Rusks have long ceased to be a way to use dried bread to bread cutlets. Now this is a separate delicacy, which is prepared with different tastes: with salt, garlic, herbs, cheese, tomatoes and others. Despite the huge assortment of this snack in stores, it is much tastier and healthier to make croutons from white bread in the oven yourself. Below is a selection of the most delicious recipes for their preparation.
Simple white bread croutons with salt in the oven
White bread croutons in the oven will delight you with their taste even if you simply season them with salt. These crispy slices are perfect for fresh borscht or make a more satisfying soup. But it will be delicious to just crunch them with tea.
To dry bread with salt, you will need:
- 300 g bread;
- 20 ml vegetable oil;
- coarse salt crystals to taste.
Preparation steps:
- Chop the bread into small cubes or sticks and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper. It is ideal when each slice of bread is a short distance from the rest. So a significant part of its surface will be covered with a golden brown crust.
- Next, you need to evenly sprinkle the bread with vegetable oil. It is very convenient to do this with a spray bottle. Fine droplets of oil will evenly coat the slices.
- After this, sprinkle everything with salt and put in the oven for 7 - 10 minutes at 180 degrees.
With garlic for a foamy drink
These crispy breads will delight lovers of a foamy barley drink. Bread for them can be cut in any way: cubes, sticks, triangular slices or sticks. But dried slices of bread, cut across the entire cut of the loaf into plates of “lace” thickness, will be maximally saturated with garlic aroma. Is it true, with a regular knife it will be difficult to do this. We'll have to try!
List of ingredients to prepare at the beginning of baking:
- 300 g white bread;
- 40 ml vegetable oil;
- 12 – 18 g garlic;
- 3.5 g table salt.
How to prepare croutons with garlic:
- Grind the white bread using the chosen method and dry it, placing it on a baking sheet in one layer. Temperature oven and the heat treatment time will be 200 degrees and 10 – 12 minutes, respectively.
- Add salt and pressed garlic through a press to a small bowl with vegetable oil. Mix everything well and, preferably, let it sit for half an hour so that the oil is well saturated with the aroma of garlic.
- Pour hot crackers into a deep bowl suitable size and drizzle garlic butter on top. Then cover with a saucepan lid or large plate and shake well to distribute it evenly. The crispy beer snack is ready.
Delicious appetizer with cheese
Store-bought cheese-flavored crackers contain a long list of ingredients, but homemade slices only require two. And yet, the snack turns out much tastier than store-bought.
To prepare delicious croutons from white bread with cheese, you need to take the ingredients in the following proportion:
- 500 g white bread;
- 50 g “Russian” or any other hard or semi-hard cheese.
Preparation:
- Grate the cheese on a grater with medium holes. Thinly cut off the crust from the bread, and cut the crumb into cubes with edges 1 - 1.5 cm long. To ensure that the bread crumbles less when cutting the crust and cutting it into cubes, you need to let it rest for a day, and then carry out all the manipulations with a special knife-saw.
- Cover a baking sheet with parchment and place crumb cubes on it in one layer. Top the bread with cheese shavings.
- Dry the crackers in the oven at medium level at 180 - 190 ° C for about 20 - 25 minutes. As soon as the slices have cooled out of the oven, you can crunch them deliciously with your favorite soup.
Sweet croutons from a loaf in the oven
An ordinary loaf of white bread can be turned into a crispy “yummy” that neither adults nor children will refuse. The loaf slices for these croutons should not be cut too finely. It will be enough to cut each sliced loaf into 4 – 6 pieces.
To prepare sweet crackers you will need:
- 1 loaf of white bread;
- 300 g sugar;
- 165 g low-fat sour cream (10 - 15%).
Cooking method:
- Cut the loaf. Divide sour cream and sugar into two separate shallow plates.
- Dip one side of each piece first into sour cream and then into sugar. Shake off any excess grains and place the slice on a baking sheet, sugar side up.
- Dry the prepared loaf in the oven at 200 degrees until it has a beautiful, tender caramel crust, making sure that the pieces do not burn.
If desired, sour cream can be replaced with milk or cream. In the first case, it will turn out to be less caloric, and in the second, the taste of the finished crackers will be creamier.
With spices and oil
Crackers can be flavored with the following spices and seasonings: ground pepper (black or red), paprika, curry, oregano, suneli hops, dried Italian or Provençal herbs, dried garlic. If the family is comfortable with bouillon cubes, then you can use them.
