By Stuart Cooke
Stu: Who doesn’t love a good round of crackers and dips. Trouble is they usually contain ingredients that I’d rather not eat (vegetable oil – rather not). Thanks again to Emma from Primal-Life over the ditch who has solved the problem.
Over to Emma…
Emma: Since I have discovered that pretty much every brand of cracker contains either vegetable oil or wheat or both plus a long list of other unsavoury ingredients, I have been missing the simple joy of crackers and dips. So I decided to come up with an answer to the problem. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
Ingredients:
- 2 smallish eggs
- 1 cup grated Parmesan or 2 cups Colby cheese
- ½ cup pumpkin seeds
- ¼ cup sesame seeds
- 2 Tbs chia seeds
- A few good grinds of sea salt
- ¾ cup almond flour
- ½ cup ground flax seed
- ¼ cup coconut flour
- 60g melted butter or coconut oil
Method:
- Put pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds in food processor and process until fine, add cheese, eggs and butter
- Spoon into a bowl and mix in flours, flax seed and chia seeds (makes a sticky dough, add more almond flour if it seems too wet)
- Tear off two oven tray size pieces of baking paper. Put a fist sized ball onto one piece of baking paper, squash it down and them put the other piece on top. Roll mixture through baking paper to about 2-3mm thick (you need to make them really thin so they go nice and crunchy)
- Take top layer off, use a sharp knife to score into cracker sized squares (I made mine about 4 x 5cm)
- Bake for 8 – 10 mins at 200c – keep an eye on them because they burn easily
- Repeat the process with the rest of the dough (I made about 90 crackers in three batches)
Variations: Alternatively, this recipe can be used as a pie crust or quiche base, press into muffin tins or pie tin, bake for about 15mins, add desired filling and return to oven until filling is cooked.
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