Succulent Homemade Croutons

Total Time: 17 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 hot dog buns
• 6 tablespoons butter (margarine works fine too)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon seasoning salt
• 1 teaspoon garlic salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1 tablespoon hot sauce (such as tabasco, cholula, etc)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 425.
• 2 put butter or margarine in a medium/large microwavable bowl.
• 3 add seasoning salt, garlic salt, and pepper into the bowl with butter, and microwave until melted, about 30-45 seconds.
• 4 stir well, add olive oil and hot sauce, and stir well again. (let sit at room temp while you do next step).
• 5 cut up 4 hot dog buns into squares. dump all cut up bread at once (not little by little) into bowl with butter/spice mix. stir well with a spoon until all pieces are coated.
• 6 line cookie sheet with foil and dump out coated pieces onto foil.
• 7 at 450 degrees, bake croutons for 8 minutes. remove and flip/stir. bake another 4-5 minutes, watching very closely, as they brown fast.
• 8 these should be hard but light and crispy/airy once you eat it. these will melt in your mouth!