22 Feb Chia-Crusted French Toast

We’re choosing to highlight the beautiful and powerful chia seed – high in fibre, protein, calcium and magnesium! This super easy vegan recipe will create around 2 servings, however, if you’d like more (which you most likely will) just double up on each of these ingredients, and keep going until you’re full 😉

Ingredients

For the dunk

• 1 cup plant milk
• 1 TBS ground chia seeds
• 1 TBS maple syrup
• Sourdough bread
• ¼ cup chia seeds for crusting

For the toppings

• 2 x nectarines or other stone fruit
• ¼ cup coconut milk
• Tahini
• Hazelnuts

Method

1. Heat the oven to 180C. 
2. Cut the stone fruit in half and place centre up on a baking tray. Drizzle with coconut milk and bake for 15 minutes. The juice of the stone fruit and the coconut milk will mix together and make a beautiful syrup.
3. Mix together the dunking ingredients together, then quickly dip your sourdough slices into the combined ingredient. A quick dunk is all you need – if you soak the bread for too long it will fall apart.
4. Sprinkle the chia seeds onto both sides of the bread and then fry in a medium-hot frying pan until golden-brown.
5. Serve a few slices on a plate, topped with your sweet and soft stone-fruit, tahini and a sprinkling of nuts.