I Did It Backwards….and It Was Better!
Yesterday, I ran out of Italian breadcrumbs, and I forgot to add them to my grocery list for today.
I remembered that I had some heels of whole wheat and English muffin toast bread in the freezer.
I took them out, cranked up the convection oven to 375 degrees and threw them in to cook.
Then, I checked Alton’s Brown’s recipe for making bread crumbs.
Oops.
That recipe tells you to put all the ingredients….Italian seasoning, garlic powder, kosher salt and the bread in a food processor first and grind it and then lay it out to bake.
I beg to differ.
Mine turned out much better by toasting/roasting the bread first. Then I added the seasonings and I finished it off in the coffee grinder. The flavor is better because the seasonings weren’t roasted and the texture is better, because it wasn’t smooched first before getting crisp.
Try it. It’s cheaper, easier and much better tasting than the store bread crumbs which have preservatives in them, too.
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