Delicious Homemade soda Crackers made with yeasted dough and lightly salted with rosemary garlic seasosning.
What is homemade soda crackers
A soda cracker, also known as a saltine, is a type of plain, lightly salted cracker. These crackers are made from white flour, yeast, baking soda (hence the name), and a small amount of butter or oil.
Soda crackers are known for their dry, crisp texture and are often used as a snack or accompaniment to soups, salads, and cheese. They can also be crumbled and used as a topping for casseroles or as a base for various appetizers.
I made spicy mini cream crackers earlier, that we loved it.
Crackers can be either naturally leavened with yeast, chemically leavened with baking powder or baking soda like many commercial cracker products, or totally unleavened, like matzo or Triscuits.
Usually crackers are crisp and flaky but they don’t follow that rule too. They can be buttery or lean and mean, like saltines and other variations of "water crackers."
Whole grain crackers, regardless of the leavening method, have another major factor that it has fiber. However, the recipe used here yields a very crispy cracker.
It is really easy recipe adapted from King Arthur flour web site.
How to make these Homemade Soda Crackers
You need following ingredients to make these crackers.
All-purpose flour
Vinegar
Baking Soda
Sugar
Yeast
Water
Butter
Olive oil
For seasoning
Sea salt
Rosemary garlic seasoning
Instructions to make these homemade soda crackers
First melt the butter and then in a bowl add all purpose flour, salt, sugar and butter and water to form a mixture into smooth dough.
Next morning spread the dough into thin sheet
It is really soft sticky dough and don’t ever tempt to add any more flour, the next day, spread the dough into a thin sheet, and cut it into small size. Sprinkle your favorite herbs salt and bake it for 10 minutes. You will get really crispy delicious soda crackers.
I didn’t prick well as it should be so my soda cracker got little puffy instead of thin. If you are trying make sure to prick three or more times and also spread very thin.
After baking them in very hot oven, switch the oven off and allow cooling the cracker to cool in the oven as the oven cools down and you will get more crispy crackers.
Homemade Soda Crackers
Equipment
Ingredients
- ¾ cup all purpose flour
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon Baking soda
- 2-3 drops vinegar
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- ¼ cup lukewarm water
- 1 ¼ tsp instant yeast
- 3 tablespoon water
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
For the topping
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 tablespoon rosemary garlic seasoning.
Instructions
- In a microwave safe bowl add 3tablespoon of water, 1 tablespoon of butter and 1 tablespoon of olive oil and heat high at 30sec.Stir till butter is melted set aside until they are lukewarm.
- In an separate bowl, take the dry ingredients together like flour, yeast, sugar, salt, baking soda. To this add vinegar and gently mix through. To this add butter-water-oil mixture and ¼ cup water to form soft, sticky dough
- Transfer this dough to a greased dry vessel and cover with a cling wrap. Refrigerate overnight.
- After an overnight resting, dough won’t double as such, but still an ‘little’ rise is okay. Next day bring this to room temperature and transfer to work space dusted with flour.
- Press them into a rectangle of 3x5 inch. This will make your rolling process easier.
- Roll them into a sheet of 9x10 inch. Make sure to dust the work space liberally with flour to prevent sticking.
- Fold them through left half vertically. Repeat the same through right side, till this resembles an ‘envelope’.
- Pre-heat the oven to 425F (200C) . Line the baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Turn it into to 90 degree and start rolling. This folding and rolling is done, in order to get an flaky cracker.
- Make sure to roll it into very thin sheet 10" x 18". Trim the sides to make it a perfect square.
- Sprinkle the dough with your choice of salt — I used salt and rosemary garlic seasoning — and gently press it in with the rolling pin.
- Using a rolling pizza wheel (easiest) or a baker's bench knife, cut the dough into 2" squares.
- Transfer the crackers to parchment-lined baking sheets; you can put them fairly close together, as they'll shrink as they bake, rather than spread. Prick each cracker three times with a fork.
- Bake the crackers for about 10 minutes, till they're a very light golden brown. Watch them carefully towards the end of the baking time; they can darken very quickly.
- Turn off the oven, and open the door completely. Leave the crackers on the oven rack; they're going to cool down right in the cooling oven, in order to preserve their crispness. Keep your eye on them for the first couple of minutes; if for some reason your oven isn't cooling off quickly, and the crackers are continuing to brown, pull the rack out partway.
- When the crackers are completely cool, remove them from the oven, and wrap airtight, to preserve their crispness.
Notes
Nutrition
Other cracker recipes in this blog are
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Huma says
looks yum.
Reni says
The crackers look so perfect and yum !
Archana says
amazing 🙂 loved the challenge 🙂 its so beautiful and well step by step wise . totally loved it 🙂
Divya Ashok says
Loved this Challenge and your soda crackers looks beautiful Swathi!
techie2mom says
Nicely made crackers..
easyfoodsmith says
These look really delish and crunchy and I am sure addictive too.
Reeni says
These look great Swathi! I can see the layers in yours - I bet they're delicious with the rosemary salt seasoning! Good tips for keeping them crispy. Wish I could try some. 🙂
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
They look so good Swathi! love the layered crackers 🙂
deepti says
These look so crispy and love the name side crackers!
deepti says
I meant soda crackers!
Gloria says
Crackers look really inviting ....so crisp and delish.
Priya says
My girls favourite is also cheese .By the way he cookies looks amazing ..Love to try it soon ...
Anupa says
Looks good... crispy and tempting
sushma mallya says
you make the challenge look so simple, you make it so perfectly....looks yum
veenashankar says
crispy and tasty cookies
Rekha says
Delicious looking crackers... 🙂 My girl also loves crackers and cheesy dips... Should make them soon!
Biny Anoop says
wow dear u make it sound so so easy.....nice space would love to come back
kaveri says
These crackers were a big hit at home...yummy crackers
Ramya says
ccrunchy crackers and me finish off the bowl within minutes.
vimalalakshmi says
very nice challenge swathi.I love it...........
Nagashree says
Delicious looking, plumpy crackers. We loved the taste too.
Mrs.Homemaker says
Looks like its crisp , loved the texture. Perfectly done and baked.
manjula bharath says
wow very crispy and delicious soda cracker 🙂 looks fantastic !!
rebecca says
these look better than store brought
Suja Manoj says
Crispy and delicious,looks perfect
sangeetha says
well m ade and love rosemary flavor!!!
chikku says
Crunchy and crispy crackers dear ..perfect evening snack 🙂
Happy Valley Chow says
Never had have these before, but those look spectacular. Great job 🙂
Happy Blogging!
Happy Valley Chow
Priya Anadakumar says
awesome, crispy and crunchy soda crackers... delicious sis...
Eliza Lincy says
Perfect soda crackers. Good evening snack dear.
Choc Chip Uru says
Crispy and delicious, I love these crackers 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Arthy shama says
Crackers are quite appetizing and I would love an bowl full of them 🙂
Meena Kumar says
The crackers look really awesome Swathi.
Rafeeda says
these look really crispy dear...
Babitha costa says
crispy crackers swathi