Next to to adding milk to cereal, French Toast is probably the easiest breakfast to make. French toast is one of those "Happy Foods" that bring a smile to everyone's face. It's that perfect weekend breakfast food and what is better on Sunday morning than French toast? It takes advantage of leftover bread from Saturday night's dinner, and everybody loves it.
Another main advantage to making French toast is it a great and easy recipe to teach your children to make. Under your supervision, this can be a great way to teach kids about cooking.
You can play with different flavor variations of French Toast You can add favoring ingredients like maple syrup and vanilla extract and spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. A little orange juice is also tasty. You can find all sorts of different flavored extracts near the spices/baking ingredients at the grocery store.
You probably have all the basic ingredients, eggs, milk, sugar, butter, and bread, in your kitchen right now. Even though plain white bread is very traditional, you can also try using croissants, a braided bread (challah), whole-wheat and rye bread for your French toast.
French Toast Ingredients
The following ingredients are needed to make French toast:
French Toast Ingredients:
Yields: 2 servings 2 eggs 1/2 cup milk or half-and-half 1 tablespoon of sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract (optional) Cinnamon or nutmeg to taste (optional) 4 thick slices of day-old bread (French and Italian bread work well) 1 tablespoon butter
French Toast Instructions
The following instructions are recommended to make French toast:
French Toast Instructions:
(1) Using a shallow bowl whisk together the eggs and milk (or blend together with a fork). Whisk in the vanilla and seasonings.
(2) Melt the butter in a skillet or griddle over medium heat.
(3) Dunk each slice of bread into the egg mixture just before you add the bread to the fry pan. Make sure both sides are fully covered. This step could take a little practice. Leave it too long and the bread disintegrates; not long enough, the bread doesn't get coated.
(4) Fry the bread in the butter until browned on each side. Add however many slices of bread fit in the pan without squishing everything together.
(5) Cook the bread until it is golden brown and then flip it, preferably with a spatula. Let the other side cook until golden brown as well.
(6) Serve it immediately with with syrup, or a dusting of powdered sugar or maple syrup.
(7) Enjoy!
Note, if you are using this easy recipe to teach your kids how to cook, make sure that they are supervised especially when using the frying pan! Otherwise, this is a great beginner recipe.
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