French cuisine · Breakfast & Eggs

Pain Perdu

French toast soaked in vanilla milk – fried golden brown in butter.

Ingredients · for 4 servings

• 8 thick slices of brioche or white bread
• 4 eggs
• 400 ml milk
• 60 g sugar
• 1 vanilla pod
• 60 g butter
• Icing sugar
• Cinnamon

Instructions

1. Whisk the eggs with milk, sugar and the scraped-out vanilla seeds.
2. Soak the bread slices in the mixture for 1 minute per side.
3. Let the butter foam up in the pan.
4. Fry the slices for 3 minutes per side until golden brown.
5. Dust with icing sugar and cinnamon and serve immediately.