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Home-made breadcrumb coating

Name: Home-made breadcrumb coating
Prep time: 7 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 7 min
Yield: 180 g
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 200 g bread

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.

134 K 3.8/5 (32 reviews)

1 hour 7 min. difficulté

Easy

0.25 €

180 g

1 Ingredient

Last modified on: May 26^th 2024

For 180 g, you will need:

1 200 g bread
Total weight: 200 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation: 7 min.

Cooking: 1 hour

All in all: 1 hour 7 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 3 min.

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

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.

After this time, leave to cool, then tip the bread into a food-processor or blender goblet.

Stage 4 - ⌛ 2 min.

Blend until the crumbs are as coarse or as fine as you want them.

Stage 5

Keep dry in an airtight jar.

Stage 6

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

... 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 recipe	280 RDI=110 %	2,300 RDI=220 %	40 RDI=6 %	460 RDI=20 %	1,930 RDI: 20 %
Per 100 g	140 RDI=60 %	1,150 RDI=110 %	20 RDI=3 %	230 RDI=10 %	960 RDI: 10 %

Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten

How much will it cost?

For 180 g : 0.25 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

Bread

You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Winemaker's toast, Auvergne soup, Smoked eggs, Savoury French toast, Corn salad with croutons, ... See them all 77

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