Diese Quinoa-Brownies are delicious, healthy, gluten-free, flourless brownies made in one bowl using high-protein quinoa. Plus, these are vegan brownies made with no eggs or dairy.
I’m a huge fan of healthier brownies that turn the classic recipe into healthier ones, like my Apfelmus-Brownies, Gesunde Browniesden Butternusskürbis-Brownies.
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Quinoa-Brownies
Inhaltsstoffe
- ½ Tasse Uncooked Quinoa - (Anmerkung 1)
- ½ Tasse Ungesüßtes Kakaopulver
- ⅓ Tasse Ahornsirup - (Anmerkung 2)
- ¼ Tasse Mandelbutter - (Anmerkung 3)
- 2 mittlere Banana - reif
- ¼ Tasse Ungesüßte Mandelmilch - (Anmerkung 4)
- 1 Teelöffel Backpulver
- 1 Teelöffel Vanilleextrakt
Optional
- ⅓ Tasse Milchfreie Zartbitterschokoladenstückchen - or chopped pecan or chopped walnuts
Anleitungen
- In a bowl, place quinoa, cover with cold tap water, and soak for 30 minutes to 2 hours.
- Drain the quinoa in a sieve and rinse to remove any impurities.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a 9-inch square pan with parchment paper lightly oiled with coconut oil.
- Transfer the quinoa to the jug of a blender with the remaining ingredients: unsweetened cocoa powder, maple syrup, almond butter, banana, unsweetened milk, baking powder, and vanilla extract.
- Blend for 30 seconds on the high-speed setting. Use the tamper attachment or the blender to push the batter from side to center. Blend until the batter is smooth and no pieces of quinoa show.
- Stop the blender, and stir in the chocolate chips or chopped nuts if desired.
- Pour the batter into the prepared square pan and sprinkle extra chocolate chips on top if desired.
- Bake for 17-19 minutes in the center rack of the oven at 350°F (180°C) until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with a little crumb on it – meaning the brownie is still moist but cooked.
- Cool down immediately on a wire rack for 30 minutes before cutting into squares.
Notizen
Ernährung
These healthy brownies with quinoa are a vegan, gluten-free brownie recipe, super easy to make in less than 30 minutes. It’s naturally:
- Milchfrei
- Ölfrei
- Ohne Ei
- Glutenfrei
- Vegan
- Nut-free option provided
Why You’ll Love Quinoa Brownies
Quinoa brownies are healthy vegan, gluten-free brownies made from soaked quinoa to add protein to your dessert. If you’re looking for a more classic recipe, try my vegane Brownies, Mein Joghurt-Brownies, oder mein Schwarzbohnen-Kekse.
They are fudgy, flourless, and easy to make in one bowl of the food processor.
Zutaten und Substitutionen
All you need to make quinoa chocolate brownies that taste amazing are:
- Soaked Uncooked Quinoa – you can use white quinoa or other colors, they all work pretty well in the recipe
- Kakaopulver – make sure your cocoa powder is unsweetened.
- Ahornsirup – you can also use other vegan liquid sweeteners such as brown rice syrup or coconut nectar.
- Mandelbutter – or any other nut butter like peanut butter, cashew butter, or even seed butter like tahini or sunflower seed butter for nut-free options.
- Banana – or 1/2 cup of applesauce.
- Ungesüßte Mandelmilch – or any non-dairy milk you like.
- Backpulver – to give the brownies a slight puff.
- Vanilleextrakt – für den Geschmack.
How To Make Quinoa Brownies
Making these brownies only takes 25 minutes, it’s really easy!
Quinoa is a delicious grain full of plant-based protein but, if you don’t soak it in cold water it can be bitter. To avoid bitterness in your brownies, you must soak the quinoa for at least 30 minutes to 2 hours.
- Place the quinoa in a glass bowl and cover it with cold tap water. Set aside at room temperature.
- Drain the quinoa just before using, over a sieve and rinse again under cold water to remove any impurities.
- Next, add the soaked, drained quinoa to the jug of a high-speed blender and top up with the remaining ingredients: mashed banana, almond milk, baking powder, unsweetened cocoa powder, maple syrup, and almond butter.
- Blend on the high-speed setting for about 30 seconds until all the quinoa is pulsed into a creamy smooth brownie batter. The batter should be pretty liquid not overly thick. You may have to use the blender attachment to push the batter from the side of the jug to the center. Otherwise, stop the blender and scrape down the side of the jug and repeat until the batter is smooth.
