Fasting is a wonderful time for new culinary discoveries! Even the most fastidious sweet tooth will not deny that desserts prepared without milk, eggs and butter can be very tasty. But, that's only if they tried lean honey gingerbread! Have you tried? If not, then do not waste time and cook it according to our recipe.
This homemade baking The good thing is that the composition of the ingredients can be changed according to your taste preferences. For example, add vanillin, fragrant spices or dried fruits, only the base remains unchanged. In any case, the gingerbread turns out to be very appetizing, and your guests will puzzle over what products it is made of for a long time, rest assured!
Lenten honey cake - recipe with raisins and nuts
cooking gingerbread lean honey recipe
Ingredients:
For test:
- 1 glass of water
- 1 cup granulated sugar (not full)
- 2 tbsp. spoons of honey
- 0.5 st. refined sunflower oil,
- 1.5-2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon of soda
- 1 st. a spoonful of cocoa powder.
For filling:
- 0.5 cup raisins
- 0.5 cups of walnut.
Cooking process:
We start by preparing 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 is cooling, rinse and pour hot water raisins and chopped with a knife walnuts.
Turn on the oven and set the temperature. In our case it is 180 degrees.
In the base cooled to 30-40 degrees, add soda, cocoa and mix thoroughly. I used a whisk for this and mixed the flour with it, adding it gradually. Knead the dough to the state of liquid sour cream.
The raisins have swollen during this time, so we drain the water in which they were soaked and put the raisins in the dough. Also add chopped walnuts. Once again, mix all the ingredients.
To make the honey gingerbread tall 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 ready dough and send it to the oven for 40 minutes.
V electric oven you can first set the bottom heating and bake for 30 minutes, then connect the top and leave for another 10 minutes.
We check the readiness of the pie with a wooden toothpick. Sprinkle hot gingerbread with powdered sugar and serve.
Happy tea!
Over the centuries, people who strictly adhere to religious rules and traditions have come up with many hearty and delicious meals which helped them to fully eat during long fasts.
Lenten honey gingerbread is one of the many old Russian dishes that is allowed for use in Lent, when the table is rather monotonous and meager. This is a real delicacy that allows working people, without violating the strict rules for eating products in fasting, to maintain and quickly restore their strength.
Many recipes for lean honey gingerbread are known. We offer only some of them, which will not cause difficulties even for novice cooks.
The main difference between lean gingerbread and regular gingerbread is that it is prepared without the use of animal fats, milk and eggs.
To get a delicious lean gingerbread, you will need the following products:
- warm water - 250 ml
- sugar - 1 cup
- honey (preferably not candied, fresh) - 2 tbsp. l.
- ground coffee or cocoa - 2 tbsp. l.
- walnuts and large raisins (pitted) - each ½ cup
- soda -1 tsp (or baking powder)
- flour - 1 cup
- vegetable oil (refined) - ½ cup
- a pinch of ground cinnamon (if desired).
We add cinnamon and cocoa to the dough to give the baking aroma and color, and nuts, raisins and dried fruits to enrich the taste.
The recipe for lean gingerbread with honey involves several preparatory steps:
- Preparing the liquid base. Dissolve sugar and honey in boiled warm water. Add oil and mix.
- We process the rest of the ingredients. In another bowl, mix coffee (or cocoa) with spices, flour and soda (baking powder). You also need to add nuts and washed raisins there.
- We knead the dough. To make the lean honey cake tender and soft, you need to knead the dough correctly. To do this, we need a deep bowl, into which we first pour the previously prepared liquid base, and then add a mixture of bulk products. After thorough mixing, you should get a homogeneous mass (without lumps), thick, like sour cream.
Important: when kneading the dough, do not overdo it with flour. If you use it more than necessary, the dough will be more knocked down, dense and not loose enough.
- We bake. To bake a lean gingerbread, you will need an oven and any form that is suitable in size, on the bottom of which you need to put a piece of parchment paper or grease it with oil and sprinkle with flour. The oven must be preheated. We bake the cake for 45-60 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees, checking its readiness with any wooden stick (if the cake is ready, it should be dry).
