Buttery, crispy and decidedly not diet food, fried bread makes a delicious side dish or a yummy solo snack.
Not to be confused with the equally delicious Native American fry bread, fried bread is simply bread cooked in a frying pan or on a griddle with a large amount of butter, oil or other fat used to crisp and flavor it.
If you’ve ever made toad/frog/egg in the hole or eggs in a basket and fried the center circle of bread that is cut out for the egg, you know how tasty fried bread is.
“Fried bread is best served straight up, and used to mop up the yolks of a sunny side up egg or two,” Rebecca Firkser of MyRecipes said in her write-up on fried bread.
She suggests cooking each side of bread in lots of butter or oil for 2-3 minutes. Before flipping to the other side, make sure there’s still enough butter or oil in the pan to cook the other half and make it “sufficiently charred and glistening with fat.”
This type of toast may be best known for being served with a full English or Irish breakfast along with mushrooms, tomatoes, eggs, beans, and assorted fried meats.
Fried bread is much more saturated with butter or oil than regular toast and it doesn’t include an egg-based batter, as you’d use with French toast.
“It’s the perfect storm of rich flavor, next-level crispiness, and adaptability,” Kendra Vaculin of Epicurious noted. “Unlike the dry toast you can make in a toaster (or under the broiler in your oven), slices fried in oil are rich and luxurious; that bit of extra fat goes a long way in the flavor department.”
Vaculin prefers oil over butter for her fried bread. She quickly fries one side of a piece of bread in a skillet just enough to coat it, then flips it over and cooks the other side until done. Then, she flips it over again to finish the first side.
Vaculin says you can try different types of oil like sesame oil, ghee or coconut oil to get a different flavor profile. She also adds spices, garlic or shallots to olive oil for extra seasoning.
Serve your fried bread with pasta, eggs, stews and a hearty soup — or just eat it by itself.
Proponents of frying rather than toasting call out the extra flavor and crispiness that can be achieved by frying in fat rather than dry-toasting. French toast is a type of fried bread that is dredged in an egg and milk mixture before frying.
If you’ve ever made toad/frog/egg in the hole or eggs in a basket and fried the center circle of bread that is cut out for the egg, you know how tasty fried bread is.
Vaculin prefers oil over butter for her fried bread. She quickly fries one side of a piece of bread in a skillet just enough to coat it, then flips it over and cooks the other side until done. Then, she flips it over again to finish the first side.
Not to be confused with the equally delicious Native American fry bread, fried bread is simply bread cooked in a frying pan or on a griddle with a large amount of butter, oil or other fat used to crisp and flavor it.
This type of toast may be best known for being served with a full English or Irish breakfast along with mushrooms, tomatoes, eggs, beans, and assorted fried meats.
“Fried bread is best served straight up, and used to mop up the yolks of a sunny side up egg or two,” Rebecca Firkser of MyRecipes said in her write-up on fried bread.
Most bread is good, but not all bread is good breakfast bread. Though toast is the standard—and biscuits and English muffins are both exemplary—fried bread might be the best bread for breakfasting, particularly hungover breakfasting, both in terms of taste and ease.
I first enjoyed fried bread as part of a full English breakfast and, as a Southern person, was honestly shocked that we didn’t think of it first.
If you are eating bacon with your breakfast (and of course you are), the process is a simple, very quick one:
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Frying a piece of white bread in bacon drippings or butter falls completely within my Mississippian aesthetic and it streamlines my morning.
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FAQ
What is the difference between fried bread and French toast?
What is another name for fried bread?
What is the difference between toast and fry bread?
What is another name for French toast?
Is eggy bread the same as French toast?
Despite the fact that eggy bread and French toast are very closely related, they’re not the same thing. Eggy bread is a savory dish usually served with things like bacon, ham, cheese, and salami. On the other hand, French toast is served sweet. Popular French toast toppings include fruits, sugar, custard, honey, and maple syrup.
What is French toast?
French toast is a dish of sliced bread soaked in beaten eggs and often milk or cream, then pan-fried. Alternative names and variants include eggy bread, Bombay toast, gypsy toast, and poor knights (of Windsor).
Is French toast gluten free?
The main components of a standard French toast recipe are bread, milk, and eggs. Any type of bread will do—including gluten-free varieties—so long as you use stale pieces. The reason?
Which bread is best for French toast?
French toast comes out best if you work with thick slices of French or Italian loaf bread that are several days old. That way they’ve had a chance to firm up, which will make the slices hold up better when you dip them in the egg milk mixture and fry them.