Many diets involve giving up sweets and baking. But sometimes you want to drink tea with something delicious, while not being afraid of gaining extra pounds. Oatmeal cookies - this pastry, designed specifically for diet food.
Dietary oatmeal cookies - basic nutritional principles
Oatmeal cookies are best prepared by yourself, so you will know what the product is prepared from and be confident in its quality. Depending on the ingredients used, cookies are categorized as low-calorie, healthy baking or sweets for diabetics.
Low-calorie cookies are prepared without the addition of fat. Useful baking will make dried fruits, nuts, etc. At the same time in the recipe using butter and eggs. Caloric content of the product is reduced by reducing the amount of sugar. Cookies for diabetics are prepared without sugar, taking into account the individual recommendations of the doctor.
Classic oatmeal cookies are made from rich, soft dough, which is not very useful for the figure. In dietary recipes, wheat flour is replaced with whole grain or flakes. Often, instead of animal fats use vegetable.
Honey or raisins are used as sweetener. Egg white is used for viscosity, it has a low calorie content and does not harm the figure. To make the dough soft and tender, add low-fat cottage cheese, pulp of overripe banana or applesauce. Instead of water, you can use fat-free kefir or yogurt.
The dough for cookies kneaded on oatmeal or flour, which is done independently, grinding them in a coffee grinder.
Recipe 1. Dietary Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
third stack liquid honey;
vanillin;
45 grams of wheat flour;
baking powder;
200 g of fine flakes or oatmeal flour;
two eggs 2 categories.
Method of preparation
In a deep bowl, pour out all the dry ingredients. Stir with a spoon.
Beat the eggs into a separate dish, slightly shake with a fork, add honey and beat again.
Combine the liquid mixture with dry and intensively stir. The dough quickly becomes thick, and later it will be difficult to work with it. We take a little dough with a teaspoon and make small balls and spread them on a baking sheet covered with foil. Be sure to leave the distance between the blanks.
Turn on the oven at 200 degrees. As soon as it warms up, we send cookies to it on a baking sheet and bake for a quarter of an hour.
Recipe 2. Dietary oatmeal raisin cookies
Ingredients
vanillin;
kefir or hot water - 300 ml;
ground cinnamon - pinch;
oatmeal flakes - 300 g;
raisins - a handful;
honey - 120 g
Method of preparation
In a deep cup, pour the oatmeal and fill them with hot water or kefir. Leave the product to swell for forty minutes.
Rinse the raisins, put in a bowl and steam with boiling water. Leave for a while to make the dried fruits swell and become soft. Then drain the remaining liquid, and shift the raisins into oatmeal porridge. Add honey and mix the ingredients by hand.
Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper. With wet hands, take small pieces of dough and roll them into balls, then gently press down and form small round cookies. Spread them on a baking sheet.
Heat the oven to 190 degrees. Put a baking sheet in it and bake for 20 minutes until browned.
Recipe 3. Dietary oatmeal cookies without flour
Ingredients
vegetable oil;
egg of the highest category;
oatmeal flakes - one and a half stak .;
raisins;
80 grams of granulated sugar;
coconut shavings - for decoration.
Method of preparation
Put on a medium heat dry clean pan and heat well. Pour the oatmeal into it and fry until golden brown, stirring constantly.
Beat the eggs in a deep cup, add granulated sugar and whisk well. Steam raisins with hot water and leave for a quarter of an hour. Then drain the infusion, dry the dried fruits and put in the egg mixture. Add fried oatmeal and knead dough.
Baking cover the baking paper. With dough wet hands roll small balls. Pour the coconut chips into a flat plate and roll the blanks in it. Lightly flatten and spread on a baking sheet. Put the oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake until golden.
Recipe 4. Dukan Diet Cookies
Ingredients 60 g oat bran;
carnation - several buds;
cottage cheese - 200 g;
ground cinnamon - pinch;
egg;
vanillin;
three tsp. sweetener;
baking powder - bag.
Method of preparation
First prepare the curd. Grind the product through a fine metal sieve. Separate the white from the yolk.
Dissolve sugar substitute in a little water. Add yolk and beat everything until a creamy mixture is obtained.
Transfer the mixture to a deep cup, add cottage cheese, cloves, oatmeal, cinnamon and vanillin. Shuffle until smooth.
Protein whisk separately in dense foam. Partly lay out the protein mixture in the dough, gently stirring with a wooden spatula. At the end, add baking powder and knead the dough well.
Cover the baking sheet with foil. Put the dough in a pastry bag and drop cookies on it in the form of flowers, always at some distance from each other. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Place a baking tray on medium level and bake until golden brown.
Recipe 5. Dietary oatmeal cookies for raw foodists
Ingredients
half stack wheat germ;
coconut chips;
two spoons of oat bran;
prunes and dried apricots - a handful;
banana.
Method of preparation
Pour oat bran into a deep cup. Pour boiling water over them, mix and let them swell for forty minutes.
Prune and dried apricots. Put in a deep dish and fill with hot water. Soak for about ten minutes so that the dried fruits are soft. Then pour the infusion, and dried prunes and dried apricots on a napkin.
Sprouted wheat, dried fruit and peeled banana are put into the container of a food processor or blender. Perebeyte all to a porridge. If you do not have these devices, you can twist everything through a meat grinder.
Put the resulting gruel to the swollen oat bran and knead the dough. Moisten hands and form small balls of dough. Roll them in coconut chips and place on a flat dish.
Recipe 6. Chocolate dietary oatmeal cookies
Ingredients
two bananas;
50 g of cocoa powder;
walnuts - 50 g;
stack oatmeal flakes.
Method of preparation
Remove the peel from the banana, cut into small pieces, put in a plate and mash with a fork until mashed. Chop the walnuts with a knife.
Combine oatmeal with banana puree and nut crumb.
Add cocoa powder and stir until smooth.
Baking cover the baking paper. Dessert spoon take a little dough and lay on a baking sheet, giving it a round shape. Preheat oven to 200 ° C and bake until brown.
Recipe 7. Dietary oatmeal cookies with an apple in a slow cooker
Ingredients
vanillin - pinch;
oat bran - 100 g;
baking powder - bag;
one apple;
oatmeal flakes - 100 g;
a handful of nuts;
one carrot;
60 g of light raisins;
honey - 60 g
Method of preparation
Wash and peel the apple. Cut in half and remove the seed crusts. Pulp chop grated with small sections.
Wash and clean the carrot and rub it with fine chips.
Put the grated apple in a deep cup, add carrot chips and oatmeal. Pour half a glass of hot water and honey. Stir everything and leave to swell for half an hour.
Wash the raisins, put them in a bowl and pour boiling water over them. Leave for a while before softening. Then drain the remaining water and put the dried fruit on a napkin. Grind the nuts in a blender.
In the swollen oatmeal mixture, add raisins, baking powder, nuts and oat bran. Knead everything thoroughly.
Grease the saucepan with oil. Take a small amount of sugar with wet hands and form round cookies. Put in a slow cooker. Close the lid. Start the baking mode and bake for forty minutes. After 20 minutes, flip the cookie.
Dietary oatmeal cookies - tips and tricks
In diet baking, sugar is replaced by honey, dried fruit, or a sugar substitute.
In the dough, you can add berries or pieces of fresh fruit.
If you want the cookies to turn out soft and soft, knead the dough on oatmeal.
For flavor, spices, vanillin or citrus zest are added to the dough.
