Lenten pastries for tea are quick and tasty. Quick monastic recipes made from pumpkin, puff pastry, corn, rye flour

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During Lent, baking plays a big role, so it must certainly be tasty, satisfying and healthy!

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The simplest recipe

Lenten baking for tea will be quick and tasty with just 4 main ingredients. These are cookies that have a separate name - “Minute”. The entire process of preparing it takes only half an hour. However, the cookies do not contain margarine.

Composition of ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• flour – 300-320 g;
• water – 240-250 ml;
• sunflower oil – ½ tbsp.;
• beet sugar – 150-160 g;
• salt and soda (slaked) - ½ tsp each.

Step-by-step cooking process

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. First you need to sift the flour into a deep bowl and combine with sunflower oil.

2. Add soda slaked with vinegar, salt and sugar to the resulting mixture. Fill the contents with water and mix vigorously, you should get a soft and homogeneous mass that does not stick to your hands.
3. Next, you need to sprinkle the table with flour, place the prepared dough on it and roll it out with a rolling pin into a thin layer approximately 0.3-0.5 cm thick.
4. In the next step, using a glass or any culinary cutter, you will need to cut out the cookie blanks.
5. Steps 3 and 4 should be repeated until all the dough is gone.
6. Line a baking sheet with parchment, and then place the resulting dough pieces on it.

All that remains is to place the treat in an oven preheated to 180° and bake for 15 minutes.

How to serve a dish

Cookies should be served warm or cooled, sprinkled with sugar or topped with jam.

What can I add?

You can add cinnamon, nutmeg or ginger. If such additional ingredients are chosen, they should be sifted together with the flour.

Christmas fruit bread with nuts

We need:

• 150 g rye flour
• 200 g wheat
• 50 g + 1 tsp. brown sugar
• 1/2 tbsp. pear juice
• 50 g candied fruits
• 300 g dried fruits (figs, prunes, cherries, dried apricots, raisins)
• 150 g mixed walnuts, cashew hazelnuts, almonds)
• 42 g fresh yeast
• 150 ml warm water
• 1 egg
• 1/2 tsp each salt, vanillin, cinnamon, nutmeg
• 1 tbsp. orange jam (2 pieces of orange marmalade)

Preparation:

1. We dilute yeast in warm water.

2. Mix sifted wheat and rye flour, add sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, vanillin, egg and mix thoroughly. Pour pear juice and diluted yeast here. Mix thoroughly.

3. Grind dried fruits.

Important: if we use dried dried fruits, then they can be immediately added to the dough, but if dried fruits are used, they need to be soaked for 2 hours in pear juice.

4. Add dried fruits to the dough and mix. Knead the dough with your hands, when it is ready, cover with a towel and leave in a warm place for 30 minutes.

5. In a bread pan, place parchment on the bottom and grease it completely with vegetable oil. We make a loaf from the dough and put it in the mold. Leave for another 15 minutes to rise.

6. Preheat the oven to 175-180 degrees and put the bread in for 65-75 minutes. After 30 minutes of baking, cover the bread with foil and continue baking.

7. Remove the foil from the finished bread, cool for 10 minutes and remove from the pan.

8. Dissolve orange jam in a small amount of water and spread on top of the bread.,

sprinkle with brown sugar and sprinkle with nuts, you can decorate with dried fruits.

Monastery-style quick pumpkin recipe

Lenten baking for tea will turn out quickly and tasty even with the addition of pumpkin. A lot of spices are added to this treat. This includes cinnamon and ginger. They are taken in ground form, approximately ½ tsp. for the specified number of components.

You can adjust the composition of spices to your taste - remove some, add others.

Composition of ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• pumpkin – 200-220 g;
• wheat flour – 270-300 g;
• granulated sugar – 100-110 g;
• soda, ground ginger and cinnamon - ½ tsp each;
• vinegar (9%) – 1 tbsp. l.;
• salt and nutmeg - 1 pinch each.

