Oatmeal cookies, the recipe is sweet and low-calorie.

I always liked sweet foods. But recently, because of the dominance of websites about healthy eating, a healthy lifestyle and other free "council countries" it is necessary to carefully choose recipes. Sometimes about the same product you read so many interesting things that it becomes even scary to eat. Here, for example, oatmeal cookies. The recipe for it includes oat flakes, which are all considered to be a very very useful product, but butter and margarine are a threat to a good figure.

Dear ladies, do not worry so much because of a small piece of butter, which is in the dough to make the cookie it was the cookie, not the pressed muesli. Better worry because of the amount of cookies that you ate for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Better think all together, in the evening.

Oatmeal cookies, recipe ordinary

It is necessary to take:

3/4 cup oatmeal

A glass of sugar

A glass of wheat flour

250-300 g of butter or margarine

Soda ½ teaspoon, slaked.

Let's start, perhaps?

In a dry frying pan, dry oat flakes on low heat. Stir flakes for about ten minutes until a characteristic smell appears, but the color of the flakes should not change. Flakes can not be fried, this procedure will allow your liver to look darker, but the taste will remain the same.

Flakes must be crushed. For example, in a blender. Oil or margarine pre-extract from the refrigerator, so you do not have to fight with it afterwards. It should be soft and complaisant. We beat together the butter and sugar. Pour oat flakes, flour and soda into our sweet butter . Knead the dough.

Any dough on the basis of margarine or oil does not like, if it is a long time with hands. On the contrary, it prefers coolness. Because once the ingredients have become a single mass, you can put the dough for 10 minutes in the fridge, and only then roll it out and cut the circles (I usually make it a glass).

If you do not want to wait for the dough to cool a little and come to life, you can immediately roll balls from it and put it on parchment for baking. In the oven, the cookie will increase in size, you need a small distance between the balls.

The time that bakes takes is 20 minutes. The temperature is 180 - 190 degrees.

Now let's proceed with the modernization of this recipe. So, dietary oatmeal cookies are made as follows:

1. Reduce the amount of sugar, it can be replaced with honey. Just do not rinse the sugar substitute. Dough does not like it when they try to cheat. Calculating about one part of honey to two parts of oatmeal. You can make a quarter of a glass of honey and a half glass of cane (or other more useful) sugar.

2. Add nuts and dried fruits, to your taste. You can add a little (50 grams) of dark chocolate, grated or finely chopped.

3. If you are trying to experiment, then try instead of butter or margarine with sugar, add pulp of pumpkin or apple. It turns out a rather original taste. Flesh needs about a glass, you can slightly less. And do not forget to add a couple of egg whites.

Variations of additives in oatmeal cookies, the recipe of which is easy to find both on the Internet and in culinary books, amaze me with their diversity. Depending on the taste you want, you can use fruits (apples, pears, bananas), dried fruits (dried apricots, prunes), nuts (peanuts, cashews, walnuts), sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds. And you can add cinnamon, vanilla or even cloves.

Oatmeal cookies, the recipe of which includes eggs, I did not bring. They can be added to butter or fruit pulp for whipping. Then the dough turns out to be more fluffy.

Oatmeal cookies are lean. Recipe based on vegetable oil

A half-glass of oat flakes uses a couple of tablespoons of honey and butter. A teaspoon of baking powder or soda on the edge of the spoon.

First, mix the crushed flakes and all the dry ingredients, then add the oil, mix, then add honey. And leave the dough for half an hour in the fridge. Bake the same as described above, only 15-20 minutes.

Bon Appetit!