See the best lean cookie recipes on the site. Biscuits, brushwood, oatmeal, soy, carrot and coffee cookies. Cooked with cucumber pickle and even with tomato juice. Choose the one that suits your taste, composition, time and method of preparation. Unusual and classic options.
The main difference between lean and regular cookies is the absence of animal products (eggs, milk, etc.) in its composition. It is allowed to be consumed on fast days. It is dietary and is great for people with intolerance to animal protein and adherents of vegetarian cuisine. Due to the high content of carbohydrates, it is the best breakfast dish. It goes well with various juices, compotes, coffee and tea.
The five most commonly used ingredients in lean cookie recipes are:
A simple brine recipe:
1. Thoroughly mix sunflower oil and brine in a deep bowl.
2. Stir until the sugar dissolves in the resulting mixture.
3. Introduce flour.
4. Add baking powder.
5. You should get a soft elastic dough.
6. Roll it out and cut into shapes.
7. Bake for a third of an hour.
Five of the fastest lean cookie recipes:
Helpful Hints:
. If berries are used to make cookies, it is necessary to let them melt, and then squeeze out the excess liquid that has leaked from them.
. Vegetable oil is preferably chosen odorless. So the dessert will not have extraneous flavors.
. Flour must be sifted before being added to the dough. Then the food will turn out more airy.
. Instead of granulated sugar, you can use any kind of honey, both fresh and already sugared.
. Dried fruits, berries and crushed or finely chopped nuts can be added to the brine recipe.
. The higher the quality of dried fruits, the more pleasant the taste of the finished dish.
When you want to have a snack during fasting, cookies help a lot. Moreover, you can cook not only dessert (sweet), but also a snack (salty). I bring to your attention those options that have taken root in my family. And, to be honest, I bake such cookies not only in fasting!
Lenten cookies on tomato juice
Ingredients:
- tomato juice - 200 ml
- vegetable oil - 50 ml
- wheat flour - 400 g
- sugar - 2 tbsp. l.
- cocoa - 2 tbsp. l.
- baking powder - 0.5 tsp
Cooking:
Combine tomato juice with vegetable oil and sugar.
Sift flour and mix with cocoa and baking powder.
Pour the juice into the flour and knead the dough. For convenience, lubricate your hands with vegetable oil.
Pinch off small pieces of dough, roll into balls and place on a baking sheet. Then press down to flatten out. Bake until light golden brown.
Lean "Khvorost"
Ingredients:
- wheat flour - 200 g
- corn starch (you can also use potato) - 100 g
- vegetable oil - 100 ml + for deep-frying
- sugar - 2 tbsp. l.
- mineral water - 100 ml
- baking powder - 0.5 tsp
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife
- powdered sugar - for decoration
Cooking:
Mix flour with starch, sugar and vanilla. Add baking powder.
Combine 100 milliliters of mineral water with oil. Add flour mixture and knead the dough.
Roll out the dough and cut into rectangles. Make a slit in the center of each rectangle and turn the edges of the cookies inside out.
Boil oil in a saucepan. Dip the brushwood into deep fat and, when ready, spread it on a paper towel to drain excess oil.
Sprinkle brushwood with powdered sugar.
Lenten cookies with nuts and raisins
Ingredients:
- wheat flour - 200 g
- vegetable oil - 50 ml
- warm water - 50 ml
- sugar - 3 tbsp. l.
- raisins - 50 g
- nuts (hazelnuts or almonds) - 50 g
Cooking:
Pour raisins with boiling water for half an hour, and then dry on a towel. Chop nuts.
Mix flour, sugar, vegetable oil and water. Knead the dough and add nuts with raisins.
Drop the dough onto a baking sheet with a teaspoon. Bake cookies until cooked at 170 degrees. Let cool covered with a towel.
Lenten snack cookies "Potato"
Ingredients:
- potatoes - 300 g
- wheat flour - 100 g
- vegetable oil - 50 ml
- salt - 1 tsp without a slide
- dried garlic - 0.5 tsp
- paprika - 0.5 tsp
- turmeric - 0.5 tsp
Cooking:
Boil potatoes, mash with a potato masher. Enter flour and butter.
Salt the dough and add all the spices. Roll the dough into a "sausage" and cut into pieces. Bake cookies at 200 degrees in the oven. When the top is browned, turn the cookies over and cook until done.
Lenten snack cookies "Rye"
Ingredients:
- wheat flour - 100 g
- rye flour - 100 g
- vegetable oil - 50 ml
- water - 50 ml
- sesame - 1 tbsp. l.
- cumin - 0.5 tbsp. l.
