Beetroot and Orange Brownies
Serves 12
Easy
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Here’s an improvement on the classic beetroot brownie recipe on BBC Good Food. The orange wonderfully compliments the chocolate and masks the beetroot flavour. It is also egg free!
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- 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 1
Line 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 2
Pour 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 3
Turn off the heat and stir in the orange zest, sugar and Cointreau.step 4
Peel, 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 5
Add the apple purée to the beetroot mix.step 6
Sieve the flour into a separate bowl, along with the baking powder and the cocoa powder.step 7
Stir the dry ingredients in with the beetroot mix. Pour it all into the prepared baking tin. Bake for 40-45mins.
