Best 5 Midwestern Spinach Cheese Savoury Bread Pudding Recipes

SAVORY BREAD PUDDING WITH HERBS AND CHEESE

Steps:

• Cut the bread into 1 1/2 inch cubes. If your bread is very fresh, put the cubes on a sheet pan and place in a 200-degree oven while you prep the other ingredients.
• Melt the butter in a small skillet over medium-high heat and add the shallots. Saute the shallots until they are soft and translucent.
• Add the wine and increase the heat to high. Boil the wine mixture until the liquid is reduced to about 2 tablespoons. Set aside to cool.
• In a large bowl, add the eggs and half and half and whisk. Add the herbs, cheese, shallot mixture and salt and pepper. Stir to combine.
• Add the bread and stir until thoroughly coated with the custard.
• Grease a 9 x 13 inch casserole and pour the bread and custard mixture in.
• Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for one hour or overnight.

SPINACH & CHEESE STRATA

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring frequently, until soft and translucent, 4 to 5 minutes. Add the garlic and drained spinach and cook 2 minutes more. Set aside.
• Butter a 3-quart or 9x13-inch baking dish. Spread one third of the bread cubes in the dish and top evenly with one third of spinach mixture. (Try to break it up as much as possible so there are no huge clumps of spinach.) Sprinkle with one third of each cheese. Repeat layering twice, ending with cheeses.
• In a large bowl, whisk the eggs. Add the half-and-half, mustard, salt, pepper, and nutmeg and whisk until well combined. Pour the custard mixture evenly over the strata. Cover the strata with plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour or overnight.
• Preheat oven to 325°F. Bake the strata, uncovered, until puffed, set and golden brown all over top, 70-80 minutes. Let stand 10 to 15 minutes before serving. It will settle a bit as it cools.
• Note: The cook time is based on the strata going immediately from the fridge to the oven. If it sits out at room temperature before baking, the cook time will be about 10 minutes less.

MIDWESTERN SPINACH & CHEESE SAVOURY BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Sautee onions and garlic in oil in small pan until soft but not browned. Set aside to cool.
• In large bowl, with wire whisk or fork, beat eggs, milk, cream, thyme, salt, pepper, and nutmeg until blended.
• With rubber spatula, stir in spinach, cheese, onion/garlic mixture and bread.
• Pour mixture into 13" by 9" ceramic or glass baking dish (do NOT use metal pans for ANY bread pudding as they can easily pick up a metallic flavor).
• Sprinkle Parmesan cheese over the top of the pudding mixture.
• Bake bread pudding 20 to 25 minutes or until browned and puffed and knife inserted in center comes out clean.
• Remove bread pudding from oven; let stand 5 minutes before serving.

MEDITERRANEAN BAKED SPINACH

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Place spinach in colander in sink. Pour boiling water over spinach; cool.
• Meanwhile, mix cream cheese and eggs in large bowl until blended. Gradually stir in milk. Stir in 1/2 cup feta.
• Squeeze excess moisture from spinach. Add spinach to cream cheese mixture; mix well. Spoon onto 9-inch square baking dish; top with remaining feta. Cover.
• Bake 50 min. or until center is set, uncovering after 30 min.

SPINACH BREAD PUDDING

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375.
• In a large bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, thyme, salt, pepper and nutmeg until blended.
• Stir in spinach, cheese and bread with rubber spatula.
• Pour into 13X9 baking dish.
• Bake 20-25 minutes, or until browned and puffed and knife inserted comes out clean.
• Remove from oven let stand 5 minutes before serving.