Cookies with cucumber pickle and vegetable oil. Lenten cookies in brine from cucumbers. Cooking this lean delicacy in this way

Having tasted it, I was surprised: who would have thought that such a modest cookie could be so appetizing! And it's not just nuts.

Brine cookies - the original recipe of our grandmothers, who did not lose anything, because there were fewer funds and opportunities. And cucumber pickle is no exception, it also found its use! In addition, we have a culinary-literate recipe, since soda, interacting with an acidic environment, behaves in a predictable and necessary way for us - just like with a fermented milk product, which, as you know, is prohibited during fasting.

The brine cookie recipe is useful not only for those who fast. Saturated with nuts and dried fruits, everyone likes the dough without exception. If you do not add soda or baking powder and knead it more abruptly, you can roll out cookies with a rolling pin and cut out various figures, this process is very exciting for children.

Step by step video recipe

Lean cookies in brine without baking powder come out quite hard and crunchy, they can be stored for a long time until they are tasted. For those who like soft and fluffy cookies, I advise you to follow the recipe and not bother modeling. Just put two teaspoons of dough in a pile on a greased baking sheet, thanks to soda, they will rise a little and take the form of pies.

Anything you like is suitable as a filler for cucumber brine cookies: orange or lemon zest, any nuts and dried fruits: dried apricots, prunes, raisins, dried berries and even dates, try and choose your favorite combinations. In general, a rich topic, albeit lean. Try for health!

Ingredients

1 st. brine from pickled cucumbers or tomatoes (250 ml)
½ cup vegetable oil
530-550g wheat flour
1 st. Sahara
1 handful of raisins
1 handful dried apricots
1 handful hazelnuts
1 handful of walnuts
1 tsp soda
1 pinch of salt
1 pinch of vanilla

Brine cookies - recipe with photo

Strain a glass of tomato or cucumber brine and combine it in a deep bowl with half a glass of refined vegetable oil.

Add a glass of sugar to the butter and brine and mix, but there is no need to stir until completely dissolved.

Gently stir in the flour with a teaspoon of baking soda, a pinch of salt and vanilla. Knead the dough. Try to stir with a spatula in one direction.

The dough for lean brine cookies turns out to be quite thick and elastic, a mixer and a blender cannot do it, so knead it with a spatula or with your hands.

Drain the water from dried fruits and blot them with a paper towel, lightly chop hazelnuts and walnuts, chop dried apricots, cut into small pieces or cubes. Add nuts and dried fruits to the dough.

And mix thoroughly, so that there are no sticky pieces of dried apricots, and all the nuts are evenly distributed over the dough.

Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil and with two teaspoons (peeling one over the other) lay out approximately equal pieces of dough at a small distance from each other. The baking soda will expand the cookies slightly.

Bake the cookies on a medium rack, in an oven preheated to 200 degrees, for 20-25 minutes (until golden brown on top).

In addition, you can bake cookies of a traditional shape, for this you need to roll 1 teaspoon of dough in flour and roll a ball out of it first, and then flatten it with your fingers, you can directly on a baking sheet sprinkled with flour. Children will be happy to help you with this. In addition, you can roll out the dough with a layer about 7 mm high, and push the desired format with a glass or any cookie cutter. And then - on a baking sheet.

It may seem strange to someone to use brine for baking. But sometimes, combining seemingly incompatible products, an excellent result is obtained. Try cooking lean cookies in cucumber brine with vegetable oil. The dough is prepared without eggs. Such a recipe is especially suitable during the observance of church fasts, it can also be classified as "in haste". So, if you have some free time in the evening, bake homemade cookies for dinner and make your family happy. Another advantage of such baking is that it is stored for a long time and remains soft. And then, this is a rather economical option, which is quite important in today's life.

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Ingredients

cucumber pickle - 0.5 tbsp.;
granulated sugar - 0.5 tbsp.;
corn oil - 0.5 tbsp.;
flour - 2.5 tbsp.;
soda - 0.5 tsp;
vanilla sugar - 0.5 tsp;
powdered sugar - for sprinkling the finished cookies.

Cooking

If you are worried that the smell of brine will remain in the baking, I hasten to dissuade you from this. Ready-made cookies smell very tasty and sweet, and what aroma floated around the apartment while they were in the oven cannot be expressed in words.
So, the dough is kneaded quickly and simply, literally in two steps. To start, combine sugar, baking soda, vanilla sugar, brine and oil in one bowl.

Mix well. The main thing is even that it is not sugar that dissolves, but soda, otherwise soda balls may fall into the cookies. Next add the sifted flour.

