3 simple baking recipes

So the time of Lent came. Many people limited themselves to eating, eliminating food of animal origin. But this does not mean that they are suffering and can not cook anything delicious for themselves. In fact, the lean menu can be very diverse. You can even occasionally please your loved ones with lean pastries. For this we have prepared three simple recipes and suggest you add them to your favorite list.

We offer you three special recipes that do not require either a special list of ingredients or the skill of an experienced chef. It is enough to follow our instructions and you will be able to prepare delicious lean dishes that will surely be a decoration of your table. Let's start with the recipe for lean cookies.

Lenten cookies

This time we offer you a recipe for an original lean cookie with kiwi, which you will definitely like. To prepare it you will need:

• 5 pieces of ripe kiwi
• Half a glass of sugar
• Green food color, if you want
• Two tablespoons of honey
• One teaspoon of baking powder
• Flour

As you can see, nothing special, but the result will surprise you. To do this, follow our instructions:

1. First, sort out kiwi. They need to be cleaned and turned into gruel. This can be done with a blender or a conventional fork.

2. To the resulting gruel add sugar and honey, best if it is liquid. Thoroughly mix everything.
3. Prepare a water bath and heat this sweet mixture until the sugar dissolves completely. Once this happens, add the baking powder and wait a little. She must whiten and rise a little. After that, take away from the water bath and cool.
4. If you want the dough to be a saturated green color, add some food coloring.
5. To knead the dough, pour in the flour. Appreciate its readiness. The dough should turn plastic.

6. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and prepare the pan, greasing it with vegetable oil and covering with parchment.
7. Roll out the dough. Cut out the molds that you like most and put in the middle a circle of fresh kiwi. Slightly bend the ends of each pechenyushki and send the pan to the oven for 10 minutes.

Ready cookies can be smeared with liquid honey and served to the table.

Carrot cake

A very tasty and beautiful pie is an excellent dish for a holiday, if it is for the time of fasting. It can be prepared very quickly and easily.

Ingredients:

• 150 g of flour
• Refined vegetable oil 8 tbsp. l.
• One glass of sugar
• One glass of any juice
• 100 g of nuts, best of all walnuts
• 150 g carrots
• Packing of baking powder
• Packing of vanilla sugar PICTURE 6

Now you can start cooking.

1. First you need to prepare the nuts. To do this, lightly fry them in the oven.
2. Mix the butter with the sugar and add the juice to this mixture. Stir thoroughly.

3. Rub the carrot using a fine grater. Excellent for this is also suitable grater for Korean carrots.

4. Nuts have already cooled down and now they must be chopped with a blender. Make sure the pieces are as small as possible. Add them to the mixture.

5. Mix in a separate bowl the flour with baking powder and vanilla sugar. Add to the mixture and mix well.

The dough is ready and you can start baking it. To do this, preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Pour the mixture into the mold and leave to bake for 40 minutes. It is advisable not to open the door for half an hour, and then see if the cake is ready, since all the ovens are different and you need to monitor the process.

Cool the cake and cut it into two halves. You can decorate it to your taste, for example, cook apple sauce and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Cooking lean pie with potatoes and mushrooms

This is a delicious pie that will be a pleasant surprise for your entire family. For its preparation you will need an hour of free time and very simple ingredients:

• Pound of potatoes
• Three tablespoons of flour
• A little vegetable oil
• Parsley
• Three hundred grams of fresh or frozen mushrooms
• Three onions

Let's start cooking:

1. First of all, it is necessary to unfrozen the mushrooms. If they are fresh, immediately cut them into pieces.
2. Wash potatoes well and cook in uniforms.
3. Cut the onions into cubes.

4. Now put the frying pan on the stove and warm it with vegetable oil. Put onions and mushrooms into it and fry them over medium heat. Add salt and pepper to taste.
5. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
6. With potatoes peel and mash in a mash. Do not forget to salt.

7. Add the flour and two tablespoons of vegetable oil to the potatoes. Mix everything thoroughly.
8. Take a baking dish, oil it with a little vegetable oil and sprinkle with flour.
9. Spread the potato dough, making low sides around.
10. Now spread the onion-mushroom filling, evenly spreading throughout the cake.

11. Put in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
12. Before serving, decorate finely chopped parsley.

Here are such delicious lean dishes you can cook and vary the diet of your family.

Bon Appetit!