Chocolate Chip Portuguese Sweet Bread Pudding

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 3 1/2 cups whole milk
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
• 7 large eggs
• 5 large egg yolks
• 2 1/2 cups heavy cream
• 6 cups portuguese sweet bread, cut into 1 inch cubes
• 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350, and butter a 13x9 baking dish.
• 2 whisk milk, heavy cream and sugar in a saucepan over medium heat.
• 3 meanwhile scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean into milk mixture and add the pods.
• 4 heat milk/cream mixture to just steaming, but not boiling!
• 5 whisk eggs and yolks in a large bowl, and gradually add 2 cups of hot milk mixture to the eggs to temper.
• 6 pour tempered egg mixture into the saucepan with the hot milk.
• 7 strain mixture to remove any lumps and the vanilla pods.
• 8 spread bread cubes in prepared dish and sprinkle with the chocolate chips.
• 9 slowly pour custard over bread, being sure to saturate all of the bread. (if you can, it's nice to let it sit and soak evenly for 1/2 or so).
• 10 bake in the center of the oven for about 1 hour or until a small knife inserted in the center of the pudding comes out clean.