For a variety of reasons, whether related to a allergyWhether you're suffering from an intolerance, or simply trying to change your eating habits, you may be looking for a delicious recipe for your breakfasts, desserts or snacks... Here's the famous recipe for egg-free French toast!

French toast recipe: ingredients

The bread

In the classic French toast recipe, it's customary to use brioche bread. However, from a nutritional point of view, brioche bread is not extraordinary. It's high in calories and very sweet. A good alternative to brioche bread is to choose a semi-wholemeal or spelt bread. The sweetness will then be provided by the recipe's agave syrup (or cane sugar). You'll gain in quality and lose nothing in taste.

What's more, semi-wholemeal (or spelt) bread has a greater satiating power than brioche, so you'll eat less of it 😉

Plant milk

Whether you're intolerant to cow's milk or not, I recommend you try this recipe for egg-free French toast with vegetable milk. Whether you use almond, soya or other plant-based milk, you'll see that it's delicious! In addition to their taste, plant milks have the advantage of containing little or no saturated fat and being much easier to digest. And, to top it all off, they add a little sweetness or extra flavour to your desserts.

Agave syrup

Extracted from the blue agave cactus, agave syrup is a natural sugar with a very low glycemic index. It is therefore an ideal substitute for white sugar in recipes for people wishing to limit their sugar intake, for diabetics or for those wishing to reduce their glycemic index. lose weight.

If agave syrup doesn't suit you, you can easily replace it with cane sugar. Cane sugar has a higher glycemic index, but is still more interesting than white sugar in terms of nutrients and glycemic power.

Coconut oil

In the traditional French toast recipe, the bread is pan-fried in butter, which makes the recipe rich in saturated fats, and when the butter is overcooked, or even burnt, it makes it toxic, carcinogenic. That's why I thought it a good idea to present you with a healthier alternative. You can replace the butter with olive oil, coconut oil or margarine.

Personally, I find the taste of olive oil a little too strong in sweet recipes, and I'm not convinced by margarine manufacturing processes (the hydrogenation of vegetable oils to make them solid gives rise to "TRANS" fatty acids, which when used in excess are carcinogenic).

Coconut oil is used in this recipe for its resistance to cooking over medium-high heat. What's more, its mild flavor makes it ideal for sweet preparations.

Egg-free French toast recipe

Ingredients:

- 10 slices of wholemeal or spelt bread.

- 25 cl vegetable milk

- 5 cl agave syrup (or cane sugar)

- Coconut oil

Instructions :

Heat the plant milk in a pan. Be careful not to boil it!

Add the agave syrup (or cane sugar) and mix well until completely dissolved.

Soak the bread slices for a few seconds in the sweet milk, then place them in a frying pan in which you've melted a teaspoon of coconut oil.

Brown the bread slices on each side for 5 minutes.

Enjoy your meal!

Here's my recipe for eggless French toast. Of course, this recipe can be adapted endlessly. You can choose a different kind of bread (corn bread, sunflower seed bread, wholemeal bread, etc.), you can vary the vegetable milks (rice milk, coconut milk, cashew milk, walnut milk, hazelnut milk, etc.). In short, whatever your tastes, there's a recipe to suit you. So don't hesitate to innovate, and let those around you taste it!