You can make your own homemade crackers with just a couple of ingredients – and you can even make them green by adding spinach!
You can call me boring but I enjoy watching documentaries of all kinds. They have been a great influence in why I’ve adapted a vegan diet, why I started to care about animals & the planet, why I started to live a more conscious life. I always try to improve, live one day better than the last one, but when it comes to buying produce packed in plastic or non-biodegradable packaging, I’ve always felt so helpless because if I’d commit to only buying unpackaged produce I wouldn’t have a lot of choices and it would restrict me – a lot. That is why I was super excited when I heard that in my city, Linz (in Austria/Europe), there were plans for opening up a zero-waste, package-free supermarket! Can you imagine?
It’s called Holis (german website) and it’s planned to open up later this summer, so I’m super excited and I can’t wait for it! When they asked me to join their team of food bloggers to create zero-waste recipes, of course I couldn’t resist but to say yes!
We had a food blogger meet-up for the Holis Market recently and it was so much fun! I had the chance to get to know other bloggers in my region and to learn more about the Holis Market, which was great. I didn’t want to come empty handed so I decided to make some Crackers (and Hummus, obviously!), because they are simply perfect to snack on! They are green Spinach & Sesame Crackers!
I wouldn’t say that they taste a lot like Spinach.. but they are greeeen!!
Making these Crackers is pretty similar to my other Cracker recipes, like my Whole Wheat Seed Crackers or the Cheesy Poppyseed Crackers. Instead of mixing the dry ingredients with water, you simply use a spinach-water mixture and tada: green!
The dough is super easy to work with. I’ve used all-purpose flour so that the color of the spinach is more intense.
Using a pizza cutter to make the Crackers is the simplest & fastest method – yeay to convenience!
The Spinach Crackers are absolutely delicious with simple, Homemade Hummus, but I imagine they go really well with a lot of different dips (Guacamole, White Bean Dip, …).
- 1 2/3 cup all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon white sesame seeds
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 cups fresh spinach
- Pre-heat the oven to 400°F/200°C.
- Wash the spinach and put it in a blender together with the water and blend until completely smooth.
- In a mixing bowl add in the dry ingredients (including the sesame seeds), whisk and then add in the spinach-water and olive oil. Mix and knead with your hand until it's a smooth dough. Add more flour if your dough is too sticky.
- On a floured baking sheet roll out the dough until thin and evenly.
- Cut it with a pizza cutter length- and widthwise.
- Bake them in the oven for about 20 minutes (until they get crispy).
Let them cool off a bit and enjoy!
Serve for example with some Homemade Hummus.
Should you decide to give these a try I’d love to hear how it went! Write me a comment or post a picture on instagram and tag me via @elephantasticvegan to make sure I’ll see it ^.^
These look fantastic Bianca! I’m sure you could use gluten free flour to make a gluten free cracker too. Holis has a great concept, I hope they’re successful and other grocers follow their lead. Pinned!
Thank you so much, Linda! As of yesterday the Holis crowdfunding has reached its minimum goal, so they are definitely opening their store. Yeay! I still have to try the Crackers out with gluten-free flours. I have a few in my pantry – so that’s a great way of using them up :)
You are just rocking the green recipes lately!! Fun and healthy and so good with hummus!
Color everything green! Green is just such a pretty color :D
I even thought about making a green hummus to go with these crackers but then decided it would be too much.
Bianca, thanks! I DO love your ideas, so simply and delicious!
Very welcome, Alena! Thank YOU for your kind words! I do appreciate them :)
Hi Bianca,
What are you talking about – boring? Documentaries are awesome! Universum was one of the few things I was allowed to stay up to watch when growing up :)
I also love how versatile your pastry dough is. That said, now that I still haven’t tried my hands on it, I will probably just try two or three different versions when I finally get to it.
Did you know that there is a waste-free supermarket in Vienna? It’s called “Lunzer’s Maß-Greißlerei” and is located in the up-and-coming 2nd district: http://www.mass-greisslerei.at/
Unfortunately, I’ve never been there myself because it’s really out of my way but I’m sure one day, one day ;)
Have a great day ahead and all the best from sunny Vienna,
Alice
Hi Alice,
thank you so much for stopping by!
My boyfriend never watches documentaries with me from the start because he thinks they are too boring :D but then most of the times ends up joining me somewhere in the middle. Not so boring at all!