It took me 2.5 cups. You may get a slightly different amount, it all depends on the type of flour. First, it’s better to add 1.5 cups, mix, and then focus on the structure of your dough. It should be loose and not very dense, but at the same time stick well from the hands.

If you press on the lump, your fingers will easily sink into it, but will not stick. It is important.

Turn on the oven to heat up. Sprinkle a board or table with flour, roll out part of the dough into a layer about 1 cm thick. Cut out figures from it. If you do not have special molds, take a glass and push the circles in the dough with the widest part. I just first cut it into vertical strips, and then them into small rhombuses (this can be clearly seen in the photo).

Cover a baking sheet with baking paper, put the resulting rhombuses or circles on it.

Then put in a hot oven for 15-20 minutes. The main thing is not to overdry the cookies, as soon as they are browned, you can get them. Sprinkle lightly with powdered sugar. Cookies on cucumber brine without eggs are ready. It is delicious both warm and cold. Enjoy your meal!

Lean brine cookies are one of the most popular homemade baking recipes in Soviet times. You can prepare the ingredients in a matter of minutes, you need elementary products, all that remains is to knead a simple dough and put it in the oven.

How to make brine cookies?

With a true mistress, everything goes to work, even the remnants of cucumber pickle. It turns out soft rich pastries with a light, slightly noticeable aroma of spices. Cookies in brine and vegetable oil are slightly similar in taste to gingerbread.

Brine dough for cookies is made as simple as possible: it is sugar, flour, butter, brine, all in approximately the same proportions, and soda. Vanillin and baking powder can be added to keep the food soft even longer.
The dough should not be thoroughly kneaded, it should be slightly sticky to the fingers.
The dough rises a little in the oven, so you need to leave a small distance between the cookies.
When adding soda to the dough for lean brine cookies, you should not quench it with vinegar.

Cucumber brine cookies - recipe

Lean cucumber brine cookies according to the classic Soviet recipe include only a few ingredients that are almost always in every home. It is recommended to take flour of the highest grade, add odorless oil. Some advise adding vanillin for taste. The main advantage of the dish is that brine cookies are made without eggs and dairy products, therefore it is suitable for those who observe Great Lent.

Ingredients:

cucumber pickle - 1 cup;
flour - 1 cup;
soda - ½ tsp;
vanillin - 1/3 tsp;
sugar - 2/3 cup.

Cooking

Mix the brine with sugar and butter.
Sift flour, add soda and knead the dough.
Form small balls from the dough, put the formed cookies on a baking sheet at a distance. Place in preheated oven for 8-12 minutes.

Tomato brine cookies are slightly different in taste from cucumber pastries, but just as tasty. Coconut flakes, powdered sugar, chopped nuts can be added to the dough for a change. It is recommended to cover the baking sheet with paper, so the dough will not stick. If you form small balls and cut it out with a cookie cutter, then the pastries will come out crispy.

Ingredients:

tomato brine - 250 ml;
flour - 200-220 g;
soda - ½ tsp;
vanillin;
sunflower oil - ½ cup;
sugar - 150-170 g.

Cooking

In a container, mix sugar, brine, oil well.
Add flour and soda, not slaked with vinegar (brine will handle this).
Knead the dough and divide it into balls.
Put them on a baking sheet and leave to rise for 5-7 minutes.
Bake for 7-10 minutes at 220 degrees.

Cabbage brine biscuits in their classical interpretation contain eggs, but they can be replaced with vinegar, and ordinary vegetable oil can be used instead of classic margarine or butter. This recipe should still be in the hostess' cookbook. Baking comes out crispy, but melts in your mouth, serve it well with jam, honey, you can add cinnamon for piquancy.

Ingredients:

cabbage pickle - 1 cup;
vinegar - 2 tbsp. l.;
vegetable oil - 150-170 g;
flour - 2 cups;
soda - ½ tsp;
sugar - 1/2 cup.

Cooking

Mix butter with sugar. Whisk until white.
Add brine, also beat.
Gradually add flour, whisking. The dough should be thick.
Cut the dough into circles with a glass. Put in a form at a distance from each other. Bake 20 minutes.

Lean brine cookies with oatmeal

Oatmeal brine cookies are an ideal dish for those who are on a diet. It turns out baking is nutritious, contains many useful substances. Raisins are often added to this dish, but you can put nuts and sprinkle sesame seeds on top. Hercules flakes are best ground in a blender.

Ingredients:

cucumber pickle - 100-130 ml;
oatmeal - 250-300 g;
sunflower oil - ¼ cup;
sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
sesame seeds - to taste;
raisins - to taste.

Cooking

Soak raisins in water.
Mix oat flakes with sugar and brine. Leave a little for the dough to swell.
Put raisins. Mix.
Form round cakes from the dough. Lay them out on a baking sheet.
Bake lean oatmeal cookies in brine for about 20 minutes.

