Lenten shortbread cookies

Lenten shortbread cookies

Ingredients

Flour – 200 g / 1.5 cups

Starch – 70 g / 0.5 cup

Water – about 100 ml / 0.5 cup

Vegetable oil – 70 ml / 0.3 cups

Sugar in the dough - 2-3 tbsp.

Sugar for filling – 2 tbsp.

Cinnamon – optional 0.5-1 tsp.

Baking powder – 1 tsp.

Salt – 1 pinch

• 352 kcal
• 25 min.
• 25 min.

Photo of the finished dish

Step-by-step recipe with photos

Following the nut one, I add another version of lean shortbread cookies, which are prepared in one or two batches. Just like traditional shortbread cookies, lean cookies contain only a few ingredients: flour, butter and sugar, only vegetable oil, not butter.

Use any kind of vegetable oil to suit your own taste, for example, ordinary sunflower oil without aroma, or something more interesting, for example, nut oil. If desired, the top of the cookies can be sprinkled with sugar or a mixture of sugar and cinnamon, or they can be left smooth.

For a lean version of shortbread cookies, prepare the ingredients according to the list.

Stir together flour, starch (corn or potato), sugar, salt and baking powder.

Pour in water and vegetable oil.

Stir. The characteristics of flour vary, so the quantity may vary. If the dough is in the form of very loose crumbs that do not form into a ball, then add little water. The dough should be soft and roll out perfectly.

For a topping option, stir sugar and cinnamon.

Roll out the dough to the desired thickness - from 0.5 to 1 cm, depending on what kind of cookies you want to get in the end. Sprinkle sugar or cinnamon sugar on top. Cut the dough into pieces with a knife or molds.

Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 180-200 degrees for about 15 minutes for the softest option, and about 20 minutes for the crispiest.

Lenten shortbread cookies are ready. Regular and tasty.

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Delicious, crumbly cookies for coffee or tea.
Recipe from the cooks of the St. Daniel's Monastery.

Ingredients:
• 200 g flour
• 70 g starch
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 100 g sugar
• 1 packet vanilla sugar
• lemon zest (optional)
• 100 ml water
• 75 ml vegetable oil
• pinch of salt

What you can add to the dough:
This dough allows for a huge number of different additives.
Options for adding water instead of water:
• various fruit or berry juices (including in consistency with water to taste)
• dark tea
• greenish tea
• hibiscus tea
• lean nut milk
• chilled coffee
• grape wine (dry or fortified, in including in consistency with water)

Options for dry additions to the dough:
• raisins
• finely chopped dried fruits (dried apricots, prunes, etc.)
• candied fruits
• grated or crushed nuts
• coconut flakes • poppy seeds

cocoa powder
• grated dark chocolate
• cinnamon
• grated nutmeg

Preparation:
Mix flour and starch with baking powder, then add sugar, vanilla sugar, salt (it is better to dissolve the salt in a teaspoon of water and pour in), zest, water, butter.

Replace elastic dough (you can knead in a food processor with a hook).
(The dough will crumble at first, then it will become homogeneous; you can add a little water if the mixture comes out loose)

The dough can be cut into cookies or rolls.

Cutting cookies.
Roll out the dough into a layer 0.5-1 cm wide, cut with a wheel or cut out shapes with molds.

Roll out the dough to a thickness of 0.5 cm into a 25x40 cm rectangle, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, or just sugar, or just cinnamon, or ground nuts, or other innards to taste.
Roll along the long side into a tight roll and cut into slices.
Before cutting, the roll can be slightly flattened on top and the slices can be placed on a baking sheet on the resulting bottom plane.
Or you can roll the roll round and place the slices on a baking sheet vertically, like columns, or simply cut out shapes from the dough.

The baking tray must be lined with baking paper in advance.
To obtain a beautiful color, the products should be greased with strong tea leaves and sugar before baking.
Before placing on a baking sheet, the top surfaces of the rolls or cookies can be dipped in sugar.
Bake the products in an oven previously preheated to 180°C for 20 minutes.
The baked products turn out very tasty and crumbly.

Cooking Recipe Lenten shortbread Food products

I welcome all guests of my own page.
I would like to share with you a very ordinary recipe for Lenten shortbread cookies. Lent began on March 3 this year.
In the Orthodox calendar specifically, Great Lent is one of the most touching events. Every year it is observed for about 40 days - in memory of the forty-day fast of Christ in the desert. In this spring time, a person is able to hear his soul, become calmer, more harmonious, cleaner and brighter. I think that this recipe can be used not only on fasting days. I bake these cookies more for my daughter (she is 18 months old), in my opinion they are tastier and healthier than store-bought cookies, and besides, she likes funny shapes.

For lean shortcrust pastry we will need:
High-grade flour - 400 gr.
Starch - 140 gr.
Baking powder - 2 teaspoons (you can quench soda with vinegar).
Sugar - 200 gr.
Vanilla sugar - 2 tablespoons (I usually take less).
Water - 200 ml.
Vegetable oil - 150 gr.
Salt.
Cookie molds.

