Croutons are one of the easiest and fastest ways to cook something delicious for breakfast or tea. The products are simple, and besides, it is also an opportunity to put stale bread into business.
General principles for making white bread croutons
The basic components of the toast are bread, milk, eggs. And then, depending on the desired result, salt or sugar, various spices and spices are added. Bread baked a couple of days ago is best suited for croutons, slightly dried up, firm, so as not to get too wet. It is cut into pieces, dipped in a mixture of eggs and milk, and then fried. In some recipes, bread is first soaked in milk and only then immersed in beaten eggs. White bread croutons are also cooked in the oven with a delicious cheese crust, ham, tomatoes, eggs. If you decorate sweet croutons with berries or slices of fruit, sprinkle with powdered sugar and grated chocolate, you get a wonderful dessert.
White bread croutons are prepared in many countries: in the USA, Spain, France, England. The recipes are pretty similar, but there are differences. So the Spanish sweet croutons of Torrijas are soaked in milk with the aromatic zest of orange, lemon or red wine, and after frying, they are soaked in sugar or fruit syrup. In America, croutons are called "French toast", they are cooked with vanilla and ground pepper, and served with a variety of sauces, such as maple syrup. The French themselves call this dish "lost bread", since a dried baguette, in fact, has already been lost and is suitable only for croutons. In Britain there is a recipe for Welsh croutons, they are baked in the oven with cheddar cheese.
Ham and fried white bread croutons
A delicious breakfast for lovers of fried eggs and hot sandwiches. Prepared croutons in the oven, look spectacular.
Ingredients
Four slices of bread for toast;
100 grams of cheese;
three eggs;
two tablespoons of milk;
two slices of ham;
salt and pepper.
Cooking method
1. In two pieces of bread we make a round or square hole, leaving the "sides" about a centimeter. The other two pieces will be whole. Put the pieces together: the whole at the bottom, with the hole at the top. Now we have a form where you can put ham and egg.
2. Mix one egg with milk, salt and pepper. Dip the prepared bread in this mixture. We spread it on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
3. Cut the ham into small cubes. Put a little bit of it in the hole of the "bread form". Then we pour the neatly broken egg there, so that the yolk remains intact.
4. We rub the cheese, sprinkle croutons on it.
5. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes, temperature -200 degrees. The cheese should melt and turn a golden color. Serve hot.
White bread croutons with egg and almonds
French crouton croutons croutons recipe. Instead of milk we take cream, vanilla and cinnamon will make a fragrant note.
Ingredients
Six pieces of baguette;
three eggs;
150 grams of finely chopped almonds;
120 ml cream;
a pinch of salt;
a teaspoon of cinnamon;
tablespoon butter;
vanillin or vanilla sugar;
powdered sugar.
Cooking method
1. Combine the cream with the eggs, stir. Season with cinnamon, vanilla, a pinch of salt.
2. Put pieces of baguette in this mixture, soak for five minutes.
3. Now roll croutons in almonds, send to a pan with vegetable oil. Fry until brown.
4. Sprinkle the finished croutons with powdered sugar. You can also add fruits or berries.
Spanish white bread croutons with milk and egg (torrijas)
For spanish croutons, you definitely need sauce - this is half the success. Let's make it from orange juice and sugar. It is better if the juice is freshly squeezed.
Ingredients
Half a dried loaf;
half a liter of milk;
two eggs;
three tablespoons of sugar + another 100 grams for the sauce;
two large oranges;
tablespoon of honey;
one cinnamon stick;
chocolate bar;
lemon peel.
Cooking method
1. Pour milk into a stewpan, heat it over moderate heat. We put sugar, peel, taken from one lemon, cinnamon. We continue to heat, but do not boil. It is necessary that the sugar is properly dissolved.
2. Remove the flavored milk from the fire, leave for a few minutes to insist.
3. Cut the bread into slices a half centimeter thick. Immerse in the milk mixture, let it soak. The time depends on how dry the loaf is, about ten minutes.
4. Cooking the sauce. From oranges you need to squeeze the juice, we need about 150 milliliters. Pour into a stewpan, pour 100 grams of granulated sugar. Cook over low heat, stirring to disperse the sugar. Now add a spoonful of honey, cook a little more. As soon as the sauce begins to thicken, you can remove from the heat, even if it cools down.
