Nutella Brownies - No Egg / No Butter Recipes

Last week went very busy due to Deepavali and the day before Deepavali my kids went to India along with my mother. After that I am feeling very lonely. In day time, since I go office, I feel bit ok, but again after coming home, I start thinking about them. I didn't show any interest in cooking, eating or even sleeping. I miss them so much. I am waiting for the day of their arrival by December end. I just want to share a quote which I came across in the FB - "Without children my wallet would be full of money, house would be clean but my heart is empty". So so True... Isn't.

I did not cook any new recipes, all these days. This one is in my draft for a long time and just thought of posting this. I took the recipe from Jeyashri's Kitchen who needs no introduction. The recipe outcome was too good. Thanks dear for the wonderful recipe. I did not added the coffee powder as in the original recipe and added little baking soda. Here we go to the recipe.

Ingredients

• Nutella - 1 cup
• All Purpose flour - 1 cup
• Cocoa powder - 1/4 cup
• Baking powder - 1 tsp
• Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
• Oil - 1/4 cup
• Yogurt/Curd - 1/2 cup
• Milk - 1/2 cup
• Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
• Sugar - 2 to 3 tsp (according to taste)
• Walnuts - a handful

Method

• Sift the all purpose flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda thoroughly.

• Melt the Nutella in a double boiler method. (In a big pan add water and allow to boil. Place nutella in another small pan and keep it in the boiling water and let it melt).

• In another bowl, add curd/yogurt, oil, milk and vanilla essence and mix well.

• Add this mixture to the nutella and if you need you can add sugar at this stage.

• Mix the nutella mixture so that sugar dissolves.
• Add this mixture to the mixed flours.

• Blend nicely without any lumps.
• Add the walnuts (or any nuts of your choice).

• Coat the baking tray with little oil and then with flour, so that it does not get stick to the bottom.

• Bake it for 20 to 25 min or the stick inserted in the middle of the brownies, comes out clean.

• Cut and serve the brownies.