My family loves eating brioche, Burton and Jenson especially will happily have them as a snack. Sometimes I make a continental style breakfast using them, where they have a brioche roll served with some ham, cheese, grapes, banana and a yogurt. I also love that with Pasquier brioche in particular, due to the brioche buns being individually wrapped, I can take some brioche with us on a long car journey, a picnic or after swimming on a Saturday morning as a handy snack on the go.
However, apart from sometimes spreading jam on a plain brioche, or making my brioche chocolate pudding, I am not very adventerous with brioche probably because my boys and OH are happy to literally eat them as they are straight from the pack. Therefore, when I was asked to think up some ideas using some Pasquier sliced brioche and some brioche rolls filled with chocolate, I knew what to make immediately beceause I had thought of these ideas for when I might have come stale brioche to use up. However, this does not often happen in my house because they get eaten too quickly!
Therefore, I decided to devise a brunch menu last Sunday making a main and dessert – all easy to make and all using ingredients which I often have in my house, so nothing too flamboyant!!
For the first course I made a toasted brioche sandwich filled with caramalised onion chutney, mayo, grated gruyere cheese and ham. My take on the French classic the Croque Monsieur really. I made the sandwich, heated my griddle and sprayed some fry light onto it, and then cooked the sandwich for about 2-3 minutes on each side until the cheese was melted and the brioche golden brown. I simply served this with a salad garnish, crisps and some apple chunks. Mmmmmm I will call this a Croque Pasquier!
For pudding, I made an ice cream brioche sandwich, something which I recall seeing Nigella make on her show (although she made that really yummy but very calorific homemade ice cream, which then caused an uproar afterwards due to how many calories it would have contained!!). I have no idea if my version is any worse than hers in terms of naughtiness, but I simply sliced open a chocolate brioche roll, placed some sliced banana inside and then topped with some ice cream (I used cherry but any flavour would work) and then finsihed it off with some chocolate sprinkles. Kind of a banana split ice cream inside a brioche. It was very nice and everyone ate it happily!!
It certainly made a change from our usual way of eating brioche!
How do you like to eat yours?
I was sent some brioche products for the purpose of this post. All comments made and the recipes created are my own.
lauracymft
A brioche toastie! What a great idea! Yum yum x
Jenny Paulin
thank you it was tasty x