So, the other day I made some stuffed French toast from a recipe in my Hungry girl book. She only coated hers with egg substitute, maybe a little cinnamon. I also saw a recipe for Strawberry mozzarella French toast at
Family fresh cooking. But hers looked like it used mostly egg white for a topping. I had really liked my hungry girl French toast except for it being too eggy, so today I made my own. I had some buttermilk that needed to be used, so I decided to try a buttermilk egg dip. Turned out wonderful. I didn't start out making nearly enough because I wanted to make sure it worked. Basically I used 2 part egg substitute, 1 part buttermilk plus some cinnamon and vanilla. We tried a lot of different fillings to see what we liked the best. Honestly they were all good. We used Strawberries for all of them. I would have tried some with jam, but we are out. (on my list of things to do today - make lots of jam.) We did try various cheeses. We tried mozzarella, laughing cow spreadable swiss (light), and neufchatel (1/3 less fat cream cheese.) Mozzarella brought the mildest flavor to the dish, but it was stringy and I liked that characteristic. Laughing cow has a bit stronger flavor, and that was nice too. I started sprinkling splenda on my strawberries here to be closer to the sweetness of the jam because this cheese was super tasty paired with jam the other day when I tried hungry girl's version. The cream cheese was delicious because I sprinkled a bit more splenda to make it feel like a cheesecake flavor. I ate all without syrup. Yum!
These range for me from a 4-5 star depending on the middle. My favorite middle was probably jam and laughing cow, but I didn't have that today.
Here is a picture of the strawberry and mozzarella version.
Here is what I did the 1 time I did measure. :)
Ingredients
- Bread (I used homemade wheat -actually put my bosch to good use yesterday and made 4 loaves)
- 1/2 cup egg substitute
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- strawberries, sliced (or your choice of fruit or jam.)
- your choice of cheese - we used mozzarella, laughing cow light, and cream cheese (though not all together.)
- Splenda or other sweetener if desired (I put it in the egg mix for 1 when I hadn't put any on the strawberries, sprinkled it on the strawberries on the others, but I planned to eat them without syrup.
Directions
- In a shallow bowl, mix egg substitute, buttermilk, cinnamon, and vanilla.
- Put your fruit and cheese on your bread. If using spreadable cheese, I put it on first, and put my strawberries on top of that. With mozzarella, I put strawberries on first then sprinkled them with mozzarella. If using spreadable cheese and jam, spread one on each side and put them together like a sandwich.
- Dip both sides of your bread in the egg mixture and cook on a griddle or in a frying pan until golden brown. (I found that 300-350 (probably a bit closer to 350) on my griddle worked well to get them golden in long enough time that the cheese got melted as well.
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