Find more delicious recipes from Nancy Fox on her website, Skinny Kitchen.
It’s blueberry season! And this stuffed French Toast recipe is absolutely delicious! It’s also really easy to make. The entire family will love it and it’s perfect for your weekend breakfast or brunch, but just as easy to make and enjoy during the week.
This recipe calls for blueberry preserves, but you can pick your favorite and switch them out for strawberry, blackberry or raspberry. Each fiber packed serving has only 166 calories, 2 grams of fat, 6 grams of fiber and 5 Weight Watchers SmartPoints.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 6 minutes
Ingredients for Stuffed French Toast:
2 whole wheat sandwich thins, I used Oroweat, see shopping tips
2 tablespoons fat free cream cheese, see shopping tips
2 teaspoons reduced sugar blueberry preserves, see shopping tips
½ cup fresh blueberries or frozen and thawed, sliced in half
1 egg white
1 teaspoon reduced-fat butter or Smart Balance Light spread
Ingredients for Topping:
½ teaspoon powdered sugar
Instructions
1. Spread the bottom inside piece of each sandwich thin with 1 tablespoon cream cheese. On top of cream cheese, spread 1 teaspoon blueberry preserves on each. Place ¼ cup sliced blueberries on top of preserves. Top each with the remaining sandwich thin to create a sandwich.
2. Add the egg white to a shallow bowl. Dip both sandwiches into the egg white, making sure to coat both sides.
3. Coat a large nonstick pan with cooking spray. Melt 1 teaspoon reduced-fat butter and swirl around bottom of pan. Add 2 sandwiches, cook about 2½ to 3 minutes on medium-high heat, until golden brown. Using a spatula, turn over and cook the undersides for about 1-2 minutes, until golden brown.
4. Sprinkle top of each with powdered sugar. Plate each and serve with a fork and knife.
Makes 2 servings (each serving, 1 full sandwich)
Shopping Tips
Oroweat Sandwich Thins can be found in most large supermarkets. One sandwich thin has 100 calories, 1g fat and 5g fiber. They come in several flavors with the same nutrition facts. Use your favorite. I used Trader Joe’s organic reduced sugar blueberry preserves. Each tablespoon has only 30 calories. If you can’t find a reduced sugar jam, use regular. This recipe calls for such a small amount that the adjustment will not make much of a difference. In addition, as I mentioned, if you can’t find blueberry, strawberry, blackberry or raspberry preserves will taste yummy, too.
Fat-free cream cheese is available in a tube or block of cheese.
Prep Tip
If you’re making more than two sandwiches, place the cooked sandwiches on a baking sheet and keep them warm in oven while preparing the others. Sprinkle with powdered sugar just before serving.
Weight Watchers SmartPoints 5
Weight Watchers POINTS PLUS 4
Weight Watchers (old points) 3
SKINNY FACTS: for 1 stuffed French toast sandwich
166 calories, 2g fat, 0g sat. fat, 0mg chol, 9g protein, 31g carbs, 6g fiber, 319mg sodium, 9g sugar
FAT FACTS: for IHop’s Stuffed French toast
830 calories, 33g fat, 15g protein, 116g carbs, 4g fiber, 740mg sodium, 51g sugar
Nancy Fox
Nancy Fox is no stranger to the food industry. She founded Mrs. Beasley's, a gift-basket company featuring baskets full of decadent baked goods. It became the "hot" gift to give among the Hollywood community. Nancy later opened 2 low fat restaurants called Nancy’s Healthy Kitchen. Her line of reduced-fat cookies were featured on "Oprah's Favorites" gift show. Continuing her passion for cooking and baking Nancy created a recipe website called Skinny Kitchen. Each week she shares skinny recipes, cooking and kitchen tips, food finds and the healthy benefits of many recipes. There’s also nutritional facts and Weight Watchers POINTS on each recipe.
Follow Me:
nancy@skinnykitchen.com
Monday 4th of July 2016
Thanks for sharing. It's one of my favorite, simple breakfast treats. Happy 4th! All the best, Nancy
Andrea Bates
Tuesday 5th of July 2016
I'm on a blueberry kick, so I had to ensure we shared this. In the meantime, I WANT some!!!