Banana Chocolate Brownies made with Jaggery

Well it may sound strange to make brownies with jaggery but I just tried and it tasted awesome. These are chewy, fudgy brownies not fluffy like cake but tasty with a crumbly crust and chewy texture inside. I referred the recipe from here. The original recipe used brown  sugar I replaced with jaggery.

Ingredients:

• Maida - 3/4 cup
• Chocochips (I used Harima brand)- 2/3 cup minus 1 tbsp
• Powdered jaggery - little less than 2/3 cup
• Banana (ripe) - 1
• Vanilla essence - 1/2tsp
• Egg -1
• Butter (softened) - 1/2 cup
• Salt - 1/4tsp

Method:

1. Melt butter in a pan in medium low flame. Remove from the heat and add in the chocochips and stir with a whisk till the chips are completely melted and combined.

2. Beat the egg slightly, add the powdered jaggery, banana, vanilla essence, salt and beat well with a electric beater for 2 minutes till everything is mixed well.

3. Add the melted chocolate mixture to the above mixture and just give it a mix. Add in the flour little by little and beat well till combined completely.

4. Preheat oven to 165C for ten mins. Meanwhile grease the cake tin with butter. Spoon the batter into the tin.

5. Bake the batter in the preheated oven for 15 to 20 mins till the top turns crumbly and a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Set it to 15 mins then if needed bake for extra 5 mins. Do not overbake and burn the brownie.

6. Cut the brownie into squares and serve with icecream, chocolate sauce. Garnish with chopped nuts if desired.