Fasting is a great time for new culinary discoveries! Even the most fastidious sweet tooth will not deny that desserts prepared without milk, eggs or butter can be delicious. But, that's only if they tried the lean honey gingerbread! Have you tried it? If not, then do not waste time and cook it according to our recipe.

The good thing about this homemade baking is that you can change the composition of the ingredients according to your taste preferences. For example, add vanillin, aromatic spices or dried fruits, only the base remains unchanged. In any case, the gingerbread will turn out to be very appetizing, and your guests will puzzle for a long time over what products it is made from, you can be sure!

Lenten honey gingerbread - recipe with raisins and nuts

cooking gingerbread lean honey recipe

Ingredients:

For the test:

• 1 glass of water
• 1 cup granulated sugar (not full),
• 2 tbsp. spoons of honey
• 0.5 tbsp. refined sunflower oil,
• 1.5-2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda,
• 1 tbsp. spoon of cocoa powder.

For filling:

• 0.5 cups raisins
• 0.5 cups of walnuts.

Cooking process:

We start by making the dough. Pour water into a saucepan or other container, add sugar, honey and heat over low heat, stirring constantly until all the ingredients are completely dissolved.

Then pour in the oil, mix thoroughly and leave the mass to cool. While the dough base cools down, rinse and fill hot water raisins and chop with a knife walnuts.

We turn on the oven and set the temperature regime. In our case, this is 180 degrees.

Add soda, cocoa to the base cooled to 30-40 degrees and mix thoroughly. For this I used a whisk and mixed flour with it, adding it gradually. Knead the dough until liquid sour cream.

The raisins have swollen during this time, so we drain the water in which it was soaked, and put the raisins in the dough. Add chopped walnuts there. Mix all the ingredients again.

To make the honey gingerbread high and lush, it is better to bake it in a special mold, and not on a baking sheet. But, if there is no form, you can use a deep frying pan. Lubricate it with vegetable oil, pour out ready dough and send it to the oven for 40 minutes.

In an electric oven, you can first set the bottom heating and let the baking stand for 30 minutes, then connect the top one and leave for another 10 minutes.

We check the readiness of the cake with a wooden toothpick. Sprinkle the hot gingerbread icing sugar and serve.

Enjoy your tea!

A simple recipe for making lean honey gingerbread with raisins in the oven. During the fast, you always want something sweet for tea, for example, tasty and fragrant pastries... What to bake without breaking the fast? Bake a monastery gingerbread. There are a huge number of options for its preparation: gingerbreads are prepared with the addition of chocolate, cocoa, fruit and berry compote or fruit drink, various candied fruits, nuts, raisins, etc. For a richer aroma, you can add ground cinnamon, custard coffee, or vanilla to baked goods. But if you like the aroma of honey (it fills the kitchen with its aroma during baking), then, of course, you do not need to add extraneous spices.

The dough is kneaded moderately thick, like for pancakes, baked in any suitable form... According to this recipe, the gingerbread is quite sweet, but if you are not a fan sweet pastries- reduce the amount of sugar.

Required Ingredients:

1 glass of warm water (compote, fruit drink);

1/2 cup vegetable oil;

1 cup brown sugar (plain)

2 tbsp. spoons of honey (any);

1 teaspoon of baking soda (with a slide);

2 cups full of flour;

A handful of raisins (optional).

How to cook:

Preheat the oven to 170 degrees. Prepare a baking dish and line it with parchment.

To prepare a gingerbread, you can take any water, rather a liquid - compote, juice, fruit drink or brewed coffee. This will only make the taste of the gingerbread more interesting and aromatic. The main thing is that this water is warm and honey and sugar can be dissolved in it.

For my gingerbread, I took brown sugar, but this is not at all necessary, it's just that this sugar is less sweet. Once again, I want to remind you that this gingerbread is quite sweet, keep this in mind when adding sugar.

Pour vegetable oil into a cup with honey - sugar mixture, add baking soda and flour. Knead the dough like a thick pancake. If desired, you can add a handful of raisins (nuts, chocolate pieces, candied fruits) to this dough.

Mix the finished dough and pour into the prepared form.

Place the pan in a preheated oven and bake for about 30 to 35 minutes, until dry with a toothpick. During baking, the honey gingerbread will change color and become saturated Brown color... Don't be alarmed if the top of the gingerbread is slightly cracked, this is normal, as the baked goods are a bit like a cupcake. But a real cupcake always cracks during baking.

