Preparation: Step 1
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Prepare all the ingredients necessary for lean oat cookies. Turn on the oven to warm up 170 degrees. Battering for baking, pre -grab with a parchment sheet.
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Step 2
Pour oatmeal flour into a deep bowl. Add soda and cinnamon to flour. Mix dry ingredients thoroughly in a bowl. Soda with cinnamon should be well distributed in the entire volume of flour.
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Step 3
Wash the orange very well. Using small graters, remove the zest from an orange. Pay attention to the fact that we need only an orange layer. Try not to touch the white layer of the peel, as it adds bitterness. Cut the orange and squeeze juice from it with a fork or special device.
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Step 4
In a bowl to dry ingredients, add a prepared orange zest. Pour squeezed juice. Add honey, as well as vegetable oil without smell.
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Step 5
Combine dry and wet ingredients, knead the dough. It should be quite plastic and soft. If the dough seems dry to you, then you need to add a little more orange juice. The moisture content of the dough directly depends on the quality and grinding of oatmeal flour.
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Step 6
Divide the dough into 11-12 equal parts. Put each piece of dough with your palms in a small ball. It should turn out like a walnut. With your palm, slightly smell each ball of dough. Put the resulting cookies on a prepared baking sheet with a parchment sheet.
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Step 7
Bake cookies in the middle of the oven preheated to 170 degrees. Follow the time. For cooking cookies, it will take an average of 7-10 minutes. Try not to dry cookies. It should increase slightly in size. Characteristic cracks and a light golden hue will appear on its surface.
Cool the finished cookies and serve. Lenten oatmeal cookies are very fragrant due to orange zest, juice and cinnamon. If desired, before baking, you can sprinkle cookies with almond petals chopped nut or poppy. This will give the liver an additional taste and festive appearance.
Also, if desired, you can cover the finished cookies with a small amount of powdered sugar. Bon appetit!
