White bread has become a bit stale - it doesn't matter! You can always turn it into delicious croutons with a variety of spices and spices.
Basic principles of making white bread crackers
For crackers, you can use almost any white bread. It can be a brick loaf, a loaf, and a sweet bun. You can “save” in this way the bread that was stale and began to grow stale. The main thing is that it should not be moldy, not have an unpleasant rancid smell. Such bread can no longer be eaten. But if you wish, you can turn a fresh loaf into croutons.
The dried bread has its advantages: it is stored longer and is also considered more useful than fresh. In addition, preparing croutons, you can give them a variety of tastes - salty, spicy, sweet, spicy. And depending on this, either serve with soup and put in a salad, or use as a treat for tea.
What can be added to white crackers? Black pepper, paprika, onion and garlic, any spicy herbs or greens, tomato paste, and sugar and cinnamon are indispensable for sweet crackers.
Cooked crackers can be both on the pan and in the oven. There are recipes where the bread cubes are first slightly fried with butter and seasonings and only then sent to the oven, where they are dried until done.
Bread can be cut into strips, cubes, small squares (cubes), triangles or make oval crackers, cut into chunks of the original shape of the loaf. The time of drying in the oven depends on how large the pieces will be. At the same time, the croutons must be mixed several times, otherwise the cubes of medium or large size will redden unevenly, and the small cubes can quickly burn.
At what temperature is it best to cook white bread crackers in the oven? If you choose high (180-200), crackers will redden faster, but you need to be more careful, otherwise they will burn. And you can slowly dry at 120 degrees, it will take from half an hour to 45 minutes, but there’s less of a chance to burn crackers. Willingness is determined by the golden color.
Cheese crackers made of white bread
Ready cheese croutons, which are sold in bags, often have nothing to do with real cheese. They only flavors and flavor enhancers. For homemade croutons with natural ingredients, you can choose your favorite kind of cheese, but parmesan will be especially good.
Ingredients
Half a loaf of white bread;
50-60 grams of cheese.
Method of preparation
To begin, cut the bread: make cubes of the desired size. We shift future crackers on a baking sheet. Cheese three through a grater and pour it on top of the bread slices. You can also add a little salt to the croutons.
The oven is too hot not doing enough 120 degrees. The croutons will slowly brown for half an hour. Do not forget to mix them periodically.
Rusks from white bread with onions in the oven
Fragrant and sharp. The sharpness of crackers can be adjusted by adding the amount of spices to your taste, it is advisable to leave garlic and onions unchanged in this recipe.
Ingredients
Baton;
two tablespoons of olive oil;
one onion;
tablespoon of vinegar;
two cloves of garlic;
spices: ground ginger, black pepper, salt, spicy herbs - to taste.
Method of preparation
Baton cut into small cubes. Onions and garlic need to grind a blender and fry in olive oil for a couple of minutes. Then add the selected spices to them.
Bread is slightly dried in a not too hot oven (130-140 degrees). Then pour the croutons in a deep dish, pour a spicy mixture of oil and spices onto them, mix them well.
Now you need to return the bread to the oven. We spread the parchment on the pan and pour the croutons on it. Until ready, we dry them for another quarter of an hour.
White bread rusks in the oven with salt and garlic
One of the most beloved and popular types of crackers. Prepare them in the form of breadsticks, cubes, which are convenient to use as a snack.
Ingredients
500 grams of white bread;
six to seven cloves of garlic; one and a half teaspoons of salt;
80 ml of vegetable oil.
Method of preparation
Cut the bread into rectangular bars. Finely chopped garlic and salt mixed with vegetable oil.
To croutons as it should be soaked with this mixture from all sides, pour it into a strong bag. There we put chopped bread. We tie the package and gently shake it several times so as not to crumble the pieces.
Pour crackers on a baking sheet. We put for ten to fifteen minutes in a hot oven (200 degrees). Be sure to mix the pieces of bread so that they are not burnt and become evenly golden.
White bread crackers in garlic oil with spicy herbs
Not everyone likes it when slices of roasted garlic come across in ready-made crackers. In this variation, the bread is soaked with fragrant oil. And the garlic can be easily removed.
