
Skip the café queue and add some sweetness to brunch time with our lemon sugar brioche French toast. Stack it high with cherry sauce and honey-baked fruit, then top with whipped cream and pistachios for a decadent dish worth savouring.
4
nectarine
1 bottle
cream
(Contains: Milk; )
1 packet
Brioche Slices
(Contains: Milk, Eggs, Gluten, Soy; May be present: Peanuts, Tree Nuts, Sesame, Sulphites)
1 packet
pistachios
(Contains: Tree Nuts; May be present: Peanuts, Sesame, Gluten, Milk, Soy)
½
lemon
1 packet
Cherry Sauce
(May be present: Sesame, Gluten, Milk, Soy, Wheat, Eggs, Fish, Cashew, Almond)
olive oil
2 tbs
honey
1
egg
(Contains: Eggs; )
40 g
sugar (pantry staple)

• Preheat oven to 220°C/200°C fan-forced. • Cut nectarines into 2cm wedges. • Place fruit and a pinch of salt on a lined oven tray. Drizzle with the honey, add a splash of water and toss to coat. • Bake until tender and caramelised, 25-30 minutes. TIP: Peel the fruit if you'd prefer!

• While the fruit is baking, place 1/2 the cream in a large bowl and whisk with electric beaters until soft peaks form and almost double in size, 1-2 minutes. Set aside. TIP: If you don't have electric beaters, use a metal whisk. TIP: For the perfect soft peaks, whip until the cream just clings to the whisk or beater when lifted.

• In a shallow bowl, add the egg and the remaining cream and lightly whisk to combine. • Add brioche slices to the egg mixture, turning gently to coat. Set aside to soak for 10 minutes.

• While the brioche is soaking, roughly chop pistachios. Zest lemon to get a pinch, then cut into wedges. • Heat a large frying pan over medium-high heat. Toast pistachios, tossing, until golden, 3-4 minutes. Transfer to a bowl. • In a second shallow bowl, combine lemon zestand the sugar.

• Return the frying pan to medium heat with a drizzle of olive oil. When oil is hot, gently remove brioche from egg mixture and cook in batches, until lightly browned and set, 2-4 minutes each side. • Transfer cooked brioche to lemon sugar and turn to lightly coat. TIP: Fry the brioche in butter for extra flavour!

• Divide French toast between plates. • Top with honey-baked nectarines, whipped cream and cherry sauce. Sprinkle with toasted pistachios. • Serve with any remaining lemon wedges. Enjoy!