If you need a quick and tasty snack, you should prepare crispy croutons. The recipe with milk and egg, which is known to every cook, can be infinitely complicated and improved. For example, adding herbs, cheese, spices or sweet ingredients to it.
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Classic loaf croutons with egg and milk
The basis of such a treat can be already managed to dry the bread. It is he who is best saturated with milk and egg mass and crunches appetizingly. In addition to 6-7 slices of white bread, taken: 2 selected eggs, half a glass of cow's milk, salt or sugar to taste.
- Eggs are poured into a shallow wide bowl, mixed with milk and slightly beaten with a whisk or fork. The mixture should be homogeneous.
- At this stage, for a sweet snack, sugar or powdered sugar is added to the mass, for salt - salt.
- Bread slices on both sides are soaked in the resulting liquid, after which they are fried in well-heated non-aromatic oil until golden.
Serve croutons to the table hot with jam or sour cream.
With cheese
Loaf croutons prepared according to this recipe will be an excellent addition to meat or vegetable broth. You can serve them as an appetizer for beer.
The recipe includes the following ingredients: 1 whole egg and 1 yolk, yesterday's loaf, 180 g of any hard cheese, 70 ml of medium-fat milk, salt, butter for frying.
- Bread is cut into thick, even slices.
- Milk, a whole egg and a yolk are whipped with a pinch of salt. If you plan to serve croutons with beer, you can add granulated garlic.
- Cheese is grated with medium cells.
- On a heated frying pan with melted butter, slices of bread, soaked in a milk-egg mixture, are laid out.
- When the slices roll over to the other side during frying, their top is generously sprinkled with grated cheese. Next, the preparation of croutons continues already under the lid.
Once the cheese is completely melted, you can serve a snack to the table.
The recipe for sweet croutons
If you plan to make croutons sweet, then fry them only in butter or ghee. Sunflower oil can impair the taste of the dish. In addition to 70 g of butter, it is taken: a large spoon of granulated sugar, 2 chicken eggs, 6-7 slice of white bread, 70 ml of milk fat.
- In a roomy bowl, beat eggs with milk and sugar. For a pleasant aroma, you can add a pinch of vanilla or cinnamon to the ingredients. The process must be continued until foam appears on the surface of the mixture.
- It is better to use a sliced loaf with perfectly even slices. Each piece of it is immersed in a milk-egg mixture for a couple of minutes, after which it is fried in butter until golden brown.
Tasty croutons with berry or fruit jam.
Cooking in the oven
If you need to prepare a large number of servings of the dish in a short time, use the oven. A baking sheet will contain much more bread slices than a frying pan. From the products you need to take: a dry loaf, 3-4 garlic slices, chicken egg, 120 g of hard cheese, a pinch of salt, 1/3 tbsp. cow's milk, fragrant herbs to taste.
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- A crust is cut from the bread, and the crumb is cut into smooth, beautiful squares.
- In a separate bowl, whisk eggs with milk, garlic and aromatic herbs passed through a press, beat.
- Each piece of loaf is dipped into the contents of the bowl, after which it is laid out on an oiled baking sheet.
- It remains to sprinkle croutons with grated cheese and bake them for 12 minutes in the oven.
It is important to set the correct temperature in the oven so that the bread does not burn. Enough will be 150 degrees.
With egg, milk and herbs
To make the taste of croutons more interesting and rich, just add greens to the recipe. A bunch of fresh parsley, dill and green onions is perfect for this. In addition to greens, it is taken: 90 ml of cow's milk, 12 slices of loaf, 4 large chicken eggs, 190 g of hard cheese, salt.
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- Eggs salt and milk beat together.
- Each slice of the loaf is immersed in the resulting mixture for 30 seconds, after which it is fried in a pan to an appetizing golden color.
- To make the appetizer more tender, it is better to mix non-aromatic vegetable and butter for frying.
- The grated cheese is mixed with chopped herbs. The resulting mass is laid out on still warm pieces of the loaf.
To melt the cheese, croutons are sent for a couple of minutes to a hot oven or microwave.
With strawberries
Crispy bread slices in strawberry sauce - a real royal breakfast. He will especially like the little family members. For the dish it is used: 70 ml of fat milk, yesterday’s loaf, 2 whole eggs and 2 yolks, a pinch of vanilla, 60 ml of fat cream, 160 g of fresh berries, 4 large tablespoons of powdered sugar. How to cook croutons with strawberries is described below.
- The loaf is cut into slices no more than 1.5 cm thick.
- Whole eggs and milk are whipped with a whisk.
- Each slice is dipped in the resulting mixture, and then fried in ghee until a beautiful crust appears.
- Strawberries are washed, finely chopped, mixed with vanilla, cream, yolks and powdered sugar. Blender sauce is brought to uniformity.
- Fried croutons are laid out in an oily form and poured with a berry mixture.
- In a preheated oven, a treat is prepared for 7-9 minutes.
The finished snack is immediately served on the table.
French: with cinnamon and vanilla
A pinch of vanilla and cinnamon will add a French touch to a familiar breakfast. In addition to these seasonings, it is also taken: 6 slices of loaf, small. spoon of sugar, 1 egg, ¼ tbsp.milk, butter, icing sugar.
- Beat the egg with vanilla, milk, cinnamon and sugar.
- In the resulting mass, bread slices are immersed and left for several seconds for impregnation.
- In butter, croutons are fried on both sides.
Before serving, the treat is generously sprinkled with powdered sugar.