Four-Ingredient Gluten-Free Crackers
This recipe uses limited tools, just a ⅓ cup measuring cup, a 1 Tbsp measuring spoon, a mixing bowl, fork and rolling pin. Add in parchment paper and a few baking sheets and you are ready to go! Not only are these easy to pull together, this limited set of tools makes them easy to clean up after too!
Course: Snack
Keyword: Cracker
Author: Kate Hesse
- ⅓ cup flaxseed meal
- ⅓ cup sorghum flour
- ⅓ cup EITHER buckwheat flour OR Corn Flour (this is where you can substitute in another flour of your choice)
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- ⅓ cup + 1 Tbsp water
- Dash of salt
Place baking rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350°F.
Add all ingredients (hold out salt if you are pressing into the top) to a mixing bowl and using a fork mix until dough starts to come together. You will need your hand to finish bringing the dough together as it is a fairly dry mix and gets very stiff when mixing.
Divide dough into appproximately three equal balls.
Roll out the first ball between two sheets of parchment paper. Be careful to keep the paper from wrinkling under the dough as you roll it out. Make sure you have rolled the dough very thin (less than 1/8”) and evenly to prevent uneven cooking. Carefully peel the top layer of parchment paper off the crackers (it should come off without pulling any cracker away with it). If you have not yet added the salt, now is the time to gently press it into the cracker.
Place the parchment paper with the crackers on it onto a baking sheet and into the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes (depending on your oven and the thickness of your crackers you may need to adjust your time in either direction). When the crackers have turned golden and are just on the edge of burning, pull them out. NOTE: Your crackers will still feel a little soft when poked in the center (like playdough that has been left out of the container for a few hours) - they will crisp up as they cool.
Using the parchment paper you pulled off the top of the first batch when you rolled them out as the base of your second ball of dough, repeat steps 4 and 5. Repeat again for the final ball of dough.
Once all your crackers are baked and cooled down, break them into the size you would like - I prefer rather large crackers as they are easier to spread toppings on, but you can also break them into bite sized pieces as well.
You can bake multiple sheets at once as long as you roll them out to the same thickness and they are on the same rack in the oven.
The edges of the crackers cook faster then the middle, if you roll all your dough out together, you are likely to have soft crackers in the middle or burnt crackers on the edges.
Feel free to experiment with the seasoning, just make sure you are using dry seasonings, not wet/fresh ingredients.