Bread Pudding -- Portuguese

As Friday comes, i search my pantry to see what  i am having. Every Friday, i make something different from what i do on weekdays as  specials for evening snacks or for dinner. Vishnu asked me to prepare some dessert and  also i am planning to send an entry to Priya's AWED-Portuguese. So, i was searching internet for deserts n i came up with  this Portuguese bread pudding. When i went thru ingredients, to my surprise most of them are same as  the ingredients of  fresh toast, which is my all time favorite. So, i imm made this pudding without any second thought, as i am pretty sure that Vishnu is going to love it( French toast is also he is fav).
This bread pudding is so simple to make n tastes very great. All you need to do is jus mix the milk, sugar  n eggs, add it to bread n jus throw it in oven for an hour. I altered little bit to suit Indian taste. You can check original one here

Ingredients:

Bread: 7 slices

Evaporated milk: 2 cups

Sugar: 1 cup

Butter: 2 tbsp

Eggs: 3

Raisins: 2 tbsp

Cashews: 1tbsp

Jaggery/ Brown sugar: 2tsp

Cinnamon powder: 1/2 tsp

Salt: 1/2 tsp

Vanilla Essence: 2-3 drops

Nut meg: pinch

Preparation:

1) Remove the edges from bread. Cut bread into 4  pieces.

2) In a microwave bowl add evaporated milk. Actually, I was short of 1/3 cup of evaporated milk. So i added 2% reduced milk to make it  2 cups. You can use 2 cups of regular milk. But evaporated milk gives rich creamy taste to pudding.

3) Heat milk for 1 min in microwave.

4) Add butter n stir. Keep it aside, so that butter melts in warm milk.

5) Mean while in a bowl break eggs. Beat the eggs slightly. Jus to break yolks/yellows.

6) Stir in sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg,salt, vanilla essence. Mix it well with egg mixture.

7) Add milk n butter mixture to egg mixture. Mix well.

8) Taste it ( if u can) if u want more sugar u can add.

9) Grease a medium sized baking pan or glass bowl i.e oven safe.

10) Place sliced bread pieces evenly. 

11)  Sprinkle raisins, cashews, jaggery/ brown sugar. I was short of brown sugar so i added jaggery. 

Pour the half of the egg-milk mixture on the bread pieces.

12) Layer remaining bread pieces on top of the egg- milk mixture.

13) Now pour the remaining egg-milk mixture on top of layered bread slices.

14) Soak it for 15 mins.

15) Preheat oven 5-10 mins before. 

16) Bake the bread pudding mixture for 45-50 mins at 340 F degrees heat. When u check it has to change the  color to light golden color.

Enjoy this Portuguese Bread Pudding 

This is going to be a part of Priya's A.W.E.D- Portuguese and DK AWED