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Seasoned Bread Crumbs 1

To top baked fish fillets, scallops, shrimp, or chicken breasts

Ingredients

2 cups bread crumbs
4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
3 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian parsley
2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme
Grated zest of 1 lemon
Pinch salt

Preparation

  1. Mix all ingredients in a small bowl until the crumbs are evenly moistened with the oil.

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From Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich Copyright © 2001 by A La Carte Communications and Tutti a Tavola, LLC. Published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Buy the full book from Amazon.
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