Home-made breadcrumb coating


Home-made breadcrumb coating
The crispy crust on many fried (or baked) foods comes from a breadcrumb coating. You can buy this, of course, but it's easy and much better to make your own at home.

For one thing, you will know excatly what's in it – just bread – which is not the case for the commercial product. This is also a great way to use up bits of dry bread that would otherwise go to waste.
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Last modified on: May 26th 2024
For 180 g, you will need:
  • 1 bread 200 g bread
  • Total weight: 200 grams

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Times for this recipe
Preparation: 7 min.
Cooking: 1 hour
All in all: 1 hour 7 min.
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Stage 1 - 3 min.
Home-made breadcrumb coating
Cut 200 g bread into pieces no bigger than your thumb.

Rescue crusts and dry ends of loaves to avoid waste. Here it is crusts of sandwich bread.

Spread the pieces of bread on a baking sheet.

Stage 2 - 1 hour
Home-made breadcrumb coating
Put in the oven at 210°F (100°C) fro 1 to 2 hours. The idea is to dry out the bread without toasting it, so that the breadcrumbs will keep well.

Stage 3 - 2 min.
Home-made breadcrumb coating
After this time, leave to cool, then tip the bread into a food-processor or blender goblet.

Stage 4 - 2 min.
Home-made breadcrumb coating
Blend until the crumbs are as coarse or as fine as you want them.

Stage 5
Home-made breadcrumb coating
Keep dry in an airtight jar.

Stage 6
Home-made breadcrumb coating
Note that you can also use leftover bread that isn't sandwich bread, as in this photo with baguette, pain de campagne, Arthur's pavé...

Stage 7
Home-made breadcrumb coating
... no problem, your breadcrumbs will be even tastier, it will just take a little longer to obtain a fine enough powder.
Remarks
Another option for drying: use the residual heat of the oven after cooking something (such as a roast). As soon as you have finished cooking, turn the oven off and put in the tray of bread for 1 hour.
Keeping: Several months in an airtight jar.
Source: Home made.
Nutritional information
Proteins (gr)Carbohydrates (gr)Fats (gr)Energy value (in k-calories)Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe280 RDI=110 %2,300 RDI=220 %40 RDI=6 %460 RDI=20 %1,930 RDI: 20 %
Per 100 g140 RDI=60 %1,150 RDI=110 %20 RDI=3 %230 RDI=10 %960 RDI: 10 %
The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man
Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten
How much will it cost?
  • For 180 g : 0.25 €

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