be removed from the freezer in advance so that they thaw.

The starch in the composition of lean cookies will be an excellent binding element instead of forbidden eggs. Use potato or corn starch.

Do not take Great Lent as a forced rejection of sweets. Let this period be a wonderful opportunity for you to fantasize and create unique delicious lean cookies, the best recipes that are presented in this article.

1. Lean cookies with poppy seeds

Ingredients:

400 grams of whole grain flour;

50 ml of water;

170 grams of granulated 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 buttery crumbly dough directly with your hands.

4. Add poppy seeds, stir.

5. Heat the water, but do not boil. Pour it into the finished mass. Knead a sticky but less crumbly dough.

6. Form a kind of ball from the flour mass.

7. Put it on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.

8. With your hands, form a layer from the ball, which is then cut with a sharp knife into small cubes or rhombuses.

9. Bake fifteen minutes at 180 degrees.

10. Cool the finished layer in the oven, then take it out and break it into neat small lean cookies along the lines drawn with a knife.

2. Gingerbread Lenten Cookies

Ingredients:

380 grams of flour;

90 ml grows. 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 of a teaspoon of salt;

Cooking method:

1. Mash the peeled banana into a puree.

2. Beat sugar and vegetable oil with a mixer in a deep container.

3. Add sifted flour, mashed banana, butter mixture, orange zest, salt and spices. Knead the dough.

4. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Line a baking sheet with baking paper.

5. Roll up small balls from the dough, give them the shape of a cookie.

6. Bake for ten minutes.

3. Coffee oatmeal lean 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 grows. oils;

1/4 tsp salt;

120 ml of water.

Cooking method:

1. Mix the sifted flour, coffee, cinnamon, salt and powder in a saucepan or any other container.

2. Pour in oil and water, mix.

3. Knead an elastic, elastic dough.

4. Roll out a large cake no more than half a centimeter wide, cut out cookies.

5. Bake for ten minutes.

6. The oven must be preheated to 200 degrees in advance.

4. Lenten 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 vegetable oil;

10 grams of soda;

A pinch of salt and citric acid.

Cooking method:

1. Mix pre-sifted flour with potato starch.

2. Rub the dry mixture with vegetable oil. The result should be a viscous sticky mass.

3. Add a little salt and citric acid, a spoonful of soda. Stir.

4. Pour sugar, pour in water. Knead a stiff dough.

5. Roll out a thin layer of dough, cut cookies of any shape.

6. Bake fifteen minutes in the oven, preheating it to 180 degrees.

5. Salty lean cookies

Ingredients:

270 grams of wheat flour;

80 grams of whole grain flour;

130 ml of heavy 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 included in the recipe, except for the two types of flour, which will need to be mixed in a separate bowl and sifted.

2. Slowly pour 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, placing the cookies on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.

6. Sprinkle the finished lean cookies with fine salt and oregano.

6. Honey Lenten Cookies with Apple, Raisins and Cranberries

Ingredients:

300 grams of wheat flour;

10 grams of baking powder;

5 grams of soda;

A quarter of a 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. Mix soda, salt and baking powder. Add flour, cinnamon and ginger.

2. Wash the apple, dry it. Cut off the skin, remove the core, cut into medium-sized cubes.

3. Chop banana and mix with vegetable oil.

4. Add washed raisins and cranberries, chopped apple and honey. Stir.

5. Place dry ingredients and fruit mixture in one bowl. Mix well.

6. Spread the dough with a tablespoon on baking paper lined with a baking sheet.

7. Bake for about twenty minutes. The oven must be set to 180 degrees.

7. Lemon Lenten Cookies

Ingredients:

550 grams of wheat flour;

250 grams of sugar;

100 ml grows. oils;

One large lemon;

A pinch of soda.

Cooking method:

1. Pour vegetable oil into a bowl, add soda and sugar, mix.

2. Rinse the lemon, remove all the seeds, chop in a blender.

3. Mix the lemon mass with butter, sugar and soda.

4. Add flour, mix.

5. Divide the mass into two parts: knead elastic elastic dough from the first, shortbread from the second.

6. Spread parchment paper on a baking sheet, lay out the elastic dough rolled out into a layer, sprinkle shortbread dough on top with a neat even layer.