The entire list of necessary products will be as follows:
- 400 – 500 g white bread;
- 40 ml vegetable (sunflower or olive) oil;
- salt and selected spices to taste.
Prepare the crispy snack as follows:
- Using a sharp knife, cut the bread into slices with sides one centimeter wide. Place them in a tight plastic bag. Add salt and spices there.
- Inflate the bag so that there is enough air in it. Then shake it vigorously to distribute the spices evenly.
- Next pour into the bag vegetable oil and repeat the procedure with inflation and shaking. Dry the slices of bread prepared in this way in a preheated oven for 5 – 15 minutes.
How to cook with onions
You won’t find snacks with onions on store shelves, but it’s in vain, because with this “tear-producing” vegetable you can make delicious croutons from white bread, which are not only suitable as a snack for beer, but can also replace bread with soup.
To prepare them you need to take:
- 200 g wheat bread;
- 70 g white onions;
- 10 g dill;
- 1.5 g salt;
- 2.5 g paprika;
- 30 – 40 ml sunflower oil.
Cooking order:
- Cut the bread into small cubes and scatter them on a baking sheet. Send the workpieces to the oven for a quarter of an hour at a temperature of 180 - 190 °C.
- Finely chopped dill and chopped onion in a blender until smooth and mix with salt, paprika and sunflower oil.
- Directly from the oven, roll the bread cubes in the prepared dressing and return to the oven for 15 minutes. After this, the crackers with onions can be considered ready.
With the taste of tomato and herbs
To give white bread croutons the taste of ripe tomatoes, you can use tomato paste or ketchup. The latter does not need to be diluted with water during the preparation process.
Herbs that will harmonize perfectly with the taste of tomatoes include dill and basil.
Proportions of ingredients used:
- 400 g bread;
- 35 g tomato paste;
- 25 ml water;
- 15 g dill and/or basil;
- 45 ml vegetable oil;
- salt, ground black pepper.
How to make croutons with tomato and herbs:
- Wash the greens, dry and finely chop. Dilute the paste with vegetable oil, add herbs, salt and pepper to the resulting mixture.
- Cut the bread into small pieces (cubes or sticks) and carefully roll in the prepared dressing so that it covers each slice on all sides.
- Place the baking sheet with the prepared bread slices into the oven to brown. The degree of dryness can also be adjusted to your liking.
Finally, it is worth noting that simply oven-dried bread can be eaten for half a month, and if oil was used to prepare crackers, then the shelf life of such a product is reduced by half. But it doesn’t matter, because you can always simply and quickly prepare a new batch of delicious homemade croutons from white bread.
I don’t know a single beer lover who has not heard of such an appetizer as black bread croutons with garlic and various sauces. This is one of the most inexpensive and favorite beer snacks. But not only with this drink can you enjoy eating them. Such delicious crispy croutons made from black or Borodino bread can also complement soup, for example, or some delicious salad.
Croutons go very tasty with potato salads or crab sticks. Have you ever tried eating with croutons? If not, then it’s in vain, on the one hand. On the other hand, you still have this pleasant discovery ahead of you.
Many have also tried crispy black bread croutons with garlic in various cafes and restaurants. They also like to prepare this simple appetizer, but usually it costs the same as several whole loaves of bread, and on a plate you get a couple of slices, cut into cubes.
You can’t deny yourself the pleasure of crunching on delicious crackers because of such a misfortune as an exorbitant price. I think this absolutely cannot be done, but you need to take the situation into your own hands and prepare real, well-fried garlic croutons yourself at home. And have a beer party, or maybe hearty lunch with soup or salad.
Well, according to tradition, I will tell you about several very simple recipes, because even in such a matter as making croutons, there are different options.
Garlic croutons from Borodino bread, fried in oil in a frying pan
Borodinsky is a type of aromatic black bread with coriander or caraway seeds. It is slightly sweeter than classic rye bread and with less noticeable sourness, more dense and moist. Dark brown in color and with a recognizable smell.
If you want to make delicious brown bread croutons, try this bread. IN fried he is indescribably good. It goes well with a variety of sour cream sauces with herbs, but fresh garlic will be enough. It will turn out very delicious snack for beer.
You will need:
- Borodino bread - 1 loaf,
- garlic - 6-7 cloves,
- vegetable oil for frying,
- salt to taste.
