High cholesterol is known to be a bad business. But we must not break down because you can fight even at the table: the sweet and savory recipes that offer low-fat dishes are there, they are good and allow you to make delicious and healthy dishes for you and for those you love.
Here is a series of excellent recipes of "desserts without", similar in composition to vegan desserts, or without all those foods and substances, such as eggs, butter, saturated fats, which nourish cholesterol and hurt the body.
Oil brisee pasta
For those who love desserts, but also pies, this universal pasta is an important business card. It can in fact be used as a base for apple tarts, stuffed saccottini, strudel but also savory and rustic cakes.
Attention: it does not hurt, it is without butter and it is proposed to use less refined 00 flours, if you want to try them also whole wheat, spelled or kamut.
Ingredients for a medium-sized cake:
> 250 grams of type 0 or type 1 flour,
> 100 grams of warm water,
> 90 grams of extra virgin olive oil,
> a pinch of salt.
Preparation : pour the flour into a bowl and put all the other ingredients in the center; knead starting from the center and gradually incorporating all the flour, adding a little more water if necessary. It must be a smooth and homogeneous mixture, form a ball and leave it to rest for half an hour in the fridge before using it for your recipes.
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Apple and yogurt plumcake
Ideal for breakfast, the plumcake is in itself a light and versatile dessert. This is the version without eggs and with apples, but it can also be made in various flavors, using coconut yoghurt and half coconut flour, almonds and cocoa, nuts and pears, just to give some ideas of greedy variation.
Ingredients :
> 2 jars of plain yogurt,
> a jar of whole cane sugar,
> a couple of tablespoons of honey,
> 3 jars of type 0 or type 1 flour,
> a pinch of salt,
> the peel of a grated lemon,
> almost half a jar of sunflower oil,
> an apple cut into cubes,
> a sachet of baking powder,
> a sachet of vanillin
Preparation : put the yogurt and sugar in a bowl and mix them together with the other gradually added ingredients. Finally, incorporate the sifted yeast. Pour everything into a plumcake pan and bake in pre-heated oven at 165 ° C for about 30 minutes.
Crepes without eggs of buckwheat flour
If you love crêpes but you can't eat eggs, here's a really delicious and tasty recipe based on buckwheat flour.
The crêpes prepared in this way are tasty and good both sweet and savory stuffed, sprinkled with honey, hazelnut or cocoa cream, homemade jams or natural jams.
Ingredients for a couple of people:
> a couple of cups filled with buckwheat flour,
> almond milk as required
Preparation : put the flour in a bowl and slowly pour in the almond milk; it must be a smooth and homogeneous compound, dense and not too liquid, like a batter. Let it rest for about twenty minutes in the fridge.
Cook the pancakes one by one, two minutes per side, pouring a small ladle of mixture into a boiling non-stick pan.
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Instead of eggs you can also use a binder obtained from flaxseed gel, soaked in water overnight; or you can mash a boiled potato ; or still use chia seeds, as these also produce a kind of natural vegetable gel.
The butter can be substituted very well with oil; if you think that the extra virgin olive oil is too strong or heavy, you can replace it with sunflower seed oil or rice oil . To make the recipes even more friable, for example shortcrust or brisè, you can use half rice flour .
