How to make crackers on your own: a recipe at home

Crackers are a universal snack. They can be eaten both in a pure form, and served on a table with meat, butter or various fillings. For example, with creamy soft cheese and salted salmon or smoked salmon. In fact, there is nothing difficult in preparing crackers. Recipe (at home) does not require much experience in cooking.

The tools that will be needed for this are minimal: a good rolling pin, parchment paper, plastic packaging, a spacious work surface, a good baking tray and a sharp knife.

Crackers, a recipe at home which is easy to implement, can be very simple in composition. You can take just flour, water and salt. You'll get flat cakes similar to matzos, which you can use for sandwiches. If you add leavening agent and butter to this dough, the consistency of the finished product will become more gentle.

As flavorings, various nuts, seeds and spices are traditionally added: toasted almonds, poppy seeds, sesame, fennel and cumin. You can use a variety of exotic seasonings, which combine salty dough.

Advice

• Do not knead the dough too much. It is better to minimize this process so as not to activate gluten in flour.
• When using a rolling pin, move from the center of the dough and roll it about 0.5 cm thick. If the crackers are thinner, they will turn out to be very hard. If the thickness is excessive, they may not be baked in the middle.
• If the dough starts to shrink (this means that the gluten is too active), leave it for five minutes, without covering it, and then continue rolling.
• If you want to prepare a figured cracker - fish, leaves, etc., you will need special shapes. If desired, the figures can be cut out on the rolled up test by hand with a very sharp knife. To obtain even geometric shapes, it is most convenient to use a pizza cutter.

• After these crackers are removed from the oven, transfer them to a dish or spill for cooling. In order for their surface to turn crispy, you need air circulation from all sides.
• Salty dough for crackers can be left in the refrigerator and stored for several days or freeze it for up to a month. Such a preparation can save your time considerably if baking is needed urgently.

What kind of fillers can I use crackers?

• Mix the thick yogurt with cucumber, mint and lemon zest.
• Take a cream cheese like "Philadelphia" and mix it with chopped dill and green onion. You can add finely chopped fillet of smoked salmon.
• Fry chicken liver in oil with herbs of your choice, finely chop. Add the crushed apple and a few drops of cognac into it.

The above is the simplest way to prepare crackers. The recipe at home can be more compound. What options can be easily done?

Crackers with rosemary

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup of flour;
• 1 teaspoon (tea) of baking powder;
• ¾ tablespoons (tea) of salt;
• 2 tablespoons of rosemary, cut large;
• ½ cup of water;
• ⅓ a glass of olive oil;
• Sea salt is large.

Spicy crackers - a recipe at home

Place the massive baking sheet on the middle rack of the oven, heated to 250 degrees. Lightly sprinkle the table with flour.

Mix salt, baking powder and 1 tablespoon chopped rosemary with flour in a bowl. Make a groove in the center, and then add oil and water, gradually stirring them into the flour. Continue stirring until you have an even mass. Put the dough on a table or other work surface and gently knead.

Divide into 6 equal parts. While you are working with one of them, keep the rest covered with plastic wrap. Divide the first piece into 4 identical pieces, roll them out very thinly, cut them, and then lay them on parchment paper. Using a fork, pierce the dough in several places.

Immediately before baking lightly oil the top of each cracker with oil. Spread some of the remaining roasted ground rosemary on the surface, and then sprinkle some large salt, slightly pressing it into the dough.

Put the parchment leaf on the heated baking tray, bake until light golden color for 4 to 6 minutes. Remove the finished product from the oven to cool it. Repeat the previous steps to use all the remaining dough.

Crackers rye in Swedish

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of dark rye flour;
• 1 cup of wheat flour;
• 1 teaspoon (tea) of baking powder;
• 1 teaspoon of sea salt;
• ½ tablespoon (tea) seeds of cumin;
• 2 tablespoons of chilled butter, cut into small cubes;
• ½ cup whole milk;
• 1 tablespoon of treacle;
• 1 egg, broken with 1 tablespoon of water;
• 2 tablespoons (tea) caraway seeds fresh.

How to cook Swedish crackers

Heat the oven to 180 degrees. Cover two baking trays with parchment paper or silicone rugs for baking.

In a food processor or large capacity, mix the flour, salt, baking powder and ground cumin, whisk well until the ingredients are completely combined. Add butter and whisk at high speed until it completely dissolves.

Mix the milk and molasses, stir until completely dissolved. Gradually add this mixture to the dough and whip with a mixer or stir with a spatula or spoon (wooden).

On a flour-poured table or other surface, knead the dough until a homogeneous mass is obtained. It will be a little sticky. You can add flour as needed. Divide the dough into two balls, cover with plastic wrap and leave it for 30 minutes.

After roll all the balls from the dough into small rectangles to a thickness of several millimeters. Using a cutter for a cookie or pizza, cut it into long strips, and then across - into rectangles. If desired, you can make a cookie-shaped cracker .

Lubricate the dough with a lightly beaten egg and sprinkle with cumin. Gently press the seeds into the crackers, puncture them with a fork.

Bake until the dough turns a golden brown. It takes from 12 to 15 minutes, while you need to turn the cookies during baking (around the middle of this time). Spread the ready-made crackers salty for cooling and then store in an airtight container for up to 3 weeks.