Spicy Chickpea Crackers with Chives – Gluten-free + Vegan

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Spicy Chickpea Crackers with Chives - Gluten-free + Vegan

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend, or just a wonderful weekend if you are outside of the US. We had a very busy one, filled with so much fun, great friends and my amazing family! Short of being away on vacation, I don’t know if I have ever had that much fun, that many days in a row. Some of the highlights of those 5 days was a super relaxing Thursday night massage after work at my good friend Erika’s newly opened place here in Buffalo, Phoenix Rising and a nice dinner at Trattoria Aroma with my hubby. Friday night after work we had dinner with some of my absolute most favorite people at La Tee Da in Allentown. Saturday, after yoga I took my first trip to the farmers market of the season with my friend Dana, my sister Vicky and my niece Teagan. Then Mark and I had a little cookout at home in the evening. Sunday morning, I woke up early to take a trip, with some very lovely ladies, to Rochester to take two yoga classes in a row taught by our friend Lyndsey  at Breathe Yoga. In June, she is moving to Africa for 6 months to teach yoga, so I am so glad we were able to see her before she left. Sunday night there was a super fun and chill Memorial Day party at our friend Sarah and Brian’s and we got to spend time with some of my favorite people. Monday we were able to beat the insane heat with with a super fun afternoon pool party at our good friends, Karen and Vinnie’s house, which was so relaxing. After a few hours in the pool with sun beating down on us, we followed it up with a nice weekend-ending BBQ and some super quality hang time with my parents, my sisters and my niece and nephew! Seriously it was non-stop awesome.

So yeh, I am not sure anyone besides me will even read that last paragraph, but I was on such a happiness high all weekend, that I had to share. We usually spend this time of year traveling for work or getting ready to hit the road, that I forgot how amazing this time of year can be. For once, going back to work yesterday after a 3-day weekend, was a little bit challenging, normally I cannot wait to get back to it all. It is so rare that we allow ourselves that time away from our work, but we decided with our pending move, that we wanted to enjoy our time here as much as we could! However, since we had so much going on and it was insanely hot, I also decided to not worry to much about cooking or baking over the weekend. When we were actually home, we threw veggies or some of our local meat on the grill and we ate out on the patio. It was really nice and super simple.

I did find time to pull together a really tasty Mexican quinoa salad to take to our friends BBQ, which I will have to make again so I can share it with all of you. I also made these simple crackers for snacking. I grabbed a copy of LA Yoga Magazine when we were out in California a few weeks ago and they had a simple recipe for some chickpea crackers that intrigued me. I wanted to add some things to the crackers to really make them my own, so I added some red pepper flakes, because I love spicy thing and I also added some fresh chives from my garden. These crackers are great on their own, or even better with some salsa, hummus or whatever your favorite dip is. You could even crumble these up a bit and use them as a topping on a salad. I am calling my crackers “rustic”, because they weren’t perfect little squares like I am sure they should be. I kinda dislike perfection with food. I want my food to look like someone made it with their hands and lots of love. Besides, it was so insanely hot in the kitchen when I was making these that I didn’t have the patience to be meticulous. If you want fun little shapes, like animals, stars or triangles, you could use small cookie cutters or cut any other shapes with your hands.

These crackers would be great for a snack or even better, package them up in little zip lock bags as a perfect travel snack. You could play around with different spices and herbs, maybe adding things like small diced up sun dried tomatoes, etc.

Spicy Chickpea Crackers with Chives - Gluten-free + Vegan

[print_this]Spicy Chickpea Crackers with Chives – Gluten-free + Vegan
adapted from LA Yoga Magazine, May 2012
makes about 40 crackers

  • 1 cup sifted chickpea flour
  • 1/4 cup nutritional yeast
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1/8 – 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes (add as much or as little as you’d like or leave this out, if you don’t want the heat)
  • 1-2 tablespoons fresh chives, roughly chopped
  • 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
  • 2-4 tablespoons water (you may need more)

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly oil a baking sheet and set aside.

