Categories: Breakfast, Casserole, Nigella Lawson

Ingredients

• 6 slices multigrain brown bread
• 1/3 cup Dijon mustard
• 4 ounces gruyere cheese, sliced
• 3 ounces ham, sliced
• 6 eggs
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/3 cup whole milk
• 4 tablespoons grated gruyere cheese or 4 tablespoons cheddar cheese or 4 tablespoons emmenthaler cheese
• Worcestershire sauce, a good sprinkling

Directions

1. Spread the mustard on the bread slices and make sandwiches with the fine slices of cheese and ham; place each slice of cheese against the mustardy bread, and the ham between them.

2. Make the sandwich and cut each one in half, making two triangles.

3. Squish the sandwiches into a baking dish, approx 10 ½ inches x 8 ¼ inches and 2 ¼ inches deep.

4. Beat the eggs, salt, and milk together; then pour over the sandwiches tightly packed into the dish.

5. Cover the dish with plastic wrap and leave in the refrigerator overnight.

6. In the morning, preheat oven to 400°; take the dish out of the refrigerator and remove plastic wrap.

7. Sprinkle over the grated cheese and Worcestershire sauce; bake for 25 minutes.

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