Black Walnut French Toast

Source: Southern Living

2 tablespoons chopped black walnuts
1 tablespoon light butter
1 large ripe banana, sliced
1/4 cup honey
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/4 cup fat-free milk
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
8 (0.8 ounce) white bread slices
Vegetable cooking spray
1/4 cup reduced-calorie maple syrup

Place a small skillet over medium-high heat until hot; add 2 tablespoons chopped black walnuts, and cook, stirring constantly, 5 minutes or until toasted. Remove from skillet.

Melt 1 tablespoon light butter in small skillet over medium heat; add banana slices, and cook 3 minutes or until thoroughly heated. Stir in toasted black walnuts and 1/4 cup honey, and remove from heat.

Whisk together eggs and next 3 ingredients in a shallow dish or pie plate. Lightly press bread slices, one at a time, into egg mixture, coating both sides of bread. Cook bread, in batches, on a nonstick griddle coated with cooking spray over medium heat 1 to 2 minutes on each side or until done. Repeat procedure, if necessary. Transfer to a serving plate.

Serve with banana mixture and syrup.