7. Bake at 200 degrees for twenty minutes.

8. Cut the finished cooled cake into squares.

8. Pumpkin Lenten Cookies

Ingredients:

250 grams of flour;

100 grams of pumpkin puree;

100 grams of brown sugar;

50 ml grows. oils;

50-70 grams of any ground nuts;

1/2 tsp salt;

1/2 tsp nutmeg;

1/2 tsp cinnamon;

1/2 tsp soda;

10 ml lemon juice.

Cooking method:

1. Prepare pumpkin puree: boil the vegetable in lightly salted water or steam, chop in a blender or a regular potato masher.

2. Add sugar, butter, soda and lemon juice to the puree. Whisk until smooth.

3. In another bowl, mix spices with millet flour, chopped nuts and a pinch of salt.

4. Combine both mixtures, mix well.

5. Remove the fragrant spicy mass in the refrigerator for half an hour so that it thickens.

6. Spread on a baking sheet covered with parchment, cookies formed with oiled hands.

7. Bake for about fifteen minutes at 180 degrees.

9. Lean Oatmeal Banana Cookies

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 teaspoon of baking soda.

Cooking method:

1. Pour the oatmeal into a bowl.

2. Peel and mash bananas.

3. Mix almond oil with honey, banana puree.

4. Pour the honey mixture into the oatmeal.

5. Add soda, vanilla extract, cinnamon, pre-peeled and washed raisins.

6. Mix everything thoroughly. You should get a thick viscous mass.

7. Line a baking sheet with baking paper.

8. Spoon out the dough, giving each cake the shape of a cookie.

9. Bake for about twenty minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.

10. Lenten cookies with dried apricots in the form of a tube

Ingredients:

360 grams of flour;

90 ml grows. oils;

80 grams of granulated sugar;

100 ml of highly carbonated mineral water;

100 grams of dried apricots.

Cooking method:

1. Soak dried apricots washed under running water in boiling water for half an hour.

2. After the time allotted for soaking, pass the dried apricots through a meat grinder.

3. In another bowl, mix carbonated mineral water with vegetable oil.

4. Add sugar and pre-sifted flour.

5. Knead a tight dough.

6. Divide the dough into four even parts, roll a ball from each and roll out a circle.

7. Cut each circle you get into 8 pieces, like a pizza. You should have 32 pieces.

8. Place the dried apricot filling on the wide part of each sector, roll up a neat, not too wide tube.

9. Bake for twenty minutes at 200 degrees.

10. You can sprinkle the finished lean cookies with powdered sugar.

11. Lean Cucumber Pickle Cookies with Coconut

Ingredients:

230 ml cucumber pickle;

180 ml grow. oils;

200 grams of sugar;

30 grams of coconut;

Half a kilo of flour.

Cooking method:

1. Mix vegetable oil with brine, sugar, twenty grams of coconut flakes and flour in a bowl of the right size.

2. Knead shortbread dough.

3. Roll out the dough into a layer, sprinkling the remaining chips at the time of rolling.

4. Cut out interesting shapes.

5. Bake for five to ten minutes on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour, setting the temperature to 200 degrees.

12. Homemade lean cookies

Ingredients:

450 grams of flour;

130 ml of water;

160 ml grow. oils;

200 grams of granulated sugar;

180 grams of potato starch;

10 grams of baking powder;

5 grams of vanillin;

1/3 tsp salt;

1 tbsp strongly brewed black tea;

20 grams of coarse sugar.

Cooking method:

1. Sift wheat flour into a deep bowl.

2. Add starch, baking powder. Stir.

3. Pour in vegetable oil. Stir until you get a homogeneous sticky mass.

4. In another small container, dilute sugar, vanillin and salt in water.

5. Pour the sweet mixture into the flour mass, knead the elastic dough.

6. Cut out cookies from a thinly rolled layer.

7. Put homemade lean cookies on a baking sheet covered with special baking paper.

8. Lubricate each form with strong tea, sprinkle with coarse 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 oatmeal;

80-100 ml grows. oils;

100 grams of granulated sugar;

Two large carrots;

10 grams of vanilla sugar.

Cooking method:

1. Peel and grate the carrots on the smallest segment of your grater.

2. Add vegetable oil, granulated sugar, vanilla sugar. Stir until the two types of sugar are completely dissolved.

3. Pour in the sifted flour and oatmeal.

4. Knead the dough.

5. Roll the dough into small neat balls, or flat figures of any shape.

6. Preheat the 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 Lenten Cookies

Ingredients:

220 grams of cornmeal;

200 grams of wheat flour;

120 grams of sugar;

100 ml of slightly warm water;

100 ml grows. oils;

10 grams of soda;

15 ml of vinegar.