Important: the baking time in the recipes is recommended. In practice, it depends on the characteristics of your oven.
- We serve dessert to the table. Before offering a lean gingerbread with honey to guests or your household, you need to cool it, decorate it with powdered sugar, and cut it into equal pieces.
Read also: Recipes for making tea honey gingerbread
Lenten gingerbread with cinnamon and apples
The recipe for gingerbread, which we will consider below, suggests that the result of our efforts should be a delicious dessert that everyone can afford both during Orthodox Lent and on any ordinary day. And it is the lean gingerbread with fruit that can become the most beloved family treat.
We will need the following products:
- flour - 2 cups
- sunflower oil - ½ cup
- cinnamon - 10-15 g
- salt - 1 tsp
- water - 1 glass
- honey -2 tbsp. l.
- sugar - ½ cup
- baking powder - 1 tsp
- stuffing apples.
Cooking:
Let's start by preparing the foundation for lean test. Pour water into a bowl, add honey, baking powder, a pinch of salt, sugar and dissolve the products in a water bath. Add oil.
Mix flour with cinnamon and pour in a thin stream into a container with liquid base. Add nuts at the same time.
Shake up the content. If you do this with a mixer, then the gingerbread will turn out more magnificent.
Cut the cooked apples into thin slices and place them in the dough. Bake until done.
Everything! A delicious gingerbread with an indescribable aroma of apples and cinnamon is ready.
If during fasting you want to bake something sweet for tea, use a simple recipe for a delicious lean gingerbread. You can bake a gingerbread with honey, with the addition of cocoa, fruit or jam.
Lenten gingerbread with jam
The lean gingerbread recipe uses any jam, as well as strong black tea and vinegar.
Ingredients:
- 100 ml. ready tea;
- oil grows. - 60 ml;
- sugar - 100 g;
- a teaspoon of vinegar 9%;
- one and a half stack. flour;
- soda - 0.5 tsp
Cooking:
- Brew strong tea and leave to cool.
- Mix flour with sugar, add slaked soda, jam and pour in warm tea.
- Bake a lean gingerbread with jam for 40 minutes. The gingerbread is ready when it becomes ruddy. Do not open the oven for the first 20 minutes so that the dough does not fall.
Lubricate the finished gingerbread with jam and decorate with powder.
Lenten honey cake with apples
In a lean gingerbread with apples except walnuts you can add cinnamon.
Required Ingredients:
- a glass of sugar;
- two apples;
- honey - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- glass of water;
- half stack. vegetable oils;
- half stack. nuts;
- two stack. flour;
- lemon juice - one tsp;
- half tsp loosened;
- soda - one tsp
Cooking steps:
- Pour sugar with water and add butter. Place the bowl with the mixture in a water bath.
- Add honey and stir until sugar dissolves with honey.
- Quench the soda with lemon juice and add to the mixture. Stir. Wait for foam to appear.
- Remove the mixture from the bath and add chopped nuts to crumbs.
- Pour the baking powder with flour.
- Wash the apples and cut into thin slices.
- Pour the dough into the mold, put the apples.
- Bake a lean honey cake in the oven at 180 gr. approximately 35 minutes.
You can replace nuts with almonds. Before adding to the dough, pour boiling water over the almonds for a couple of minutes, remove the skin and grind into flour.
You can add cocoa with honey and raisins to the recipe for a lean chocolate cake. Spices and nuts will make baking even tastier.
Ingredients:
- glass of water;
- honey - two tablespoons;
- sugar - a glass;
- cocoa - two tbsp. l.;
- loosened - 1 tbsp;
- half a tablespoon vegetable oils;
- two stack. flour;
- a handful of raisins.
Cooking step by step:
- Dilute sugar in warm water, pour in oil and honey. Stir.
- Mix dry ingredients and combine with honey liquid.
- Mix the dough well so that there are no lumps. Add washed raisins.
- Bake in a greased form at 180 gr. 50 minutes.
Lenten gingerbread with cocoa can be baked in the oven or in a slow cooker in the “Baking” mode.