First, you need to sift the flour and mix with starch and baking powder (I pour a little flour, starch and baking powder into a sieve and mix it right away), add all the other ingredients (sugar, water, vanilla sugar, butter and a pinch of salt) and start kneading the dough.
The dough should be elastic. I add 100 - 150 grams of chopped walnuts to the dough. Then we divide the dough into 2 parts and roll out a layer of 0.7 - 1 cm. We use molds to make different shapes and place them on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Bake for 15 - 20 minutes at a temperature of 170 - 180 degrees, depending on the thickness of the cookies.

The results are crispy, very tender cookies with a nutty taste. Bon appetit.

This photo shows the cut of the cookie.

Shortbread cookies just out of the oven.

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mm, what animals! Thank you for the Lenten recipe! I’m sneaking away!

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Helen, enjoy it for your health! I'll be glad if you need the recipe!

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How delicious it is here. Thanks for the recipe! Maybe mine will catch your eye for this occasion!

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Thank you Lenochka! At the moment, I’ll come to you for the recipe!

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Irochka, thank you very much! I’ll sneak it into my piggy bank and definitely bake it.

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Natasha, bake for your health! I'll be glad if you need the recipe!

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Magic cookies! They just ask to be put in your mouth!

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Thank you Tatiana! Help yourself!

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Thanks for the recipe. I'll definitely bake it.

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Svetochka, use it for your health!

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Definitely a delicious meal. ))) Thank you, I love the harmless deliciousness)))) And baking powder is not a chemical.

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Please use the recipe for your health! If you doubt the chemical composition of baking powder and its necessary properties, then you can simply replace it with soda slaked with vinegar (I do this all the time when there is baking powder in a recipe, but I don’t have it on hand).

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Here. Now there is literally one useful thing in the recipe))) Thank you, Iriska))).

Lenten cookies: the most delicious recipes

When you want to have a snack during Lent, cookies really help out. At the same time, you can prepare not only dessert (sweet), but also snack (salty). I bring to your attention those options that have taken root in my family. And, to be honest, I bake these cookies not only during Lent!

Lenten cookies with tomato juice

• tomato juice - 200 ml
• vegetable oil - 50 ml
• wheat flour - 400 g
• sugar - 2 tbsp. l.
• cocoa - 2 tbsp. l.
• baking powder - 0.5 tsp.

Combine tomato juice with vegetable oil and sugar.

Sift the flour and mix with cocoa and baking powder.

Add the juice to the flour and knead the dough. For convenience, lubricate your hands with vegetable oil.

Pinch off small pieces of dough, roll into balls and place on a baking sheet. Then press down to create the flattest shape possible. Bake until lightly golden brown.

Lenten "Brushwood"

• wheat flour - 200 g
• corn starch (potato starch is also possible) - 100 g
• vegetable oil - 100 ml + for deep frying
• sugar - 2 tbsp. l.
• mineral water - 100 ml
• baking powder - 0.5 tsp.
• vanillin - on the tip of a knife
• sweet powder - for decoration

Mix flour with starch, sugar and vanillin. Add baking powder.

Combine 100 ml of mineral water with oil. Add the flour mixture and knead the dough.

Roll out the dough and cut into rectangles. Make a longitudinal cut in the center of each rectangle and unscrew the edges of the cookies.

Boil oil in a saucepan. Place the brushwood in the deep fryer and, once ready, place it on a paper towel to drain off excess oil.

Sprinkle the brushwood with sweet powder.

Lenten cookies with nuts and raisins

• wheat flour - 200 g
• vegetable oil - 50 ml
• warm water - 50 ml
• sugar - 3 tbsp. l.
• raisins – 50 g
• nuts (hazelnuts or almonds) - 50 g

Pour boiling water over the raisins for half an hour, and then dry on a towel. Chop the nuts.

Mix flour, sugar, vegetable oil and water. Knead the dough and add nuts and raisins.

Drop the dough by the teaspoon onto a baking sheet. Bake the cookies until done at 170 degrees. Let cool, covered with a towel.

Lenten snack cookies "Potato"

• potatoes - 300 g
• wheat flour - 100 g
• vegetable oil - 50 ml
• salt - 1 tsp. no slide
• dried garlic - 0.5 tsp.
• paprika - 0.5 tsp.
• turmeric - 0.5 tsp.

Boil the potatoes and mash them with a potato masher. Add flour and butter.

Salt the dough and add all the spices. Roll the dough into a “sausage” and cut into pieces. Bake cookies at 200 degrees in the oven. When the top is browned, turn the cookies over and cook until done.

Lenten snack cookies “Rye”

• wheat flour - 100 g
• rye flour - 100 g
• vegetable oil - 50 ml
• water - 50 ml
• sesame - 1 tbsp. l.
• cumin - 0.5 tbsp. l.
• salt - 0.5 tsp.

Mix rye flour with wheat flour, add salt, cumin and sesame seeds.

Add oil and water to the flour and knead the dough.

Roll out the dough into a narrow layer and cut out the cookies with cookie cutters. Bake at 180 degrees.