Healthy chocolate brownies and eccentric culinary methods
Nobody makes a French Fry quite like my husband. Despite this, I think it’s best that he stay away from the kitchen for the time-being. It started with an absolutely exhausting explanation for the benefit of his son-in-law on Optimal Methods for Stacking a Dishwasher. In case you’re interested, this entails rinsing everything (thoroughly) first, then stacking from the back forwards according to size and then according to pattern (assuming of course there’s any pattern left following manically frenzied rinsing). The rules of total segregation and compartmentalisation should be implemented for forks, knives and spoons. I could go on, but you probably get the drift. The final straw though, was when patient son-in-law became witness to his ‘trick’ of how to tell if butter is hot enough to fry. In case you didn’t know, you spit into the frying pan and if it sizzles that’s your green light. Anyway, one man’s green light is another woman’s red light; Mr Healthy Epicurean has been banished from the kitchen for the foreseeable.
These brownies are not only 100% spit-free, they’re healthy and delicious too.
Ingredients
50g butter
50g coconut oil
100g dark chocolate (min. 70% cocoa solids)
60g oatmeal
30g oat bran
Pinch of salt
30g organic dark cocoa
2 tablespoons flax seed
3 tablespoons agave syrup
100g almonds, chopped
Preheat the oven to 150°C. Melt the chocolate, butter and coconut oil in a small saucepan with about 4 tablespoons of water. Once melted, add the other ingredients one by one, stirring all the time. Once you have obtained a homogenous mixture, spoon into a 20cm baking tin and cook for 30 minutes. Cut into squares in the tin and leave to cool.
14 Comments
apuginthekitchen
Had to laugh at the dishwasher story. The brownies sound wonderful as always you take a delicious but unhealthful treat and turn it into something good for you!
The Healthy Epicurean
Thanks! The worst thing is that the dishwasher story isn’t even an exaggeration 🙂
xavier
I am the son-in-law and I approve this message
all of it ! and even more !
The Healthy Epicurean
I hope that you’ll be able to remember all your lessons until you come back 😉
xavier
the author is clearly an expert in the field of understatement. and of delicious cooking, which never goes without saying.
Jessie E.
I love spit-free brownies! 😉 I’m a bit maniacal about stacking the dishwasher, too, although I tend to give up about halfway and throw them in haphazardly. Love the look of these brownies, and bonus for being healthful!
The Healthy Epicurean
LOL 🙂 Well if you need advice on how to not give up halfway through you know where to come 😉
eatinglikeahorse
Haha, I love the spit-free comment! I was just drooling over a recipe for delicious looking but much unhealthier brownies so these could well be the way forward; I love the idea of using oat flour 🙂
eatinglikeahorse
– I mean oats… not sure where I got oat flour from!
The Healthy Epicurean
Of course you must make them with oats to be eating like a horse 😉
Shannon (Healthiful Balance)
Ohh, these look yummy! I have everything except the coconut oil and agave on hand so those need to go on my shopping list. 🙂
The Healthy Epicurean
They are Shannon. I hope you enjoy them 🙂
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