Steemit Culinary Challenge: Extremely Healthy Red Bean Brownie ! 🍫🍪

Today I would love to present my entry for Steemit Culinary Challenge held by @woman-onthe-wing ! It is my first time taking part in that challenge! Oh, wait.... in any challenge on Steemit! I've beend following it ever since I joined Steemit and today I decided to make my entry as well! The topic is perfect for me, as a dietitian - if I bake, I bake healthy cakes!

On sunday I sat down with my morning coffe and a piece of freshly baked Bean Brownie, scrolled down the wall on Steemit and bumped on this week's topic. Red Bean Brownie I have just baked and was really proud of, perfectly suited it, so I decided to take the chance, bake another one and share that lovely recipe with you!

The Brownie I made is extremely healthy, there is no added sugar and even no sugar substitutes! The dates are responsible for the sweetness. Believe me or not but there is also no wheat of any kind added! So it's even gluten and lactose free. The cake is easy to make, used ingredients are 100% natural and it only takes about 10 minutes to prepare it! You can eat even a few pieces and should not feel remorse at all! Simply delicious, even my brother and father who are not fans of my "fit bizzare recipes" claimed they love that one. Its main ingredient is red bean and you would have never guessed that tasting it, simply amazing! 😀

So without further ado, here it is:

Red Bean Brownie

Ingredients

• 800g of red beans (canned or cooked and cooled)
• 3 eggs
• 200g of dried dates
• 40g (2 full tablespoons) of cacao powder
• 50g of vegetable oil ( I used olive oil)
• 1 teespoon of baking soda (you can skip it)

Directions

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celcius. Soak dried dates in a glass of hot (even boiled) water.

• Drain off the beans if you use canned ones and rinse under running water.

• Get the dates out of water and put them in a small mixer. Save the water for later!

• Mix the dates until you get a smooth consistency. You can add a few tablespoons of water left from soaking if needed for a better mix. This is how it should look like.

• Now it's time to blend all the ingredients together. Add eggs, beans, dates paste, baking soda, cacao powder to a bowl and simply mix.

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• Now add olive oli. If needed you can add more water from the dates soaking to get a looser consistency.

• Ok, when it's smooth and there are no lumps you can place it into a baking mold.

Now it has to sit in the oven for about 40 minutes to an hour. Now you can prepare a topping! I'm really sorry I didn't do a making of my chocolate topping but it was an experiment and I was not sure what I'll do. All in all, it went out well and all you need to do is to dissolve coconut oil, add cacao powder and some dates paste. Anyway, you can skip that part as well, the cake is really tasty itself!

This is how it looks like:

just taken out of the oven

when I turned it up side down

and decorated with the topping and some almonds.

TASTY!

Nutritional values:

1 portion (out of 10) provides:

210 kcal
9,6 g of protein
24 g of carbohydrates
8,5 g od fats (unsaturated so the healthy ones)

There is no need to cheat with this cake! Enjoy and follow me for more healthy recipes! :)