Sugar-Crusted French Toast with Honeyed Apples

Sugar-Crusted French Toast with Honeyed Apples
Sugar-Crusted French Toast with Honeyed Apples is a gluten free and vegetarian morn meal. This recipe makes 6 servings with 811 calories, 28g of protein, and 39g of fat each. This recipe covers 30% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe is typical of American cuisine. 1 person found this recipe to be flavorful and satisfying. Head to the store and pick up honey, cinnamon stick, x4x egg bread, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

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Combine first 7 ingredients in heavy large saucepan. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean; add bean. Bring to boil over medium-high heat, stirring to dissolve sugar. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer 5 minutes.
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Add apples; cover and simmer until tender, about 12 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer apples to bowl. Boil syrup in saucepan until reduced to 1 1/4 cups, about 10 minutes.
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Add syrup to bowl with apples. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and chill. Bring to room temperature before using.)
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Whisk eggs, yolks, milk, 2/3 cup sugar, vanilla, and salt in 15x10x2-inch baking dish.
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Place bread in single layer in egg mixture; spoon egg mixture over bread and let stand until soaked through, about 3 minutes.
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Melt 3 tablespoons butter in each of 2 large nonstick skillets over medium heat.
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Sprinkle each skillet with 2 tablespoons sugar.
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Add 3 bread slices to each skillet; cook until deep golden on bottom, about 3 minutes.
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Sprinkle top of bread slices with sugar, using 2 tablespoons for each skillet; turn slices over and cook until deep golden on bottom, about 3 minutes.
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Transfer French toast to plates.
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Place 1 apple half alongside each serving.
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Drizzle French toast with some of syrup from apples and serve.
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*Brown star-shaped seedpods sold at Asian markets and specialty foods stores and in the spice section of some supermarkets.
DifficultyHard
Ready In45 m.
Servings6
Health Score17
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