Bread rolls that are a day or two old can easily be rebaked. But what do you do with older rolls? If you don't always feel like making bread dumplings, you might want to try one of the following recipes.
What else can you do with older bread rolls?
Old bread rolls or buns don't have to be thrown away immediately. Here are a number of good things you can do with them. We have collected a few ideas and recipes here:
Breadcrumbs
If the rolls are already dry and rock-hard, they are predestined to be made into Breadcrumbs. Simply cut the rolls into coarse pieces, put them in an electric food processor and grate them.
Bread soup
- 100g old, light-colored bread
- 60g butter
- 1 onion
- 2 tbsp flour
- 1.5 liters meat broth
- 100ml cream
- Salt & pepper
- Possibly soup vegetables
Heat the butter in a large pot and then sauté the finely chopped bread. Now add the diced onions, which are also browned. Once a good browning is achieved, dust the ingredients with flour, stir well and pour in the meat broth. The bread soup now simmers over low heat for 20-30 minutes, before pureeing the soup with a hand blender. Now add the spices, and finally the cream. If you like it even crunchier, you can briefly boil some diced soup vegetables with it just before serving.
Bread chips
This super easy version is not only delicious, it also saves the good bread from the trash can.
- 200g bread
- a little olive oil or melted herb butter
The bread is cut into fine slices using a food processor on the lowest setting. Now you can place the slices on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and drizzle with good olive oil or alternatively melted herb butter. In a preheated oven at 160° Celsius the bread chips are baked until the slices turn light brown.
French Toast
Children especially love eating this.
- 8 slices of toast, rolls/buns or white bread
- 1 l milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 pinch of salt
- some oil for frying
Mix the milk, sugar, eggs and salt well in a bowl. Place the bread slices in a shallow dish and pour the egg-milk mixture over the bread, let it soak for a short time. Heat some oil in a pan and fry the bread slices on both sides until golden brown.
Bread pudding
Might sound like something you have to get used to, but it's definitely something new. Needed for the bread pudding are
- 200g rolls or baguette
- 100ml milk
- 100ml eggs (put in a measuring cup and measure)
The bread slices are cut into cubes and mixed well with the eggs and milk. Now let this mixture soak for about 30 minutes, before putting everything into a greased casserole dish and baking at 180° Celsius for about 20 minutes through. Depending on your taste, you can now sweeten the bread pudding with applesauce, powdered sugar or liquid chocolate. Raisins, fresh or dried fruits as well as nuts also go perfectly with bread pudding and should definitely be tried.
Bread casserole with minced meat
Here comes a hearty version again, which makes a complete meal and is popular with both young and old. For 4 portions you need:
- 500g old bread
- 400ml milk
- 3 eggs
- 1 onion
- 50g smoked bacon
- 200ml sour cream
- 500g minced meat
- Salt and pepper
- 100g Parmesan
The bread is first cut into cubes, the milk and eggs are mixed well and everything is set aside for now. Now the onion and the smoked bacon are cut into fine cubes and fried crispy in a pan with a little oil, before the minced meat, seasoned with salt and pepper, is added and cooked through well. The meat mixture is now placed in layers with the bread mixture into a greased casserole dish and finally poured over with the egg-milk mixture. The sour cream is mixed with the Parmesan and added as a topping over the casserole. At 180° the casserole is baked for approx. 45 minutes. Simply delicious.
Read also: Bread stays fresh longer
Photo by Sabine, meinhaushalt.at
