Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make black croutons with garlic? Pay attention to the choice of bread - it directly affects the taste of the final dish. It will be better if you take yesterday's bread, which does not crumble and holds its shape well. Cut the rye bread into slices of the same size, cut off the crusts.
Step 2:
Cut each slice in half or into quarters - choose the size and shape of your croutons yourself. I am satisfied with this shape and this size.
Step 3:
Put the bread in a frying pan with hot vegetable oil and fry until golden brown on both sides. Put the bread on a paper towel to drain excess fat. To make the croutons more fragrant, you can add a mixture of spices and ground pepper to the boiling oil. I didn't do it.
Step 4:
Peel the garlic, cut the clove in half and rub it on the bread from all sides.
Step 5:
Transfer the croutons to a dish, sprinkle with chopped herbs to taste. You can also use any dry spices that you like.
Such croutons can be served with any first course: soup, borscht, soup, soup. They are also good as a snack, especially if you serve some kind of pate or bread spread with them.
Use oil with a high smoking temperature for frying! Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it.
Unrefined oils, with rare exceptions, have a low smoking point. There are a lot of unfiltered organic particles in them, which quickly begin to burn.
Refined oils are more resistant to heating, and their smoking point is higher. If you are going to cook food in the oven, on a frying pan or grill, make sure that you use oil with a high smoking point. The most common of the oils with a high smoking point: refined varieties of sunflower, olive and grape.
If you use ready-made spice mixes, be sure to read the composition on the package. Often, salt is already present in such mixtures, take this into account, otherwise you risk over-salting the dish.
I constantly cook such croutons. Everyone loves them: both children and adults.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Parsley greens - 45 kcal/100g
- Thyme - 101 kcal/100g
- Dried thyme - 276 kcal/100g
- Thyme - 276 kcal/100g
- Vegetable oil - 873 kcal/100g
- Rye bread molded - 217 kcal/100g
- Black bread - 217 kcal/100g