Michel Roux Jr's French toast recipe

Details

• Cuisine: French
• Recipe Type: Bread
• Difficulty: Easy
• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 10 mins
• Serves: 2

Step-by-step

1. Mix the egg, milk and cinnamon with a tablespoon of the sugar in a bowl. Dunk the slices of bread into this mixture to moisten them.
2. Heat a tablespoon of the butter in a pan. Take the slices of bread out of the milk mixture and place them in the hot pan with the butter.
3. Brown the bread on both sides, then add a tablespoon of sugar to the pan and another tablespoon of butter to caramelise. Take the slices of bread out and set them aside.
4. Cut one and a half of the apples into wedges – no need to peel them.
5. Heat the rest of the butter and sugar in the pan and fry the apples until they are just cooked and browned. Add a good splash of calvados and then set the pan aside.
6. Whisk the cream with the icing sugar (confectioners' sugar) until soft peak stage.
7. Cut the remaining apple half into thin matchsticks.
8. Divide the warm apples between the slices of bread, spoon on some cream and sprinkle a few strips of raw apple on top. Serve immediately.

This recipe is from The French Revolution by Michel Roux Jr. Published on 18 October 2018 by Seven Dials in hardback and eBook (£25/£12.99).