Homemade Olive Oil crackers

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February 21, 2012

flour - 250 gms

baking powder - 1 tsp

water - 115 ml

olive oil - 25 ml

freshly ground pepper, black and white

some sea salt

olive oil for brushing

Method

1. Preheat oven to 220C.
2. In a large bowl, add the flour baking powder, water, olive oil, salt and pepper. Knead the dough for 5-6 minutes until it all comes together.
3. Make walnut sized balls and roll them out as thinly as you can. Then cut them using a pizza cutter.
4. Place the crackers on a baking tray, brushed with olive oil . Sprinkle with sea salt (  poppy seeds, sesame seeds, etc).
5. Bake for 5-6 minutes, or until the crackers are golden brown in colour.
6. Serve with the hummus!
7. Hummus
8. 250g chickpeas, soaked, boiled and pureed with the water reserved from boiling
9. ½ cup tahini paste
10. ½ cup water
11. Juice of 1 lemon
12. 6-8 cloves of garlic, minced
13. Extra virgin olive oil, to serve
14. Sumac, to serve (optional)
15. In a large bowl, add the tahini paste, water and lemon juice and mix well until it forms a uniform paste. Add the minced garlic to it and mix it well.
16. Now add the chickpea paste to the tahini sauce a little at a time, making sure everything gets incorporated evenly.
17. In a plate, spoon the hummus and create a canal with the back of the spoon to hold the olive oil, as seen in the photograph.
18. Sprinkle with sumac and serve with crackers.

Source: chitti