Arme Ritter (German French toast) from the airfryer

Name: Arme Ritter (German French toast) from the airfryer
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 13 min
Total time: 23 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 8 slice day-old white bread; 2 piece eggs (medium); 150 ml milk; 1 tbsp sugar (for the egg milk); 1 pinch salt; 1 tbsp butter or margarine; 3 tbsp sugar (for coating); 2 tsp cinnamon

A German classic that turns stale white bread into breakfast all over the country: day-old slices are drawn briefly through sweet egg milk and then go into the airfryer basket. Outside, a golden brown, lightly crisp coating forms, while inside the bread stays soft and smells of cinnamon and sugar. Without a pan full of hot fat the whole thing is noticeably lighter, but it does lack the crisp fried edge that only a frying pan delivers.

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Cook time

23 min

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Servings

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Ingredients

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Nutrition

per serving

296 kcal

Calories

10 g

Protein

8 g

Fat

45 g

Carbs

Ingredients

For 4 servings

Estimated cost~€1.00 · ~€0.25/serving

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Instructions

1
Whisk the eggs smooth with the milk, the tablespoon of sugar and the pinch of salt in a shallow plate. The egg milk should stay thin so that the bread takes it up only on the outside.
2
Mix the remaining sugar with the cinnamon on a second shallow plate and stand it next to the basket.
3
Dip the slices of day-old white bread into the egg milk for only a few seconds per side and let them drain at once. Soaked bread falls apart and drips through the basket, and wet batters have no place in the airfryer anyway.
4
Preheat the airfryer to 180 °C so that the egg milk sets straight away instead of running down first.
5
Cut a piece of baking paper to the size of the basket and lay it in; the slices weigh it down, otherwise it flies into the fan. Lay the slices on it in a single layer, well spaced, stack nothing and cook larger quantities in two batches, then brush them thinly with the butter or margarine. Cook at 180 °C.
6
Turn the slices over and carry on cooking at 180 °C until both sides are golden brown and the egg milk has set firm all over.
7
Turn the hot slices in the cinnamon sugar at once and get them to the table quickly. On the plate the sugar draws moisture and the crisp coating turns soft again.