Friday, November 11, 2016

French toast with Rosemary Blueberry sauce

Bilberry is THE best berry which grows in Finland, to my mind. It is a real superfood. This time I used it as a sauce for my brunch dessert, French toast. I added some rosemary to the sauce, to give the nice earthiness flavor and some lemon zest to give a twist. The combination really worked.

As I mentioned that bilberry is superfood, I think that also French toast is superfood :D Maybe not in a similar way, but it is super good to my soul... And when I make it using Finnish pulla, it is even better.

Many of the french toast recipes contain cinnamon and sugar, but with pulla, sugar does not need to be added since the pulla is already sweet pastry. And instead of cinnamon, I prefer cardamom which, as well, is ingredient of the pulla.



French toast
For 2 person
4 slice of day old Finnish pulla or french bread (about 2-3 cm thick slices)
1 large egg
2 dl milk
butter for cooking

Beat and milk together in a bowl. Place the bread in the bowl and let the bread soak up the egg on one side for about 1 minute, then turn and let soak on other side. Let any excess egg mixture drip off into bowl. Heat frying pan or griddle.

Melt a small amount of butter in pan. Place french toast pieces in pan and fry until golden on first side. Flip and cook other side until golden and crispy.

Rosemary Blueberry sauce
100 g bilberries (or blueberries)
50 g sugar
1 sprig of rosemary
1/4 lemon zest
1 tbsp lemon juice

Combine blueberries, rosemary, sugar and water in a saucepan, bring it to boil. Cook approx. 10 minutes, until sauce has thickened some amount. Cool. Season with lemon juice and zest of lemon.



16 comments:

  1. French Toast is superfood for SURE <3 I love the combination of blueberry and thyme, but I've never yet tried blueberry with rosemary. I'm sure it's delicious however :) gotta try it!

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    1. I love the thyme and blueberry combination too, but it got bored of it at some point and then tested this combination. You, really shoud try it.

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  2. Mustikka-rosmariinikastike - mielenkiintoinen ja varmasti maukas kastike.

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    1. Tämä yhdistelmä tosiaan on mielenkiintoinen. Mutta rosmariinia ei saa laittaa liikaa, koska se on niin vahvan makuinen ja jättää mustikan alleen.

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  3. Ooh, rosmariini ja mustikka on mulle vielä vieras yhdistelmä, mutta osaan nyt jo arvata että varmasti aivan mainio makupari!

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    1. Todella ihana makupari! Mulle mustikka-timjami kävi jo vähän tylsäksi, niin kaipasin jotain piristystä. Lisää ehdottomasti myös sitruunankuori tähän komboon :)

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  4. I have a huge punch of rosemaru sitting in fridge and I have to find ways to use it before it's dead. I'lll definitely give this a try.

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    1. Oh, glad to hear that you would like to try this recipe. But either you need huge amount of blueberries to use your rosemary, or you still have quite large bunch. This recipe need only one sprig... :D

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  5. Rosmariini on yksi lempiyrteistä, niin ihana tuoksu ja maku. Maistan tämän jo kielellä.

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    1. Rosmariini on myös yksi mun lempiyrteistä. Siinä on kiva maanläheinen maku.

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  6. I agree, Bilberry is the best berry which grows in in Finland! It's my favourite berry <3

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    1. Totally! I couldn't even imagine a life without bilberries...

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  7. Mustikka ja rosmariini on kyllä aika match made in heaven!

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    1. Niin on! Mukava huomata, että en ole ainoa joka niin ajattelee.

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