To make fragrant and tasty carrot cookies, you will need several more available and ordinary ingredients: sugar, flour, vegetable oil and flakes. Such original cookies are especially important on the days of fasting, as well as simply fit on the menu for lovers of healthy pastries.
For a variety of taste, all kinds of additions can be added to the base dough, which will be described in detail in this recipe. If you want to emphasize the taste of carrots, then add a moderate amount of spices or spices, and if you want to slightly interrupt the taste of carrots and give a richer shade to an unpretentious liver, then you can add a significant amount of spices. And different at the same time.
- General \ asset cooking time: 30 minutes \ 20 minutes
- Servings Per Container: 4 Servings
- Caloric content (100g): 280 kcal
- Cost: average cost
How to make lean carrot cookies
- Carrots - 200 g 1.5 cups grated
- Flour - 1.5 tbsp. (200 ml)
- Cereal flakes - 1.5 tbsp. (200 ml)
- Vegetable oil - 0.3 tbsp. (200 ml)
- Sugar - to taste or demerara
- Ginger to taste
- Cinnamon - 0.5 tsp
- Baking dough - 1 tsp
Preparation:
For the carrot cookie shown, fresh ginger root and ground cinnamon will be used as spices. You can choose the amount of ginger to your taste, but on average, be guided by the amount of root about 1 sq. cm.
In addition to fresh ginger root, dry ground ginger can be used in the amount of a couple of pinches.
Harmoniously combined with carrot flavor vanilla or vanilla sugar (about 1 teaspoon), cinnamon (up to 1 teaspoon), cardamom (0.3-0.5 teaspoon), citrus zest (especially orange). All these add-ons can be added both individually and in the desired combination with each other.
Chop the carrots for the dough. To do this, either grate it finely by hand on a grater, or chop it in a blender bowl. You can also use carrot cake after the juicer, but if it is very dry, then first restore its juiciness by simply adding water.
Here are carrotschopped with blender knives along with slices of ginger root.
You can continue to cook the dough in a blender, just do not forget to change the sharp metal knives for plastic ones designed for kneading the dough.
Regardless of how the dough will be prepared (mechanically or manually), the order of adding ingredients is the same. Mix chopped carrots with refined vegetable oil and sugar or demerara. Carrots of different varieties have different sweetness, so select the amount of sugar to taste, and focus on 0.3-0.5 cups.
Then add baking powder, cinnamon (or other spices), oat flakes, or other cereals.
Stir the ingredients into an even paste and the carrot cookie dough is ready.
Cookies can be baked on a greased baking sheet or in a mold, on a silicone mat or on baking paper. Decide on what you will bake and spread the dough into a thin layer immediately on this surface. Make the thickness of the layer about 1 cm.
Bake the carrot mass in the oven at 180-200 degrees until browning (about 20 minutes). Then simply cut into rectangles or triangles and the carrot cookie is done.