Cool the lean honey gingerbread, cut into portions and serve with your favorite drink.

A honey gingerbread according to this recipe turns out to be high and lush, this is not even a gingerbread, but a whole honey biscuit! The honey taste is perfectly complemented by the sourness of apples.

And the recipe turned out to be prefabricated - some moments were taken from the Soviet book “ Baby food»1950s, according to which my mother prepared a gingerbread (one of my favorite recipes!), And I took some of the nuances on the website Cooking at Home, the link is below. I added something on my own ... the result made me very happy!

And the sweet tooth will appreciate the fact that the gingerbread is lean, without eggs and butter, so you can bake it during fasting.

So that you can eat this wonderful gingerbread as much as you like, without fearing for your figure, you can try to wash down the honey gingerbread with tea with "honey grass", as the sweetest plant in the world is called - the stevia sweetener. There is evidence that this herb is successfully used to normalize weight in teas and even mineral water.

Ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons of honey;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• 1 glass of water;
• 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• 2 cups of flour;
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda;
• 0.5 tablespoon vinegar;
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 apples;
• powdered sugar.

How to make a honey gingerbread:

Sift flour into a bowl by adding baking powder to it.

Combine sugar, honey and water in a ladle and melt on a small fire until honey and saccharin are dissolved.

Now we need to add soda to the honey-sugar syrup and extinguish it at the same time. I extinguished the soda just in a spoon and poured it into a ladle.

The mixture will immediately begin to foam and run away!

However, we will not allow her to do this, but remove the ladle from the heat and pour the foam into the flour.

Stir lightly, add vegetable oil and cinnamon and knead the dough. It turns out to be lush and, how to say, a little reluctant to pour.

Lubricate the form with vegetable oil, spread the dough and level with a spoon.

You can decorate the rug with a fan of apples, I saw this method for cooking at home, and I really liked it.

We clean the apple (I have Simirenko), divide it into quarters and cut each into thin slices. We spread the slices in a fan in the form of a pattern in the middle and along the edges of the gingerbread, slightly sinking into the dough with one edge.

We bake in a not very hot oven, about 180-200C for 50-55 minutes (we try with a wooden stick).

The finished honey gingerbread is lush and ruddy! Easy to get out of shape!

We spread the gingerbread on a dish, and when it cools a little, sprinkle it with powdered sugar through a strainer.

Enjoy your tea!

If you suddenly wanted some sweet tasty homemade baked goods, but you, for example, strictly observe the fast and do not eat a modest one, there is a way out. You can make a lean gingerbread, the recipes for which, the most popular, are given below. The main requirement for its preparation is the exact observance of proportions. following products: butter, flour and sugar. The rest of the ingredients can be added to your liking.

Gingerbread: what is it?

This is one of the most popular Russian dishes. Preparing a gingerbread from gingerbread dough with a high content of honey, jam, spices and sugar syrup... The product can be small in size, and sometimes it is baked up to 1.5 meters in length and up to 1 meter in width, 6 centimeters high. It takes its name from the old word "kovriga", which means whole bread. Thanks to the honey in the gingerbreads, the product does not stale for a long time. Such baked goods are often called lean, they are allowed to be eaten during the fast.

According to history, honey cakes appeared in Russia in the 9th century, and by the 13th-15th centuries (from various sources) they began to be called gingerbread.

Lenten monastic rug: recipe

To cook delicious pastries according to this recipe, we take the following components:

• a glass of sugar;
• ½ cup vegetable oil;
• a glass of strong tea or juice;
• half a glass walnuts and dried fruits;
• two glasses of flour;
• 3.5 g of soda;
• a tablespoon of lemon juice (vinegar);
• vanillin;
• cinnamon;
• salt.

Prepare the dough according to the recipe for lean gingerbread as follows: combine Apple juice, sugar and butter, vanillin and cinnamon, dried fruits and nuts, apple juice, soda quenched with vinegar or lemon juice, salt. Mix well, add flour to the mass and knead the dough. We put it in an oiled dish and bake for one hour. The baked gingerbread, if desired, can be divided into two equal cakes and layered with any jam. According to reviews, when using sugar in the amount of one glass, baked goods are too sweet, and consumers are advised to add 0.25 cups when baking.

