How to Cook Perfect Japanese style french toast

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Japanese style french toast. This Japanese-inspired French Toast is topped with nutritious Kinako, roasted soybean flour and lots of Okinawan Kuromitsu, black sugar syrup. The combination of the crispy outside and the gooey inside makes the French toast very delicious. This may seem odd, but if you like your French toast with nice brown edges, then cook from the 'dry' side of the bread first.

Japanese style french toast Great recipe for Japanese style french toast. I hope you try this easy recipe at home. I made this less sweet so that I can eat it with maple syrup. You can have Japanese style french toast using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Japanese style french toast

  1. It's 2 slices of thickly sliced bread (soft fluffy bread recommended).
  2. It's 2 of eggs.
  3. You need 1/4 cup of fresh milk.
  4. It's 1 tbsp of sugar.
  5. Prepare 1 tbsp of mirin.
  6. You need 1/2 tbsp of soy sauce.

The addition of mirin and soy sauce also gives the french toast a very subtle savory oomph. Japanese style french toast is almost just like regular - it uses bread and eggs and is fried, but somehow the sum of its parts ends up being different than the french toast you know and love. First off, Japanese french toast starts off with shokupan: super fluffy milk bread. The crusts are almost always cut off and the super soft and fluffy.

Japanese style french toast step by step

  1. Trim away the crust of your bread and cut each slice into two rectangular pieces..
  2. Make the egg mixture by combining eggs, milk, sugar, mirin and soy sauce. You may choose to strain the mixture, I did not do that..
  3. Soak bread pieces into the egg mixture for 30 minutes then flip over carefully to soak the other side for 30 minutes. The bread is very soft..
  4. Heat a lightly oiled pan on low heat. Cook the bread on one side for 8 minutes, covered. Then carefully flip over and cook the other side for 5-8 minutes, covered..
  5. French toast should be golden brown and fluffy. Enjoy with butter and maple syrup..

Japanese style french toast step by step. Trim away the crust of your bread and cut each slice into two rectangular pieces. Make the egg mixture by combining eggs, milk, sugar, mirin and soy sauce. You may choose to strain the mixture, I did not do that. Something that includes me, this French toast recipe, and a culturally-relevant-sounding expletive tacked onto the end for Gen-Z appeal.