Chocolate brownies..indulge without guilt

Lovely, dark and delicious

Chocolate, oats &walnuts brownie

Chocolate  baked in any manner tastes sinful. But the simple chocolate walnut brownies, an all time favourite with people of all ages, is even more so !

Dark chocolate has--happily for all of us--been found good for health. To cheer us up when we are feeling low! And to give us energy too.. and it is not really fattening..

But really, who cares if studies say otherwise?

 A chocolate--or a piece of chocolate brownie or cake or whatever...-- a day is the best self-prescription one can write.

I made a quick eggless one using a 9 inchx 9 inch square silicone baking dish that my sister Prema had gifted me—along with that silicone bundt in which I’d baked the carrot cake earlier. And I made it in my Microwave. To justify overeating, which was bound to happen, I threw in a good handful of Quaker’s oats!

There was a small hitch. The  square dish was a bit too big, and so  could not rotate in the MW. I decided to keep it going nevertheless, stopping at the end of every three minutes to turn the dish. It had got baked perfectly well, as you can see from the pictures.

Preparation time- 4 minutes

Baking time-11 minutes

Ingredients

Ingredients:

All purpose flour/Maida-1 cup

Oats- a handful/two heaped tablespoons full

Sugar-3/4 of a cup

Cocoa-1/2 cup(I used Morde pure cocoa)

Yoghurt-1 cup

Ghee/Clarified butter-1/4 cup

Vanilla essence-a few drops

Baking powder-1/2 teason

Cooking soda-1/2 teaspoon

Juice of  one lemon

Walnuts , broken- a hand full 

One pot affair

Put all the ingredients except the walnuts in a large bowl, and hand blend till smooth. 

I decided on the oats on the spot, so I threw in a handful when the batter was actually ready!

Oats too!

Then add the walnuts, and mix it very lightly, into the batter.

 Pour in the greased baking dish. 

Microwave for 11 minutes.

The Walnut Brownie cake

Turned it over in a hurry! But all that can be covered up..makes no difference to the fast!!

Sugary on the top.

Take it out after half an hour, turn it out on a sheet of foil, to cool.

 Dust it with superfine sugar,  before cutting it into squares.

 Now indulge!

Ready ..with or without a cup of  Darjeeling tea