Lean Macaroons

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to bake lean macaroons? Prepare all the necessary ingredients according to the list. When preparing this cookie, it is best to use more useful oat flakes, that is, those that are cooked for a long time.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the raisins, put them in a small deep container and pour boiling water for 10-15 minutes so that it is completely covered with water. Then drain the water, and put the raisins on a towel and dry it.

3. Step 3:

   

   Preheat the oven to a temperature equal to 200 °C. Put parchment paper on a baking sheet, and put nuts on it, in this case, almonds. But if desired, you can replace them, for example, with hazelnuts. Fry the nuts in the oven for 8-12 minutes, until a characteristic nutty flavor appears.

4. Step 4:

   

   Then take out the baking tray and transfer the nuts to the work surface. Cool them down.

5. Step 5:

   

   Next, put the nuts in a blender.

6. Step 6:

   

   Chop them so that the mass becomes soft and pasty. To do this, grinding nuts in a blender, periodically open the lid and check to what state the nuts are brought. To prevent the cookies from getting too dry, the almonds need to be crushed and brought to the desired consistency for at least 10-15 minutes.

8. Step 7:

   

   In a separate bowl, mash a piece of banana and add liquid honey to the banana.

9. Step 8:

   

   Next, add flour sifted through a sieve to this container, add sugar, salt, cinnamon, add baking powder and oat flakes. Also put the nut mass in a bowl. Now mix all the ingredients together so that they are evenly distributed among themselves, and a homogeneous uniform mass is obtained.

10. Step 9:

    

    Take the bitter chocolate and chop it finely with a knife. In the bowl with the dough, add the chocolate pieces and raisins. Stir the dough, but do it quickly so that the chocolate does not start to melt.

11. Step 10:

    

    Now that the dough is ready, form the cookies. So that when forming cookies, the dough does not stick to your hands, you need them to be moist. Grease the bottom of the formed cookies with vegetable oil and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to a temperature equal to 180 ° C and place a baking tray with cookies in it.

12. Step 11:

    

    Bake them for about 13-15 minutes until the chocolate begins to melt. Immediately take out a baking tray with cookies, so as not to over-dry it. I got 8 almond cookies at the output.

13. Step 12:

    

    Bon appetit!