Rustic Olive Oil Spelt Crackers
Even I don’t usually make my own crackers, so I completely understand skipping over this recipe, but don’t, it’s well worth the extra effort and your guests will love you for it!
Try making them with different toppings: sesame, poppy or caraway seeds all work well.
Pre heat oven to 400°F, if your oven has a confection setting use it, if not you may need to bake crackers a little longer.Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Combine flour, fine sea salt and black pepper to the bowl of a food processor and blend for about 10 second to evenly combine. While the motor is running pour in olive oil and water, turn food processor off when dough almost forms a ball. Transfer to a lightly floured surface and gently kneed a couple of times to bring dough together, it will be stiff and a little crumbly. Cut into 4 pieces and use a rolling pin to roll each quarter into strips about 5 inches by 15 inches, don’t turn or flip the dough. Use a thin spatula to gently lift the strip of dough onto baking sheet. Lightly brush with water, sprinkle with salt and black pepper and prick with a folk. Repeat with remaining dough and bake in batches (2 strips fit on each tray) for 6 minutes, rotate tray and bake another 5 to 6 minutes, crackers should be brown around the edges, remove from oven and gently lift each strip onto a wire rack. When completely cool break into 10 to 12 pieces.
Amy Chaplin
Amy Chaplin is an Australian living in New York City by way of Amsterdam and London. She grew up in rural New South Wales in a family and community of gourmet vegetarians; cooking and eating meals from her family’s biodynamic garden sparked her passion for fresh ingredients and hand-made food. It can be said that Chaplin’s career as a chef began while making bread with her father and peeling apples for her mother’s crumble. Chaplin’s upbringing also helped inspire her philosophy, that how and what we eat directly affects the world in which we live, as well as our own well-being. To this day the food she cooks features local, organic and plant-based ingredients. After 5 years as executive chef of the world-renowned vegan restaurant Angelica Kitchen, Amy now consults, cooks and teaches privately, her clients include Natalie Portman and Anna Devera Smith, among others. Chaplin finds herself dispensing recipes and answering queries about the health benefits of ingredients on a daily basis. This whole foods chef is always happy to share her passion for the natural culinary arts and loves inspiring others to cook and eat well too.