Savory Bread Pudding

This recipe is adapted from MM's savoury bread pudding. It is missing the exotic stuff like the coloured bell peppers, but is true to the intent of the original.

Eggs,3
Bread, Cubed, 6 slices
Milk, about 1/2 cup
Onion, chopped, 1
Tomato, chopped, 1
Mushrooms, chopped, 3-4
Peppers, green, yellow & red, chopped, abt a cup total
Salt, to taste
Pepper, to taste
Red chili flakes, to taste (optional)
Butter, melted, about 2 tbsp
Cheese, grated, about a tbsp (more, if you want)
Oil, to grease the baking dish

Preheat oven to 200°C.
Grease a baking dish with oil. Spread half of the bread at the base and sprinkle with salt+ pepper. Followed by a layer of all the veggies sprinkled again with salt+ pepper (leave about 2 tbsp to spread on top). Final layer of bread and the veggies you had kept aside + salt & pepper.
In a separate bowl, beat eggs with milk, salt, pepper & red chili flakes. Pour beaten eggs over the top and then melted butter. Leave aside for 10-15 minutes so that bread soaks up the egg mix.

Cover the dish with aluminum foil and bake at 200°C. After 30 minutes or so, remove the foil, spread the grated cheese on top and bake uncovered for 10-15 minutes more.

If you want to increase the quantity of the mushrooms, pls. sauté them first in a pan so that they don’t release excessive water in the dish while baking.
If you want to add garlic, pls. sauté onion and garlic first before adding to the dish.