Oatmeal cookies: calorie or benefit?

One can argue that far more people like oatmeal cookies than oatmeal, despite the fact that "Hercules" is almost the best breakfast of all times and peoples. It is said that the very first cookies from such flour appeared in the human diet almost immediately, as the first bread was baked. The only difference between the old oatmeal cookies and the modern one was that it was unsweetened. It later began to pour sugar on it and make small round cakes of dough.

About oatmeal cookies in Russia learned back in the time of the kings, and the most appetizing and delicious baked, of course, in St. Petersburg. Adherents of this delicacy gathered from all corners of the country, only to buy themselves a kilogram of this delicious, sweet and friable masterpiece of cooking. In those days, even great receptions with tea parties were taken, where the St. Petersburg oatmeal cookies, whose calorie content was probably high, should certainly have been present.

Tsarist times have long passed, and oatmeal pastries still exist and are loved by many for their delicious taste and useful properties. Modern recipes of this cookie often include all kinds of fillers in their composition in the form of vanilla, raisins, delicious fruit syrups, pieces of chocolate, jam and much more.

Despite the calorie content of oatmeal cookies, a breakfast of several of his things, drunk with a glass of milk, can completely replace the whole plate of Herculean porridge for the number of vitamins and nutritional value. Therefore, let there always be fresh and delicious baking from oatmeal on your table, in the vase, because the proteins that are part of the oats are almost 100% absorbed by the human body and in their composition have very valuable vegetable fats, provitamins A, Vitamins of PP and B groups, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, minerals, amino acids and trace elements, which are close in composition to the muscle protein.

As already mentioned above, there are many recipes, how to cook about all cookies. The calorie content of such homemade baking is slightly lower than the store's, so it will appeal to slimming sweeties. Here is one of the recipes. The cookies baked on it go terrificly tasty and not too high in calories. So, we will need:

- oatmeal "Hercules" - 3 cups;

- Wheat flour - 3 cups;

- margarine - 1 packet (250g);

- chicken egg - 2 pieces;

- sugar - 2 glasses, but it is possible and less;

- soda - 1 teaspoon;

- kefir - a little, only to extinguish soda;

- honey - 2 tablespoons;

- salt - to taste.

Such homemade oatmeal cookies have a moderate calorie content , approximately 300-320Kcal, while in the storehouse it contains more than 400Kcal. So, let's pass the oatmeal through the meat grinder, sift the wheat flour. Razirayem eggs with sugar, add not hot, melted margarine, extinguished kefir soda, honey, salt. All carefully kneaded and gradually add wheat flour and oatmeal passed through the meat grinder. If necessary, flour with ground Hercules can be added in equal proportions. The resulting dough is hidden in the refrigerator for half an hour, and then rolled out into a pancake 1cm thick, cut out with a mold or a glass of pechenyushki, sprinkle it with sugar and bake approximately 15 -25 minutes at 170 degrees until the desired color is obtained.

Naturally, with the addition of a large number of sweet components in oatmeal cookies, its caloric content increases. So everyone who dreams of losing weight, most likely, should exclude sugar, jam and other "impurities" from this batch. But you can include dried fruits and walnuts. Such yummy will be especially useful to those in whose diet is catastrophically lacking animal proteins, fats, trace elements and vitamins. In addition, oatmeal in all its manifestations has the most necessary useful elements, which effectively fight with atherosclerosis.

If you are now not very interested in oatmeal cookies, caloric content and everything else related to food, try to make a face mask from Hercules or just wash it with chopped croup. You will see that your skin will change just before your eyes.