- Open the lid and stir in dark chocolate chips, chopped walnuts, or pecans into the brownie batter. This adds a delicious crunchy texture to the vegan gluten-free brownies.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a 9-inch x 9-inch square baking dish. Slightly oil some parchment paper with coconut oil and place it in the brownie pan. Set it aside.
- Pour the flourless brownie batter into the pan and sprinkle extra chocolate chips on top if desired.
- Bake the quinoa brownies for 17 to 19 minutes at 350°F (180°C) until a toothpick inserted in the center of the brownies comes out with almost no crumbs on it. This guarantees moist brownies that are not dry or overbaked.
- As soon as you removed the pan from the oven, pull out the brownie from the pan and cool on a wire rack for 30 minutes.
Dekoration
Cut the vegan quinoa brownies into 16 squares and serve them plain with an extra drizzle of:
- Geschmolzene dunkle Schokolade
- Erdnussbutter oder Mandelbutter
- Coconut frosting
- Protein frosting
Taste And Texture
These quinoa brownies taste like chocolate banana brownies if you use the banana instead of applesauce. For no fruit flavor, try unsweetened apple sauce as a swap or sweet potato puree.
Allergie-Tausch
Below I listed some options to make these brownies if you have food intolerances or allergies:
- Ohne Nüsse – swap the almond butter for sunflower seed butter. Also swap the almond milk for soy milk, coconut milk, oat milk, or any nut-free milk you love.
- Banana Allergy – use the same amount of unsweetened apple sauce or mashed Kürbispüree.
- Zuckerfrei – you can swap maple syrup for a sugar-free syrup like monk fruit syrup. Pumpkin puree is a lower sugar option than mashed bananas.
Anleitungsvideo
If you’d rather watch a video to make these brownies, watch it on our YouTube Channel!
Häufig gestellte Fragen
Soaking quinoa has many benefits. First, it removes the bitterness of the grain, which makes quinoa much blander in flavor. Next, soaking quinoa makes it easier to digest as it removes the natural phytic acid present in the grain. Finally, it also activates enzymes that improve digestion.
Absolutely. You can swap the mashed banana with the same quantity of cooked pumpkin puree, unsweetened apple sauce, or sweet potato puree.
Yes, you can use the same amount of quinoa flour if you like its flavor. It can be bitter, so I suggest roasting the flour before using it in baked goods to avoid bitterness.
No, you must use uncooked, soaked quinoa for the best flavors.
Quinoa has an earthy flavor, slightly bitter if you don’t soak the grain before cooking or using it as flour in baking.
Yes, quinoa is a 100% gluten-free grain perfect for making quinoa salad as well as baked goods.
These brownies can be stored very well in the fridge for up to 4 days in a sealed container. The texture of the brownies gets even fudgier in the fridge.
More Vegan Brownie Recipes
If you like brownies, I have many more recipes for you!
What can be substituted for the nut butter for people with nut allergies?
Seed butters are perfect like tahini, or sunflower seed butter
can you use another oil besides coconut oil as it is high in saturated fat.
Yes, you can use any oil you love.
These brownies are delicious! One of the best WFPB brownie recipes I’ve tried. And I’ve tried many!
I’m so glad!!!!
Hallo Carine,
Can I use Canola oil instead of Nut or Seed butters ?
No, you need something more sticky!
These brownies taste good. I cut the maple syrup to 1/4 and they still taste sweet. I will cut it down even more next time.The uncooked quinoa, soaked for 2 hours, was still a little crunchy and they kind of get stuck in your teeth. I am wondering about cooking it beforehand. I baked them for 30 minutes, and they were still moist. 20 minutes def not enough time. I used a 8×8 square pan,
The quinoa, if blended on very high-speed will not have any pieces left in the brownies to go in your teeth. I think that’s the reason why you had to bake it longer, also because you cut down sugar that firm up the brownie.
I am from Singapore, and the love your recipes. Will try them all. y
Vielen Dank.
What cocoa do you use?
Unsweetened cocoa powder my supermarket brand
Quick question, I’m thinking of using avocado to replace the fat from the peanut butter… has anyone tried it?
I don’t recommend you do this, the nut butter really firm up the brownie, avocado won’t. You can try my avocado brownies instead if you want to use avocado in brownies. Enjoy.
Danke für dieses Rezept!
Which blender is best to use? The one I have wasn’t strong enough to blend the quinoa.
I use a KitchenAid and Vitamix blender, and this works with both.
So delicious and easy! Perfect recipe. I baked it for a couple minutes longer. I will be remaking this, thank you so much!
Vielen Dank!!