How to feed the whole family with a healthy oatmeal breakfast? If your children do not want to eat it at all, take into service recipes for quick and tasty pastries - oatmeal cookies from Hercules. Such a trick will allow you to offer easily digestible and fortified, healthy and dietary cookies to the table.
They are conveniently wrapped in a bag for a quick snack at work or a snack at school. And adding nuts, honey, dried fruits or other components to your preferences, you will receive not only an even more healthy product, but also the most delicious cookies.
Hercules oatmeal cookies - general principles of preparation
Hercules oatmeal is large and free of impurities; it is best suited for the preparation of cookies. You need to choose flakes from trusted manufacturers and as fresh as possible.
For oatmeal, the cereal is left whole, crushed into crumbs or flour. From each option, individual oatmeal cookies of various consistencies are obtained.
In oat dough, you must add a binder component. They may be a chicken or quail egg (in its entirety, only yolk or only protein) or a banana. Butter (butter or vegetable) is also suitable - the flakes will be soaked with them and will stick together, forming a dough for baking.
It is permissible to add wheat flour (premium), corn starch or dry semolina into oat dough.
Dried fruits or fresh fruits, corn flakes or popped rice, spices or spices, chopped candied fruits or ground nuts are used as additives in the recipes of such a treat.
The baking time of products depends on the size of the cookies. Small cookies of 20 g are baked much faster than products of 60 g.
Hercules oatmeal cookies - a classic recipe
Ingredients:
• a couple of glasses of oatmeal;
• one egg;
• an incomplete glass of sugar;
• a third pack of butter.
Cooking method:
1. Stir oatmeal with prepared sugar.
2. Melt butter in a water bath or microwave. Add it to the cereal.
3. There, break the egg and thoroughly mix all the ingredients with your hands.
4. Once the mass becomes dense, form blanks. With wet hands, make several balls from the dough and put them on a baking sheet covered with paper.
5. Press on top of each ball with a spoon and form cookies.
6. Send cookies to the hot oven for half an hour.
Oatmeal cookies from Hercules and Ginger
Ingredients:
• a glass of hercules;
• one chicken egg;
• a spoon of semolina;
• 1 tbsp. l Sahara;
• a pinch of ground ginger;
• a handful of hazelnuts;
• 1-2 tbsp. l vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. Mix whole oatmeal flakes with a little beaten egg. Add dry semolina. Stir and let the mixture brew until the grains of porridge swell. This is about a quarter of an hour.
2. In the meantime, grind nuts in a crumb paste. This can be done in a coffee grinder, in a manual meat grinder or blender. It is permissible to take any nuts to taste, but some (almonds, walnuts) will have to be cleaned from dark skin.
3. Then mix ground ginger, nut paste and sugar into the mass. Instead of ground ginger, you can use nutmeg, coconut, confectionery sprinkles or sesame seeds.
4. Take a silicone platform with small cookie cutters. Lubricate it with vegetable oil using a pastry brush.
5. Put oatmeal dough in each tin and slightly press down to even out the consistency.
6. Send to the oven at 180-200 ° C for a quarter of an hour.
7. When the cookies are ready, immediately lay them out of the form should not be. Better let them cool.
Oatmeal Hercules and Milk Cookies
Ingredients:
• one glass of hercules;
• two egg yolks;
• a spoonful of sugar;
• 3-4 tbsp. l wheat flour;
• a couple of spoons of milk (or water);
• salt;
• a pinch of baking powder;
• 1 tbsp. l vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. Flakes "Hercules" slightly grind in a blender, but not finely. There should be a consistency of grains, but not flour.
2. Separately, beat two egg yolks with milk. Stir in cereal, salt and sugar. Leave for a quarter of an hour so that the mass is slightly swollen and acquires a uniform consistency.
3. Separately mix the flour and baking powder. Pour the mixture into the cereal. Mix.
4. Turn on the oven at 200 ° C. Take a baking sheet and cover it with baking paper. To make the finished cookies well depart from it, grease with vegetable oil.
5. The dough is divided into small parts and laid out on a baking sheet in the form of blanks. To make the cookies the same, it is more convenient to share the dough with a spoon - a tea, table or figured ice cream.
6. Put to bake for 15-20 minutes. The smaller the products, the faster they will bake.
7. When the cookies are ready, remove them from the oven and let cool. They harden a little. Then carefully remove them from the pan with a spatula.
