Sesame Flaxseed Crackers are super-crispy, grain free and high in protein. They’re great with dips!
I know. Crackers aren’t sexy food. Eating crackers is like walking around in welly boots AND pulling the hood of your jacket over your head when it’s drizzling. Or like putting on your reading glasses when you reach for the restaurant menu instead of squinting. It’s about feeling good in a sensible kind of way.
Think of these sesame flaxseed crackers as the clever sister of soft, pillowy pitta bread or fancy focaccia. They are brains over arm candy, friends. And what do you get when you make a smart choice? Quality time instead of quick pleasure!
This is a no-nonsense recipe with ingredients that will make every cell of your body rejoice.
It calls for flax seed (which is so good for your gut it would take forever to list all the reasons) and sesame flour, which is low in carbohydrates, high in fibre and protein and has a low Glycemic Index.
Apart from being sensationally healthy, it is also kind of fun to make your own sesame flaxseed crackers.
Remember those times when you baked cakes with wet sand or let mud squelch through your fingers? Spreading the sticky dough until it’s cracker-thin takes you right back in time.
Alternatively, you could roll out the dough between 2 sheets of parchment paper.
The silicone mat you can see in the picture may not be the most handsome kitchen item, but certainly one of the most useful. Invest in a good quality one like this one – mine just did not last very long and I’ve had to replace it since. If you haven’t got one, you should use non-stick baking paper and oil it for good measure to ensure you can release the crackers afterwards without breaking them.
We had the flax crackers as an appetiser with a smoked salmon taramasalata (love this tongue twister word – have you ever tried saying taramasalata three times in a row, really fast? It is virtually impossible, even before your first glass of wine). My taramasalata recipe is adapted from this one on the BBC Good Food website. I blitzed 100g smoked salmon, 200g cream cheese and 100g creme fraiche in the food processor with a generous amount of black pepper and served it with fresh dill.
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Easy Sesame Flaxseed Crackers
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup sesame flour
- 1/2 cup flaxseed milled/ground
- half a cup of water
- sea salt
- pepper optional
- sesame seeds for sprinkling
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients except for sesame seeds in a bowl
- Spread thinly on a silicone mat or baking paper
- Sprinkle over sesame seeds
- Pre-cut into squares with a knife or pizza cutter
- Bake at 180 degrees Celsius / 356 Fahrenheit for ca 20 minutes or until the edges are beginning to brown
Notes
Nutrition
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Alessa says
are there any substitute for ground flaxseed?
Katrin says
You could try with ground chia seeds. Chia is also great for sticking things together and comes up very crispy.
Deborah says
Katrin, would you be so kind as to check your nutrition on these crackers? It looks like it is counting only the calories/fat/carbs/fiber for only the 1/2 cup of flaxseed and nothing for the sesame flour.
A half cup of flaxseed is 440 calories. You have 20 servings at 24 calories each or 480 cal total. Just about the same calories (given the margin of error in cups vs grams). The crackers show as 0 g carbs…which would be true for a cracker having only flaxseed/flaxmeal. But the sesame flour does have carbs and has no fiber….so there should be some net carbs for these crackers. They look great….anxious to make them but really need to have solid number for the net carbs. Thanks so much for all your great recipes. You rock.
Deborah says
Katrin, I have some sesame flour and weighed 1/2 cup of it…came to 2.4 oz.
The bag says sesame flour has 10g carb per oz and no flour, so net carbs would be 10g per oz. For 2.4 oz that would be 24 net carbs. The flax has zero….so a total of 24 net carbs for the batch or about 1.2 net carb per cracker for 20-ish. Yes? The sesame flour should also add 256.8 cal to the entire batch or about 12.8 calories more per each of the 20 crackers. Done for the batch…should be total calories of about 697 or 34.8 per cracker. I hope my math is right….or rather, I hope yours is. Like you numbers better but fear they are too low.
Katrin says
Hi Deborah, I re-measured and re-calculated the recipe to make sure there are no errors. I think our different calculations lie in the fact that both of my half cups of sesame flour and milled flax came in at around 50 grams, which is around 1.76 oz.
The sesame flour I used is by Sukrin and is VERY finely ground. I guess if you ground up sesame seeds yourself or used a different brand you might end up with a coarser grind that would be heavier in weight and have more carbs.
As for the flax, I think you may have the nutrition for 1/2 cup of whole flaxseeds? 1 cup = 100 grams according to my brand is 508 calories.
In my re-calculation, the nutrition numbers came in a teeny-tiny bit different, but not much. I got 1.2g total carbs and 1 g fibre, which works out as 0.2g net carbs per cracker, assuming 20 crackers in total.
So, even if you were to use twice as much sesame flour as me, you’d still be under 0.5 net carbs per cracker.
I hope this helps!
Deborah says
Thanks so much. I will use your weight measurements rather than cup size because these look sooo good.
Cheryl Yoder says
OK, somehow I missed your comment about it’s for the whole thing. I see it now. Thanks!
Katrin says
No worries Cheryl! Have a great day
Cheryl Yoder says
I don’t understand the serving size. Of course the serving size is one serving, but how many crackers? Is that one cracker? If so, that’s a lot of carbs!
ukuze says
These look absolutely incredible! I need to try them!
Katrin says
Great news! WE all really liked them over here – and kind of also enjoyed the mess we made when making them!!
Kathy says
When I make crackers I pu the dough in a gallon Ziploc bag to roll out. You may need to burp the bag but the bag makes a nice even square to cut into crackers. Once you have it rolled out just use a scissors to cut open the sides of the bag & flip over onto your silpat. Carefully score the crackers so you don’t cut your silpat. Easy peasy.
Katrin says
That is an awesome method Kathy. Thanks for sharing!
Sarah says
I sometimes miss a good crunchy snack, and these look perfect! I love your pictures, too!
Katrin says
Thank you Sarah, glad you like it!
Maya | Wholesome Yum says
Great cracker recipe! The spread you made to go with them sounds amazing too!
Taryn says
I’ve never tried sesame flour before. Putting it on my list of ingredients I need to order. These look great! I’ve been craving cheese and crackers.
Georgina says
Always on the look-out for new low carb cracker recipes – thanks!
Kim | Low Carb Maven says
I think it’s a very sexy cracker and have hard time saying no to flax crackers, especially. The Sukrin Sesame Flour is great. I have been using it in all kinds of things. It is so soft and light in texture. Your appetizer sounds divine – although almost impossible to pronounce! Thanks for sharing this recipe.
Katrin says
The complicated name is half the fun 🙂 you’re very welcome Kim!
STACEY says
These look wonderful! I love the serving tray you have them on. Oh, I think your crackers are very sexy on there!