Barefoot Contessa's Challah French Toast | Barefoot Contessa | Food Network

[Music] this is a challah it's um it's an egg bread that's been braided it's sort of a traditional Jewish bread but you can use any kind of egg bread or brioche bread that comes in a loaf I'm just gonna leave this to dry out a little bit so when I mix it with a custard will just absorb all that flavor so the custard six eggs and I always try and crack the eggs on the board rather than on the side of the dish so you don't get shells in them I like to use extra-large eggs but you can really use large eggs anything that you have around extra-large eggs I find our better value there's more egg pradana or how's that for an esoteric fact okay and the next thing is milk or half and half if you really want to be over the top it's a cup and a half of whole milk or half and half I'm gonna keep my husband around for a long time so I'll use milk I'm just gonna whisk it in when I was thinking about this recipe I wanted to make traditional french toast but I really wanted to pump up the flavor so challah does that which is great but also I wanted the custard to have more flavor so what I'm gonna do is I'll show you I'm gonna add orange which is a really traditional breakfast kind of thing my handy-dandy microplane which I love someone add a little bit of orange maybe about a teaspoon but really make this to your own taste if you like more orange or less orange play with it until you get it exactly right and the next thing is vanilla so about 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla and honey honey I'll sweeten it but I think it sweetens it with more flavor than sugar white sugar really doesn't do anything for me and doesn't look good and the last thing is a pinch of salt it's amazing how much salt makes a difference in a recipe like this so now the custard has lots of flavor when I'm gonna soak the bread it'll just absorb all that good flavor I'm gonna soak the challah in the custard just a couple of minutes on both sides just sort of hold it down so it gets nicely soaked if you can soak it for five minutes it's great if you don't have the time and you're too hungry it's okay but the longer you soak and actually the drier the bread is the better I actually saw one recipe where you had to let it sit for half an hour now just imagine that everybody's sitting waiting for breakfast and you have to stand there for half an hour and let it soak forget it so while that's okay let me get the butter so we have a better tablespoon of butter when I'm sauteing things I want to mix butter and oil because I'll get the flavor of the butter with the high burning temperature of the oil so a tablespoon of oil should do it get it nice and hot so it's good and hot but not burning all right and they go I'm gonna cook these for about three minutes on each side until they're nice and browned and while that's happening I'm gonna soak the next slices of bread which is about the same amount of time three minutes it works out perfectly just like that this is gonna be so good with hashbrowns turkey sausage and then a treat for this earth I think my husband's gonna be thrilled so I'm going to serve the French toast with a drizzle of really good maple syrup and maybe a dusting of confectioner's sugar it would be good so these look like they're perfectly done we put them on a sheet thin put them in the oven you

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Length: 4min 25sec (265 seconds)

Published: Fri May 22 2020