The Weekly Steemit Health Challenge #7: ZUCCHINI BROWNIES

Greetings healthy food community, today I am going to present a delicious healthy dessert, as it is: Zucchini Brownies. My entry into this seventh week of the challenge organized by @healthsquared and @sweetsssj.


This is a very healthy dessert, versatile, economical, nutritious, with few ingredients and lots of fiber. It is suitable for celiac, diabetic, intolerant, allergic and special diets. A creative option to include vegetables, legumes in children's diet and lunch boxes.

Benefits and Properties of Zucchini

The zucchini contains:

• Vitamins: B1, B2, B6, C, folates or folic acid.
• Minerals: Potassium, magnesium, sodium, iodine, iron, calcium and phosphorus.
• Others: a lot of water, carbohydrates, proteins and very few fats.

Recommended for:

• Immune system (folates).
• Collagen, teeth, bones, red blood cells, immune system (magnesium).
• Muscles and nervous system (potassium)
• Laxative (potassium).

As a diuretic, it acts by stimulating the elimination of liquids from the organism, due to this its application is highly advisable to treat urinary infections, cystitis and nephritis. In the same way it helps to prevent the appearance of kidney stones.

Nutritional information of chickpeas:

A portion of 100 grams of cooked chickpeas without salt gives us carbohydrates (creators of energy), dietary fiber (good for heart and digestive health), proteins and fats, but also, chickpeas offer in its composition vitamin A, B6 , C, E and K, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, magnesium, iron and sodium.

Main benefits of chickpeas.

Chickpeas serve to reduce blood cholesterol levels, but in turn, it is good to lower blood pressure and the amount of triglycerides. It can reduce the risk of heart attacks, heart disease and stroke.

INGREDIENTS (6-8 servings):

• 1 cup chickpea flour (You can also use banana flour)
• Sweetener to taste
• 1/4 cup of coconut oil.
• 4 tablespoons of cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla without gluten
• 1 large zucchini (350 g)
• Chocolate pieces or nuts (optional)

PREPARATION:

1.- Preheat the oven to 180 ° C.

2.- Grate the zucchini with skin.

3.- Add the cocoa powder, the sweetener, the oil and the flour, mix well with the vanilla, the chocolate in pieces and the nuts until integrating.

4.- Grease the mold and pour the mixture.

5.- Bake 25 to 30 min at 180 ° C.

6.- Ready, let cool and cut your brownies.

You can bathe with chocolate 🍫 melted.

Super rich, enjoy it with the whole family.