🟢 Serves: 12
🟢 Difficulty: Easy-Medium
⏰ Time: 15 minutes prep + 25 minutes cooking
🌟 Description
Nutritious, naturally sweetened chocolate brownies made with black beans for extra protein and fibre. You can use canned beans for convenience, but cooking dried beans retains more nutrients.
🧂 Ingredients
- 150g fresh medjool dates, pitted
- 400g dried black beans (or canned, drained and rinsed)
- 80ml extra virgin olive oil
- 50g raw cacao powder
- 40g raw honey or pure maple syrup
- 40g almond meal
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 egg
Optional:
- A handful of hazelnuts
👩🍳 Method
- 🔥 Preheat oven to 160°C and line a 20cm cake tin with parchment paper.
- 💧 If using dried beans, soak overnight, then boil until tender and cool for 20 minutes. If using canned beans, drain and rinse thoroughly.
- 🥣 Soak the dates in boiling water for 10 minutes to soften, then drain.
- 🍴 Add all ingredients, except hazelnuts, to a food processor and blend until smooth.
- 🌰 Stir in hazelnuts if using.
- 🏺 Pour mixture into prepared cake tin and bake 20–25 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.
- 🍓 Serve with berries and optional coconut yoghurt.