Ole friends! Here Paulina again. Today I come to present them a spectacular alternative for our Lenten Sweet Tables with this recipe for traditional toast and some original alternatives, typical Spanish dish. If we want a rich and easy alternative for Holy Week, they don't have to think more: milk torrijas as they are done in Spain!
The traditional torrija recipe of Spain, or the most popular, are milk toast. However, we can also find its very delicious variants such as making wine and toast torrijas with honey. We can also do them in the oven or fried, what we like the most!
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About the toast
Torrijas are known worldwide for being a traditional dessert in many Spanish -speaking countries, especially in Spain. The recipe begins with a piece of bread that has been left of breakfast or the previous day, the point of this recipe is to take advantage of the bread that you do not want to throw and the best is when you realize that you can turn it into a very delicious dessert.
As a summary, home torrijas are pancitos that are soaked in milk with cinnamon and sugar, then they batter in egg, to fry them at the end in hot oil .
Where do they originate?
After a long investigation and analyzing some theories that arose around the birth of this recipe, we understood that its true origin is not entirely clear .
- Torrijas are a dessert that was adopted by different cultures throughout its history , it is difficult to define a starting point.
Even so, many theories suggest that its origin is in Roman cuisine.
Let's know its story
This dessert becomes very popular because it is an economic and energy solution of a fast meal. Many families began to prepare for the simple fact of not wanting to throw the bread that began to harden in the cupboard.
They realized that if they soaked the hard bread in milk and then cooked it to decorate it with any sweet, it was very good and that is where the magic began.
With the passage of time, the Torrijas became popular in Spanish cuisine , especially in the period of Lent and Holy Week, for their simple and economic ingredients.
What do they mean for the Spaniards?
In Spain, particularly, Torrijas are a traditional dessert and very established in their gastronomic culture.
- In many European countries, homemade torrijas are prepared especially during Holy Week and Lent. Beyond that they can also be found at other times of the year.
Many find many memories and nostalgia in Torrijas. This is because it is a typical dessert from childhood and associate them with special family moments.
How are they served?
It is so easy to prepare homemade torrijas in every sense and anywhere in the process. After frying them, the moment begins where the imagination must be left, because the toast can be accompanied by what you want at the time.
- In general, they are usually sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon, although they can also be served with honey, syrup or custard.
An interesting fact to try : in some places, such as in Catalonia, sweet wines are used to wet bread instead of milk.
Torrijas are usually a typical Holy Week dessert in Spain, although they can also be found at other times of the year. In addition, there are different varieties and ways to prepare them, depending on the region in which they are made.
What bread do I need?
Bread is a key point of this recipe, although in general you can look good with any type of flour.
- The most appropriate bread is one that has a dense and consistent crumb.
- As far as possible, be the day before. It is important that the bread is a bit dry, in this way we seek to better absorb milk and egg.
- If the bread is a bit dry, it will help to get rid of during frying.
- Ideally white bread .
In Spain , it is very common to find torrijas made with a characteristic type of bread that they call " Bread of Torrijas ", which has as its main characteristic a dense and firm crumb , this helps to absorb milk and egg better.
In any case, you can always use another type of bread that meets these characteristics.
Where is it advisable to save them?
It is a good idea to save the freshly prepared toast in a hermetic container in the refrigerator, that you want to do toast and save for later. Only in this way, they can be kept fresh for a couple of days.
⚠️ It is not recommended to keep torrijas for more than a week.
Otherwise, it is best to consume them at that time.
Can they be freezed? Yes, you can, and thus last longer. To freeze them it is advisable to wrap them on film or aluminum foil and then in a freezing bag. Frozen can be kept for several months in the freezer.
To defrost : before consuming frozen toasts, we will first take them out of the freezer and leave them like that, at room temperature for a few minutes to recover temperature and their original texture and taste. They could also heat up in the oven or in the microwave for a few seconds.
