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Torrejas – Mexican Holy Week Fried Bread (Milk-Soaked Pastry)

Name: Torrejas – Mexican Holy Week Fried Bread (Milk-Soaked Pastry)
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: ~1 loaf stale bolillo bread, sliced; ~1½ cups milk; 1 cinnamon stick; ~1½ tsp ground cinnamon; 3 eggs; ~3 tbsp sugar; ~1½ cups oil

A traditional Mexican Holy Week dessert featuring stale bolillo bread soaked in a cinnamon-infused milk mixture, coated in beaten egg, pan-fried until golden, and dusted with cinnamon sugar. A humble yet delicious homemade treat traditionally eaten during Lent.

Adapted from a video by De mi Rancho a Tu Cocina

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Ingredients

stale bolillo bread, slicedmust be firm/stale; slice before using~1 loafest.
milkfor soaking bread and making the cinnamon-milk mixture~1½ cupsest.
cinnamon stickfor infusing milk with cinnamon flavour1
ground cinnamonto dust on the sugar coating~1½ tspest.
eggsbeaten well for coating the bread3
sugarmixed with cinnamon to coat the fried bread~3 tbspest.
oilfor pan-frying the bread slices~1½ cupsest.

Steps

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1
Use sliced stale bolillo bread. Pour milk into a small pot, add a cinnamon stick, and bring to a boil.
2
Once boiling, remove the cinnamon stick and let the milk cool to lukewarm.
3
Beat the three eggs thoroughly until well combined.
4
Mix sugar and ground cinnamon in a shallow dish. Heat oil in a frying pan.
5
Dip a bread slice into the warm milk (briefly—do not soak long or it will become too soft), then coat completely in the beaten egg.
6
Place the egg-coated bread slice into the hot oil and fry until golden brown on both sides.
7
Remove the fried bread from the pan and immediately coat both sides generously with the cinnamon sugar mixture.
8
Repeat steps 5–7 with remaining bread slices until all are fried and coated. Serve warm.

Torrejas – Mexican Holy Week Fried Bread (Milk-Soaked Pastry)

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