before i start with the recipe, let me tell you this is not an eggless recipe. if you do include eggs in your diet then this recipe is for you.
i do not have eggs but the hubby does. i often make egg curries, egg masala, omlettes for the hubby and sometimes a baked dish like this bread and butter pudding.
this bread and butter pudding recipe is from my home science notes. it is way different than the other bread and butter pudding recipes. this is easy and simple to make and does not take much of your time. kids will like it too.
before proceeding to the recipe, let me write about the first giveaway on my blog.
my blog has completed three years. also, i was toying with the idea of giveaways or freebies as they call it. so i thought why not couple up the 3 years of blogging with a giveaway and give all my dear readers a chance to get a gift.
when i started my blog, i did not know that it would grow so much. i am amazed as to the leaps and bounds my website has taken and this is all because of you. its been a nice journey with 20-25 visitors coming to the site at the beginning and now approx 70,000 visits per month.
even though i don’t like to admit this, but my blog was not at all updated for almost a year due to my commitments to a project related with spirituality. my new year’s pledge this year has been to update the blog minimum at least twice a week.
i thank you all… my dear readers for being part of this journey with your compliments, suggestions, sharing and… an occasional rude comment 
after a lot of thinking, i decided to give a cook book as a giveaway. my site is all about vegetarian food and that too mostly indian vegetarian food. but since we are talking vegetarian food, there are other cuisines also that have great vegetarian food.
one of my favorite cuisine is the mediterranean cuisine. so you guessed it right… the giveaway is a meditarranean cook book with great vegetarian recipes.
the cookbook is vegetarian mediterranean cooking by beverly jollands. the book contains the best of spain, france, greece, turkey, italy and morocco. the recipes include soups, appetizers, main courses, breads and desserts.
there are 180 fresh and healthy recipes with good pictures of the finished dishes. the book also provides nutritional breakdown of fat & calorie contents as well as other key nutrients such as protein, cholesterol and fibre for the recipes.
i have made some recipes from this book and they were fab and awesome.
this is not a sponsored giveaway. i am giving away because i am thankful for your support and appreciation through your comments and also many of you share and like my posts via my facebook page.
this giveaway is open to all. for the worldwide residents, you will receive this book via amazon and for indian residents, you will receive the book through flipkart.
rules:
- you have to answer the following question and comment on this post. plus you need to be a subscriber to my blog. if you are not a subscriber than click here to subscribe and then you can comment on the post.
- question- what does vegetarianism or veganism mean to you?
- the giveaway is open for one week.
- the best answer will be the winner.
so do participate to win….. who knows you might be the lucky one to get this amazing vegetarian cookbook.
the giveaway closes on 5th April 12 pm IST.
update: the giveway is closed.
for now lets begin with the step by step process of making the bread butter pudding at home.
1: heat milk and sugar in a saucepan.
2: just heat so that all the sugar dissolves. since i used demerara sugar the milk had a nice light brown color. when all the sugar dissolves remove from fire.
3: add the bread slices to the hot milk.
4: add butter.
5: mash the bread slices in the milk with the help of a wooden spoon or fork. the butter will melt naturally in the hot milk. let this mixture cool.
6: once the mixture is cooled, add the beaten eggs, vanilla powder, grated nutmeg and chopped cashews to the mashed bread mixture.
7: mix the whole pudding mixture well.
8: pour in ramekins or a greased baking tin or individual serving baking cups and bake at 150 degree C for 30-35 minutes till an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
9: serve hot, warm or cold.
ingredients
- 5-6 slices of brown or white bread
- 2 cups milk
- 2 eggs, whipped
- 1/2 tsp vanilla powder or 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 40 gms butter
- a pinch of grated nutmeg
- 4-5 cashew nuts, chopped
- 8-9 tbsp demerara sugar or plain sugar... add more for extra sweetness if you prefer
method:
- heat the milk and sugar in a saucepan.
- when sugar dissolves remove from fire.
- add the bread slices and butter to the hot milk.
- mash the bread with a fork or wooden spoon.
- allow to cool.
- when the mixture is cooled, add the whipped eggs.
- also add the chopped cashew, vanilla powder, grated nutmeg.
- pour into individual ramekins and bake at 150 degrees C for 30-35 minutes or till a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- serve warm or cold.
my notes
this recipe can be easily doubled or tripled.
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I enjoy your recipes, beautiful photos… each time a breathtaking!
Thank you, Dassana
thanks machiko for liking the pics.
Hi..interesting recipes n facts..contograts..we look forward for more such..on this i would like to mention what i do to preseve curry leaves..take them out as sprigs..put it in a glass bottle n store in d fridge…keeps fresh up to three weeks..
thats a nice tip rekha. thanks for sharing.
Hi Dassana,
I’m fairly new to u’r blog but after I chanced on it I’m always on the look out in my inbox for a new post from U!
