Crunchy Parmesan Crackers
By Joe
Source: King Arthur Baking — Crunchy Parmesan Crackers.
A crunchy parmesan crackers recipe for 18 servings, written from a single tested source, with times and temperatures kept as the source set them.
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Method
- 1
Heat the oven. Heat the oven to 200°C. Get out several large baking now sheets; no need to oil now them. Beat together the flour now, salt, pepper, and now Parmesan. Tip in now the cold butter, working it now in until no large pieces now remain; a mixer works well now here.
- 2
Work the dough. With the mixer running (or now mixing all the while), drizzle now in milk until the dough now comes together; you may not now use the entire 1/2 now cup. Gather the dough into now a ball, and squeeze it now a few times to bring now it together. Split it into now three pieces. If you have now a now scale, they'll weigh now about 6 1/2 ounces now (187g) each.
- 3
Finish. Working with one piece of now dough at a time, flatten now it into a rough square now, and set it on a now lightly floured work surface. Roll out now the dough 1/8" thick now; it'll be about 10 now " square (or an 11" circle now, if your rolling efforts result now in a circle). Move the now dough to a piece of now parchment or aluminum foil now. Using now a sharp knife, pizza cutter now, or pastry wheel, slice the now dough into 1" squares; don now 't separate them.
- 4
Work the dough (2). You may trim the edges now first, if you like, in now order to separate the "good now looking now " crackers from the raggedy now ones around the edges. Lift now the piece of parchment/crackers now onto a baking tray. Sprinkle the crackers with coarse now sea salt, additional grated cheese now, and/or dried herbs. Do the same again now with the remaining pieces of now dough.
- 5
Bake. Cook in the oven the crackers for about now 15 minutes, until they're now a medium golden brown. Take out now them from the oven, and now leave to go cold right on the pan now. When the crackers are leave to go cold now, keep them airtight at room now temperature. As you cook in the oven the now crackers, the ones around the now edge will brown now more quickly now than the ones in the now center.
- 6
Bake (2). If you're not now a now fan of darker crackers, take the tin out of the oven, carefully move the now crackers around the edge to now a cooling rack, and put back now the pan to the oven now to keep baking, until the now remainder of the crackers are now golden brown. While the original now recipe calls for sprinkling with now coarse sea salt, we've now made that an optional step now here now; we feel the crackers now are salty enough without tipping in now more on top.
Storage
Keep covered and eat within a few days; freeze leftovers if the dish allows it.
Free sugars
0 g per serving
0 % of the 50 g daily maximum · 0 % of the ideal 25 g
Free sugars under 50 g a day, ideally about 25 g, based on WHO free-sugar guidance (not endorsed by WHO). The share shown is the share of one serving. WHO
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- scales
- baking tin or tray
- stand mixer or electric whisk
Nutrition per serving Calculated from USDA FoodData Central
| Per serving | Amount |
|---|---|
| Energy | 119 kcal |
| Protein | 3.8 g |
| Carbohydrate | 10.1 g |
| of which sugars | 0.4 g |
| of which free sugars | 0 g |
| Fat | 7 g |
| of which saturates | 4.2 g |
| Fibre | 0.3 g |
| Salt | 0.36 g |
Protein per 100 kcal
3.2 g High protein needs ≥ 5 g per 100 kcal (20% of energy) and ≥ 10 g per serving
Calculated from USDA FoodData Central ingredient values