If guests unexpectedly rushed in, and there is nothing to treat them with, you can advise on brine - its recipe is elementary simple, and this dish is baked for only 15-20 minutes. To decorate on top, cookies can be sprinkled with sugar, or chopped nuts, such as peanuts or almonds. You can take any brine for baking, even from under olives.

Ingredients:

any brine - 1 glass;
flour - 2 cups;
soda - ½ tsp;
vegetable oil - ½ cup;
sugar - 2/3 cup.

Cooking

Mix and beat with a whisk brine, sugar and butter.
Gradually add flour to the contents, knead the dough.
Roll out the dough and cut out circles with a glass. Bake them on a baking sheet at 200 degrees.
Decorate as desired.

The recipe for brine cookies at home can be made your “chip” and serve unusual pastries even on the festive table. Almonds and jam will add originality to the dish, with them the cookies come out fragrant and have an interesting taste. It is hard to imagine that salty brine and sugary-sweet jam are harmoniously combined in this delicate soft dish.

Ingredients:

brine - 1 glass;
flour - 1.5 cups;
soda - ½ tsp;
vanillin - 1/3 tsp;
sugar - 2/3 cup;
almonds - to taste;
jam - 1 jar;
vegetable oil - 100-120 g.

Cooking

Mix butter with sugar and beat.
While whisking, add the brine and flour in a trickle so that there are no lumps. Form a thick dough.
Remove the kneaded dough in a cold place for an hour.
Form balls, crush them with your hand, making indentations for the filling. Bake 20 minutes.
When the lean in the brine is ready, put a little jam and ground almonds on top of each.

Delicate tasty brine cookies come out if you add lemon juice or grated zest. If you wish, you can diversify the recipe even more interesting, and put olives cut in half with lemon in cookies. Then you can cook without adding sugar, and the dish will turn out even more dietary.

Ingredients:

brine - 210-250 ml;
flour - 240-260 g;
soda - ½ tsp;
lemon zest - to taste;
sunflower oil - 100-120 ml;
sugar - to taste.

Cooking

Mix brine and sugar until the latter is dissolved.
Add butter, then sifted flour, soda and zest.
Knead the dough, form small round cookies out of it.
Bake for 15-20 minutes. Garnish with a lemon wedge.

Homemade brine cookies can be supplemented with semolina. Such pastries are more satisfying, and the taste of baking is not inferior. It is recommended to beat the dough for the dish with a mixer to get a uniform consistency. It is necessary to let the dough brew, it is best to put it in the refrigerator for an hour.

Ingredients:

cucumber pickle - 1 cup;
flour - 1.5 cups;
soda - ½ tsp;
semolina - 1 cup;
sunflower oil - ½ cup;
sugar - 2/3 cup.

Cooking

Mix the sifted flour and soda with semolina.
Mix oil with brine, stir thoroughly and add sugar.
Received add to flour and semolina. Knead the dough.
Put the prepared dough in the refrigerator for 50-60 minutes.
Cut out cookies (you can choose a variety of shapes).
Put the resulting cookies on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes.

The brine can be cooked in just 10 minutes if done in a frying pan. Cookies are more beautiful if they are sprinkled with cinnamon and granulated sugar after frying. To make the pastry softer, the cookie blanks should be made thicker. Oil is better to take without smell.

Ingredients:

brine - 1 glass;
flour - 1 cup;
soda - ½ tsp;
sunflower oil - ½ cup;
sugar - 2/3 cup.

Cooking

Mix the brine, sugar and butter thoroughly, add flour in a thin stream, add soda.
Mix and make a stiff dough.
Make cookies of arbitrary shape from the dough, fry them in oil.
Decorate lean brine cookies as desired.

Brine cookies can also be prepared from rye flour in fasting, it is healthier and has a beautiful brownish tint. You can mix two types of flour - rye and wheat, so the pastries will be more tender. Soda can be replaced with baking powder. You can decorate cookies with ground nuts, serve them well with jam or jam.

Ingredients:

brine - 200 ml;
rye flour - 250 g;
soda - ½ tsp;
sunflower oil - 100 g;
sugar - to taste.

Cooking

Mix the ingredients and knead a thick dough.
Let it rest in the refrigerator.
Bake until done, up to 20 minutes.

An excellent snack-snack will be in brine. It does not contain sugar, as well as eggs, milk, margarine. Therefore, baking is suitable for those who follow the figure. It will be delicious if grated cheese, cumin or sesame seeds are added to the dough. Any shape can be given to the liver - stars, bagels, circles.

