Vegan French Toast
Usually, on Sundays, we have our traditional waffles or flapjacks ( recipes coming soon! ) but I really wanted something savoury and something I haven't had before. I started doing some research and thought about trying to do french toast. That is how we got this!
I use to enjoy my french toast nice and crispy but soft on the inside, so I was very worried I wasn't going to be able to recreate it. But low and behold, I did! I just cooked it for a while until it started to go brown. If you like the crunchy layer on the outside, don't give up when you make it, keep waiting until it turns brown because it will, I promise! If you're the type of person who likes a more wet texture, you won't have to wait as long as me. Lucky you!
I know a lot of you won't have chickpea flour in your pantry so I did some experimenting. Now I have tried this recipe with both chickpea and regular cake flour and both work perfectly fine. Although I would say the chickpea has a more savoury flavour, where the regular cake flour is more eggy. You can opt to take the nutritional yeast out to give a more eggy flavour. You can always sprinkle it on top after tasting it.
This mixture makes enough for around 4-5 slices of bread. Make sure you use thicker bread as it holds nicely and doesn't get too soggy and flimsy. Let me know what type of bread works best for you and what you paired your toast with.
Ingredients:
- 1/3 cup chickpea flour/cake flour
- 1/3 cup water
- 2 Tbsp milk
- 1 tsp turmeric (or to taste)
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- Salt
- Pepper
- 1 Tbsp flax meal
- 3 Tbsp nutritional yeast (optional)
Method:
1. Add flour, water, and milk to a shallow bowl and whisk with a fork. Make sure all the lumps of flour are gone.
2. Add turmeric, garlic powder, salt, pepper, flax meal and nutritional yeast and mix. Add more of each to taste, if necessary.
3. Dip bread in and let it sit for 2 minutes on each side.
4. Heat a non-stick pan on high heat.
5. Place slices on pan and lower the heat down to medium. Cook for 5 minutes on each side. Adjust cooking time to the texture you want.
Rough estimates per 1 slice out of 5:
Chickpea flour: 138.6 calories, 24g carbohydrates, 1.2g fat, 5.4g protein.
Regular flour: 141.2 calories, 26g carbohydrates, 0.8g fat, 4.6g protein.
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