How To Make French Toast
Learning How To Make French Toast is Easy and Delicious

So you want know how to make french toast? The word French toast is a meal that was picked from the French word pain perdu which means ‘lost bread’. The idea behind this meal was to find a way to make stale bread taste better so that people would still be able to eat it. Because of this, it was necessary to find a way to make the bread soft enough as well as tasty.
This meal mainly involves the use of bread and egg. It is a favorite among many and can be eaten as a breakfast meal or even as a snack. Sometimes people choose to add other things to it in order to make it sweeter. For instance, you can use banana and strawberry to stuff the bread. By placing it in the middle, you will be able to create different tastes to the bread as you cook it.
If you are learning to cook, this is a good way to start. Making these toasts is easy and good ways to practice you’re cooking skills. You will be able to get comfortable in the kitchen as well as make something new to eat. Furthermore, the toasts are a good way to diversify your meals. Instead of just using egg and bread in a meal, you can combine them and play around with different tastes so as to make a tasty meal. This is a simple meal to make and can be done by almost anyone who is able to cook.
The following are instructions on how to make these egg toasts
The ingredients
- Sliced loaf of bread (with ten or more slices)
- Three eggs
- Cooking oil
- A pinch of salt or sugar
- A pan and source of heat If desired
- A pinch of Cinnamon
- A small cup of Milk
Recipe to make French toast
- Beat the three eggs until they have become light enough to be absorbed by the bread.
- Add the salt or sugar to the egg mix that you have made.
- If you desire, also add the cinnamon or milk to give your toasts a different taste and make it more appealing. This is however not compulsory.
- Heat your pan for a period of 30 to 45 seconds with the cooking oil in it.
- Soak both sides of each slice of the bread in the mixture so that they absorb it.
- Place the bread on the pan with hot oil and turn the bread to prevent it from burning on one side
- Cook the bread until it starts to brown
- Remove the bread and serve
- Do the same with all your bread
- Serve with a cold drink or tea
This toast can be served in many ways. Some people would prefer to enjoy it with other additives. You can apply mayonnaise or syrup to the toast. You can also opt to eat the toast with fruits, cream or porridge. In France, it is not considered a meal to be eaten during breakfast rather it is a dessert that is mainly eaten with syrup. Some may also prefer to eat it with ketchup or butter.
One of the easiest recipes of French toast is given below:
- The ingredients which are used for making French toast are two slices of bread, ¾ cup of milk, one tsp of vanilla extract, one tsp of ground cinnamon, one egg, one pinch of salt and some butter.
- First step is to beat the eggs and then put the wet ingredient while mixing it properly. It is the best way to mix all the dry ingredients in a separate bowl and then further add this dry blend into the wet batter while stirring the mixture continuously.
- While mixing the batter you should be warming a pre-lubricated griddle too. One should use enough oil or butter for cooking the French toast but the only important thing to consider is that it should be done on a medium heat.
- After this, place the bread over the batter and cover both the sides. One important thing to remember is that the stale pieces of bread have to be soaked for longer time in the batter where as fresh pieces of bread will not take as much time.
- Place the bread on the griddle and fry it till it becomes slight brown and crispy and voila; it is ready to be served.
French toast recipe in Indian style
French toast is a snack which is not only delicious but also easy to cook. One can make the French toast in an Indian style by adding some chat masala, pepper and even grounded mango powder too.
Recipe for making an Indian French toast:
- The ingredients which are used in this dish are one small sized onion, 2-3 green chilies, 1 inch ginger, and ½ tsp of black pepper, 2 eggs, and 4 slices of bread, salt and vegetable oil. A minimum of five minutes is required for the preparation of this dish and it will take 10 minutes to cook this dish. This dish can easily serve two people.
- First you must chop the onion, Green chilies and ginger and put them into a bowl. Then you have to add some salt, pepper into the mixture and mix them well.
- Then, in a separate bowl you have to break the two eggs and beat them properly into that bowl.
- Then, you have to put all the contents of the mixture prepared in the earlier bowl into the second bowl and mix them well
After that, you have to take a non-stick pan and heat two tsp of vegetable oil and put four slices of bread on that heated pan. - Then, you have to apply the mixture of the bowl on one side of the bread slice and spread it all over with the spoon and put that side up and down till that side becomes semi-cooked. While it is getting cooked, put the mixture on the other side of the bread and again spread it with the spoon. Keep on flipping both sides of bread till it becomes fully cooked and crispy.
- In the end you can garnish it with black salt powder and can serve it with tomato sauce.
Whether apple cinnamon French toast meant for breakfast or dessert?
There are certain countries in the world that enjoy the French toast in breakfast and on the other hand, there are countries which enjoy the same thing in the form of dessert after meals. French toast is served as a dessert when topped with sweets. Today in many countries French toast is being served in many varieties.
Steps for making apple cinnamon French toast are:
- This apple cinnamon French toast can be served in the breakfast as well as in dessert.
- The ingredients required for making this dish are ½ loaf of sliced French bread, 4 big size eggs, 1- ¾ cup of whole milk, 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 tbsp of vanilla extract, 1/2 tbsp of ground cinnamon, 1/2 tsp of ground nutmeg, 3-4 of medium size of apples, 1/2 tbsp of butter.
- Firstly, you have to cut the bread into even pieces. Then, you must spray some 1-1/2 quart glass of some baking dish along with non-stick spray.
- Then, you have to put the bread slices together so that they fit tightly at the bottom of the baking dish.
- Next step is to break all the eggs into a bowl and beat them by adding ¼ cup of sugar, milk and vanilla extract. Then, you have to pour half of this egg mixture over the bread placed in the baking dish.
- Then, peel and core all the apples, slice them and then put these apple slices over the bread and put the remaining egg mixture on top of the apples.
- Mix the remaining sugar with nutmeg and cinnamon properly in a dry bowl and sprinkle them on top of the apples. Then, you must cover this dish and refrigerate it till morning.
- The next day, you have to bake the dish and before cutting it you have to cool it for 5 to 10 minutes and only after that you can serve it.