Beer croutons made of bread with garlic

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the ingredients according to the list. For such croutons, it is better to use black or rye bread, but if only wheat bread is at hand, then this will do. It is better to use yesterday's bread or slightly dried, if the bread is fresh, then a few slices can be kept in the freezer so that it does not crumble when sliced. Crackers can be dried in the oven or fried in oil in a frying pan.

2. Step 2:

   

   We cut the bread into thin slices, no more than one centimeter thick, cut off the crusts exactly, because they are denser than the crumb, and such pieces will not dry evenly. The crumb of bread is cut into long cubes or cubes, who likes what shape of crackers more.

3. Step 3:

   

   Peel a few cloves of garlic from the films, cut a couple of pieces into plates. The remaining garlic cloves are passed through a press or grated on a fine grater.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour vegetable or olive oil into a frying pan, put garlic slices on it and warm up the oil until the garlic plates become transparent and a light garlic smell appears. Carefully remove the pieces of garlic with a fork or spatula.

6. Step 5:

   

   Spread the bread blanks on the heated garlic oil. Fry the pieces of bread over medium heat, turning them over with a spatula, until they blush on all sides.

7. Step 6:

   

   Put the crushed garlic in a bowl, add salt, ground black pepper, paprika to taste, pour in a little olive oil, mix.

8. Step 7:

   

   We send the cooked garlic mixture to a frying pan with crackers, mix quickly, let the crackers soak up the garlic sauce, dry them in the pan for a couple more minutes and remove them from the pan so that the crushed garlic does not have time to start burning and does not spoil the taste of the crackers with bitterness.

9. Step 8:

   

   We spread the crackers in the form of a well or just serve them on a plate to the table. With this method of drying, crackers are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside with a rich garlic flavor. If you want the crackers to be firm and dry in taste, then they should be dried in the oven. Bon appetit!