Crostini Recipe

A fast recipe for the best way to make crostini, crispy little items of toast prepared for you favorite toppings, dunking and scooping!

Crostini use options: canapés with toppings, for dips (particularly wonderful with Baked Brie), facet dish for meals similar to Acqua Pazza (Italian Fish in Tomato Sauce), dunking into Soups and stews!

Crostini

“Crostini” means “little crusts” (ie. “little toasts”) in Italian and that’s precisely what they’re:  Skinny slices of bread, brushed with olive oil, sprinkled with salt then baked till crisp. It’s sometimes used to pile on toppings although I’m a fan of utilizing crostini for dunking and scooping at each alternative.

That is only a quick and candy tutorial for the best way to make crostini which I made a decision to publish individually as a result of I’ve been utilizing it fairly commonly for recipes I’ve been sharing. Saves me writing the identical recipe within the notes time and again!

To make crostini, simply brush thinly sliced bread with olive oil, sprinkle with salt then bake for 10 minutes at 180°C/350°F till crispy.

For elective further deliciousness, frivolously rub the recent crostini with the reduce face of a garlic clove. That is an Italian secret that makes bruschetta so scrumptious!

One of the best bread to make use of for crostini is one which’s acquired a little bit of construction and heft to it, similar to:

• ciabatta

• pane di casa / ache de campagne

• stone-baked loaf

• sourdough.

Should you use the delicate white baguettes, the crostini will soak by way of instantly as soon as sauced and simply change into soggy. You need it to remain crispy even as soon as sauced so you may pile it up with the fish and greens – it’s the very best consuming expertise!

Bread dimension – I take advantage of the skinny baguettes, then I slice them otherwise relying on what I’m utilizing the crostini for.

• Lengthy crostini – slice on an excessive angle for lengthy ones. I sometimes use lengthy crostini after I’m utilizing crostini as a dunker or serving on the facet of a meal.

• Quick / small crostini – reduce on much less of an angle to make smaller items whenever you wish to use the crostini for chunk dimension canapés.

• Toppings – For hand-held, chunk dimension canapés or a lightweight meal. See Toppings for Crostini.

• On the facet of meals, to make use of for scooping and dunking! Soups and stews are superb. Particularly, crostini was used within the following recipes I’ve lately shared:

  • Italian Crusted Sardines

  • Acqua Pazza – Italian Fish in “Loopy Water”

Take pleasure in!