by Texas Homesteader ~
*contains affiliate link
Recently a sweet friend gifted us some delightful cheeses. Oh there was smoked cheddar, jalapeno, gouda and MORE!
I used lots of that delicious cheese in my cooking. I’ll admit my Enchilada Casserole was AMAZING with shredded jalapeno muenster. And it was a hit when I used it in my jalapeno/cheese sandwich bread too!
But RancherMan & I also wanted to enjoy slices of that amazing cheese on crackers.
Y’all know I like to make these things myself as opposed to going out to buy it. I found a recipe online for rosemary crackers made with olive oil & garlic. YUM! I have that amazing rosemary bush right outside my door and I’ve ALWAYS got olive oil. Let’s give ‘er a go!
(Note: Some links in this post are for further information from earlier posts I’ve written. But links preceded with * are affiliate links. If you click them and buy something (almost anything, not just the item noted) I could receive a tiny commission. But the price you pay will NOT change. It’s an easy way to support this blog without anything coming out of your pocket. So click often! Thank you!)
As I was looking around online for a cracker recipe I found this one at Wishful Chef. It looked easy enough. And as I mention before, I love rosemary and have all I could possibly harvest just outside my door.
So I sat out to make them.
Mixing Up My Rosemary Crackers
I don’t typically like bread products made only with 100% whole wheat. They just seem a little too dry for our tastes. So I mixed about half cup whole wheat with a half cup of all purpose flour. That 50/50 mixture worked pretty well for me.
Then I stirred in a teaspoon of baking powder & 1/2 teaspoon of each salt & pepper. I added 2 teaspoons of garlic powder and mixed it all together.
Finally I mixed in 1/4 cup olive oil and my dough started coming together. It was a pretty heavy dough.
Roll The Dough Thin
When I got everything mixed together I plopped it onto my baking sheet & squished the dough down into a patty as flat as I could get it.
In my opinion there was no need to oil the baking sheet first since there was oil in my crackers? Flawed theory? Oversimplification? Perhaps. (But it worked great for me!)
I wanted to use my rolling pin to make the dough thin. The thinner you get the dough, the more crisp the cracker!
But the dough was sticking to my rolling pin. Hummm…
What if I got something to put between the rolling pin & dough?
So I took an empty bread bag & cut it open to one large sheet. I placed that over the dough and it made rolling that cracker dough so much easier!
I rolled the dough out thinly & removed the bread bag. Oh yeah! Finally I sprinkled the top of the dough with some coarse salt and cracked pepper for a little extra sumpin’.
Then I took my *crinkle cutter and cut the crackers into small squares. I love the edges my crinkle cutter made for my crackers!
Although the recipe called for using a fork to punch a few holes in each cracker, I didn’t bother with that with mine.
Baking These Fragrant Rosemary Crackers
Now all that’s left to do is to pop the baking sheet into my preheated oven and bake for 12-15 minutes.
The crackers pulled away from each other as they baked so it was super easy to let them cool a couple of minutes and then use a spatula to put them onto a cooling rack.
These crackers didn’t have a crispy saltine cracker texture, it was more like the crispness of graham crackers. My guess is if you roll the dough a little thinner they will be crispier.
But the taste of my rosemary crackers? Oh yeah! They were absolutely delicious! And they were a great cracker to enjoy with our fancy schmancy cheese.
Rosemary Crackers with Garlic & Olive Oil
These homemade crackers were made of simple ingredients like olive oil & minced fresh rosemary. No need to buy crackers when they're this easy (and delicious!) to make yourself. #TexasHomesteader
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 cup flour I mix 50/50 whole wheat & all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon fresh rosemary minced
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 4 tablespoons water
- coarse sea salt & cracked pepper for sprinkling
Instructions
Directions:
-
Preheat the oven to 375°F.
-
In a bowl, mix all dry ingredients. Add the olive oil and water to dry ingredients, stirring until fully incorporated. If dough is still too dry, add more water 1 tablespoon at a time just until dough is workable.
-
Place dough on baking sheet & roll the dough with a rolling pin until thin. Sprinkle top of dough with coarse salt & cracked pepper, pressing gently into surface. Cut dough into desired cracker shape.
-
Bake crackers for about 12-15 minutes, or until golden and crisp. Let the crackers cool before removing from the pan. Place lightly-cooled crackers on bakers rack to continue cooling.