Cooking method:

1. Mix wheat flour with corn flour in a bowl. Sift the resulting mass.

2. Pour in oil and vinegar, add soda and granulated sugar.

3. Knead soft dough.

4. Form small balls from the dough, flatten them slightly with your palms.

5. Bake the corn lean cookies for about twenty minutes, laying them on a baking sheet, at 180 degrees.

6. Readiness can be determined by a 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 all the remaining dry ingredients in a small container, pour in the oil, sweet orange juice.

3. Knead soft dough.

4. Roll out the dough one centimeter thick. Cut out the cookies.

5. Bake for ten to fifteen minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.

If the finished dough is left to insist a little in the refrigerator, at least 30 minutes, it will be much easier to roll out the layer.

So that during the cutting of the figures the knife or a special mold does not stick to the dough, they should first be rolled in flour.

It is best to mix all the ingredients and knead the dough in a large bowl or container, this is both convenient and reduces the likelihood of table and floor contamination.

From almost any dough from the above recipes, you can build lean cookies in the form of a basket, which can be filled with fresh fruits, nuts and other goodies.

Any lean cookies can be decorated with powder, chopped nuts, cinnamon, chopped zest of oranges, lemons, grapefruits.

Lean strudel is prepared without oil. It turns out fragrant pastries with a lot of apple filling, which is ideal for tea drinking. Such a lean strudel is being prepared for about two hours.

If you decide to cook pies during Lent, then a simple recipe for lean dough for pies will definitely come in handy. Kneading lean dough for pies is quite easy - I'll tell you how.

Lenten pies with potatoes - pies that defy the laws of physics. They can be eaten more than physically fits into a person. Verified personally. A simple recipe for lean potato pies - for you!

Lenten pies with cabbage are classic Russian pies that are usually cooked during Lent, although, in principle, you can successfully cook all year round. The recipe is very simple, worth a try.

The classic recipe for lenten gingerbread will come in handy not only for Orthodox believers, but also for everyone who tries to limit themselves in the consumption of pastry. Details are in the recipe!

The recipe for making a lean pie with jam without eggs and dairy products is useful to everyone who observes fasts, and also monitors their health and weight.

Baked potatoes "Accordion"

Do you know what is the advantage of this dish? Potatoes are cooked in the oven. And if a lot of guests come to you, you can immediately cook a lot of potatoes. Potato "Accordion" looks very festive.

Lush, tender lean mannik with a moist texture will appeal even to those who do not honor semolina. Everyone in our family likes lean mannik - both adults and children. I share a simple recipe.

Sometimes you really want sweets, but fasting does not allow. Lenten cake recipe - for such cases. Of course, fasting is not just about not eating certain foods, but still this cake is cooked according to the rules.

Lean muffins are simple, quick, healthy, and most importantly - a hearty breakfast for you or a full-fledged afternoon snack for your children. The recipe is very simple, everyone will be able to cook lean muffins.

Recipe for making buckwheat bread in a bread machine. Buckwheat flour is used to make bread according to this recipe.

Lenten cupcakes taste just as good as traditional cupcakes. Therefore, I personally bake lean muffins not only in fasting, but in general all year round - I really like it!

Cooking lean gingerbread can turn into an exciting activity. The dough is easy to prepare, they are baked quickly, and I advise the whole family to color the gingerbread cookies, children will especially like it.

Lean brine cookies are not a crazy experiment of a crazy pastry chef, but really tasty and soft homemade lean cookies that are swept off the table overnight.

Lenten pie with apples is a pie that, despite its belonging to the category of lean dishes, amazes with its richness and richness of tastes and aromas. Easy to prepare, very tasty!

Lenten pie with jam is a very tasty homemade pastry that meets all the rules for preparing lean dishes. A very tender, moist, melt-in-your-mouth cake - worth a try!

A simple lean charlotte recipe is relevant both for those who fast and for those who just want to try apple charlotte with a somewhat unusual, unexpected taste. Simple and very tasty.

Lean pancakes are sure to please everyone who loves pancakes. The taste of lean pancakes is significantly different from traditional pancakes, they are thinner and crispier.

Peas are a slightly unusual filling for pies, but believe me - pies with peas really turn out delicious! Visually, these homemade lean pies look like pies.

