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Beetroot and Orange Brownies
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Serves 12
Ingredients
- 3 medium whole raw beetroot
- 100g unsalted butter
- 200g dark chocolate
- 250g caster sugar
- 3 apples
- 100g self-raising flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 25g cocoa powder
- Zest of 2 oranges
- 1 and 1/2 tbsp Cointreau
- Lemon juice (up to 1 tbsp)
Method
- STEP 1Line a 20x20cm baking tray with baking paper. Heat the oven to 180/160 degrees fan. Wearing gloves, to avoid staining your hands, peel, top and tail and quarter the beetroot. Blitz it in a food processor, while it’s still raw. You’re aiming for fine, very small pieces.
- STEP 2Pour the beetroot into a large saucepan with the chocolate and butter. Gently heat to melt the chocolate and butter. Stir the mix as you go and let it begin to simmer.
- STEP 3Turn off the heat and stir in the orange zest, sugar and Cointreau.
- STEP 4Peel, core and quarter the apples. You may want to use lemon juice on the apples while you do this to keep them from going brown. Blitz in a food processor until you make a purée.
- STEP 5Add the apple purée to the beetroot mix.
- STEP 6Sieve the flour into a separate bowl, along with the baking powder and the cocoa powder.
- STEP 7Stir the dry ingredients in with the beetroot mix. Pour it all into the prepared baking tin. Bake for 40-45mins.