~TxH~
Snacks We Love
- Homemade Honey-Graham Crackers
- Fresh Pico de Gallo
- Homemade Hummus
- Rosemary Crackers w/Olive Oil & Garlic
- MYO Pita Chips Using Flour Tortillas
- Pumpkin Bread (with Cake-Mix Shortcut)
- Cantaloupe Bread w/Pecan Praline Glaze
- Easy Blueberry Muffins
- Fresh Pear Cake
- Rice Krispie Treats With A Chocolate Twist
- Healthier ‘Ice Cream’ Using Bananas & Fruit
- Easy Cookies-n-Cream Ice Cream Cake
- Easiest 3-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe
- Cake-Mix Cookies – Only 3 Ingredients!
- Double Chocolate Banana Chunk Cookies
- Sugar-Free Chocolate No-Bake Cookies
- Triple Chocolate Truffles
- Getting Your Family To Snack On Healthy Veggies
- Watermelon Smoothie (or Daiquiri)
- Rich & Creamy Fudgesicles
- …And MANY MORE!
See All Recipe Posts
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Other Favorite Breads
- Soft Sandwich Bread
- Oatmeal Sandwich Bread
- Making Pre-Mix Bread Ingredient Packets
- Bread Machine Recipe: Honey Oatmeal Bread
- Making My Own Oat Flour For CHEAP
- No-Knead Rosemary Skillet Bread
- No-Knead Boule Bread
- Jalapeno/cheese Yeast Bread
- Jalapeno/Cheese/Beer Hamburger Buns
- Basic Beer Bread
- Rosemary/Cheddar Beer Bread
- Pesto Beer Bread
- Homemade Country-Style Buttermilk Biscuits
- Leftover Biscuit Dough Cinnamon Rolls!
- Snappy Jalapeno/Cheese Biscuits
- Jalapeno Cornbread
- Corn Dodgers – A Delicious Accident
- Mix-n-Pour Tortillas
- Easy Corn Tortillas
- Sweet Pumpkin Bread
- Cantaloupe Bread w/Pecan Praline Glaze
- My Favorite Bread-Making Kitchen Feature
- Homemade Bread-Making Shortcuts, Tips & Tricks
- Our Favorite Bread Recipes, All In One Post
All Bread Posts
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
C’mon by & sit a spell! Come hang out at our Facebook Page. It’s like sitting in a front porch rocker with a glass of cold iced tea – lots of good folks sharing! You can also follow along on Pinterest, Twitter or Instagram.
If you’d like to receive an email each time a new blog post goes live it’s EASY to
Subscribe to our blog!
*Amazon affiliate link
Crackers can be so easy to make, but I rarely think to do it. These look amazing! Thanks for sharing on the #WasteLessWednesday Blog Hop!
These sound great! I used to bake crackers a lot, but then my husband and the kids were diagnosed with celiac disease. I just don’t bake as much since then. However, I’m thinking these would be great for me to snack on. I love cheese, crackers, and a boiled egg as a snack on work nights! Thanks, for the inspiration! (By the way, I hope y’all dodged all the hail last weekend. We didn’t get any, but some farm friends the otherside of town were hit pretty hard.)
I am always looking for ways to use my HUGE rosemary plant. These crackers look great, and I’m glad to know that you can include some whole wheat flour. Pinned for later, thanks!
They look delicious! Rosemary is my favorite herb. I once went to an Italian restaurant that had a whole hedge of rosemary and I’ve wanted to do the same ever since. I do have one nice large shrub but not a whole hedge. LOL
🙂 gwingal
I planted 3 small rosemary shrubs off our back porch several years ago Nikki. One didn’t like being located next to a downspout so it moved itself out about 3 feet and kept on growing. LOL It’s about 3.5 ft high & 3.5 ft wide right now. Another on the end of the porch had a similar problem of a downspout location but it was also popped hard by the drought 2 years ago. It’s about 3.5 feet tall but only about a foot or so wide. But the other rosemary? It’s not near a downspout and has never skipped a beat. It’s the one I’m constantly harvesting from for cooking & soap making. It’s currently about 5-ft tall and almost 9-ft across. It’s deep vibrant green and blooms all the time. I absolutely love it! ~TxH~
your crackers looks delicious.
Was wondering; just wondering now mind you , but to make the crackers thinner couldn’t a person run the dough through a pasta machine?
(last minute thought) I think by using a fork to poke holes it keeps the crackers from ‘puffing’ up, just like you would do with a prebaked pie crust.
Yes you’re correct colleen, but I didn’t bother with that step & mine came out fine. I think it may be because they were so thick. When I get them rolled thinner I’ll probably go ahead & prick a couple of holes into each cracker. ~TxH~
Great minds thinking alike? I thought the same thing Colleen but the dough was too heavy to roll smoothly through. I may try kneading it or thinning it a bit to see if that might allow me to run it through the pasta roller. I’ll be sure to share how that goes! ~TxH~