Love your pics, the step by step instructions…have tried a few recipes & have come out really good & was highly pleased with them…
vegetarianism is a way of life for our family.. we love it & I strive to put the best forward to them…thanks to help me in my endeavour & hearty congratulations on completion of 3 yrs!!
PS Loved the post on preserving curry leaves…now I can preserve mine!!
thanks shivali for all your beautiful comments.
hi ‘dassana’ good name u have. i just join u r blog & thank u to send me [how to preserve curry leave]
welcome ritu.
Lovely recipes; please let us have some more.
hey dassana,
i love this pudding recipe… it just seems nice and simple…your pictures just make the job more easy…must make it for my baby …is there any other way to make it if you dont have an oven or micorwave?
let me think….i think you can try steaming the pudding. cover the pudding with an aluminium foil and steam it in pan, like the way we do if for idlis or dhoklas. the pudding won’t get browned but it will be cooked. the texture will also be slightly moist and creamy. do give it a try.
congratulations Dassana for completing 3 yrs of ur blog.. m glad i m a part of ur blog..cooking has been never this easy nd interesting for me..also the posts on ‘cooking with love’ has been so much engraved into me that the moment i enter my kitchen i recall these words and then create some magic for my family as with every ingredient i add my love and positivity..also i must tell u that whether i make a dish or not but i always read ur write ups before every recipe..they r very interesting..
now coming to vegetarianism..i have a small story..i became veg at the age of 16..when my grandmother was in her autumn days ,she used to tell me her childhood stories..how she once saw a butcher slaughtering a lamb and after seeing it she cried and cried for the whole day..then she left non-veg..she always expected me to leave it too..then one sad day she left me and after her demise i decided i will remain veg for the rest of my life..
also recently in a magazine i read about the thoughts animals create while getting slaughtered..they r in pain, fear..and when we eat it all the negative emotions create emotional as well as physical hazards in our body..
thats a huge compliment to me knowing that your read my posts before cooking and it is making a difference in your life. let me tell you your compliment has also encouraged me a lot. it has also added more weight to my knowingness that we have to increase awareness about vegetarianism and animal rights. we have to educate people and spread the message of vegetarianism as far as possible.
I am a vegetarian by birth and I am happy even now for my choice to be vegetarian.Somehow I can not digest the thought of killing an animal to fill our lil stomachs.I feel silly about the debate in b/n vegetarians n non-vegetarians that the vegetarians also kill the plants which have lives.In short,Neither I am killer who wants to kill those innocent animals nor my stomach is not a grave yard to accommodate the dead animal.This is my opinion truly and if I hurt others I am very sorry for it.
Dassana, congrats for the 3rd anniversary..B&B pudding looks delicious n yummy.
thanks pratibha. even i used to have these debates with my office colleagues over killing plants versus killing animals. there are many angles to this. one point is plants are not so consciously evolved as animals. second point is one should never go against the law of nature for eg: if a lion kills a deer and a deer feeds on the grass it is a natural cycle and there is nothing wrong in it and thats how nature works.
but the body of human beings as designed by nature is herbivorous. eating animal flesh just for tongue taste is going against the law of nature and breaking nature’s cycle. it is as good as saying that a deer is eating a rabbit.
third point – when we are killing an animal it releases lot of toxins and there are emotions of fear, helplessness etc and that becomes part of your system when you eat the flesh of the animal. so you become what you eat. so if you eat more non vegetarian food, you become more violent, greedy etc.
Hearty congratulations on ur successful completion of 3 years. I wll pray God to shower his blessings on you forever and many more beatiful receipes that you will dole out for us, keep writing.
Dassana can we omit the eggs in this receipe? If yes, what shd be the substitute?
thanx
Neela
thanks neela for your prayers and wishes.
you can make the recipe without eggs. if you want you can completely omit the eggs. if you want a smooth & some creamy texture than you could add the following:
2 tbsp of cornflour dissolved with little milk
2 tbsp of arrowroot powder or
2 tbsp custard powder dissolved in some milk
Hi, I don’t have a oven but I do have a microwave. Can the bread pudding be done it and how
dear mani. you can cook the bread and butter pudding in the microwave. add 1 or 2 tbsp more milk so that the whole mixture is a little liquidy. microwave uncovered on medium power for 4-5 minutes or till the pudding is set. let the pudding stand for 5 minutes. then serve warm or cold.
Hi, Thanks for your prompt action. Ok I read your article on how to preserve curry leaves. I have a few trees and I get seeds in the month of May/June which I give out to whoever is willing to grow these trees. I believe you stay in Goa. I have one of my trees there too. I am from Mumbai and anyone interested in these seeds … do ask them to contact me. But only at the end of May/June. Oh of course yours have small leaves because you probably are growing it in a pot. These definitely need to be grown in the ground. Also don’t forget to put all your kitchen waste around this tree … it will flourish.
