American

French Toast

Name: French Toast
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 8 thick bread slices; 4 large eggs; 1 cup whole milk; 1 tsp vanilla extract (alcohol-free); 1 tsp ground cinnamon; 2 tbsp butter; 1/2 cup maple syrup

Ashley M. @ashleym1991

French Toast is American home cooking, eaten at breakfast and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Medium Halal Pescatarian Eggetarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

8 thick bread slices
4 large eggs
1 cup whole milk
1 tsp vanilla extract (alcohol-free)
1 tsp ground cinnamon
2 tbsp butter
1/2 cup maple syrup

How to cook it

Whisk the eggs, milk, vanilla, and cinnamon in a shallow dish.
Melt some butter on a griddle over medium heat.
Dip each slice of bread in the custard for a few seconds per side, letting the excess drip off.
Cook until golden brown, about 2 to 3 minutes per side, adding butter as needed.
Serve hot with maple syrup.

Watch how to cook French Toast

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside French Toast, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Corn
  
  8 min
What it is eaten with
- Baked Potato
  
  60 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. French Toast carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in French Toast
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Gluten	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 550 kcal
Protein: 14 g
Carbs: 70 g
Fat: 24 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 35 g
Sodium: 430 mg
Saturated fat: 10 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

French Toast takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.