Spicy Bruschetta/ Crostini Base/ Croutons
You must all know by now I very much like to come up with easy-peasy recipes. This is definitely one of them and its also my contribution to the Original Recipes Round-up I’m hosting on Culinarty. Would you like to join the fun of experimenting and coming up with your own concoction? You can find the details here. Deadline is on July 13th.
Now on to the flavourful Crostini base (slash Bruschetta base, slash croutons, slash appetizer base…Yay, I’ve just come up with another way of putting this recipe to use. Your turn 
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Ingredients
- • 150 g/ 5.3 oz bread flour
- • 1 medium egg
- • 1 egg white
- • 280 ml/9.5 fl oz milk
- • Salt – to taste (I used about 2/3 tsp of salt)
- • 4 ½ Tbsp chopped, dry parsley leaves
- • 1 Tbsp sweet paprika
- • 1 Tbsp mild-hot paprika (If you’re planning on using hot paprika please remember that a small quantity goes a long way and use less than 1 tsp)
- • ½ Tbsp dry oregano
- • ½ Tbsp dry ginger
- • 3 Tbsp EVOO (extra virgin olive oil)
- • 10 g/ 0.35 oz baking powder
Directions
Mix all the dry ingredients together (except for the salt) and set aside. In a different mixing bowl, mix well all the wet ingredients as well, then add the salt to the dry ingredients. Toss in the dry ingredients over the wet ingredients and mix well using a spatula.
I baked these in the microwave oven so I used 3 silicone-coated parchment paper (microwave safe) molds I made myself. They had a square base of 8 cm/ 3.15 inch the side and a height of 12 cm/ 4 ¾ inches.
If you’re going to give these a try and bake them in the classic oven, you can use metallic molds. However, do not use those in the microwave because they are not microwave safe.
Line the microwave’s pizza/crisp plate with microwave safe silicone-coated parchment paper. Put the empty molds on the plate as close to each other as possible, then pour 1/3 of the batter into each mold.
Microwave for 18 minutes on 750 W, then carefully remove the molds and slice up the content. Arrange the slices on the lined pizza/crisp plate and microwave for 3 minutes on “crisp”. Then turn the slices on the other side and microwave for another 3 minutes on “crisp”.
Enjoy as is, as a crostini or a bruschetta base. You can also cut them into crouton dice and serve along with your favourite soup 
First, the colour’s awesome. Second, the concept is so novel and thirdly, a reverse bruschetta is merely required…top with just one or two quality ingredients and it’s magic.
25 June 2008 at 13:42im dying to try this crostini recipe of yours, the flavors and colors are so appetizingly beautiful!!!
ps, so hows your package?? did it finally arrived
25 June 2008 at 14:16Love the color and that they look like savory biscotti!
25 June 2008 at 17:07These look good and this is bookmarked to give a try. Thanks for the inspiration.
25 June 2008 at 17:21lovely recipe…looks too good.
25 June 2008 at 18:14So simple and perfect for a snack. I have all the ingredients and I would like to try them but I would rather bake them in the oven.
25 June 2008 at 20:35Check out my blog for a sweet surprise..
25 June 2008 at 21:03They look beautiful! Completely changes my notions that all food done in a microwave is asty and in ugly black containers.
25 June 2008 at 21:05What a delicious recipe!
25 June 2008 at 21:33You made your own freaking bread recipe. Well done.
25 June 2008 at 23:57What a lovely idea and I really want to enter your event..I’m going to try but I am traveling a bit this month and next so we’ll see.
26 June 2008 at 03:36Lore I love Bruschetta!! and this recipe sounds like all the flvours of a spicy pizza in a bread!!
26 June 2008 at 07:08I love that event. Can’t wait to read about it.
26 June 2008 at 10:23what an amazing color! i’m loving the combination of herbs and spices. this wouldn’t need to be a base for anything for me–i’d eat it as is.
