Holiday time - yummy decadent treats like olives with prosciutto, marinated fresh mozzarella, and brie baked with cranberry sauce.
Except - baked brie really needs good crackers. The kind we've not been able to find. Oh, you can get crunchy savory GF crackers, but they tend to be salty, with GF soy as an ingredient. And Schar makes a great snack cracker, but they are spendy, and to obtain, require us to drive about 45 minutes to a GF grocer.
So - we went recipe surfing.
We found this Gluten-Free Chickpea Cracker recipe and it sounded yummy - except we didn't have any chickpea flour, or dried chickpeas. But - we did have dried orange lentils...
Hence - a baking experiment!
I took about a cup of the dried orange lentils and ran them thru the Breville Ikon blender we have, for about 3 minutes, and had ~ 1 cup of lentil 'flour' - ground up lentils to use in recipes.
So the modifications we used:
- Substituted lentil flour for the chickpea flour
- We didn't have any nutritional yeast, so we just omitted it
- Added 1/2 teaspoon of dried sage, and 1/4 teaspoon of dried mustard, to help balance the stronger flavor of the lentils
- We also just did a basic square cut on these - no fancy cookie cutter action here.
Some notes:
- The dough is very tough - be patient with rolling it out
- This makes about 2 realistic servings of crackers. If you are making these for entertaining, you'll need a few batches.
- Again - the base recipe for which the mods are listed above is available here: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2007/10/gluten-free-chickpea-crackers.html
Enjoy!!
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