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Easy and Healthy Recipes For Babies and Toddlers

Orange French Toast

No-added-salt Vegetarian

Ingredients

2 slices white or brown toast bread
1 egg
2 tbsp fresh orange juice
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
1 to 2 tbsp butter (or 1 each of butter and oil)
Optional for serving:
1 kiwi fruit, peeled and sliced

For Cinnamon Sugar: ¼ tsp cinnamon mixed with 1 tsp sugar

*makes 1-2 servings

Stove or oven method:

Cut each bread slice into 3 fingers (crusts on or off).

Lightly beat egg with orange juice and cinnamon.

Gently heat a frying pan (non-stick is best) on low with butter (or oil and butter).

Just before cooking dip one bread finger at a time into egg mixture to completely coat.

Increase heat until butter is sizzling then add first bread finger. Repeat one slice at a time, adding them to the pan as soon as each one is egg-coated.

Turn when golden and lightly brown the second sides. Remove. Drain on paper towel.

Serve warm.

Optional: Serve with kiwifruit slices and a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar

Tips:

Bread cut into fingers, dipped in beaten egg, then lightly fried, makes a nutritious finger-food lunch for young and old. The orange juice adds flavour, and with the kiwi fruit, adds vitamin C.