Step-by-step cooking process

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. You should start the cooking process with pumpkin. It will need to be washed, cleaned of the “entrails” and chopped into small cubes. Then place in a saucepan, fill completely with water and cook after boiling over medium heat until soft.

2. Next, you need to separate the finished vegetable from the liquid and transfer it to a separate deep container. After that, add vegetable fat, salt and sugar and beat with a blender until pureed.
3. Add soda (slaked in vinegar), all the bulk spices and pre-sifted flour to a bowl with the prepared pumpkin mixture.
4. The next step is to intensively mix the ingredients until a homogeneous mass is obtained.
5. Using your hands dipped in oil, form balls from the finished dough and place them on a baking sheet pre-lined with parchment. They should be placed at a short distance from each other, taking into account that during the cooking process the cookies will increase in size.

All that remains is to preheat the oven to 180° and send the pieces into it to bake for 17-20 minutes.

How to serve a dish

The resulting liver should be allowed to cool slightly before serving. Then you can put it on a large flat plate and decorate with powdered sugar. Grated chocolate is also suitable for decorating the dessert. You can drop a small portion of strawberry (or any other fruit/berry) jam in the middle of each cookie.

Pumpkin Pie with Ginger

“Golden Sun” is a real pumpkin delicacy for both adults and children. It is also suitable for those who are watching their figure, since 100 grams of baked goods contain only 150 calories.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups wheat flour;
• 2 eggs (one for dough and one for filling);
• 2 tablespoons of water;
• 1 kg pumpkin;
• 100 grams of butter;
• 100 grams of sour cream;
• 0.5 teaspoon salt;
• 1 tablespoon sugar;
• a pinch of ginger, ground cinnamon and nutmeg.

Sequencing:

1. Remove peel and seeds from pumpkin. Chop the vegetable into medium-sized cubes and boil over low heat. Drain the water and leave for a while so that the workpiece has time to cool. After this, the pumpkin pieces must be ground in a blender until pureed.
2. Grate cold butter on a coarse grater into a separate container, add flour and salt. Rub the loose consistency with your hands.
3. Mix the egg and 2 tablespoons of water in a bowl, then add the mixture to the flour mixture. Knead the dough.
4. Wrap the workpiece in cling film and leave in the refrigerator for half an hour.
5. Proceed with the filling. To do this, you need to beat the pumpkin puree in a blender at medium speed. Gradually add sour cream, salt, ground cinnamon, nutmeg, egg, granulated sugar and ginger.
6. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
7. Apply oil to parchment paper. Transfer it to a baking dish.
8. Carefully roll out the dough slightly wider than the container to form small edges. Spread the pumpkin filling.
9. Bake the pie for half an hour.
10. Once ready, leave the pumpkin cake to cool slightly. After this, remove from the mold and serve.

From puff pastry

Lenten pastries are especially quick and easy to prepare for tea using puff pastry.

Lenten pastries for tea - delicious apple pie made from puff pastry.

It is best to take a ready-made store-bought base. This will significantly speed up the process. The result is a delicious pie with fruit additives.

Composition of ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• puff pastry without yeast - 2 plates;
• apples (fresh) – 1 kg;
• lemon (medium) – 1 pc.;
• granulated sugar - 1 tbsp.;
• ground cinnamon – ½ tsp;
• sunflower oil – 2-3 tbsp. l.;
• flour.

Step-by-step cooking process

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. The first step is to defrost the semi-finished product according to the instructions on the package. Then the dough sheets will need to be placed on a floured table and rolled out with a rolling pin to the size of a baking dish or baking sheet.
2. Apples must be washed, peeled and chopped into small cubes.

