Fasting is a time of severe restriction in food, all food that is not fast is prohibited.
Many people think that fasting and delicious baking are incompatible things, since you cannot use eggs, milk, or butter. However, there are many lean baking recipes that disprove this belief.
Butter is an excellent substitute for vegetable oils, and a banana or apple will become a binder instead of eggs. A variety of spices will help improve the taste of baked goods. Therefore, even during Lent, you can please yourself with amazing examples of baking art: from muffins on soda to the well-known and beloved loaf.
One such sample is soft biscuits. It tastes like Muesli bars, but only has a number of advantages, as it is prepared without flavorings, dyes, preservatives. It is not difficult to cook it, it will not take much time, but the taste will pleasantly surprise everyone. The recipe does not use flour, and you can easily do without sugar by replacing it with sweet dates or raisins. These cookies can be safely given to children, since they combine the benefits and nutritional value, for the same reasons, they are indispensable for a snack on the road.
Required Ingredients
1) Water - 400-500 ml.;
2) Small oatmeal flakes - 2 cups;
3) Semolina - 0.5 cups;
4) Banana - 1 piece;
5) Apple - 1 piece;
6) Sugar - 3-6 tbsp. spoons;
7) Poppy - 2 tbsp. spoons;
8) Cinnamon - half a teaspoon;
9) Salt - optional.
Preparation:
Boil the entire specified volume of water. Pour small oat flakes (quick-cooking), semolina, sugar, salt into a bowl, gradually pour boiling water over this mixture, mix well and wait 30 minutes for softening and swelling.
Wash the apple, peel and core, rub on a fine grater. Peel the banana, mash with a crush (fork) until puree.
Add the grated apple, mashed banana, poppy seeds and cinnamon to the melted flakes and semolina, mix everything vigorously.
Lightly grease the baking sheet with oil, spread the dough with a spoon and smooth each cake 1 centimeter thick. Put the cookies in an oven heated to 200 ° C and bake for 15-20 minutes.
With the recipe for this cookie, you can safely fantasize, adding raisins, nuts, dried fruits, candied fruits, various berries to the dough, and an apple can be replaced with a pumpkin or pear, thanks to which the cookies will have different shades of taste and color.
The cookies are soft, tasty, ideal for fasting and those who are worried about their figure.
