Croutons with herbs

What do I need for croutons?

Making croutons is super easy and only requires a few ingredients that you normally already have at home. In addition to the old bread all you really need is olive oil, herbs and spices. Old white bread is very suitable for this. You can use ciabatta, baguette or any type of bun if made from wheat flour.

But you can make croutons just like that without wanting to use up stale bread. In this case just use toast bread for the croutons

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What goes well with croutons?

The crispy roasted bread cubes are an excellent topping for soups or go very well with stews. I especially like croutons with fresh summer salads such as a topping for my tomato salad with mozzarella.

No snacks at home and you want to binge your favorite series? Let’s go to the kitchen, dice some bread and put it in the pan 🙂

Make croutons yourself – how does it work?

The delicious bread cubes are super easy to prepare by yourself in about 10 minutes. Instructions with all the steps and the list of ingredients can be found in the recipe card below. Read on for tips and hints.

Cut the bread into small but equally sized cubes. When using old bread the crust can happen to be very hard. In that case just remove it. Heat up olive oil in a coated pan, add the bread cubes and toast the bread evenly over medium heat. Please stay at the stove and turn the bread cubes at short intervals so that they do not burn.

After about 3-4 minutes or as soon as the bread cubes start to turn golden brown you can add herbs and spices. Keep on toasting the bread and season with salt and pepper to taste when ready.

After toasing put the cubes on kitchen paper to soak up the excess oil.

Can you make croutons in advance?

Croutons taste best freshly made. Unfortunately you cannot store them for long as the oil can quickly become rancid at fresh air. However you can store the croutons for 1-2 days in a well-sealed container. If you want to process a larger quantity of stale bread or rolls then best prepare some bread dumplings instead of croutons. Of course you can also cut the stale bread into cubes and freeze it. So you can prepare the croutons whenever you want to.

I hope you enjoy this recipe for using up leftover stale bread. I would be happy if you share this recipe on facebook.

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