Ingredients:
- honey - 100 g;
- 400 g flour;
- cocoa - 2 tablespoons;
- 100 ml. tea;
- soda - floor. tsp
Cooking:
- Brew strong tea and cool. Beat with a blender until foamy.
- Add tea and honey with cocoa, add flour, beating with a blender.
- Add slaked soda to the dough, mix. The dough will come out with bubbles.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment, pour and flatten the dough.
- Bake the gingerbread for 50 minutes in the oven at 190 gr.
The cake is very tasty and sweet.
Any housewife, on the eve and during fasting, is faced with an urgent question: how to organize family meals in such a way as to observe fasting, but at the same time not starve your beloved household members? In fasting, we refuse many dishes that are not only tasty and nutritious, but also familiar and easy to prepare. For those who start fasting for the first time, it may seem something completely impossible. However, it is worth entering the phrase “lenten dishes” into the search box, and a huge number of answers will surprise even the most experienced hostess! After all, it turns out that during fasting you can eat not only sauerkraut ...
For many people, baking is a good help during the lenten period. It is very cool and convenient to refresh your strength during a working break with gingerbread or crackers, washed down with hot tea. However, almost all baked goods sold in stores contain fast foods (eggs, milk). Many priests or just believers will say that everything needs to be approached with reason, and, of course, studying the composition of each cracker before deciding to eat it is completely inconsistent with the spirit of fasting ... Yes, it is. But if someone has a desire to fast from a purely formal side, then there are a huge number of recipes lean baking, which will not only be tastier, but also much more useful than store-bought dryers and pies. One of these traditional Lenten products is the famous and beloved gingerbread.
The etymology of the word "carpet" is not known for certain. However, in ancient Russian written sources, the word “kovrig” / “kovriga” (often in combination with “carpet of bread”) is found as early as the 14th century and denotes a round bread product or a piece of such a product. In addition, since ancient times, the word "carpet" (or "carpet") has also been known, which is not a diminutive form of "carpet", but denotes a special type of baking made from gingerbread dough also round. (By the way, the word "gingerbread" was formed from "spices", as various spices began to be added to the dough at a certain moment).
Traditionally, the size of the gingerbread could be different - from a small loaf to a product 1 m long and wide. The weight of such a "carpet" could exceed 16 kg (or a pood, according to the old Russian system of measures).
Despite the fact that the word “kovriga” appeared in the sources around the 14th century, the history of the delicacy itself is even more ancient and dates back to the 9th century. True, then the gingerbread was called a honey cake, as it was prepared from honey, flour and berry juice. Today, the main ingredients are flour, honey (or sugar syrup), raisins and nuts. Moreover, traditional recipe gingerbread can be diversified by adding various candied fruits and dried fruits. Sometimes a gingerbread is made from two layers of dough, connecting them with a layer of jam.
To the attention of all housewives - a few simple recipes lean, but very tasty, nutritious and healthy gingerbread.
1. A glass of sugar (200 g), 250 ml of warm water (or juice), 2 tablespoons of honey and half a glass of vegetable oil, mix in a large bowl. Sugar and honey should be completely dissolved.
2. In the second container, mix flour with baking powder (1 tsp) and two tablespoons of cocoa.
3. We connect the contents of the two containers. Beat with a mixer or whisk. Add pre-washed raisins (half a cup) and chopped nuts (half a cup).
4. Put the resulting mass into a mold (it is very convenient to use silicone molds). Preheat the oven to 180‒200°C and put a gingerbread in it. Bake for 35-40 minutes.
5. When the gingerbread is ready (which will be indicated by a pleasant aroma that spreads throughout the house), it can be smeared with jam or garnished with dried fruits and nuts. Ready!
1. Pour a glass of sugar into a large bowl, pour in a glass of warm water, half a glass of vegetable oil and add 2 tbsp. l. honey. Stir until honey and sugar are completely dissolved.
2. In a separate container, mix 1.5 cups of flour, 2 tbsp. l. cocoa, 1 tsp baking powder, spices (cinnamon, cardamom or a pinch of ground cloves).
