Traditionally, for various baked goods, including oatmeal cookies, fresh fruits and berries are used as fillers. But vegetables can also be an excellent filling, with which you can make cookies more healthy and less nutritious. Here's a recipe for Oatmeal Carrot Cookies. These pastries combine a soft, slightly moist base and a ruddy crispy crust. You can make such pastries with nuts, add dried apricots and raisins to oatmeal, knead the dough with honey, and even replace sugar with it. In addition, you can make such oatmeal cookies from whole flakes or ground into flour.

All the ingredients we will use in this case are traditional oatmeal baked goods with the exception of carrots. Using the recipe for oatmeal cookies with carrots, you need to prepare the following ingredients:

• 60 milliliters of unscented sunflower oil;
• 100 grams of pitted dark raisins;
• sugar - 3 full tablespoons;
• 200 grams of sweet carrots;
• half a teaspoon of baking powder (replacement - 1 teaspoon of baking soda and 0.5 teaspoon of vinegar / lemon juice);
• 1 cup of finely ground oatmeal or flour from them;
• 50 milliliters of honey (better liquid or melted and cooled);
• half a glass of walnuts;
• 1 glass of premium wheat flour.

To get soft cookies with dried fruits, the flakes can be pre-ground in a coffee grinder or in a blender. In this recipe for oatmeal cookies, you can include pumpkin, apple, banana, and other fruits and vegetables instead of carrots.

Carrots are best chosen from sweet varieties, for example, "punisher". It has a darker orange hue and a higher sugar content. By doing this, you can reduce the amount of white sugar in the dough. Unsweetened carrots can taste slightly bitter, which will not have the best effect on the taste of the finished baked goods.

Cooking method

Most of the recipes for hercules flake cookies involve using regular white flour. This makes the finished baked goods softer, more homogeneous, but also increases their calorie content. So, making homemade oatmeal cookies is as follows:

1. Prepare the carrots first. It must be peeled and dark spots removed, and then chopped on a fine grater or using a blender. If you purée the carrots, the recipe for the oatmeal cookie will be softer and smoother with no carrot pieces interspersed.
2. Now raisins are added directly to the puree. Previously, it must be steamed in boiling water and left to swell for about 15 minutes. This will make the raisins used for oatmeal cookies softer and more juicy. Toss it with carrot puree.
3. Add odorless vegetable oil, honey and nuts to this mass. You can use absolutely any nuts, in our recipe these are walnuts, but you can take hazelnuts, cashews or peanuts. They must first be dried in a dry frying pan or baking sheet in the oven, and then chopped with a rolling pin or in a blender. Mix everything thoroughly until smooth.
4. Now in this thick carrot mixture it is necessary to pour oat flakes. Before doing this, the flakes can be ground in a coffee grinder or blender. Our recipe uses # 3 grind flakes, so they can be left intact. Leave the resulting mass for half an hour to swell the flakes.
5. After half an hour, mix the mixture with baking powder and one glass of premium flour. You should have a bright, slightly sticky dough that is firm enough. When kneading ordinary wheat flour, try not to add more than what is indicated in the recipe, otherwise the dough will not rise well during the baking process.
6. Now you need to form a herculean dessert. To do this, slightly moisten your palms with water, pinch off small balls the size of a nut from the total mass of the dough, roll up a tight ball and slightly flatten it on the working surface. Now dip one side of the workpiece in sugar or powdered sugar, and put the other side on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. In the process of laying out, leave small gaps between the balls with oatmeal flakes.
7. Bake for about 15-20 minutes at 180 degrees so that the baking surface is golden brown.

According to this recipe, you can also make oatmeal cookies with apples based on oat flakes, add pumpkin and other fruits instead of carrots. Alternatively, baked goods can be made entirely with honey without regular sugar if you're on a diet. Preheat the oven before making these flavorful cookies. So the baked goods will not lose their juice, which is present due to the addition of grated carrots, and will remain slightly moist and juicy inside.

Ingredients

• carrots - 130 g;
• apples - 150 g;
• oatmeal - 150 g;
• sugar - 150 g;
• oat flour - 200 g;
• kefir - 50 ml;
• butter - 100 g;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• soda - 1 tsp. spoon;
• vanillin;
• salt.

Cooking time - 1 hour.

The output is 32 pieces.

If you like to experiment and cook new, unusual dishes, try baking oatmeal and carrot cookies, the recipe with a photo is presented step by step below. A special feature of this pastry is that it cooks cookies with carrots and oatmeal without flour. More precisely, instead of wheat flour, oat flour is used. Although it is no less high-calorie than wheat, its composition is very rich in amino acids, vitamins and microelements necessary for humans. Adding apples to the composition improves the taste and enriches the oatmeal cookies with carrots with vitamins. The recipe with a photo will tell you in detail how to make this delicious and healthy pastry.

