Eggless Amaranth Flour Brownies
Eggless Amaranth Flour Brownies recipe comes to you as my baking experiment after a long time. The little one wanted a yummy snack last evening and the rajgira atta or amaranth flour lying in my pantry invited me. My previous experiments with amaranth flour were bajji and cookies
Eggless Amaranth Flour Brownies
The recipe is super easy and if you follow to T. I randomly experimented with all the knowledge of healthy baking and my little experience and this now tops my best bakes list in the family. A gluten-free, white sugar-free, nearly vegan brownie turning to be an out of the world bake made my day. The baking took me less than 40 minutes but writing this and photography took me close to 6 hours. Thanks to Gouthami,my buddy on helping with photography tips.
Please read the healthy baking guide and your oven manual before you begin baking.
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Baking Time-25-35 minutes
Temperature: 160 degrees C
Mode: Lower Rod On
Makes 9 brownies of the size shown below
Ingredients:
- Amaranth Flour/Rajgira Atta-1/2 cup
- Palm Sugar (Powdered and sieved)- 1/3 cup
- Apple sauce-2/3 cup (For recipe click here )
- Cocoa Powder-1/4 cup (Unsweetened)
- Oil-1 tbsp (I have used ghee)
- Baking Powder-3/4 tbsp
- Almond Flour-2 tbsp(Optional)
Replacement Choices:
Amaranth + Almond Flour – Any flour (Wheat, Millet flour, Combo of Millet & Wheat Flour, Combo of Nut+ Wheat/ Millet Flour)
Apple Sauce – Flaxseed meal (1 tbsp) plus rest yoghurt or milk
Palm Sugar- Any powdered sweetener
Oil- Ghee or Melted Butter
You may skip almond flour.
Eggless Amaranth Flour Brownies
Procedure:
1. Measure all the ingredients and keep them ready. All ingredients have to be in room temperature.
2. Preheat the OTG to 160 degrees C for ten minutes. Grease a pan and dust with some flour.
3. Sieve the palm sugar, flours, cocoa powder twice individually.
4. Add the apple sauce and oil to the dry ingredients
5. Just mix them together. Don’t beat or mix fast or blend. Just cut and fold.
6. Add the batter to greased pan and tap to remove air bubbles.
7. Bake at 160 degrees C for 25-30 minutes. Stop baking at 25 minutes and check for the toothpick test. If needed bake for 5 to 7 more minutes.
8. When the brownie passes the toothpick test carefully take out from the OTG and wrap a wet towel around it. Scrap the edges when it is cooled.
9. Invert on a plate and slice them after the brownie is completely cooled.
10. The amaranth flour brownies are ready to enjoy
Notes:
Do not try to invert the brownie before it cools down.
Cut into pieces only after the brownie is cooled.
The brownie is crumbly in nature.
Please read through your oven manual before proceeding.
Dip the knife in hot water to slice the cake perfectly.
Sieving the dry ingredients is a major step that prevents disasters.
You can also top it with any nuts of your choice.
It stays good for 3 days at room temperature and 5 days in the refrigerator
Be generous in using butter to grease the pan.
This can be offered to babies above one year.
Please have a word with your doctor before introducing any new food.
What is Rajgira flour/Amaranth Flour?
The flour is basically from the seeds of amaranth plant(thandu keerai/mullai keerai in Tamil). This is a seed and not a grain like other millets. They pop up the seeds and use in cooking/consumed as such /roasted and ground as flour. The amaranth plant is called Chaulai in Hindi and the seeds are named as Rajgira | Ramdana in Hindi and Marathi, Rajgaro in Gujarati, Mulai Keerai /Thandu Keerai in Tamil and seeds are called Keerai Vithai, Thotakura Ginjalu, Cheera in Malayalam and Harive in Kannada (plant name). It is actually a pseudo-grain to be very precise. It can be either red or white in colour. The flour is usually slightly ivory in colour or reddish(if seeds are red)
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How can I use them?
You can either choose to buy the roasted flour as such or use the seeds to grind the flour.
You can cook it as a cereal, pop like corn(popcorns), grind into flour and use it.
When can I offer Amaranth flour/seeds to my baby?
As early as 180 days plus/six months plus.
Nutritional Information:
It is extremely rich in protein and calcium making it the best protein plant source. It has all essential amino acids and Vitamin B2, B6, B9 and minerals like iron, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, selenium, sodium and copper
Health Benefits:
1.Rich in protein hence daily intake of it will help in equalizing the daily protein requirement of the human body.
2.Helps in reducing bad cholesterol and good for diabetes.
3.Has good iron content and folic acid and helps during pregnancy
4.Ensures protection of bones and joints.
5.Keeps up the skin and hair follicles rich and good.
6.Speeds up metabolism and also protects from heart diseases.
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Disclaimer:
I am not a qualified doctor/nutritionist/medical practitioner. The information is not equivalent to medical expert advice. The information is based on the reading and research I do and the references are shared above. Thank you