Lenten ginger cookies

Baking fragrant ginger cookies on New Year's Eve is a long-standing European tradition.

From the beginning of December, active preparations for Christmas and the New Year begin in almost all European countries. In addition to New Year's gifts and decorations, classic sweets are beginning to appear on store shelves and personal grocery stores, among which gingerbread cookies and gingerbread are very popular.

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Sweet ginger pastries are fragrant and tasty, and also have a solemn, original design: New Year trees, gingerbread houses, figures of little people, birds, animals, hearts and stars and other figures worthy of attention. Naturally, for our fellow citizens, cookies do not carry such a solemn mood within themselves. But, the bright presentation of ginger cookies will literally amuse your friends and family in the cool season and not only.

During the fasting period, you can make ginger cookies without eggs and without dairy products. Lenten baked goods are also low in calories, because most of the sugar is replaced with black molasses (molasses). If you don’t have molasses or you don’t understand at all what it is, then you can replace the molasses with honey and sugar by mixing 5 parts of honey with 1 part of cane or white sugar, and then melt the mixture in a water bath until the mixture thick syrup. Maybe you don’t use honey, then just use sugar or any regular sweetener to taste in the recipe.

2 cups wheat flour
1/2 cup wholemeal flour
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup of water
1/2 cup coffee sugar or white sugar
1/2 cup dark molasses (see above for alternative molasses)
4 tsp. grated ginger on a small grater or 4 tsp. ground
1/2 tsp. soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. ground cinnamon (half for dough and half for dusting cookies)
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp. ground cloves

Christmas gingerbread cookies with fresh ginger

Sift the flour. In a deep bowl, mix all the dry ingredients: flour, soda, sugar, salt, vanilla, 1/2 part ground cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger.

In another bowl, mix all the wet ingredients: molasses or its replacement, water, vegetable oil. Stir thoroughly, and then add the dry ingredients and stir again into a homogeneous thick mass. At the last step the dough will be dense, but at the same time elastic. You will need to knead the dough with your hands.

Lenten ginger cookies

Recipe from: Julia

Although it is customary to bake gingerbread cookies for New Year's or Christmas, no one forbids you to indulge in them at any other time! We invite you to try the Lenten recipe for ginger cookies sent by Ksyusha Makarova. During Lent, such savory Lenten pastries are very vital!

This healthy, bran-filled, but equally delicious gingerbread cookie comes out crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Ginger warms perfectly and is very necessary. And the smell from the cookies is magical - just right for drinking tea on cool winter evenings :).

Lenten ginger cookies

Compound:

150 ml water
7 tbsp. tablespoons olive (vegetable) oil
3 tbsp. tablespoons honey (watery sweetener)
2.5 cups (300 ml each) flour
5 tbsp. tablespoons wheat bran
0.5 tsp soda
2 × 2 cm piece of fresh ginger (or 2 tsp ground)
spices:
cinnamon – 1.5 tsp.
cloves – 1 tsp.
ground aromatic pepper – 0.5 tsp. (not necessary)
1 packet vanilla sugar
a couple of pinches of salt

Lenten Ginger Cookies Recipe:

Pour all the watery ingredients into the blender, also add ginger, soda, salt, vanillin and spices. Beat everything well until a homogeneous mixture.

Mix liquid with spices

Pour the resulting mass into a salad bowl (deep bowl, pan), add bran, mix. Then add flour and knead into an elastic dough that does not stick to your hands.

Kneading lean ginger dough

Turn on the oven at 180 degrees. Roll out the dough 0.5 cm wide and cut out shapes using molds or a glass.

Cutting out shapes

Grease a baking tray with oil or line it with baking paper and place our future ginger cookies on it. Place in the preheated oven for 12-15 minutes (bake on medium level).

Baking gingerbread cookies

When the lean ginger cookies are browned, take them out and put them on a plate to cool.

Ginger Lenten cookies

That's all, you can enjoy! Enjoy your tea!

Lenten ginger cookies recipe

Lenten ginger cookies, the recipe of which assumes the absence of products of animal origin, can be prepared not only for the Christmas holidays. This dish will help vary the menu during fasting or will be a good solution to the problem when the refrigerator at home is almost empty.

