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I have a lot of vegan friends and they often ask me to try and recreate some of their favourite non-vegan meals. One of the meals I hear them talk about often is French toast. They can’t really enjoy French toast anymore because the traditional recipe calls for eggs. Well, that’s tough luck for vegans.
After hearing “Please, please, please Cynthia, make vegan French toast” for so many times, I decided to give it a try, so let me tell you my story of experimenting with French toast and trying to make it vegan-friendly.
I didn’t really know how to start with this recipe. One thing I knew though – I wanted the crust to be very crispy and the middle moist and finger-licking. When it comes to bread, I went with sourdough bread; it has a good texture for this recipe and won’t go all mushy when you soak it in egg and milk mixture. Challenge one solved!
The next thing to figure out is egg and milk mixture for soaking the bread. I used coconut milk; I find it to be creamy and rich in flavour unlike soy or almond milk, which are a bit watery. Vegan “egg” wouldn’t really work for this toast, so I had to think outside of the box. You know what I came up with? Almond meal! At first glance, it looked like everything would fall apart but it didn’t! And there I got another challenge solved.
I want my French toast to have the fragrance of chai so I had a mixture of chai spices and I infused milk with that and a bit of cinnamon. Bet allspice will work well, too!
And lastly, the most fun part about French toast is to choose the toppings and build the flavours. This is the stage where you can really go crazy! I went with a strawberry-banana combo and enhanced the flavours with some cacao nibs, maple syrup and omg-so-good coconut yogurt. This coconut yogurt is so delightful and velvety that you need to try it. It’s one of my favourite recipes I teach in online cooking classes.
For the Toast:
For the Toppings:
Serves: 4
Prep time: 5 mins
Cooking time: 10-15 mins
Freezer-friendly: No
C, GF, RSF, DF, VEG, V
How did this Vegan French Toast turn out for you? Did you make it with coconut or some other plant milk? What are your favourite toppings? Check out the video recipe on my YouTube channel and leave your comments below.
With love from my kitchen to yours,
Chef Cynthia Louise xx
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Chef Cynthia Louise is an Internationally acclaimed MasterChef, speaker, author, restaurant consultant, teacher and television presenter in wholefood, dairy-free cooking. She also has the worlds first online cooking classes focused on dairy-free plant-based whole foods with recipes that people are raving about and changing people's health, one delicious bite at a time. Chef Cynthia loves nothing more than educating people about the simplicity and vitality of a plant-based, whole foods lifestyle. Each dish is like art on a plate and her flavour combinations nourish the soul and get everyone talking.