26 June 2008 at 12:06Dear Lore, love your recipes and love the Blog.This look delicious!!! xGloria(Thanks to passing by at my blog)
27 June 2008 at 01:22Look at the color of that crouton! I love it! Great photos and beautiful site!
27 June 2008 at 02:28That looks so good and so pretty! I just want to bite into it and make a big CRUNCH.
27 June 2008 at 03:42Wouw…looks great and tasty!. I´d like to join your event. My entry will be my grandmother´s heritage recipe. I´ve got only the basic recipe, because she cooked with feeling without measurement…the rest I have to give my own touching. Is it possible?
27 June 2008 at 14:28Those look really tasty!
27 June 2008 at 15:03Wow, those look so great!
28 June 2008 at 18:14Yum. I’m hungry and this is not helping!
29 June 2008 at 13:23I can not tell you how great that sounds and that picture makes me want to grab a piece of that crostini right now!
30 June 2008 at 00:18Those look so good…the picture is making me so hungry.
30 June 2008 at 03:17that looks so delish!you have a lovely blog here. thank you so much for dropping by my space
30 June 2008 at 06:49What a nice recipe. And I love the idea of using the microwave.
30 June 2008 at 16:08thanks for visiting my blog! i love all things bruschetta and this just looks awesome, and what a gorgeous photo!
02 July 2008 at 04:12Looks GORGEOUS!
02 July 2008 at 04:33Hey Lore, You have a very nice site here. The bruschetta looks too good..Thanx for stopping by my blog and ur lovely comment..
02 July 2008 at 05:32Mmm looks delicious! I love bruschetta.
02 July 2008 at 09:18Lore, these look great! The colour is fantastic and with or without toppings I am sure they go down real easy-peasy!
03 July 2008 at 02:41Peter - Thanks! I took your advice and must tell you it was heavenly with only a tomato slice and some crumbled Feta.
Dhanggit - Please try it, you’ll never be able to imagine your world without it
Yes it arrived safely, thanks for asking. My mom is the best, her packaging skills are impeccable so the currants and cherries looked like the were picked one hour before…and that without any ice 
Ann - Thank you!
Kim - You’re very welcome! Let me know how they turned out sometime, okay?
Hetal - Glad you like it
Ivy - Sure, you can bake them in the oven. Since mine is broken, I had to manage without it so I used the microwave.
Hetal - It was such a lovely surprise! Thank you
Jeff - I used to believe the same thing
but since I’ve done quite some baking in the microwave I completely changed my opinion.
Deborah and Katerina - Thank you!
Cathy - Thanks and hope you can participate
Rajani - It was even better thanks to the ginger
Hélène - You could join the fun if you like the idea
Grace - The colours were indeed so vivid and powerful.
Gloria - Welcome
and I’m glad you like what you see here. Thank you!
Clumbsy Cookie - Thanks and please come by anytime
Stacy - Glad you like them, I’ll send some over
Retno - You should give them a try sometime, they’re SO easy to make and the taste is INCREDIBLE! Thanks for your DELICIOUS entry
Kevin, Annestrawberry, Emiline, Bakingblonde and Pam - Just give them a try and your world will never be the same :D.
Nags - Welcome and thanks, hope to see you more often
Cookingpanda, Mimi and Ranjani - Glad you liked it!
Maya - It’s good to see you here
Ashley - Thanks, this is kind of a bruschetta on steroids
Sam - Nice to see you liked them
The good thing is they go down as quickly as they’re made. You can’t say that for many recipes, can you?
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05 July 2008 at 03:58These look soooo good, what a beautiful colour! I don’t have a microwave, so would need to try the oven method…
05 July 2008 at 17:10Kittie - Thanks
Sure, you can bake them in the oven.
11 July 2008 at 22:25That looks really good. Thank you for hosting this event. I have fallen in love with your blog
15 July 2008 at 20:06Ben - Thanks for participating! The colours of your fiesta salad will remain with me for a long time…until the next radish season which is next spring. Just like you I not really big on dressings. Glad you like my blog
19 July 2008 at 10:42