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Pain perdu

20 min426 kcal each

Yesterday's bread soaked in sweet vanilla milk and egg, then fried golden in butter — French toast, the dish that "lost bread" was saved for.

Traditional FrenchBreakfastVegetarian

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Ingredients

for 4 servings
  • Stale crusty bread8 slice
  • Eggs3 piece
  • Whole milk250 ml
  • Sugar50 g
  • Butter40 g
  • Vanilla extract1 tsp
  • Ground cinnamon½ tsp

Method

Prep 5 min · cook 15 min
  1. Warm the milk with 30 g of the sugar and the vanilla until the sugar dissolves, then let it cool a little.
  2. Beat the eggs with the cinnamon in a shallow dish.
  3. Dip each slice of bread in the milk for a few seconds on each side, then in the egg.
  4. Fry in the butter over medium heat for 2–3 minutes a side, until golden.
  5. Sprinkle with the remaining sugar while hot and serve straight away.

Nutrition

per serving
Cal
426
Protein
14g
Carbs
55g
Fat
16g

Of 16g of fat per serving, 8.1g is saturated.