Preparation:
Making garlic croutons from Borodino bread is not at all difficult. For this you will need about 15 minutes, no more.
Take a loaf of fresh or day-old bread. Cut off the rinds, as when fried they will brown and blacken more, and then be tougher than the crispy flesh.
Cut the crustless bread into sticks or slices of the size you like. You can make sticks of medium thickness, you can cut a flat piece into 4 parts, or you can cut it diagonally and get triangles.
Peel the garlic and squeeze it through a press; you can grate it on a fine grater. Leave one or two cloves for frying.
Place the chopped garlic in a bowl or mortar and grind with a few pinches of salt. Pour a teaspoon of vegetable oil into this salty paste. You can take sunflower or olive oil. We will spread the finished croutons with this garlic oil, so choose your favorite flavor of oil.
Pour more vegetable oil, preferably refined, into a deep frying pan, add the reserved garlic, cut into large pieces, and lightly fry until golden brown. Don't let it burn. As soon as it browns, fish out the pieces of garlic and remove. Only pure oil with the smell and taste of garlic should remain.
Place some of the croutons into hot oil in a frying pan and fry on all sides until nicely browned. chocolate color and crispy crust. Be sure to turn it over.
Remove the finished croutons to a plate lined with a paper towel to drain off excess oil.
After this, spread each crouton with salt and grease with the garlic paste that you prepared at the beginning. Place the croutons on a plate shaped like a woodpile or well. It will be beautiful and very tasty!
Brown bread croutons just like in a restaurant - crispy on the outside and soft on the inside
The first time we fried the croutons until there was a loud crunch, but how to cook them if you want to have a crunch and leave a soft center. Eat little secret preparing such croutons. Try roasting them and you might become a real fan. For these croutons we will take a round loaf of classic rye bread, also called Darnitsky. It is light gray inside, brown outside and has a slight sourness, but at the same time we have all loved it since childhood.
You will need:
- loaf of rye bread - 1 piece,
- garlic - 5-6 cloves,
- dill, parsley and green onions- 2 branches each,
- vegetable oil for bread - 2-4 tablespoons,
- vegetable oil for frying,
- salt and pepper to taste.
Preparation:
Cook the croutons soft on the inside and with garlic paste on the outside.
Let's prepare garlic paste so that while we fry the bread, it will infuse and give maximum flavor. Place peeled garlic in a cup or flask of an immersion blender, lightly add salt and pepper. Add sprigs of greenery there; you can cut them into 2-3 parts so that they are not too large. Pour in a few tablespoons of vegetable oil and blend with a blender until an almost homogeneous paste is obtained. There may be pieces of herbs and garlic, but very small.
If it turns out too thick and does not grind well, then add a little oil. The final paste should resemble mayonnaise in thickness.
Now cut the round bread into large slices at least a centimeter thick. Do not use the humpbacks; it is better to eat them for lunch along with.
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Place the slices of bread in a frying pan and fry until golden brown on both sides. This usually takes no more than a minute. Don't let the bread turn black.
Place the finished croutons on a paper towel and lightly blot the frying oil. After that, take a butter knife and spread the hot croutons with the garlic paste that you prepared in advance. Spread the entire surface of the slice on one side.
Now take a sharp knife or bread saw and cut the slices into strips slightly diagonally. Arrange beautifully on a plate and serve with delicious sauce. They will crisp up on top but remain soft on the inside.
Bon appetit!
Brown bread croutons in the oven with chili pepper and cheese sauce - video
And this recipe is for those who like it hot, or rather spicier. As the name implies, here the croutons are suggested not to be fried in oil, but baked until crispy in the oven. This will make them less fatty, but still just as tasty and crispy, and maybe even tastier. Let's not get into an argument about which is better: in oil or in the oven, let's learn how to properly prepare and bake croutons and how to make an amazing cheddar cheese sauce.
Brown bread croutons with spices - cooked in the oven
Another type of black bread that can be found in the store is “Stolichny”. This is a type of rye-wheat bread, it is prepared simultaneously from two types of flour, but it looks rather black, so I will put it in this category. It tastes different from Darnitsky or Borodinsky, but you can also make excellent crackers from it.
By the way, if you want to make your own small crackers in cubes or strips, then Darnitsky or Stolichny bread is best suited for this. Borodinsky is denser and moister, and the crackers will turn out a bit harsh when fried.
