When someone tries to find recipes without butter and margarine, they usually mean baking. Everything else — especially main and first courses and snacks — is made with these ingredients only in special cases, and is fried mainly in vegetable oil.
The five most commonly used ingredients in recipes without butter and margarine:
So baking without butter and margarine is the priority in this category. Here, in turn, these ingredients matter if the cook is making a certain type of dough: shortcrust or puff pastry. Yeast, sponge and similar doughs can do without these fats. They are either left out entirely or replaced with vegetable oil.
Without butter and margarine you can make: cookies, flatbreads, pancakes, pizza, pies, hand pies, dumplings, cakes, pastries, belyashi, cheesecakes, rolls, muffins, cupcakes, curd pastries, waffles, gingerbread and charlottes. As you can see, shortcrust baking works out just fine. But this trick will not work with puff pastry. The catch is that its dough must contain either margarine or butter. Without them you cannot achieve the very flakiness everyone loves this pastry for.
The classic dough for dishes without margarine and butter includes: flour, salt and any liquid such as water, milk, kefir, whey, fermented baked milk, yogurt or sour cream. Even in this basic form the dough comes out tender, elastic, pliable and easy to work with; it rolls out well and takes any shape. It can be thick, thin or semi-liquid. It is used for both sweet and savory dishes, for snacks and desserts.
The five lowest-calorie recipes for a dish without butter and margarine:
| Name of the dish | Cooking time | Calories per 100g | User Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pickling mushrooms at home cold | 30 d | 0 | +35 |
| Hungarian goulash in the microwave | 25 min | 0 | +20 |
| A horseradish snack | 30 min | 0 | +31 |
| Harvesting horseradish for winter | 1 hour | 0 | +26 |
| Apple preparations for winter | 6 h 30 min | 0 | +12 |
The dough may also include sugar, eggs, baking soda or baking powder. It is made with or without yeast, dry or fresh. Plenty of Easter baking is made without margarine and butter, and it comes out delicious, fluffy and not dry.