- salt - 0.5 tsp
Cooking:
Mix rye flour with wheat flour, add salt, cumin and sesame seeds.
Add oil and water to the flour, knead the dough.
Roll out the dough into a thin layer and cut out the cookies with cookie cutters. Bake at 180 degrees.
Dinner Angel!
Prepared by Elena Somova
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 designated 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 recipes we have 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.
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 seeds cookies. Simple recipe and amazing taste.
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.
Housewives are often mistaken, thinking that lean cookies are not tasty and cook them only on the basis of useful qualities. But by adding various ingredients, all doubts can be refuted. The beauty of such baking is in the speed of preparation and the minimum set of products that can be easily found in the kitchen. It doesn’t matter if there is a fast, or just decided to please the family with a novelty, we will prepare a dessert.
Let's start with the lemon cookie, which is sure to please everyone.
Let's take:
- 50 ml of vegetable oil;
- ½ tsp soda;
- 400 g flour;
- 1 lemon;
- ½ st. Sahara.
A quick recipe for lemon cookies can be written in a cookbook if you are afraid to forget.
Rinse the lemon thoroughly with a brush under running water and, without removing the skin, cut into pieces. In this case, all bones should be removed.
To get rid of the bitterness that a lemon can impart to a dish, put it in sweet boiling water for about 15 minutes.
Using a blender, turn everything into a pulp. First add soda here, which will immediately go out. Then add sugar and pour oil.
We begin to knead the dough, gradually adding flour. Let's give him some rest. After sprinkling the table, roll out and cut out cookies of any shape. For color, you can sprinkle sugar on top.
Bake no more than 10 minutes in a preheated oven.
Cucumber brine recipe
We often pour out the remaining liquid from pickled cucumbers, but in vain. Try to find a use for it.
Products for cookies:
- a glass of sugar sand;
- 6 art. l. olive oil;
- 500 g flour;
- a glass of any brine;
- 1 tsp soda.
Starting preparation, the liquid from the jar must be filtered so that the spices that are used in the marinade do not get caught. We pour soda here.
If you use a brine not from pickled vegetables, then soda is quenched with vinegar.
Pour sugar and wait for it to dissolve. Add oil and start pouring the sifted flour. We roll out the layer and knock out the figures with molds.
Bake on a sheet lined with baking paper until browned. You can decorate cookies in brine by sprinkling with powdered sugar.
Cooking from pumpkin
Let's try to bake a healthy pumpkin dessert.
A set of necessary products:
- ¼ tsp salt;
- 100 g of sugar;
- ½ tsp soda;
- 200 g pumpkin (pulp);
- 2 tbsp. l. sunflower oil;
- ¼ tsp. turmeric and cinnamon;
- 2 tbsp. flour;
- 1 tsp vinegar.
Grind the pulp of the vegetable. To do this, you can use a grater, meat grinder or blender. Mix all dry ingredients, and extinguish soda with apple cider vinegar.
In order to add useful properties to the liver, it is enough to enrich the composition of 15 g of bran, raisins or nuts.
Knead the dough with your hands, which will turn out to be dense in consistency. We will roll the balls with our palms, pinch off and put them on a greased baking sheet.
After 20 minutes in a hot oven (at 180 degrees), you can take them out and cool.
Lean oatmeal cookies
Since childhood, everyone knows the taste of this cookie. But, you can bake it at home.
We only need:
- 3 art. l. honey;
- Art. oatmeal;
- 6 art. l. vegetable oil;
- ¼ tsp nutmeg;
- Art. flour;
- ¼ tsp salt;
- 50 ml of water;
- ½ tsp cinnamon and soda.
We start preparing the dough for lean oatmeal cookies by mixing honey, water and oil. To do this, heat the mixture over low heat. Stirring all the time with a spoon or spatula, pour in the first soda, which should be extinguished, and then nutmeg, salt and cinnamon.
Add cereal with flour and knead the mass. It will turn out a little sticky. Leave, covered with a bag, for half an hour.
This is done so that the oatmeal is saturated with moisture and swells.
With hands moistened in water, roll the balls, which we lay out on a sheet covered with parchment and press down a little.
We put in the oven for 25 minutes.
chocolate treat
From this berry treat, just no one will refuse.
Ingredients:
- ½ st. any jam;
- ½ st. cocoa;
- ¾ st. granulated sugar;
- Art. flour;
- 1/3 cup refined oil;
- ½ tsp salt;
- 1 tsp baking powder.
Pour all dry ingredients into a large bowl and mix well. Add jam, butter and knead plastic dough.
It often happens that there is not enough flour or, conversely, a lot. Therefore, its quantity can be controlled during the dough kneading.
