Croutons are an excellent way out of the situation when you need to quickly prepare something for tea, you can also serve them for the first dishes, then lunch will be original and memorable. It’s easy to cook them, there are many recipes for sweet and salty croutons, soft and crispy.
Let's go through the most popular recipes. First, prepare croutons of white bread with herbs. Ingredients: a loaf of white bread (maybe a little less), 3 eggs, herbs, a glass of milk, salt. Take white bread and carefully cut the crust on all sides. Cut it into slices. It’s not necessary to try to make them as thin as possible. Now in a deep bowl, beat the eggs, pour the milk into them, add the chopped greens and salt. Mix these components to obtain a homogeneous mass. It remains to dip the slices of bread into the liquid and fry them in a preheated pan on both sides. Croutons are better to eat fresh and warm. Enjoy your meal!
And now - croutons of white bread, which can become a full dinner or treat for friendly gatherings. Need 2 loaves (you can yesterday) - namely loaves, and not bagels, pita bread or crumpets. Also, do not take sliced bread. Still useful are 200 grams of good butter (not margarine, etc.), 20 eggs, a pound of thick mayonnaise, 200 grams of smoked sausage, which will need to be thinly sliced, 5 small tomatoes, a bunch of fresh dill, a head of garlic.
Melt the butter, heat an empty skillet over a fire. Cut the loaf into slices about a centimeter thick. Now lightly dip the loaf in ghee and place in a skillet, after making the fire minimal. It is necessary to fry until the croutons are appetizingly browned on both sides. When this happens - put the croutons to cool in a wide plate.
Cook hard-boiled eggs. Peel them, grate on a coarse grater. Peel the garlic cloves. Generously dip them in salt and rub croutons on one side. You can grind a few cloves and sprinkle part of the croutons with garlic - for those who especially appreciate the sharp. Now we smear the croutons with mayonnaise. Do not overdo it, but at the same time try to lubricate the slices evenly, including the edges. Next - sprinkle them with an egg. Cut the tomatoes as thin as possible, chop the dill. Gently take croutons on top, put slices of sausage and tomato on the resulting “plane”. You can salt them, and on top - sprinkle with dill.
Now put the croutons on a beautiful wide dish and put in the refrigerator for a quarter of an hour. Well, you can serve it!
Let's move on to the next recipe - brown bread croutons for salad. Take the black bread and cut into slices, the thickness of which should be within one centimeter. Spread each crouton on both sides with butter, sprinkle with cheese, and then put small pieces of butter on top. But you need to fry them without adding oil or fat. When the cheese has melted, remove the pan from the heat and let stand for several minutes. Then carefully turn the croutons over and fry them on the other side. Such croutons go well with vegetable salad.
We can not do without the delicacy loved by many children - these are sweet croutons of white bread. For them, it is better to use a fresh loaf or loaf. Heat the milk, stir the sugar in it. Generously moisten future croutons in a sweet liquid and fry in vegetable oil. Make sure that they do not burn, because of sugar it is quite possible. Separately, mix a little cottage cheese with low-fat sour cream and sugar. Put this mass on the finished croutons. Instead of cottage cheese with sour cream, you can use jam or condensed milk.
You can come up with your own recipe by adding something from yourself. Croutons of white bread, rye, crackers are widely used in salads and soups, so if you have stale bread or a loaf of bread yesterday - take the chance to please your relatives with something new and original.