Let's prepare small crackers in strips from black bread and spices to replace store-bought snack crackers. These will go well with beer, with soup, and will be delicious just to crunch. If you don't make it too spicy, then children can enjoy it a little, but just a little.
You will need:
- black bread - 1 loaf,
- vegetable oil - 50 ml,
- salt - 3 teaspoons,
- dried garlic - 1 teaspoon,
- hot or sweet red pepper - 0.5 teaspoon,
- aromatic spices (for example, suneli hops) - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation:
To make brown bread croutons similar to those sold in the store, cut the loaf into slices, and then each slice into thin strips. The bread can be any of your favorite varieties, if you don’t like Stolichny. The main thing is to make a thin straw with a side no larger than a centimeter.
Place the sliced bread in a sturdy plastic bag.
Mix spices in a separate bowl. For these croutons you will need different spices. Dried crushed garlic will add flavor without burning. Pepper will add heat and spiciness; you can omit it if you wish, especially if you don’t like it spicy. But the most important component is a fragrant set of cooking spices various dishes. Very tasty if you add suneli hops. You can take a set for cooking meat or chicken. Spices are suitable for marinating shish kebab or grilled meat. Italian or Provençal herbs. You can be creative and mix the spices yourself if you are good at them.
Pour the mixed dry spices into a bag with pieces of bread, add vegetable oil there. Then tie the bag so that there is an air bubble inside and future crackers roll freely. Shake the bag well to mix everything.
Instead of a bag, you can use any container with a lid, pan or plastic container for storing food.
Do you know that vegetable oil is a solvent for spices. If you put spices in oil and stir, they will reveal their aroma and taste even more and transfer them to the dish.
Heat the oven to 140-150 degrees. Place the pieces of bread coated with spices on a baking sheet in one layer and bake for 20-30 minutes. From time to time, lightly stir the future crackers and taste them for crispness. Ready-made black bread croutons should be firm, golden brown and break with a crunch.
Serve cool as an appetizer. different dishes just for the mood.
Rye croutons with garlic for soup or salad - cooking in the oven
Do you prepare salads with croutons? Do you eat soup with crispy croutons? Is it really necessary to use only store-bought croutons for this? Of course not. Let's prepare delicious crispy crouton cubes with garlic together for soups and salads.
By the way, you can make croutons from white bread using the same recipe, just reduce the baking time of the croutons in the oven, since wheat bread more airy and dries faster.
Let's prepare crackers with garlic, but keep in mind that by adding spices to them, we will get a separate snack.
You will need:
- black bread - 1 loaf,
- vegetable oil - 5 tablespoons,
- salt - 1 teaspoon,
- garlic - 4-5 cloves,
- spices to taste.
Preparation:
To make brown bread croutons fragrant, start by preparing aromatic garlic butter. To do this, pour into a small cup required amount oil (you can take sunflower or olive), squeeze the garlic into it. If you don’t have a special crusher, use a fine grater.
Stir the oil with garlic, add salt. You can add aromatic spices if desired.
Cut the bread into small cubes. Then place them in a large bowl or pan. Now, stirring constantly, gradually add the oil and garlic. Once everything is poured in, mix everything well so that every piece of bread is coated with butter.
Preheat the oven to 150 degrees. Place parchment paper on a baking sheet and place bread cubes on it. Place in the oven to dry. Stir the crackers from time to time and check readiness. Drying until golden brown and crisp may take 20 to 40 minutes. This will depend on the type of bread. Borodino will take longer to dry, but white will take 10 minutes.
Feel free to serve ready-made black bread croutons with hot soup, add to salad, or crunch like this, but with great pleasure.
Drying crackers correctly: recipes, cooking secrets, cutting options.
There are many delicious snacks and snacks, but nothing tastes better than crispy croutons. Store-bought options with additives are most often harmful to health, and they add those hated extra centimeters to the waist. This article is dedicated to how to make delicious crackers yourself.
How to dry crackers correctly and for how long in an electric and gas oven, in what mode, at what temperature?
It seems that it could be simpler - I cut the bread, put it in the oven, turned it on, waited, and took out the crackers. But some crunch and crumble, melt in your mouth, and some need to be dipped in tea or milk several times before you can bite off a piece. What is the reason, you tell me? The cooking technology is simple, but you shouldn’t ignore it.
