Sourdough Rosemary Crackers

I forgot about the party. I had half an hour to get a plate together to take. Woops.

This is such a good, easy, fast recipe, and if you have sourdough culture going and rosemary in the garden, it’s all but free. And they are really good. Really really good.

The Recipe:

Warm a little olive oil in a saucepan – just enough to brush on the crackers – and put a good sprig of rosemary in it. Let it sit for the rosemary to infuse while you make the dough.

Mix sourdough starter with a little salt and enough plain flour to make a dough. How much? Depends how many crackers you want to make. Play it by ear. It’s just starter and flour. You roll them out thin, so a little goes quite a long way. Knead very briefly so your dough is springy and not sticky.

(If your starter has been recently fed, like in the last few days, your crackers will blister up nicely even given no proving time at all. If not, and if you have time, feed your starter and let it prove for a little while. If you don’t have time, they’ll still work, they’ll just be a bit less flaky and harder to roll thin enough).

Now is a good time to turn the oven on to heat up.

Roll the dough out on a floured benchtop very thin, as thin as a corn chip, basically as thin as you can manage. Put the sheets of rolled out dough on a lightly oiled biscuit tray or pizza tray and brush the top with the rosemary oil Sprinkle with nice salt – sea salt if you have it, or cooking salt – the larger crystals are better than plain table salt.

Score the dough in diamond shapes. Bake in a medium oven – 180^oC or 350^oF – till they are lightly golden and crisp. It’s quick, like less than 10 minutes.

I set these on a platter with:

• Fridge pickles – carrot, beetroot, cucumber, beans
• Nasturtium seed pod capers
• Fresh cherry tomatoes and cucumber slices
• Homemade babaganoush and capsicum macadamia dip that I had in the fridge
• A quickly blended up dip made from two minute mayonnaise, homemade greek yoghurt, feta cheese, pepper, teaspoon of lemon zest, pinch of dried thyme, which was also very good.

Grabbed a bottle of wine and a bottle of kombucha, and wasn’t late. Or only fashionably so.