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Torrejas

Name: Torrejas
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Honduras
Ingredients: 1 loaf (day-old) Baguette; 3 Egg; 2 tbsp All-purpose flour; To taste Oil for frying; 200g Brown sugar; 400ml Water; 1 Cinnamon stick; 3 Clove; 2 tbsp Raisins

Dessert

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Egg-dipped fried bread soaked in spiced dark sugar syrup — a Honduran Holy Week sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Torrejas are a sweet from Spain resembling French toast, essential in Honduras during Holy Week (Semana Santa). Stale bread is dipped in beaten egg, fried, and soaked in dark sugar syrup scented with cinnamon and cloves. Sweet and moist, it's a seasonal taste families make together.

🌆 Where it's eaten: During Holy Week in a Honduran home, fried bread soaked through in dark sugar syrup is spooned from the pot into bowls as a sweet spice aroma drifts by.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Baguette 1 loaf (day-old)
Egg 3
All-purpose flour 2 tbsp
Oil for frying To taste
Brown sugar 200g
Water 400ml
Cinnamon stick 1
Clove 3
Raisins 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the baguette into 2cm slices.
Simmer water, the dark sugar, cinnamon, and cloves in a pot for 15 minutes to make syrup.
Separate the eggs, whip the whites to stiff peaks, then mix in the yolks and flour.
Coat the bread in the egg batter and fry in 170°C oil until golden.
Put the fried bread in the syrup, simmer 5 minutes, and scatter with raisins.

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