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How to make french toast free#

Who says french toast has to be saved for a weekend or is a “special treat”? With these easy french toast recipes, you can whip up whenever the craving arises. Once it’s in the oven you don’t have to touch it, making it hassle-free and easier for entertaining than traditional french toast. The Spice House offers a great baked french toast recipe using our madagascar vanilla extract and ground cassia cinnamon, that you can set up ahead of time and pull out of the refrigerator to bake whenever you’re ready.

The best french toast recipes consist of bread drenched in a mix of eggs, vanilla, cinnamon, and milk, then pan fried to get a crispy exterior while leaving the inside soft and gooey. With so many options to add on top of the final product, like fresh fruit, chocolate chips, or whipped cream, everyone in your household is going to be happy when they smell french toast cooking. Make sure that you are using pure maple syrup though, and not the fake stuff.French toast is known to be the perfect weekend breakfast, but it is also easy enough that it can even be made during the week before work or school! The combination of cinnamon, warm sugar and maple syrup, french toast can’t be beat. Everything else is naturally gluten free.

How to make french toast free#

The only change you need to make to make this gluten free is to swap the bread for your favourite gluten free variety. We added an extra drizzle of maple syrup, because life really is too short, however you can leave this out to save some more calories. You would usually get some kind of cream with traditional French toast, but we saved some calories and fat with yogurt. We added some creaminess with a dollop of fat free Greek yogurt. Add a splash of rum and you have yourself a party.

We loaded ours with a mixture of fresh berries (strawberries, raspberries and blueberries), however you could just go with some slices of banana, or go a tropical route with some grilled pineapple and mango. Keep the toppings as light as possible, to keep this healthy French toast. What is French toast without the toppings? Boring, that's what! Here is where you can get really creative, but also where the calories can add up. The only problem I find with this, is that is does burn more easily. We did fry ours in butter, however you could just add spray oil to the pan instead. Almond milk works well and adds a nice nutty flavour.

Using skimmed milk makes it lower in fat than more traditional recipes that use whole milk, however you can substitute it for any milk.

Whilst we used whole eggs to make the mixture that the bread is dipped in to, you can just use egg white which will make the recipe lower in fat.

It also adds extra sweetness without having to add more sugar.

We added juice and zest of half an orange, as it really lightens up the whole recipe with a fresh flavour that doesn't add extra calories.

Increasing the amount of fibre in your diet can help you to feel fuller for longer. Dietary fibre is important because it is beneficial to your digestive system as a prebiotic. Wholewheat adds more dietary fibre to this breakfast too.

We used wholewheat bread instead of white bread or brioche, which is higher in sugar.

I find that leaving it out makes it taste too savoury.

We have added just a little maple syrup in to the egg mixture, but you could leave it out completely.

We have made a few simple healthy swaps to lighten this up and make it a healthy French toast.

Traditionally French toast is usually loaded with sugar in the egg mixture and then piled with calorie loaded toppings.