In order for lean baked goods, in particular cookies, to be loose, tender, and not hard, they need to be prepared on the basis of leavening ingredients without the use of such usual products for home baking as eggs, butter, milk. Let's try adding plain oatmeal to the dough as a leavening agent? We assure you that these cookies will be no worse than the ones we are used to, prepared on an ordinary fast day, when food from warm-blooded animals is allowed by faith.

Lenten oatmeal cookies

Mix a glass of rolled oats flakes, previously converted into flour using a blender, with two tablespoons of natural honey, three tablespoons of olive or sunflower oil, half a teaspoon of salt for piquancy, half a spoon of baking soda, slaked with lemon juice or vinegar (can be replaced with a teaspoon of baking powder ).

For a different taste and if you wish, add a little cinnamon or vanilla to the cookies. You can have chopped dried apricots, prunes, raisins or coconut flakes. Additional ingredients can significantly diversify the same Lenten cookie recipe. The ingredients for the cookies are mixed thoroughly. Then the dough needs to be put in the refrigerator for a while.

Roll the chilled dough into balls using damp hands and soaking them in water. Place the balls on baking paper on a baking sheet. The balls need to be flattened by hand to make small cakes. Bake our cookies in a well-heated oven for 10-15 minutes, no more. Take it out, place it on a plate, sprinkle with powdered sugar. Ready!

Lenten starch cookies

Another leavening component that may be present in lean cookies is starch. To prepare this type of cookie, three glasses of sifted wheat flour must be mixed with a glass of starch, a glass of powdered sugar, a teaspoon of soda, water (3/4 cup), and vegetable oil. Mix. If it is too tight, add water. Roll out the dough thinly. Using a glass or cookie cutter, cut out the cookies, place them on a baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven until golden brown.

Immediately lift the finished cookies with a spatula and place them on a flat plate. Lightly dust with powdered sugar. Wonderful crispy Lenten cookies are ready for tea!

I noticed that when there are food restrictions, I really want something tasty. For example, fans of proper nutrition often try to make some intricate dishes within the permitted diet - various PP pancakes, PP cakes, etc. Raw foodists also not only eat fruits and vegetables, but also prepare raw food cakes, chocolate and various desserts.

It’s not surprising that during Lent you often crave baked goods, something tasty. Besides, if your family doesn’t fast, it’s a shame to cook delicious foods that you can’t do yourself. Therefore, I suggest baking Lenten cookies.

To make the task of finding sweet treat recipes easier, I have collected the most interesting ones in this article. By preparing them, you will treat yourself to a sweet treat, and your family will be full and satisfied.

Some recipes are so simple that a child could make them. Give your children this opportunity: add the necessary ingredients, mix the dough thoroughly. There will be delight!

When making Lenten cookies, you can use everything you have in your kitchen - from carrots to cornmeal. And the taste will exceed expectations.

Quick Lenten cookies (without sugar, with jam)

When you really want something sweet during Lent, not everyone will realize that you can prepare a wonderful confectionery product in half an hour, and from the ingredients that you have in the house.

Lenten cookies can be whipped up not only with jam, but also with orange, lemon, banana and other fillings.

Products:

• Olive oil – 0.5 cups (in extreme cases, you can replace it with sunflower oil),
• Mineral sparkling water – 0.5 cups,
• Wheat flour – 300 grams.

1. Pour mineral water, oil into a bowl and add flour.

2. Mix everything thoroughly. You should have an elastic dough.

3. Divide it into two parts and roll each into a round shape up to 5 mm thick.

4. Then we cut each circle into 8 sectors.

5. Place filling on each sector. I have this jam.

6. Carefully roll each piece into a bagel shape and place in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 20 minutes.

Lenten cookies with cucumber or tomato brine

Many recipes were invented by our grandmothers back in the Soviet years, when there was no such crazy assortment in stores, and they had to prepare interesting dishes from available products. They coped with this task perfectly.

The recipe for making Lenten cookies with cucumber brine is very simple, but at the same time incredibly tasty. You will need a minimum set of products.

Confectioners have long noticed that sweet dough benefits from adding a little salt to it. That's why salt is used in many cakes, and what about the famous salted caramel? This is probably why brine cookies have not lost their popularity for decades, and also because they turn out soft.

Instead of cucumber brine, you can use tomato brine.

Very little time is spent kneading such a dough; the household members won’t even have time to blink an eye, and everything is ready.

