vanilla paste Archives

Fruity dessert

Poached guavas with custard

5–10 minutes

Fruity dessert

Lemon-and-vanilla granita

Citrus recipes

Naartjie-and-cardamom milk tart with candied citrus peel

35 minutes

Fruity dessert

Caramelised fruit with vanilla coconut milk

10 minutes

Fruity dessert

Poached apricots

10 minutes

French recipes

The ultimate French toast

10 minutes

Breakfast recipes

Granola with strained vanilla yoghurt

30 minutes

Braai recipes

Braaied yellowtail with apricot ginger glaze

30 minutes

Chocolate recipes

Eight layer mississippi mud cake with caramel drizzle and chocolate truffles

3 hours

Asian recipes

Thai pot-roasted beef neck

4-5 hours

Berry recipes

Blueberry French toast

10 minutes

Blueberry French toast

Serves 4

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cooking Time 10 minutes

Ingredients

25 g flaked almonds
4 free-range eggs
1 cup milk
1 t vanilla paste
½ t salt
2 T butter
8 raisin bread slices
120 g blueberries
2 T sugar
1 lemon, juiced
100 g lemon curd
Icing sugar, for dusting

Method

Dry fry the almonds in a pan over a medium heat until golden brown. Remove from the pan.

Whisk together the eggs, milk, vanilla paste and salt until smooth. Melt half the butter in a pan over medium heat.

Soak the bread in the egg mixture until completely coated, then cook in 2 batches on each side until golden brown.

Heat the blueberries, sugar and lemon juice in a small frying pan for 5 minutes.

Spread 4 slices of the bread with lemon curd, top with the blueberry mixture, then the remaining bread.

Slice, scatter over the toasted almonds and dust with icing sugar before serving.

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Poached guavas with custard

Lemon-and-vanilla granita

Naartjie-and-cardamom milk tart with candied citrus peel

Caramelised fruit with vanilla coconut milk

Poached apricots

The ultimate French toast

Granola with strained vanilla yoghurt

Braaied yellowtail with apricot ginger glaze

Eight layer mississippi mud cake with caramel drizzle and chocolate truffles

Thai pot-roasted beef neck

Blueberry French toast

Blueberry French toast

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