4 Classic Torrijas recipes
Like the French toast that I published a while ago, this dish is based on a slice of bread that is moistened with some liquid , most of the time it is prepared with milk but we can also find alternatives with syrup or wine. Today we are going to see the versions of Traditional Torrijas in Spain .
Once the recipe has been moistened, the toast continues to rebolated in egg and cooking it either in a pan with oil or in the oven, and then sweeten it with sugar, honey, molasses or other alternatives. To end in most cases cinnamon is used as an aromatizing.
What I like most about the baked torrija recipe is that it does not include anything you don't have at home and are very fun to do. If the whole family participates, I assure you that they will be much richer! Give it a coleguite. What are we going to need? (Put a nice Rosalia theme before starting).
Traditional milk toast
Ingredients
- 1 Bread bar of the previous day
- 1 lt of milk
- 1 cinnamon in branch
- Lemon and orange bark lacs
- 3 beaten eggs
- Olive oil for frying
- Sugar and cinnamon powder
Variants of the traditional torrijas
- 250 ml of sweet wine or red wine
- 250 ml of water
- Honey
How to make traditional milk toast step by step
- Put 1 LT of milk with a tablespoon of sugar, a sprig of cinnamon and lemon and orange cortex lacquers. Once the mixture boils, turn off the heat, cover and let stand
- Cut the bread bar of the previous day with a closing knife in slices of 1 finger and a half wide
- Once the mixture is cooled, we filter it with a fine mesh strainer and moisten the slices of bread previously cut on both sides
- We beat 3 eggs in a bowl and smear the wet bread bars in milk
- We drain well so that it does not splash and place our toasts in milk and egg in a pan with olive oil at temperature
- Once they are well golden brown on both sides we remove the excess oil on a plate with absorbent paper
- We prepare a mixture of sugar and cinnamon powder in quantities at quantities at the taste of consumer
- Before these delicious milk torrijas cool, we batter them on the turn and back seeking to be wet and end !! Incredibly easy right?
Now the only thing left is to prepare something rich to take and accompany this dish of milk torty!
Baked milk toast
If we want a healthier milk toast recipe and avoid fried in oil, we can learn how to make baked torrijas. Don't worry! They are very rich too. How? .. Look how easy baked torrijas!
- We turn on the oven and heat it up to 200 degrees
- We prepare the barbecue by placing baking paper. (Counseling: if you want they can splash the roasting with a few drops of water before placing the paper so that it does not move)
- We place our milk and egg toasts as we prepare them previously on the baking paper
- We brown back and forth until they are very beautiful
- We batter with the mixture of sugar and cinnamon powder until you are wet and you already have them !!
Wine Torrijas
As I tell you my dear we have alternatives so that they do not get bored. To make the recipe for wine toast will only need sweet wine or red wine and water.
The difference when making wine toast is that we will boil 250ml of sweet wine or red wine with 250ml of water , cinnamon and sugar (counseling: if they do it with sweet wine a tablespoon a soup is fine, if they do it with red wine put the double). Once this mixture enters a boil they must cook over medium heat about 5-10min until the alcohol is fully elaborated and now in more they already know how the story follows .. Incenate in egg, oil and the closure of another with the mixture of sugar and cinnamon before they cool to have already prepared our ideal wine toast for these Easter.
Torrijas with honey
And finally because I want us to get to work I give you one more alternative for those who get a bit of cinnamon. In both milk toast and wine toasts, the last step can be replaced where we smear them with sugar and cinnamon using honey.
All you have to do is put honey and water in a pot to the fire. Once it reaches a temperature, submerge our torrijas freshly out of the pan in this very tasty mixture, we leave them for a little while and eat!
Let's put our creativity to work! .. Can you think of any different friends? Come on, I know that many of you will put your touch ... in the end put hands to work and make a recipe for traditional toast or any of its variants, whether baked torrijas or fried, isn't it so difficult, right?
Health!
