Sweet Potato French Toast Recipe

 
 













I love every opportunity I can get to sneak veggies into my kids' food.

Now, I won't proclaim that this recipe is super healthy. I mean it does have both syrup and brown sugar. But, this French toast does include a veggie and it tastes yummy. My girls gobble these up!

I usually buy canned sweet potato at a health food store, but you can also make your own. Click here for directions on how to bake sweet potatoes. Once they're cooked, you just need to let them cool enough so that you don't burn yourself, then tear off the peels (they should come off easily) and mash.

Here's the recipe:
3/4 cup pureed sweet potato
1/4 cup milk
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
4 eggs, beaten
10-12 slices bread (I use brown)

Preheat a non-stick frying pan on the stove top at just below medium heat. Mix the sweet potato, milk, cinnamon, vanilla & eggs in a shallow dish. Quickly dip both sides of a slice of bread into the mixture and put into the pan (you don't want to let the bread soak in the mixture, just dip to coat). Cook about 2 minutes, flip, then cook for about 2 minutes more. As you take the toasts out of the pan, move them to an oven-safe dish and keep them warm in the oven at 200 degrees F while you cook up the rest of the French toast.

Serve with margarine, a drizzle of maple syrup and a sprinkle of brown sugar (trust me, the combination of syrup and brown sugar is fantastic!)