Savory Besan Bread Toast
A wholesome Indian recipe crafted for health-conscious eating: nutritious, delicious, and easy to make at home.
Bread slices dipped in spiced besan batter and toasted on a tawa — a protein-leaning breakfast toast.
This is the bread snack for when the fridge is nearly empty. A thick besan batter with onion and green chilli, a slice of bread dipped in it, and a few minutes on the tawa. It is closer to a pakora on bread than to French toast.
Ingredients
How to Make It
Mix besan batter with veggies and spices.
Dip bread; toast both sides on tawa.
Serve hot with chutney.
Nutrition per serving
* Approximate values per serving
Health Benefits
Besan adds plant protein to plain toast. Prefer whole-wheat bread and light oil.
Besan is gram flour, so the coating adds some protein to plain bread. The batter does most of the flavouring, so you need very little oil to brown it.
Pro Tips
- →Batter not too thin.
- →Medium heat.
- →Serve immediately.
- →Keep the batter thick enough to cling to a spoon. Thin batter slides off and the bread goes soggy.
- →Dip each slice for only a second. Stale bread holds up better than very fresh bread.
- →Cook on medium heat so the besan cooks through before the outside darkens.
A calorie note
Most of the calories in this dish come from a few ingredients. For reference, per 100 g: Cooking oil: about 884 kcal (about 40 kcal per teaspoon); Besan (chickpea flour): about 387 kcal; Bread: about 265 kcal. Measure these with a spoon or scale, because small changes here move the total more than anything else. Values are rounded from USDA FoodData Central and the Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT 2017), as of 13 Oct 2026, and vary by variety and by table. General information, not medical advice.
Variations
- 1Cheese optional.
- 2Besan chilla wrap skip bread.
- 3Sandwich a thin layer of green chutney between two slices before dipping, or add grated carrot to the batter.
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