Croissant brauðréttur

Croissant bread dish

Bread dishes ("brauðréttir") are quite popular in everyday Icelandic cuisine. Here I have a recipe that doesn't use toast but croissants - for a delicious bread dish for a leisurely breakfast.

The dish can be prepared very well the evening before and then covered and left in the fridge overnight. The next morning you take it out of the fridge so that it comes back to room temperature, preheat the oven in the meantime and then put the food in the oven.

Ingredients for 4 persons

4 croissants

4 slices of cheddar cheese

1 tsp butter

2 eggs

200 ml cream

100 ml milk

1/2 tsp coarse sea salt

1/4 tsp black pepper

1/2 tsp dried thyme

80 g Brie

6 slices of ham

1 tsp butter

Preparation

Cut the croissants open and top with the cheddar cheese, then close them again.

Butter a fireproof dish and place the croissants in the dish.

Cut the ham and brie into small pieces and distribute as evenly as possible over the croissants.

In a bowl, mix the eggs with the cream, milk and salt, pepper and thyme and pour the mixture over the croissants.

Add a little more dried thyme over the croissants, cover the pan with aluminum foil and let it sit in the fridge overnight.

The next morning, preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat and leave the croissants at room temperature in the meantime.

Bake the tin with the aluminum foil at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for 20 minutes.

Then remove the aluminum foil and bake for another 10 minutes at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat until the dish has turned nice and golden brown.

Then serve immediately.

[Translated from here.]