Toasts with garlic

Every time there is bread, which is alreadystale, you can use it to make sweet or salty croutons. To do this, you need to fry the bread with salt, pepper, seasonings or garlic, as a result you will get a very tasty dish. Salted croutons can be used as a main course (as was the case with the aristocrats of Ancient Greece, when two separate dishes were served at the table: meat and wheat bread), as a snack or serve them to beer, for example, toasts with garlic. Sweet croutons are perfect for tea or coffee, for this stale bread is soaked in milk, egg, sprinkled with sugar. To prepare toast, you can use both stale and fresh bread. This article describes the recipes, after reading which, you can learn how to make toast with garlic.

Recipe 1

There is an easy way to prepare toast, which can be prepared for Caesar salad or eat with a green salad. For the original recipe, you will need (output 1 ½ cup toast) ingredients:

4 tablespoons buttery butter;
1 clove of garlic, crush with a knife;
3 slices (2 cm thick) of French bread, cut into cubes.

Preheat the oven to 175 ° C. In the saucepan, butter butter is melted over medium-high heat. Add the garlic, fry for a minute, stir constantly. Pour out bread cubes and during frying periodically toss them, so that they are well soaked in oil and garlic. Then distribute them in one layer on a baking sheet, put in the oven. Bake toast with garlic in the oven for 15 minutes or until crispy dry crust. It is necessary to check frequently so as not to burn them.

Recipe 2

You can cook garlic toasts very quickly. This will require the following products:

round bread or unsweetened loaf;
6 large cloves of garlic;
½ liter of olive oil, sunflower oil or a mixture of both;
dried herbs: rosemary, oregano and others at will.

The oven is heated to 200 ° C. Pour the oil into a cup and squeeze the garlic into it, add the dried herbs. Mix with a spoon, so that garlic, as far as possible, is distributed throughout the volume of oil evenly. Leave to ensure that garlic and herbs are infused, and the oil has acquired their taste. Bread is cut not too thick slices, then small cubes. Oil is filtered through a fine sieve to remove grains of garlic and grass. Lay the bread cubes on a baking sheet and pour oil, mix well, so that all the bread was impregnated with it. As soon as the bread warms up, the temperature in the oven is reduced to 180 C. The baking process must be constantly monitored. When toasts with garlic become crispy, they are taken out on a paper towel. Allow to cool and serve.

Recipe 3

Cooked on this recipe, pickled croutons with garlic can be served in broth with vegetables or beer. For 6 servings you need products:

1 loaf of French bread (it is better to take the old bread, which lay for several days);
3 tablespoons olive oil table;
3 tablespoons buttery butter, melt;
4 cloves garlic, finely chopped;
2 teaspoons of tea leaves;
1 teaspoon of chili pepper;
1 teaspoon of Italian spice tea (a mixture of spicy herbs: rosemary, oregano, cumin, basil, marjoram, sage and red pepper).

The oven is heated to 175 ° C. Bread is cut into small cubes. Pour the bread cubes onto the parchment, which is lined with a sheet for baking, pour a mixture of olive oil and butter, sprinkle with garlic, salt, pepper and Italian seasonings. Hands gently move the cubes from place to place and make sure that they are evenly covered with oil and sprinkled with salt and seasonings. Bake for 20 minutes, or until the croutons become golden brown. Take out of the oven, allow to cool and serve.