Savoury Bread Bake with Egg and Cheese from the Airfryer

Name: Savoury Bread Bake with Egg and Cheese from the Airfryer
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: 250 g day-old white bread; 4 piece eggs (medium); 200 ml milk; 100 g cooked ham; 100 g grated hard cheese; 1 tbsp snipped chives; 1 tsp salt; pepper to taste; 1 pinch nutmeg; 1 tbsp butter or margarine for the dish

A German way with leftovers that rescues stale white bread all over the country: cubes of bread and cooked ham in a well-seasoned egg custard, topped with grated cheese. Unlike the sweet Ofenschlupfer, this bake is savoury — a golden brown cheese crust on top, moist, soaked bread underneath. The dish blocks the airflow, so the baking time is no shorter; what you save is mainly the long preheating of a large oven.

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Cook time

45 min

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Servings

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Ingredients

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Nutrition

per serving

430 kcal

Calories

25 g

Protein

20 g

Fat

34 g

Carbs

Ingredients

For 4 servings

Estimated cost~€3.75 · ~€0.95/serving

Instructions

1
Cut the day-old white bread into cubes of about two centimetres and cut the cooked ham into narrow strips.
2
Beat the eggs with the milk, the salt, the pepper and the nutmeg.
3
Grease a small ovenproof dish with the butter or margarine, layer the bread cubes and the ham in it and pour the egg custard evenly over the top.
4
Leave everything to soak, pressing the bread down once so that it takes up the custard.
5
Preheat the airfryer to 170 °C.
6
Stand the dish in the middle of the basket, in a single layer with space from the wall and the heating element, and do not stack anything on top; a second dish will not fit beside it. Bake at 170 °C.
7
Scatter the grated hard cheese over the top and finish baking at 170 °C until the crust is golden brown. The cooked ham and the egg mixture must reach 70 °C all the way through, measured at the thickest point. Do not turn it, as the bake sits in the dish and would fall apart.
8
Let the bake rest briefly, scatter the snipped chives over it and serve it in the dish.