panko bread crumbs

Once again...Tesco. In their "ingredients" section. Not worth the money IMO. I tried them but if you coarsely crumb some freshish white crumbs and leave them to dry in the kitchen or when the oven cools, not much difference.

I use panko crumbs now instead of regular breadcrumbs and prefer them. As said, the panko is a bit more coarse, but uniformly so, and when added to foods, everything has a lighter texture since you're not getting so much fine crumb packed in. I also use it for frying fish and other items, and yes, they crisp up nicely and since there is less breading, have a lighter eating texture.

At first I had to shop around for panko and price it, but it soon became more popular and the prices became more reasonable. This might be the case for you at the moment.

You could try to make your own but its too much bother for me.

You can deep fry with them, but I don't. I just pan fry fish and cutlets with them. As you say, they're much lighter than standard breadcrumbs which I rarely use now. I even add panko to meatloaf, meatballs, etc.

oh well will just stick to the home made ones , hubby loves them speciallly when i put herbs of parmasan cheese in
chrissie b