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How to Make Italian Bread Crumbs from Scratch
Making homemade Italian bread crumbs is fast, super-easy and cheap. You can use Italian bread crumbs in many recipes, simple or flavored, made with dry bread, fresh one or with breadsticks.Find out how many ways it's possible to make homemade bread crumbs with our step by step recipe!
Prep Time
10 mins
Total Time
10 mins
Servings: 8
Calories: 171 kcal
Course:
Condiments
Cuisine:
Italian
Ingredients
- 500 g bread - 1.1 pound, stale or fresh, such as homemade rustic bread, sourdough bread, white loaf bread or sandwich bread
- breadsticks - or crackers, as long as they are NOT flavored with herbs, chilli pepper or olive oil
Instructions
- You can make Italian bread crumbs with stale bread. You can use slices of rustic bread, or sandwich bread, sourdough bread. In short, any type of stale bread you have at home. You can also make a mix, using various types of stale bread. Even better if you add breadsticks or/and crackers.
- Put the stale bread cut into pieces in the food processor or blender. If you mix it with breadsticks and crackers, your bread crumbs will be even tastier. Chop at maximum speed for a few minutes, depending on the desired consistency: 1 or 2 minutes for coarse bread crumbs, 3 or 4 minutes for fine bread crumbs.
- You can decide, according to the recipe you need to make, whether to grind very thin bread or leave it more grainy. If we want to use bread crumbs to bread cutlets, croquettes, meatballs or arancini, a coarser grain could make it better than a very fine one. A finer bread crumbs, on the other hand, might be better to make certain doughs drier or to make fillings.
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Nutrition Information
Serving
100g
Calories
171kcal
(9%)
Carbohydrates
30g
(10%)
Protein
7g
(14%)
Fat
3g
(5%)
Saturated Fat
0.4g
(2%)
Polyunsaturated Fat
1g
Monounsaturated Fat
0.4g
Trans Fat
0.02g
Sodium
296mg
(12%)
Potassium
88mg
(3%)
Fiber
3g
(12%)
Sugar
4g
(8%)
Vitamin A
1IU
(0%)
Vitamin C
0.1mg
(0%)
Calcium
78mg
(8%)
Iron
2mg
(11%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 8Serving
Amount Per Serving
Calories 171
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 100g | |
| Calories | 171kcal | 9% |
| Carbohydrates | 30g | 10% |
| Protein | 7g | 14% |
| Fat | 3g | 5% |
| Saturated Fat | 0.4g | 2% |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 1g | 6% |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 0.4g | 2% |
| Trans Fat | 0.02g | 1% |
| Sodium | 296mg | 12% |
| Potassium | 88mg | 2% |
| Fiber | 3g | 12% |
| Sugar | 4g | 8% |
| Vitamin A | 1IU | 0% |
| Vitamin C | 0.1mg | 0% |
| Calcium | 78mg | 8% |
| Iron | 2mg | 11% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.