So, first comes the slicing of bread. You can cut into crackers:
- In slices
- Straws
- Large and small cubes
- Using punches, squeeze out figures from thin pieces
The thicker the piece, the lower the temperature and the longer it takes to dry. It is drying, not casserole.
If you dream of high-quality crackers, then you need to start with bread. How to bake delicious homebaked bread gluten and yeast free you will find at.
Now we need to cut the bread so that the pieces are beautiful and there are no crumbs left. To do this, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the video tutorial below.
Video: Life hack: how to cut bread without crumbs
Place the future croutons on a dry baking sheet in a thin, even layer and place in the oven. For white bread we turn on 170°C, and for black (rye) bread - 180°C. If you are drying slices of bread, choose a temperature setting of about 150-160°C. Note that sweet crackers cook faster, loaves and bread take a little longer. Spicy crackers with all kinds of seasonings should be dried in the oven at 200°C.
Depending on the type of bread, seasonings, thickness of the pieces and temperature regime dry the crackers for 10 to 15 minutes. Once they begin to brown, do not open the oven door, turn it off and leave the crackers for another 10 minutes. But here it is important to turn off the oven when they become tenderly golden, but if you have lost this time and the crackers are richly golden, feel free to remove them from the oven so that they do not burn or dry out.
How to properly dry bread crackers with and without spices in a slow cooker?
If you need a few crackers, but don’t want to turn on the oven, an irreplaceable multicooker will come to the rescue. Unlike an oven, it will not create unbearable heat in the summer and will allow you to enjoy crackers to the fullest.
- Slice the bread and lightly sprinkle with vegetable oil;
- Sprinkle with salt and spices to taste, you can also sprinkle with sugar or pour over syrup;
- Place the pieces in one layer on the bottom and bottom of the walls of the multicooker so that they do not fall on one another;
- Turn on the “Baking” mode in the multicooker for 20 minutes, in pressure cookers - for 10 minutes.
- Open the lid of the multicooker, turn the pieces of bread over to the other side and set for the same time;
- Take the finished crackers out onto a plate and let cool until room temperature. Bon appetit!
Is it possible and how to dry crackers in the microwave: recipe
The most delicious crackers are also obtained in microwave oven. As in the previous case, cut the bread into pieces, season with oil and spices if desired, and place on a dish in the microwave. If you have a stand for the second dish, you can lay out the crackers in two layers.
Select the drying (baking) mode and set it to high power timer 1.5-2 minutes. Then we stop, check the condition of the crackers and, if necessary, leave for a few more minutes.
Important: it’s quite easy to burn crackers in the microwave, so don’t put them on long time. But washing equipment and ventilating poisonous, ingrained smoke in the kitchen is not so easy.
How to dry crackers in the oven from white bread or loaf?
In order to get tasty and neatly cut croutons from white bread, we recommend taking yesterday’s loaves and cooking directly from them.
There is probably no person who doesn’t like crackers with cheese. We love them too, and we cook them with enviable regularity. And it's very easy to do!
We will need:
- Loaf (about 400 g)
- 3 tbsp. spoons of olive or sunflower oil;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 100 grams of Russian or other well-melting cheese;
- Salt to taste.
Grate the cheese, pass the garlic cloves through a garlic press, mix with butter and salt. Let it brew, and in the meantime cut the loaf into small pieces.
Place the pieces of bread in a deep bowl and pour over our cheese sauce. Mix and place on a baking sheet. Place in the oven at 200°C for approximately 10 minutes, but be sure to watch and turn off the oven when golden brown and let it bake for another 10 minutes.
How to properly dry rye crackers from rye and black bread in the oven?
And now we offer a delicious alternative to white crackers - spicy rye crackers to go with beer, or just with an interesting movie.
We will need:
- Yesterday's rye bread;
- 2 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil;
- Dry Provençal herbs;
- Salt to taste.
Cut the rye bread into strips and place on a baking sheet. Spray with vegetable oil and a little water from a spray bottle. Sprinkle with Provençal herbs and place in the oven at 160°C for no more than 10 minutes. Remove immediately and let cool on the baking sheet. Pour into a dish and serve!
How to dry delicious sweet vanilla crackers in the oven from Easter cake: recipe
To ensure that tea crackers are soft on the inside, crispy on the outside and melt in your mouth, you need to know just a few tricks.
