GRAIN FREE ALMOND CRACKERS
ingredients:
1 cup almond flour
1 egg white
1 pinch salt
(that's it!)
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
In a bowl, mix together the almond flour, egg white, and salt until it forms a paste.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Make sure you use parchment paper, because if you don't you'll end up chipping your crackers out of the pan. Place the dough in the middle and top with another piece of parchment paper. Using a rolling pin (or any other cylindrical instrument), roll out the dough as thin as you can get it. Try to make it take up the whole cookie sheet if you can. Super thin. I mean it!
Peel off the top layer of paper and score the dough with a knife into whatever size crackers you want. Bake in the 325 oven for 10 minutes and then check on the crackers. You are looking for them to color ever so slightly. A little color means crispy, but a lot of color means burned nut taste, which is no good. If the edges have started to color nicely, remove them to a plate and put the remaining crackers back in the oven. Keep doing this, checking every 5 minutes and removing the golden crackers, until finally they are all baked to perfection.
Cool completely and store in an airtight container.
You can make many variations on thee crackers by adding in different seasonings to the dough base. Go nuts! (hur hur)
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19 comments:
do you make your own nut flours or do you buy them somewhere? is it just super finely ground nut?
Yep it's just ground up nuts.
The brand I get is the Trader Joe's brand. They don't blanch the nuts, as you can tell from the way the crackers look. Anyway, TJ brand is only about $3.50/lb. Bob's Red Mill also makes almond flour. I think theirs is more finely ground and it's blanched, but it's also way more expensive - $13.50/lb.
Anyway, if you can't find almond flour in the store or it's too expensive, you can make it yourself. Just grind up almonds in a food processor! I used to do that instead of buying the flour, but I did it so much I dulled my food processor blade.
Hey Elizabeth,
Thanks for the recipe! I'm thinking of making these, but I wonder, if I were going for more of a buttery cracker, how would you recommend I get that effect. Brushing butter over them as they cook? Adding butter directly to the mixture?
Thanks again.
Regards,
Bryce
Bryce - Thanks! I would be inclined to brush melted butter over the top as they bake rather than adding butter to the dough.
yum! these look perfect.
I've made these in a similar fashion, but added some mesquite flour and coconut oil and they taste like graham crackers. So...putting oil in the batter works, just not too much. I like to salt mine, or add flakes of nori for more flavor too.
Another excellent recipe. I made yesterday and came out perfect! I have a lot of whole raw almonds in my freezer so I made my own flour/meal in my food processor then used it to mix in the other ingredients. Thanks so much!
I'll have to try these. I got my first container of almond butter the other day. Good stuff.
Elizabeth
These are fabulous and very versatiles, I made ginger ones, added flax to others, some with onion salt to eat with cream cheese and it makes a very acceptable substitute for short pastry. Thanks so much for the recipe, it is now in my 'staples' section.
Fly
Hi Elizabeth, I just stumbled across your site and what an amazing blog you have, some really great recipes that I look forward to trying :) Thanks, Michelle
I made these today and they are awesome! I followed the recipe and they were just great! thank you!
I recently started doing the GAPS diet and am excited to have found your site, as I think it will be helpful in finding things I can eat!!
really nice! Thanks for posting this recipe. I made the fatal mistake of thinking that the parchment paper was an unnecessary ingredient, alas, i was sadly mistaken. I had to literally scrape the crackers out of the cookie sheet, but not I have croutons. Thanks so much.
Prof - Sorry you ended up with croutons! I edited the original recipe to highlight the importance of the parchment paper after hearing of you experience.
These are tasty! I really enjoy them!
OK, trying them today! I am pregnant, but doing Atkins for 13 years and DYING for crackers!
I made these as soon as I saw this recipe. They're perfect! Very filling, though.
can ground almonds be used? cos i've been to baking shops in my area (i live in Malaysia), the closest thing they have is almond flour/hazelnut flour.. if so..then ground cashews would be fun!
Wow! These are awesome and so ridiculously easy! I am going to make them all the time, and add different ingredients.
Since I am new to being a bakestress, I just used an empty wine bottle as opposed to a rolling pin. :)
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