We cover the baking sheet with baking paper, carefully lay out the already formed cookies. Just 12 minutes is enough to bake it. Cool down.
with banana
To make lean cookies you need:
- overripe banana;
- 200 g flour;
- 50 ml vegetable oil;
- 130 g of sugar;
- Art. l. vinegar;
- ½ tsp soda;
- 80 g raisins;
- Art. l. lemon juice;
- ½ tsp cardamom.
Peel the banana from the peel and cut into small pieces.
Sprinkle with lemon juice immediately to keep it from darkening.
We fill it with sugar and pour in the oil. Slightly beat the mixture with a mixer. Separately, mix the flour with cardamom, here we also add the sorted and washed raisins. Extinguish soda with lemon juice.
It is better to soak the raisins in hot water in advance so that they give away their taste as much as possible.
Knead the dough from all the prepared ingredients. Spread with a large spoon on a sheet that is covered with parchment. It bakes for about 10 minutes. The smell will spread throughout the house, but it is better to eat it chilled.
How to make lean shortbread cookies
Dough is made not only on the basis of eggs.
The set of products is as follows:
- 1.5 st. flour;
- ½ st. starch;
- 1/3 st. vegetable oil;
- ½ st. water;
- 3 art. l. Sahara;
- tsp baking powder;
- ¼ tsp salt.
Inside we put:
- Art. chopped nuts;
- 3 art. l. granulated sugar.
We mix all the dry ingredients, while the flour should be sifted. We collect a slide in which we make a recess and pour in water and oil. Quickly knead the dough with your hands and let it rest. Separately, in a cup, combine sugar with nuts.
Let's cook:
- Art. Sahara;
- Art. grated carrots;
- ¼ tsp salt;
- tsp loosening powder;
- a drop of vanillin;
- ½ st. starch;
- 1.5 st. flour.
In a deep bowl, mix grated, fresh carrots (preferably use the smallest side) with sugar, salt, vanilla and butter.
Separately, sift the flour, add starch, baking powder and start introducing the mixture into the carrot mass. You will get a watery dough, which is better to spread on a greased baking sheet with a large spoon. But, if you wish, wet your hands and try to roll the koloboks.
After 15 minutes, you can take the carrot cookies out of the oven. Cool, decorate with powdered sugar and serve.
Step by step cooking with ginger
You can pamper yourself with such a dessert not only on Christmas holidays.
Prepare:
- 3 art. l. honey;
- 150 ml of water (warm);
- 5 st. l. bran;
- 7 art. l. olive oil;
- a small piece (about 2x2) of fresh ginger or 2 tsp. ground;
- a sachet of vanillin;
- ½ tsp salt;
- ½ tsp soda;
- tsp cloves, cinnamon;
- 300 g flour.
You need to act as follows:
- Pour all liquid ingredients into the blender bowl, add ginger, soda, salt and all spices. We achieve uniformity.
- We fall asleep flour with bran and knead the dough. It should not stick to your hands and be elastic.
- With a rolling pin, roll out a layer less than 1 cm thick. Cut into equal pieces or beat out our lean cookies with molds.
- In a hot oven, it will bake at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes.
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.
Prepare the following foods:
- Oatmeal - 2.5 cups.
- Honey - 1 tablespoon.
- Sugar - 0.5 cups.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons.
- Baking powder for dough - 1 teaspoon. Baking powder can be replaced with 0.5 teaspoon of soda slaked with vinegar.
- Water - 100 ml.
- Nuts (you can take any, to your taste) - 50 g.
- Raisins - 100 g.
- Vanillin - to taste.
- A little flour.
Let's start cooking oatmeal cookies:
Pour hot water over oatmeal and let it swell for 10-15 minutes.
Add sugar, honey and vegetable oil to the cereal.
Rub everything thoroughly and again let stand for a while. Let the sugar dissolve in the oatmeal.
Now pour a little flour into the mass, literally a couple of tablespoons, so that the mass can be sculpted.
Add baking powder, vanilla, raisins and chopped nuts.
Mix everything well again.
Line a baking sheet with baking paper and place small oatmeal cakes on it, forming them with wet hands.
Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
You can sprinkle powdered sugar on top if you like.
Tip: replace very well refined sunflower oil in this recipe with sesame oil. It has a pronounced aroma of toasted nuts, which greatly enhances the taste of our oatmeal nut cookies. Also, all the sugar indicated in the recipe can be replaced with honey, which will further enhance the dietary qualities of this pastry.
Here, it turns out, how many different cookies you can cook in the post. Be sure to try to bake them all, since the post lasts a long time and you will have enough time for culinary experiments. One of these recipes will certainly become your favorite, we promise.