Oatmeal cookies made of oatmeal and honey
Ingredients:
• 100 g of hercules;
• 120 g of butter (ghee or margarine);
• two egg yolks;
• three tablespoons of natural honey;
• 100 g of wheat flour;
• a couple of pinches of baking powder;
• a couple of spoons of powdered sugar.
Cooking method:
1. Mash the soft butter with honey and yolks.
2. Grind oatmeal into flour and pour into the oil mixture. Stir and add prepared baking powder and flour. Knead by hand a soft and elastic ball of dough.
3. Wet hands with cold water and divide the dough into equal parts. Form the balls and flatten them a little so that the cookie blanks come out.
4. Place blanks on a baking sheet on baking paper. It is better to leave a distance between the workpieces.
5. Send to the oven for baking for a quarter of an hour.
Oatmeal and banana oatmeal cookies
Ingredients:
• 100 g of hercules flakes;
• half of one banana;
• a spoon of powdered sugar;
• 1 tsp cocoa powder;
• 100 ml cream (fat sour cream or soft cottage cheese);
• ¾ Art. wheat flour;
• a couple of pinches of soda;
• 1 tsp lemon juice (or any citrus).
Cooking method:
1. Grind oatmeal in a blender or coffee grinder to a state of fine crumbs.
2. Separately, mash a banana with powdered sugar, cocoa and cream. Add oatmeal to this mass. The same recipe is suitable for making oatmeal with soft cottage cheese or sour cream.
3. Add lemon juice to the soda and mix with flour. Add the mixture to the banana. Knead the dough. Roll it with a rolling pin into a layer 2-3 cm thick.
4. Moisten the cookie cutters in cold water and push in the dough. You will get blanks for cookies of the kind that the molds are taken.
5. Cover the baking sheet with low sides with food foil and lay the products on it. Put in the oven for baking. Recommended temperature - 180˚С, time - 20-25 minutes.
Hercules oatmeal cookies with puffed rice
Ingredients:
• a glass of hercules flakes;
• half a glass of milk;
• salt;
• 3-4 tbsp. l Sahara;
• a spoon of powdered sugar;
• ½ tsp baking powder;
• 5-6 Art. l corn starch (or premium wheat flour);
• egg;
• 2 tbsp. l popped rice;
• a spoonful of vegetable oil.
Cooking method:
1. Grind oatmeal. Pour milk, salt. Bring to a boil over low heat. Allow to cool.
2. Divide the egg into protein and yolk.
3. To mix protein and sugar in porridge with milk. Corn starch, baking powder and puffed rice are also sent there. Stir uniformly with your hands; there should be no lumps of unstirred starch.
4. Slice the cookie blanks from the dough and roll them into balls. Arrange them on a greased baking sheet.
5. Beat the yolk a little with sweet powder. Coat the surface of the workpieces with this mixture.
6. Put the baking sheet in the oven for 25-30 minutes at a temperature of 180-200 ° C.
Oatmeal cookies from hercules and dried fruits
Ingredients:
• two glasses of oatmeal;
• a handful of dried fruits (seedless);
• a glass of powdered sugar (or sand);
• a pinch of cinnamon;
• 160 g of butter.
Cooking method:
1. For this recipe, it is better to take small oatmeal and chop large ones a little.
2. Rinse dried fruits in warm water and pat dry. Then finely chop and grind in mashed potatoes. If you take raisins, you can leave it in its entirety. This component can even be replaced with any fruit puree to taste (apple, plum, peach).
3. In a bowl, mix the cereal, dried fruit, sugar, and cinnamon.
4. Melt the butter in a frying pan or in a saucepan over low heat. Put the mixture for the products there. Without stopping heating, actively mix the mass with oil until smooth. When sugar is caramelized, the mass will become sticky and ruddy slightly brownish. Remove the pan from the heat.
5. Prepare silicone molds - it is better to take shallow and not deep. Put hot oatmeal in each tin and tamp a little.
6. Next, leave the forms on the table for cooling. The blanks will harden, it will be possible to pull them out of the molds.
Hercules oatmeal cookies - tricks and tips
• You can grind oatmeal with a blender, a coffee grinder or by passing through a meat grinder.
• Before forming cookies, it is better to moisten your hands with cold water, so it will be easier to sculpt from the mass of the workpiece.
• To change the color and the additional chocolate flavor, cocoa powder, melted or crushed chocolate is added to the dough. Any one is suitable - dark, milky or white.
• Freshly baked oatmeal cookies are quite soft and can lose their shape. So it’s better to let them cool in shape or on a baking sheet. And then put it on a plate.