Combine the flour, nutritional yeast, baking powder, sea salt, red pepper flakes and chives in a medium sized bowl. While stirring, add the olive oil to the flour mixture, then begin adding the water 1 tablespoon at a time until a dough forms that can hold together. Knead the dough several times until smooth and firm, adding more flour or more water, as needed. Shape into a ball, cover with plastic wrap, and let rest for 10 minutes.

Divide the rested dough in half. Place one of the halves on a clean work surface that is dusted with chickpea flour. Flatten the dough a bit with the palm of your hand and sprinkle the top with more chickpea flour. Using a rolling pin that has been dusted with flour, roll out the dough to about 1/4-inch thickness. With a sharp knife, cut the dough into 1-inch squares, or whatever your desired shape, and arrange on the prepared baking sheet.

Repeat with the remaining dough. Before baking, prick the tops of the squares with the tines of a fork to prevent them from blistering and bubbling up as they bake. Bake for 15 – 20 minutes, or until the tops are golden brown. Remove the pan from the oven and let the crackers cool on the sheet. As they cool, they will become crisp. (Test one after it cools. If it isn’t crisp, return the pan to the oven for a few more minutes.) Store in an airtight container up to a week. [/print_this]

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19 Responses

  1. Wow! Sounds like a busy and exciting weekend! Those weekends are always memorable 😀

  2. Awesome! I have a load of chickpea flour and so far haven’t found a recipe that I love that uses it. I’ll be trying these next!

  3. MMMMM! These look so good!
    do you have the recipe for the quinoa salad as well?
    thanks!
    lynn

    • tastyyummies says:

      Hi Lynn, since I was in a tad bit of a rush when I made the quinoa salad, I didn’t get a chance to take any photos, but I plan to make it again very soon so that I can share the recipe. Thanks.

  4. Anna says:

    ohmygawd. These look amazing. I wish I had more kitchen space for all the rolling and cutting but I think I’ll just have to make room to make these little bad boys!

    • tastyyummies says:

      Anna, these crackers are definitely worth finding the room! I don’t have a ton of countertop space either. Hope you enjoy these if you make them.

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  6. Jessica says:

    Hi there! I found your site and this recipe through vegalicious… I’m so glad they shared your crackers… I cannot wait to try them! I’ve been interested in using chickpea flour and also in making my own crackers and these look so tasty! 🙂

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  8. Belenda says:

    I have dried chickpeas – how can I make flour out of them? Should I soak and dehydrate, then grind them? And if that’s it, is there some special grinder so it will be flour like? Or just forget the beans and go find the flour? Also, do you think if I use coconut oil, it will be the same as with the olive oil? I’m just on a coconut oil kick…..can’t wait to get out of P2 to try this recipe. I love crackers and hope this will be okay to use.

  9. Pragni says:

    Hey, sounds like such an amazing recipe!! I have a question though, I havent been able to find nutritional yeast where i live

    Would you know of a good substituition for it? Or could i leave it out altogether?

    • tastyyummies says:

      You could leave it out altogether, you will just likely need a little less water. Go with how the dough feels, as the recipe suggests. Thanks!

  10. Richard says:

    Tried a variation on this recipe and it came out great!. Used sesame oil i/o the olive oil and put about 2 TBS of green za’atar in the dough as I didn’t have any fresh chives handy and wanted to bring out the sesame taste. Tried using the pasta roller for really thin crakers and that worked well (they were the crispiest of the bunch), but too much waste, so resorted to the rolling pin method for the remainder of the batch. I like my food spicy, so I dusted them with some sea salt and cayenne before baking.

  11. These sound amazing. Since I became vegan I’ve missed being able to eat something cheesy and herby. So thank you for tis recipe, I am buying chickpea flour tomorrow!
    I have a question. Is it possible to make the biscuits bigger, and if so, how long woould you bake them for? Thank you!

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  13. Sandra says:

    Looks fabulous! One question – can I leave the nutritional yeast out or substitute something else. My husband is allergic to yeast and I have celiac. We are a fun household!

    • tastyyummies says:

      Of course, you can totally leave it out. It is mostly about the flavor, it does have some great benefits, but it isn’t necessary to the recipe. I hope you enjoy them if you make them.

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