"Chocolate" Brownies

[Rerun]

My Dietition gave me this LOW in Potassium Recipe.  I just made it... and it is so good!  Low in Potassium because there is only a small amount of chocolate in this recipe

Chocolate Brownies

1/2 cup unsalted margarine
2 squares of unsweetened chocolate (I think this is 2oz)
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
3/4 cup all purpose flour

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Grease 8x8x2 inch backing pan.  Melt margarine and chocolate together.  Remove from heat.  Stir in sugar, eggs, and vanilla.  Beat lightly until well bended, do not over-beat (no need for mixer).  Stir in flour spread batter in pan and bake for 30 minutes.  Cool and enjoy with a small glass of rice milk.

Makes 8 servings..   Not for diabetics (Sorry)

[jbeany]

Potassium?  I thought phos was the problem with chocolate, not potassium?

[jbeany]

I ran the numbers on the nutrition data website.  Here are the totals for the whole pan -

2255 Calories, 358 mg Phos, 722 mg Potassium, 128 mg Sodium, 27 g protein.  With an 8x8 pan, I usually cut it into 9 pieces, so that makes it -

250 calories, 39.7 mg Phos, 80 mg Potassium, 14.2 mg Sodium, 3 g protein per piece.

Huh - chocolate has twice as much potassium as it does phosphate.  I didn't know that.

[Rerun]

You are right it is high in both.  But, there is just 2oz in the whole thing where as most recipes call for a 6oz bag of chocolate chips.  Plus, this is the Unsweetened chocolate.

[Panda_9]

80mg of potassium per piece is perfectly ok. Not sure about phosphate, someone else may know.