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In cooking, oregano is added to meat dishes (especially chicken), egg and bean dishes.
In my search for baked goods that contain more than just flour, sugar and butter, I came across this recipe. Here, in addition to the above ingredients, there is at least a carrot. And delicious at the same time!
Ingredients
Butter 225 grams
Brown sugar 225 grams
Egg 4 pieces
Zest of half a lemon
Zest of half an orange
Juice of half a lemon
Flour 175 grams
Soda 1 teaspoon
Baking powder 1 teaspoon
Ground almonds 50 grams
Walnut 150 grams
Carrots (young) 350 grams
Spice mixture:
Cinnamon
Ginger
Cardamom
Nutmeg
Preparation
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For a mold with a diameter of 20 cm
- Beat butter and sugar
- Add yolks and beat
- Add lemon juice
- Add soda
- Add flour
- Place in a pre-greased pan and bake in the oven. If the top gets too brown, cover with foil.
If you use a mold with a larger diameter, then it will take less time to bake. Just check doneness with a toothpick
Bon appetit!
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Ingredients
Butter 225 grams
Brown sugar 225 grams
Egg 4 pieces
Zest of half a lemon
Zest of half an orange
Juice of half a lemon
Flour 175 grams
Soda 1 teaspoon
Baking powder 1 teaspoon
Ground almonds 50 grams
Walnut 150 grams
Carrots (young) 350 grams
Spice mixture:
Cinnamon
Ginger
Cardamom
Nutmeg
Preparation
For a mold with a diameter of 20 cm
Butter should be at room temperature
- Sift the flour into a separate bowl and add baking powder, almond flour, spices and nuts
- Separate the yolks from the whites of eggs
- Grate the carrots on a fine grater and mix with the whites
- Beat butter and sugar
- Add yolks and beat
- Add lemon and orange zest
- Add lemon juice
- Add soda
- Mix the mixture with butter and carrots with whites
- Add flour
- Preheat oven 180°C (360°F)
- Place in a pre-greased pan and bake in the oven. If the top gets too brown, cover with foil. If you use a mold with a larger diameter, then it will take less time to bake. Just check doneness with a toothpick
The name of the pie - Pound cake (Pound cake) came from Great Britain from ancient times, when not everyone could read and this recipe was very easy to remember. After all, in this pie there was mixed a pound of flour, a pound of eggs, a pound of sugar and a pound of butter. At that time no leavening agents or
Ingredients:
salt - 0.5 tsp;
lemon acid- 0.5 tsp;
granulated sugar - 1.5 cups;
baking soda - 0.5 teaspoon;
wheat flour - 3 cups;
ground cinnamon - 1 tsp.;
chicken eggs - 2 pcs;
butter - 150-200 g;
raw grated carrots- 2 glasses
My grandmother's recipe. Everything is super simple. The gingerbread cooks very quickly. But the taste, aroma, color are simply amazing. If you love carrots, then this will be a balm for your soul, but if anyone in the family doesn’t like them, they will never understand that they are there. Therefore, by preparing such a delicacy, I hope you will please both yourself and your loved ones.
Prepare food.
Grate the carrots on a fine grater (2 cups). Place in a bowl.
Break 2 raw eggs. Mix.
Add 1.5 cups of granulated sugar and 0.5 teaspoon of salt. Mix everything again.
Pour in 150-200 grams of melted butter or margarine. Mix.
Add cinnamon. Carrots go great with it. Those who don’t like it can replace them with other spices, or, in general, do without them.
Add wheat flour, about 3 cups, and knead the dough until the consistency of thick sour cream. The dough should not be steep!
To make the dough fluffy, mix 0.5 teaspoon of soda with 0.5 teaspoon of citric acid. And, pour 1 teaspoon of this mixture into the dough we have prepared and mix. The mass will increase in size.
On a sheet lined with baking paper and greased with vegetable or olive oil, quickly spread our mixture, spread and level with a spoon. Layer thickness is about 1 cm.
Bake for 25 minutes at 180 degrees in a preheated oven.
Remove from the oven, cut into diamonds, and sprinkle ground cinnamon on top.
Very tasty, aromatic. Suitable for tea, coffee, and blueberry jelly. Bon appetit!
Cooking time: PT00H40M 40 min.
Chicken egg - 4 pcs
Sugar - 1 cup.
Wheat flour - 2 cups.
Carrots (grated, raw) - 2 cups.
Butter - 150 g
Slaked soda with vinegar - 1 tsp.
Cinnamon - 1 tsp.
