Tinned Tomatoes: French toast

Thai Spiced Eggy Bread Dippers with Coconut

It's soup time of year and on nights when I'm short for time I'm loving Glorious Fresh Soups. A much healthier and cheaper decision than a takeaway.

I first tried these soups when I was down at Food Blogger Connect in London and was impressed by just how fresh they tasted and the fact they spice their soups. So many fresh soups are bland.

They have 9 veggies soups in their range and 5 of them are vegan.

New England Butternut Squash
Singapore Crushed Tomato (vegan)
Bangalore Lentil Daal (vegan)
Cuban Creamed Corn
Fragrant Thai Carrot (vegan)
Sicilian Tomato & Balsamic
Mexican Tomato & Fire Roasted Pepper (vegan)
Mumbai Lentil and Chickpea (vegan)
Goan Tomato and Lentil

You'll notice a distinct travel theme to all those soup. Glorious are on a mission to take you around the world by flavouring their soups with authentic spices and herbs from each area. My Fragrant Thai Carrot is flavoured with coconut, lime leaves and lemongrass and has a wonderfully warming flavour of spices but still with the sweetness of carrot.

I decided to pair my soup with some homemade spiced eggy bread dippers with coconut or in other words fancy french toast fingers. Graham enjoyed his soup with naked bread. Eggy bread's not really great for vegans.

I spiced my eggy fingers with the flavour of Thailand too.

Freshly grated nutmeg, freshly grated cinnamon and a good pinch of chilli powder. I finished them off with a coating of coconut. Of course you could use ground spices, if you like.

So were they a success, oh yes, they worked really well with the soup and so satisfying. Much more interesting than plain bread.

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Thai Spiced Eggy Bread Dippers with Coconut

Written by Jacqueline Meldrum

November 12, 2015

French toast dippers coated in Thai spices and coconut, a luxurious dipper for soup. Made in minutes, but very comforting and filling.

Ingredients

4 slices crusty bread, sliced thickly and cut into fingers
2 large free range eggs
a generous pinch fresh nutmeg (or a good pinch of ground nutmeg)
a generous pinch fresh cinnamon (or a good pinch of ground cinnamon)
a pinch of hot chilli powder
a good grinding of black pepper
1 cup desiccated coconut

Instructions

1. Heat a non-stick pan. Hot but not too hot, you don't want to burn your dipper.2. Cut your bread into dippers. I left some of the crusts on, this can be wise if the bread is really soft, as it can fall apart easily when you are coating it.3. Whisk the eggs with the spices and pour it onto a plate.4. Pour the coconut onto a second plate.5. Dip the bread in the egg mixture and then roll in the coconut until covered.6. Fry in batches of 3 or 4 depending on the size of your frying pan. Turn on each side for 10-20 seconds until golden. It really doesn't take long.7. Serve while warm with your Glorious soup and enjoy!

Details

Total time: 15 mins
Yield: Makes 12 eggy dippers

I'll leave you with some fun facts about Thailand.

Thailand is the world’s 20th most populated country, with close to 67 million people.
Kitti's hog-nosed bat – thought to be the world’s smallest mammal – is found in Thailand. It weights just two grams.
Buddhism is the country's main religion – it is practised by 95 per cent of the population.
Elephant polo is a popular pastime. The King’s Cup is one of the key events in the sport’s calendar.
It is strictly against the law to criticise the monarchy.

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