Place parchment paper on a baking sheet. On top we place butter rolls, Easter cakes and other baked goods cut into slices as thin as possible.
Pour 4 tbsp into a glass of boiling water. spoons of sugar and a packet of vanillin. Stir thoroughly and put the liquid into a spray bottle. Sprinkle the future crackers and place them in the oven, preheated to 200°C for 5 minutes, turn off the oven and let stand for another 10 minutes. Remove and serve, or place in fabric bag for storage.
Chefs' secrets: after sprinkling the baked goods, you can sprinkle with your choice of ground cinnamon, flaxseed or sesame seeds to make the croutons piquant.
Recipes for delicious crackers with garlic in the oven
There are so many recipes for fragrant garlic croutons that we have created a separate article. You can find these recipes at.
Recipes for delicious crackers with salt
For this recipe, we recommend buying a sliced loaf and letting it sit for one or two days. With a sharp knife cut into 0.5 cm slices and then cut into 0.5*0.5 cm cubes. Place on a baking sheet and spray with a solution: 100 g. water, 100 gr. vegetable oil, 1 teaspoon salt.
Place in the oven at 150°C to dry until fully cooked. Serve immediately - it makes them more flavorful and crispy.
Crackers for Caesar salad: recipe
We offer to prepare a real kitchen masterpiece. Caesar salad the way the famous chef created it. You can find the recipe at.
Caesar salad But the croutons are prepared in a very interesting way. We will need:
- Yesterday's loaf;
- 5 tbsp. spoons of olive oil;
- 4 cloves of hot garlic.
Squeeze the garlic into the olive oil, close the container and let the oil steep for a day. Take out the garlic.
Cut the loaf into small cubes 0.5*0.5 or 1*1 cm, place on a baking sheet. Using a pastry brush, brush the bread with olive sauce and place in the oven at 150°C.
Dry for 15 minutes, let cool and add to salad. Please note that the croutons for Caesar salad are not stored, but are prepared each time to preserve the flavor.
Rusks for kvass: recipe
In most recipes you will find the following sequence: cut the rye bread, put it in the oven, dry it, chop it. And here comes the difficulty. How can these huge chunks be crushed?
If you need crackers for kvass, we suggest taking the least complicated path:
- Let's take it fresh bread and cut it into two parts;
- Using our hands, we tear the bread into crumbs, leaving only the crust;
- Grind the crust into as small pieces as possible;
- Place everything on a baking sheet and place in the oven, preheated to 150-160°C;
- After 5 minutes, take out the crumbs of crackers and prepare delicious kvass without any difficulty.
Recipe for drying crackers without oven
It's summer, sun, heat outside and you don't want to turn on the oven? Cut the bread into the desired slices for breadcrumbs and place on a baking sheet or any other flat dish in one layer.
We cover it with gauze in several layers so that midges and flies do not fly in, and place it outside in the sun or a sunny windowsill. Literally the next day we enjoy crackers!
Calorie content of crackers from a loaf, white and black bread in the oven
Of course, for everyone who cares about their figure, it is important to know the calorie content of the foods they eat. Below is a table of caloric content of the most common crackers.
We hope our article will help young housewives quickly master the secrets of making crackers and delight their family with a delicious and at the same time healthy delicacy! Do you know any recipes that were not found in this article? Share in the comments!
Video: Delicious crispy white bread croutons
All kinds of beer snacks that are sold in stores definitely cannot be classified as healthy food. They contain a large number of unnatural flavoring additives, preservatives and other harmful chemical components. Fortunately, everyone can make crispy croutons on their own; we will tell you several recipes for this simple snack.
Features of preparing crackers
- Crackers can be made from any bread and even sweet buns.
- It is most convenient to first cut the bread into slices, and then crumble it into cubes or sticks.
- White, very soft or airy bread is not cut very finely, otherwise it will simply crumble. Black bread has a denser structure, so it can be chopped into pieces of any size.
- A slightly stale loaf is ideal for making crackers.
- You can add any spices to the crackers: paprika, black or red pepper, dried herbs, garlic or plain salt. To make the seasonings better coat the crackers, you need to add a little oil to them.
Crackers with mustard
Making mustard crackers is very simple, and you need very little:
- white loaf - 3 slices;
- spicy mustard – 2 tbsp;
- bouillon cube – 1 pc.
