Torrijas con fresas (Poor knights with strawberries)

Name: Torrijas con fresas (Poor knights with strawberries)
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 untreated lemon; 500 g Strawberries, 5 tablespoons sugar; 8 discs White bread, 1/4 l milk (from the previous day); 2 TABLESPOONS cream sherry; 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons of oil (e.g. olive oil); 1/2-1 TEASPOON ground cinnamon

AUTHOR
Antoine Long

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
35 mins

TOTAL TIME
35 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4

1 untreated lemon
500 g Strawberries, 5 tablespoons sugar
8 discs White bread, 1/4 l milk (from the previous day)
2 TABLESPOONS cream sherry
2 eggs, 2 tablespoons of oil (e.g. olive oil)
1/2-1 TEASPOON ground cinnamon

Directions

1
Wash the lemon hot, squeeze half of it. Wash, clean and chop the strawberries. Mix with 1 tbsp. sugar and lemon juice
2
Place bread side by side on a plate with a high rim. Warm the milk. Mix with 2 tablespoons sugar and sherry. Pour this over the bread and let it stand for 20-30 minutes until all the liquid is absorbed. Turn from time to time. Whisk eggs in a deep plate and turn the bread in it
3
Heat the oil in portions in a coated pan. Fry the bread in the oil until golden brown. Mix cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of sugar. Turn the finished torrijas and keep warm. Cut the rest of the lemon into slices. Arrange torrijas with strawberries and lemon
4
Drink: semi-dry sherry, for example Oloroso from Osborne