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Pumpkin-Orange Cookies
Pumpkin is one of the common ingredients for the autumn menu. It is not only tasty but also very healthy for children and adults. It positively affects the liver, heart, intestines, and gallbladder. It strengthens the immune system and helps to recover from many diseases faster.
Therefore, you can confidently use it not only for porridges, casseroles, and thick soups but also for baking. After all, you can get delicious and fluffy cookies from it. For an aromatic note, we will add orange zest. Additionally, to obtain the dough, you must add flour, an egg, sugar, salt, sour cream, and baking powder.
Preparation time: 25 minutes.
Ingredients
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- one egg;
- 200 g of pumpkin;
- 4 cups of flour;
- 5 tbsp of sugar;
- one orange;
- 4 tbsp of sour cream;
- 1.5 tbsp of baking powder;
- 0.5 tsp of nutmeg;
- salt.
Preparation
- Pumpkin is a very healthy ingredient. Therefore, in this dish, it will become the "highlight." Using a meat grinder, finely chop the pumpkin pulp. Add salt and nutmeg. Mix the mass.
- Using a fine grater, obtain the zest of the orange for the cookies. Add it to the pumpkin.
- To the pumpkin and orange, we will add all the missing ingredients to get light cookies. This includes the egg, sour cream, and sugar.
- Mix everything and add the flour with the baking powder. Knead the dough. The dough for pumpkin-orange cookies should not be sticky.
- Roll out the dough for the cookies, and then use cookie cutters to obtain shapes for baking. Alternatively, you can completely cover the baking sheet with dough and then cut it into small portioned pieces after baking. If desired, you can sprinkle the cookie shapes with sugar on top. Bake the pumpkin-orange cookies at 200-220 degrees for no more than 20 minutes.
And here we have the original cookies made from pumpkin and orange.
