You won’t miss the eggs with this easy and delicious vegan French toast. It’s crispy on the outside, soft on the inside and makes the perfect breakfast.
When I first heard about vegan french toast, I really had no clue how you could make this happen. I mean french toast is just so…..eggy. Like…how would you achieve this without eggs?
Well the answer is a little chickpea flour with non-dairy milk and a few other ingredients to mimic the ‘eggy’ flavor and it works so well!
Chickpea flour actually works wonderfully to create ‘eggy’ dishes, we’ve used it for our vegan scrambled eggs and our vegan omelette!
Of course it’s not like what you’re used to, if what you’re used to is the regular (egg) version. But I tell you, it works. And it’s damn tasty.
How To Make Vegan French Toast
This recipe is super easy and takes only around 30 minutes or less from beginning to end, which is the way I like it.
Just whisk up the wet ingredients in a bowl, slice up some bread into thick sturdy slices, dip it in the wet mix (both sides) and then fry it in a hot frying pan with a little coconut oil.
The frying pan should be very hot and the combination of the mix that you dip the bread in, plus the coconut oil creates the perfectly browned result you see here. It’s crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, with a deliciously light flavor.
You will love this vegan french toast for its perfectly sweet taste and mix of subtle flavors, its texture, and how quick and easy it is to make.
Recipe Tips
We used chickpea flour but you can also make this with all purpose flour. I have tested this recipe with all purpose flour and I found it worked just as well. Chickpea flour is a little more suited to an eggy vibe, but it’s not a huge difference. So whatever you have on hand will be great.
Nutritional Yeast is a very versatile ingredient. It can be used to create cheesy flavors, buttery flavors AND eggy flavors! Of course it’s here for eggy flavor.
Black Salt: We used regular salt in this recipe but if you happen to have some black salt aka kala namak on hand, then you can use half black salt and half regular salt. Black salt isn’t actually black at all, but is a salt that has a very strong eggy taste. It’s quite miraculous. It’s not at all crucial in this recipe, but if you have some on hand you can use it.
Sturdy Bread: The first time I tried this recipe the only bread I had on hand was pre-sliced sandwich bread, and that struggled a bit to stay together. Soft, thinly sliced sandwich bread is an issue here because as soon as you dunk it in the batter it will want to break apart.
So what you really need is a sturdy sort of bread that you can slice yourself. And then you want to slice it nice and thick. Either that or use bread that’s a bit stale, but preferably both! A nice sturdy sort of bread that you can slice yourself AND that’s a bit on the stale side is the perfect combo for french toast.
I used a sourdough bread for this recipe that had also been sitting for a couple of days so it was a little stale. That was just perfect for this recipe.
How To Serve Vegan French Toast
You can serve it plain or with some maple syrup, or if you want to get a bit fancy, some jams and vegan whipped cream and fresh berries! It’s a pretty fine breakfast no matter how you serve it.
Make Ahead
You can prepare the ingredients in advance and keep the dipping mix in the fridge until you’re ready to start. However, I would not fry the French toast in advance, because that needs to be served warm and crispy.
More Delicious Vegan Breakfast Recipes!
- Vegan Quiche
- Vegan Pancakes
- Vegan Banana Bread
- Vegan Waffles
- Vegan Blueberry Muffins
- Super ‘Eggy’ Vegan Tofu Scramble
So what do you think of this vegan french toast recipe? Let us know in the comments and please rate the recipe too! Thank you!
Vegan French Toast
Ingredients
- 1 cup Soy Milk (240ml) or other non-dairy milk
- 4 Tbsp Chickpea Flour
- 2 Tbsp Nutritional Yeast
- 1 Tbsp Maple Syrup
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- ½ tsp Cinnamon
- ½ tsp Salt or ¼ tsp black salt / kala namak and ¼ tsp regular salt*
- 6 Slices Bread Thick sliced
- Coconut Oil For frying
Instructions
- Add the chickpea flour (or all purpose flour if you're using) to a shallow bowl and add just a dash of soy milk and mix in until smooth. Then add the rest of the soy milk.
- Add the nutritional yeast, maple syrup, vanilla extract, cinnamon and salt and whisk together.
- Heat up a frying pan with some coconut oil.
- Soak a slice of bread in the batter for a few seconds on each side, and then place onto the frying pan to cook until browned on each side.
- Serve as is or drizzled with syrup or jam and topped with vegan whipped cream.
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Notes
- If you have black salt aka kala namak on hand then you can use half black salt and half regular salt. Black salt adds more 'eggy' flavor to recipes.
- I found the coconut oil to be very helpful in getting the outsides nice and browned and the most similar to 'regular' French toast. I added a bit more coconut oil (around one teaspoon) with every slice of french toast.
- I used a sourdough bread that was a little stale. Cut thickly it made the perfect kind of slices for making french toast. You will definitely get the best results if you choose a sturdy kind of bread (not soft sandwich bread) that you can slice thickly, and it's also ideal if it's a little on the stale side rather than ultra fresh.
- Nutritional Information is for one slice of French Toast, served as is, no additional toppings.
- This recipe was first published in February 2016 now updated with a few added tips and tricks!
- Recipe adapted from Peta.
So delicious! I didn’t have any vanilla extract so used almond extract instead, I also whisked up some leftover aquafaba and added a tablespoon of plant cream to the mixture and used vegan butter and coconut oil to fry them and it worked well. I didn’t have any stale sour dough only thin fresh sandwich bread, but it was still really delicious. I can only imagine how good it would be with your recommendations. Yum 🙂
Awesome Emma! So glad it worked out great! Thanks for sharing and the brilliant review!
Can I use vegan butter to cook it in instead?
Yes sure! 🙂
just a question, I had few pieces of bread soaked with the batter, it will be ok to save them for next day, of course stored in the refrigerator? or for next time is is better to just save the batter and use it next day.
It would be better to just save the batter for the next day. If the bread is already soaked then I would just go ahead and cook it.
I used plain bagels that I had leftover, and it was delicious!
Didn’t have chick pea flour so I used regular flour, and as you said it worked fine. Next time I will do it as per your recipe, Thanks! I will make it again!
Can I use agave nectar instead of maple syrup
Sure!
Absolutely amazing! Thank you so much. My daughter who is 8 and newly vegan adored these! I have never made French toast before but honestly think these are the best I have ever had. I used wholemeal sliced bread ( thats what we had ) I mixed all the wet ingredients first then added the dry whisking all the time as Stefan suggested. This will now become a staple for us. Genius!
Awesome! So happy to hear that! Thanks for the great review.
Do I have to add nutritional yeast?
You can leave it out if you prefer.