The bloody beets and a bloody delicious brownies

One star of the season is beetroot. I am really going crazy about this bloody root:) I ate a lot from it during the last weeks and now I decided to make something really special with it. Beetroot Brownies!
But at first let's see why is it soo good to be eaten by human beings.

In Romany medicine, beet juice was used as a blood- builder for patients who were pale and run-down,  and in Russia and Eastern Europe it’s used both to build up resistance and to treat convalescents after  a serious illness. In the traditional medicine of central Europe, beets have  a long history of use in the treatment of cancer: they seem to contain anti- carcinogens bound to the red coloring matter, as well as possessing a striking ability to increase cellular uptake of oxygen. Many of these actions are enhanced when beets are eaten raw or drunk as juice. The popular French starter crudités— which combines grated  raw beet, raw carrot, and perhaps paper-thin slices of cucumber, all dressed with olive oil and lemon juice and garnished with chopped parsley—is a more powerful tonic for general health  than a whole bottle of vitamin pills.

And now let's see the recipe for the bloody brownies:)

Ingredients

2-3 cooked, peeled beets, rasped fine
100 gr dark chocolate, preferably up to 70% of cacao
80 gr brown sugar
80 gr butter
80 gr flour, can be white or whole grain as well
2 eggs
1 coffee spoon of baking powder
1 spoon of cocoa powder
50 gr of finely chopped walnuts or mixed nuts

Heat up the oven for 180 degrees. Melt the dark chocolate above water together with the butter. Stir the eggs together with the sugar till it's getting whiteish. Mix the baking powder with the flour and cacao powder. Mix everything together in the fallowing order: add the finely rasped beets to the mix of eggs and sugar, after add the melted chocolate-butter mix and put the flour mix into it and at the end put the finely chopped walnuts. Don't stir it too long because the brownies will become hard. Put it into the oven for 20-25 minutes. The cake is ready when is still a bit raw in the middle. Serve it hot with the vanilla ice cream!

Here is the bloody delicious dessert