Crackers! When you go grain free, sometimes the thing you miss are the crunchy type of things like pretzels and crackers and the like. I have seen grain-free cracker recipes and always just assumed they were hard or time consuming. I was incorrect. I was inspired by this recipe from Elena’s Pantry, but I wanted to add flax and give it cheese!
My version is Parmesan Almond Crackers
Only 6 ingredients, including the salt!
Ingredients:
- 1-3/4 cups of almond flour
- 1/4 cup (26 grams) ground flax seed
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 ounce of parmesan cheese (I had shredded)
- 1 tablespoon oil (I used macadamia, but you could use olive)
- 1 egg
Preheat the oven to 350 F. In a large bowl, combing the almond meal, flax meal, cheese and salt and mix well.
In a small bowl, beat the egg and oil together. Then add to the dry.
Mix this really well. You might want to use your hands to make sure it is thoroughly mixed, but I just worked it with a rubber spatula. It will be lumpy, like so:
Get 2 large sheet sheets of parchment paper out. Place the dough, which I pressed into a ball, onto one sheet.
Then cover with the other sheet of parchment paper and roll it out to 1/8 inch thickness.
The top layer of parchment keeps the dough from sticking to the rolling pin, which it will, so do not just try to roll it out. You could use cling wrap if you don’t have parchment, but you definitely need something on top or you will have a rolling pin full of mess.
What country does this look like?
Using a pizza wheel, cut the dough into strips to the size of cracker that you want.
I made my crackers this size, maybe an inch?:
Move the parchment sheet onto a cookie sheet and place into the oven. I had the baking stone in the oven, so I just slid the parchment paper onto the preheated stone. Using parchment means you don’t have to try to transfer the dough, which would be hard because it is sticky.
Bake for 15 to 17 minutes or so. It will depend a bit on how thick you have rolled the cracker dough. After 15 minutes, I removed some of the thinner edge pieces that were getting more brown and put the rest back in the oven to finish off. You want them lightly golden brown. These will crisp up a bit as they cool as well.
Remove from the oven and let them cool completely. Then break up the pieces.
These are crispy and flavorful. John thought they tasted just like grain crackers, which they do. Yum! They really are Crack-ers because it’s like crack eating them!
I must say that I am totally patting myself on the back for these. I never knew cracker making was so easy. This took maybe 15 minutes to get in the oven.
I might try doing a sweet version of these with some cinnamon as a pseudo graham cracker.
Now, these are a little higher in calories because of the nut meal, so don’t go to town on them… ooops…
The best I can do for the calories is to calculate the whole batch.
1566 calories, 127 fat grams, 29 fiber grams, 44 carbs, 72 protein grams. Low carb and gluten free to boot.
Now my batch yielded about 11 servings of crackers at 1 ounce each. Like so:
This is approximately 142 calories. This is maybe a bit smaller than say an ounce of pretzels, but so tasty.
I am definitely making more of these – – and soon!
Ummm…..they look and sound yummy!
You had me at Parmesan! Yum.
They definitely look yummy!
Awesome! Thanks for the tutorial!
Great tutorial. And love the parmesan and flax meal addition. The stats are almost exactly the same as most snack crackers, but a nice alternative to the usual wheat. Thanks for sharing. I will be trying soon.
Looks delicious and so easy to make. When I was eating low carb for a while I used to make my own crackers too. You have given me an idea that I could do that again instead of buying crackers. Thanks!
color this misfit HUUUGELY impressed!!!
Seriously, I can’t wait to make these. Thank you very much for sharing. (I have a funny feeling I’ll need to make 2 batches, ha)
These look GREAT! I have an huge bag of almond meal sitting in the pantry and I’ve needed to think of some new and creative ways to use it. This looks like good football snacking food too.
I know – I have a huge bag of almond flour as well and I don’t want to just make sweet stuff LOL!
Now THIS is an almond meal recipe I could sink my teeth into. (I’ve not been at all fond of the sweet muffin type recipes.) I was just looking at my almond meal last night wondering what I could do with it and now you’ve given me a “to-make” for the weekend cooking!
Oh boy, 80% of me wants to jump up and go make these right now. The other 25% says I’d be in big trouble! They look delicious. As best I can tell, you are looking at 6-8 inches of snow. Is that what they are saying locally? Guess I’m pretty lucky – I can go to the snow, but rarely does it come to me!
These are something that you could mindlessly eat, but I guess better than regular crackers LOL!
Not sure how much snow we will get. They are not really giving us a big snow forecast yet.
OMG!!! So love this!!!! I am not a cheese person but that cinnamon sounds good! Do I substitute that for the cheese? I am afraid I would eat the whole batch though! 🙂 YUM!
I would sub 1 tablespoon of honey for the oil and then add cinnamon instead of salt (and omit the cheese, obviously).
That’s a terrific recipe, Lori. They look like little wheat crackers.
I bet they’re tasty with the cheeese 🙂
These look delicious Lori. I’ve never made my own crackers….I must.
Enjoy your Wednesday!!
I’ve never used almond flour before! I LOVE THIS. It looks so gourmet and beautiful 🙂 I bet it tastes great too!
Looks good! I might try the cinnamon version with a dab of cream cheese in place of the parmesan.
This is such a great idea! I absolutely love it!
Those look delicious – they almost like like Wheat Thins to me! Yum!
Those look like delicous crackers. I don’t think I have ever made crackers. You make it look so easy. Where do you buy your almond flour? I have some almond meal from Trader Joes but I think it’s not as fine as almond flour. I guess I could run it through the Blendtec blender and smooth is out a bit. Like Jody said if I make these I might nosh on the entire batch!
I got my almond flour from Honeyville http://honeyvillegrain.com/
It is finer than the Bob’s Red Mill kind.
I’m new to making almond milk and after my second batch I realized I could not waste all the almond meal left behind. I just made this recipe with white cheddar (it was all I had on hand) and they are amazing!
I’ve never made my own crackers but there is nothing stopping me now.
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this! I just made some and added some onion powder and garlic powder, and 2 Tablespoons sesame seeds. Really yummy!
Man, these are great. I’d compare them to Whole Grain Wheat Thins. I made two batches. In the second, I dropped to one and a half cups of almond flour, and added 3 tbsp of ground mustard. I also sprinkled sea salt and diced chives on the top, and then gave it one more roll from the rolling pin. They’re the most amazing low-carb thing I’ve ever made.