how to make hm breadcrumbs?

Old_Joe

I obviously know how to crumb bread, but would appreciate instructions for making breadcrumbs for coating food prior to cooking it please.

thriftlady_2

Whizz them in a food processor, or dry out bread in the oven and crush with a rolling pin.

dannahaz

I use the very fine grating disc on my food processor. Put the bread in, in chunks, and breadcrumbs come out.

To breadcrumb food you need to coat the food in something which the breadcrumbs can stick to. I normally dry the food off with kitchen towel, then dunk it in my coating (I'll come back to that in a minute) and then into the breadcrumbs. Sometimes you have to help by pressing the breadcrumbs against the food. (Breadcrumbs from stale bread tend to work better than from fresher bread).

beaten egg or melted butter both work quite well. If I'm breadcrumbing chicken I like to use melted butter which has lots of garlic in.

Hope that helps

meerkatgirl

You can always just use a standard grater if you don't have a food processor, but it does take ages!

lynzpower

I just whizz with a stick blender

Miss_Cinnabon

I just used a normal grater for this, took me ages and i kept on thinking i was going to grate my fingers, must find another way:rotfl:

Kyle

Sherratthead

Slightly different answer but I had a pack of dried stuffing mix in the cupboards (left over from xmas) so instead of using breadcrumbs to coat my chickin in the other night, I used that.

(after dipping it in flour first, then egg.....)

It was really, really yummy!!!

Old_Joe

:T :T Thanx indeed for all your replies, they are all apreciated.:D

RichyRich

You can buy breadcrumbs, I saw some in Sainsbury's the other day. I remember thinking, why would anyone want to buy them when surely they're easy enough to make, but I suppose if you only want the crumbs and wouldn't eat the bread then it's a bit silly buying a whole loaf.

sammy_kaye18

Right

Ok this is going to sound a very dumb queston but i have half a loaf (unsliced) that is gettign a bit unusable but i think it will be ok for breadcrumbs

Ive looked all through the indexes and cant find anythign on breadcrumbs at all so

First question - i dont have a blender/food mixer so how do i go abotu makign them into breadcrumbs?? grater????

Second - what can i use them for?? I was thinking for
*mixing in with pasta toppings to bulk it out,
*bung a handful into soup,
*scotch eggs if i can get some cheapy sausage meat (damn this was on
offer in tesco in the reduced secton and i didnt have space in the freezer!)
*home made fish fingers, chicken coujons etc

any other ideas?????