"I decided to start cooking according to fashionable recipes, but the main ingredient was not at home - money for delicacies."
And it happens to you?
Do not worry!
From any product you can cook a delicious treat.
Even from stale bread you can make a mountain of fragrant and tasty crackers.
Moreover, they will be without chemistry and fresh. Such crackers can be given to children, offered for beer, added to salads or just crunched in the evening by the TV.
Yummy? Not that word!
Rusks at home - general principles of preparation
For homemade crackers, you can use any bread: black, white, bran and even butter loaf. The loaf is first cut into thin slices, which are then turned into sticks, cubes, and straws. Size does not always depend on our desires. Do not try to cut white, soft and porous bread very finely. Apart from a mountain of crumbs, nothing will come of it. But dark and dense bread is better sliced. But in any case, it is better to use a slightly hardened product.
As for spices, they can be absolutely any. We get all our seasonings and start experimenting. But you can cook croutons and just with salt, garlic, pepper. It will also turn out very tasty. And so that the spices stick and for an extra taste, a little oil is put in crackers.
Recipe 1: Rusks at home with garlic in the oven
The easiest way to cook garlic crackers, for which you can use both dark and white bread. But a rye product takes longer to bake. It also turns out stiffer, so it’s better to cut into small pieces.
Ingredients
• a loaf of bread;
• head of garlic;
• 50 grams of olive oil;
• salt to taste.
Cooking
1. At first we cut a loaf of bread into slices 1 centimeter thick, then into strips of one centimeter and into cubes. You can make one side longer and cut into rectangles.
2. Grind the peeled garlic head and mix with vegetable oil, immediately add salt. You can sprinkle aromatic spices, but garlic itself gives a wonderful smell.
3. Pour slices of bread into a large bowl, pour oil in portions and gently stir with your hands. We try not to damage the pieces.
4. Put the bread on a baking sheet and fry for 5 minutes at 220 degrees, then reduce to 150 and dry until tender. Remove the pieces from the oven and try periodically.
Recipe 2: Rusks at home with black bread salt
For the preparation of crackers at home, it is better to use dark bread with salt. White bread is more friable, crumbles a lot and spices are sprinkled with it. Although, you can try it with him, but in this case it is advisable to find a stale loaf.
Ingredients
• bread;
• salt;
• 3 tablespoons of oil.
Cooking
1. Cut bread into thin layers across the loaf. Then each piece in half and across, we make straws no wider than 0.5 cm.
2. Spread on a baking sheet and fry at 170 degrees until cooked. Allow the pieces to cool well so that they become hard.
3. Put the crackers in a large jar or container, it is important that the container was with a lid.
4. Pour salt, pour one tablespoon of oil and shake intensively for a minute. Add the second spoon and repeat. Also doing the third time.
5. We try crackers. You can add more salt. Thanks to the oil, it adheres perfectly to the pieces. A vigorous shaking makes the ambassador more uniform.
Recipe 3: Rusks at home for beer "Kirieshki"
But for these crackers you need exactly a white loaf. But it is not recommended to take fresh bread, which is better hardened. You can also use a loaf.
Ingredients
• 1 loaf of white bread;
• 70 ml of oil;
• 1 spoon of paprika;
• 0.5 tablespoons of salt;
• a pinch of pepper, you can take the mixture.
Cooking
1. Cut the loaf into neat cubes. If the bread is slightly stiffened, then this will not be difficult. Put in a bowl.
2. Mix paprika with salt, add a little pepper. If you do not like spicy, then you can not put it. Conversely, the amount of spices is limited only by your taste.
3. Pour droplets onto crackers, mix.
4. Spread on baking sheets in one layer, put in the oven 180 degrees. You can turn on convection.
5. Fry until golden brown. Cool before use.
Recipe 4: Rusks at home with salt and mustard
For this recipe you will need ready-made, that is, diluted mustard. If it is homemade and spicy, then we don’t use it very much. Tasty croutons are obtained from pecan bread, that is, dark.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of bread;
• 1.5 tablespoons of mustard;
• 0.5 tablespoons of salt;
• 2-3 tablespoons of oil.
Cooking
1. Cut the bread into cubes or straws.
2. Combine the mustard with oil, salt and stir.
3. We collect in the hand a little mixture and mix the crackers. Again, take the mustard and mix until it ends. In this recipe, it is important not to rush and evenly process the pieces. Otherwise, one cracker will be spicy, and the second tasteless.
4. We put it on baking sheets and put it in the oven. Bake at 150 degrees until tender. Then turn off the oven and let the crackers in it cool down so that they dry out inside.
Recipe 5: Rusks at home with garlic and herbs
We use any bread. We also choose greens to your taste. This may be the usual parsley or dill for us. And you can make crackers at home with oregano, Provencal herbs, rosemary, basil.
