Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Avocado Brownies (Egg Free)

Ingredients and Method to make Avocado Brownies
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
2 tbsp butter melted
1 large avocado peeled and de- seeded
4 tbsp water
1 cup whole wheat flour (atta/ godumai maavu) (can be substituted with all purpose flour/ maida)
1/2 cup fine sugar (see notes) 
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla essence
3 tbsp milk

a few drops of oil/ or a little butter to grease the baking dish. 

Pre heat oven to 350 deg F (approx 180 deg C)

Grease a 9X9 inch pan with a little oil/ butter and keep aside.

In a microwave safe dish melt chocolate chips + butter in 30 sec increments until the chocolate chips are fully melted. It took me about 1 to 1 and 1/2 mins in my microwave for the chocolate to melt.

Add melted butter to the melted chocolate chips and mix well.

Cut avocado in half, remove the seed, peel the skin and puree avocado with 4 tbsp of water until it is smooth. This yielded 1 cup of puree. Add puree to the melted choco chips + butter and mix well.  Add sugar to this mixture and mix well.

In a separate bowl, add whole wheat flour, baking powder, salt and mix well. Add this flour mixture to the choco + avocado mixture and mix gently. Add vanilla essence and milk and mix again.
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Pour this batter into pre greased pan, level it a little with a knife or the back of a spoon and bake for 20 to 22 minutes or until a tooth pick/ cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.

Cool a little, cut into squares and enjoy :)

Notes:
With this quantity of sugar this brownie has mild sweetness which is the way we all like it at home. If you like a more pronounced sweetness in your brownies, you could increase the sugar to 3/4 cup.

If you use a different sized pan, the baking times could vary, a smaller pan would take longer and a larger pan would take lesser time. Also a smaller pan would give you thicker brownies and a larger pan would give you a thinner brownies.