Chocolate Courgette Brownies
When the courgette season kicks in, it’s difficult to keep up with the different ways to weave them into your main dishes. But what better way to bring additional gooiness to your brownies in the form of a green vegetable?!
Servings: 16
Calories: 321kcal
Equipment
- 30x20cm/12x8" deep sided cake tin or 23cm/9" square tin
- free standing mixer or handheld
Ingredients
- 120 g plain flour
- 50 g cocoa
- 200 g dark chocolate
- 200 g unsalted butter
- 4 eggs
- 300 g caster sugar
- 300 g courgette 2 medium
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 100 g chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 °C and butter and line a 30x20cm/12x8" deep sided cake tin with baking paper.
- Sift the flour and the cocoa in a bowl.
- Place the dark chocolate and butter in a heatproof bowl and place over a pan of simmering water – ensuring the bowl does not touch the water. Stir occasionally until the chocolate and butter have totally melted. Put the bowl aside to cool slightly.
- Beat the eggs and sugar together in a free standing mixer with the whisk attachment, or with a handheld whisk, until the mixture has doubled in size. A good way to know when the mixture is ready, is when you lift the whisk and trail it around the bowl, you should be able to see the trail for 1-2 seconds.
- Fold in the melted butter and chocolate mixture. Once this is well mixed, gently fold in the flour and cocoa and stir well to combine. Finally add in the grated courgette, chocolate chips and salt. You must fold the mixture gently to ensure you don’t lose the air that you have so carefully beaten in.
- Tip the mixture into the prepared tin and gently flatten the surface with a palette knife.
- Bake in the pre-heated oven for 35-40 minutes. The top should have a shiny crust, but you want the brownie middle to be slightly gooey.
- Once cooked, remove from the oven and leave to cool completely in the tin on a rack for about an hour.
- Use the lining paper to lift from the tin and cut into 16 pieces.
Notes
- I have spiralized my courgette – I need to find use for the gadget and it looked great in the photos! - but of course you can simply grate the courgette. It won’t change the flavour at all.
- If you don’t have chocolate chips, which I often don’t, I simply chop a chocolate bar into small chunks.
- These brownies will keep for 4-5 days in a sealed container.
Nutrition
Calories: 321kcal | Carbohydrates: 36g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 68mg | Sodium: 95mg | Potassium: 230mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 26g | Vitamin A: 414IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 31mg | Iron: 2mg