How to make oatmeal carrot cookies at home

Prepare all the ingredients needed to make the Oatmeal Carrot Cookies. The recipe involves the use of oat flour, but if there is no such flour, then you can make it at home, oatmeal tar on a coffee grinder. Besides vanillin, you can also use cinnamon.

The softened butter must be rubbed with sugar. Then add kefir, eggs, vanillin, soda and a pinch of salt. Mix everything well.

Pour in oatmeal and stir again.

Because cookies are prepared from carrots and oatmeal with the addition of apples, they must be peeled and seeds, then cut into small thin pieces or grated on a coarse grater. Carrots need to be washed, peeled and finely grated.

Add prepared apples and carrots to the dough.

To mix everything. Gradually adding oatmeal, stir the dough thoroughly. It should be pretty thick.

Cover the baking sheet with foil or baking paper. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Moisten your palms with water. Gathering the dough with a teaspoon, roll up small balls, flatten them slightly and place on a baking sheet. A distance of at least 2-2.5 cm must be left between the workpieces, because they will increase in size during baking.

Place the baking sheet in a preheated oven and bake the cookies for 20-25 minutes, until browned. Then put on a platter and serve delicious carrot cookies with tea, coffee, compote or milk drinks.

We wish you all Bon appetit!

The word "diet" alone causes many people to panic. By dietary nutrition they mean various mono-diets, refusal of favorite foods and desserts, and constant stress. But this is not at all true! The diet of proper nutrition is varied and delicious. And desserts for weight loss, the main thing is to make them healthy products.

For example, carrot and oatmeal cookies are allowed to be consumed both for weight loss and for those who are fasting. And how crispy and delicious it turns out! Even for those who are not overweight, such cookies will only benefit.

Diet food

Diet or proper nutrition is one of the components of a healthy lifestyle. It is worth giving up fatty foods in favor of those that contain fewer calories. Products are fried without oil, baked, steamed. Anything can be eaten, but in reasonable quantities.

Of course, you should give up fast food and creamy cakes and replace them with homemade beef sandwiches and curd cheesecake. Delicious fries can be cooked in the oven without oil, and you can't buy cookies in the store, but make your own.

Marvelous delicious cookies with oatmeal without sugar, milk, eggs and butter... Cooking is very easy, to be honest, I have never baked cookies at home before, but a friend recommended this recipe from say7.com forum, and now several times the whole family has been happy to grumble these sweets.

1. Carrots 1.5 cups (I chopped in, you can grate on a fine grater)
2. Flour 1 cup (I have rye, but you can also ordinary),
3. Oatmeal 1.5 cups
4. 1/4 cup vegetable oil
5. Raisins 3 tbsp. spoons,
6. Any nuts, seeds or almonds 3-5 tbsp. spoons,
7. 1/4 cup honey (you can do more, up to 1/2 cup if you like sweeter).

A cup everywhere is about 250 ml. The original recipe also contained baking powder and cinnamon, I didn't add them.

The very process of making carrot-oatmeal lean cookies

You need to mix carrots, honey, butter and raisins, and add flakes to the mixture. Leave on half an hour to absorb moisture and soften the flakes. By the way, my friend crumbles them a little in a coffee grinder, but I have not tried it, I like this texture.

Then, according to the recipe, mix the flour with baking powder and cinnamon. I cooked without them, so great.

Add flour and nuts to the mixture. And knead until the ingredients are even :)

The oven, of course, needs to be preheated to 180-200 degrees in advance. I laid out the cookies once directly on a baking sheet, and then on foil (probably better, baking paper, but I didn't have it), having slightly greased them with oil.

It is easy to form them directly with your hands: you roll a ball and lightly press down with your palms. It is only better to moisten your hands before each cookie. the dough is sticky because of the honey.

These are photos of my first experience, there are too many raisins, they crumbled easily, but homemade ones in three minutes were stifled with spoons. Then I put less raisins, added almonds, sunflower seeds, it turns out delicious with any filling. And they also write that it is also delicious if you use pumpkin instead of carrots.

Mineral-rich carrot biscuits are inexpensive. Cookies are suitable both for regular tea drinking with the family, and as a dessert for diet food. Bright colors appeal to children who need vitamins from oatmeal and carrots.

Healthy Gingerbread Cookies

Ingredients

• Carrots - 200 gr.
• Flour - 230 gr.
• Oatmeal - 120 gr.
• Sugar - 140 gr.
• Ginger (root) - 10 gr.
• Baking powder - 2 gr.
• Vegetable oil - 90 gr.