Orange zest - 1 tbsp. l.
Sour cream (in cream) - 4 tbsp. l.
Condensed milk (in cream) - 4 tbsp. l.
Recipe “Carrot cake, my mother’s recipe”:
- Beat eggs with sugar until white foam. Add softened butter, stir. Then add flour in parts and mix until smooth. Next, add soda, slaked with vinegar or lemon juice, then cinnamon, carrots and the zest of one orange. Stir evenly again.
- Bake the pie in the oven at 180 degrees until done, check with a dry knife. I baked for about 50 minutes. I took a mold 22 cm in diameter.
- While the gingerbread is baking, prepare the cream: sour cream + condensed milk. Stir, maybe beat a little.
- Cool the finished pie, remove from the mold, cut into 3 layers and soak in cream. You can optionally decorate the top with grated chocolate and nuts, or anything else to suit your taste.
A recipe for carrot cake can take its rightful place both in the notebook of a novice housewife and in the list of dishes that are prepared during Lent. Preparing lean carrot cake is quick and easy. And even if this is your first culinary experience, this pie will turn out right the first time.
The peculiarity of preparing Lenten gingerbread is that the recipes should not contain ingredients of animal origin (butter, eggs, sour cream, milk). This makes it somewhat difficult to complete the task of preparing delicious baked goods. However, it is possible. And even with such a limited number of products used, the result is a delicious lean gingerbread with an amazing combination of aromas and tastes.
Today we’ll talk about how to easily and quickly prepare lean carrot cake.
There is nothing complicated in preparing lean gingerbread. Although this dessert is prepared in different ways, using different recipes and a varied combination of products.
A simple recipe for lean carrot cake
Ingredients:
- juicy carrots (it is better to take large root vegetables) – 2 pcs.
- honey - 3 tbsp. l.
- vegetable oil – ½ cup
- water – 1 glass
- sugar – ¾ cup
- ginger, cardamom - ½ tsp each.
- soda – 1 tsp.
- flour – 300 g
- cinnamon – 1 tsp.
- sunflower seeds – 60 g
- orange zest – 1 pc.
- large seedless raisins (optional) – ½ cup.
To make the pie juicy and tasty:
- carrots must be fresh;
- carrot filling must be prepared in advance: wash, peel, grate and squeeze out the juice;
- When adding raisins, they must also be sorted and washed in advance. Then pour boiling water over it for 15 minutes and leave to swell. Dried fruits will become softer and tastier. But before adding them to the dough, they must be dried by shaking them several times in a colander;
- You also need to prepare an orange (choose a large, ripe, juicy fruit). We remove the zest from it, trying not to touch the white peel and chop it.
Read also: Recipes for delicious honey gingerbread with jam
Let's start cooking:
- Prepare the carrot base. To do this, we divide the preparation of the base into two stages. First, mix the dry ingredients in a bowl (slaked baking soda, a pinch of salt, flour, steamed raisins, seeds, spices, carrots, orange zest). Mix everything thoroughly (it’s better to do this with your hands so that all the carrots are evenly coated in flour).
- In a separate saucepan, combine honey, water and sugar and heat until they are completely dissolved (almost to a boil). Add vegetable oil there (preferably refined).
- Combine the slightly cooled liquid mass with the dry mass, mix and obtain a thin, viscous dough with an orange tint.
- Bake by placing the lean carrot cake in a greased deep pan at a temperature of 180-200 degrees until cooked.
- Remove the finished carrot cake from the bowl, cool and decorate by sprinkling with powdered sugar. If you want, you can cut the resulting pie into two layers, soak them in syrup or spread with jam.
The peculiarity of lean carrot cake: with a minimum content of fatty products in the dough, it is impossible to determine by taste that this is a lean cake. On the contrary, it is a whole flavor bouquet that combines the unusual taste of carrots, orange zest, dried fruits and spices. This delicacy will appeal not only to those who are fasting, but also to those who prefer healthy, tasty food.
Lenten gingerbread with carrots, the recipe for which we got acquainted with, turns out to be soft in consistency, juicy and more tender than ordinary gingerbread gingerbreads. The structure of the dough also changes due to the addition of sunflower seeds and grated carrots. And the presence of honey in the recipe gives the baked goods a pleasant brownish tint and a unique aroma.
Carrot-apple pie
If this carrot dessert seems boring, you can prepare a lean carrot-apple pie using the same recipe. The ingredients can be taken in the same proportions as in the previous recipe, adding only a couple of apples (sour or sweet).
