The perfect garnish for any soup and the perfect salad topper for any salad.
1 loaf of bread, cut into bite size cubes
1/3– 1/2 cup butter, melted
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp salt
2 tsp parsley flakes
¼ tsp lemon pepper
Preheat your oven to 350 F.
Cut off crusts of bread and discard or use for bread crumbs. Cut bread (any bread will work, even normal white sandwich bread) into bite sized cubes roughly ½-1 inch in size and place in a bowl.
In a small bowl melt butter, add seasonings and stir. Pour over the bread cubes and toss to coat evenly. Your size of loaf will determine how much butter mixture you will need so don’t add it all at the same time. You want the bread to all be coated but it doesn’t need to be soggy and drenched.
Place cubes in an even layer on a baking sheet covered in parchment paper. Bake till desired crispiness. Keep an eye on the bread and stir every 10 minutes or so to get all sides nice and crispy and not burnt. Roughly 25-30 minutes, depending on the size of cubes and kind of bread you use.
Let cool on cookie sheet and transfer to an airtight container.
In the pictures above I used a loaf of rye bread that was going stale. Any bread will work for this recipe.
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