We make mustard crackers in this way:
- Cut slices of white loaf into bars or cubes, place on a baking sheet in one layer and place in the oven. Dry the bread at 200°C until crisp.
- Crush the broth cube and mix with mustard. If you want a completely natural taste, then use simple salt instead of a bouillon cube.
- Place the slightly cooled crackers in a bowl with mustard and mix thoroughly. Then we place it on the baking sheet again and fry it in the oven until it is beautifully golden brown.
Croutons with garlic and oregano
Garlic croutons are perhaps the most appetizing of all, which is why their recipe is very popular. They can be made from white or black bread, and they will turn out equally delicious. Here are the products we will need for this snack:
- white or black bread - 4 slices;
- garlic – 3 cloves;
- salt - to taste;
- oregano – 1 tsp;
- sunflower oil – 3 tbsp.
Make garlic croutons according to instructions:
- Take slices of bread and cut into cubes. Black can be cut into smaller pieces, while white will produce larger pieces.
- Pass the garlic cloves through a press and put them in a food bag. Add oregano, vegetable oil and approximately 1/3 tsp. salt. Throw in pieces of bread, inflate the bag and tie it.
- Shake it all for a couple of minutes to distribute the spices among the future crackers.
- Spread the bread onto a baking sheet in an even layer and place in the oven. Turn it on at 200°C and fry the appetizer until nicely golden brown and crunchy.
Sweet crackers with butter
Sweet crackers, which you can chew with tea, are no more difficult to prepare than salty ones. For them, you can take a simple white loaf or a sweet bun. Here are the products you need to make these crackers:
- loaf or bun – 1 pc.;
- sugar - to taste;
- butter – 100 g.
We will prepare sweet crackers for tea in the following way:
- Cut the loaf or bun into thin slices. Soften the butter a little in a warm place and spread it on the bread.
- Sprinkle the slices with sugar to your liking. Place the bread on a baking sheet and place it in the oven to dry.
- You need to keep the crackers in the oven until a beautiful blush appears. By the way, if you make the slices not very thin, then after baking there will be a soft layer inside them, which is also very tasty.
Spicy croutons with olive oil
To get spicy croutons, we will use the Khmeli-Suneli seasoning, and olive oil, which we will use instead of sunflower oil, will make the snack piquant. Let's prepare the following ingredients:
- white loaf – 0.5 pcs.;
- olive oil – 4 tbsp;
- seasoning “Khmeli-suneli” – 1 tbsp;
- salt - to taste.
We make crackers this way:
- Cut the bread into cubes and pour into a bowl. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and seasoning.
- Mix the cubes, distributing the spices among them.
- Transfer the bread to a baking sheet and bake in the oven until crispy.
You can make homemade garlic croutons from leftover dried bread. They turn out tender, crispy and flavorful. At the same time, you can be sure that the crackers do not contain any chemical additives or enhancers. In addition, they can be easily given exactly the taste you need. Homemade garlic croutons can be added to broths, salads, or simply used as a savory snack for beer.
Ingredients
- stale bread 500 g
- garlic 1 large clove
- sweet or hot ground paprika 1 tsp.
- salt 1 tsp.
- vegetable oil 5 tsp.
How to make homemade crackers with garlic
Bread for croutons should be dry and stale. Ideally, it should lie for 2 days. Otherwise, there are no restrictions: it can be a loaf, bran bread or a loaf. If desired, you can cut off the crust and use only the crumb. But if upper layer not very rough and dense, then you can leave it.
Cut the bread into small cubes measuring 1x1x1 cm. You can give them an oblong shape in the form of cubes measuring 1x1x2 cm. It is not recommended to make the crackers larger, because then they can dry out poorly and will not be crispy.
Place all pieces in a clean plastic bag. First you need to check that there are no holes in it.
Salt the bread cubes.
Add ground paprika.
Pour in vegetable oil.
Squeeze a clove of garlic or sprinkle the cubes with garlic powder. You can add any other spices if you wish ( spices, chilli, ready mixture for chicken, etc.)
After this, the bag must be tied, releasing the air from it. In such an airtight package, the bread must be thoroughly mixed with spices. They should be evenly saturated with oil and seasonings.
Then you can untie the bag and pour the cubes onto a baking tray lined with baking paper.
They should be placed in a cold oven, set to 120 degrees. In 20 minutes, homemade garlic croutons will be ready.
If desired, crackers can be fried in a dry frying pan or dried in the microwave.