The baked bread burgers are delicious snacks made with stale bread and other ingredients to make them even more exquisite. They can be prepared for buffets or served as a main or single dish to enjoy at work, during leisure time, or for a fun dinner with friends. We can also prepare them without eggs, gluten-free, and customize them as we like. This recipe allows us to recover and utilize leftover stale bread from several days, creating a tasty preparation that even kids will love. The texture of baked bread burgers is soft on the inside and more compact on the outside. For those with a sweet tooth, bread burgers can also be fried. Here you will also find a delicious recipe for making tasty bread balls; you will find more on the blog.
- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Very Cheap
- Preparation time: 30 Minutes
- Portions: 6
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Fall, Winter, and Spring
Ingredients
- 14.1 oz stale bread (also gluten-free)
- 1 medium egg (or alternatively a boiled potato)
- 15 green olives
- 1 tbsp Pecorino Romano cheese
- to taste fine salt
- to taste ground pepper
- to taste breadcrumbs (for coating)
- to taste extra virgin olive oil
Preparation
We can replace the egg with a potato, weighing just over 3.5 ounces, boiled and crushed thoroughly.
Place the stale bread in a large bowl filled with cold water and let it soak well.
Pit the olives and chop them with a knife.
When the bread is soaked (it should not become mushy), drain it and squeeze it as much as possible to release most of the absorbed water. Then, transfer it to a colander and let it continue to drain for a few more minutes.
After that, we can crush it with a fork or with our hands to obtain a grainy mixture.
Add all the other ingredients and mix them perfectly. The dough’s consistency should not be hard nor mushy, otherwise, we won’t be able to form the burgers, and the final taste will suffer. If the dough turns out too hard or dry, we can add a tablespoon of water or a drizzle of extra virgin oil, gradually, until reaching a soft yet compact consistency. On the other hand, if it is mushy, we can add some breadcrumbs or a little more finely chopped dry breadcrumb to absorb the excess moisture that made our dough soft.
Preheat the oven to 392°F.
Put some breadcrumbs on a shallow plate.
Take a ball the size of a small orange and shape it into a burger about 1 finger thick. Coat it in breadcrumbs and place it on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Continue until you have used all the bread dough. Brush the tops with a little extra virgin olive oil.
Bake the bread burgers in the middle of the oven for about 20 minutes. Take them out, let them cool, and enjoy them with fresh salad or accompanying sauces.
If we don’t want to turn on the oven, we can also fry our bread burgers.
