Croutons are one of the easiest and fastest ways to cook something delicious for breakfast or for tea. The products are simple, and besides, it is also an opportunity to use stale bread.
General principles of cooking white bread croutons
The basic ingredients of the toast are bread, milk, eggs. And then, depending on the desired result, salt or sugar, various spices and spices are added. Best of all, bread baked a couple of days ago is suitable for toasts, slightly dried, thick, so that it is not soaked. 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 dipped in beaten eggs. White bread croutons are cooked in the oven with an appetizing cheese crust, ham, tomatoes, eggs. If you decorate sweet croutons with berries or pieces of fruit, powdered with powdered sugar and grated chocolate, you will get a wonderful dessert.
White bread croutons are cooked in many countries: in the USA, Spain, France, England. The recipes are quite similar, but there are some differences. For example, Spanish sweet toast torrikas are soaked in milk with aromatic zest of orange, lemon or red wine, and after roasting it is soaked in sugar or fruit syrup. In America, croutons are called “French toast”, cooked with vanilla and ground pepper, and served with a variety of sauces, for example, with maple syrup. The French themselves call this dish “lost bread”, since the dried baguette is, in fact, already lost and only suitable for toasts. In Britain, there is a Welsh toast recipe, baked in the oven with cheddar cheese.
White bread croutons with ham and fried eggs
Delicious breakfast for lovers of scrambled eggs and hot sandwiches. Preparing toast in the oven, look spectacular.
Ingredients
Four slices of toast bread;
100 grams of cheese;
three eggs; two tablespoons of milk;
two slices of ham;
salt and pepper.
Method of preparation
1. In two pieces of bread we make a round or square hole, leaving “sides” about a centimeter. The other two pieces will be intact. We put the pieces together: the whole is at the bottom, with the hole at the top. Now we have a form where you can put a ham and an egg.
2. Mix one egg with milk, salt and pepper. Dip in this mixture prepared bread. Put it on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
3. Ham cut into small cubes. We spread a little in the hole of the “bread form”. Then pour the same neatly broken egg in order to keep the yolk whole.
4. Rub the cheese, sprinkle them with croutons.
5. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes, temperature -200 degrees. The cheese should melt and get golden color. Serve hot.
White bread croutons with egg and almonds
A French recipe for toasted bread made of chopped almonds. Instead of milk, we take cream, vanilla and cinnamon will make a fragrant touch.
Ingredients
Six pieces of baguette;
three eggs;
150 grams of finely chopped almonds;
120 ml of cream;
a pinch of salt;
a teaspoon of cinnamon;
a spoonful of butter;
vanillin or vanilla sugar;
powdered sugar.
Method of preparation
1. Combine the cream with the eggs, stir. Season with cinnamon, vanilla, a pinch of salt.
2. Put in this mixture pieces of baguette, soak for five minutes.
3. Now crinkle croutons in almonds, send to the pan with vegetable oil. Fry until brown crust.
4. Sprinkle ready toast with powdered sugar. You can also add fruit or berries.
Croutons of white bread with milk and eggs in Spanish (Torrijas)
For the Spanish toast, the sauce is definitely needed - this is half the success. Prepare it from orange juice and sugar. It is better if the juice is freshly squeezed.
Ingredients
Half dried up loaf;
half a liter of milk;
two eggs;
three tablespoons of sugar + another 100 grams for the sauce;
two large oranges;
a spoonful of honey; one stick of cinnamon;
chocolate bar;
lemon peel.
Method of preparation
1. Pour the milk into a saucepan, heat it over a moderate heat. Put sugar, peel, taken from one lemon, cinnamon. We continue to heat, but do not boil. Sugar needs to be dissolved.
2. Remove the flavored milk from the heat, leave for a few minutes to infuse.
3. Cut the bread into slices one and a half centimeters thick. Immerse in the milk mixture, give soak. The time depends on how dry the loaf is, about ten minutes.
