Maggie Beer's sticky banana & fried toast

Serves 2

• 2 ripe bananas sliced diagonally
• 2 thick slices good quality white bread
• 20 – 30g unsalted butter
• 2 eggs
• ¾ cup milk
• ¼ tsp nutmeg
• Juice of one lemon
• extra butter for frying
• icing sugar for dusting

Beat the eggs and milk together and lay each slice of bread in this mixture for a couple of minutes so that the bread soaks up some of the liquid but doesn’t become too soggy. Add the butter to a frying pan and when it’s sizzling toss in the slices of banana and cook until caramelised on each side, deglaze with lemon juice, remove, from the pan and set aside.

Add a little more butter to the frying pan and when it’s bubbling, gently place the bread in the pan & cook for a few minutes on each side until crisp. Divide the bananas between each slice of toast and dust with a little icing sugar. Serve immediately!