To prepare a delicious cracker with cheese, which will have a pleasant creamy taste and aroma, is quite simple at home. You do not need to use many products. There are many recipes for making crackers, each of which will have its own special taste. Ready-made crackers will look appetizing and aesthetically attractive.
Why exactly home ...
Homemade cracker with cheese in the photo always looks very appetizing. Additionally, home-made cheese crackers do not contain harmful additives.
Another plus may be the original appearance. You can choose the shape and size of cookies yourself.
It is possible to play with taste, combining and adding new ingredients to the dough. Diverse sauces can be a nice addition.
The secrets of making delicious crackers
Although crackers are considered an example of elementary baking, their secrets regarding the preparation of the dough and the baking process are also present here. The same recommendations can be used at the time of preparation of crackers with cheese:
- Knead the dough for no longer than 5 minutes. Then it will turn out soft and plastic, and after baking it will become crispy and airy.
- The more time the dough is laid in the refrigerator, the thinner it will be possible to roll out the cake, and each cracker will rise as much as possible.
- The thickness of the rolled dough should not exceed 4 mm.
- It is advisable to always make small holes in the crackers so that the base of each product is evenly baked.
- Holes can be made with a fork cocktail tubes, a wooden skewer. You can make small through cuts with a knife.
Additionally, you need to know how to store ready-made cookies. It is advisable to eat baked goods in the first 2-3 days, as crackers can become damp, losing crunch and taste.
Basic recipe for cheese crackers
The simplest cooking recipe can be a lifesaver for those who are waiting for guests any minute, but there are no refreshments in the house. Such crackers can be a good beer snack or the basis for creating canapes with other ingredients.
To prepare cheese crackers, you will need the following ingredients:
- 1/10 kg of hard cheese;
- 1/10 kg of butter;
- ½ cup flour;
- yolk.
Technology for the preparation of cheese crackers:
- Grind the butter with a knife. To do this, it is advisable to take the most frozen product.
- Pour the oil shavings into a bowl and, gradually adding flour, combine 2 ingredients. Knead the workpiece.
- Add the yolk to the butter and flour mixture and mix all the ingredients until smooth.
- Grate the cheese on a coarse grater and mix with the dough. Knead the dough so that it becomes plastic, like plasticine.
- Form a ball from the dough, wrap it in cling film and put in the refrigerator for ½ hours.
- Take out the dough and divide the serving in half. Roll out the first part, forming a circle. Divide the circle into triangular pieces and make several holes in each part using a cocktail tube.
Place the triangles on parchment paper that does not need to be greased. Bake workpieces in the oven at 180 degrees for about 10 minutes.
Universal crackers for tea and beer
The recipe for homemade crackers with cheese can be supplemented with a more nutritious ingredient, which will make the snack universal. This option of "crispy biscuits" can be served with tea or beer. It is necessary to prepare such products:
- a glass of flour;
- 50 g butter;
- 2 tablespoons of sour cream;
- 100 g of hard cheese;
- egg;
- a pinch of salt.
Cooking principle:
- Grate the cheese. Sift flour to enrich it with oxygen.
- Chopped frozen butter with a knife and mix immediately with flour.
- Then you should add an egg, sour cream and cheese to the billet.
- Knead the dough. Form a ball, wrap in a film and put in the refrigerator for 20-25 minutes.
- Roll out the cold dough and cut into equal slices. You can use a cookie cutter and squeeze out cracker blanks.
Bake crackers in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees. Then turn off the oven and leave the cookies for another 10 minutes.
Low calorie crackers
You can make low-calorie cheese crackers at home, which can be offered to children as a snack. We prepare the following ingredients:
- salt on the tip of a knife;
- a tablespoon of butter;
- a glass of flour;
- 150 g of cheese;
- a tablespoon of cold water.
Cooking Technology:
- Cut the cheese into thin strips, which will resemble chips. Grind the oil in the same way.
- Sift flour through a sieve.
- Mix shavings of oil with flour. Then add cheese and knead the dough again. At the end, add water and salt.
- Form a sphere and put it in a disposable bag, put in the cold for 30 minutes.
- Get out the dough and roll out with a rolling pin. It should be a thin layer. Cut the resulting “pancake” into pieces.
- Each piece is pricked with a fork, forming holes.
Arrange raw crackers on baking paper and let the billet stand in the oven for 15 minutes at a temperature of 220 degrees.
Non-standard flavoring crackers
To get a fragrant and non-standard version of crackers, which is unlikely to be obtained in the store, you need to spend a minimum of products and time for cooking. The so-called "Israeli" cheese cracker recipe at home implies the use of such products:
- a glass of flour;
- 150 g butter;
- 1 teaspoon of salt and sugar;
- 3 cloves of garlic.
- a teaspoon of spice mixture;
- 50 g hard cheese;
- a teaspoon of vinegar;
- 3 tablespoons of cold water;
- egg;
- a pinch of sea salt;
- sesame powder.
Cooking and baking aromatic cheese crackers:
- Put the oil in the freezer for 1 hour. Grate the cheese. Skip the garlic through the garlic.
- Pour the flour into a bowl and grate the frozen butter. Mix the ingredients and add all the dry ingredients here.
- Then add vinegar, half an egg and water to the dough. Kneading the dough. Roll it into a ball. Place in a bowl, cover with a towel and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Roll the dough into a thin layer and cut into small pieces, which are then pierced with a fork.
- Top each piece with an egg, sprinkle with sesame seeds and sea salt.
- Put the baked crackers in the oven. Pull out after they become a pronounced golden color.
Serve such crackers with any sauce. This option is ideally combined with different soups.
Semifinished
Semi-finished crackers with cheese according to the recipe below can be prepared in 5 minutes. You need to buy ready-made salted crackers and hard cheese.
Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Arrange crackers and sprinkle them over grated cheese. Put the plate with the workpiece in the microwave for 30 seconds.
You can not rub the cheese, but cut into small pieces and put it between two crackers - you get a sandwich.
Sauces
To diversify a standard snack is easy! To crackers with cheese played with new flavoring colors, it is worth preparing the sauce. There are several simple options that are considered universal:
- Guacomole. Combine 2 mashed avocados with 2 cloves of crushed garlic. Add salt, spices and a few drops of lemon juice. Mix.
- Sour cream sauce with herbs. Mix sour cream with finely chopped herbs. You can use parsley, dill, cilantro, green onions, basil, celery. And all this is desirable to add at the same time.
- Vegetable salsa. Grind 4 tomatoes, onion and 3 cloves of garlic, fry in olive oil, and then grind with a blender. In the process of grinding with a blender, add peeled hot peppers, salt, spices and herbs.
There are other options for sauces that will blend perfectly with crackers.