| Cozy food season! No Images? Click here   Everything You Can Do With Panko Bread Crumbs What's a casserole without a light, crispy topping? Hardly worth its oven space, we'd say. Whether you're making crispy baked pasta with mushrooms, sausage, and parmesan cream sauce or classic baked macaroni and cheese, you're going to want some panko on hand. Making your favorite casserole super-crispy isn't the only use for the bag of panko in your cupboard. Here are a few ways to make the most of those snowflake-like, airy crumbs. The essential techniques  Crispy bread crumbs are obviously great on their own, but they also absorb the deep flavor of bacon quite nicely, and are a great finishing touch on a crispy mashed potato casserole.  Daniel says that he loves toss a little toasted panko on pretty much any pasta—especially seafood-based dishes that you might not want to shower with parmesan, such as these rich shrimp-, crab-, and scallop-stuffed shells.  Panko gives your protein of choice a crust that's light and lacy, never dense or heavy. The panko is mixed with Parmesan to make a shatteringly crisp outer layer on Daniel's chicken piccata (and his clarified-butter fried chicken cutlets).  While fresh bread makes the ultimate tender meatballs, sometimes you don't want to go to the fuss of cutting it all into cubes or turning it crumbly. For these easy, sweet-and-savory hoisin-glazed cocktail meatballs, you'll find panko in the mix instead.  While frozen brands can be bland and sad, these homemade black bean burgers boast a robust flavor and meaty texture, thanks to roasted black beans mixed with panko, onion, airy poblano, and salty feta or cojita cheese. 
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