Chickpea Flour Brownies (Easy, Gluten Free, Fudgy)
on May 20, 2020, Updated Nov 23, 2020
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These Chickpea Flour Brownies are super fudgy, super chocolatey and gluten free. They have ZERO All Purpose Flour and are a really healthy alternative for when your sweet tooth demands attention!
Just between you and me, baking isn’t my strong suite. I actually don’t enjoy it much because it’s too much precision and too much science and I’m more a dump-into-the-pot and let’s see what happens kind of person!
Because you know that is more fun. You get to experiment a lot more with cooking and just create. Baking is more re-invent and build on something.
When KitchenAid India asked us to create recipes with chickpeas, I was like game on. I have no idea why I said I’d do brownies and then basically hit myself on the head five times after I sent that mail. Coming from someone who only does the basic eggless brownie best and has been a brownie failure many times except with oreo stuffed chocolate brownies; chickpea brownies? Really Richa what were you thinking! But boy am I glad I took the challenge! These are fudgiest, chocolatey brownies you are ever going to bite into. And they are completely gluten free for all my friends who need to avoid gluten. The chickpea flour or besan makes them waaaay healthier than regular maida or all purpose flour would, and you can’t even tell.
When I developed this recipe, Denver wasn’t around but I tested this on a gazillion friends and there was a thumbs up. We played the whats-in-this-brownie game over and over again. Ha. Too much fun I tell ya!
But seriously who is in for these crackly crust, fudgy inside, super chocolatey chickpea flour brownies?
Guys I really don’t think I’m ever going back to making brownies with regular APF again, because chickpea flour or besan is a heavier flour in general, which is why it works beautifully with these brownies! Brownies need to be fudgy instead of cakey and you get that so naturally here.
Also don’t forget to top these with some sea salt. They really take these to another level!
Now give me a high five for chickpea flour brownies and let’s get baking because we need these in our lyyyfeeeeee so bad!
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Chickpea Flour Brownies (Besan Brownies – naturally gluten free)
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- 2/3 cup Butter, 150 gms
- 1/2 cup Dark Chocolate, 85 gms
- 3 Eggs
- 3/4 cup Sugar, 150 gms
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 4 tablespoons Cocoa Powder, 20 gms
- 3/4 cup Chickpea Flour (Besan), 90 gms
- 1 teaspoon Instant Coffee Powder
- 1/2 cup Chocolate Chips, 75 gms
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350 F/ 175 C.
- Grease a 8X8 inch square tin with butter.
- In a microwave safe bowl, add butter and dark chocolate and microwave for 30 seconds to a minute till the chocolate starts melting. Whisk together till smooth and set aside to cool.
- Beat together eggs and sugar for 2-3 minutes till creamy.
- Add the chocolate mixture and vanilla extract and whisk again.
- Sift in salt, cocoa powder, besan, and coffee powder and fold into the wet mixture. Mix in chocolate chips.
- Pour the brownie batter into the greased tin and bake for 35-40 minutes minutes. Let them cool completely before slicing and serving.
Video
Notes
- Chocolate: We used 55% dark chocolate in this recipe.
- This recipe requires 40 minutes at 175C in my oven. This time may vary depending on your oven and its capacity. Start checking if the brownies are cooked by inserting a fork or toothpick in the centre at the 35 minute mark. If the toothpick comes out clean, or with very few crumbs on it, it is baked.
- You can add walnuts, almonds, pecans, peeled peanuts, etc., as a topping or combined with the batter. You can also add chocolate chunks, caramel candies, or even Oreo chunks.
Nutrition
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What does the instant coffee do? Flavor or texture? I am tempted to skip this part but need to know if it is critical
Hey Amy! The instant coffee enhances the chocolate flavour. But feel free to leave it out if you want.
I had a large batch of strawberry’s left over and was anxious to try out an idea as a yummy desert. I followed your recipe and it was so easy to make (https://myfoodstory.com/easy-gluten-free-chickpea-flour-brownies-recipe/).
The result was more of a cake than a brownie; but result was yummy. I used a round 8×8 cake pan rather than the sheet. I sliced into 8 wedges, then each wedge sliced down the middle. Bottom half covered with strawberries and then topped with the top half. Brushed lightly the top with Baileys Chocolate Cherry Liquor and dusted with powdered sugar. Just a spoon of whipped cream and garnished with a strawberry. Very nice desert. Thank you for the idea! Had to take a picture to show my friends. Impressed.
That sounds even better! Thanks for leaving a comment Brian
Richa Gupta your creative brownie is so nice. Keep blogging more creative dishes.
Thank you!
I am so excited to try these! One problem, you lost me at “coffee” – I HATE the taste of coffee/mocha and I can pick it out of anything! 🙁 LOL – will it matter? is there a substitution?
Hey Christine – honestly you won’t even notice the flavour of coffee. Its there because it enhances the chocolate flavour in the recipe, but if you absolutely hate it – you can leave it out.
I made substitutions based on what I had. Used Hershey’s chocolate syrup instead of dark chocolate and used Truvia baking blend instead of regular sugar. Truly delicious brownies
So glad you liked them Janet. Thanks for letting me know!
Hello there.
I’m keen to try this recipe. It looks so good!
I just need clarification on the dark chocolate. Did you use chocolate chips? I use bar chocolate for cooking and it’s hard to measure in volumes like 1/2 cup. A weight would be so helpful. How many ounces or grams did you use? Can’t wait to taste these!
Hey Barbara, chocolate chips will work well in this recipe! I’ll add a weight as soon as I can
Ok dumb questions, 1/2 cup dark chocolate is that unsweetened like bakers chocolate or sweetened? Do you measure it melted?
Hey Shawn, not dumb at all! I used sweetened dark chocolate and measured it unmelted. I hope you try this recipe!
And there’s no baking powder or baking soda?
No, the eggs help the brownies rise a little bit.
I don’t have an oven. Do you think these can be made by steaming?
Shari I’ve never tried steaming brownies. But if you’ve made brownies by steaming them before, then I don’t see why not!
Hi Richa!!!
Cant stop myself from trying these lovely brownies:-)
A little confusion is chickpea flour n besan same…
lots of love n best wishes
Hey Anjli, yes chickpea flour and besan are the same thing. I hope you try these out!