Mákos guba with vanilla milk sauce

Name: Mákos guba with vanilla milk sauce
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Hungarian
Ingredients: 160 g Day-old wheat bread rolls; 400 g Whole milk; 50 g Plain ground blue poppy seeds; 25 g Sugar; 8 g Sugar with real vanilla; 10 g Corn starch; 1 g Salt

Hungarian poppy-seed bread pudding with an egg-free warm vanilla milk sauce.

Estimated total time: 30 minutes2 portionsAbout 550 kcal per portion

Poppy-seed bread pudding under pale vanilla-style sauce — Photo: Robert Pinter · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Photo source. The Wikimedia photo shows poppy-seed bread with pale sauce. The caption also mentions a walnut variation; any pictured nuts and the sauce ingredients cannot be verified. This adaptation uses an egg-free cornstarch sauce.

Ingredients for 2 portions

160 g Day-old wheat bread rolls
400 g Whole milk
50 g Plain ground blue poppy seeds
25 g Sugar
8 g Sugar with real vanilla
10 g Corn starch
1 g Salt

Method

Heat the oven to 180°C. Cut 160 g day-old wheat rolls into bite-size pieces, spread on a tray and toast 10–12 minutes until lightly crisp. Use rolls whose ingredient label suits lacto-vegetarian eating.
While they toast, warm 260 g of the whole milk with 25 g sugar, 50 g plain ground poppy seeds and 1 g salt, stirring until hot but not boiling. Put the toasted bread in a bowl, pour the poppy milk over it and leave 5 minutes to absorb.
For a quick egg-free sauce, whisk 10 g cornstarch and 8 g vanilla sugar into the remaining 140 g cold milk. Heat in a small saucepan, whisking constantly for 3–5 minutes until it thickens and bubbles gently. Divide the softened poppy bread between two dishes and spoon over all the warm sauce.

Adapted from Tas Tóbiás’s Mákos guba. The source uses egg-yolk vanilla custard; this measured lacto-vegetarian adaptation uses cornstarch and pure vanilla sugar, so it is not a reproduction of the source’s sauce. Day-old rolls are required for the intended texture; fresh soft rolls need separate drying time. This is a dessert, not counted as a breakfast or complete meal. Check poppy and vanilla product labels and roll ingredients; the photographed sauce and possible nuts cannot be identified from the image. Energy and 30-minute timing are editorial estimates.

Mákos guba

Allergens and ingredient checks

Listed allergens: gluten, milk. Check actual packaging and cross-contact information. Nutrition is estimated from ingredient weights; recipe suitability depends on the specified products.

Offbeat Budapest & Vienna / Tas Tóbiás — Mákos guba

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