This Holy Thursday torrijas cannot be missed. The pastry shops are currently working at full capacity, although this year they have to sell them a little more expensively because the price of some of their ingredients has skyrocketed. Above all, the oil.
Miracles Baltachef specialized in household savingshas gone to the set of Espejo Público to offer some practical tips on how to prepare wonderful homemade French toast more economically.
How can we save when preparing French toast? The key is to remove the oil. “Bread is very cheap because it is from the day before. The same goes for milk, sugar, cinnamon…”, where you have to save is in frying, according to this expert, who will teach us how to make some delicious torrijas without frying in oil. How do you hear it!
Torrijas with butter
The main thing for the torrijas to be delicious is to dip the bread in a well infused milk with strips of orange or lemon peel, “but without the white because the white is bitter.” The reason is that the skin of these fruits has essential oils, “which will give a good taste and smell.”
To that milk, in addition to the fruit skin, you should add cinnamon and sugar. When the milk is cold, “since we are not going to fry, we add two beaten eggs“. In this mixture you have to bathe the bread, “soak it well.” Then, put it in a pan very little butter and there brown the breadon both sides.
Baked French toast
Another way to save oil is to make them in the oven. When the torrijas are already soaked in the milk infused with the skin of the fruit, they are sprinkle with sugar mixed with cinnamon. Below is put in the oven near the grill“let them brown on one side and then we turn them over to brown on the other.”
The cook has remembered how important it is for this method of preparation that the oven is preheated and that the tray is lined with vegetable paper.
In addition to saving us money, these two innovative ways of cooking torrijas offer results healthier because they don't have oil. “Thus we save money and calories“, Milagros Balta has settled.
Homemade, with oil, baked, or whatever. We hope that this Holy Week you enjoy one of the most typical sweets in Spain!