How to make Tomato & Spicy Croutons | 2 Easy Crouton Recipes

Take your white bread and a sharp knife and you want to cut your bread into nice squares. So this is quite fresh bread but it also works with older and stale bread if you have it. Once you've cut it into stripes we're gonna cut this into squares. You want to make them quite, you know, usual size. You can make them bigger or smaller but this size just goes well with everything. Now the first method is to add paprika and chili inside your bread and then add some salt and then add the oil and I've placed it into a plastic bag so now we're just gonna tighten this up and shake it this is the quickest and easiest method to do this because then your hands don't get dirty and you make sure it's nice and even coating around all the breadcrumbs and this is quite fun to do just shake it and move it around making sure all the spices go around the bread crumbs once you've done that you're gonna place these bread crumbs onto a prepared baking tray lined with some parchment paper and I'm just gonna show you they look just like that look at that they already changed the color so you want to spread them out evenly to make sure they have space to dry out and just set them aside ready to bake. The second method is tomato croutons so we're going to add some olive oil together with tomato paste and then we're going to mix everything together with a whisk and it looks just like that. Then I'm going to add more olive oil and some sugar and salt. You really want to give that really tomato-y flavor. So mix everything together until it's nice and smooth and we're going to repeat the method we're going to put all our breadcrumbs into a plastic bag and you can you know use any freezer bags that you can find in any supermarket stores and then we're going to add our tomato mixture inside all over the breadcrumbs because this is more of a wet mixture than previous we just use the spices we're going to have to shake really hard so you want to do the same thing shake it up up and down and some of them will be more tomatoey some of them will be less tomatoey but at the end they will really taste like you're eating tomato bread it's actually so good this is my favorite one so you want to do the same thing you want to spread your tomato croutons onto a parchment paper and onto a baking tray and bake these until they're done so i'm just gonna show you how they look once they've been baked and i'll leave all the instructions on my website for the measurements in terms of how long you need to bake these for but pretty much until they're done so they look fantastic they will literally make the whole house smell delicious these are my spicy ones um look at that they've gained some brown color and they just look fantastic very crunchy very spicy really add that flavor to it and here we have my tomatoey ones as you can see what I mentioned before some are more tomatoey than others but they all have so much flavor I overcooked mine a little bit and I've also didn't cut the crust so if you don't like the crust on your croutons you can get rid of it but there you go guys they're so delicious super