4. Cooking sauce. From the oranges need to squeeze the juice, we need about 150 milliliters. Pour into a saucepan, fall asleep 100 grams of sugar. Cook over low heat, stirring to dissolve 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, let it cool down.
5. Beat the eggs, dip in them the pieces of bread and fry in vegetable oil until they become ruddy and golden.
6. Place the chocolate bar in the water bath and melt it.
7. We soak the prepared croutons with the sauce; we dip one side of each piece into chocolate. It turns out and tasty and beautiful.
Croutons of white garlic bread
Classics of the genre - croutons with cheese and garlic flavor. They can be cooked both in the oven and in the pan.
Ingredients
Half loaf;
100 grams of cheese;
a pinch of ground black pepper;
two eggs;
salt;
three cloves of garlic.
Method of preparation
1. Cut the loaf into pieces as thick as a centimeter. Beat eggs with salt and pepper. Three grated cheese.
2. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it, put coarsely chopped garlic. We will fry it in just three or four minutes, so that it will give its flavor to the oil. Then remove the garlic from the pan.
3. Slices of bread dipped into the egg mixture, fry on one side, turn over and spread grated cheese on toasts. Fry on the other side, in the meantime the cheese should melt. Ready toast can be sprinkled with finely chopped dill.
Welsh white bread croutons
Traditionally, English cheddar cheese is used for these toasts. But it can be replaced by more affordable varieties, suitable Maasdam or Gouda.
Ingredients
Dried white loaf;
250 grams of cheese;
two eggs;
half a pack of butter
a teaspoon of mustard;
salt;
ground paprika.
Method of preparation
1. Baton cut into slices as thick as a centimeter and a half. We spread on a baking sheet and fry in the oven on both sides.
2. Beat eggs, cheese, grate three.
3. Melted 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. Remove the saucepan from the heat. Pour in the eggs and mix quickly.
5. Put the curd into pieces of loaf. Now it is necessary 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 savory, due to 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.
Method of preparation
1. Beat the eggs, pour the white wine to them, add sugar and cinnamon.
2. Immerse the bread in this mixture for a few 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 them a ball of ice cream and decorate with grated chocolate.
Ingredients
Eight pieces of bread for toast;
two ripe bananas;
four eggs;
60 ml of milk;
50 grams of grated cheese;
two teaspoons of honey.
Method of preparation
1. Cut off the crusts in all pieces.
2. Bananas mnem fork. Mix them with honey and cheese.
3. Beat eggs with milk.
4. Spread the filling on four pieces of bread, not too much so that it does not flow out, melted during frying. Cover with remaining pieces of bread. 5. Toast dip in the egg-milk mixture. Fry on low heat for about three minutes on one side and the same number on the other. Croutons should turn golden and melt the cheese inside.
6. Finished croutons with powdered sugar, when serving, cut each diagonally into two triangles.
White bread croutons with milk, egg and curd mass
Curd mass can take any - with vanilla, raisins, dried apricots or prunes. These croutons will be an excellent breakfast.
Ingredients
One baguette;
a pack of curd mass;
a glass of milk;
two eggs;
salt;
half a bag of vanilla sugar;
powdered sugar.
Method of preparation
1. Baguette cut into pieces measuring a centimeter and a half.
2. Mix eggs with milk, salt, vanilla sugar.
3. We smear half of the baguette pieces with cottage cheese, cover with the remaining pieces. The result is a kind of sandwiches. Dip each in an egg-milk mixture and fry in vegetable oil. Decorate when serving with powdered sugar.
White bread croutons - secrets and tricks
· Roasted bread is quite fatty. To remove excess oil, you can put ready-made croutons on a paper napkin, it will absorb fat.
· Semi-hard varieties are best suited for croutons with cheese, they melt particularly well when baking. Such cheeses include Poshekhonsky, Kostroma, Russian, Gouda, Dutch, Edam.
· Soft and fresh white bread is not very suitable for toasts. He can soak in the egg-milk mixture. This bread is pre-dried in the oven or in a toaster.