3. Combine the contents of the two containers and mix thoroughly. The consistency of the dough should resemble thick sour cream.
4. In the resulting mixture, add half a cup of thoroughly washed raisins and half a cup of crushed nuts.
5. Pour the batter into the mold and bake at 180-200°C for 35-40 minutes. The treat is ready! Sprinkle it with powdered sugar with vanilla or grease with any jam.
1. Mix a glass of sugar, a glass of warm water and half a glass of vegetable oil in a large bowl. Add 2 tbsp. l. honey and stir until honey and sugar are completely dissolved in water.
2. In the second bowl, mix 1.5 cups of flour, 2 tbsp. l. cocoa, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp. cinnamon.
3. Combine the contents of the two containers and mix thoroughly until the consistency thick sour cream. There should be no lumps in the dough - use a blender or whisk.
4. Add half a glass of candied fruits to the resulting mixture. Mix so that the pieces of candied fruit are evenly distributed throughout the dough.
5. Put the mass into a mold and bake at a temperature of 180-200 ° C for 35-40 minutes. Carpet with candied fruits is ready! For the finishing touch, sprinkle with vanilla icing sugar or chopped nuts.
1. Pour a glass of warm water (about 60°C) into a large bowl. Dissolve 1 tbsp. l. coffee, 3/4 cup sugar and 2 tbsp. l. honey. Top up with 80 ml sunflower oil. Stir.
2. Remove the zest from one orange, chop it and add to the total mixture.
3. In a separate container, mix one and a half cups of flour (350 g) with 1 tsp. baking powder.
4. Combine the contents of two containers, add 50 g of chopped nuts and mix thoroughly (there should be no lumps in the dough).
5. Lubricate the form with vegetable oil and sprinkle with flour. Can be used silicone mold. Pour the dough into the mold and spread over the entire volume.
6. Place the mold in the preheated oven and bake at 160-170°C for about 50-60 minutes.
7. The finished delicacy can be smeared with orange (or other) jam, sprinkled with vanilla powder or garnished with mint leaves.
Any of the above recipes can be diversified by adding various spices to your taste in the dough: cardamom, ground cloves, ground cinnamon. The golden rule in handling spices is not to overdo it. Remember that different spices have different intensities! For example, cinnamon can be handled quite boldly and even a whole heaping teaspoon can be added to the dough. But in the case of cloves, you should be careful - a small pinch is enough.
For gingerbread, you can take any nuts (walnuts, almonds, cashews, peanuts, pine nuts) and seeds (pumpkin, sunflower).
If there is candied jam in the house, feel free to use it to make gingerbread.
And the most important ingredient, without which you can not start cooking meatless dishes, is love and care for your family and friends. Let fasting be a good reason to use this precious seasoning generously!
Lenten gingerbread, the recipe of which we will consider next, is a delicious and delicate dessert, for the preparation of which does not require much effort and time. Such a delicacy can be safely made even during the Great Orthodox Lent. After all, it does not contain such prohibited products as eggs, milk, and so on.
Step by step honey lean
Making this dessert is a pleasure. Because it doesn't take much various ingredients and time.
What products are needed to make a very tasty lean gingerbread? The recipe for this delicacy involves the use of the following ingredients:
- wheat flour (preferably sifted several times) - 1 cup;
- unflavored vegetable oil - ½ cup;
- large seedless raisins - ½ cup;
- peeled walnuts - ½ cup;
- white sugar - a full glass;
- boiled warm water - a full glass;
- fresh honey (preferably liquid, not candied) - 2 large spoons;
- cocoa (use as desired) - 2 large spoons;
- ground cinnamon - a pinch (use as desired).
Base preparation
The presented recipe for honey lean gingerbread is especially liked by those who like to feast on tender and delicious desserts that literally melt in your mouth.
To make such a delicacy at home, you need to knead the base. To do this, you need to put fresh honey and granulated sugar in warm boiled water. Having achieved the dissolution of both ingredients, they should be poured into vegetable oil fragrance free and mix well.