First of all, we take gauze, fold it in five layers, and filter the brine.

Pour the oil into the brine and pour in the sugar, stir thoroughly so that all the grains dissolve.

Pour the sifted flour together with soda into a deep container, mix.

Now pour in the sweet cucumber pickle and stir with a whisk, breaking all the lumps.

Cover the soft and elastic dough with a towel and leave for 20 minutes. Next, we roll out the dough into a layer with a thickness of 1 to 1.5 cm and, using any mold, squeeze out blanks for future cookies.

We put the products on a baking sheet with parchment and bake for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C.

Ready can be sprinkled with sweet powder.

For cookies, you can use not only pickle from cucumbers, but also from tomatoes. And also in the dough you can put dried chopped nuts or soaked raisins.

Oatmeal cucumber brine cookies

On cucumber pickle, you can bake simple oatmeal cookies, with raisins or crumbs. And also there is a very tasty option with coconut flakes.

Ingredients:

100 ml cucumber pickle;
100 g of granulated sugar;
a glass with a slide of oatmeal;
150 g wheat flour;
100 g coconut chips;
50 ml of vegetable oil;
0.5 teaspoon of soda;
a couple pinches of cinnamon.

Cooking:

In cucumber brine, thoroughly stir soda, cinnamon and granulated sugar.

We introduce wheat and oat flour, and also add coconut shavings, knead the dough.

On a baking sheet with parchment, spread the dough directly with a spoon and bake the cookies for 15 minutes.

Ready cookies can be sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Caramel biscuits with brine

If you want to bake something unusual and original, you should take note of the recipe for caramel cookies in cucumber pickle.

Dough Ingredients:

120 ml cucumber pickle;
100 ml of vegetable oil;
a little soda;
1 cup wheat flour;
1 teaspoon poppy;

For caramel:

150 g of granulated sugar;
50 ml of water.

Cooking:

Pour oil into the brine from salted, but not pickled cucumbers, add soda, poppy seeds and add flour, knead everything thoroughly and get a tough dough.

Roll out the finished dough into a thin layer 2 mm thick. Next, cut it into identical rectangles.

Bake on a baking sheet with parchment for three minutes on one side and three minutes on the other at a temperature of 240 ° C.

Pour water into a saucepan, add sugar and cook the syrup until light brown.

We prick the cookies with a toothpick, lower the product into caramel and immediately glue it with another cookie, then with the third and fourth.

Pour the surface of the fourth cookie with caramel and sprinkle with poppy seeds or black sesame seeds. Ready with caramel served to the table.

If caramel remains in the saucepan, then threads can be made from it. To do this, we lower the fork into the remains of the caramel and try to raise it above the container as high as possible. The resulting thin threads are immediately collected into a ball, while they have not yet frozen. Such an unusual ball can be served on the table along with cookies.

Cheese biscuits in brine

Those who love cheese crackers should definitely try baking cheese cookies in cucumber or tomato brine.

Ingredients:

200 g sausage smoked cheese;
1.5 cups cucumber pickle;
100 ml of vegetable oil;
600 g flour;
h. spoon of soda.

Cooking:

Grind sausage cheese on a grater, add soda, mix.

Then pour in the brine and butter, add the flour in portions and knead the soft and elastic dough.

From the dough we make a layer 7 mm thick and cut out curly blanks for cookies.

We shift to a baking sheet sprinkled with flour, and, if desired, sprinkle the products with coarse sea salt, bake until golden brown at a temperature of 200 ° C.

Rye biscuits in brine

Rye type of baking is a very healthy product and not so high-calorie. Such cookies can also be baked in cucumber pickle with the addition of goose fat.

Ingredients:

a glass of pickle from cucumbers;
0.5 teaspoon of baking soda;
100 g goose fat;
1 chicken egg;
a glass of rye flour;
2 cups wheat flour;
granulated sugar to taste;
any jam.

Cooking:

Pour the brine into a bowl, put the goose fat and pour in the soda, stir.

Add sugar to taste (2 tablespoons will be enough).

Then pour in the egg, add the rye flour and mix well.

Now we introduce wheat flour and knead the dough.

We roll out the finished dough into a layer 5 mm thick, using a large glass, cut out circles, using a small glass, cut out rings.

We put a ring on a large workpiece, fill the middle with jam, put it on a baking sheet with parchment and bake for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C.

Goose fat is a natural product without any synthetic additives, but if there is no such ingredient, then it can be replaced with quality butter or margarine.

On cucumber brine, pastries are rich and crumbly. Even when stored for a long time, the cookies remain soft and pleasant to the taste. And if you knead the dough without adding eggs, you get a delicious lean dessert for tea.

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