Ingredients
Half a loaf of white bread;
olive oil;
three cloves of garlic;
fresh parsley;
thyme;
rosemary;
a pinch of ground paprika.
Method of preparation
We will not cut the garlic, just crush it with a knife on the board. We make garlic olive oil, for this purpose we warm it in a pan together with garlic. Also put some paprika.
Bread, diced, put in a pan with fragrant butter and brown. Season with thyme, rosemary and finely chopped parsley. Fry more than half a minute - and spicy crackers are ready!
White bread rusks in the oven with greens and tomato flavor
For these crackers, you can use not only tomato paste, but also ketchup. Unlike pasta, it is not necessary to dilute it additionally with water, and it already has spices. Dill or finely chopped onion feathers, as well as basil, are suitable for greens. If desired, garlic can be added to tomato croutons.
Ingredients
Half a loaf of white bread;
tablespoon of tomato paste;
a few sprigs of dill;
tablespoon of water;
ground black pepper;
salt;
50 ml of olive oil.
Method of preparation
White bread cut into cubes (chopsticks). Grind the dill. To the tomato paste add water, oil, herbs, pepper and salt.
We smear tomato mixture on each bar. It remains to put on a baking sheet, send in the oven and dry.
White bread crackers for Caesar salad
For homemade salad - hand-cooked croutons. You can also make ordinary garlic croutons to “Caesar”, or you can add spicy and savory taste to them with onions and herbs.
Ingredients
Baton;
quarter onion;
Sterling apple cider vinegar;
four cloves of garlic;
50 ml of olive oil;
black pepper, salt, Italian herbs.
Method of preparation
To make the salad look presentable, it is better to make croutons in the form of small, as far as possible identical and even cubes. So cut our bread. First, dry on the baking sheet for about ten minutes in the oven. Temperature - 120.
In the meantime, make a gas station. Combine the oil and vinegar, pour into the pan. Fry on this mixture chopped garlic and onion with a blender. We salt. Add herbs and pepper.
Slightly dried bread put in a deep bowl. Pour it with hot oil and spices. We try to mix it up better so that the dressing gets on all the pieces.
Raise the temperature to 200 degrees. Grill crackers for another ten minutes.
Sweet crackers of white bread in the oven
For sweet crackers it is good to use buns, a loaf of raisins, poppy seeds, cinnamon. But you can add sweets to plain white bread with this recipe.
Ingredients
Baton;
on one glass of sour cream and sugar.
Method of preparation
We cut the loaf slices. Sour cream spread in a bowl. Sugar pour in a plate.
Each slice of loaf dipped first in sour cream, then in sugar and immediately put on a baking sheet. In a hot oven (200 degrees) dry to golden for five to ten minutes.
White cinnamon bread croutons
Another version of sweet crackers, only this time the oven will not be needed, we will prepare them in a pan.
Ingredients
Half loaf;
60 grams of sugar; a teaspoon of cinnamon;
50 grams of butter.
Method of preparation
Sugar and cinnamon mix in a bowl. Sliced diced loaf in a frying pan in melted butter.
As soon as the croutons become ruddy, sprinkle them with cinnamon sugar mixture. Cooking for another half a minute.
White bread croutons with paprika
Such crackers will be a spicy and tasty addition to pea soup or chicken broth.
Ingredients
3-4 slices of white bread;
20 grams of butter;
tablespoon paprika ground.
Method of preparation
Cut the bread into cubes. Put butter in a frying pan and let it melt on low heat. Put paprika in oil.
In this fragrant mixture, fry the bread slices for one minute. Shift on a baking sheet, dry in the oven for about ten minutes. Served with soup or as an independent snack.
White bread crackers - tips and tricks
· To crinkle croutons, let them cool completely before serving.
· The following method helps to cover the croutons well with a mixture of seasonings: mix all the spices with oil, put this mixture in a bag and pour the bread cubes into it. Shake several times.
· If croutons are fried in a pan with butter, they cannot be stored for a long time, just like sweet rusks with raisins and sugar. But dried in the oven pieces of bread without additives can be stored in a paper bag for several weeks.
· The optimal storage temperature for homemade croutons is from zero to +15.