Processing the rest of the components
Lenten rug, recipe which involves the use of fresh honey, is prepared in stages. After the liquid part of the base is ready, it is necessary to proceed with the processing of the remaining ingredients. To do this, mix ground cinnamon, cocoa, light flour and baking powder in a separate bowl. Next, you need to add chopped and roasted walnuts to them, as well as thoroughly washed seedless raisins.
Dough kneading
How to knead the dough correctly so that you get a soft and tender lean gingerbread? The recipe for this dessert requires the use of deep containers. Put the entire liquid part of the base into it, and then pour in the loose part. Next, all products must be thoroughly mixed. As a result, you should get a homogeneous mass, the consistency of which resembles thick sour cream.
Baking process in the oven
How is lenten gingerbread baked? The recipe for this dessert requires the use of oven. You need to take any baking dish and line its bottom with parchment paper. Next, you need to pour all the cooked dough into the dishes. A dessert placed in a preheated oven should be baked at a temperature of 200 degrees for 45 minutes. Check readiness homemade treats You can use a wooden toothpick.
Serve dessert to the table
Before serving a lean gingerbread with honey to a festive or ordinary family table, it should be completely cooled at room temperature. Next, the dessert must be sprinkled with powdered sugar and cut into pieces. It is recommended to serve it to invited guests along with strong and sweet tea.
Lenten Gingerbread: Recipe with Jam and Tea
To prepare a tender and tasty lean gingerbread, you can use absolutely any product. Above, we talked about how to make such a dessert with honey and dried fruits. However, in this section I would like to present you a recipe, thanks to which you can prepare a gingerbread with jam and tea.
So, we need:
- wheat flour (preferably sifted several times) - 2 cups;
- strongly brewed black tea - 2 full glasses;
- white sugar - a full glass;
- baking powder - a small spoon;
- semolina - 4 large spoons;
- thick apple jam - 2/3 cup;
- unflavored sunflower oil - 2 small spoons.
We make the basis
The presented recipe for lean gingerbread on tea is good to use when you really want to enjoy dessert, and there is no standard set of products in the refrigerator. In this case, we recommend doing tasty pie, which involves the use of a small amount of lean ingredients.
First you need to brew strong black tea, and then dissolve white sugar in one glass. Next, you need to add apple to the products thick jam, semolina, wheat flour and baking powder. After you mix all the ingredients, you should get a mass of thick sour cream consistency. Moreover, pieces of apples from jam should be visible in it.
Cooking in a multicooker
How is lenten gingerbread prepared? The recipe in the slow cooker is especially popular among modern housewives. After all, with the help of this device, you can easily and quickly make a soft and tender dessert that will appeal to all your household members.
So, after the base is properly mixed, it must be put into the container of the device. In this case, the bowl should be lubricated with vegetable fat. Otherwise, the gingerbread will quickly stick to the dishes.
After completing the described steps, you need to close the multicooker and immediately install the baking program. Cooking gingerbread should take about 55 minutes. During this time, it should increase in volume, become lush and soft.
Proper serving to the table
Determining readiness is pretty easy. To do this, you need to stick a clean and dry toothpick into it, and then check it. If pieces of dough do not stick to it, then the dessert can be safely removed from the device. Otherwise heat treatment should continue for some time.
After the gingerbread is completely cooked, it must be removed from the bowl and placed on a board or cake stand. When it has completely cooled, sprinkle it with powdered sugar and cut into pieces. It is recommended to present such a dessert to the table along with a cup of black coffee or tea.
Summing up
As you can see, it is quite easy and simple to make a gingerbread without the use of eggs, milk and other ingredients. Moreover, such a lean dessert turns out much more useful than that, which is prepared using the mentioned ingredients. It can be used even in Great Orthodox Lent.
It should also be noted that the gingerbread can be made using other products. Someone adds dried apricots or prunes to the base, someone uses various nuts, and someone even puts fresh fruits and berries in the dough.
But no matter what ingredients you use, the dessert will in any case turn out to be very tasty, tender and soft.
