Name: French toast with bananas
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon light or dark rum; 1 egg yolk; 1 egg; Confectioners’ sugar; 2 tablespoons brown sugar; 4 bananas, peeled and cut into ¾-inch rounds; 4 slices good white bread, preferably sourdough; 4 tablespoons butter; 1 cup half-and-half; ¼ cup sugar

Preparation info

Makes
4
servings

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
30 min

Appears in

Simple to Spectacular

By Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Mark Bittman

Published 2000

About

This is a good French toast recipe, and realty splendid with the baked bananas.

Ingredients

1 egg
1 egg yolk
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
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Method

Mix together the egg, yolk, vanilla, rum, sugar, and half-and-half in a broad, shallow bowl. Put 2 tablespoons of the butter in a large nonstick skillet and turn the heat to medium-high. Put each slice of the bread in the batter and, when the butter foam subsides, cook the bread until nicely browned on both sides, in batches if necessary.
Meanwhile, put the rem

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