Rosemary Croccantini Flatbread Crackers
These homemade rosemary flatbread crackers are just like the expensive ones that you buy at the store! A simple rosemary cracker dough is rolled thin and baked until bubbled and crunchy.
If I could only eat 10 things for the rest of my life, this would be one of those 10 things. These are crispy rosemary flatbread crackers, that I love to slather with fig jam and top with thin shavings of Spanish manchego cheese.
This is a homemade version of the La Panzanella Croccantini you may have seen at Whole Foods or other specialty shops. They are wildly delicious, but also wildly expensive, at about $7 for 10 crackers. I mean, come ON, it’s basically flour and some herbs, it really shouldn’t be that much.
You can only spend that much for so long before you decide it’s time to start making them at home. The crackers have a really lovely fragrance to them from the rosemary, and they are super crispy crunchy delicious.
Rosemary Croccantini Flatbread Crackers
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 2 tbsp fresh rosemary chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
- Pulse to combine the flour, salt and sugar in a food processor. Drizzle in the oil, and pulse 15 times to distribute. Slowly stream in the water until the dough start to come together in a big ball, and let it run around the food processor for 10 seconds. Add the rosemary and let it run for 10 seconds just to distribute it a little (it will distribute more when we knead).
- Turn the dough out onto your countertop and knead to a smooth ball. The dough should feel tacky, not sticky. If it feels sticky, add a *very* small amount of flour. Divide the dough into four pieces and cover with a towel. Let the dough rest for 10 minutes so the gluten can relax.
- If you have a pasta roller, roll each piece of dough as thin as you possibly can, one at a time. If you don’t have a pasta roller, use a rolling pin to roll the pieces out as thinly as possible. I find that rolling it out right on parchment paper is easiest, so you can just transfer it straight to the baking sheet or baking stone afterward.
- Spray the rolled dough with water (this helps it get crispy), and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Bake on a sheet pan for about 3 minutes on each side, but make sure you watch them, because even the smallest difference in thickness can change the time considerably.
- Repeat with the remaining dough. The crackers crisp up a lot as they cool, but if they seem too floppy, turn the oven off and let the crackers dry out from the residual heat in the oven. Just check on them every once in a while. When they’ve cooled, break into shards. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition is estimated using a food database and is only intended to be used as a guideline for informational purposes.
38 Comments on “Rosemary Croccantini Flatbread Crackers”
Muchas gracias x la ayuda… me sera muy util…
Mmm, just made these. Used a bit of subbed whole wheat pastry flour and fresh thyme. The technique is great and dough is forgiving. I was having issues with crinkly parchment as I rolled but holding the edges between my stomach and the kitchen counter and rolling from the middle out solved that! Haha! So good baked with garlic salt on both sides. I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to spray the other side with water when I flipped it but I did and added seasoning and it worked great.
Could I use a cracker roller after I roll the dough very thin on my pasta roller? I bought a Betty Boss Cracker roller recently that pokes holes and cuts the dough into strips with a perforation to separate them after baking. There is not a similar recipe to this one on their site and I love La Panzanella Croccantini, but agree that they are sooooo expensive! Thank you for publishing this one—I look forward to trying it soon!
I would love to know your other favorite recipe! I greatly enjoyed the rosemary croccantini – but am now trying to find fundamental cracker recipes to begin with while working with gluten free flours!
Great recipe! For me, these are exact copycats of the Trader Joe’s rosemary flatbreads/crackers. I didn’t use a good processor (just worked the dough with my hands) and had no problems with the recipe.
These were excellent! I just made them. I left out the herbs only because I’m comparing recipes for basic crackers and wanted to find the one that works best for my palette. Out of two recipes, this is my favorite!
Another great thing about this recipe is that the dough is very pliable and easy to work with. It was a pleasant cracker making experience : )
Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Just made these using 1:1 avocado instead of oil and whole wheat flour.
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Thank you for the inspiration!
I love this cracker and am excited to see a recipe to recreate. I have a sourdough starter that I have to toss out part of weekly when feeding if i don’t make bread for it. Do you think it would work to put some in this recipe? If so, how would you fiddle with the proportions? (Its basically flour and water). I was thinking instead of adding water, add starter and sub it for some of the flour to get right consistency?
Adding the starter sounds like a great idea! I cannot assist with proportions, unfortunately, as I’ve never made it myself. Hope it goes well!
Depending on if they make it this far, how long would they keep, and where? Pantry in Ziploc bag? I want to make these ahead of time with the Salmon Salad for a potluck this week. My mouth is already watering!!!
What a wonderful recipe! I used cup4cup Multipurpose Gluten Free flour and it turned out perfect!!! By far my favorite crackers, thank you for such a yummy easy recipe!
Have you tried making these without a food processor? Technically, I do have a little 2-cup food processor, but I doubt it would work for this! I have a steel-bladed pastry hand tool that I use for making pie crusts. Maybe that would work?
I haven’t. It’s probably possible but would take quite a bit of work to develop the gluten probably. You can try!
Still worth a shot… I’ll try it! Do you think I’ll need to knead it for much longer?