Simple recipes for utilizing up leftover bread

Together with salad leaves and potatoes, bread is the merchandise that will get thrown away most frequently. I began to record all of the makes use of for leftover bread and located myself writing a listing so lengthy it left me pondering of stale bread as a useful resource somewhat than a leftover.

Eat the Streets is a meals and sustainability pageant going down within the Nationwide Museum of Eire Collins Barracks at present, and Conor Spacey is likely one of the cooks showing. In addition to his large and artistic improvements round meals waste, he’s additionally the Irish ambassador for Chef Manifesto, advocating for a a greater, extra sustainable meals future, particularly zero waste in restaurant kitchens. Conor additionally makes an excellent cake utilizing leftover bread and has kindly shared the recipe.

Right here’s a variety from my record: Breadcrumbs can be utilized in burgers, meatballs, breading hen or aubergine, making stuffing. Toasted lemon breadcrumbs are perfect for including to pasta or topping a casserole. A strata is a layered casserole made with bread, eggs, cheese, and typically greens or meat and Ribollita is a Tuscan bean stew that makes use of day-old bread.

Croutons, bruschetta, crostini, garlic bread, Italian panzanella salad, bread sauce. Pita bread chips for dips. French toast in all its guises. A betty or a charlotte. Bread and butter pudding is at all times a fallback and it may be made with totally different additions, dried fruits, nuts, spices — leftover brack or present buns make a wonderful pudding. A savoury model with ham, cheese and bechamel could be very tasty.

Or just make toast, melted cheese non-obligatory

Conor’s leftover bread chocolate cake

recipe by:Michelle Darmody

Use your leftover bread to make this scrumptious dessert.

Preparation Time

 18 minutes

Elements

• 400g stale bread

• 140g brown sugar

• 60g cocoa powder

• 10g baking powder, sieved

• 2 massive free-range eggs

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

• 300ml milk

• 100g chocolate items

• To embellish:

• 300g chocolate

• 300ml full fats cream

• a number of contemporary berries to garnish

Technique

1. Preheat your oven to 150°C and line an 8-inch spherical cake tin with parchment.

2. Break the bread into items and put in a blender, mix till it turns into breadcrumbs. Add the sugar, cocoa powder and the baking powder and pulse till blended by means of.

3. Add the eggs, vanilla and milk, mix till it turns into a cake batter.

4. Scoop the batter into your ready tin and sprinkle over the chocolate items.

5. Bake for 20 minutes. As soon as cool sufficient to deal with place onto a wire rack to chill utterly.

6. To make the ganache slowly warmth your cream, however don’t let it boil. After two minutes, pour the cream over the chocolate and let sit for 2 minutes then slowly whisk the cream and chocolate till completely mixed, permit to chill to room temperature.

7. Pour the ganache over the cake till utterly lined. Place within the fridge to set.

8. Garnish with contemporary berries and revel in.

Peach Charlotte

recipe by:Michelle Darmody

A good way to make use of up leftovers.

Preparation Time

 15 minutes

Elements

• 6 thick slices of leftover bread

• 25g tender butter

• ½ tbsp lght muscovado sugar

• the zest of an orange

• 500g of peaches, destoned and sliced

• 1 tbsp of honey

• 4 inexperienced cardamon pods, evenly crushed

Technique

1. Preheat your oven to 200°C and butter an ovenproof dish, that’s about 1 litre in quantity.

2. Butter the bread and reduce every slice into 4 triangles. Sprinkle with the sugar and orange zest and put aside.

3. Blitz 1 / 4 of the peaches with the honey. Toss the remaining peaches within the puree with the cardamon pods and tip all the things into your ready dish.

4. Place the triangles of bread on high, overlapping them barely in order that they cowl the fruit beneath.

5. Place a lid in your dish or alternatively cowl it in foil. Bake for quarter-hour then take away the foil and bake for an extra ten minutes till the peaches are tender and the highest is golden.