Ube French Toast with Milk Tea Condensed Milk Recipe
I love a delicious breakfast, and I’ll always try an ube flavored food when I see it on a menu.
My most recent ube endeavor this time around is an ube french toast recipe that I absolutely love! I tried this recipe out on my most recent camping trip to AutoCamp Joshua Tree (check out the blog post on that if you haven’t already!) and it was delicious! It’s a super simple recipe and was very easy to prep! I cooked this over a fire pit on my camping trip, but it’s just as easy (if not easier) to cook this over a stovetop.
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The Ingredients
The french toast ingredients here are similar to any classic french toast recipe. We have the standard milk, eggs, and sugar for the mixture. Additionally, though, to make this an ube french toast, I added an ube extract for the ube flavor and some purple food coloring to enhance the color.
I pre-made the french toast batter before our trip so that we wouldn’t have to bring all of the individual ingredients with us. After mixing all the ingredients together, I packed them into jars, making them easy to store and transport.
I also made a milk tea condensed milk to use as a drizzle over the ube french toast instead of a basic syrup. This is inspired by a chef at my work who would make Hong Kong French Toast with a milk tea glaze sauce that was just so delicious. So I wanted to recreate that for my recipe here!
Cooking
For this french toast recipe, we cooked this over an open fire while we were camping! This was a fun experience! We used a cast iron skillet over a fire pit. Each side of the bread slice was cooked for a few minutes, so this was a pretty quick and easy recipe to cook.
The Results
This ube french toast came out delicious! I topped the french toast with some strawberries and blueberries and then drizzled the milk tea condensed milk on top. I really enjoyed the toasty and crispy outsides, and liked the strong ube flavor!
If you love ube too, I highly recommend trying out this recipe! And the milk tea condensed milk is something that I really enjoyed making that can be used for other dishes as well, or as a sweetener to drinks like coffee or tea!
Milk Tea Condensed Milk
Ingredients
ºoº 5-8 Black tea bags
ºoº 3/4 cup water
ºoº 2 cups whole milk
ºoº 2/3 cup sugar
Directions
Steep the black tea bags in boiled water for 15 minutes
Heat the tea on the stove over a low-medium heat and bring to a simmer
Simmer for 10 minutes or until the tea is reduced to a concentrate
Mix the milk, sugar, and tea concentrate in a saucepan
Simmer over a low heat for 30-45 minutes until the the mixture is reduced. Stir occasionally
Remove from the stove and allow it to cool
Once cooled the mixture should be the consistency of condensed milk. If it’s still too thin, you can reheat it over the stove until it thickens
Strain into an airtight container and store for later
Ube French Toast
Ingredients
ºoº Bread slices - I recommend brioche, but any type of bread will do
ºoº 2 eggs
ºoº 1 1/2 cups milk
ºoº 1/4 cup sugar
ºoº 2 tsp ube extract
ºoº Purple food coloring (optional)
ºoº Cooking oil or butter
Directions
Mix the milk, sugar, eggs, and ube extract together
Optionally add purple food coloring until reaching the desired color
Heat a frying pan with cooking oil or butter
Lightly soak the bread slice into the french toast mix. Don’t leave it too long or the bread may disintegrate
Pan fry each bread slice until lightly brown
Repeat Steps 4 & 5 for each bread slice
Top the french toast slices with the pre-made milk tea condensed milk or syrup of choice