Despite the banality, croutons have long won popular love and popularity. Otherwise, in a few minutes, from the simplest products, you get a delicious breakfast or an original base for sandwiches .
Toasts can be filled with both salty and spicy, and sweet dessert taste.
Below we offer options for preparing this simple dish.
Recipe for croutons with eggs and milk in a frying pan
Ingredients:
- white loaf or bread - 1 piece;
- egg - 3 pieces;
- milk - 75 ml;
- a ground mixture of peppers - to taste;
- spicy herbs - to taste;
- salt - to taste;
- vegetable refined oil.
Preparation
The most delicious croutons are obtained from a white loaf, but you can also use white bread. And for the preparation of this dish, the freshness of the bread product is not important. Given this fact, you can find a successful application of a stale product.
So, cut the loaf into pieces with a thickness of about one to one and a half centimeters. Eggs whisk with a fork or a halo, pour in the milk, add salt to taste, spicy herbs and ground black pepper and mix well.
Each bread slice is very carefully dipped in the prepared mixture from all sides and placed on a pre-heated frying pan with vegetable oil without a smell. Brush croutons on high heat from both sides and lay out on a plate.
Garlic toasts from black bread - recipe
Ingredients:
- black bread;
- garlic;
- salt;
- vegetable oil.
Preparation
Black bread is cut into slices of the desired size, but we maintain their thickness within one centimeter. In the frying pan pour the vegetable oil, thoroughly warm it up on high heat and lay out the prepared bread pieces. We bridle them from two sides, we take them out on a plate and we rub the hot ones with pre-cleaned garlic teeth.
Sweet croutons - recipe
Ingredients:
- white loaf - 1 piece;
- egg - 3 pieces;
- milk - 100 ml;
- powdered sugar - 50 g;
- vanilla sugar - 10 g;
- odorless vegetable oil.
Preparation
Eggs are broken with sugar powder and vanilla sugar with a mixer or blender. Pour in the milk and mix well. Baton cut into pieces with a thickness of about one centimeter, each of them soaked in a prepared egg-milk mixture, spread on a pan heated with vegetable oil and browned from two sides.
When soaking it is very important to find the golden mean, namely not to let the bread get very wet and allow you to get enough moisture. If the loaf is fresh, then it is enough to wet it a few times in sweet mass. More stale breads should be held on each side a little longer.
Toasts with cheese - recipe
Ingredients:
- white loaf - 1 piece;
- egg - 3-4 pieces;
- sour cream - 40 g;
- hard cheese - 200 g;
- salt;
- butter ;
- vegetable refined oil.
Preparation
We cut the loaf into slices one to one and a half centimeters thick. We try to cut hard cheese into pieces, which are the same as the size of bread slices.
Whisk the eggs to a homogeneity with a pinch of salt, add sour cream and mix.
Frying pan with equal portions of butter and vegetable oil thoroughly heat on medium heat. Each slice of the loaf is dipped carefully in the egg mass and immediately put into a frying pan. We brown one side, turn it over the other, hastily cover the ruddy side with cheese, cover the frying pan with a lid and reduce the heat. Fry for about three minutes. During this time, the cheese should melt, and the bottom to brown.