Products:

• Wheat flour - 3 cups,
• Sugar – 250 gr.,
• Sunflower oil – 100 gr.,
• Pickle from cucumbers or tomatoes - 1 glass,
• Soda – 1 tsp,
• Sesame.

1. Pour the brine into the container for kneading the dough.

2. Add soda and mix. At this time, the soda will be quenched with acidic brine.

3. Add sugar and sunflower oil and mix everything well.

4. The final touch in making cookies is to add flour sifted through a sieve.

5. Knead the dough.

6. Place the dough on a cutting board and if the dough turns out a bit liquid, add a little flour. The dough turns out very tender and does not require long kneading.

7. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin into a thin layer up to 0.5 centimeters thick.

8. Grease the top layer of dough with vegetable oil. And you can already turn on the oven by setting the temperature to 180 degrees.

9. Sprinkle sesame seeds on the dough and start cutting out cookies using a glass. Carefully place all the embedded cookies on a baking sheet. To prevent the cookies from burning, line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat.

10. Bake cookies for about 20 minutes.

Healthy oatmeal cookies without flour, sugar, eggs and butter

What should fans of healthy eating do? Can’t they please themselves with anything? But no. There is a wonderful recipe for Lenten cookies without sugar, without flour, eggs and vegetable oil. Your figure will thank you, even though it is sweet and delicious.

To reduce calorie content, such cookies can be prepared not only without sugar, but also without honey.

Products:

• Bananas – 2 pieces,
• Honey – 2 tablespoons,
• Hercules – 150 grams,
• Oat bran – 2 tbsp. spoons,
• Sunflower seeds – 0.5 cups,
• Prunes – 200 grams.

1. Grind bananas with honey in a blender and place in a bowl.

2. Pour rolled oats into the mixture and mix.

3. Add bran and mix again. Pay attention to the consistency of the dough, it should be thick. If you have a liquid dough, then add a little more rolled oats.

4. Leave the mixture alone for 15 minutes so that the oatmeal swells a little.

5. The seeds must be washed and dried in the microwave, and then crushed a little in a blender or coffee grinder.

6. Place the crushed seeds into the mixture with rolled oats and banana and mix everything well.

7. Take 1 prune and make sure it ends up inside the cookie.

8. Bread the formed cookies with prunes in sesame seeds and place them on a baking sheet.

9. Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes, then turn the cookies over and bake for another 10 minutes.

Delicious vegan cookies (can be made in a frying pan)

This confectionery product has the taste of childhood. It can also be prepared without sugar with jam.

If you don’t have an oven, these cookies can be fried in a frying pan. In this case, you can only lightly lubricate the surface with oil. It will bake well and not burn.

Products:

• Wheat flour - 3 cups,
• 1 cup each of starch and granulated sugar,
• Vegetable oil - half a glass,
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Water – 200 ml.

1. Mix starch and flour.

2. Add sunflower oil to the mixture and mix well.

3. Add granulated sugar to the mixture and mix again.

4. Add soda, which is extinguished with a small amount of vinegar.

5. Pour in water in small portions and knead the dough. The finished dough should be elastic.

6. Roll out the dough into a layer up to 0.5 cm thick. And begin squeezing out the figures using molds. These can be stars, hearts, Christmas trees. But if you don’t have molds, a glass will do just fine.

7. Place our products on parchment and bake for 17 minutes. The oven must be preheated to 180 degrees.

Lenten oatmeal cookies without eggs and milk

Products:

• Oatmeal – 200 gr.,
• Wheat flour – 3 tbsp. l.,
• Sugar – 3 tbsp. l.,
• A handful of raisins and walnuts,
• Water – 150 g,
• Sunflower oil – 120 gr.,
• Honey – 1 tbsp,
• Soda – 0.5 tsp.

1. Pour the oatmeal into a bowl, preferably grinding half of it into flour in a coffee grinder (but if you don’t have a coffee grinder, you can do without it).

Few people know that carrots can be the main ingredient when making Lenten cookies. The combination of carrots and raisins is very tasty. And if you add oatmeal, you get not only a tasty, but also a digestive treat. I present to your attention a video of a classic carrot cookie recipe.

Housewives are often mistaken, thinking that Lenten cookies are not tasty and prepare them only based on their beneficial qualities. But by adding various ingredients you can refute all doubts. The beauty of such baking is the speed of preparation and the minimum set of products that can easily be found in the kitchen. It doesn’t matter if it’s fasting or if you just decided to please your family with a new product, let’s prepare dessert.

