Strawberry French Toast

Ingredients

• Whole-wheat bread

  Commercially prepared

  2 slice or 56g

• Reduced fat milk

  Fluid, 2% milkfat, with added vitamin a and vitamin d

  ½ cup or 122g

• Sugar

  White, granulated sugar

  1 ½ tbsp or 19g

• Egg

  Whole, fresh eggs

  1 ½ extra large or 84g

• Butter

  Unsalted

  2 tbsp or 28g

• Strawberries

  Raw

  1 cup, halves or 152g

Directions

1. Toast the bread slices and place them in an oven dish. In a bowl, mix the milk, one third of the sugar, and eggs. Pour this mixture over the bread and refrigerate for 15 minutes or overnight.
2. Preheat oven to 400°F. In a large frying pan, melt butter and cook the soaked bread slices with half of the remaining sugar until golden on each side.
3. Place the bread slices on an oven rack, arrange strawberry halves on top, sprinkle with the remaining sugar, and bake for 4 minutes until berries start to melt.