French Toast with a Savory Topping
TIP: You bet French toast can go savory—very quickly & easily. All you need is your favorite cold cuts, cheese and either a pear or apple. You can then top that with your choice or a combination of your favorite salad dressing, dried fruit, a shot of Parmesan cheese, and ground black pepper.
Preparation Time: About 2 minutes
Cooking Time: 1-2 minutes in the microwave oven
Needed
1 Piece of Cooked French Toast
Favorite Cold Cuts (or leftover meat)
Favorite Cheese
1/2 Apple or Pear
Salad Dressing
Grated Parmesan Cheese (optional)
Favorite Dried Fruit
Ground Black Pepper (optional)
Microwave Oven Safe Plate
Cutting Board
Short Bladed Sharp (Paring) Knife
Tablespoon
1. Rinse an apple or ripe pear in the sink.
Cut the apple or pear in half lengthwise, cut one of the halves in half again lengthwise and remove the core.
Cut both quarters lengthwise into 3-4 slices, and then cut one of the sliced quarters in cross section into bite sized pieces.
2. Cover a slice of French toast on a microwave oven safe plate with 1-2 slices of cold cuts (or a similar amount of leftover meat) and an even layer of cheese.
3. Put the plate in the middle of the microwave oven, and cook using your microwave oven’s 100% power or HIGH heat for about 1 1/2 minutes or until the cheese melts as shown in step 4. NOTE: I used a 1200 watt microwave oven to warm this French toast. Cooking time will vary depending on your microwave oven wattage.
4. After warming the French toast, carefully remove the plate from the microwave oven. The cheese should be melted as shown here. If your cheese has not yet melted, keep warming the French toast in the microwave oven at 30-second intervals until the cheese melts.
5. Top the warmed French toast with apple or pear slices and put the chopped apple or pear you cut in step 1 on the plate.
6. Finish by adding your choice or a combination of the following ingredients: salad dressing, favorite dried fruit (I’m using dried cranberries), …
… grated Parmesan cheese and/or ground black pepper, and …
…serve warm.
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Images courtesy of Bruce Tretter
One-plate microwave method sounds like it’ll do just the trick for me!
Please give it a good “rip” and let me know how you like it! Thanks – Bruce