Mani
thanks mani. if in case any one needs curry leaves seeds, i will ask them to contact you.
you guess is right. i have potted curry leaves. i stay in an apartment
i do add the cooked veggie waters and sometimes some tea leaves waste in my curry leaves and rose plants.
congrats on the 3 years Dassana! Wish you a lot more wonderful years of blogging!
None of my friend circle is vegan , but once i started to get more involved in rescuing dogs from death row in the US and helping spread the word about adopting indian street dogs in India, I found myself also reading about how we discriminate between different species of animals. I mean how can you do so much to save dogs, and keep eating chicken, pig and other animals while doing so. And we went vegetarian at first.
What I also found that dairy/milk industry is second largest cause of death and suffering right after the meat industry. 8 million calves alone slaughtered each Year in India. That is the amount of Surplus life we have to create to meet our dairy demand.
And the rest more millions who do get absorbed back into the dairy and meat industry never see their mother after their first few days of life. Meat causes direct killing , while dairy causes an indirect death which we dont see. And to top it all dairy is also another leading cause for a lot of diseases ranging from allergies to life threatening cancers. Whichever way we looked at the problem, we found only one solution.
Hope to see more you come up with more vegan options like the gorgeous banana cake!
thanks richa. i agree with what you mention on people loving their pets or saving dogs and at the same time eating other animals. i just could not relate with the duality in these people.
i know about the diary industry in india. but what i fail to understand is why they kill the calves. i remember so much distinctly as child when my parents would take me to get milk from the milk man fellow, the calves were there. they were not killed. they were fed. i discussed this with my husband and he said that the main reason for all this happening is population explosion. the little milk which the calves would get is also being taken away from them. i feel so bad.
i was vegan for a year… but found it too difficult to get vegan products here, except for soy milk and tofu. the tofu i get here is horrible. so i don’t buy it. and indian brand of soy milk is something i do not like. so i do not have any option but to make the vegan products at home. i still have to try my hands at making vegan milk or butter at home. what intrigues me is making vegan curd. i am still having milk curd. but i am looking for ways to incorporate vegan food in our diet… so the next time mother in law comes and she tells me drink milk… i will say i don’t drink cow’s milk…. i drink almond milk
yay for you!:) milk should change to mean nut milk or coconut milk instead of dairy milk:)) Keep on going. I can add you to the Indian Vegans group on facebook . there are lots of discussions about all new companies in india offering vegan products!
The calves slaughter has been going on for ages now. Only some few rural small dairyies probably have no kill policy. A lot of others just leave the calves out to starve to a slow death instead of slaughtering them. You can imagine our demand by the fact that the 8 million are the Surplus produced, That means we cannot let them live to get absorbed in any industry- dairy, meat, bull work etc. and this has not happened in just a few years. thats 900+ calves killed every hour, 15 every minute!
I did a post on my personal blog about the goshalas in rishikesh where the cows are supposedly worshipped. a photographer did a picture story about it and you can see the calf tied away from the mother dying of starvation. Its just so heartrending if I think of a similar fate for my own baby who wants food every 2 hours.
this is so inhuman. i wonder if people like our parents, friends etc know about this. i am really going to stop having milk now. i have a few pending posts on yogurt based dishes. and these are going to be my last yogurt based posts.
i had read the post on the photographer’s blog about the goshalas in rishikesh… i felt so much pain after reading that post. the whole day the look of mother cow was appearing in front of my eyes. i showed the pics and post to hubby too.
do add me in the vegan group. i need to find out vegan substitutes available in india.
I and my family were lactovegetarian for religious purpose. We used to check all the ingredients before we buy or eat something. Then, we found out there are some products in which some ingredients are not 100% vegetarian means they still use eggs or animal byproducts but they have different name. So, we couldn’t recognize them. I know some strict vegans don’t eat any milk products, honey, sugar, vinegar like animal by products. As being lactovegetarian, I and my family do not eat those products in which they have to kill or harm any animal to get that ingredient. Me and my friends started surfing around which ingredients do not contain eggs, gelatin, or any other animal products for which they have to kill or harm animal. We started to call many restaurants before going there and inquired about their ingredients to make sure they don’t use any ingredients from animal which are hidden. I started to look for some vegan and vegetarian websites. One day, I found your blogs and I was very impressed with all recipes posted by you. I started to follow your direction for recipes and my family enjoyed them a lot. I don’t have to depend on readymade products now for many recipes because I found many of them on your blogs.
Love all your recipes! Just incase, if you have used eggs or any ingredients, I tried to substitute with the different ingredient and they turned out awesome. Keep posting. Love all your suggestions! Happy cooking!