I’ve tried making my own puff pastry dough once but it was terrible – it wasn’t even edible (although I ate all of it, I don’t like throwing food away). I decided to stick to store-bought puff pastries from now on.
I’ve heard of Lunzer’s Maß-Greißlerei before but I’ve never been there. I love the website though! It’s so modern :D
Thank you so much for bringing that up, I didn’t know in which district it was.
Have a lovely day yourself :)
Greetings from sunny (yeah!) Linz!
these look delicious! and I love the color!! great recipe :)
Thank you so much! I loved what a lovely green they kept after baking :)
Spinach sesame crackers just look fabulous, Bianca! SO vibrant and inviting! I could finish that whole bowl in one go! :)
Me too! I made them again today and ate them with beet hummus – so good!
These look so cute! <3 Love their green goodness. And I would totally enjoy some with beet hummus too — such a pretty color combo!
Thank you so much, Audrey! I loved to color combo too!! It was my first time trying beet hummus and I was pleasantly surprised!
Wow! Definelty want to,try these crackers! Does oat flour work as well? Is their a plant based version? Thx ^_^
Hi Lillian! I haven’t tried those with oat flour yet. It probably will work however I suggest: starting with less water and using only as much water as needed to form a smooth dough. And rolling the dough between two baking sheets. I think the dough will be stickier and this is a good way to prevent it from sticking all over the rolling pin. And they will probably be not as green because the oat flour is a bit darker than white flour, yes? Let me know if you give them a try and if they work out or not. :)
I also love watching documentaries. I know the ones you’re speaking of, and they really wake and shake you up. I watch one (or at least a bit of one) every night after my family falls asleep. Most people don’t know how their food is produced or the affect it has on their health and the environment. I didn’t either until a few weeks ago. I’m not vegan (yet) but I hope to get there some day. Blogs like yours are so helpful!
Yeah, I’m glad I’m not the only one really enjoying documentaries like that. My boyfriend would never, ever watch environmental documentaries with me when I’d ask him, but when I start watching without him he often joins me in the middle of the documentary. They’re so damn interesting! The last documentary I’ve watched was Cowspiracy which was really, really good & interesting too (it’s actually on netflix right now, if you haven’t seen it already). I’m so glad my blog is helpful to you! That makes me really happy :) Let me know if I can help you with going vegan – it was a gradually process for me too. I just cut out the milk, the cheese, the yoghurt step by step… and introduced vegan products into my diet.
Would it be ok to eliminate the seeds? If so should I compensate with more of another ingredient?
Leaving out the seeds is no problem at all. You might have to use a little bit less spinach-water. Just add the wet ingredients slowly into the dough until you can form a smooth ball and add more flour if it get’s too sticky. :)
I am planning to do those again this week-end. Last time I used flax sees as I did not have sesame seeds.
This time I have them. :)
I am curious though,,, Last time, I ad to add a lot more water than just 1/4 of a cup. It was really dry and the dough was not sticking together. Do you think I did something wrong?
Thanks!
Marie-Eve
Hi Marie-Eva, I don’t think you did anything wrong. When working with doughs it’s just really hard to give exact measurements, so it always needs a bit of tweaking. Flour-water-ratios can depend on the flours, altitude, how dry the spinach is etc… The best way is always to add little by little water until you can form a nice, smooth, non-sticky dough. I hope you like them with the sesame seeds, too :)
Thank you!!! They are awesome. I had them in my lunch today. I ended u adding 1/4 cup of water.
Thanks again!
Marie-Eve
Glad you liked them, Marie-Eve! :)
Hi Bianca, great recipe!
Do you know how long do these last for in an airtight container?
Hi Belen, I’m glad you like it! It’s a bit harder to say for those Spinach & Sesame Crackers because fresh spinach is involved. But I’m guessing they should stay fine for 2-3 days. I’ve never had them that long, I can’t control myself with these :D
Wow ,super ,fantastic….made these and they turned out exactly like yours. Had to find an idea to get my daughter to eat her spinach..and this is just a fab idea…she loves crackers and chips…so this was the best thing ever to come across on pinterest.I am going to try with other veges too…thanks so much..
Hey Saba, I’m so glad you and your daughter like them!! :) Trying out different veggies is a great idea! Have you seen the pizza crackers yet?