Home Made Gluten Free Savoury Cheese And Onion Shortbread Crackers

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I as watching Better Homes & Gardens just the other night when they made these wonderful Cheese twists with puff pastry. I thought to myself, there has to be a way to make gluten free savoury crackers.

This is incredibly quick to make. I'm planning on making up several batches with different fillings and freezing the cling wrapped dough rolls. Then whenever the oven is on, it's a 2 minute job to simply slice it up and cook me up some savoury crackers. Yum! :-)

Ingredients:
  • 1 x cup Gluten Free Plain Flour (Don't worry about sifting it. You are about to put it through your feed processor).
  • 1 x teaspoon of salt
  • 4 x knobs of butter (about 50 grams)
  • 1 x onion finely diced.
  • 1 x cup of grated cheese
  • A dash of milk (20ml to 40 ml)
Method:
  • Add the flour, salt, cup of grated cheese and half of the diced onion in to your food processor.
  • Mix till it looks like bread crumbs.
  • With the processor running, drizzle in the dash of milk (a spoon at a time might help here).
  • You want to stop adding milk when it turns to a ball of dough.
  • If you over do the milk, the recipe will go from ball of dough to batter. It's easy to correct to turning on the food processor again and adding in a teaspoon of flour at a time till it goes back into a ball of dough.
  • Blend your dough ball for 30 seconds so that it mixes well.
  • Lift out the ball of dough and roll it in your hands (lile play dough) into a long fat sausage.
  • Wrap in cling wrap and put it on your freezer for half an hour.

Once 1/2 hour in freezer has passed:

  • Preheat your oven to 190 degrees Celsius.
  • Once the half hour has passed, the dough should be quite firm. Unwrap it.
  • With a sharp knife, slice thin cracker sized discs and lay them out on a large baking tray lined with cooking paper.
  • Bake in the oven for 10 minutes only. (They may not looked brown yet)
  • Take them out and turn them over (likely they are brown on the underside).
  • Sprinkle a little left over grated cheese and dices onion over the top of the crackers.
  • Return to the oven for another 3-4 minutes.
  • Remove from the oven and lift off the baking paper as soon as you can (so they don't sweat).
  • They really are a great savoury treat. Enjoy with a glass of red wine. (Well I did) :-)

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