salad croutons

Name: Salad Croutons
Ingredients: - stale bread; - olive oil or salad oil; - favorite dried herbs; - garlic powder, mrs. dash; - cumin, chili powder, cayene pepper; - parmesan cheese (opt) the bottled kind

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gaynel mohler

junction city, OH

Updated on May 28, 2012

I never buy croutons for my salads, I make my own. I used to make them when I worked at the school for the ala carte line for the salads we sold. The teachers thought they were getting gourmet croutons, here it was left over bread that was going stale that I doctored up

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Ingredients

- stale bread
- olive oil or salad oil
- favorite dried herbs
- garlic powder, mrs. dash
- cumin, chili powder, cayene pepper
- parmesan cheese (opt) the bottled kind

How To Make salad croutons

Step 1

using a pastry brush, lightly brush olive oil or salad oil on one side of bread

Step 2

stack bread slices and cut into cubes and then toss into a large bowl
Step 3

mix whatever spices and herbs you want to flavor with and toss with bread cubes
Step 4

Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and lay out herbed cubes to bake
Step 5

bake in a 375 degree oven until the consistency of "light" toast. ( at least 30-45 mins ) turn off oven but leave in there
Step 6

when oven has totally cooled down, remove pan and store croutons in zipper bags. mark bags with the type herbs you used, such as "spicy", italian, garlic/herb, etc.
Step 7

Serve on salads or your favorite soups
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