Craggy foxtail millet crackers packed with pumpkin, sunflower, flax and sesame, toasted until every seed is fragrant and the shard snaps.
Ingredients
From the TrooFoodz pantry
- Sprouted Foxtail Millet Flour 1½ cups
Fresh
- Pumpkin seeds 3 tbsp
- Sunflower seeds 3 tbsp
- Flaxseed, whole 2 tbsp
- White sesame seeds 2 tbsp
- Olive oil 3 tbsp
- Flaky sea salt 1 tsp
- Warm water about ⅔ cup
Method
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Bloom the flax
Stir the flaxseed into three tablespoons of warm water and leave it ten minutes until it turns gelatinous. That gel is the binder holding this seed-heavy dough together.
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Combine dry
Mix the Sprouted Foxtail Millet Flour with the pumpkin, sunflower and sesame seeds and half the salt so the seeds are evenly dispersed before hydration.
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Form the dough
Work in the olive oil and the flax gel, then add warm water until you have a stiff, seed-studded dough that just holds when pressed.
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Roll firmly
Roll between two sheets of baking paper, pressing hard so the seeds embed rather than tear the sheet. Aim for three millimetres — thicker than a plain cracker.
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Score and salt
Score into irregular shards with a knife and sprinkle the remaining flaky salt over the surface.
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Bake low and long
Bake at 175°C for twenty to twenty-two minutes until the seeds are toasted and the base is dry to the touch.
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Cool then break
Cool completely on the tray before snapping along the score lines, so the shards break clean instead of crumbling.
Why this works
Foxtail millet flour holds structure better than the softer millet flours, which is what allows this much seed to be suspended without the cracker falling apart. Flaxseed gel is a hydrocolloid — it does the binding that egg or gluten would do elsewhere. A lower oven and longer bake dries the interior before the exposed seeds scorch.
Make it your own
- Sprouted Foxtail Millet Flour → Sprouted Little Millet Flour Softer crumb; roll a touch thinner.
- Pumpkin seeds → Chopped walnuts Richer and more fragile; press in well.
- Flaxseed gel → Chia seed soaked in water Binds identically with a finer speckle.
