Spicy Croutons

Submitted by Lisa Pizza

"Came up with these when serving my Recipe #28211 this weekend. Yum! Would be great over salad as well."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1⁄2 loaf day old bread, such as ciabatta
• 1⁄3 cup extra virgin olive oil (more to taste)
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
• salt
• pepper

directions

1. Rough cut bread into 1/2-inch cubes.
2. Place in large bowl.
3. Whisk garlic, oil, Tabasco, salt and pepper in small bowl.
4. Let stand 10-15 minutes.
5. Heat oven to 450°F.
6. Pour oil mixture over bread and toss to thoroughly coat.
7. Spread evenly on cookie sheet.
8. Bake for 7-10 minutes.
9. Toss to turn cubes.
10. Bake an additional 7-10 minutes, or until golden brown and crispy.
11. These go great over salad or my Potato, Leek, Mushroom Soup (Recipe #28211).
12. Enjoy!

Reviews

[Rise3834]

THANK YOU! I had never made croutons before but SO just loves them so this weekend I did! I used this loaf of hard french bread (it was too hard for regular bread, so this was great, I didn't waste it)! I (of course) increased the garlic to 4 cloves and sprinkeled some parmesean cheese in the mix. It's too hot here for soup right now, so I'll try that next fall! Thank you again!

 

[Yogi8]

Just wanted to say that I LOVE your idea of adding tabasco to croutons! Why didn't I ever think of that?!

 

[naaz2544]

This was the first time I tried making croutons so it wasnt the best quality but im so kicked by the idea that "hey I can make croutons at home". No more store-bought croutons for me. I substituted tabasco sauce with chilli sauce and they turned out really crispy. The only problem was that the sauce didnt mix very well so some croutons were more salty than the other and so on. But all in all a great recipe!!! Thanx Lisa.

 

[AmberLovegrove]

These are AWESOME! I substituted the Tabasco for Louisiana hot sauce (since we dont care much for tabasco) and we had these on a grilled chicken salad with blue cheese! Almost like a Hot Wing Salad :) YUMMY!

 

[Jaime in Winnipeg]

These were excellent - I actually combined this recipe with recipe #92923 and then I added 2 Tbsp parmesan cheese as well.