If you want to make fail-proof homemade crackers with easily available ingredients, I’ve got you. These are easy to roll out and shape, take very little time and pair very well with cheese and jam.
These days I’m slowly warming up to the idea of making every food, at home. From crackers to bread, to pasta. I’m still exploring and toying with the idea and although I may not fully succumb to it, I do agree wholeheartedly that homemade is always better. Not always quicker and easier, but better.
Why you should try these homemade crackers
Because they are homemade, they are so easy to make, they bake quickly and they pair well with a lot of accompaniments, they are perfect for your charcuterie boards ( which are all the rage now) and because these are homemade, they taste so good.
Ingredients for these homemade crackers
The ingredients for these crackers are fairly simple. Just plain flour, baking powder, poppy seeds, sesame seeds and butter. You’ll only need some chilled water to bring all the ingredients together and make a dough.
More homemade biscuits
Although these are savoury biscuits, I’ve got some more recipes for biscuits here on the blog, mostly sweet ones.
These Easy Chocolate biscuits have a great texture, firm on the outside, soft and chocolatey on the inside
Nankhatai, are the favourite kind, I didn’t know were so easy to make at home
And a batch of homemade Biscotti can make you feel like a real fancy baker without any of the fuss
A handful of ingredients that churn out delicious homemade crackers. Save this recipe now
Ingredients
1 1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp poppy seeds
2 tbsp sesame seeds
a pinch of white pepper
50 gms butter, chilled and cut into cubes
1/2 cup chilled water
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 180 C. Line a baking tray with baking paper and set aside
- Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl
- Stir in the seeds and white pepper
- Add the butter and rub it into the flour using your fingertips, until it roughly resembles crumbs
- Make a well in the centre of the flour and add the chilled water. Bring the ingredients together to form a dough with your hands. Add a little more water if needed
- Handle the dough as little as possible and do not knead. Divide the dough into two portions
- Roll out each portion of dough between two sheets of baking paper and cut into rounds using a cookie cutter
- Transfer the cut dough onto the prepared baking sheet. Prick them all over using a fork and bake in a preheated oven at 180 C for about 25 minutes. Repeat till all the dough has been used up
- Once baked, let the crackers cool completely. Serve with jam or cheese
