TOP-4 recipes with photos of simple and delicious lean pastries for tea. Home cooking secrets and tips. Video recipes.
Lean pastries, of course, will not be rich. However, there are many tasty and healthy recipes on how to cook lean pies, muffins, rolls, cookies, pies, dumplings, etc. A lean table can be not only tasty, but also varied. Such pastries will help out those with a sweet tooth who adhere to Orthodox traditions during the fasting period. This material offers TOP-4 recipes with photos of lean baked goods without the use of animal products - eggs, butter, milk and other dairy products.
Cooking secrets and tips
- Eggs, butter and dairy products are not used in lean baked goods. To make it tastier and more aromatic, fruits, berries, dried fruits, poppy seeds, nuts, and coconut are added to the dough. For savory pastries, mushrooms, vegetables, herbs are used.
- For lean baking, you can use different types of flour: wheat, rye, flax, rice, chickpea, oatmeal, buckwheat, almond, peanut, etc. Also, for kneading the dough, take semolina, oatmeal, rice or potato starch.
- Milk and other dairy products are replaced with coconut, almond or soy milk. Also, fruit or freshly squeezed juices, vegetable broths, pickles are suitable as a liquid.
- Replacing 1/5 of the liquid with vodka in the dough will make the finished products more lush.
- The dough can be flavored with small additions of cognac or rum.
- Instead of eggs, use semolina or a fresh and soft banana to hold the food together.
- Replace butter with vegetable or olive oil, but in smaller proportions. 100 g of butter will replace 1/3 tbsp. vegetable. Lean margarine is also great.
- Avocados are rich in healthy fats. Therefore, to improve the quality of baking, add the pulp of ripe fruits, pounded into a paste, to the dough.
- Lean dough is baked faster than butter, and ready-made lean baked goods become stale faster. Therefore, it must be stored wrapped in a linen towel and in a plastic bag.
Pumpkin muffin with orange, nuts and dried fruit
Delicious lean pastries - the recipe for a fragrant cake is not only tasty, but also healthy. Pumpkin gives the product a beautiful color, and nuts with dried fruits give aroma and amazing taste. It is also worth noting that these products contain beneficial vitamins and minerals.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 269 kcal.
- Servings - 1 cupcake
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Flour - 250 g
- Soda - 1 tsp
- Vegetable oil - 50 ml
- Walnuts - 70 g
- Orange zest - cut from 1 fruit
- Orange juice - squeezed from 1 fruit
- Honey - 2 tablespoons
- Pumpkin - 500 g
- Cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Sugar - 50 g
- Dates - 50 g
- Raisins - 50 g
Cooking Pumpkin Cake with Orange, Nuts and Dried Fruits:
- Peel the pumpkin with seeds and fibers. Wash it, cut into medium-sized cubes, put in a saucepan, fill with water so that it covers half of the flesh.
- Place the pot on the stove and after boiling, boil for 20 minutes until tender. During the cooking process, the pumpkin will give its own juice, so do not be alarmed that there is not enough water for cooking.
- Grind the finished pumpkin together with the liquid to the consistency of mashed potatoes using a potato pusher or blender, and cool slightly.
- Wash the orange, dry and grate the zest on a fine grater, and squeeze the juice from the pulp. Submit the groceries to the pumpkin puree.
- Finely detail the nuts. Pitted and chopped dates. Combine the products, and together with the raisins, send them to the pumpkin puree.
- Add honey, ground cinnamon, vegetable oil, baking soda and sifted flour to the foods.
- Toss the dough and place in a greased and floured muffin pan.
- Bake the pumpkin muffin in a preheated oven to 200 ° C for 40-45 minutes. Check readiness with a wooden toothpick, it must remain dry.
Muffins with cherries and cocoa
Chocolate-colored cherry muffins are delicious and healthy lean baked goods. Aromatic and tasty, with a moist and airy texture. Even those who do not fast will like them.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1, 5 tbsp.
- Vegetable oil - 1/2 tbsp.
- Boiling water - 150 ml
- Baking powder - 1 tsp
- Sugar - 1/2 tbsp.
- Salt - a pinch
- Cocoa - 2 tablespoons
- Pitted frozen cherries - 300 g
- Cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Honey - 2 tablespoons
Cooking cherry and cocoa muffins:
- Defrost the cherries, collect the released cherry juice and add boiling water to it. Pour vegetable oil into cherry water, add honey, salt and mix.
- Sift flour with baking powder through a fine sieve and stir with cinnamon and cocoa.
- Pour dry ingredients into liquid ingredients and stir to make the dough smooth.
- Stir the cherries into the dough and pour it into the oiled muffin tins, filling them 1/3 full.
- Send the products to a preheated oven up to 180 ° C for 20 minutes. Check the readiness of the muffins, as in the previous recipe, with a toothpick.
- Cool the finished muffins and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Buns with jam in the oven
Simple lean pastries - baked dumplings with jam. This is a wonderful flour dish - soft, tender donuts with a ruddy crust made from unleavened yeast dough.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 3, 5 tbsp.
- Fast yeast - 3 tsp
- Water (warm) - 1 tbsp.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
- Salt - 1.5 tsp
- Sugar - 1, 5 tablespoons
- Thick jam - 8 tablespoons
- Brown sugar - 2 tablespoons
Cooking buns with jam in the oven:
- Heat the water to a temperature of about 36 ° C and dissolve the yeast with sugar in it. Add flour, salt and oil.
- Knead a tough and elastic yeast dough. Cover it with a towel and place in a warm, draft-free place for 45 minutes. During this time, it will come up and increase in volume by 2-3 times. You can also knead the dough in a bread maker.
- Divide the dough into 12 pieces, shape or roll out a flat cake from each piece and place the filling on top of them. If the jam is liquid, thicken it with starch.
- Pinch the edges of the dough on top of the bun, turn it over and place it seam side down on a greased baking sheet. Grease the top of the buns with butter and sprinkle with brown sugar.
- Send the buns to bake in a preheated oven to 190 ° C for 20 minutes.
- Sprinkle the finished buns with water, cover with a towel and leave for 10 minutes.
Cupcake with poppy seeds
Delicious lean pastries for tea - poppy seed cake. Light, delicate and with a subtle orange note. The baked goods are airy, crumbly, not wet inside and incredibly poppy.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 1 tbsp.
- Semolina - 1 tbsp.
- Vegetable oil - 2/3 tbsp.
- Baking dough - 1 tsp
- Soda - 0.5 tsp
- Sugar - 1 tbsp.
- Vanilla sugar - 1 tablespoon
- Poppy - 150 g
- Orange - 2 pcs.
Making a poppy seed cake:
- Fill the poppy with boiling water (2 tablespoons) and leave under the lid for 10 minutes. Strain the steamed poppy seeds through a fine sieve or cheesecloth, put in a mortar, add sugar and crush or grind with a blender.
- Wash the oranges thoroughly, on a medium grater, grate the zest without the white layer, which gives bitterness, and squeeze the juice from the fruit. You can leave the pieces of pulp and also add to the dough. Depending on the size of the oranges, the juice should be 200-250 ml.
- Pour vegetable oil into orange juice and add vanilla sugar.
- Sift flour with baking powder and baking soda and mix with semolina and orange zest. Then add the poppy seed mixture and stir.
- Combine two masses, liquid with dry ingredients and mix thoroughly until smooth.
- Cover the form with parchment, brush with vegetable oil and lay out the dough.
- Bake the cake in a preheated oven at 170 ° C for 50 minutes. Judge the finished cupcake in the form, because it is very fragile and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
