My husband and I always try to keep fasting. To diversify the menu and not repeat myself, I always try to cook various dishes from first courses to baked goods. Today I will talk about how to cook lean honey gingerbread with beautiful name- "Monastic". It was this recipe that my friend shared with me, however, she does not observe the fast, it just so happened that the recipe can be safely attributed to.
Most of all, I liked the fact that you don’t need to run to the store for some ingredients, since every housewife will definitely find them in the kitchen. The second point that makes me very happy is that such a gingerbread is very tasty and there is no need to be sad that there is nothing baked for a hot drink, whether it be tea or compote. In the store, you can hardly find any lean pastries Therefore, to some extent, this recipe is also unique. Yes, and it can be attributed to a sort of lifesaver.
Ingredients:
- water - 250 ml;
- sugar - 200 gr;
- baking powder - 1 tsp;
- flour - 1.5 cups;
- honey - 2 tablespoons;
- vegetable oil - 0.5 tbsp.;
- cocoa - 2 tablespoons
Recipe with photo step by step:
Pour water into a bowl, add sugar, honey. Heat the mass by stirring it. Then cool. 
Pour in vegetable oil. 
Then add baking powder. Some recommend combining it first with flour, and then introducing it into a liquid base. I never do that, and I don't have any problems.
The only thing is that I mix the dough very well so that all the components in it are evenly distributed. 
Add flour and cocoa. Mix everything well and pour the chocolate base into a rectangular silicone mold or any other shape. 
Send the "Gingerbread" to a preheated oven (190 degrees) for 30-35 minutes. 
You can also make delicious
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 observe a fast from a purely formal side, then there are a huge number of recipes for 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 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 cannot start cooking lean dishes, is love and care for your family and friends. Let fasting be a good reason to use this precious seasoning generously!
Shall we bake a rug? Spicy, fragrant, lean honey gingerbread is a traditional Russian gingerbread treat. Let's bake from flour, adding honey, sugar, nuts and raisins, as well as a dozen more delicious ingredients.
A well-known feature of honey gingerbread is that due to the combination of honey and icing sugar the product remains soft for a long time. Modern gingerbreads are in the form of bread, or cakes, or two cakes, smeared with jam. Be sure to add to the dough delicious stuffing from dried fruits, nuts and spices. In a sense, the honey lean gingerbread is our version of English gingerbread and muffins stuffed with the same fragrant goodies.
Honey gingerbread is considered a lean pastry, the recipe does not contain anything squishy. However, strictly speaking, fasting is abstaining. e , and the gingerbread is a delicacy and gourmet, so before it was allowed only in special fast days, on holidays.
Cooking time: 45 minutes / Serves: 8 pieces / Measuring cup 220 ml
Ingredients
- wheat flour 2 half cups
- sugar 0.5 cup
- honey 2 tbsp. l.
- nuts any 0.5 cup
- raisins 1 handful
- dried cranberries 1 handful
- soda 0.5 tsp
- vegetable oil 3-4 tbsp. l.
- juice multivitamin 1 cup
- ground cinnamon 1 tsp
- pinch ground coriander
- vanilla sugar 1 tsp
- cocoa 2 tbsp. l.
Cooking
Combine fruit juice, sugar, vanilla sugar, honey and vegetable oil in a saucepan. Lightly heat the mixture, stirring with a silicone spatula or whisk, until the sugar is completely dissolved and the mixture becomes "whole".
Sift flour into a deep bowl, add cocoa, soda, coriander and cinnamon. Soda is needed in order for the gingerbread to rise, to turn out more magnificent. No need to extinguish it at this stage: when you combine the dry and liquid parts, the sour fruit juice will extinguish it right in the dough. Coriander and cinnamon are one of options spices, it seems to me, very successful. Alternative: vanilla, ginger, dry mint, cloves, cardamom, orange peel etc.
Mix all dry ingredients with a whisk. Do this carefully so that you get a uniform, homogeneous mixture, this is especially important for soda.
Lightly dry the nuts in a pan, cool.
Grind lightly, crush the nuts with a pestle or rolling pin.
Raisins and cranberries zalete hot water, let stand for 10 minutes. (It is better to do this in advance). Rinse under cold water, dry with a paper towel or fold for a while in a colander. Dried fruits will thus “reveal” their taste and aroma, and since you dry them, they will be evenly distributed inside the dough.
Mix dry and liquid ingredients. Mix everything thoroughly with a whisk so that there are no lumps.
Pour the nuts into the mixture.
Then add raisins and cranberries.
Mix everything well again.
Line the bottom of a baking dish with parchment paper.
Pour the dough into the mold. If you want a low gingerbread, divide the dough into two parts or bake it in a large diameter form.
Cook the gingerbread in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30-35 minutes without convection. Readiness should be checked with a wooden skewer, it should be dry.