3. Then place them in a frying pan with heated vegetable fat and fry until soft, gradually pouring sugar into them.
4. The lemon zest should be finely chopped and added to the fried product along with cinnamon. Stirring constantly, cook the sweet mixture for another 2-3 minutes over low heat.
5. The baking sheet should be greased with the remaining sunflower oil. Next, you will need to place the previously prepared bottom layer of dough into it. On top - evenly distribute the resulting filling, leaving approximately 2-3 cm of space free at each edge.
6. In the next step, you need to cover the pie with the top layer of prepared dough and make 3-5 longitudinal cuts on it.

All that remains is to preheat the oven to 240°. Place the dish in it and bake for half an hour at 180°.

How to serve a dish

Before taking a sample from the cake, you need to cool it slightly. Afterwards you will need to cut the treat into portioned pieces. If desired, the finished baked goods can be decorated with lemon slices. For example, for this, citrus slices should be poured with sugar syrup and boiled. Then the slightly cooled pieces must be transferred to the surface of the pie and pour syrup on top.

Lenten bread

Required Products:

1. Wheat flour – 600g
2. Water – 300 ml
3. Sugar – 20 g
4. Salt – 9 g
5. Dry yeast – 5 g

Dissolve the yeast in warm water and let it swell. Add salt and sugar and yeast base to flour. Knead the stiff dough, leave it for 1.5-2 hours to rise.

Divide the risen dough into several parts. Make loaves of them and place them on a greased baking sheet. Cut and cover with a cloth. After an hour, sprinkle with cold water and bake for 40 minutes. in the oven at 180°C.

From corn flour

Lenten pastries for tea can be quickly and deliciously prepared not only from wheat, but also from corn flour. This option will be even more useful. With the addition of corn flour, you get delicious spicy cookies. The calorie content of such a treat is approximately 356.6 kcal per 100 g.

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Composition of ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• wheat and corn flour - 1 tbsp each;
• sunflower oil – 5.5-6 tbsp. l.;
• water – 110-120 ml;
• vinegar (9%) – 1 tbsp. l.;
• ginger and turmeric - 0.3 tsp each;
• beet sugar – 1 tbsp.;
• cinnamon and soda - ½ tsp each;
• lemon zest - 2 tsp.

Step-by-step cooking process

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. To begin with, all bulk ingredients should be placed in one deep bowl.
2. In a separate container you will need to combine vinegar, water and vegetable oil. Afterwards, unload it into the previously prepared dry mixture.
3. Next, you need to vigorously mix the ingredients with your hands. You should get a homogeneous sticky mass.

4. At the next stage, pinch off small pieces from the prepared dough with hands moistened in water and roll them into balls with a diameter of about 3 cm.
5. The resulting pieces should be placed on a baking sheet greased with vegetable fat at a distance of 2-3 cm from each other.

All that remains is to preheat the oven to 180° and bake the cookies in it for 15-20 minutes.

How to serve a dish

At first, cookies that are still hot may seem unbaked. Therefore, it needs to be given time to cool completely. Then the treat will become slightly crispy. Serve it deliciously with milk, tea or coffee. You can sprinkle the dessert with powdered sugar - white or colored. Coconut shavings are also suitable for decoration. You can drizzle the cookies with melted chocolate, white or dark icing.

What do we bake from?

In Lenten baking, you cannot use milk and dairy products (including sour cream, kefir, condensed milk), butter (it also cannot be used to lubricate the pan), cheese, meat (poultry), and meat by-products. If the fast is strict, fish will also be included in this list.

You can use any type of flour, cereals, vegetable oil, margarine (if it does not contain animal fats), lean mayonnaise, vegetable cream, soy and coconut milk, vegetables, fruits, berries, mushrooms, dried fruits and nuts, all types of spices, honey, dark chocolate, pine nut milk. In addition to fish, you can eat any seafood during Lent: mussels, squid, shrimp. Pay attention to tofu, unusual vegetable oils (for example, sesame, corn, flaxseed), and unusual spices. Don't forget about sauces and seasonings: balsamic vinegar, soy and fruit sauces will add fullness of flavor to your dishes.

