Bread must be treated with care. The dried pieces will give room for the hostess's culinary inspiration. From black you can make jelly, croutons, from white - banana casserole, pizza, hot sandwiches and many more delicious.
Pizza
First of all, look at the condition of the bread. If it has become moldy, it cannot be cooked from it. If stored loosely closed and only dried out, it is an excellent starting material for many delicious dishes. White bread can be used to make a quick pizza. For 1 loaf, take:
- 200 g of milk;
- 100 g of mayonnaise;
- 200 g of ham;
- 1 tomato;
- 150 g of cheese.
Mix mayonnaise with milk. Use a sharp knife to cut the bread into finger-thick slices and peel them off. If it is very dry and difficult to cut, steam it first. To do this, put in a double boiler or a colander, which is placed over a saucepan of boiling water. After 5 minutes, the loaf will become softer.
Remove the crust from it, cut into slices. Dip each in a mixture of milk and mayonnaise, and place in a round baking dish close to each other. Fill the voids with small pieces of bread. Cut the ham into slices, arrange on top, on top of it - tomato circles. Pour coarsely grated cheese on them, if desired, you can put a little mayonnaise on it. Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 190 ° C for 20 minutes.
Banana casserole
A real gourmet dish can be made with dried white bread. Here's what it takes:
- 450 g of white bread;
- 150 g unsalted butter;
- 3 eggs and 1 yolk;
- 200 ml of cream;
- 300 g of milk;
- 100 g of icing sugar;
- a small bag of vanillin;
- 3 medium-sized bananas;
- 200 g of chocolate.
Prepare the bread as for the previous recipe, only brush the peeled slices with butter on both sides, cut into triangles or squares.
In a bowl, lightly beat eggs with yolk, add milk, cream, sugar, vanillin. Grease a mold, put in it a third of the prepared bread, on it - 1, 5 bananas, cut into circles, and 100 g of coarsely grated chocolate. Place another third of the bread on them, on it - the remaining bananas with chocolate, cover with the remaining slices of bread.
Pour all this with milk mixture, let it soak for an hour. After that, place the form on a baking sheet, put in an oven preheated to 180 ° C. Pour hot water into a baking sheet; it should cover the contents of the form halfway from the outside. Bake for 35-40 minutes.
Fragrant croutons
Correctly prepared stale rye bread will also show its great taste. Take it 300 g, sprinkle with water, put in a bag for an hour. Remove, cut the crust from the stale brown bread, cut the pulp into 2x2 cm squares.
Pour 2 tablespoons into the pan. vegetable oil, add 4 cloves of garlic, put on fire. Fry them until golden brown. Then add 3 coarsely chopped bacon and 100 g finely chopped raw sausage. Cook for another 5 minutes.
Remove the contents of the pan with a slotted spoon, fry the slices of bread in butter until golden brown. Put bacon, garlic and sausage back into the pan and stir. A delicious stale bread appetizer is ready.
