Description
Easy poppy seed bread pudding from Hungary named Mákos Guba. Made from just 5 simple pantry ingredients. Served with potato soup as a meat-free simple Friday meal or with custard or ice cream for a special treat.
Ingredients
- Bread ((about 16oz or 450mL) *See Note 1)
- 1 1/4 cup Milk, Half and Half, or Cream ((or 350mL) )
- Flavoring (None at all OR 2 tbsp honey, 2tsp vanilla, seeds from one vanilla pod)
- 1/2 cup Poppy Seeds or Ground Poppy Seeds ((120 mL if using whole poppy seeds))
- 1/4 cup White Sugar or Confectioner's Sugar ((60 mL))
- 1 cup Mix-ins, optional - dried fruit (or fruit soaked in rum), nuts, lemon zest, apple slices
Instructions
Cue Up The Episode!
- Make sure you listen to Dora's episode on The Storied Recipe Podcast, Grandmother's Hungarian Friday Meal while you make her Mákos Guba.
Make The Recipe
- Cut or tear the bread into pieces. If the bread is fresh, leave it overnight to become stale.
- If eating the pudding today, preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- If desired, grind poppy seeds
- Mix the poppy seeds, white/powdered sugar together.
- If using any flavoring, add to a saucepan with the milk. Warm the milk and flavorings, but don't allow to boil.
- Mix bread, warm milk, and any mix-ins together.
- Either add the poppy seed/sugar mixture and quickly mix OR layer bread/poppy seed layers.
- For a quick meal like Dora and her grandmother ate, eat immediately. Alternatively, bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Another possibility is to leave it overnight and cook at 350 degrees the next day.
- Eat plain or top with vanilla custard, vanilla pudding, or vanilla ice cream.
Notes
- Make sure to listen to Dora on The Storied Recipe Podcast, A Hungarian “Friday Meal” while you make her Poppy Seed Bread Pudding recipe!
- Note 1: Bread you can use: 1 loaf of brioche/Italian bread/Crusty sourdough loaf, 2 baguettes, 5 croissants, 1 package of Hawaiian rolls, etc;
- Note 2: Pair with Dora's Grandmother's super simple Golden Potato Soup for a frugal, meat-free Friday meal.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Baking, Bread
- Cuisine: Eastern European
Nutrition
- Calories: 80
- Sugar: 8
- Sodium: 16
- Fat: 4
- Saturated Fat: 1
- Carbohydrates: 10
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 2
- Cholesterol: 5