Lunch

Vegetable and Sourdough Strata

  • Prep Time:15 minutes
  • Cooking Time:1 hour
  • Serves:6
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Ingredients

  • 30g butter
  • 1 red capsicum, cut into 2cm pieces
  • 1 red onion, sliced
  • 100g baby spinach
  • ¼ cup roughly chopped basil
  • ¼ cup roughly chopped parsley
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 5 slices sourdough bread, each cut into 9 squares
  • 125g PHILADELPHIA Block Cream Cheese, cut into 1cm  cubes
  • 5 eggs
  • 2 cups milk
  • 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  • ½ cup grated tasty cheese

Method

  • MELT the butter in a large frypan and sauté the capsicum and onion for 5 minutes or until soft. Add the spinach and cook until wilted, stir through herbs and season.
  • ARRANGE half the bread in the base of a greased 2 litre baking dish. Top with vegetable mixture and the PHILLY. Cover with remaining bread.
  • BEAT together the eggs, milk and mustard, then pour over bread. Top with cheese and bake in a moderate oven 180 deg C for 50 minutes or until set. Stand for 5 minutes before serving.
Vegetable and Sourdough Strata

Comments

Rate & review

Strata

I cooked this for the first time on Friday night, having prepared it the night before (as suggested in your book) and it was a big hit for everyone! The small amount left over heated up very nicely on Sunday night too. Highly recommend this to anyone. I served it with Shepherd's Pie.

Posted by: on 16th May 2011 12:10pm

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