“Chai Tea French toast for breakfast!!” Music to my ears.
This vegan spin on classic breakfast is something I’ve been meaning to write up for a while now. There are a couple of different ways I like to make my french toast to make sure it never gets to be boring. But here’s how it all started:
Chai Tea French Toast Inspiration
Before I was eating a plant-based diet (in the early 2000’s), my favorite place was an adorable restaurant in Chicago called Orange.
It was my restaurant obsession through college and the best thing to order was their famous orange coffee (of course), the chai tea french toast, and frushi.
Fruit sushi… I know, I know. It is as amazing as it sounds.
The chai tea french toast on Orange’s menu cheers, “ricotta-stuffed chai-tea battered brioche/ caramelized apples/ honey/ chai tea cream reduction.”
So of course, I had to revisit this treasure from my past and veganize it.
Complicated or Simple…Up to You.
Sometimes I go all the way and the full Chai Tea French Toast stuffed with Kite Hill Ricotta, caramelized apples, and the chai cream reduction.
Sometimes it’s even fancier when the bread I use is homemade butternut squash sourdough with cranberries and pecans. What?!?
I highly recommend getting crazy in your bread choices.
Other times, I just want breakfast now, so I just make the batter, coat the bread, fry it, and eat it with no fancy additions.
Just a classic vegan french toast.
It’s all about balance. So don’t get intimidated by the stuffed cheese, apples, or reduction.
It’s french toast. Make it simple.
Chai Tea French Toast Made 2-Ways
Sometimes I make my french toast batter with Follow Your Heart’s Vegan Egg and sometimes I make it with garbanzo bean flour.
One or the other. They are both delicious to me. It really depends on what I have on hand at the time.
In both of these recipes, I use iced chai tea instead of water to make the batter.
The Vegan Egg batter version tends to be a bit squisher of a toast, and the garbanzo bean flour batter stays firmer when cooked, and softens more with the addition of butter and syrup.
And both are absolutely delicious.
Chai Tea Vegan French Toast Recipes
- 4 pieces of bread (homemade sourdough works great)
- 2 tablespoons Vegan Egg
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch of sea salt
- few scrapes of fresh nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup iced chai tea
- Optional:
- Stuff with Kite Hill Ricotta cheese
- Top with baked cinnamon apples
- Make a chai cream reduction by reducing 1 part vanilla almond milk creamer to 2 parts chai tea until thick.
- Heat skillet over medium heat.
- Add all dry batter ingredients to a bowl.
- Pour in iced chai tea and vanilla extract.
- Whisk together until batter is smooth.
- Dip bread into batter to coat both sides.
- Add oil to the skillet right before dropping the battered bread on the skillet.
- Cook until toast forms those perfect little brown spots then flip to cook other side.
- When both sides are done, move toast to a plate and serve with plant-based butter, syrup, eggplant bacon, Field Roast Apple Maple Breakfast Sausages, or tofu scramble.
- 4 pieces of bread (homemade sourdough works great)
- 3 tablespoons garbanzo bean flour
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch of black salt (if you want a bit of egg flavor, if not, regular sea salt is fine)
- few scrapes of fresh nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup iced chai tea
- Optional:
- Stuff with Kite Hill Ricotta cheese
- Top with baked cinnamon apples
- Make a chai cream reduction by reducing 1 part vanilla almond milk creamer to 2 parts chai tea until thick.
- Heat skillet over medium heat.
- Add all dry batter ingredients to a bowl.
- Pour in iced chai tea and vanilla extract.
- Whisk together until batter is smooth.
- Dip bread into batter to coat both sides.
- Add oil to the skillet right before dropping the battered bread on the skillet.
- Cook until toast forms those perfect little brown spots then flip to cook other side.
- When both sides are done, move toast to a plate and serve with plant-based butter, syrup, eggplant bacon, Field Roast Apple Maple Breakfast Sausages, or tofu scramble.
Time to Eat
Get out your vegan butter, maple syrup, brew the coffee, and get excited.
Chai Tea French Toast goes amazing with a side of the best vegan bacon,
Field Roast Apple Maple Breakfast Sausages, (as pictured)
or along side a tofu scramble.
Not a sponsored post, just always sharing my favs.
Custom-made cutting board by: Knotty Grains
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