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title: "Torrijas"
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date: 2021-03-30
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tags: ['spanish', 'dessert', 'quick', 'easter']
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author: danoloan
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---
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Torrijas are a spanish dessert traditionally eaten during the Holy Week (Easter).
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It is said they were first cooked using the leftovers from the Lent.
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- ⏲️ Prep time: 1 min
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- 🍳 Cook time: 5 min
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## Ingredients
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- Dried bread (or Torrijas bread). Must be bread from a regular loaf, not from a tin loaf.
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- Milk (to soak the bread, 2 cups per 16 torrijas approx.)
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- Eggs (to coat the bread, 2 eggs per 16 torrijas approx.)
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- Cinnamon
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- Grated lemon rind (optional)
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- Sugar
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- Olive oil
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## Directions
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1. Mull the milk with cinnamon and a bit of sugar (not too much, the milk is already sweet). Add the lemon rind if you want.
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2. Cool down the milk.
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3. While the milk is cooling, beat the eggs and heat up half a pan of olive oil.
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4. Cut the dry bread in slices. Soak it in the milk.
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5. Coat the bread soaking it in the beaten eggs.
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6. Fry the soaked & coated bread with the heated oil.
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7. Optionally sprinkle some sugar onto the Torrijas.
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8. Enjoy when they are cooled down. Don't eat too much, it won't be easy resisting!
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