Lean Oatmeal Cookie Recipes: With Honey, Nuts, Dried Fruits, Etc., Step By Step Photos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Oatmeal Lean Cookie Cooking Options

Lent is often associated with abstinence in food. But often you want to diversify the traditional lean cuisine, and especially - to please yourself with something sweet. And here we will come to the rescue of oatmeal cookies, very simple to make, tasty, healthy and loved from childhood. There are a lot of recipes for lean oatmeal cookies, you can use spices, honey, dried fruits and much more in their manufacture.

Content

• 1 Simple recipe for cookies with dried apricots and raisins
• 2 Calorie content of products used in the preparation of the dough
• 3 A little bit of originality: adding brine
• 4 Unconventional: we cook without using the usual products
• 5 Lean oatmeal cookies with honey
• 6 A little more originality
• 7 Video recipe for making oatmeal cookies

A simple recipe for cookies with dried apricots and raisins

This is the simplest, traditional cooking method, with a classic range of products. You need to take:

• 1.5 cups wheat flour;
• 1.5 cups whole grain flour
• 100 grams of dried apricots;
• 100 grams of raisins;
• 1 glass of water;
• 0.75 cups of oatmeal;
• 0.75 cups sugar;
• 10 tablespoons of vegetable oil.

You can choose flour and oatmeal of any grind - coarse, medium or fine.

Raisins and dried apricots

1. Pre-soak the raisins for about 30 minutes and chop the dried apricots. After the raisins are infused, dry them.
2. Stir in the flakes, the two flours, and the baking powder. Pour in water and sunflower oil, stirring constantly, add sugar as well.
3. Add raisins and dried apricots, mix thoroughly and knead the dough to a homogeneous thick consistency. If the dough is tight and difficult to knead, add some water.
4. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. While it's warming, shape the dough into small cakes and place on a baking sheet. Bake for up to 25 minutes, until cookies are browned on top.

You will spend very little time on such cookies, but your family, especially children, will love them. Cook it daily and no one will get bored with it anyway! The beauty of this classic recipe is that you can tweak it just a little bit and the cookie will taste completely different. For example, add different spices to it every day - cloves, anise, cinnamon, and instead of raisins and dried apricots add orange zest, fresh apple, etc.

Calorie content of products used in the preparation of the dough

A bit of originality: adding brine

I learned this recipe quite recently from a neighbor, and decided to share it. To be honest, I was very surprised: how can you use pickle from pickled cucumbers or tomatoes to knead dough for oatmeal cookies? It would seem that this is a dessert dish that should be sweet, or, at least, bland. It turns out that the pickle only adds piquancy and originality to its taste.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 2 cups;
• Sugar - 1 glass;
• Pickle from pickled tomatoes, cucumbers or zucchini - 1 glass;
• Oatmeal flakes - 2 tablespoons;
• Vegetable oil - 50 grams;
• Vinegar - 0.5 teaspoon;
• Baking soda - 0.5 teaspoon

Pour a glass of brine into a deep bowl. Add sugar, flour, oatmeal there, add vegetable oil, mix thoroughly. Use the vinegar to extinguish the baking soda directly into the dough and stir again.

Cucumber pickle - an original solution for oatmeal cookies

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Spoon the dough out with a wet spoon on a baking sheet greased with sunflower oil. On ordinary, non-fasting days, you can use butter and even lard. The distance between the cookies should be about 2 to 3 cm so that the cookies don't stick together when they fit. Bake for about 20 minutes, until the surface is golden brown.

If you save your figure, then you don't have to worry: nutritionists say that even 100 grams of lean oatmeal cookies will not affect weight in any way, and 50 grams can be included in a diet aimed at losing weight.

Unconventional: we cook without using the usual products

Since we are talking about diet and body preservation, it is worth paying attention to this original recipe recommended by nutritionists and fitness instructors. In the preparation of such cookies, you will need products that are constantly used in dietary dishes for weight loss and keeping fit.

You will need:

• 2 bananas;
• 1.5 cups of oatmeal;
• 3 tablespoons of flaxseed
• ¼ glasses of raisins (can be replaced with dried cherries;
• ¼ glasses of walnuts or almonds;
• soda and lemon juice for extinguishing;
• 0.5 teaspoon salt;
• 0.5 cups almond milk (you can use water instead);
• Add cinnamon or nutmeg if desired.

As you can see, this recipe does not contain flour. It is replaced by oatmeal, finely ground in a blender. Banana mass acts as a gluing material (eggs are usually used). Banana and dried fruit make the cookies sweet, so you don't even need sugar. Flaxseeds have been known since ancient times for their beneficial properties: they help cleanse the body of toxins and have a beneficial effect on the gastrointestinal tract and liver.

