SAVORY BREAD PUDDING

Savory bread pudding is a perfect comfort food. Not only it is versatile but it happens to be quite filling too.

Made with cubed sandwich bread or other type of crusty bread, soaked in milk to soften and adding fresh or cooked vegetables of your choice to the batter. Addition of green chili or black pepper gives this a distinctive taste to rather bland pudding.

This is a wonderful meal to share with your family and friend.

SAVORY BREAD PUDDING
Servings     :    6

250g bread 1-in cubed with crust
2  cup  milk
2 Tablespoon  cornflour
2 Tablespoon  oil
2 medium onion thinly sliced
1 tomato chopped
1/2  cup  carrot grated
2 green chili chopped
2 Tablespoon chopped cilantro
salt and black pepper to taste

DIRECTION

Combine 2 tablespoons of milk with cornflour, keep aside.

Heat the oil, add the onion, fry until soft but not brown,  remove from heat.

Place cubed bread into mixing bowl, pour in the remaining milk and let soak for  5 minutes.

Preheat oven @ 180C and grease  a shallow  6 x 10 in baking dish.

Add in salt and cornflour to the bread, stir well.

Reserve some of the onion, tomato and cilantro for topping, add the rest together with carrot, black pepper and  green chili. to the bread mixture. Combine well.

Pour the batter into prepared pan, bake for 30-40 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

Let stand for 10 minutes before serving.

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5 CUP FRUIT CAKE (EGGLESS)

There are substantial collection of  recipes out there for  fruit cake. Some are heavily loaded with dried fruit,
butter and eggs.  Even  alcohol is being used for soaking the fruit overnight. If it is done in a traditional way, it takes time to bake this perennial favorite.

This is an express version without spending a long hours to bake one.  Though the  ingredients used are mixed dried fruit, self rising flour, milk, brown sugar and desiccated coconut, it turned out as good as the richer  fruit cake.

If time is  your constraint, consider baking this easy cake with great result.

5 CUPS FRUIT CAKE (EGGLESS)
Yield     : One 8 in loaf
Adapted from GregsKitchen

1   C   self rising flour
1   C    milk
1   C     dried fruit
1   C     desiccated coconut
1/2  C   brown sugar

DIRECTION
Preheat oven @ 175C and grease 8 in cake pan.

Place flour, sugar, coconut and dried fruit in a mixing bowl.

Pour in milk and stir to combine.

Pour batter into prepared pan, bake for 35-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

Cool in the pan 10 minutes, transfer onto rack to cool.

CHOCOLATE LOAF

If you're a fan of homemade  chocolate bread, this recipe is for you to try. This is a delicious yeasted chocolate loaf, that is not too sweet and has a deep chocolate flavor.

A generous amount of good quality unsweetened cocoa powder and chocolate chips makes this loaf beautifully rich. The fantastic loaf does not need anything to taste delicious, just eat on its own. Not only that, this is a great recipe for beginner bread bakers, no complicated step to follow.

I had used chocolate rice (sprinkles) instead of chocolate chip and it turned out just beautiful. This recipe below makes a small loaf but it can easily doubled if needed. Also garnished it with silvered almonds for a nice touch.

PECAN BALLS

These buttery  melt in the the mouth cookies are so scrumptious and not too sweet. At times other nuts such as almond, walnut and the like are added to the dough.

It takes a bit of your time for rolling this treat. I had rolled them into tiny balls. They are often served during Christmas, wedding or festive celebrations.

If you have a time,  dry roast or bake the pecan before grinding. This step is not neccesary but that really enhance the flavor of these balls.

FRIED VEGETARIAN RICE

Fried rice is an easy one pot meal by stir frying the main ingredient, cooked rice.  It is so versatile that you can add almost any vegetables and meat or seafood to it, either vegetarian or non vegetarian style. It tastes great as a meal on its own. .

For best result, make sure the rice is cooked and cooled beforehand so the grain will separate when frying.  Fried Vegetarian Rice  instantly create a delicious and satisfying  meal with amazing flavor and texture.