Coffin Bread
Coffin bread is a popular Taiwanese street food served at night markets. Traditionally, the wedge of bread used to make the “coffin” is deep fried. A lid is cut out of the center of the bread, resembling a coffin. The coffin is filled with a seafood cream sauce and topped with cheese. Since I didn’t want to use a pot of oil to deep fry the bread and wanted to cut back on the calories, because let’s face it: there’s nothing healthy about what’s about to happen here; I brushed the bread with olive oil and baked it until it got toasted on the 2 cut sides. Cut the top center of the bread out so you have a lid. Instead of scooping the center bread, I pushed it down inside the coffin bowl to create a sturdy bottom. The sauce is a simple cream sauce with peas and carrots, shrimp, and a seafood mix. You can find frozen seafood mixes at just about every grocery store. They usually contain a combination of squid, mussels, octopus, and imitation crab. Once your seafood cream sauce is finished, ladle it into the coffin bread bowl and top with shredded cheese.
Servings: 1
Ingredients
- 4” slice bread cut from an unsliced loaf
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 1/2 tbsp butter
- 1/4 cup white onion finely chopped
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1/4 cup frozen peas and carrots blanched for 1 minute
- 3/4 cup frozen seafood mix defrosted
- 5 16/20 ct. shrimp peeled and deveined
- 1/2 tsp white pepper
- salt to taste
- 1/4 cup cheddar shredded
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Slice a 4” slice of bread from a whole unsliced loaf. Brush all sides with olive oil.
- Bake the bread for 10 minutes, flipping half way through. Let the toasted bread rest.
- Melt the butter in a small pot over medium high heat. Sauté the onions for 5 minutes.
- Add in the flour and whisk. Cook for 1 minute.
- Turn the heat down to medium. Pour in the milk. Whisk until the flour is incorporated and the sauce starts to thicken.
- Add in the peas and carrots. Simmer for 1 minute.
- Add in the seafood mix and the shrimp. Simmer for 3-4 minutes until the shrimp is cooked through.
- Turn off the heat. Season with white pepper and salt.
- Take a knife and cut a square out of the center of the bread so you have what resembles a coffin lid. Press down the inside of the bread to make a bowl.
