- Today, I am going to show you
how to make really great French toast.
The ingredients are really basic.
We've got bread, eggs, cinnamon, and vanilla.
Most French toast recipes use milk and sugar.
I personally don't like it.
I make my French toast with eggs, just about eggs only,
so they are highly nutritious
and I'm gonna show you how I do it.
So, my recipe is one egg per slice of bread.
I like to get all the eggs soaked into my bread,
make it really nutritious.
I have a son who doesn't often eat breakfast,
but he loves French toast,
so this is what I do for him.
In a rectangular dish,
I'll usually do two slices at a time.
And then we have eggs.
I'm gonna add some cinnamon to it by eye,
but you can of course, you'll always find the recipe
to my videos right below.
Eggs, cinnamon, vanilla.
Vanilla adds that extra touch of sweetness.
That why I don't add sugar to my French toast
because the vanilla really shines through with the egg.
And I just simply take a fork and whisk it.
Okay, so now that your eggs, cinnamon, and vanilla
are well mixed, you are going to take your loaves of bread
and put it inside of your dish.
What I love about this recipe
is that it doesn't sit overnight
and it doesn't take too long.
You just want to absorb the egg mixture into the bread.
So I just simply place it into one side like this.
And usually with the fork,
you can also assist it, poke some holes,
so the egg liquid, once you flip it will seep through.
So if you add milk to this, it'll be really runny.
My ratio again, is one egg for one piece of bread.
And so once I feel like it's kind of soaked through,
I flip them over.
And if you want to make more at a time,
just get a bigger dish.
I highly recommend one with sides.
So you can whisk your eggs freely, but just like that.
And you want all of the egg to be soaked up.
I make French toast in the morning for my kids.
So I prep this.
I go get the kids ready, get them dressed.
And by time I come around back to the kitchen,
the French toast have soaked in the egg mixture.
Okay, so we're just going to do two slices
since it's just us cooking this morning.
I have a griddle here, but of course a pan works too.
You want to heat up your pan or your griddle
and then you're going to either spray it or grease it.
I'm just going to take butter.
And once that's ready, we're going to take our bread-
If you want to give it a final flip
you can do that too.
Our bread and we just carry it over
onto our griddle.
And the idea is to soak up every bit of egg.
So I'm going to use this last slice, soak it all in there
just like that.
And as you can see, each slice of bread took a whole egg.
That's why we didn't add milk or anything like that.
Now, if you're looking for a French toast recipe
that's egg free, I have one in this channel.
I'll make sure to link it right below.
It's how I get my French toast to not be soggy,
really crispy on the inside,
perfectly texture on the outside without using eggs.
You can use that recipe too.
I'll make sure to link it.
Now you want your griddle to not be too hot
because you don't want to burn that first side.
So I'm going to turn down my heat to low.
After a couple of minutes, I'm going to show you
that like the bottom will already be cooked through
and you can easily lift the French toast with your spatula.
So you're going to want to flip it
and cook it on the other side.
This could have gone a little longer
but I know this one is ready.
Now, it's really important to make sure
that your heat is not too high.
Like this one, this back one is probably too high.
So it burned a little bit my toast,
but I already feel like the outside is crispy.
It's got that crispy texture we want.
And all we're doing here after we flip it on low
is waiting for the egg to fully cook
through the French toast.
And of course, if you want it a little browner
or more golden on the other side,
you can flip it a couple of times,
but the idea is to make sure that the egg is fully cooked.
How do you know that your French toast is ready?
Well, again, the outside is going to feel kind of crispy
but the middle is gonna be denser and fluffier.
That means that the egg has fully cooked through.
If it's really squishy, then you need a couple of minutes.
You could also turn on the heat
and if you're doing this on a pan,
cover it and let the steam and the heat
fully cook through on the egg.
So, but these are ready.
So simply serve them on a plate just like that.
And then you would just want to top your French toast
with a little bit of butter and some syrup.
Now on this channel, if you're out of syrup,
I have a homemade syrup recipe
you can whip up really quickly.
It lasts about a month.
You're going to want to make sure to grab the link
right below too, but let's plate this guy up.
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So delicious.
Smells like cinnamon and toasty bread.
So good.
Let's bite through.
First, let me give you a close-up.
Check out the inside of the French toast.
The egg is not eggy.
It's fully cooked.
You can see that it's all been absorbed.
It's full of cinnamon egg mixture.
A little bit of syrup.
So good.
What I love about this recipe
is it only takes five minutes to set,
to fully cook through.
You can have a delicious breakfast, ready to eat super fast.
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See you next time.
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