Name: Parmesan Sesame Low Carb Crackers
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 1 cup Parmesan cheese (grated); 1/4 cup flour (I used soy but any should do); 2 tablespoons olive oil; 1 egg white; 2 tablespoons Sesame seeds; plus more sesame seeds and kosher salt for topping

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5 from 4 votes

Perfect for your low-carb or keto diet, these Parmesan Sesame Low-Carb Crackers are just the crispy treat you need. Make them yourself and adjust them to your taste.

Parmesan Sesame Low Carb Crackers on a white plate

Table of Contents

👨‍🍳Baking
📖Low Carb Recipes
🖼️Step-by-Step Photo Instructions
📖Recipe
💬 Comments

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Introduction

This whole thing started with Alton Brown and my DVR recording a Good Eat's where he did crackers. I do love Alton Brown, and the episode, as always, was interesting and entertaining. But at the time, we were limiting carbohydrate intake — time for an alternative.

This is a modification of a recipe from Blain's Low Carb Kitchen. The show has no new episode, but I did enjoy it when it was airing on FIT TV. The original recipe had poppy seeds. I prefer sesame seeds, and I also added salt.

My Rating

These are great crackers.

👨‍🍳Baking

The original recipe calls for soy flour, which Blain used extensively to lower carb counts. Any flour or flour substitute can be used. It has been done with good results with standard all propose flour.

This is always a favorite. It made the rounds through my wife's friends last year. In its lower carb state, there are only approximately 6.6 net carbs for the entire batch.

Resist the temptation to add more oil or egg to make it less crumbly. I have, and it will just fall apart when rolled.

📖Low Carb Recipes

Easy Low Carb Pizza

Cheesy Cauliflower Casserole

Garlic Mashed Cauliflower

Simple Splenda Lemonade

This recipe is listed in these categories. See them for more similar recipes.

Appetizer and Party Recipes, Low Carb/Keto Recipes

🖼️Step-by-Step Photo Instructions

Parmesan cheese with an egg and other ingredients

Preheat oven to 325° conventional or 300° convection (preferred.)

Mix all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Be sure to get all the lumps out of the parmesan cheese.

Add egg and oil, mix with a wooden spoon (ok, I use my hands). This will be dry and crumbly and barely hold together.

form the dough into a ball and cut in half

Form into ball and cut ball in half.

Place half the dough between parchment paper on the bottom and wax paper on top. Roll dough with a rolling pin until dough is about 9" x 11" in size and thin like a cracker. Remove the wax paper.

sprinkling sesame seeds on the rolled out dough

Place parchment paper with the rolled out dough on a large cookie sheet. Sprinkle top with more sesame seeds and kosher salt (keep it light).

raw dough covered with wax paper to pat in the salt and seeds

Cover with the wax paper again. Press the salt and sesame seeds into the dough with hand pressure on top of the wax paper.

cutting raw cracker dough with a pizza cutter

Use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into the size of the cracker you want. Go most of the way through, not all the way.

baking two trays of crackers in the oven

Bake each sheet of cracker dough for 20-25 minutes until evenly browned and crisp. (I bake both pans at the same time in a convection oven and rotate the pans at 11 minutes. Then it takes another 12 minutes in our oven.)

cooked slab of crackers on parchment paper

Remove from the oven and let cool on the pans.

📖Recipe

Parmesan Sesame Crackers on a white plate

Parmesan Sesame Low Carb Crackers

From Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan

Perfect for your low-carb or keto diet, these Parmesan Sesame Low-Carb Crackers are just the crispy treat you need. Make them yourself and adjust them to your taste.

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5 from 4 votes

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Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 25 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

Servings #/Adjust if desired 36

Ingredients

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▢ 1 cup Parmesan cheese - grated
▢ ¼ cup flour - I used soy but any should do
▢ 2 tablespoons olive oil
▢ 1 egg white
▢ 2 tablespoons Sesame seeds
▢ plus more sesame seeds and kosher salt for topping

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325° conventional or 300° convection (preferred.)
Mix all dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Be sure to get all the lumps out of the parmesan cheese.
Add egg and oil, mix with a wooden spoon (ok, I use my hands). This will be dry and crumbly and barely hold together.
Form into ball and cut ball in half.
Place half the dough between parchment paper on the bottom and wax paper on top. Roll dough with a rolling pin until dough is about 9" x 11" in size and thin like a cracker. Remove the wax paper.
Place parchment paper with the rolled out dough on a large cookie sheet. Sprinkle top with more sesame seeds and kosher salt (keep it light).
Cover with the wax paper again. Press the salt and sesame seeds into the dough with hand pressure on top of the wax paper.
Use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into the size of the cracker you want. Go most of the way through, not all the way.
Bake each sheet of cracker dough for 20-25 minutes until evenly browned and crisp. (I bake both pans at the same time in a convection oven and rotate the pans at 11 minutes. Then it takes another 12 minutes in our oven.)
Remove from the oven and let cool on the pans.

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Recipe Notes

Pro Tips

You may use regular flour but carbs will increase. Almond flour is good.
It is very dry dough and you will be tempted to add some liquid or use the whole egg. Do not, it will fall apart.
Good at room temperature for 2-3 days sealed well. Then they lose their crunch and then mold due to no preservatives. Good refrigerated for a few more days.
Nutrition is calculated on 36 relatively large crackers. It will vary by the size you cut.

To adjust the recipe size:

You may adjust the number of servings in this recipe card under servings. This does the math for the ingredients for you. BUT it does NOT adjust the text of the instructions. So you need to do that yourself.

Nutrition Estimate

Serving size is my estimate of a normal size unless stated otherwise. The number of servings per recipe is stated above. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.

Course : Snack

Cuisine : American

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Editor's Note: This recipe was originally published on January 21, 2010. So it is way overdue for a makeover. I have re-edited all the text and images. But the recipe is the same. Please enjoy a wonderful cracker on me.