Don't be afraid to experiment with new products and combinations. If you are not yet ready for innovations, you can use time-tested recipes.

From rye flour

Rye flour is most often used to make bread or savory pastries. But if you wish, you can make it the basis of lean biscotti. They turn out a little dry, but it’s very tasty to try this treat with milk, cocoa, or any drinks. Biscotti is convenient to take with you to work, on the road, or on a picnic. The cookies keep well. It is convenient to use paper bags and tin cans for this.

Composition of ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• rye flour – 150-160 g;
• flaxseed flour – 20-25 g;
• oatmeal – 50-60 g;
• salt and soda - ½ tsp each;
• Sunflower oil – 2 tbsp. l.;
• water – 200-220 ml;
• dried cherries – 25-30 g;
• nuts (any) – 50-70 g.

It is very tasty to use walnuts for such a treat. But you can also take peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts.

Step-by-step cooking process

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. You should start the baking process with rolled oats. Place it in a blender bowl and grind until crumbly.

2. Next, the crushed flakes (along with 2 types of flour), salt and soda need to be unloaded into a deep bowl.
3. In the next step, you will first need to pour water into the food container, and then vegetable oil. After each addition, the ingredients must be mixed well with a spoon.
4. The resulting mass should be left to “rest” for 20-30 minutes. Then combine with cherries and nuts. The latter will need to be peeled and coarsely chopped.
5. Form the prepared dough into a “sausage” and place it on a baking sheet previously covered with parchment.
6. After preheating the oven to 180°, you need to place the dish in it to bake for 20 minutes. Then you need to remove it, cool for 10-15 minutes and cut into pieces approximately 1-2 cm thick.

All that remains is to return the baking sheet with the treat back to the oven and cook for another 10-12 minutes on each side.

How to serve a dish

When the cookies have cooled slightly, you can serve them with tea or other hot drinks. You can sprinkle the treat with sesame seeds, previously heated in a dry frying pan.

Simple but very tasty

Lenten cookies can be prepared from a minimum set of products:

1. Wheat flour – 1 ½ cups;
2. Vegetable oil – ⅓ cup;
3. Water – ⅓ glass;
4. Powdered sugar – 2 tbsp;
5. Baking powder, vanilla sugar - on the tip of a knife.

Mix sifted flour, powdered sugar, baking powder, vanilla sugar and spices. Add oil and water to the dry mixture and knead the dough. Roll it out thinly, cut out circles with a glass or cut with a knife into small pieces of any shape. Bake the cookies in a preheated oven for 10-15 minutes. at a temperature of 180°C.

In a frying pan

If you wish, you can even cook Lenten baked goods in a frying pan. For example, flatbreads with herbs. They are unsweetened and can be served, for example, with soup, broth, or goulash.

Composition of ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• wheat flour – 390-400 g;
• water – 200-210 ml;
• parsley, dill and sorrel - 25 g each;
• green onion feathers – 45-50 g;
• sunflower oil – 3-4 tsp;
• salt, pepper, hops-suneli.

You can add any other greens to your taste. The specified quantity of products is enough to prepare 12 servings of treats.

Step-by-step cooking process

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. After sifting the flour using a sieve into a deep bowl, add water and 1 tsp. salt. Then knead the contents for 8-10 minutes.
2. The resulting mass should be placed in a bag, or covered with a wet towel and left to infuse for 50-60 minutes.
3. The next step is to rinse all the greens under the tap and chop them very finely with a knife.

4. Next, the chopped products need to be combined in a separate container, sprinkled with salt, pepper and spices to taste. Afterwards, add vegetable oil and mix well.
5. The finished dough should be divided into equal parts. Each of them should be rolled out very thinly with a rolling pin on a table previously sprinkled with flour.
6. The blanks will need to be filled with green stuffing one by one. Next, wrap and seal the edges to make neat flat cakes.

At the last step, all that remains is to heat up a dry frying pan and fry each portion on both sides until light golden brown.

