French

Pain Perdu (French Toast from Stale Baguette)

Name: Pain Perdu (French Toast from Stale Baguette)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 baguette; 3 eggs; 1 cup milk; 3 tbsp granulated sugar; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 3 tbsp butter

Margot @margot_rennes

Pain Perdu (French Toast from Stale Baguette) is French home cooking, eaten at breakfast. 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.

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Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 baguette
3 eggs
1 cup milk
3 tbsp granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 tbsp butter

How to cook it

Slice a day-old baguette on the bias into thick rounds.
Whisk the eggs, milk, half the sugar, and the vanilla extract together in a wide shallow dish.
Lay the baguette slices in the egg mixture and let them soak for 1 to 2 minutes per side, until softened all the way through but not falling apart.
Melt a little of the butter in a skillet over medium heat and fry the soaked bread in batches for 3 minutes per side, until deeply golden, adding more butter between batches.
Dust with the remaining sugar and serve warm; the definitive French weekend breakfast, and a leftovers dish by design from yesterday's baguette.

Watch how to cook Pain Perdu (French Toast from Stale Baguette)

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

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Serve it with

A French breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pain Perdu (French Toast from Stale Baguette), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

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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. Pain Perdu (French Toast from Stale Baguette) carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Pain Perdu (French Toast from Stale Baguette)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans)
Gluten	Yes	Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Baguette Tradition au Beurre (Fresh Tradition Baguette with Butter)
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: 370 kcal
Protein: 12 g
Carbs: 46 g
Fat: 15 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 13 g
Sodium: 380 mg
Saturated fat: 8 g

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

When to cook it

Pain Perdu (French Toast from Stale Baguette) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.