Barefoot Contessa's Challah French Toast

"I just watched Barefoot Contessa and she made a romantic breakfast for dinner for her husband. I have posted the other things she made which are recipe #85443, recipe #85449, and recipe #85451. She also made sausage links which I'm sure everyone knows how to cook in a pan ;>"
 
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Ready In:
22mins
Ingredients:
9
Serves:
4
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ingredients

  • 1 loaf challah, sliced and left out to dry
  • 1 12 cups whole milk or 1 1/2 cups half-and-half
  • 6 large eggs
  • 1 pinch salt, to taste
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 12 teaspoon grated orange zest, to taste
  • 12 teaspoon vanilla
  • butter (for frying)
  • oil (for frying)
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directions

  • In a shallow dish large enough to hold three slices of challah side by side, whisk eggs and milk.
  • Add orange zest, honey and vanilla.
  • Add salt.
  • Place three slices of the bread in the egg mixture and let soak about three minutes each side.
  • Meanwhile melt one tbsp of butter and oil each in a large frying pan.
  • Transfer challah to pan and cook 3 minutes on each side or until nicely browned.
  • Add a little more butter for each round of bread.
  • If you are making the other recipes transfer french toast to oven until rest of meal is complete.

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Reviews

  1. A teaspoon of Anise & a dash of nutmeg, & agave.. add fresh orange juice & sliver almonds. When I cater my parties, The Almond French toast with challah is always a hit. I make 2 to 3 different recipes on the French toast style adding liquor. Or a nice chocolate or cherry liquor or Greek yogurt. Explore ur options. You’ll never know what you’ll come up with. This batch I add a little orange blossom water & add the zest, orange juice. My son just land home from California & I thought about having him try this batch . Have fun doing a mix!!
     
  2. I made it with lemon zest and I loved it! It was the best french toast I've ever had. I'll be making it again. Thanks for the recipe.
     
  3. Finally the quintessential french toast recipe that my husband and I have been craving!
     
  4. I made it exactly as written, using 1/2 and 1/2. Ina Garten never lets me down. The honey and orange zest gave it a great flavor, but next time I will substitute brown sugar and cinnamon for a more traditional flavor. You cannot go wrong with using challah...WOW!!!
     
  5. This recipe is excellent. I skipped the salt, honey and used non-fat milk and it turned out great. I also used a brioche with raisins and cinnamon which made it extra good.
     
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Tweaks

  1. We didn't use Challah bread, but we used a Brioche from a local bakery. <b>It was delicious</b>, still. We only got 4 slices of french toast out of it because our bread was thick and really soaked up the batter. We used milk instead of half-and-half and used the bacon fat from bacon we had just cooked on the griddle instead of butter. <i>Mmmm!</i> It was a great way to start a sunny Sunday morning.
     

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