Bandito Chile Cheese Bread Pudding

Name: Bandito Chile Cheese Bread Pudding
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters diced cilantro leaves; 2 teaspoons cumin; 6 larges eggs; 454 grams French bread; 118 milliliters thinly sliced green onions; 473 milliliters 2% low-fat milk; 113 grams Monterey Jack cheese; 1 red bell pepper; 454 grams NEWMANS OWN Farmers Garden Salsa; 113 grams sharp cheddar cheese; 237 milliliters light sour cream; 3 Tbsps tomato paste

Bandito Chile Cheese Bread Pudding is a vegetarian recipe with 8 servings. This recipe covers 21% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains about 22g of protein, 20g of fat, and a total of 436 calories. If you have cilantro leaves, bread, eggs, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

Cut bread in 1-inch cubes.

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Bread

Place 12 cups lightly packed cubes in a single layer on a wire rack on a baking sheet and place on bottom rack in oven. Reserve any remaining bread for another use.

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Cut pepper lengthwise into 1-inch strips, removing seeds and pulp.

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Pepper

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Place pepper strips, skin side up, on a different baking sheet and coat lightly with cooking spray.

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Pepper

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Place peppers on top rack in oven. Broil peppers and bread in oven at the same time, checking peppers every 30 seconds starting at 3 minutes.

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Peppers

Bread

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Remove peppers from oven when lightly browned.

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Peppers

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Remove bread cubes from oven.

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Bread Cubes

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Reduce oven to 37

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Grate cheeses on the large holes of a box grater. Toss bread cubes with cheeses, onion and cilantro in a large mixing bowl.

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Bread Cubes

Cilantro

Onion

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Using a fine mesh strainer, strain the salsa, separating the liquid from the solids.

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Salsa

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Combine the drained solids from salsa, eggs, milk and cumin. Toss egg mixture with the bread mixture, making sure all bread cubes are saturated.

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Cumin

Salsa

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Coat a 13- x 9-inch baking dish with cooking spray.

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Cooking Spray

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Spread bread mixture in dish and bake, uncovered, 35 to 40 minutes or until lightly browned and almost set in center.

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Spread

Bread

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While bread pudding is cooking, combine reserved liquid from salsa, sour cream, tomato paste and roasted red pepper strips in a blender and blend until smooth.

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Roasted Red Peppers