Vegan French Toast on the Stove

Rise and shine! The most savory Vegan French Toast is on the breakfast menu! It’s made by thick-sliced bread in savory mix of ground flaxseed, non dairy milk and warm spices. This French toast will make any morning instantly special. The dependable recipe for a lazy weekend, Christmas morning, birthdays, or anytime you want to make an memorable breakfast the whole family will enjoy!

The Go-to Vegan French Toast Recipe!

I’ve tried a ton of vegan French toast recipes and could NEVER find one that was as good as the original…so I created my own. AND OH BUDDY is this French toast WORTH THE POT even without the eggs! This is my go-to weekend breakfast for when we truly want to treat ourselves.?

This is a recipe that I’ve been meaning to post for years now! Seeing as French toast is one of my all time regular breakfast dishes, I figured that it was time I created a vegan version. I’ve tried a quite a few vegan French toast recipes that make things extra complicated with hard to find ingredients, so I genuinely wanted to keep this dish simple.

The hardest part about making French toast vegan is replacing the egg. In most baked goods, it’s unfussy to replace an egg with applesauce, banana or several other things. But that doesn’t quite work here.

Instead, we’re replacing the egg with a flax egg. It works to kind of stick to the outside of the bread and give that nice thick texture to the cooked toast.

Ingredients

Vegan French toast requires only a handful of simple ingredients. Here’s what you’ll need:

• Ground flaxseed. In our vegan French toast, this is the ingredient that mimics the egg that regular French toast uses to create the crustiness on the bread.
• Non dairy milk. Use whatever non dairy milk you like dependable. I truly love soy milk or oat milk with this.
• Cinnamon + nutmeg. Warm spices that make this French toast taste striking! For a more seasonal flavor, you can also sub these for pumpkin pie spice.
• Vanilla. For even more flavor-packed flavor!
• Salt. Brings out the cinnamon and nutmeg flavors.
• Bread. I recommend using a thick-cut bread. Challah or brioche bread work great because they’re nice and fluffy but you’ll want to make sure to find vegan versions of them. More details on the dependable bread, below.
• Toppings. Don’t forget the fun toppings! The options are endless – fresh fruit, cooked fruit such as my sautéed apples or my caramelized bananas, powdered sugar, vegan butter, maple syrup and/or almond butter are all good choices.

How to cook this method

Vegan French toast is made only like regular French toast, but without the eggs. The milk is easily replaced with any preferred non dairy milk (I typically use almond milk because it’s always in my fridge) and for this particular recipe, we’re replacing the egg with a flax egg of sorts. French toast needs a bit of a binding agent that sticks to the outside of the bread and solidifies as it cooks (these are all quite untechnical terms).

1. Start this method by combining the milk and ground flaxseed together in a shallow bowl. Let this mixture sit and thicken for about 5 minutes.
2. Next, add all other ingredients to the flaxseed mixture. No matter what I do, I find combining the cinnamon and nutmeg into the liquid rather difficult. If you whisk for a good few minutes, it’ll incorporate a decent bit. Then I usually add in a little more cinnamon midway through dipping the bread into the mixture.
3. Spray a large skillet with cooking spray and heat over medium heat.
4. Lightly dip the slices of bread in the milk mixture so that the bread is simply covered on each side (NOT soaked).
5. Cook the bread in the skillet for about 4 minutes on each side or until golden brown.
6. Once done, top with syrup, fruit, and a dusting of powdered sugar and ENJOY!

Dependable Bread to use

The kind of bread you choose for this French toast recipe GENUINELY matters; even more than for the average French toast recipe. Do NOT use fresh, soft white bread for this method. You can make it work for old-style French toast that has egg in it, BUT it does not work well for this vegan French toast. You want slightly tougher bread that will hold up once dipped in the liquid.

Most often, I use stale sourdough bread for this dish.

You’ll want a bread that is roughly the thickness and texture of potato bread or challah bread. You can also use softer bread that has gone a bit stale which is what I used here.

Tips

• When I make old-style French toast, I let the bread soak up a lot of the liquid. DO NOT do that with this vegan French toast recipe. For dependable results, lightly dip each side of the bread into the milk mixture, so that it is fully covered, but not completely soaked through.
• Leftover vegan French toast will keep fresh in the refrigerator for up to 4 days or in the freezer for up to 2 months. If you’re planning to keep your French toast in the refrigerator, you can store it in an airtight container or zip-top baggie. To store French toast in the freezer, wrap the slices individually in plastic wrap or separate the slices with parchment paper, then place all slices in a gallon size freezer bag.
• You can reheat French toast in the toaster oven. It cooks up wonderfully crunchy and golden brown. For French toast that has been frozen, you’ll want to add about 1-2 minutes more to the toasting time. It also works well to reheat French toast in a skillet or on a griddle.

Toppings

How do you like to dress up your French toast? I’m a big fan of a little fruit and lots of maple syrup. I start with a little bit and then add more as I see fit. So, in other words, I keep the syrup RIGHT next to my plate:) Some other topping options are:

• fresh berries such as blueberries or strawberries
• sliced almonds or chopped pecans
• a sprinkle of granola
• nut butter
• banana slices
• shredded coconut
• jam
• powdered sugar
• non dairy whipped cream
• vegan butter

I’m genuinely excited for you to try this dish! Please let me know how you like and what kind of bread you used. I’m always experimenting with different kinds of bread and how they affect the final outcome.

More vegan breakfast recipes to try:

• Coffee Cake Banana Muffin
• Reliable Green Smoothie
• Chocolate Baked Donuts
• Baked Vegan Donuts
• Vegan Muffins
• Loaded Breakfast Sweet Potatoes
• Vegan Cinnamon Rolls
• Vegan Hash
• Unfussy Tofu Scramble
• Vegan Pancakes