In case you didn't see this in the comments to the last post:
Elena’s Black Bean Brownies
1 15oz. can black beans (drained and rinsed)
2 eggs
½ c unsweetened cocoa (preferably Hershey’s Dark Special)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking powder
Pinch salt
1 cup ricotta cheese
1 cup sugar (1/2 cup more or less to taste)
½ package (12oz) milk or white chocolate chips (or both!)
Other items: (use your imagination)
Chopped nuts/walnuts
Toasted coconut
Butterscotch chips
Crushed peppermint sticks
Toffee bits
Mexican chocolate version: (pretty amazing)
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ to 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Milk chocolate chips
1. Mix / mash the beans with the eggs (I use a stick/immersion blender for this – works well to pulverize)
2. Blend in rest of ingredients, adding choc chips last and stirring those in.
3. For microwave: bake in greased pie pan 9 - 10 minutes power level 80% to 90%
4. Regular oven: 350 degrees 25 – 35 minutes depending on pan (usually greased 13 x 9)
5. Have also made these in mini muffin tins – grease them well or they fight back when you try to take them out
Notes:
• These are better baked in a regular oven, but my kids have had brownie ‘emergencies’ and had to have them right away so I have the microwave directions
• Can also make ‘Blondie’ versions - with white northern beans and use butterscotch chips with almond flavoring in addition to the vanilla
• I have been getting away from canned beans – soaking and cooking the dry ones. I think that tastes better – nuttier and less ‘metallic’. If you do this then use 1 3/4 cups cooked beans for each batch.
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ReplyDeleteDuring the winter break, I am definitely staying indoor and watching all the netflix movies regarding the Monarchs of England, histories about the Turkeys and the Armenians in 1915. I am cold but relax without having to worry about anything. However, I will start re-training my brain to think after Christmas holidays. I will put aside all the kings and queens of England and will have to think of my draft research proposal. Happy Holidays to everyone!
They look innocent, but even turkeys will commit genocide under the right political conditions.
ReplyDeleteSoon- I would rather be back to polishing my brain to contextual readings- back to Booth. Learning history is great- however, it just saddens me to see how the earlier soldiers treated women those days. They were heartless and ruthless to them. It just makes me glad that I live in todays generation. Soon- we will break the glass ceiling in many organization and we will have the same and as much equal rights.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for the non- BIS feedback Dr.Winter. Hope that you are surviving these windy, bone chilling weather we have here.