Ingredients

Traditional recipe for Lenten cookies:

3 tbsp. honey (watery);
2-2.5 tbsp. wheat flour;
150 ml water;
5 tbsp. wheat bran;
soda (on the tip of a knife);
5-6 tbsp. vegetable oil (preferably olive);
2 tsp ground ginger;
1.5 tsp. cinnamon;
1 tsp carnations;
0.5 tsp aromatic ground pepper;
a pinch of salt.

Traditional recipe for Lenten cookies

Water, oil, honey and spices need to be mixed. To do this, you can use a blender or mixer. Pour wheat bran into the resulting homogeneous mass and mix again. The resulting workpiece is transferred to a bowl (or other similar container) and flour begins to be added evenly. The dough should be soft and elastic. It doesn't have to stick to your hands.

It is recommended to let the finished dough stand for 15-20 minutes, and then you can begin making cookies. The oven is turned on and the temperature is set to +180°C. While the oven is heating up, start rolling out the dough. Its thickness should be 0.5 cm. To ensure perfect baking, you can use special molds for squeezing. If they are not there, then a glass will do. You can also cut the dough into pieces with a knife.

Cover the baking sheet with baking paper, grease it with vegetable oil and lay out the raw cookies. The baking soda will cause the dough to rise (rise), so you shouldn’t place it too close to each other. Otherwise, the cookies may stick together.

Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake the cookies for 10-15 minutes. When it is ready, you need to remove it from the oven and transfer it to a plate. If this is not created, i.e. throw on a baking sheet, the baked goods may burn (due to the heated alloy).

To give the dough an unusual color without dyes, you can replace the water with tomato juice in the recipe. The baked goods will not lose their taste properties. Spicy cookies made with tomato juice are prepared according to the same procedure as traditional ones.

In lean ginger dough made with tomato juice, you can wrap a tasty and healthy filling - carrots. The vegetable is grated and combined with sugar. Cookies with carrots and ginger will require more baking time, about 30 minutes.

Baking will be no less tasty if you do not use grated carrots as entrails, but add them to the dough.

Lenten ginger cookies

Now you will learn how to prepare a culinary masterpiece - Lenten ginger cookies. Just the name - gingerbread cookies - is already a good motivation for creating it. Lenten ginger cookies with cocoa come out very fragrant: the smell of ginger will gather the whole family at the table, even without your role. The outside has an excellent crispy crust, but the inside is very soft. And the most important thing is that preparing lean ginger cookies is very simple.

Ingredients:

sifted flour - 1 cup (150 g);
potato starch - 70 g;
sugar - 90 g;
salt - 0.5 teaspoon;
baking powder - 1 heaped teaspoon;
spices - 1 tablespoon;
cocoa powder - 40 g;
apple jam - 0.5 cups;
vegetable oil (sunflower or olive) - 100 ml;
almonds (or any other nuts) - optional.

Lenten ginger cookies. Step by step recipe

Take a deep bowl and pour all the dry ingredients into it: 150 g of flour, 70 g of starch, 90 g of sugar, half a teaspoon of salt, 40 g of cocoa, baking powder and spices.
Pour vegetable oil onto the top and mix lightly.
Later we take apple jam, pour it into the main mass, mix thoroughly, and knead our dough. The dough looks so crumbly, but it is very sticky, pleasant and holds its shape perfectly, which is important.

Advice. If the dough doesn't stick together well, add two tablespoons of water.

Advice. You can use any kind of jam: for example, lemon, orange, whatever you like - choose according to your own taste.

The next thing we will do is set the oven to warm up, and later we will boldly sculpt our cookies. Make balls the size of a walnut.
When you have enough balls, take them and place them on a baking sheet. Press down lightly, giving the liver a flat shape.
If desired, you can put almonds on top.

I put specifically almond, because I really love it. You can put whatever you like best.

We will bake the cookies in the oven at 190 degrees for 10–15 minutes.

Lenten recipes are very popular these days. So, these cookies can be eaten during Lent, and, of course, on any other day.

The cookies come out very fragrant and tasty. Ginger cookies are the key to a great mood, so making them evokes only positive emotions (Emotions are distinguished from other types of emotional processes: affects, feelings and moods).