Kitchen Experiments: Pesto French Toast

French Toast is one of those super-flexible recipes, a culinary chameleon, if you may - it can take on the colour and flavour of whichever cuisine you may choose to dunk it in. So here's presenting an Italian twist on the good ole breakfast table classic : Pesto French Toast

Ingredients:
Eggs (1 per person)
Stale bread (2 regular slices / 1 hefty slice) per person - I used an artisan bread from a fancy bakery, but you can use any bread you can get - though try and avoid the standard-issue mass-produced white maida bread. Its texture doesn't allow it to ABSORB the egg mixture, which is the whole point of French Toast
1 tablespoon pesto
1 tablespoon milk
Grated Parmesan cheese / garlic -herb seasoning (optional)
Salt to taste
Butter/oil

Method:
Lightly whisk the eggs with milk, pesto, cheese/garlic-herb seasoning in a shallow bowl. Add salt, if required.

Cut each slice of bread into two pieces if the slice is huge. Stand the bread in the egg mixture for about 1-2 minutes and then flip the slices over so that the other side soaks the egg mixture as well.

 Heat the butter/oil in a frying pan, and fry the bread slices on both sides till a lovely golden brown.




 
Serve hot with tomato ketchup.

Variations can include schezwan sauce/chutney or Sriracha sauce or tomato chutney instead of the pesto. For a sweet version replace the pesto and salt with Nutella and sugar. :) Enjoy!