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Torrijas (Spanish Milk-Soaked Fried Bread)

Name: Torrijas (Spanish Milk-Soaked Fried Bread)
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 12 slices spanish white bread; 2 cups milk; 1 cinnamon stick; 1 strip lemon zest; 3 eggs; 1/2 cup granulated sugar; 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil; 2 tbsp honey

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Torrijas (Spanish Milk-Soaked Fried Bread) is Spanish 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.

40 min Medium Eggetarian Pescatarian Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

12 slices spanish white bread
2 cups milk
1 cinnamon stick
1 strip lemon zest
3 eggs
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp honey

How to cook it

Warm the milk in a saucepan with the cinnamon stick and lemon zest over low heat for 8 to 10 minutes, without boiling, then remove from the heat and let it cool slightly.
Stir 2 tablespoons of the sugar into the warm milk, then pour the milk into a shallow dish and lift out the cinnamon stick and lemon zest.
Dip each slice of bread into the milk for 20 to 30 seconds per side, until soaked through but still holding together, then dip it into the beaten eggs.
Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat and fry the soaked slices for 2 to 3 minutes per side, until deep golden, then drain on paper towels.
Toss the warm torrijas in the remaining sugar, or drizzle with the honey, and serve, the fried bread of the Lenten and Easter table, made from bread that would otherwise be thrown out.

Watch how to cook Torrijas (Spanish Milk-Soaked Fried Bread)

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Serve it with

A Spanish breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Torrijas (Spanish Milk-Soaked Fried Bread), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Something cool and fresh
- Macedonia de Frutas con Yogur (Fruit Salad with Yogurt)
  
  10 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. Torrijas (Spanish Milk-Soaked Fried Bread) carries dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Torrijas (Spanish Milk-Soaked Fried Bread)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup)
Gluten	Yes	Alubias Blancas con Chorizo (White Beans with Chorizo)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup)
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: 360 kcal
Protein: 7 g
Carbs: 44 g
Fat: 17 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 24 g
Sodium: 150 mg
Saturated fat: 3 g

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

When to cook it

Torrijas (Spanish Milk-Soaked Fried Bread) takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish. It also turns up at <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.vocab.festival.easter">Easter</span>.