Today’s recipe is all about crunch: whole wheat crackers with mixed seeds.
Thin and crunchy wheat sheets topped with tasty mixed seeds, ready to bake in five minutes.
Just a few simple ingredients to create a healthy snack to enjoy perhaps with a fruit but also delicious as a mid-morning treat. Sometimes I even enjoy them with a delicious mortadella mousse or some cheese spread on top for dinner. To make them, I used my fantastic Philips pasta maker to avoid mess and not having to take out the board and rolling pin. If you don’t have it, you should definitely buy it because it is a great help in the kitchen! However, you can make these whole wheat crackers by hand as well, I’ll explain how at the end of the recipe.
The homemade whole wheat crackers are much lighter and more digestible than the packaged ones and allow us to personally choose the type and quality of ingredients used, thus avoiding unwanted ingredients such as preservatives, colorants, and more.
Let’s see together, step by step, how to make this recipe.
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- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Very Cheap
- Preparation time: 4 Minutes
- Portions: 20/25 crackers
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: All seasons
- Energy 135.06 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 18.76 (g) of which sugars 0.65 (g)
- Proteins 3.79 (g)
- Fat 5.07 (g) of which saturated 0.61 (g)of which unsaturated 3.75 (g)
- Fibers 2.62 (g)
- Sodium 389.15 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 30 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients for Whole Wheat Crackers
- 10.5 oz whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- to taste mixed seeds
Tools
- 1 Pasta Maker
- 1 Baking Tray
- 1 Brush
- 1 Extruder
Let’s Prepare Whole Wheat Crackers with Mixed Seeds
Assemble the pasta maker by inserting the lasagna disc, I have the one that is 0.8 mm. Turn on the machine and select without eggs then put the flour and salt inside the compartment, close with the lid, start the machine and then begin to add the liquids, so water and oil while the machine is running otherwise all the liquid will spill out on one side.
Let the machine work for its three minutes after which we will obtain a very loose and crumbly dough, it should be like that. At this point, the pasta maker will start extruding our dough. It can happen that the first part comes out a bit broken, no problem, just cut it off and put it back inside. Cut pieces of dough about 4 to 6 inches long and lay them on a cutting board or rolling board opening them. Continue until the dough is used up.
Having a 0.8mm disc, I overlapped two sheets by slightly wetting them with a brush of water to make them stick together and then cut the crackers to the desired size, poked them with a fork and placed them on a baking sheet. Brush again with water and place the seeds on top and, if you like, a pinch of salt. I made some with seeds and some without.
Bake in a preheated oven at a temperature of 350°F for about 20 minutes and until golden brown on the surface. Remove from the oven and let it cool slightly. While you wait, take a picture of your crackers and post it on social media tagging me (una riccia che pasticcia instagram and facebook) and show me which seeds you’ve used.
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You can also make the whole wheat crackers by hand using the same recipe but adding a little more water, up to 10 ml, depending on the type of flour you use. Make a well and put the ingredients in the center then knead until you get a smooth dough. Roll out with a rolling pin to a thickness of 0.6 inches and then proceed as explained in the recipe.
FAQ
I have leftover dough in the pasta maker, what should I do?
At the end of the cycle, you might have dough left in the compartment, turn off the machine, turn it back on, select with or without eggs, it doesn’t matter, then press the ‘extrusion only’ button and then play again.
At the end of the cycle, you might have dough left in the compartment, turn off the machine, turn it back on, select with or without eggs, it doesn’t matter, then press the ‘extrusion only’ button and then play again.
After disassembling the pasta maker, I have dough in the disc, what should I do?
For these crackers, collect all the dough you can retrieve from the disc and knead it by hand then roll it out with a rolling pin and make more crackers.
For these crackers, collect all the dough you can retrieve from the disc and knead it by hand then roll it out with a rolling pin and make more crackers.
How do you disassemble and clean the pasta maker?
Cleaning and disassembling the pasta maker is very easy thanks to the cleaning kit provided; for the lasagna disc, just press the center part to remove and disassemble it.
Cleaning and disassembling the pasta maker is very easy thanks to the cleaning kit provided; for the lasagna disc, just press the center part to remove and disassemble it.
Can I make these crackers with other types of flour?
Of course, you can use all types of flour keeping in mind that whole wheat ones require more water.
Of course, you can use all types of flour keeping in mind that whole wheat ones require more water.