Let's start with lemon cookies that are sure to please everyone.

Let's take:

• 50 ml vegetable oil;
• ½ tsp. soda;
• 400 g flour;
• 1 lemon;
• ½ tbsp. Sahara.

You can write down the recipe for quick lemon cookies in your cookbook if you are afraid of forgetting.

We thoroughly rinse the lemon with a brush under running water and, without removing the skin, cut it into pieces. In this case, all seeds should be removed.

To get rid of the bitterness that lemon can impart to a dish, put it in sweet boiling water for 15 minutes.

Using a blender, turn everything into a paste. First add soda here, which will immediately extinguish. Next add sugar and butter.

We begin to knead the dough, gradually adding flour. Let him rest for a while. Having sprinkled the table, roll out and cut out cookies of any shape. To make it more colorful, you can sprinkle sugar on top.

Bake for no more than 10 minutes in a preheated oven.

Recipe for cucumber pickle

We often pour out the remaining liquid from pickled cucumbers, but in vain. Try to find a use for it.

Cookie products:

• a glass of granulated sugar;
• 6 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• 500 g flour;
• a glass of any brine;
• 1 tsp. soda

When starting preparation, the liquid from the jar must be strained so that the spices used in the marinade do not get caught. Pour the baking soda in here.

If you are using a brine other than pickled vegetables, then quench the soda with vinegar.

Pour in sugar and wait for it to dissolve. Add oil and start adding sifted flour. Roll out the layer and punch out shapes with molds.

Bake on a sheet lined with baking paper until browned. You can decorate the brine cookies by sprinkling them with powdered sugar.

Cooking with pumpkin

Let's try to bake a healthy pumpkin dessert.

Set of required products:

• ¼ tsp. salt;
• 100 g sugar;
• ½ tsp. soda;
• 200 g pumpkin (pulp);
• 2 tbsp. l. sunflower oil;
• ¼ tsp each turmeric and cinnamon;
• 2 tbsp. flour;
• 1 tsp. vinegar.

Grind the vegetable pulp. To do this, you can use a grater, meat grinder or blender. Mix all dry ingredients, and quench the baking soda with apple cider vinegar.

In order to add beneficial properties to the liver, it is enough to enrich the composition with 15 g of bran, raisins or nuts.

Knead the dough with your hands until the consistency is dense. We will roll the balls with our palms, pinching them off and placing them on a greased baking sheet.

After 20 minutes in a hot oven (at 180 degrees), you can take them out and cool them.

Lenten oatmeal cookies

Since childhood, everyone has known the taste of this cookie. But, you can bake it at home.

We only need:

• 3 tbsp. l. honey;
• Art. oatmeal;
• 6 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• ¼ tsp. nutmeg;
• Art. flour;
• ¼ tsp. salt;
• 50 ml water;
• ½ tsp. cinnamon and soda.

We begin preparing the dough for lean oatmeal cookies by mixing honey, water and butter. To do this, heat the mixture over low heat. Stirring all the time with a spoon or spatula, pour in the soda first, which should be extinguished, and then nutmeg, salt and cinnamon.

Add the flakes with flour and knead the mixture. 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 dipped in water, roll the balls, place them on a sheet covered with parchment and press down a little.

Place in the oven for 25 minutes.

Chocolate treat

No one will definitely refuse this berry treat.

Ingredients:

• ½ tbsp. any jam;
• ½ tbsp. cocoa;
• ¾ tbsp. granulated sugar;
• Art. flour;
• 1/3 cup refined oil;
• ½ tsp. salt;
• 1 tsp. baking powder.

Place all dry ingredients in a large cup and mix well. Add jam, butter and knead into a plastic dough.

It often happens that there is not enough flour or, conversely, a lot. Therefore, its quantity can be controlled as the dough is kneaded.

Line a baking tray with baking paper and carefully place the already formed cookies. Just 12 minutes is enough to bake it. Cool.

With banana

To prepare Lenten cookies you need:

• overripe banana;
• 200 g flour;
• 50 ml vegetable oil;
• 130 g sugar;
• Art. l. vinegar;
• ½ tsp. soda;
• 80 g raisins;
• Art. l. lemon juice;
• ½ tsp. cardamom

Peel the banana and cut into small pieces.

To prevent it from darkening, immediately sprinkle with lemon juice.

