Healthy Homemade Croutons Recipe (JUST 30 CALORIES)

This healthy homemade croutons recipe it’s just 30 calories per 1/4 cup.

Plus you can make several different flavors of seasoned croutons. And thanks to the guide below, you’ll be making croutons in just 15 minutes, start to finish!

This homemade croutons recipe comes with several crouton flavors. From ranch seasoned croutons, to a taco seasoning for croutons. And our amazing garlic parsley crouton recipe, as seen in the photo above.

Try these healthy croutons in soup, or over your favorite salad. These oven baked croutons can be made fast, and with household ingredients.

This healthy homemade croutons recipe it’s just 30 calories per 1/4 cup…

Healthy Homemade Croutons Recipe

This article for oven croutons will teach you how to make homemade croutons quickly and easily.

Below you find everything you need to make crouton recipes… From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card, even a nutrition label.

Croutons are so much more than crunchy bread squares, learn how to make them at home with these helpful sections…

What You’ll Find in this Article:

• Ingredients for Making Croutons (shopping list!)
• How to Make Croutons in the Oven
• Healthy Homemade Croutons Recipe (recipe card!)
• Nutrition and Calories in Croutons

Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.

Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this croutons for soup or salads recipe to Pintrest so it is safely stored for you.

Up next, a shopping list for homemade bread croutons…

Ingredients for Making Croutons

You can use any bread to make croutons. I personally love to use sourdough bread as it makes chewy croutons with crisp edges… Like the fatty ones the restaurants make (that are soaked in butter overnight!)

But thanks to the sourdough, we don’t need butter to get that perfect consistency.

You can also make croutons from French bread, or gluten free bread… basically, you can make this recipe with any crouton bread you like.

Shopping List for Crouton Ingredients:

• Sourdough bread (or Gluten-free bread)
• Olive Oil Spray
• Garlic salt
• Parsley 

More Low Calorie Seasoning for Croutons:

• Ranch Flavored Croutons
• Taco Flavored Croutons
• Seasoning Salt Croutons

Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of homemade croutons you want to make, and it will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for this healthy croutons recipe can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.

Croutons are so much more than bread cubes for salad. These perfect little bites add crunch and complexity to your soups and salads.

And thanks to the extra flavors you can make ranch croutons, taco flavored croutons and more.

Up next, learn how to make croutons for salad and soup recipes…

How to Make Croutons in the Oven

Making croutons at home is easy, and you can cook these up from start to finish, in just 15 minutes.

We use healthy cooking tricks to cut calories without sacrificing flavor, or serving size. Check out these low calorie cooking tips.

Low Calorie Cooking Tips:

• Olive Oil Spray: Use olive oil spray in place of butter or oil. You just need a tiny bit to crisp up these homemade croutons. This trick will save you 100’s of calories and lots of fat!
• Parchment Paper: Using parchment paper means you don’t need so much oil, as the crouton bread won’t stick to the baking sheet. Plus is helps with clean up… Bonus!

Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!

How to Make Croutons Fast:

1. Preheat the oven to 350° and line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. Cut the bread into small cubes.
3. Spread the bread cubes on a baking sheet, and spray them lightly with olive oil.
4. Sprinkle with garlic salt and parsley (or your favorite crouton seasoning).
5. Bake for 10 minutes until slightly crispy (they will crisp up more as they cool).
6. Cool completely and add to your favorite salads and soups.
7. Store leftovers at room temperature, in a sealed container. Will hold for about 7 days (if they get soft, bake for 3 minutes to crisp up).

Up next, a sharable recipe card for this healthy homemade croutons recipe…

Healthy Homemade Croutons Recipe

This low calorie crouton recipe takes just 15 minutes to make, and you can use whatever bread you have on hand!

Try the Ranch seasoning for croutons when making a salad with ranch dressing. And try the taco seasoned croutons for taco salads or spicy Caesar salads.

Up next, nutrition and calories in croutons recipes…

Nutrition and Calories in Croutons

Most croutons are soaked in butter… read that again. Soaked in butter!

But not ours, we use a couple low calorie cooking tricks to help cut calories and still yield a perfect crouton recipe.

Be sure to see above in the low calorie cooking tips section to learn how to use the following ingredient to cut calories and fat:

• Olive Oil Spray
• Parchment Paper

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