How to serve a dish

Such baked goods remain soft and tasty for a very long time. It can be greased with butter and soft cheese.

Delicious dessert for chocolate lovers

Ingredients:

1. Coconut milk – 1 cup for batter and ⅕ cup for glaze
2. Dark chocolate – 140 g
3. Flour – ½ cup
4. Cocoa powder – 1 tbsp.
5. Sugar – 4 tbsp.
6. Walnuts – 75 g.
7. Baking powder – 1 tsp.
8. Salt - on the tip of a knife
9. Vanilla - to taste

Walnuts can be replaced with pecans, cashews and even peanuts. If you choose peanuts, then before preparing the dessert you should dry the shelled kernels in a dry frying pan for a few minutes. This will give them flavor and help remove the rough skin easily.

Chop the nuts into medium-sized pieces. Peanuts and cashews can be divided into halves, pecans and walnuts can be cut into 5-6 parts.

Mix flour, cocoa powder, sugar, salt and baking powder. Heat the coconut milk to a boil, but do not boil.

Pour hot coconut milk over 80 g of chocolate and vanilla. Stir until smooth.

Mix the chocolate mass with flour, knead the dough.

Line the bottom of the pan with parchment. Place nuts on it. Fill with dough. Bake at 170-180°C for about 20 minutes.

To make the glaze, mix the remaining chocolate with hot coconut milk. Cover the dessert with the mixture and put it in a cool place.

The real highlight of this dessert will be serving it with berry sorbet or frozen berries (raspberries, blueberries, strawberries). You can buy it ready-made in the store, or you can easily prepare it at home.

To do this, beat any frozen berries with a small amount of sugar in a blender. Place the resulting thick puree into molds and place in the freezer. To avoid uneven hardening and crystallization, it is necessary to stir the mixture several times every 15-20 minutes.

From semolina

You can make a Lenten pie from semolina. The addition of vanillin will make it especially tasty and aromatic. You can use other spices as well.

Composition of ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• semolina – 200-210 g;
• beet sugar – 150-160 g;
• water (boiled) – 190-200 ml;
• baking powder – 10 g;
• vanillin – 1 g;
• wheat flour – 70-80 g;
• sunflower oil (odorless) – 80-85 ml.

Step-by-step cooking process

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. First of all, place semolina, vanillin and sugar in a deep bowl. Fill them with boiled water and vegetable oil, cooled to room temperature, mix the contents vigorously and leave for 30-35 minutes so that the cereal absorbs moisture and swells.
2. Next, you will need to add baking powder and pre-sifted flour to the resulting mass. By mixing the ingredients with a spoon, you should get a mass in a bowl that resembles the consistency of thick sour cream.
3. The baking dish should be well greased with sunflower oil and sprinkle the edges with semolina. Afterwards, unload the prepared dough into it.

4. The next step is to heat the oven to 180° and place the manna in it to bake for half an hour. The readiness of the dish should be determined with a wooden stick.

All that remains is to remove the treat from the mold, cool and serve.

How to serve a dish

Before taking the sample, the baked goods should be cut into portions. Afterwards, serve with cocoa or tea. If desired, you can even make a cake out of such a treat. To do this, you will need to cut the manna in half and coat it with fruit jam.

Miracle cookies

This recipe surprises with its ingredients, because to prepare the miracle cookies you will need pickled cucumber brine or tomato.

Ingredients:

• 200 ml brine;
• 200 g granulated sugar;
• 100 ml refined sunflower oil;
• 0.5 kg flour
• ½ tbsp. l. baking soda.

  
  Unusual brine cookies

Step-by-step preparation:

1. Mix the brine with soda and let it sit until the quenching process is completed.
2. Mix the settled brine with sugar and beat until the grains disappear.
3. Add vegetable oil and stir until a homogeneous oil mixture is obtained.
4. Gradually add flour and knead into a thick dough.

