Savory Bread Pudding

While doing her Thanksgiving prep, Jessica started thinking about stuffing.

She thought of creating a savory bread pudding that incorporates the flavors of stuffing but in a savory bread pudding.

This segment aired on California Cooking with Jessica Holmes, Episode 159.

Savory Bread Pudding

Ingredients:

• 1 loaf of French bread cubed
• 1 shallot chopped
• 3-5 links of breakfast sausages
• 1 ½ cups of heavy cream or half and half
• Block of gruyere cheese shredded
• 8 eggs
• Few sprigs of fresh thyme
• Sage chopped
• 3-4 cloves of garlic chopped
• Butter

Instructions:

• Cut bread and let it sit out overnight.
• Add half and half, eggs, salt, pepper, fresh thyme, sage and shredded cheese to a big mixing bowl and whisk.
• Remove meat from casing and cook sausages in a pan with olive oil.
• Cook sausage until browned on each side.  It doesn’t have to be cooked all the way through because it’ll cook in the bread pudding.
• Cook shallots and garlic with a dash of salt in the same pan after you remove the sausage.
• Cut up sausage.
• Add bread, sausage, shallots and garlic into mixing bowl with eggs, half and half and gruyere and mix together.
• Add the bread pudding mixture into a buttered baking dish. Top with a few sage leaves and thyme.
• Cover with parchment paper and let sit in the fridge for a few hours.
• Remove from fridge, cover with foil over the parchment paper and bake in a 325 degree oven for about 20-30 minutes until browned, fluffy and cooked all the way through.
• Happy Thanksgiving!