Lean rug: photo, recipe

In this recipe, juice or water can be replaced with strong unsweetened coffee, and add a little clove to the listed spices (on the tip of a knife). For the test you will need:

• 200 g sugar;
• 0.5 tbsp. vegetable oils;
• 250 ml of water (juice);
• 1.5 tbsp. flour;
• 0.5 st. mixtures of dried fruits: raisins, figs, dried apricots;
• 2 tbsp. l. cocoa;
• 60 g of honey;
• 0.5 tbsp. nuts;
• ½ tsp coriander;
• 1 tsp. baking powder and cinnamon.

According to this recipe, a lean gingerbread is prepared as follows: combine sugar, butter, juice, honey and heat it on the stove to 60 degrees, stirring. In another bowl, mix flour (sifted) with cocoa, baking powder, coriander and cinnamon. We combine both mixtures, whipping, add chopped nuts and dried fruits to the dough. For baking we use silicone mold... The product is baked for about 35 minutes with an oven mode of 200 degrees. When the gingerbread is ready, you can grease it with any berry jam or make berry jelly. Boil the berries with sugar, then add pectin (agar-agar), cool and decorate the gingerbread.

Honey monastery gingerbread

It would be appropriate to serve such a gingerbread on the table on the day of the celebration of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, which is celebrated on the first Sunday of Great Lent. Consider the recipe for lean honey monastic gingerbread and the method of its preparation. For five servings, you will need the following foods:

• sugar - 2 tbsp.;
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp.;
• flour - 4 tbsp.;
• 2/3 pack of cocoa;
• 4 tbsp. l. honey;
• soda - 7 g;
• nuts and raisins 50 g each

Add cocoa powder to the sugar, mix and pour two glasses of water into the mixture, stir until smooth. Add honey and butter to this mass. Add flour in parts, add chopped nuts and steamed raisins. Put the dough in an oiled dish and bake for 45 minutes, setting the temperature in the oven to 150 degrees. As a decoration, you can use nuts, coat the sides of the gingerbread with jam or jam and sprinkle with nuts. In order for the baked goods to turn out according to the recipe, you should adhere to the cooking technology. In the old days, the gingerbread dish was greased with wax instead of oil, which gave it a special aroma.

Monastery honey carpet on tea

The product baked according to this recipe looks more like soft gingerbread or even on fluffy pie... Gingerbread dough is made on the basis of tea, honey or molasses, vegetable oil and walnuts. Ginger, cinnamon and vanillin add a special flavor to the baked goods.

Cooking rules

Honey gingerbread is made from gingerbread dough, the structure of the finished cake is fluffy and light, similar to biscuit baked goods... V classic recipe lean honey gingerbread does not include meaty foods such as milk (kefir), eggs, butter... The main difference between honey gingerbread and sweet pies is that they introduce into the dough a large number of spices - ginger, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom. Due to the high content of honey in the gingerbread, it remains soft and fresh for a long time.

Do lean pastries more varied by including in the dough chopped dried fruits, nuts, dried berries, for example, currants, cherries, grapes, blueberries or fresh apples... Monastic gingerbread can be divided into two identical cakes and layered with jam or sweet-sour jam.

Let's take the following products for baking lean gingerbread according to the recipe:

• one glass of freshly brewed tea;
• two glasses of premium flour;
• 100 ml of vegetable oil (without smell);
• 0.5 cups walnuts (shelled);
• dried fruits to taste;
• two tbsp. tablespoons of lemon juice;
• three tbsp. spoons of honey (liquid);
• 0.5 cups of sugar;
• cinnamon, ginger;
• a bag of vanillin;
• 6 g of soda;
• salt.

Rinse nuts and berries or dried fruits well and grind in a blender. Add honey, sugar, butter, vanillin, salt, nuts, dried fruits and cinnamon to warm tea. Beat the whole mixture with a whisk. Redeemed lemon juice We add baking soda to the mass and add the sifted flour in small portions, mix. Preparing the form in the usual way and put the dough into it, gently level it with a spatula. In the oven, heated to 190 degrees, we put our lean gingerbread and bake for about fifty minutes until a beautiful golden color. Decorate cooled baked goods with powdered sugar.

I would like to note that lean honey gingerbreads are in no way inferior in taste to rich products.