If your goal is to eat healthy, then diversify your daily diet with a healthy and tasty dessert. Make a white bean cake with prunes and nuts. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
The first and second courses are usually prepared from legumes: soups are made, lobio, stews, borscht are made, used as a filling for pies, and much more. However, few people realize that beans make delicious not only main dishes, but also desserts. For example, a white bean cake with prunes and nuts. The recipe is very unusual, interesting and unique. Many will be surprised to see its name. However, bean desserts are no less tasty than main courses. In addition, a homemade treat is very useful. It contains many vitamins, minerals and healing substances for our body.
White bean cake with prunes and nuts will especially appeal to mothers who have a sweet tooth. Having prepared such sweet products, you will be sure that you will not harm the baby's health, but only replenish his body with the necessary substances. Having tried such a cake, no one will even guess that the dessert is made from legumes. Delicious treat with chocolate flavor and amazing aroma. It is also very satisfying and nutritious. Therefore, such a cake can be offered to children in the morning with a glass of milk. They will definitely not refuse such a breakfast, unlike oatmeal or semolina. Another of the additional advantages of the dessert is that a cake is prepared without the use of an oven. It is only necessary to boil the beans, combine them with other components, mix and form the products.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 335 kcal.
- Servings - 15
- Cooking time - 2 hours for soaking beans, 1.5 hours for boiling beans, 30 minutes for making a cake
Ingredients:
- White beans - 150 g
- Milk - 30 ml
- Cocoa powder - 2 tablespoons
- Peeled sunflower seeds - 50 g
- Walnuts - 80 g
- Sugar - 50 g or to taste
- Butter - 30 g
- Prunes - 80 g
- Salt - a pinch
Step by step preparation of white bean cake with prunes and nuts, recipe with photo:
1. Put the beans in a deep bowl and cover with cold water. Water should be 2 times more than the volume of legumes, because beans during this time will increase in size.
2. Place the beans in a sieve, rinse with running water and place in a saucepan. Pour in drinking water and boil over low heat after boiling for 1-1.5 hours. Determine readiness by tasting the beans. Take out 3 beans and nibble on them. If they are all soft, then they are ready. Remove the pan from the heat. If at least one is hard, then continue cooking and try again after a while.
3. Meanwhile, pierce the sunflower seeds in a clean, dry skillet until light golden brown.
4. Wash prunes and steam in boiling water for 5 minutes. If there is a bone in the dryer, then remove it.
5. Dry the walnut kernels in a clean frying pan and grind into small pieces.
6. Remove the prunes from the water, dry well and cut into small pieces.
7. Add roasted seeds to the prune nuts.
8. Tilt the boiled beans on a sieve so that the excess moisture is glass and transfer the beans to a deep bowl in which you will prepare the treat.
9. Use a blender to chop the beans to a puree consistency. If there is no blender, then use a meat grinder, through which pass the bean 2-3 times.
10. Melt the butter and add to the bean puree. Pour milk there, add sugar and a pinch of salt.
11. Mix everything well with a blender until smooth.
12. In the mashed beans, add prepared prunes, nuts and seeds.
13. Next, add cocoa powder.
14. Stir the food well with a tablespoon so that it is evenly distributed throughout the mass.
15. Put plastic gloves on your hands and shape into round cakes about 5 cm in diameter. Put them in paper tins and sprinkle with coconut, crushed chocolate, chopped nuts, cocoa powder … Send the white bean cake with prunes and nuts to the refrigerator to cool for 1-2 hours. When it becomes dense, serve dessert to the table.
See also the video recipe for how to make chocolate bean brownies.