Ingredients
• 400 grams of bread;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 1 table. l dried herbs;
• 40 ml of oil;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Immediately grind the garlic and combine with oil. Let the aromatic sauce infuse while we are slicing.
2. We make crackers of any size and shape. If you use white bread, then you can not grind. It turns out tasty even if you just grease standard slices with aromatic mass and dry in the oven.
3. Wet hands with garlic oil and begin to pick pieces with hands. Repeat the procedure until the sauce is over.
4. Then sprinkle the slices with salt and herbs, mix gently. Since they are already oily, the spices will be remarkably retained.
5. We spread the blanks on baking sheets and cook in the oven.
Recipe 6: Rusks at home for beer in a skillet
No oven? No problem! There are many options for making homemade crackers in a pan and here is one of them. The whole charm of this method is that it saves a lot of time. After all, slices of bread are fried faster than they dry in the oven.
Ingredients
• 0.5 loaves of rye bread;
• a pinch of pepper;
• 0.5 tablespoons of fine salt;
• 2 tablespoons of oil.
Cooking
1. Cut the bread into cubes, their size should not exceed 2 centimeters.
2. Grind the garlic, send to bread. Salt there and mix gently. We do not use a spoon, we do it with our hands.
3. Pour oil into a skillet and heat well, preferably to a haze. Otherwise, it is quickly absorbed into the bread and individual pieces will become greasy.
4. Put the crackers and start to fry, the first half of the minute is better not to touch them, so as not to damage. Then mix with a spatula.
5. Take out in a bowl, cool and you can pour a glass of foamy drink!
Recipe 7: Rusks at home with salt and cheese
Another option for making homemade crackers in a pan. Bread can be anything, you will also need hard cheese that melts well. Add spices to taste, you can put crushed garlic. It goes well with cheese.
Ingredients
• 7-8 slices of bread;
• 80 grams of cheese;
• 1 tablespoon of oil;
• salt.
Cooking
1. Cut the slices of bread into neat cubes.
2. We heat the frying pan, put the bread on it and fry it.
3. Once the cubes become golden, sprinkle with oil and sprinkle with salt.
4. Cheese with three small chips, sprinkle crackers, quickly mix with a spatula and immediately pour from a frying pan into a bowl.
5. That's it! From hot slices of bread, the cheese melts a little more and lies on an appetizing crust.
Recipe 8: Crackers at Home "Spicy"
A variant of wonderful homemade crackers for beer or just like that. Fragrant spices make them very similar to purchased croutons. For cooking, it is better to use a white loaf.
Ingredients
• 1 loaf;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil;
• 1 spoon of vinegar;
• a mixture of peppers;
• dried ginger;
• ground coriander;
• salt;
• some dried herbs;
• paprika;
• curry.
Cooking
1. Cut the loaf into small cubes and dry at 120 degrees in the oven. Hold for 15 minutes, no more. Just to make the pieces stronger, and they crumble less.
2. Pour oil into the pan. Instead of olive oil, you can use sesame seeds or any other.
3. Add chopped garlic, warm for a minute. Pour a spoonful of table vinegar.
4. Now we throw salt and all other spices by a pinch. But if you want to get spicy and very fragrant crackers, you can add more.
5. Put the dried crackers in a bowl, pour the aromatic dressing and mix well with your hands.
6. Again, send to the baking sheet and bake until ready.
Recipe 9: Crackers at home "Crab" with salt and garlic
An interesting recipe for crackers at home with salt, garlic and crab sticks. This way you can cook croutons from full slices of bread or very small cubes.
Ingredients
• 5-7 slices of bread;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 2-3 tablespoons of oil;
• salt;
• 100 grams of crab sticks.
Cooking
1. Put thawed crab sticks in a blender, pour in oil and put chopped garlic. Beat the mass until mashed. Add salt, you can other spices.
2. Lubricate pieces of bread with crab puree. The layer should not be thick.
3. Now we cut the smeared sandwiches into cubes, rectangles, we can cut them into straws or leave them just like that.
4. We lay out on a baking sheet and fry until golden brown. That's all!
Rusks at home - useful tips and tricks
• If you need to fry crackers, then set the heat. The pieces will turn rosy on the outside, but soft inside. For hard and evenly dried pieces, set the temperature to no higher than 160 degrees. But if you want to get dry and rosy slices, then fry first, and then dry. You can simply turn off the oven and wait for the product to cool completely.
• For better crackers, do not lay them on a baking sheet close to each other. If you just need to dry the pieces at a low temperature, then you can lay out denser.
• Dress the garlic for mincing as little as possible. It is better to use a blender and mashed the mass. Otherwise, large pieces will be unevenly distributed, and they will also burn during frying.
• Butter for crackers can be infused with garlic, cloves, hot or allspice in advance.