5. Beat the eggs, dip in them slices of bread and fry in vegetable oil until they become rosy and golden.
6. Place a bar of chocolate in a water bath, melt.
7. Soak the prepared croutons with sauce, dip one side of each piece into chocolate. It turns out tasty and beautiful.
Garlic white bread croutons
Classics of the genre - croutons with cheese and garlic flavor. They can be cooked both in the oven and in a pan.
Ingredients
Half a loaf;
100 grams of cheese;
a pinch of ground black pepper;
two eggs;
salt;
three cloves of garlic.
Cooking method
1. Cut the loaf into pieces a centimeter thick. Beat eggs with salt and pepper. Three cheese on a grater.
2. Pour vegetable oil into a pan, heat it, put coarsely chopped garlic. We will fry it for literally three or four minutes so that it gives its flavor to the oil. Then remove the garlic from the pan.
3. Dip slices of bread into the egg mixture, fry on one side, turn over and spread the grated cheese on the croutons. We fry on the other side, meanwhile the cheese should melt. Ready croutons can be sprinkled with finely chopped dill.
Welsh white bread croutons
Traditionally, English cheddar cheese is used for these croutons. But it can be replaced with more affordable varieties, suitable Maasdam or Gouda.
Ingredients
Dried white loaf;
250 grams of cheese;
two eggs;
half a packet of butter
a teaspoon of mustard;
salt;
ground paprika.
Cooking method
1. Loaf cut into slices a centimeter and a half thick. We put it on a baking sheet and brown in the oven on both sides.
2. Beat eggs, three cheese on a grater.
3. Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat. We spread cheese, salt, add paprika and mustard.
4. Heat this mixture until it boils. Do not forget to stir. We are waiting for all the cheese to melt. We remove the stewpan from the fire. Pour in the eggs and mix quickly.
5. Put the cheese mass on slices of loaf. Now it remains to bake croutons in the oven. At 180 degrees, five minutes is enough, as soon as the cheese becomes rosy, you can get it.
White bread croutons with egg in white wine
This is an old English recipe. Simple, but spicy, by soaking bread in a mixture of wine and eggs.
Ingredients
Four slices of bread;
a glass of white table wine;
one and a half tablespoons of sugar;
cinnamon;
two eggs.
Cooking method
1. Beat eggs, pour white wine to them, flavored with granulated sugar and cinnamon.
2. Bread immersed in this mixture for several minutes. Then fry it in butter. Before serving, these croutons are decorated with ground cinnamon and sprinkled with sugar.
White bread croutons with milk, egg and banana
Such croutons can be turned into a full-fledged dessert if you serve a ball of ice cream and decorate with grated chocolate.
Ingredients
Eight slices of bread for toast;
two ripe bananas;
four eggs;
60 ml of milk;
50 grams of grated cheese;
two teaspoons of honey.
Cooking method
1. Cut the crusts of all pieces.
2. Bananas wrinkle with a fork. Mix them with honey and cheese.
3. Beat the eggs with milk.
4. We spread the filling into four slices of bread, not too much so that it does not leak out, melted during frying. Cover with the remaining slices of bread.
5. Dip the croutons in the egg-milk mixture. We fry on low heat for about three minutes on one side and the same amount on the other. Croutons should turn golden and melt the cheese inside.
6. Finished croutons with powdered sugar, when serving, we cut each diagonally into two triangles.
White bread croutons with milk, egg and curd
You can take any curd mass - with vanilla, raisins, dried apricots or prunes. Such croutons will be an excellent breakfast.
Ingredients
One baguette;
a pack of curd;
a glass of milk;
two eggs;
salt;
half a bag of vanilla sugar;
powdered sugar.
Cooking method
1. Baguette cut into pieces a centimeter and a half thick.
2. Mix the eggs with milk, salt, vanilla sugar.
3. Spread half of the baguette slices with curd, cover with the remaining slices. Original sandwiches turn out. Dip each in the egg-milk mixture and fry in vegetable oil. Decorate when served with powdered sugar.
White bread croutons - secrets and tricks
· The fried bread turns out to be rather fat. To remove excess oil, you can put finished croutons on a paper towel, it absorbs fat.
· Semi-hard varieties are best suited for croutons with cheese; they melt especially well when baked. Such cheeses include Poshekhonsky, Kostroma, Russian, Gouda, Dutch, Edam.
Soft and fresh white bread is not very suitable for toasts. It can soak in an egg-milk mixture. Such bread should first be dried in the oven or in the toaster.
