Chocolate and Pistachio Butterscotch Bread Pudding

Ingredients
3/4 cup light brown sugar
4 large eggs
4 cups milk
115 gm bittersweet or semisweet chocolate (chopped)
2 tsp vanilla essence
1 loaf of butterscotch bread or 350 gm white bread
60 gm butter, softened
1/2 cup toasted shelled pistachios, chopped

Method:-

1. Whisk sugar and eggs in a large bowl.
2. Bring milk to a boil in a saucepan. Add in chocolate and vanilla essence. Mix well. Slowly pour onto sugar and eggs mixture and mix well.
3. Spread butter on one side of each bread slice and cut into 1 inch square. Stir bread into milk mixture and let stand for 30 minutes.
4. Butter a 9 inch square baking pan and pour the bread mixture into pan and top with pistachios.
5. Steam bake in a preheated oven 170C for 1 1/2 hours or until a knife inserted into centre comes out clean.
6. Remove pan from water bath and let cool on a wire rack. Serve warm or at a room temperature. If you like, serve with chocolate sauce or simply dust with icing sugar or cocoa powder.