Lenten pancakes are excellent pancakes for fasting or the case when eggs suddenly run out at home, and you really want pancakes. Quick, easy, affordable and very tasty.

Baked Potato with Avocado Sauce is an insanely easy dish for vegetarians. Potatoes are very appetizing and fragrant, and avocado sauce makes the taste more varied. Try it!

Bread with onions and olives, cooked at home, in its taste will outdo any store-bought bread. Verified personally!

Recipe for toasted slices of garlic rubbed bread with pine nuts, parsley and mashed mutton peas, red onion, olive oil and lemon juice.

Recipe for Bread with Dried Tomatoes. According to this recipe, the bread is fragrant and tasty.

Fasting or dieting is not a reason to get depressed and give up everything tasty. let's cook lean dryers - it's no less tasty than rich pastries, and at the same time it's good for the body.

Recipe for lean buns.

Unleavened dough, unlike yeast dough, is prepared very quickly, which is its undeniable advantage. Unleavened dough refers to a simple dough consisting of flour and water.

Lenten buns "Larks"

On March 22, all Orthodox celebrate the day of the 40 Martyrs of Sebaste, who did not renounce Christ. On this day they bake buns in the form of larks, a symbol of the souls of the dead legionnaires.

Potato Asparagus Pie is a very easy vegetarian dish made from Jamie Oliver's recipe. Judging by the ingredients, almost porridge from an ax :)

Tomato gingerbread is created especially for those who like to combine the incompatible. It doesn't sound very appetizing, but to be honest, it's very tasty! :)

Focaccia with thyme and garlic is a wonderful Italian pastry that smells in all Italian bakeries and bakeries. The scent is truly magical. I recommend!

Vegetarian pasties are very tasty and fatty. But it's worth it! Great entertainment for those who prefer vegetarian food!

Not everyone knows what apricot is. And apricot is just a dried apricot. Apricot pie is a very tasty and simple pastry with a natural sweet apricot flavor! Meet!

Publication date: 03/12/2018

Lent is a time of calm and departure from the hustle and bustle. But household chores still need to be done, they cannot be canceled. So the hostess is racking her brains: how to once again feed her family lean, but tasty at the same time? After all, I so want to continue to please loved ones with my culinary creativity and in fasting too! How else? Bake now sweet, melt-in-the-mouth pastries for children, but is it possible to do this without butter and eggs?

Do not worry, dear hostesses. We have prepared for you as many as five recipes for lean cookies, and they are completely different, unlike each other. Having mastered them, throughout the Lent you will be able to indulge your homemade crumbly sweet cookies for tea, each time receiving well-deserved gratitude from them. It cannot be otherwise, because this pastry, despite the fact that it is truly lean, is incredibly tasty.

Here's what you can cook:

• Lenten biscuits in brine
• banana cookies
• Gingerbread cookie
• Lenten cookies with carrots

Lenten biscuits in brine

Delicate, light, very pleasant cookies. Cucumber pickle, which is the basis of this delicacy, is completely impossible to recognize in baking. No one will guess what you baked this sweet miracle from, unless you yourself tell. A very profitable cookie in every respect: it is prepared easily, almost from nothing, and the result exceeds all expectations. A real find for thrifty housewives who use any leftovers!

For this cookie we need:

• Pickle from under cucumbers or tomatoes - 1 cup.
• Sugar - 1 cup.
• Refined sunflower oil - 1 cup.
• Vanillin - 1 sachet.
• Soda - 1 teaspoon without a slide.
• Vinegar - 1.5 teaspoons.
• Flour. It is difficult to say exactly how much flour will go in this case. Much depends on the quality of the flour, its moisture content and even the humidity level of the room where the baking is being done. Therefore, just in case, take 500 g of flour, during the cooking process it will be clear how much it will take.

Cooking order:

Pour sugar into a deep bowl.

Pour in the brine.

Mix everything well with a whisk so that the sugar is completely dissolved.

Now add vegetable oil.

Start adding the sifted flour in small portions, kneading the batter. It should have the consistency of mayonnaise.

Here is this:

Add vanilla.

Quench the soda with vinegar and pour into the dough.

Mix everything well. Now, very carefully, little by little, pour the remaining flour into the mass, kneading the already steep dough with your hands.

Be careful not to overdo it with flour. The dough should be thick, well molded, but at the same time remain elastic, not dry.

Roll out the finished dough into a layer 0.8-1 cm thick and cut out the figures using any mold or glass.