Fill it with granulated sugar and pour in the butter. Beat the mixture a little with a mixer. Separately mix the flour with cardamom, and add the sorted and washed raisins. We extinguish the soda with lemon juice.

It is better to soak the raisins in hot water in advance so that they maximize their taste.

Mix all the prepared ingredients into a dough. Place with a large spoon onto a sheet 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 Lenten shortbread cookies

The dough is not only based on eggs.

The set of products is as follows:

• 1.5 tbsp. flour;
• ½ tbsp. starch;
• 1/3 tbsp. vegetable oil;
• ½ tbsp. water;
• 3 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• tsp baking powder;
• ¼ tsp. salt.

Let's put inside:

• Art. chopped nuts;
• 3 tbsp. l. granulated sugar.

Mix all the dry ingredients, sifting the flour. We collect it in a slide, in which we make a depression and pour in water and oil. Quickly knead the dough with your hands and let it rest. Separately, combine sugar and nuts in a cup.

Now the dough needs to be rolled out thinly. It is desirable to get a square or rectangle. Pour the filling onto the surface and distribute evenly. Cut into strips, which we roll into a roll. Place each on parchment paper, carefully pinching the edge, and bake.

carrot cookies

This fresh vegetable will also help create a wonderful dessert.

Let's prepare:

• Art. Sahara;
• Art. grated carrots;
• ¼ tsp. salt;
• tsp loosening powder;
• a drop of vanillin;
• ½ tbsp. starch;
• 1.5 tbsp. flour.

In a deep bowl, mix grated, fresh carrots (it is advisable to use the smallest side) with sugar, salt, vanilla and butter.

Separately sift the flour, add starch, baking powder and begin adding the mixture to the carrot mixture. The result will be a liquid dough, which is best placed on a greased baking sheet with a large spoon. But, if desired, wet your hands and try to roll the balls.

Let's prepare:

• 3 tbsp. l. honey;
• 150 ml water (warm);
• 5 tbsp. l. bran;
• 7 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• a small piece (about 2x2) of fresh ginger or 2 tsp. ground;
• a packet of vanillin;
• ½ tsp. salt;
• ½ tsp. soda;
• tsp cloves, cinnamon;
• 300 g flour.

You must proceed as follows:

1. Pour all the liquid ingredients into a blender bowl, add ginger, soda, salt and all the spices. We achieve uniformity.
2. Add flour with bran and knead the dough. It should not stick to your hands and be elastic.
3. Using a rolling pin, roll out a layer less than 1 cm thick. Cut into equal pieces or knock out our Lenten cookies with molds.
4. In a hot oven it will bake at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes.

During Lent, you can also bake delicious and aromatic cookies at home without using butter and eggs in recipes.

Lenten oatmeal banana cookies

The Lean Oatmeal Cookies recipe uses rolled oats and banana, and adds for flavor.

Ingredients:

• 150 g flour;
• banana;
• 100 g oat flakes;
• 120 ml. vegetable oils;
• sugar – 100 g;
• tea l. baking powder;
• teaspoon of cinnamon.

Preparation:

1. Fry the cereal in a dry frying pan until golden brown.
2. Using a blender, grind the flakes into flour.
3. Mash the banana with a fork and add to the flour.
4. Pour butter into the mixture, add cinnamon and sugar.
5. Mix flour with baking powder and combine with ingredients.
6. Form the dough into cookies and place on baking paper on a baking sheet.
7. Bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees.

For meatless oatmeal cookies, use ripe or even overripe bananas. They have a richer taste and aroma and are easily mashed into purees.

Lenten apple cookies

Delicious homemade Lenten cookies with apples and aromatic spices.

Required ingredients:

• half a glass of water;
• three apples;
• half a glass of vegetable oil;
• two glasses of flour;
• salt;
• baking powder – 1 tsp;
• half tsp cinnamon;
• two sticks of cloves;
• half stack Sahara.

Preparation step by step:

1. Mix salt with flour, baking powder, sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.
2. Pour water into the pan, add cloves and oil. Bring to a boil and remove the cloves.
3. Add hot mixture to dry ingredients.
4. Grate the peeled apples, add to the mixture and knead the dough.
5. Leave the finished dough to rest for 20 minutes.
6. Divide the dough into two halves.
7. One by one, roll out the pieces of dough thinly and divide into cookies.
8. Transfer the cookies to a baking tray lined with baking paper, prick each one with a fork and bake until golden brown.

Quickly made Lenten apple cookies are tasty and crispy.