Hey guys.
I'm Dr. Josh Axe, and welcome to my kitchen.
Today, I'm going to be doing a recipe that I love and you're going to love as well.
It's black bean brownies, and you may think to yourself, "Black beans and brownies, they
don't seem like they mesh together too well," but they do.
And this recipe is delicious, it's healthy for you, you're going to love it.
So we're going to start off with the main ingredient, and that's black beans.
Black beans, a lot of people don't know this, but they have more antioxidants than blueberries.
So if you ate one cup of black beans versus one cup of blueberries, you're getting even
more antioxidants in black beans, that's where you get that dark brown color.
Those are called flavonoids, and they'll help your body fight through radical damage, help
you age slower.
Also loaded with tons of good fiber, B vitamins.
So black beans are a great thing to be getting into your diet almost every day.
So we're going to add in one can of black beans.
You'll notice we put it in a cup here, we drained the water first.
You want to drain the water out of the can, and then you want to add in the black beans,
like so.
Next thing we're going to add in are three organic eggs.
You're going to use the whole egg.
The great thing about eggs is the yolk part of the egg is loaded with choline and lecithin,
and those are two things that will actually de-plaque your arteries, it will start pulling
plaque out.
There's a lot of concern with, "Egg yolks have cholesterol."
Well, it's good cholesterol, 60% of your brain and nervous system are made up of cholesterol
and fat.
So you want good healthy fat, you want good cholesterol.
Also, that yellow color in there is beta-carotene, vitamin E, and some other antioxidants that
you're finding in those egg yolks, so you want to do three organic eggs.
Next thing we're going to add in is some vanilla.
You're going to use one teaspoon of vanilla.
We're going to add that, we've got some Simply Organic vanilla here.
There we go.
Next thing we're going to add in is either two teaspoons or four packets here of stevia.
Stevia is a no calorie, natural sweetener that actually comes from the herb of a flower.
So, we're going to open these up here, kind of pour those in.
Again, you can do two teaspoons or four packets of stevia.
All right, open these last two here, pour them in.
All right, and the other great thing about this recipe is that it has almost no sugar
in it at all, because you're using stevia.
We're going to use another thing here called xylitol, so even if you're diabetic, its a
great thing to be getting on a daily basis in your diet, and if you're trying to lose
weight as well.
We're going to be adding in about a half cup of water here, between a fourth of a cup and
half a cup, but go ahead, and this is actually about a fourth of a cup of water.
The next thing we're going to add in is just a dash of sea salt.
About a fourth of a teaspoon, just like so.
Next, we're going to add in some coconut oil.
This is the oil we use in coconuts, it's got some medium chain fats in it called lauric
acid.
So a lot of good health benefits there, a couple tablespoons.
We'll do one more here, it probably equaled about four tablespoons right there.
Then we're going to add in some cocoa powder.
Of all recipes, this is one of the most antioxidant rich recipes that we have because you have
the black beans with the antioxidants and then we've got cocoa powder, which is loaded
with antioxidants as well.
So we're going to do about half a cup here of cocoa.
Oh, I added a little too much there.
All right, there we go.
So, you can do it without making the mess.
Half a cup here of cocoa powder.
Next we use is xylitol, and xylitol, you see, it says no GMO.
It's a natural sweetener that has really not much sugar content.
A little bit, but not a whole lot, so it's probably the next best thing to stevia.
We're going to add in about a half a cup there of xylitol.
And one last ingredient.
We're going to add in some gluten free flour.
Gluten free flour is typically made with bean flour, potato flour, sometimes brown rice
flour.
We're going to add in about a half a cup here.
There we go.
This gluten free flour.
Next step here is getting everything mixed up.
So, we've got a Vitamix here we're going to use.
You can use this in a regular blender as well, you may have to stir a little bit more often.
So we're going to get this all stirred up now.
That looks delicious.
I made it just like that.
Next thing we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and take the black bean brownie
mix here and we're just going to go ahead and pour it into a glass dish.
Now, this glass dish, we took a little bit of coconut oil and coated the pan.
That way it doesn't stick.
We're going to take this right here like so, and simply go ahead and go in here like this
and let's go ahead and get all the mix out as much as we can.
You can see here, we've got the black bean brownie mix.
Now, what you're going to do, is you're going to go and pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees,
and you're going to cook these or bake these for about 45 minutes.
So we're going to go and take these black bean brownies here, slip them in the oven.
We're going to wait about 45 minutes until they're ready to go.
So we've been letting the black bean brownies cook for about 45 minutes now, so we're ready
to get them out of here.
We're going to snag them out like so, and you can see here, man these look delicious.
A little hot, or I would taste them right now.
But again, black bean brownies.
Remember some of the benefits here.
It's got black beans, loaded with antioxidants.
Cocoa, loaded with antioxidants, and it's almost completely sugar free because you're
just using stevia and xylitol.
Stevia is a no calorie natural sweetener, xylitol, very, very low in sugar content.
This is great for anybody.
It's a dessert that you can actually lose weight with.
Enjoy this dessert, enjoy this recipe, and let me know how you like it.