Honey and ginger baked goods mean New Years and Christmas are approaching. However, such products can be not only rich, but also lean. This will especially appeal to those who are on a diet or watch their weight.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Fasting, diet, a good figure, ideal weight - these are all the limiting factors when baked goods should not be consumed, which often becomes a real challenge for lovers of sweets. This category of people is forced to give up fatty foods and animal products. And sweets, especially baked goods and flour products, almost always consist of eggs, butter or margarine. However, knowing a good recipe, you can indulge yourself with all sorts of lean delicacies prepared without eggs and dairy products. Such products are lightweight, while no less tasty.
You can add a variety of fruits, berries and vegetables to a lean liver. And on New Year's holidays, it is customary to make ginger-honey pastries. So why not make such a product lean. And you will not spoil the figure, and you will support the tradition. Thanks to such products, lean cookies become not only amazingly tasty, but also healthy.
For lean baking, I advise you to use odorless vegetable oil, cold-pressed olive oil is suitable. If you are afraid to bake products without eggs, then put a spoonful of potato or corn starch. It will serve as a great binder.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 338 kcal.
- Servings - 500 g
- Cooking time - 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Flour - 300 g
- Vegetable oil - 80 ml
- Tomato pickle - 100 ml
- Ginger powder - 1 tsp
- Honey - 3 tablespoons
- Prunes - 50 g
- Walnuts - 50 g
Making honey gingerbread cookies in brine
1. Pour vegetable oil into a container for kneading dough.
2. Pour brine to the butter, add ginger powder and honey. Any honey is suitable for lean cookies: floral, buckwheat, lime, etc. And the brine can be used not only for tomato, but also for cucumber, zucchini, etc.
3. Stir the liquid components so that they are evenly distributed and a homogeneous mass is obtained.
4. Pour the flour, which is better to sift into a bowl. This will enrich it with oxygen, which will make the dough airy and tender. By the way, lean pastries can be made chocolate, if part of the flour is replaced with cocoa powder.
5. Knead the dough. It should lag behind the hands and walls of the dishes. Be soft and elastic at the same time.
6. Chop the walnuts and pre-chop them in a clean and dry frying pan. Wash the prunes, pat dry with a paper towel and cut into 1 cm pieces.
7. Add prunes with nuts to the kneaded dough.
8. Knead the dough again to distribute the added food throughout the mixture.
9. Next, place the dough on a flat surface and roll it out with a rolling pin. You can adjust the thickness of the cookies yourself. If you want your biscuits to be crispy, thin them, softer them thicker. Then pick up New Year's cookie cutters (Christmas trees, stars) and cut out the dough with them.
10. Transfer the cookies to a parchment-lined baking sheet. Although you can put cookies without paper. There is enough oil in the dough and the product will not stick.
11. Preheat oven to 180 ° C and send cookies to bake. The baking time will depend on the thickness of the product and the desired consistency. The dough is rolled out thinner and will be ready in 15 minutes. However, in any case, the cookies will not cook for more than half an hour.
See also a video recipe on how to make gingerbread cookies.