Carefully remove the finished gingerbread from the mold and cool on a wire rack.
Sprinkle the lean honey cake with powdered sugar, raisins, or nuts before serving.
If you suddenly want some sweet delicious home baking, and you, for example, strictly observe fasting and do not eat fast food, there is a way out. You can cook a lean gingerbread, the recipes of which, the most popular, are given below. The main requirement in its preparation is the exact observance of proportions. following products: butter, flour and sugar. Other components can be added to your liking.
Carpet: what is it?
This is one of the most popular dishes of Russian cuisine. Gingerbread dough is being prepared 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 long and up to 1 meter wide, 6 centimeters high. It takes its name from the ancient word "kovriga", which means whole bread. Thanks to honey, which is part of the gingerbread, the product does not get stale for a long time. Such pastries are often called lean, they are allowed to eat in fasting.
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 monastery gingerbread: recipe
In order to cook delicious pastries For this recipe, 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.
We prepare the dough according to the recipe for lean gingerbread as follows: we 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 spread it in an oiled form 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, baking turns out to be too sweet, and consumers are advised to add it when baking 0.25 cups.
Lenten gingerbread: photo, recipe
In this recipe, juice or water can be replaced with strong unsweetened coffee, and a little cloves (on the tip of a knife) can be added to the listed spices. For the test you will need:
- 200 g of sugar;
- 0.5 st. vegetable oils;
- 250 ml of water (juice);
- 1.5 st. flour;
- 0.5 st. mixtures of dried fruits: raisins, figs, dried apricots;
- 2 tbsp. l. cocoa;
- 60 g of honey;
- 0.5 st. nuts;
- ½ tsp coriander;
- 1 tsp baking powder and cinnamon.
According to this recipe, lean gingerbread is prepared as follows: combine sugar, butter, juice, honey and heat on the stove to 60 degrees, stirring. In another bowl, mix flour (necessarily sifted) with cocoa, baking powder, coriander and cinnamon. We combine both mixtures, whisking, add chopped nuts and dried fruits to the dough. For baking, we use a silicone mold. The product is baked for about 35 minutes at 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 monastery gingerbread and how to prepare it. For five servings, you will need the following products:
- sugar - 2 tbsp.;
- oil rast. - 1 tbsp.;
- flour - 4 tbsp.;
- 2/3 packs of cocoa;
- 4 tbsp. l. honey;
- soda - 7 g;
- nuts and raisins 50 g each
Add cocoa powder to sugar, mix and pour two glasses of water into the mixture, stir until smooth. Add honey and oil to this mass. We introduce flour in parts, add chopped nuts and steamed raisins. Put the dough into an oiled form 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 baking to turn out according to the recipe, you should adhere to the cooking technology. In the old days, the mold for baking gingerbread was smeared with wax instead of oil, which gave it a special flavor.
Monastic honey gingerbread on tea
The product baked according to this recipe is more like a soft gingerbread or even fluffy pie. The dough for the gingerbread is made on the basis of tea, honey or molasses, vegetable oil and walnuts. Ginger, cinnamon and vanillin will add a special fragrant note to pastries.
Cooking rules
Honey gingerbread is made from gingerbread dough, structure finished pie lush and light, similar to biscuit pastries. V classic recipe lean honey gingerbread does not include such fast foods as milk (kefir), eggs, butter. The main difference between honey gingerbread and sweet pies is that a large amount of spices is introduced into the dough - ginger, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom. Due to the high content of honey in the gingerbread, it remains soft and fresh for a long time.
You can make lean baking more varied by including chopped dried fruits, nuts, dried berries, such as currants, cherries, grapes, blueberries, or fresh apples in the dough. The monastic gingerbread can be divided into two identical cakes and layered with jam or sweet-and-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 flour in / with;
- 100 ml vegetable oil (without smell);
- 0.5 cup walnuts (peeled);
- dried fruits - to taste;
- two st. spoons of lemon juice;
- three st. spoons of honey (liquid);
- 0.5 cups of sugar;
- cinnamon, ginger;
- a sachet of vanillin;
- 6 g of soda;
- salt.
Wash nuts and berries or dried fruits well and grind in a blender. We add honey, sugar, butter, vanillin, salt, nuts, dried fruits and cinnamon to warm tea. Beat the whole mixture with a whisk. Redeemed lemon juice baking soda We introduce into the mass and pour the sifted flour in small portions, mix. Preparing the form in the usual way and spread the dough into it, gently level with a spatula. In the oven, heated to 190 degrees, put our lean gingerbread and bake for about fifty minutes until a beautiful golden color. Cooled pastries can be decorated with powdered sugar.
I would like to note that lean honey cakes are in no way inferior in taste to rich products.
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 gingerbread recipe, which we will consider below, suggests that the result of our efforts should be delicious dessert, which 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.
