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
Units
Scale
- 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°F / 176.6°C.
- If desired, grind poppy seeds
- Mix the poppy seeds, and 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°F / 176.6°C 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