Torrijas: Spanish Easter dessert
 
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Cuisine: Mediterranean Diet
Serves: 6 Torrijas
Ingredients
  • 6 Thick slices of bread (preferably bread from yesterday or the day before)
  • 3 Tablespoons brown sugar
  • ½ l (2 cups) of skimmed milk (if you have lactose intolerance you can replace it by your favorite vegetable milk)
  • 2 Cinnamon sticks
  • The skin of one organic lemon (avoid the bitter white membrane beneath the lemon peel)
  • 2 Eggs
For the cover
  • 2 Tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon cinnamon powder
Instructions
  1. In a saucepan add the milk, the 3 tablespoons of brown sugar, the 2 cinnamon sticks and the zest of one organic lemon. Before it reaches the boiling point stop the heat. Allow the infused milk to get warm. (If you want you can let it infuse for about one hour)
  2. Beat the eggs in a deep plate.
  3. In a deep plate add the infused milk and dip each slice of bread in the milk. Don’t leave it too long in the milk, otherwise the bread risks to break. Squeeze a bit the milk from the bread and add it to the beaten eggs plate. Repeat the process with each slice of bread.
  4. Preheat the oven at 175 degrees C (350 degrees F). Add the torrijas into a deep oven dish. Bake in the middle of the oven for 10 min at 175 degrees C (350 degrees F). After those 10 minutes turn each of the torrijas and bake them 10 extra minutes until the torrijas are golden.
  5. Once they are golden remove them from the oven and allow them to get warm.
  6. In a deep plate add the 2 tablespoons of brown sugar and the tablespoon of cinnamon powder. Mix them well and sprinkle over the baked torrijas.
Recipe by Tasty Mediterraneo at https://www.tastymediterraneo.com/torrijas-spanish-easter-dessert/