Sorry, I found some mistakes after I posted the co
Moment. corrected* (incorrect)
Lactovegeterian* (vegeterian)
Started* (stated)
Ready made* (readade)
Thanks!
corrected in your first comment except for the lactovegetarian part coz i don’t know where to add it.i hope its alright.
Thanks! your response is so quick
“As being lactovegetarian”, “I and my family are lactovegetarian for religious purpose”
ok done hemina
thanks hemina. i generally avoid using readymade products. having food science as one of my subjects, i do know animal products like gelatin etc added to foods like jellies, candies etc.
but things have become very worse now. god knows what the food companies add. i read so many horror stories every other day.
Congrat’s on completing 3 years ..way to go and wish you many more celebration ahead …pudding looks delicious
It’s so simple ..being vegetarian is cool, hip and happening
..okie …come to point, something that I always admire ..
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”
Mahatma Gandhi, statesman and philosopher
thanks priti. the quotes from mahatma gandhi are great. but sometimes when i see the dismal state of the way the animals are treated in india, i don’t feel good at all and i feel a lot of pain.
hi,ur recipes are so simple to follow and ingredients are so easily found in kitchen. i also do believe that just for a half a second taste buds we cant kill a animal or a sweet innocent looking live fishes and make our stomach a graveyard.
Though mu husband is a hardcore carnivorous (thats what i call non-vegetarians) your recipes are helping me in taste the vegetarian food.
thanks again and keep on posting!
Nupur Ghosh
thanks nupur
Easy and delicious pudding…..Congrats on ur blog anniv, keep going!!
thanks sharmi.
Congrats on your 3 year annniversary Dassana! This B & B pudding sounds like pure comfort food, I love the fact that the bread is mushed up too!
I became vegetarian at the age of 13 because (wait for it) I saw an episode of an American TV programme called MASH where they had a pet lamb. At the end of the programme they had to kill the pet lamb to eat it!! That was it for me I could never eat meat again, the thought of killing and eating a living, breathing beautiul animal was just abhorrent, and it still is!
My food choices now that I am older are more about health issues, 2 years ago aged 36 I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I attribute my swift recovery to a combination of conventional and alternative medicine and a complete change in my diet. I avoided all cow’s milk products altogether as well as all sugars (including fruit) which was very difficult! My diet post treatment is less strict but I still try to keep my intake of animal based products to below 10% of my diet and eat a mainly whole food plant based diet whenever possible. I feel better than ever and am passionate about telling other people about the importance of diet and health. I’ll stop ranting now sorry!!
thanks natalie.
thats so brutal to kill the lamb. even for me the thought of killing a living being for my taste and likes is so ugly and violent.
its nice to know that the food choices you made have helped you. i too started turning towards vegetarianism at the age of 14. it was a rebellion in my family. glad i persisted. has helped me so much in terms of health, cleansing the body as well as in my meditation.
Hi,
Recipe looks yummy…and simple to make
thanks….I have turned to vegetarianism since past 2 yrs…and have found there are so many dishes in vegeterians also which are awesome…plus you get added health benefits….i have been following ur blog since 1 yr and have tried my hands on many recipes here…i must mention Pomegranate Gulkand Icecream which I made at home for my first valentine day after wedding…& my husband just loved it…thanks a ton for such lovely recipes…keep posting…
thanks archana. there are tons of vegetarian recipes out there. in fact the indian cuisine is rich in vegetarian food and most of them are also naturally vegan recipes.
I adore being lacto vegetarian and sometimes vegan because the food is so awesome. I love cooking and creating new exciting recipes. It means loads of health benefits and infinite compassion for myself and of course the animals. This principle of kindness is a lifestyle choice.Of course this way of living gives one an inner glow, so one’s skin glows and makes one more youthful and beautiful inside and out!!!I dare more foodies out there to give it a go!!!
i agree with you brenda. one does have an inner as well as outer glow.
Hey Dassana, congratulations on completion of 3 years…..it feels great to be connected with you through this lovely space
….looking forward to more and more new recipes….!!
I am going to try this one out soon…..looks yummy and easy!
thanks a lot anamika.
Hi
I and my family are vegetarians and the reason is simple… every animal has its right to live and we feel its not right to kill n consume them.
This is not intended to hurt any persons feelings but my thoughts and a simple step to spirituality.
Nice recipe will surely try and let u know how it goes.
agree with you 100% ritya. i have the same feelings.
That pudding looks great! I have stopped baking with egg completely so might not use this but I am sure it will taste great! Congrats on 3 years of blogging
thanks chinmayie.
I AM VEGETARIAN FOR 20 YEARS AND WITHOUT YOUR BLISSFUL RECIPES I WILL SIMPLY DIE
thanks a ton adi.
Love the flavors in the pudding. Looks delicious!!
Yummy Dish and congrats on completion of 3 years may you soar the heights of success and your blog reaches number one.
thanks maria.