How to cook delicious croutons in the oven?

Appetizing ruddy suhariki like almost everything. A crunchy treat can be a snack, then crackers are served to beer, soup or used as an additive to salads. A sweet vanilla crackers with raisins or poppy seeds are served for tea, milk or coffee.

Of course, today such a delicacy with any tastecan be purchased at every store, but it will be much tastier and more useful if you cook the croutons yourself in the oven. Especially since it's so simple that even a child can cope with the task.

Prepare crackers in the oven can be from anyof bread. It does not matter whether it is white or black, fresh or the day before yesterday. The only condition when using stale bread, so that it does not have mold marks.

So, how to make crunches in the oven? Bread is cut into cubes. If we plan to use crackers in salads, then we make small cubes. If we intend to simply eat them, it is better to make cubes with a face of about 2-2.5 cm. While we cut the bread, turn the oven on for warming up, setting the thermostat 180 degrees. Pour the bread cubes on a baking sheet, put in the oven for 15-20 minutes. Time depends on how much crunchy and ruddy croutons you want to get. So prepare simple crackers, but to make their taste more interesting, you can use a variety of condiments.

For example, if it is decided to make piquantcroutons in the oven, then before you send a baking tray with bread cubes in the oven, they should be sprinkled with fine salt, black pepper, dry paprika or curry. Seasonings can be chosen according to your taste. But if you plan to make sweet rusks for tea, then sugar powder (you can mix it with vanilla sugar or cinnamon) you need to sprinkle ready-made crunches, immediately, as they get out of the oven.

And you can show your imagination and make fragrantgarlic croutons in the oven, which can be served to Ukrainian borscht instead of traditional pampushkas. Half the loaf of white (or black, as you like) bread will require about half a glass of vegetable oil. It is best, of course, to take olive, but this is also a matter of taste. Oil pour into the bowl, there also squeeze a couple of cloves of garlic, pour dried herbs and put salt. Dried greens can be any - dill, parsley, basil. And you can take a ready mix, for example, "Provencal herbs" or a set of Italian spices. In the fragrant oil, we slice the pieces of bread (for the preparation of this dish, the bread should not be cut too finely). We put the bread cubes on a baking tray and into the oven. Bake until they are browned and will not acquire the necessary firmness.

You can cook this snack with cheese. To do this, you need to almost ready crackers sprinkle with cheese, which you need to grate on the smallest grater, and send them to the oven for just a couple of minutes, so that the cheese begins to melt.

It should be said that dessert crackers are prepared not only from stale bread. Sweet crunchy crackers in the oven, the recipe of which is given below, are baked as a cookie.

So, we will break three bowls into a bowl and we'll take them outa glass of sugar and a teaspoon of salt, add to the mixture a glass of sour cream and a glass of raisins (can be replaced with nuts or poppy seeds). Tea (without a slide) a spoonful of soda mixed with the same amount of flour, add to the dough and mix. Add another 4-4.5 cups of flour to cook a fairly steep dough. Let him lie back for about thirty minutes, then divide into three or four parts and form elongated bars, shaped like French baguettes. Put them on a greased baking tray and bake at two hundred degrees until cooked.

Then take out their ovens, let's cool a little,just do not burn yourself, and cut it across into narrow slices. We will decompose them on a baking sheet and again we will send in an oven that сухарики have dried up and have become brown. Finished croutons sprinkle with powdered sugar and cool, serve for tea.