Besan Toast | Bread Besan Toast

If you are looking for a Bread Snack Recipe, which is easy to prepare, tasty and gets done in a jiffy, then this Besan Bread Toast is just the one for you. Make a spiced batter with gram flour (besan), veggies, herbs and seasonings, dip the bread pieces in it and fry them on a tawa. Yes, this Besan Toast is this simple and gets done within 15 to 20 minutes. Besides all this, since this recipe uses all plant-based ingredients, it is vegan-friendly too.

I make these pretty often on days when a quick breakfast is the need of the hour. The recipe is how I have been making these savory toasts for many years.

I won’t call it a savory eggless version of French Toast. As I have had french toast made with eggs before, both savory and sweet ones. This besan toast does not taste like the french toast made with eggs.

These besan toast taste like a low fat version of Bread Pakora minus the aroma and flavor of ajwain (carom seeds). I don’t add carom seeds to the batter. However, if you want the typical bread pakora flavor, then add carom seeds.

Yet, these easy to prepare bread besan toast make for a good eggless breakfast option. When I make these, I always add tomatoes. I like the taste and texture which tomatoes bring in these toasts.

However, you can skip them and even the onions, if you prefer and just make a plain spiced toast. You can also add veggies like capsicum/bell pepper, carrots, spring onions and cabbage.

Also, if you want to make spicier toasts, then you can increase the quantity of green chilies and chili powder. If making for kids, you can skip the green chilies completely.

You can use any bread of your choice like white, brown or even whole wheat bread.

These besan toasts have to be served immediately. You can serve them plain or with tomato ketchup or coriander chutney or mint chutney.

How to make Bread Besan Toast

1. In a bowl or small pan, take finely chopped onions, tomatoes, ginger, green chilies and coriander leaves.

Everything has to be finely chopped. Otherwise its difficult to manage medium pieces of onions and tomatoes while frying the toast.

2. Then add the following ingredients:

1 cup besan (gram flour)

1/8 teaspoon turmeric powder

¼ teaspoon red chili powder

1 pinch asafoetida (hing)

salt as required

3. Then add 5 to 6 tablespoon of water or add as needed to make a medium consistency batter.

4. Whisk to a medium consistency batter. There should be no lumps in the batter. Avoid making a thin batter.

In case the batter makes thin, add a few tablespoons of besan and whisk again.

Making besan bread toast

5. Heat 1 tablespoon oil for frying in a tava or frying pan. You can use any neutral flavored oil.

6. Slice the bread into two. Then dip the bread slice in the batter. With your hands, coat the bread slice evenly with the batter.

Also place the chopped onions and tomatoes on the bread slices with your hands. Don’t keep the bread too long in the batter as then the slice breaks.

7. Place the batter coated bread slices on the tava.

8. When the base is cooked and browned, flip and fry the other side.

9. Flip and fry a couple of times to get even browning and cooking. Fry the remaining bread slices in the same way. You can add more oil if required while frying the remaining batch.

10. Remove and Serve the besan toasts immediately, Plain or with tomato ketchup or coriander chutney or mint chutney.

If you are looking for Bread snacks recipes then do check:

• Bread upma
• Bread cutlet
• Bread pizza
• Cheese chilli toast
• Bread pakora

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This Besan Toast post from the blog archives, first published in November 2014 has been republished and updated on December 2022.