Are you sensing a pizza theme to our favourite recipes? We do love a tomato and cheese bake here at the Community Fridges!
You might also love our scone-based pizza and loaf pizza recipes.
Here’s another easy, cheesy recipe that kids love and that helps use up leftover bread.
Step 1
Cut bread slices to fit your baking dish and spread them with tomato puree. You could also use any not-too-runny tomato pasta sauce.

Step 2
Grease a baking dish and layer up bread slices and grated cheese. I used cheddar. You can be really flexible here and make the meal as big or small as you like. In the photos, you can see I made two individual portions in one-person square serving dishes. These fitted a piece of supermarket bread nicely.

Step 3
Mix beaten egg with milk or single cream. You’ll have to judge quantities here depending on how big you have made your dish. For these one-person servings. I used one large egg per serving and enough milk to cover all the bread once I had pushed it down. Scale up as required.
Then sprinkle more cheese over the top.

If you are used to making sweet bread and butter pudding, you’ll have the same step in a sweet recipe – this is simply a savoury bread and butter pudding. I would use 4 eggs in my large family-sized baking dish and a good slug of milk, adding more milk if it doesn’t cover the bread. I use full-fat milk for a creamy finish.
Make sure to press down the bread into the milk/egg mixture because otherwise the bread will burn.
Step 4
Bake. I baked these individual dishes for about 15 minutes. Test if your dish is done by inserting a skewer into the middle. If it comes out wet, with raw egg or liquid milk on it, then the bake needs longer.
You’ll have to judge how long this step takes based on how big you have made your dish, and also how deep your dish is. A shallower dish won’t take as long to cook through as a deep dish, so keep checking it.
That’s it! Eat with a green salad or the side dish your family prefers.