If you love the rich taste of food but don’t want the cholesterol, you need to try this new product. You can bake and cook with the unique and softly-textured Panko bread crumbs without going to the local Aisan foods market. Progresso Italian Style Panko Bread Crumbs are a Panko-styled coating that can add a new tender texture and rich taste to your favorite homemade breaded foods.
Asian Meets Italian
This cholesterol-free product combines the exquisite texture of the coating of Asian food with traditional Italian herbs and spices. The combination of a new texture with a traditional Italian flavor will make your mouth happy.
What is Panko?
Panko is Japanese for bread crumbs. Panko is traditionally used to bread meats including pork, before they are fried. Panko bread crumbs are larger than traditional bread crumbs found in American and Italian cooking. Traditional bread crumbs are more like granules than crumbs.
Panko is more truly a “crumb” sized piece of bread.
What also makes Panko different from the traditional bread crumbs we use in Italian and American cooking is the texture. The Panko coating is not made from the bread crusts. Instead, they are made from the soft centers of bread.
When cooked, the Panko bread crumbs add a very delicate and pleasant crunch to the dish. They bake up crispy and add a richness to foods, without the addition of butter.
It’s great to be able to achieve this texture and richness without butter, because this food has no cholesterol. You don’t need to add any cholesterol (in the form of butter) to make foods tasty when you use this new food product.
How to Use Italian Style Panko Bread Crumbs
You can substitute any Shake’n Bake, or traditional bread crumb coating with Italian Style Panko Bread Crumbs.
While it is traditional to fry foods coated in Italian Style Panko Bread Crumbs, I have successfully used the Italian Style Panko Bread Crumbs on breaded chicken baked in the oven.
These tasty Italian Style Panko Bread Crumbs could also be used to top your favorite green bean casserole or tuna casserole.
They would also pair well with seafood, or stuffed mushrooms.
This cholesterol-free food product may not be ideal for meatballs or meat loaf, unless you are willing to experiment.
Taste of the No-Cholesterol Food
These bread crumbs taste great, with their traditional Italian seasoning.
Varieties
Progesso makes plain and Italian Style. I tend to buy the Italian Style Panko Bread Crumbs because that is what my family likes to eat.
Ingredients
Ingredients include bleached wheat flour, Canola oil, Maltodextrin, salt, dried roasted garlic, yeast, sugar, basil, spices, dried onion, paprika, caramel color and egg.
Nutrition
Nutritionally, there are 130 calories in one quarter cup of this food product. Because this a coating, it is hard to measure how much you will actually be consuming.
There are six grams of fat per serving, with no saturated fat or Trans fat. There is also no cholesterol in this food product.
One serving contains 16 grams of carbohydrates, zero grams of fiber and zero grams of sugar.
Each serving will provide two grams of protein.
There is also the added bonus of two percent* of the Percent Daily Value of Iron.
On the downside, there are 400 mg of sodium.
*The Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Price
An eight ounce box will cost more the traditional style bread crumbs or coatings. It retails for about $3.69.
Convenience
The bread crumbs can be poured into a bag and used to coat any washed and prepared meat, seafood, or even sliced vegetables like zucchini. Or, place some on a plate and coat your food by rolling it around in the bread crumbs.
Tip: Any type of coating will stick better if you first you an beat an egg and milk mixture and place the food in there. Then press the coated food into the bread crumbs, coating all sides.
Allergens
This product does contain egg and wheat. Anyone with allergies or an intolerance of either wheat or egg should avoid this product.
Availability
The first place I found this product was in a Super Wal-mart. I have also found them in the grocery store. Since they are made by Progresso, they should be readily available at any store selling Progresso food products.
