Parmesan Toasts

Name: Parmesan Toasts
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: day-old yeast or sourdough bread or good-quality baguette, cut into slices 3mm thick (if using a baguette, cut it at a long angle); day-old yeast or sourdough bread or good-quality baguette, cut into slices 3mm thick (if using a baguette, cut it at a long angle); day-old yeast or sourdough bread or good-quality baguette, cut into slices 3mm thick (if using a baguette, cut it at a long angle); finely grated Parmesan cheese; extra virgin olive oil

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The New Ballymaloe Bread Book

By Darina Allen

Published 2023

About

In many upmarket delis, day-old bread is sliced thinly, sprinkled with finely grated Parmesan cheese, baked and sold for four times the original price of the bread. Yet who could complain? It’s delicious!

Ingredients

day-old yeast or sourdough bread or good-quality baguette, cut into slices 3mm thick (if using a baguette, cut it at a long angle)
extra virgin olive oil
finely grated Parmesan cheese

Europe
Ireland
Bread
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 150°C/300°F/gas mark 2.

Brush one side of the thinly sliced bread with extra virgin olive oil and sprinkle with the freshly grated Parmesan cheese. Arrange in a single layer on a baking tray and