Put the cookie blanks on a baking sheet, brush each with strong sweet tea leaves on top.

Bake in the oven at 180 degrees until lightly browned, about 20 minutes.

Banana Lean Cookies

Incredibly exquisite cookies with a noble exotic taste. Such a delicacy is not ashamed to serve even guests. Try it for sure, and, most likely, you will want to cook this miracle not only in fasting.

Prepare the necessary products:

• Bananas - 2 medium fruits.
• Honey - 1 full tablespoon.
• Sugar - 100 g.
• Odorless vegetable oil - 120 ml.
• Soda - 1 incomplete teaspoon.
• Lemon juice - 2 tablespoons.
• Flour - 250-300 g.

Tip: it is very good to replace refined sunflower oil with corn oil in this recipe. Its subtle sweetish aroma perfectly sets off the exotic taste of bananas.

Cooking:

Break the peeled bananas into pieces and place in a bowl.

Add honey and sugar there.

Now gently mash the banana slices with the additives into a single mass with a fork. Under the influence of sugar and honey, fruits crumple very easily, and you do not have to fiddle with a blender.

Pour in the lemon juice.

This is how lemon-banana puree should turn out in the end.

Its aroma just makes you salivate, but do not rush, the base for the cookies is not ready yet, so do not try the puree too actively - you risk eating everything clean.

So, now pour vegetable oil into the banana mass,

add soda (you don’t need to extinguish it, since the puree already contains lemon juice) and mix everything well again.

Sift the flour and pour it into the banana puree in small portions, kneading a thick dough.

Do not make the dough too steep, its consistency should be quite tender, such that it can barely be molded. As soon as the dough stops sticking to your hands, do not add more flour.

Now form the dough into small balls.

Lay them out on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.

Bake in the oven at a temperature of 180-200 degrees for 20 minutes, but make sure that the delicacy does not burn.

The finished cookies are incredibly tender and crumbly.

Gingerbread cookie

If you have ever tried Tula gingerbread, you will definitely remember their divine, bright, taste like nothing else. This is the love of a lifetime for every connoisseur of quality sweets. So, gingerbread cookies strongly resemble the taste of the famous Tula gingerbread, but it is cooked much faster and easier.

From above it has a crispy crust, and inside - tender and crumbly.

For this delicacy we need:

• Apple jam - 0.5 cups.
• Cocoa - 0.5 cups.
• Refined vegetable oil - 0.5 cups.
• Ground ginger - 1 teaspoon.
• Ground cinnamon - 1 teaspoon.
• Starch - 0.5 cups.
• Flour - 1 cup.
• Sugar - 0.5 cups.
• Salt - 0.5 teaspoon.
• Baking powder for dough - 1 teaspoon with a slide.
• Whole almonds - 1 handful.

Such cookies are very tasty if you make it from a mixture of different types of flour: whole grain wheat, rye, barley, spelled, oatmeal. It is not necessary to use all the listed types of flour, it is enough to mix 2-3 varieties. This is how classic Tula gingerbreads used to be baked. In addition, baking from a mixture of different flours is incredibly healthy.

Let's start baking:

To begin, put all the dry ingredients in a bowl: flour, starch, sugar, salt, baking powder, cocoa and spices.

Mix everything. Add jam.

Pour in vegetable oil. Knead a stiff dough. If the dough is too dry and crumbly, add 1-2 tablespoons of water to it.

Roll the dough into round balls the size of a walnut.

Place the balls on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Press 1 almond into the surface of each ball, slightly flattening the ball itself to a hemisphere.

Bake in the oven at 190 degrees for 10-15 minutes.

Lenten cookies with carrots

From such a seemingly modest and unpretentious product as a carrot, you can cook a very tasty delicacy of an incredibly beautiful orange color, which has a delicate and appetizing aroma of real caramel. Here is such an interesting effect this vegetable gives in sweet pastries. Well, the fiber and carotene that are necessary for everyone, contained in carrots, turn such sweetness into a rather healthy dish.

Prepare the necessary products for carrot treats:

• Carrots - 3-4 pieces, larger and juicier.
• Sugar - 100 g.
• Odorless vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons.
• Vanillin - 0.5 sachet.
• Starch - 100 g.
• Flour - 1.5 cups.
• Baking powder - 1 teaspoon.
• Raisins - 1 handful.

Grate carrots on a fine or medium grater.

