8 Easy Leftover Bread Recipes You Can Make With Just A Single Loaf (2024)
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Don't Throw Away Your Old, Stale Bread — Try These 8 Easy Recipes Instead
byKaitlyn Wylde
If you're anything like me, you've probably thrown out a lot of bread in your life, only because you can't ever seem to make enough sandwiches in the short period of time you have before your bread gets moldy. Luckily, there are some good hacks to help you utilize your leftover slices — and they're in the form of some very unique recipes you can make with bread that will use up your entire loaf and give you something to eat that isn't another sandwich. Never again will you need to throw away loaves of half-eaten bread because they're growing mold or getting stale — that time is over. You're welcome.
Not only does using your leftover bread in other recipes help you open yourself up to making some new, delicious meals, it's actually a great way to combat food waste. According to Toast Ale, a UK-based brand that literally brews beer with surplus bread, around 24 million slices of bread are wasted per day. Considering how much most people love bread, it's kind of shocking that so much of it can go to waste.
But, part of being more resourceful is being informed. So, let us open our minds and rethink bread as we know it, for bread can be much more than a vehicle for peanut butter and jelly, or deli meat — it can be incorporated into a dessert, a casserole, a soup, and more. Here are eight recipes starring your new favorite ingredient — bread.
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Grilled Cheese Croutons
Whether you want croutons for a salad or for soup, it's super easy to make them yourself at home. That way, you can do fun things like add cheese. Check out this recipe on A Cozy Kitchen.
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Bundt Pan Stuffing
Stuffing isn't just for Thanksgiving. This savory recipe from A Spicy Perspective looks like dessert, but is most definitely meant for the dinner table, year-round. Add as many veggies and herbs as you like! This dish can easily be fine-tuned to your tastes.
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Pop-Tarts
Instead of following this Brown Eyed Baker recipe exactly, you can swap out pastry sheets for slices of white bread. All you have to do is roll them out flat with a rolling pin!
Coat the flattened bread slices with melted butter, and then fill it with whatever you like. Press two slices together to create a pocket. Put the attached slices with fillings in the toaster for one to three minutes, and you have an even faster snack.
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Tuna Casserole
One of the easiest ways to make a lot of bread go to good use is to make a giant casserole. This Big Girls Small Kitchen recipe adds tuna, mushrooms, and scallions to breadcrumbs and noodles for a dynamic and protein-packed dish. If you don't like tuna, swap in chicken, pork, shrimp — literally any protein that you want.
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Eggplant Veggie Meatballs
Meatballs don't have to have any meat at all! This recipe by A Cozy Kitchen mixes eggplant with seasoned breadcrumbs, and it's a perfect addition to an entree or a great appetizer all on its own.
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Vegan Fondue
Even if you don't eat cheese, you can still have a fondue party and get rid of tons of bread. This recipe from Fo Reals Life teaches you how to make the cheesiest cheese-free sauce that doesn't compromise the fondue experience.
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Strata
Not only can this savory dish be enjoyed at any time of day, it's also a great way to get rid of leftover bread. This Big Girls Small Kitchen recipe includes spinach with sage and gruyère — a great example of how you can use a few boring pieces of bread to add some heft and structure to a dish. Aka, when in doubt, cube your extra bread, toss it in an oven-safe dish with some veggies and some cheese, bake it, and be amazed as there are so many creative ways to eat bread.
See? I told you it was going to be your new favorite ingredient.
About 20-30% of the old bread can be recycled. It's dried out and finely ground. This creates sourdough again, which the bakers can then add to their new dough.
Freeze your bread. You can also simply freeze the bread you can't finish. Cut up your fresh bread into slices and freeze it. Then you can pop the slices into a toaster or thaw the bread slice by slice, and you don't need to worry that you won't finish the bread before it goes stale.
Stale bread is not harmful to consume, but it may not be as enjoyable to eat due to its dry and tough texture. However, it can still be used in various recipes and cooking methods to prevent food waste.
At the end of each work day, Starbucks employees gather unsold food. A refrigerated truck transports it to a distribution center, where it is then sorted. The distribution centers take that food to local food banks, where it can be handed out to people in need in that community.
So it came up with COBS Bread, referring to the bread type, and an acronym for "celebration of bread". "It could also stand for 'cunning old baker'," said Roger Gillespie, chairman of Bakers Delight, who opened the first shop 26 years ago in Hawthorn.
There may be several reasons for a dense, cake like texture in bread. It may indicate the kneading wasn't enough for the gluten to develop properly, or the dough was proved for too short a time or the dough may have been too dry. It is also worth checking the flour you used.
To soften stale bread and make it soft and crunchy again, you can try the following methods: 1. **Moisten and Reheat**: Sprinkle the bread lightly with water and then place it in a preheated oven at a low temperature (around 300°F or 150°C) for a few minutes. This will help restore some of the moisture and crispness.
All you need to do is place your bread inside a damp paper towel, and microwave it on a plate for 10 seconds. The water will revive the starch molecules in the bread's flour, the reaction between the two will occur again, and you'll have your soft bread back.
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