Breadcrumb for Coating

The breadcrumb for coating is made from stale bread and flavored to make your dishes crispy and tasty. Besides coating, flavored breadcrumbs can be used to gratinate various dishes, especially vegetable-based ones.

For great breadcrumbs for coating, use plain stale bread, so it will be nice and dry and will keep longer when you grind it. Adding salt will further aid preservation.

Breadcrumb for coating was created, as often happens in the kitchen, out of the need to reuse leftover bread. Let the bread dry well, preferably in the open air and not in a bag, and once it’s nice and dry or “hard,” you can grind it.

There are also various versions of breadcrumb for coating, differing from family to family but especially from region to region, but essentially it contains salt, garlic, and parsley.

The uses of breadcrumbs for coating can be very diverse. You can also fry it lightly and add it to first courses for a crunchy touch.

Breadcrumb for coating or flavored breadcrumbs thus becomes a fundamental ingredient in the kitchen, a real treasure that transforms even the simplest dishes into dishes with a unique flavor.

We can add breadcrumbs to various recipes to make them different each time. I also recommend trying it in the following recipes

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Preparation time: 10 Minutes
  • Portions: 260 g
  • Cooking methods: No cooking
  • Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients

  • 8.8 oz stale bread
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 3 pinches salt
  • 1 pinch pepper
  • 1 tsp dried parsley

Tools

  • 1 Food Processor kenwood

Preparation

  • Break the stale bread into pieces with the help of a good bread knife and place it in the food processor basket.

  • Add the chopped garlic, parsley, salt, and pepper and blend well until it becomes quite fine. You can leave the texture coarser or finer depending on how you intend to use it.
    For gratin, you can leave it chunkier, but my advice is to make it as fine as possible to have it ready for any use.

NOTES

The breadcrumbs prepared in this way will keep for a long time if stored in glass jars with lids. You can add grated Parmesan or Pecorino to the breadcrumbs, but in this case, I recommend keeping it in the refrigerator.

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