Add sugar, vanillin and vegetable oil to the carrots. Rub everything well.

Put in the baking powder for the dough. Add starch. Now start adding the sifted flour in small portions.

Knead the dough. The consistency of the dough will be quite thick, but sticky - do not worry, this is normal.

Add raisins to the dough, and again knead everything properly.

Line a baking sheet with baking paper.

Now, wetting your hands in water, pinch off a small piece of dough from the dough and form plump cakes, laying them on a baking sheet.

From above, for beauty, make small notches on each cake with a knife, like this

Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 20-30 minutes. Check readiness with a match - it should remain dry, without adhering dough particles.

After baking, do not remove the cookies from the oven until they are completely cool.

Sprinkle the finished cookies on top with powdered sugar.

Lean oatmeal cookies

This tasty and healthy cookie has a nutty flavor and can rightfully be considered dietary, as it is made from a very healthy product - oatmeal rich in vitamins and microelements. It is perfect for a light breakfast or afternoon snack.

Whoever loves cookies and cannot imagine life without them will undoubtedly appreciate this collection of recipes. Lenten cookies are delicious - this is really a salvation during Lent, for any sweet tooth!

Oatmeal Cookies No Sugar, No Flour, No Eggs

If you follow your figure and take care of your health, then this recipe is definitely for you.

The fact is that the absence of flour and eggs minimizes the number of calories in this dessert. But the presence of such dried fruits as raisins, dried apricots and dates will help replenish the supply of vitamins in the body.

However, if these fruits do not appeal to you at all, then you can use any dried fruits that you like.

For cooking you will need:

• Oatmeal - 100 grams
• Dried fruits (dates, dried apricots) - 100 grams
• Raisins - 30 grams
• Seeds, nuts or sesame - 30 grams
• 1 lemon
• Vegetable oil - 1-2 tbsp.

You can watch a detailed recipe with a description and video. Having tried such cookies, you will understand that no diets are now scary for you!

Gingerbread Cookies - Gingerbread Men

Very bright, festive cookies that will cheer up adults and children. Such cookies can be made not only in the form of a person, but also in the form of stars, Christmas trees and houses.

Involve the kids in the process of preparing and decorating such a treat. Be sure they will be very happy and will remember this happy time for a long time!

For the test

• Flour 400g
• Honey 165g
• Butter 150g
• Sugar 100g
• Ginger 1.5 tsp
• Cinnamon 1 tsp
• Cardamom 1 tsp
• Soda 2 tsp

We will not dwell on a detailed description of the preparation of such pastries, as we have some more amazing recipes for you.

But we have prepared a separate article with a more detailed description and a video recipe - cook and share your impressions!

Quick lean cookies with crumbly dough

This lean cookie can be described as follows - simple, beautiful and with insanely tender crumbly dough. These cookies literally melt in your mouth. A modest-looking delicacy will delight you very much on cold evenings!

To prepare it, you will need the simplest products that everyone has. Namely:

• Flour 240 g.
• Starch 50 g
• Vegetable oil 75 g.
• Soda ¼ tsp
• Salt ¼ tsp
• Citric acid 1/6 tsp
• Water 95 ml.
• Sugar 100 g

You can, as usual, find a detailed video recipe with a description in a special article. Go ahead and enjoy the delicious taste of amazing cookies.

Rye cookies with dried fruits

Oh, this is one of the most amazing cookie recipes we've ever come across! Despite the fact that the recipe is lean, the cookies are not very boring, not bland and beautiful.

It is great to decorate any table, you can meet guests with it and children will also like it. But, probably, the most important thing is that dried fruits make such a dessert very useful.

For the filling, you can take any dried fruits and nuts that you like. It uses almonds, dried apricots and raisins, lemon and cinnamon.

And for the test you need the following ingredients:

• Rye flour - 2 cups.
• Wheat flour - 1 cup.
• Salt - a pinch.
• Baking powder - about 1 teaspoon, optional There is no baking powder to keep the dough firm. But you do what you like best.
• Hot water (boiling water) - how much the dough will take until it becomes elastic, but not sticky. This recipe calls for about ¾ cup.
• Vegetable oil - about ½ cup.

