Cooking Tips: Learn How To Make Perfectly Fluffy And Soft French Toast With These 6 Tips

Cooking Tips: Learn How To Make Perfectly Fluffy And Soft French Toast With These 6 Tips

French toast is the king of breakfast. This sweet and delicious dish is soft and fluffy from inside and crispy from the outside. Besides that, it is super easy to make and only needs 4-5 ingredients to prepare, which include bread, milk, eggs, sugar, butter and honey or maple syrup for that extra sweet taste. Even though is it simple to cook, many people fail to get a perfectly fluffy French toast. For those who don’t know what they are doing wrong while cooking this dish, these tips will surely be helpful. Find out how to make perfectly fluffy and soft French toast at home.

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Here Are 6 Tips To Prepare Fluffy French Toast:

1. Choose The Right Bread

Bread is the base of the French toast recipe. There are a variety of breads available in market these days; you can use any bread which is broad in size. Broad breads turn out to be fluffier as they hold more mixture within them. However, it’s okay to use thin sliced bread too but there are chances it will break after soaking the wet batter.

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Use a big-broad bread to make French toast. Photo Credit: unsplash

2. Balance Egg and Milk Ratio

The trick for making fluffy French toast is to balance the ratio of eggs and milk. Do not hold back on adding more eggs. Use around 2 to 4 eggs for preparing 2 slices of French toast. While you make the batter, ensure that you add more eggs in comparison to milk. If there’s too much milk added to the batter, there are chances that the egg in the mixture will not cook properly, which will make the French toast very soggy.

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Don’t add too much milk in the batter. Photo Credit: unsplash

3. Mix The Batter Well

This is the most important step in making French toast. Mix the egg, sugar, and milk batter properly till you see froth on the mixture. When you see tiny little bubbles on top of the mixture, it’s time to stop mixing the batter. You can now go ahead with using it to soak the bread.

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The batter should not be too runny. Photo Credit: unsplash

4. Soak The Bread

Don’t miss out on soaking the bread in the wet mixture. In a broad, deep bowl, pour the mixture and put the bread slice in it. Soak it until it absorbs the mixture and looks soft. You have to be careful while doing this as the bread should not be under soaked or over soaked.

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Let the bread soak the batter properly. Photo Credit: unsplash

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5. Cook At Right Temperature

To make fluffy French toast, ensure to preheat the pan on low flame. Do not over heat it, because the base of the bread will cook faster and become crispy, whereas the inside of the bread will be undercooked and soggy. The pan should neither be over heated nor under heated.

6. Grease The Pan

Apply 1 tbsp oil and half tbsp butter on the hot pan. Using only butter to cook the bread will not be a great choice because the butter will burn out soon, leaving a bitter taste. This is why it is important to use both oil and butter together to add flavour and to cook the bread properly. This will result in perfectly fluffy French toast.

Don’t forget to sprinkle honey or maple syrup on top of your delectable French toast to give it an extra flavour boost.

Watch: Secret Tips To Make Perfectly Crispy Aloo Chips That Will Last A Year

Watch: Secret Tips To Make Perfectly Crispy Aloo Chips That Will Last A Year

Whether it is for evening snacking, or late-night munching paired with meals like sandwiches, aloo chips stand out as the preferred option. Homemade aloo chips are commonly seen in Indian households as they offer the same crunch and saltiness, minus the preservatives. But one problem that all home chefs face is that the chips turn black, soggy and unpalatable sooner than expected. Do you also face a similar issue? You are going to thank us for these superb tips that we dug out for you to make long-lasting aloo chips at home.  

In a video posted on the YouTube channel ‘Cooking With Reshu’, we found out some great hacks to make the perfect homemade aloo chips that don’t turn black and remain crispy for a long time. We listed down the recipe with tips for you here.  

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You can easily make aloo chips at home. Image Credit: iStock

How To Make Crispy Aloo Chips I Homemade Aloo Chips Recipe  

1. First, take large-sized potatoes. Wash and peel them and put them in water. This ensures that the potatoes don’t turn black when cooked. Then cut them into round slices.   

Tip: After cutting the slices, immediately put them in water. This is also an important step to prevent the blackening of the chips later.  

2. Now wash all the slices in water.  

Tip: Wash thoroughly 2-3 times. This removes the starch from the potatoes and lengthens their life. With low starch content, the chips will retain shape for a long time. 

3. Now boil some water and add salt to it. When the water starts boiling, add the raw potato slices and cook with the lid closed.  

Tip: The water should be fully boiling when you put the chips, the slices may cook unevenly otherwise. If you put slices in cold or par-boiling water, some of the chips will dunk to the bottom of the vessel and will cook later than others. 

4. Boil the slices for 5-7 minutes, not more than that.   

Tip: Keep shuffling and turning the slices so that all the slices cook evenly at the same time. Take a ladle and keep turning the slices after a minute so that both the sides of the chips get heat from the gas. 

5. When foam forms in the water, take it as a sign that the slices are cooked.   

Tip: Another way to know if the slices are cooked is that the ends slightly curl inwards. The chips should be crispy and should not break when touched.  

6. Take off the slices from the gas, drain the water through a strainer and dry in the sun for 1-2 days.  

Tip: Sun-drying is a long process but it gives an everlasting crispiness to the chips. If the weather is sunny, one day should be enough or else it may take up to 3 days too. Check if the chips have hardened to know they are dried enough.  

7. Store these chips and fry them whenever you want to consume them.   

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Try this recipe and these tips to make the perfect homemade potato chips. Watch the complete recipe video here:  

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