It is not necessary to deprive yourself of eating delicious pieces of pastry if they are healthy. But for this to be so, they must be made with natural ingredients and as healthy as possible.
If we add natural foods rich in vitamins and nutrients, we will achieve a balanced diet and eating tasty things. Here, we offer you some recipes that you can enjoy. Below, you will find bagels with persimmon, buckwheat cookies, cookies with cashew, and carob wafers.
Persimmon fruit is yellow and sweet. It has lots of nutrients, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. It is native to China, and later it was introduced to the rest of the world.
Curiously, buckwheat is not related to wheat, so it is gluten-free. Some cultures use it the same way as rice and as the main ingredient in Asian dishes. Buckwheat has lots of minerals as well as antioxidants. Also, it improves blood sugar control.
Native from Brazil, cashew nuts provide energy, antioxidants, minerals and vitamins. It is one of the ingredients in sweet dishes worldwide.
How to cook four healthy pastry desserts
- Bagels
Dietary bagels without flour with poppy and persimmon
- 80 g cottage cheese 1.8-2%
- 65 g oat bran
- 1 tsp psyllium
- 5 g stevia (sugar substitute)
- 1 pc egg white
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 14 g casein
- 1 g salt
- 1 tsp poppy (for filling)
- 1 tsp coconut sugar
- 1 pcs persimmon (for filling - cut into small pieces)
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Make the first variant of the dough: connect all the ingredients, except casein, directly with hands. Then pour a little casein and mix a tight dough, but do not make it dry so that it does not crumble, but it is easily rolled out if overdone - you can add 1 tsp. water, achieve plasticity of the dough. Crispy dough without the addition of flour is ready.
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Make the second version of the test: we connect all the same ingredients, except casein, directly with hands, but increase the number of the following ingredients: cottage cheese - 100 g and oat bran 65 g + add 30 g of coconut flour. Then pour a little casein and mix the dough the same way as in the first option. Soft and damp dough is ready.
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Roll the dough thin layer.
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Cut the dough into triangles - in half, in half and in half, it turns out exactly 18 pieces.
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Sprinkle the surface with coconut sugar, poppy seeds or cinnamon (than you want) and put a small piece of persimmon on a wide surface, and then - spin into the bagel, lubricating them with the remaining yolk. Persimmon can be substituted for any berry according to your taste.
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Bake for 20-30 minutes, depends on the thickness of the rolled dough, the thinner - the less time to bake. Take care not to burn.
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Take it, sprinkle with dry skim milk and everything, you can eat, even until the evening, because they almost contain no fat and carbohydrates. Bon Appetit!
- Cookies
Buckwheat diet cookies
- 160 g Buckwheat (corn)
- 50 ml kefir 0%
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp oat bran
- 1 tsp grape seed
- 2 pcs apple (average)
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Grind the buckwheat in a coffee grinder almost in flour.
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Apples are cleaned and threed on a large grater.
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Add buckwheat, bran, grape seed oil or can be replaced with olive, honey, kefir.
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Mix everything carefully and leave the minutes for 20. The dough should be well molded and do not crumble, if it is dry - add more yogurt.
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Blind the balls and then flatten them and you can sprinkle something, for example, with nuts or seeds.
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Bake in the oven at 150 ° C for an hour. That's all! Bon Appetit!
Dietary cookies with cashew
These cookies are very tasty and unique by their taste. You can make it for 5 minutes. I am a little bit exaggerating, but it really takes little time to prepare them. And everything is simple, but of genius. Bon appetite!
- 2 tbsp oat flakes
- 1 tbsp oat bran (like these or cellulose. You can also use 4 tablespoons of oat flakes instead)
- 1 pcs egg white
- 1 pcs banana
- 1 tbsp 0.5% milk
- 1/4 tsp baking powder (I use this baring powder or soda for softness)
- 1 tsp honey (this one or Jerusalem artichoke syrup, or you can avoid using both options)
- 8 pcs cashew (for decoration. You can use dried apricots or raisins instead)
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Mix everything together except cashews.
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Form your cookies and put decorate it with cashews, raisins or dried apricots.
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Put your cookies on a baking paper and bake it in the oven for 15 minutes with a 180 degrees temperature.
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Get them out and enjoy the unforgetable taste of this healthy cookies! Bon appetite!
- Wafers
Carob dietary wafers without flour, eggs, milk and sugar
- 1 tbsp peanut butter (a little bit with a slide)
- 1 pc banana
- 5 tbsp oat bran
- 3 tbsp apple puree (sugarless)
- 27 g protein (casein)
- 2 tbsp kerob in powder fried
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder, fat-free
- 1 g stevia (sugar substitute)
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Turn the waffle iron on.
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Shake the blender with a banana, apple sauce and peanut paste.
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Then interpose the remaining ingredients.
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Spread a tablespoon with a slide in the waffle iron and bake 7-10 minutes.
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You can supplement the dessert with a decoration of 1 tbsp. natural yoghurt, 1 tsp. brown rice syrup and blueberries. That's all! Bon Appetit!
Conclusion: It is possible for the delight and the health at the same time
Each one of these desserts has natural ingredients which provide lots of nutrients to your body.
Though persimmon fruit provides some calories, it is low in fats. It contains certain antioxidants which make it helpful to prevent tumours, infections, inflammations and haemorrhage. Also, it has beta-carotene, lycopene which is very important for our health. Carotenoids are essential for our retina. Vitamin C and B6 are also present in this fruit, and they act in metabolic reactions in the organism. Persimmon fruit contains vital amounts of minerals like potassium, manganese, copper and phosphorus.
Buckwheat is an excellent source of carbs, fibre, protein, vitamin and minerals, especially rutin, quercetin (that lowers risk of cancer), vitexin, d-chiro inositol (that reduces blood sugar).
Cashew nuts, on the other hand, provide a right amount of calories but have fibre, vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals that protect against cancer and diseases. They contain oleic and palmitoleic acids which are suitable for the heart. Lots of minerals are present here, manganese, potassium, copper, iron, magnesium, zinc and selenium. Only a handful of these nuts can provide nutrients enough to prevent deficiency diseases.
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