Vegan cookies with poppy seeds

If your house has run out of sweets, and you are used to the fact that somewhere there is still at least a crumb of sweet, then immediately proceed to such a simple dessert as poppy seed cookies. Easy recipe and amazing taste! All this about this lean cookie.
Composition of vegan cookies with poppy seeds

• Flour - 2 cups.
• Brown sugar - 4/5 cup.
• Vegetable oil - 3/5 cup.
• Poppy seeds - 4 tablespoons.
• Hot water - 1/5 cup.
• Baking powder - 2 teaspoons.

You can find a detailed video recipe and description. Cook and do not be sad on cold evenings! Better feed everyone cookies.

Why is lean baking so important? The first reason is the pathological lack of time for working women. Therefore, in every kitchen, simple and most accurate recipes are required that give consistently good results. But there are a number of other reasons. Lenten baking recipes are needed for those who follow their figure. After all, a diet is a diet, but households require tasty treats. And it can be very difficult to refuse a fragrant dessert. Finally, there are people who observe fasts. During such periods, lean baking recipes become a real lifesaver and a way to diversify the table.

What is lean baking?

This is a whole trend in cooking, which has been used by hostesses of different nations for centuries. In general, this is cooking without the use of muffins (butter, eggs, milk). At first glance, the task is impossible. How to bake a delicious pie, cookie, cupcake or make buns without muffin? But in fact, everything is simple. Lean baking recipes are very helpful for vegetarians, adherents of a healthy diet, people who fast or suffer from chronic diseases, which involve the rejection of a number of products. Show your imagination, and such delicious smells will float from your kitchen that you won’t have to call anyone - they will come running themselves.

Delicious, fragrant pies

Usually a pie is associated with a large number of rich additives in the dough. Housewives diligently put more butter, eggs, milk and sour cream into it, and then you have to increase the amount of yeast, because baking makes the dough heavier and increases the time required for proofing. Received products must be eaten immediately, on the same day. Muffin makes dessert tasty, but shortens its life, it dries out (especially baked in the oven) just incredibly quickly. Try lean baking recipes - the taste of the products is not much different, but they are cooked faster, easier and cheaper. There are two options for making pie dough: yeast and yeast-free. If you have children in your family, then it is better to do without yeast, as they cause bloating.

Classic yeast dough can be prepared according to your favorite recipe, just replace milk with potato broth or water. You can add soy milk. You can’t add eggs, but replace butter or margarine with sunflower. In the rest - everything is as usual. You will need to dilute the yeast in warm water (1 teaspoon per 2 cups of liquid). After 15 minutes, add 1 teaspoon of sugar and 0.5 tsp. salt. Pour a glass of flour, mix, add 50 g of vegetable oil and, gradually adding flour, knead an elastic, moist, but not sticky dough.

If you do not like lush yeast dough, then he offers you another very tasty pie recipe. They turn out quite crumbly, crispy on the sides and tender in the middle. You will need 500 g flour, 100 ml water, 50 ml vegetable oil, ½ teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon 9% vinegar. Pour the flour on the table, make a hole, pour in water with vinegar, add salt and knead the dough. Cover it with cling film and leave it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. You can take any filling. It can be dried fruits, cabbage with mushrooms, potatoes with fried onions. If you prefer a sweet filling (jam), then it is better to form small products.

delicious pies

If you are interested in quick lean pastries, then knead the simplest dough. To do this, take a potato broth, add salt, sugar and flour to it. You should get a soft but elastic dough. For filling pies, mashed potatoes made from boiled potatoes are well suited. Fry them in oil until cooked - and you can enjoy. If baked pies are preferable, then this dough will not work - the products will turn out to be too tough.

Yeast dough comes out softer and fluffier. Take a glass of warm water, pour into a large bowl, add 7 g of dry yeast, 3 teaspoons of sugar, 1.5 teaspoons of salt, 5 tablespoons of vegetable oil. Now add 3 (+0.5) cups of flour one at a time. Knead the dough and remove to increase in volume. It turns out to be very coarse-pored and rubbery (when squeezed, it quickly takes on its original shape). Compared to dough kneaded with milk and eggs, products made from such a lightweight version turn out to be more fluffy and do not get stale for a long time. Like other lean pastries in a hurry, these pies do not require much time to cook. It will take about 30 minutes to rise the dough and preheat the oven, and then 15 minutes to bake itself.

Stuffing for pies

She can be anyone. These are buckwheat porridge with mushrooms, potatoes with onions, cabbage, pea porridge, carrots, fried spicy or sweet (with dried apricots) beets. Among the new products, you can try the filling of chickpeas with eggplant, beans with garlic, salted mushrooms and onions. Sweet pies also give room for imagination. The filling can be apples with carrots and nuts, dried apricots with apples and raisins, bananas with raisins, any berries. Each of these options can be a real find.