The dough can be rolled out into a layer and cut out into shapes using cookie cutters. More crumbly baked goods are obtained from dough passed through a special mold in a meat grinder.

The prepared cookies are laid out on a baking sheet covered with parchment. Bake until golden brown in an oven preheated to 180-200 degrees, this takes approximately 10-15 minutes.

Advice! Hot cookies should be allowed to cool slightly, and then removed from the parchment so that they do not burst.

With cocoa

Lenten baking for tea can be quickly and deliciously prepared with cocoa. For example, chocolate cupcakes.

Composition of ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• wheat flour – 200-220 g;
• beet sugar – 1 tbsp.;
• vanilla – 5-6 g;
• baking powder – 0.2 tsp;
• cocoa powder – 50-60 g;
• water – 0.25-0.3 l;
• sunflower oil – 7-8 tbsp. l.

Step-by-step cooking process

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. To begin, all bulk products must be combined in one large bowl and mixed well.
2. Next, you will need to pour slightly warmed water and sunflower oil into the container. After that, knead the dough intensively, it should turn out to be medium thick and viscous.
3. The resulting mass should be poured into molds, pre-treated with residual vegetable fat (if you use a large mold, then its bottom can be lined with baking paper).

At the last stage, you will need to preheat the oven to 200° and place the treat in it for 30-40 minutes (the finished muffins must be dry inside, you can check this with a wooden toothpick).

How to serve a dish

The cupcakes are served already cooled. You can top them with glaze and any melted chocolate.

Lenten manna with orange flavor

Ingredients:

1. Orange juice – 200ml
2. Semolina – 200g
3. Sugar – 200g
4. Vegetable oil – 100 ml
5. Orange zest – 1 tsp.
6. Flour – 200g
7. Baking soda – 1 tsp

Mix semolina and orange juice in a container. Add zest, butter, sugar. Mix thoroughly and leave for half an hour until the semolina swells.

Add sifted flour and quicklime soda to the cup with the dough. Stir until smooth.

Preheat the oven. Treat the mold with vegetable oil and place the dough in it. Bake in an oven preheated to 180°C for 40-50 minutes. When using a multicooker - 45 minutes.

In a slow cooker

It’s very easy to prepare Lenten baked goods in a slow cooker. In the “Kitchen Assistant” you will be able to make an apple pie. To do this, use the baking mode.

Composition of ingredients

For the dish you need to take:

• water – 120-130 ml;
• black tea – ¼ tsp;
• fresh apple (medium) – 1 pc.;
• vegetable oil – 4-5 tbsp. l.;
• granulated sugar – 150-160 g;
• wheat flour – 260-270 g;
• baking powder – 5-6 g;
• table salt – 1 pinch;
• powdered sugar.

Step-by-step cooking process

The cooking process includes several stages:

1. You should start the preparation process with tea. To do this, you need to boil water, pour it over the tea leaves and leave for 10-12 minutes under the lid. Then strain using a sieve.

2. Combine sugar and sunflower oil in a deep container. Afterwards, send cooled tea and salt to them.
3. Mixing well until smooth with a spatula after each addition, first unload the baking powder into the bowl, then add the pre-sifted flour in parts.
4. The apple should be rinsed, peeled and cored and chopped into small pieces. Next, pour into the mixture obtained in the previous step.
5. The multicooker bowl must be thoroughly greased with sunflower oil, and then the prepared dough must be poured into it.

All that remains is to close the lid of the device, select the “Baking” mode and set the timer for 60 minutes.

How to serve a dish

The baked goods should be served cooled. To do this, cut it into medium pieces and sprinkle with powdered sugar. To prevent Lenten baked goods from becoming dry, do not cook them in the oven for a very long time. This process usually takes from 20 to 40 minutes at medium temperature. To make Lenten tea baking even tastier, you can use a variety of syrups, impregnations, and glazes. For example, you can very quickly make chocolate glaze from milk and cocoa, or even use any fruit compote or canned fruit syrup.