Oatmeal cookies with banana and almonds

1. Chop the almonds not very finely. To make it easier, you can use almond milk with sediment to replace both water and almonds.
2. In a blender, grind the oatmeal (1 cup) until it resembles flour.
3. Mash the banana in mashed potatoes with a fork, add all the ingredients: oatmeal - whole and ground, water or almond milk, slaked soda, flaxseed, spices, dried fruits. Knead the dough and let it sit for 1 hour.
4. Shape the cookies and place them on a greased or parchment-covered baking sheet. Bake for about 25 minutes in an oven preheated to 120 degrees.

The cookies are quite sweet, but if you are a real sweet tooth, you can add sugar, honey or jam to the dough.

Lean oatmeal cookies with honey

Our distant ancestors invented honey in the preparation of oatmeal cookies in those days when they did not even know about the sugar we were used to. Therefore, there are a lot of recipes for honey. Here are a few of them.

For the first recipe you will need:

• oatmeal, ground into flour - 1 cup;
• liquid honey - 2 tablespoons;
• olive oil - 3 tablespoons;
• salt - 0.5 teaspoon;
• baking powder or soda quenched with lemon juice - 0.5 teaspoon;
• vanilla, cinnamon - to taste;
• add coarsely chopped nuts, raisins, chopped prunes and dried apricots, and coconut if desired.

Mix all ingredients and refrigerate for half an hour. After that, form balls with wet hands, make flattened cakes out of them and lay them on a baking sheet. Bake for about 10 minutes in an oven preheated to 200 degrees.

In this recipe, the ingredients are designed for a small portion, so you can take 2-3 times more food.

Honey is an indispensable product for making oatmeal cookies

For the second recipe for about 20 cookies, use the following:

• ground oatmeal - 100 grams;
• almonds, coarsely chopped and fried - 90 grams;
• brown sugar - 70-80 grams;
• olive oil - 40 ml;
• liquid honey - 1.5-2 tablespoons;
• rye flour - 50 grams;
• lemon juice - 2 tablespoons;
• orange juice - 50 ml.

Turn on the oven to preheat to 200 degrees. Meanwhile, combine all the ingredients in a bowl and knead the dough. At first, it will seem a little dry, but over time it will get the desired consistency. Leave it on for a couple of minutes.

Lubricate your hands with oil or moisten them with water and make small cakes from the dough. Spread them on a baking sheet, put them in the oven for 15 minutes.

Of course, you can use not only rye, but also any other flour. And if you add a little dried lingonberries or cranberries to the dough, the cookies will turn out to be even tastier because of the acidity.

And here's another interesting recipe. To make these honey cookies, fry 2.5 cups of instant oatmeal in a dry skillet until golden brown. Add a glass of applesauce, 3 tablespoons honey, 3 tablespoons vegetable oil, and let sit for about 30 minutes.

Then add 1/3 cup pre-steamed raisins, 1/3 cup a mixture of chopped nuts, sesame seeds and peeled seeds. Stir well and place the cookies on a baking sheet. Send for about an hour to the oven preheated to 120 degrees.

A little more originality

Did you know you can add vegetables to oatmeal cookies? For example, I found out about this quite recently. Therefore, I recommend making carrot-oat-rye cookies, which will surely delight you with their taste. You will need:

• rye flour - 100 g
• oat flour - 100 g
• brown sugar - 80 g
• carrots (grated) - 100 g
• walnuts - 60 g
• ginger - 1 tsp
• vegetable oil - 80 ml
• soda - 0.5 tsp.
• salt to taste
• lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l.

Mix all the flour with baking soda, salt and sugar. Add finely grated carrots, sprinkle with lemon juice and stir. Send nuts, ginger, vegetable oil there and knead the dough until it becomes a dense lump.

Try adding finely grated carrots to a traditional batter

Shape into cookies and bake in 180 degrees oven for about 20 minutes. Serve chilled with tea.

We are used to traditional round shaped oatmeal cookies. but even in this you can be original, spending just a couple of minutes of your time. For example, when laying the cakes on a baking sheet, apply a mesh pattern on them with a knife, or press down a little with a fork to make stripes.

This dough is not very suitable for rolling, but you can try a little and make a layer. It can be cut into long thin strips and spread out neatly on a baking sheet. Unusual shapes or patterns on the surface will especially appeal to children.

Video recipe for making oatmeal cookies

Oatmeal cookies are not just a tasty and healthy treat. It can replace a full breakfast of porridge, which many children do not really like, especially oatmeal. The many options for preparing this dessert will not let your family get bored of the monotony, even during the days of Great Lent. Share your cooking secrets with us in the comments. Bon appetit and comfort to your home!