Lean baking in a slow cooker

This wonderful device is designed to cook delicious and healthy dishes without oil. Baking in it turns out to be somewhat unusual, you need to get used to it. It will not have a crispy crust, but nevertheless it will still be very tasty. Best of all, various biscuits, muffins and charlottes are obtained. "What's a cake without butter and eggs?" - you ask. It can be very tasty and quite harmless to the figure and health. Below we give recipes that make the best pastries.

Charlotte

Lean baking in a slow cooker comes out very lush and tasty. You will never turn down an extra bite. You will need 2 apples - they need to be peeled and cut into small cubes. To them should be added 150 g of sugar and 50 g of oil. If desired, add 2 tablespoons of thick jam and 0.5 cups of nuts to the mass (just do not use peanuts - they will get wet). Next, add 120 g of strong tea and 320 g of wheat flour. Don't forget to add a packet of baking powder to the flour. Without it, baking will not be as magnificent. Then you need to knead the dough, grease the multicooker with oil and sprinkle with flour so that the charlotte does not stick. It remains to set the "Baking" mode for about 65-85 minutes. Put the finished cake on a plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Lean sweet pastries

The variety here is huge, this includes brushwood, cakes, pancakes, potato zrazy and much more. But for now, we will focus on the simplest recipes that will allow you to pamper your loved ones with delicious and healthy sweets. The easiest cake to make is a blessing to the imagination, and it takes the least amount of effort.

A whole world of cupcakes for tea

We will consider the basic recipe, which can be modified for yourself as you like. You will need 1 cup of flour, 100 g of sugar, cinnamon and vanilla. All this will need to be mixed in a bowl, add 100 ml of water and 4 tablespoons of odorless vegetable oil. The resulting mixture will be the basis for our sweets. You can add anything you like: chocolate pieces, cocoa, nuts, finely grated carrots, raisins, chopped dried apricots or prunes, berries, seeds, bananas, various syrups, jams. It just depends on your taste preferences and what's in the fridge. Crushed fruit is also a good addition to this cupcake. If lean sweet pastries take root on your table, then you will not want to move on to conventional recipes that necessarily contain margarine.

great strudel

This is a truly delicious meal. At the same time, apple and pear strudel is considered an exquisite delicacy and is highly valued in many countries of the world. It's time for you to learn how to cook it at home. You will need to knead a simple dough from 240 g of flour, 120 g of water, 40 g of vegetable oil and a pinch of salt. You should get a very elastic mass - put it in the refrigerator for at least an hour. The filling is very easy to assemble: rinse and soak 30 g of raisins, cut 150 g of walnuts into pieces, peel and cut 500 g of pears into cubes, pour over lemon juice. Pour 40 g of sugar into the pan, add a few tablespoons of water and lightly caramelize. Now lay out the pears, raisins, add vanilla and cinnamon, do not turn off the heat until all the liquid has evaporated. When cool, add nuts. The most difficult thing remains - it is necessary to roll out and stretch the dough very thinly. To do this, generously lubricate it with oil. Now spread the filling over the entire surface and roll up. Bake for 30 minutes at 220 degrees. See for yourself that baking from lean dough is tasty, quick and easy.

Delicate buns

Lenten baking without yeast is somehow not at all associated with lush and fragrant buns. Believe that it is not. Buns are prepared quickly, you can add dried fruits, poppy seeds, raisins and sesame seeds to them, make them sweet or bland. In general, an option for all occasions. You will need 350 g of flour, 300 g of unsweetened yogurt, half a teaspoon of salt, 2 teaspoons of sugar. Please note that if you are making a sweet version, then you need 2 times more sugar. In addition, baking powder (2 teaspoons) and a tablespoon of vegetable oil are needed. You will need to mix all the ingredients, knead the dough. It must be divided into 10 parts and put on a work surface sprinkled with flour. Then transfer to a baking sheet covered with baking paper and place in a preheated oven. Bake for 15-20 minutes at 220 degrees until golden brown.

Now you have enough reasons to try Lenten dishes. Recipes (baking is excellent) have been tested by many housewives, and each has added them to the favorite section. This allows you to save time in the kitchen, pamper your family with goodies and regulate the consumption of fatty and unhealthy foods.