Torrijas – Spain Food
Title: Torrijas
Cook Time: 1 hour
Level: Easy
Serving: 10
The Torrijas is a traditional sweet of Carnival and Lent, wich consists of a slice of bread (usually several days) that is soaked in milk or wine, and after being coated in egg, fried it in a skillet with oil; eventually flavored to taste, with various ingredients such as cinnamon or liqueur, and sweetened with honey, syrup or sugar. Its association with Lent may be due to the necessity to use bread that as long as they could not eat meat in the fifteenth century.
Ingredients:
1 loaf of bread a day earlier
1 liter of milk
1 cinnamon stick
1 lemon peel
6 tablespoons sugar
2 eggs
Olive oil or canola
Directions:
In a saucepan put milk to boil with the cinnamon and lemon peel for about 5 or 10 minutes.
Before you remove from heat, add sugar and stirred well until it dissolved.
Cut the loaf of bread in one or two inch slices and placed in a deep container.
Covered with milk until it is wet out, but not to soften too much, (you can leave them to soak half hour).
Once soaked, mixed with egg and fried in very hot oil.
When the torrijas looks golden, remove from pan and placed in a bowl.
They can be sprinkled with sugar, cinnamon, syrup or honey.
Personal Suggestion: There are several combinations, some recipes substitute milk for the wine, and dispenses water, wetting the torrijas only in hot honey. It is often accompanied by cinnamon and clove. Some variants use peel grated lemon or orange flavoring milk.
