Challah Kugel = Bread Pudding

It's 2 weeks before Passover, well into the Eat All The Food Challenge that I enjoy annually. What's left? What can we make that is appealing?

There is typically a challah or two, with a few inches consumed, in our freezer.

A bread pudding can easily be a parve kugel. I found this one online, but it had a different step, soaking the challah pieces and making them into a spongey dough. It sounded kind of gross, but I tried it and it's good!

It's really a concept rather than a recipe. Baking temperature 350.

A bowl of challah pieces, torn or cut. If you want to be fancy, trim off the crusts.
A few eggs
Oil (if this were for a dairy meal, it would be delicious with melted butter)
Apple sauce, apple chunks, raisins, whatever you like (chocolate chips for a dessert)
sugar
Lots of cinnamon
Optional: chopped/ground nuts

Grease or spray a baking dish WELL.

Moisten the bread. Let it sit for a few minutes and then drain off the excess water and squeeze/knead the wet bread into a uniform dough/glob. :-)

In a medium dish, crack a few eggs, beat and add all the other ingredients as to your preference. More sweet and it's a dessert, less sweet it's a kugel.

Mix into the bread dough. It's hard to incorporate so just stir until it's fairly uniform.

Pour into the baking dish sprinkle with cinnamon/sugar, and maybe some ground nuts.

Bake until browned, about 45 minutes.

I was sceptical but my dear husband kept scooping up serving after serving of it, at our shabbat dinner. It's good! I had the leftovers for breakfast.

It's more uniform than bread pudding.