I was first introduced to French Toast when in school. I visited my aunt on a vacation and she made that eggy bread slice which was sweet and soft and I just loved it. But mom never made it for me. After I became a vegetarian, I stayed away from French Toast. But in this three years of blogging, I have learnt to convert so many egg based recipes into eggless ones and so tried out this french toast with out eggs. This recipe is inspired by Sharmi’s Passions. I made it with the Anandama Bread I made earlier. I prefer to use some crusty bread rather than the soft bread we get in India. Now as I make crusty breads at home, I am having this toast now and then and enjoying it a lot. This is very easy to make and is apt for kids returning home from a tiring day at school. I have seen Nigella Lawson making a french toast and the bread slices are cut larger so that it absorbs more milk and stays soft. So even I sliced the anandama bread into thick slices and it turned out very soft and delicious. If using the usual bread available, then you should not soak the slices in the milk mixture. Just place it on the milk and flip it immediately, and remove it at once from the milk mixture. Other wise you will end up with a soggy toast resembling a pudding. And it also better to use a non stick tawa to make mess free french toast. Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon #31 Week 3. I am linking this to Kid’s Delight – After School Bites hosted by Nishaand started by Srivalli.
Recipe Source: Sharmi’s Passions
Ingredients:
Milk-1/2 cup
Vanilla Custard Powder-2 tsp
Sugar-3 tsp
Ghee-2 tsp
Procedure:
1. In a bowl mix sugar, milk and custard powder.
2. Pour it onto a plate.
3. Place the bread slices on the milk and allow it to soak for 5-10 seconds. If using regular bread, place it on milk and flip it immediately so that it does not turn soggy.
4. Flip the bread and allow the next side to soak for 5-10 seconds. The slices must be soft yet firm.
5. Heat a taw and brush with ghee.
6. Place the slices on tawa and cook until the base is golden and firm.
7. Flip and cook the other side also. Drizzle ghee on the sides of the slices.
8. When both sides are golden, remove from tawa and serve it hot…
Place the slices in milk mixture and coat both sides.
Cook on a tawa until golden.
Serve immediately. You can also drizzle chocolate sauce to give it an extra kick…..
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Never tried the sweet version. .I always make the savory version.good one.
Lovely!!! I love french toast on weekend mornings… n this is definitely a must-try one 🙂
Nice eggless one Gayatri. good breakfast
very interesting, i always wondered about the right substitute to make french toast eggless, am sure my little one is going to love this
Good post . Thank u for sharing
Delicious toast, looks yummy.
So quick and wonderful eggless French toast, wanna grab one!
love the yum toast…
Great breakfast item for kids.. thks for sharing 🙂
Regards,
Bindu
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Even i’ll go for thick slices of bread with homemade breads too for toast, they looks fabulous.
Wow that’s a great thing.. Looks yummy
NICE RECIPE FOR VEGANS. instead of custard powder can we use conrn flour with some essence like vanilla almond etc
Yes you can Venkatraman. Add 2 tsp of corn flour along with 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence instead of the custard powder. It works fine…
We do it the same way at home. My ammama calls it Bombay toast. Yours look delicious.
Yummy.. i have tried it eggless….
Yummy looking French toast.. I’m hooked to the custard powder version too 🙂
Very nice snack …would surely want to try for my kids…
this looks decadent! Yumm!
Delicious and yummy one..
Yummy..
Delicious Gayathri. Looks very inviting!!1
instead of sugar can we add pepper powder and salt
Yeah, Sure Sir. You can make the savoury version with chilly/ pepper powder, garam masala and kasoori methi too…