Many diets involve giving up sweets and baking. But sometimes you really want to drink tea with something tasty, while not afraid to gain extra pounds. Oatmeal cookies are baked goods designed specifically for dietetic foods.
Dietary oatmeal cookies - the basic principles of nutrition
It is better to cook oatmeal cookies on your own, so you will know what the product is made of and will be sure of its quality. Depending on the ingredients used, cookies are classified as low-calorie, wholesome pastries or sweets for diabetics.
Low-calorie cookies are prepared without the addition of fats. Dried fruits, nuts, etc. will make healthy pastries. At the same time, butter and eggs are used in the recipe. Calorie content 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 butter, soft dough, which is not very useful for the figure. In diet recipes, wheat flour is replaced with whole grain or cereal. Often, instead of animal fats, vegetable fats are used.
As a sweetener, honey or raisins are used. For viscosity, egg white is used, it has a low calorie content and does not harm the figure. To make the dough soft and tender, add fat-free cottage cheese, pulp of an overripe banana or applesauce to it. Instead of water, you can use fat-free kefir or yogurt.
The cookie dough is kneaded on oatmeal or flour, which is made independently, grinding them in a coffee grinder.
Recipe 1. Dietary Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
third of the stack. liquid honey;
vanillin;
45 g of wheat flour;
baking powder;
200 g of thin flakes or oatmeal;
two eggs of 2 categories.
Cooking method
Pour all the dry ingredients into a deep bowl. Mix with a spoon.
We beat eggs into a separate bowl, shake it slightly with a fork, add honey and whisk again.
Combine the liquid mixture with dry and stir vigorously. The dough quickly becomes thick, and subsequently it will be difficult to work with it.
Take a little dough with a teaspoon and make small balls and spread on a baking sheet covered with foil. Be sure to leave the distance between the workpieces.
Turn on the oven 200 degrees. As soon as it warms up, we send cookie blanks 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 - a pinch;
oat flakes - 300 g;
raisins - a handful;
honey - 120 g.
Cooking method
Pour oatmeal into a deep cup and fill it with hot water or kefir. Leave the product to swell for forty minutes.
Wash raisins, put in a bowl and steam with boiling water. Leave it for a while until the dried fruit swells and becomes soft. Then drain the remaining liquid, and transfer the raisins to the oatmeal porridge. Add honey and mix the ingredients with your hands.
Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper. With wet hands, take small pieces of dough and roll them into balls, then slightly press down and form small round cookies. Lay them on a baking sheet.
Heat the oven to 190 degrees. Put a baking sheet in it and bake for 20 minutes until golden brown.
Recipe 3. Dietary Flourless Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
vegetable oil;
egg of the highest category;
oat flakes - one and a half glasses .;
raisins;
80 g of granulated sugar;
coconut flakes - for decoration.
Cooking method
Place a dry, clean pan over medium heat and heat well. Pour oatmeal into it and fry until golden brown, constantly stirring.
Beat eggs in a deep cup, add granulated sugar and beat well with a whisk. 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 here and knead the dough.
Cover the baking sheet with baking paper. Roll small balls from the dough with wet hands. Pour coconut flakes into a flat plate and roll the workpieces in it. Flatten and spread on a baking sheet. Place in an oven preheated to 180 ° C and bake until golden brown.
Recipe 4. Diet Oatmeal Cookies According to Ducan
Ingredients
60 g of oat bran;
cloves - several buds;
cottage cheese - 200 g;
ground cinnamon - a pinch;
egg;
vanillin;
three tsp sweetener;
baking powder - a bag.
Cooking method
First, prepare the cottage cheese. Grind the product through a fine metal sieve. Separate the protein from the yolk.
Dissolve a sugar substitute in a small amount of water. Add the yolk and beat until a creamy mixture is obtained.
Transfer the resulting mixture into a deep cup, add cottage cheese, cloves, oatmeal, cinnamon and vanillin to it. Stir everything until smooth.
Whisk the protein separately in a dense foam. Spread the protein mixture in parts 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 place cookies in the shape of flowers on it, always at a certain distance from each other. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Put a baking sheet on a medium level and bake until golden brown.
Recipe 5. Dietary oatmeal cookies for raw foodists
Ingredients
half a stack. sprouted wheat;
coconut flakes;
two spoons with a hill of oat bran;
prunes and dried apricots - a handful;
banana.
Cooking method
Pour oat bran into a deep cup. Pour boiling water over them, mix and leave them to swell for forty minutes.
Rinse prunes and dried apricots. Put in a deep plate and fill with hot water. Soak for ten minutes to make dried fruit soft. Then drain the infusion, and dry the prunes and dried apricots on a napkin.
Transfer the sprouted wheat, dried fruit, and peeled banana to the container of a food processor or blender. Interrupt everything to a mushy state. If you do not have these devices, you can twist everything through a meat grinder.
Put the resulting slurry to the swollen oat bran and knead the dough. Moisten your hands and form small balls from the dough. Roll them in coconut flakes and place them on a flat dish.
Recipe 6. Chocolate Diet Oatmeal Cookies
Ingredients
two bananas;
50 g of cocoa powder;
walnuts - 50 g;
stack oat flakes.
Cooking method
Remove the peel from a banana, cut into small pieces, put in a plate and mash with a fork to a puree state.
Chop walnuts with a knife.
Combine the oatmeal with banana puree and nut crumbs.
Add cocoa powder and mix until smooth.
Cover the baking sheet with baking paper. Take a little dough with a dessert spoon and lay on a baking sheet, giving it a round shape. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C and bake until golden brown.
Recipe 7. Dietary oatmeal cookies with an apple in a slow cooker
Ingredients
vanillin - a pinch;
oat bran - 100 g;
baking powder - sachet;
one apple;
oat flakes - 100 g;
a handful of nuts;
one carrot;
60 g of light raisins;
honey - 60 g.
Cooking method
Wash and peel the apple. Cut in half and remove the seed crusts. Grind the pulp on a grater with small sections.
Wash and peel the carrots and grate it with fine chips.
Put the grated apple in a deep cup, add carrot chips and oatmeal. Pour in half a glass of hot water and honey. Stir everything thoroughly and leave to swell for half an hour.
Wash the raisins, transfer to a bowl and pour boiling water. Leave for a while until soft. Then drain the remaining water and transfer the dried fruit to a napkin. Grind the nuts in a blender.
Add raisins, baking powder, nuts and oat bran to the swollen oat mixture. Knead everything thoroughly with your hands.
Grease a multicooker pan with oil. Wet hands, take a small amount of sugar and form round cookies. Put in a slow cooker. Close the cover. Launch the baking mode and bake for forty minutes. After 20 minutes, turn the cookie over.
Dietary oatmeal cookies - tips and tricks
In dietary baking, sugar is replaced with honey, dried fruit, or sweetener.
You can add berries or pieces of fresh fruit to the dough.
If you want the cookies to be tender and soft, knead the dough on oatmeal.
For flavor, spices, vanillin or citrus zest are added to the dough.
