During Lent, you can also eat tasty, interesting, satisfying. Delicious pastries will help to make your menu especially varied. There are many successful lean recipes.
Lush cake "Dream"
Ingredients:
- fresh apples - 180-200 g;
- tangerines - 2-3 pcs.;
- fresh carrots - 80-100 g;
- vegetable oil - 80 ml + for smearing the mold;
- flour - 320 g;
- sugar to taste;
- baking powder - 10-12 g.
Preparation:
Peel carrots, apples, tangerines. From the latter, not only the pulp will be used, but also the zest without the white soft part. Citrus slices must first be removed from films and seeds. Send all prepared fruits to the blender bowl. Kill them until smooth with the addition of vegetable oil and sand. The amount of sugar is determined by taste. Usually 2/3 tbsp is enough.
Send sifted premium flour with baking powder to the resulting appetizing mass. After this step, the dough can be considered completely ready.
Transfer the thick puree to an oiled, heat-resistant container. You can also lightly dust it with sifted flour.
Bake the treat until dry torch at an average temperature for about half an hour. Homemade dessert turns out to be tender, juicy and slightly moist inside. If desired, you can decorate it with powdered sugar on top.
Orange manna
Ingredients:
- semolina - a full faceted glass;
- orange juice - a full glass;
- flour - 180-200 g + for dusting the mold;
- sugar - a full glass;
- chopped orange peel - 1 small the spoon;
- quicklime soda - 1 small the spoon;
- crumb crumbs - for sprinkling the mold;
- vegetable oil - ½ tbsp.
Preparation:
Turn on the oven in advance and preheat to 180-185 degrees. You can also immediately prepare the form - sprinkle it with a mixture of a small amount of flour and rusks.
Pour orange juice into a large, capacious container. Not only freshly squeezed fresh juice is suitable, but also a product from the package. Many housewives use canned citrus juice for such baked goods. They do not in any way impair the taste of the finished delicacy.
Pour all the semolina to the juice. Place butter, granulated sugar, orange peel here. Mix well. Leave him alone for about half an hour. During this time, the cereal should swell well.
Send all the baking soda to the future dough. There is no need to extinguish it separately with vinegar or other ingredients. This will make the fruit juice sour. Repeat mixing of the components.
Sift flour. Pour it into the dough in small portions. As a result, the dough should look like sour cream. Send it to the prepared form. If you are not sure of the quality of the selected heat-resistant container, then it is worth not only sprinkling it with dry ingredients, but also smearing it with vegetable oil.
Cook a treat in a preheated oven for 40-45 minutes. Serve it with aromatic ginger tea. This simple step-by-step recipe will allow you to make the most delicate cake at home, which is suitable even for a festive table.
Apple manna
Ingredients:
- granulated sugar - a full glass;
- semolina - a full glass;
- drinking water - a full glass;
- flour - 160-180 g;
- vegetable oil - ½ tbsp.;
- soda slaked with vinegar / lemon juice - half a teaspoon;
- medium-sized apples - 4-5 pcs.
Preparation:
Send sugar and cereals to a large bowl. Fill everything with water. Leave the ingredients in this form for about half an hour. This step cannot be ignored. Otherwise, the semolina will not swell, and the cake will not work.
After the specified time, pour oil into the mass, add slaked soda. Pour in the sifted flour. After mixing thoroughly, add the apple pieces. The latter must first be removed from the peel and core with seeds, and then finely chopped.
Immediately place the oiled dish on a baking sheet. Otherwise, later (because of the batter), it will be extremely inconvenient to move it. Pour the base of the manna into the container. Send the dessert to cook in the oven preheated to 180-190 degrees for 40-45 minutes.
You cannot immediately remove the dessert from the mold, otherwise it will break. You need to let the manna cool down a little. Decorate with fresh berries. If the manna is not sweet enough, you can smear it with honey and sprinkle with steamed raisins.
Chocolate pie
Ingredients:
- cocoa (very high quality and without additives) - 70-80 g;
- flour - 130-150 g;
- sugar - 80-100 g;
- soda - ½ small. spoons;
- "Lemon" - a small pinch;
- salt - 1/3 tsp;
- vanillin - to taste;
- water - ½ tbsp.;
- vegetable oil - 60 ml.
Preparation:
Send all dry ingredients to a common bowl, except for soda and lemon. Mix everything well. Vanillin is an optional ingredient. It is added to such baked goods as desired.
Combine soda and lemon separately. Add some water to them. Extinguish the first ingredient by stirring with the tip of a knife. Send slaked soda to all mixed bulk ingredients.
Pour everything first with oil and then with the remaining water. The liquids should not be cold, otherwise it will make them very difficult to mix. Connect all components carefully. The composition should not turn out to be too liquid.
Transfer dough to oiled pan. If the hostess doubts its quality, it is worth additionally covering the container with good baking paper so that the treat does not burn for sure.
Bake the treat at an average oven temperature for about half an hour. If the glass form is chosen, then the cooking time should be increased by another 7-9 minutes. After all, it is placed in a still cold oven (so as not to burst). Just these minutes will be enough for the cabinet to warm up, and there were no sudden changes in temperature.