Preparation

1. Grate the carrots on a fine grater and place in a deep bowl.
2. Peel the ginger root, grate, also fine.
3. Add sugar, vegetable oil and ginger to the carrots.
4. Mix all ingredients well.
5. Add oatmeal and baking powder to the mass, mix.
6. Pour flour into the mass in small portions and stir thoroughly.
7. The dough will be thick.
8. The biscuits do not need to be shaped before baking, but the dough can be rolled out into a single layer. The thickness should be approximately 1 cm.
9. Bake in the oven. Regulate the temperature no higher than 200 °.
10. As soon as the cookies are a little bit cold, immediately cut them into the desired pieces.
11. Serve cooled.

Ingredients

• Carrots - 170 gr.
• Flour - 150 gr.
• Butter - 300 gr.
• Oatmeal - 120 gr.
• Sweet syrup (rosehip) - 50 gr.
• Sesame - 20 gr.
• Salt - 2 gr.
• Baking powder - 2 gr.

Preparation

1. Place dry ingredients in a large container: flour, salt, oatmeal, baking powder, and stir.
2. Grate carrots on a fine grater and add to the dry mixture.
3. We also place sesame seeds here.
4. Melt the butter.
5. Combine with rosehip syrup and add to dry mass.
6. Stir the mixture well, at first glance it is rather unattractive.
7. Cover a baking sheet with baking paper and light the oven.
8. Spoon the resulting mass, trying to form the cookies of the desired shape. A tablespoon of mass for one cookie.
9. Put a baking sheet with future cookies in the oven. The temperature should not be higher than 200 °. The approximate baking time is 20 minutes.
10. Cool the cookies before use.

Ingredients

• Carrots - 250 gr.
• Flour - 30 gr.
• Granulated sugar - 40 gr.
• Oat flakes - 130 gr.
• Egg - 1 pc.

Preparation

1. Carrots must be grated, it is better to use small ones.
2. Grind the oatmeal for a soft cookie in a blender or coffee grinder.
3. Drive an egg into a deep cup, add sugar and stir.
4. Add grated carrots to the egg mixture, then add oatmeal and stir until smooth.
5. Add flour last and knead a thin dough.
6. Grease a baking sheet with oil or line with pastry paper.
7. Spread the mass with a tablespoon, creating a round shape.
8. Bake the cookies in a preheated oven for about 25 minutes.
9. The oven temperature should be 180 °.
10. Cool the cookies before use.

• Cookies are best served with dairy products. Use drinking yoghurts, kefir or milk.
• To enhance the taste, various spices and additives are added to the cookies. It can be vanillin, nuts, seeds, sesame seeds, raisins, cinnamon. For added sweetness, you can sprinkle the cookies with powdered sugar.
• Alternatively, dipping the dough formed into the biscuits in sugar can be used. During the baking process, the sugar will melt and create a pleasant crust and sweetness.
• Using a few tips, you can achieve amazing taste in carrot cookies:

Baking oatmeal cookies does not take long. Overexposure at high temperatures can dry it out.

• For a rich cookie color, use a bright orange carrot. The special variety has not only a beautiful color, but also a sweet taste.
• In order for the cookies to be tender and pleasant in consistency, all the ingredients must be crushed.

• If it is not possible to grind the oatmeal, the prepared dough must be left for half an hour. During this time, the flakes will swell and become soft.
• You should not use too much flour in cooking and make a tight dough. Cookies can be rough and tasteless.
• To prevent cookies from burning and sticking during baking, the form must be lined with paper or foil.
• For a more fluffy dough, you need to add a baking powder.
• To make cookies more healthy and fortified, you can add orange or lemon zest, ginger and berry syrups.
• To serve cookies to the festive table, cocktails made from strawberries, raspberries or cherries can complement it.
• In order to completely eliminate high-calorie foods that contribute to weight gain, you can replace flour with semolina in small quantities, and put honey instead of sugar.
• When forming cookies, moisten them with water with your hands so that the dough does not stick.
• To make cookies with sourness, you need to add a little lemon juice, cranberries, orange peel.

All ingredients must be mixed for a long time to get a delicious cookie. Otherwise, you may get one-sided, oatmeal on one side, and carrots on the other.

• In order for the cookies not to fall apart during baking, you can fix the dough with an egg and do not add too many additives in the form of nuts, raisins, etc. They will interfere with the uniformity of the dough.

Carrot cookies are one of the lowest in calories. It can be consumed in any quantity without the risk of ruining the figure. The carotene contained in carrots will perfectly retain its properties during baking and will have a positive effect on eyesight. In addition, a sufficient amount of carotene improves the condition of the skin and mucous membranes.

Whatever additives are used in the recipe, each of them is a carrier of useful substances. Cookies are especially shown for children. A complex of vitamins and minerals will provide the body's required supply. Despite the fact that the cookies are dietary, the use of dried fruits and berries will make them richer and diversify the taste.