Just like when making them in a skillet, you can bake them plain without any additional ingredients or add flavor with oil, butter and/or spices. To bake bread crumbs in the oven, add them to a rimmed baking sheet and bake at 300 degrees Fahrenheit for 5 to 10 minutes.(You can also skip the oil/butter and spices, and then just toast them in a dry pan.)

To make bread crumbs in a skillet, stir them with some olive oil or butter and whatever seasonings you love over medium heat until they are golden and crisp.

For fresh bread crumbs, simply process bread into the size you want and use them.

My preferred method is to use a skillet because I am notorious for burning toast/bread in the oven! fresh bread crumbsĭepending on what you plan to do with them, you can leave bread crumbs fresh (this is a nice option for meatballs or meatloaf) or you can toast them in a skillet or in the oven until golden and crisp. If you have fresh or soft bread, follow our recipe for making croutons at home, let them cool, and then bash them into bread crumbs. Simply add the bread to a bag and beat it into submission with something heavy like a rolling pin, heavy pan or mallet. This is another excellent option for stale, hard pieces of bread. We recommend cutting your bread into sizable chunks before baking, though, so you will have something to hold onto when grating. This method doesn’t work as well for softer, more fresh bread so if that’s all you have, consider baking the bread before grating to dry it out - just like we do when making homemade croutons. If your bread is pretty stale, you can carefully grate it using a box grater and even a microplane. Depending on how much bread you have and how powerful your food processor, blender or grinder is, you might need to do this in batches. Then simply add the bread pieces to your appliance and pulse until the bread breaks down into your desired size. The smaller you cut the bread, the easier it will be for your appliance to break the bread down. Slice or cube the bread of your choosing into small pieces. Here’s a quick rundown of making your own homemade bread crumbs - the most common way is to use a food processor, but that’s not the only way! Using a food processor, blender or spice grinder If I’m using them as a crunchy topping, I love making them more rustic and coarse. When I’m making meatballs or meatloaf, I like my bread crumbs to be pretty fine.

When making our own bread crumbs, we get to choose how fine or coarse they are.

Better yet, stale old bread or the harder ends of a bread loaf are perfect!

You can use pretty much any bread you have on hand.Sure you can buy bread crumbs at the store, but recently I’ve gotten into the habit of making my own. Learn how to make bread crumbs from scratch for use in your favorite dishes like meatballs, meatloaf, breaded chicken and so much more! Jump to the Bread Crumbs Recipe or read on to see our tips for making them. Bread crumbs are easy to make at home and can be spiced up any way you like.

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