The finished dessert is delicious to taste already warm. It is worth decorating it with powdered sugar of different colors and chopped nuts (it is most delicious with almonds). If you split the cake in two, you can turn it into cake layers. You can lubricate them with any lean cream.
Cherry biscuit
Ingredients:
- flour - a full glass;
- baking powder - 1 small the spoon;
- odorless oil - 80 ml;
- boiling water - 80 ml;
- salt - 1 pinch;
- pitted cherries - 370-400 g;
- starch (potato / corn) - 1 tsp;
- granulated sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
- any nuts - 2 tbsp. l.
Preparation:
Send all premium flour, salt and baking powder immediately to a large bowl. It is advisable to pour them through a sieve so that the dry mass is as airy and saturated with oxygen as possible.
Pour oil and water into the resulting mixture. The latter should be very hot. It is worth using a freshly boiled liquid. Stir everything thoroughly with a wide spatula until the water cools down.
Knead a very elastic and pleasant to the touch dough straight with your hands. Roll it into a "bun" and send it into the cold for about half an hour. Leave the dough to cool completely.
At this time, you can do the stuffing. It will be based on cherries. Both fresh and frozen will do. Rinse the berries thoroughly, add starch to them. If desired, you can add cherries and a small amount of granulated sugar (white or brown).
Roll the cooled mass (dough) into a large circle. In the middle, evenly distribute the prepared berries. Sprinkle 2 tbsp on top. l. sugar mixed with nuts chopped in a blender. This portion of sand is added even if the cherry itself was sweetened during preparation.
Pinch the edges of the dough in a circle. This must be done very carefully and carefully so that the cake does not open in the oven. Next - send the prepared biscuit to bake. She should spend a little over half an hour in an oven preheated to 185-190 degrees. You can be guided by the appearance of a golden brown crust on the surface of the dessert.
The finished dessert must be allowed to cool before sampling. According to the same recipe, this dish can be prepared not only with berries, but also with fruits. For example, with pieces of apricot.
Crunchies
Ingredients:
- flour - a pound;
- water (filtered, not cold) - ½ tbsp.;
- rum - 60 ml;
- granulated sugar - 1/3 ct. + powdered sugar to taste;
- salt and oil to taste.
Preparation:
Mix half a glass of cold water with granulated sugar, rum, all the flour. The latter must first be passed through the finest sieve. By combining all of the listed ingredients in the hands of the chef, you should get a dense dough (as for making noodles). By the way, rum, if desired, can be replaced with ordinary vodka.
Roll the thick base into a layer. This is the most time consuming part of the recipe, since the dense mass is difficult to roll out. It is necessary to process it with effort with a heavy rolling pin. Cut the resulting strips into pieces of arbitrary shape. You can do this according to the principle of the "brushwood" delicacy. Then you need to cut the dough into diamonds, make a cut in the middle of each and wrap both tails of each piece in it.
Pour a large amount of odorless vegetable oil into the cauldron. Boil it. Send miniature dough pieces into the bubbling fat. Fry them until delicious golden brown. The infection can be dipped into a cauldron of oil, 4-6 rhombuses (depending on their size). It is important that at the same time crispy blanks do not stick together.
Put the resulting crunches on a wire rack or paper napkins. Excess oil should drain from them. Sprinkle generously with powdered sugar while still warm. The finished dessert tastes different from the classic "brushwood", but it is no less tasty.
Pumpkin spit
Ingredients:
- high-quality flour (premium) - half a kilo;
- water - half a kilo;
- salt - 1 small the spoon;
- vegetable oil - half a glass;
- pumpkin and sugar to taste.
Preparation:
Send all the flour into a large container, convenient for kneading the dough. It is advisable to pour it into a bowl directly through a sieve. Add salt there. Pour oil over everything and mix thoroughly. Leave some vegetable fat to spread over the finished dough.
Pour water to an already homogeneous mass. It should be noticeably warm. Repeat mixing the composition. Cover the resulting thick dough with a napkin made from natural material.
While the base of the future dessert is infused, you can devote time to the filling. It is very important to choose a ripe sweet pumpkin for her. The vegetable needs to be cleaned of all that is superfluous - peel, seeds, "loose" inner part. Cut the remaining pulp into small cubes or grate coarsely. You can optionally add to the pumpkin and apples, banana, pear, and other fruits.
Roll out the dough thinly (in consistency and thickness, it should turn out like dumplings). Coat it with the remaining oil. Spread the chopped vegetable or pumpkin + various fruits in a thin layer. Sprinkle everything with granulated sugar.
Roll up a neat roll and pinch the edges securely. Put the resulting workpiece on a baking sheet, oiled with oil. You can make not one large twirl, but several small ones. Coat each one with oil as well.
Bake the treat in the oven preheated to 210-220 degrees. You can navigate by the appetizing golden brown crust on the surface. Bake the treat for about 35-45 minutes.
When serving, garnish the vertrute to taste. For example, powdered sugar or dried fruit pieces.
