Poor Man’s Parmesan
"A quick and easy way to make a crispy/crunchy topping for pasta and other dishes. (It doesn't taste like Parmesan but it does make a lovely topping for pasta.)"
photo by AskCy
- Ready In:
- 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
-
10
ingredients
- 2 slices bread (fresh)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1⁄4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 sprig rosemary
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
directions
- Place bread, black pepper, sea salt, and rosemary in a food processor.
- Reduce to a rough crumb.
- Pour crumbs into a hot dry frying pan and keep it moving.
- When it starts to dry, and just starts browning, add the olive oil.
- Keep moving and frying until golden brown.
- Use to top pasta dishes as you might with Parmesan cheese.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
First started cooking like most people with my mother and grandmother when I was a small child. Even back then I like to mess with food and create different things (pizza toast, cheese spread toasted, fried bread made by buttering the bread and toasting it under the grill..) you can see I was heavily influenced by toast back then but I was only 8 or so... By about 12 I'd started helping out on a sunday with the cooked breakfast, sometimes even doing it all. Since then I've cooked for myself and then for my family and now very extended family.
However my real passion for food took off after going on holiday and trying wonderful new dishes that I'd previously never even heard of. This meant once home I'd be having a go at recreating what I'd had... This is still what I'm doing today along with coming up with new and different twists on things and improving on recipes I've made and dishes I've had...
welcome to my World LOL
Steve
