Hi there. Didja notice I gypped you out of Harvest Fridays last week? I felt like I was getting a little repetitive (spoiler alert: I ate lots of rainbow chard), so I decided to cut it back to every other week. Maybe once summer rolls around I’ll go back to every week. To make up for it, today I made you something with not just one, but two delicious garden ingredients. These Roasted Beet and Sage Crackers are full of fall flavors and showcase both beets and sage from my garden!
Today is Secret Recipe Club day! Members of the Secret Recipe Club are assigned a blog each month. Who has who is a secret until reveal day (today!). The mission is to choose a recipe from the assigned blog, make it, and share it!
This month, I was assigned the blog Enriching Your Kid, a blog by a stay at home mom, which is full of healthy recipes to help you enrich your kids. I have no kids to enrich, but I sure do like to enrich myself!
Some of the recipes that caught my eye: Sweet Potato Crepes— there was a breakfast place when we lived in Oklahoma that served bomb sweet potato pancakes… these sound even better! Ricotta Gnocchi with Almond Basil Pesto— I’m obsessed with mixing and matching different nuts and herbs lately to make fun pestos… almond basil sounds great! And finally, Carrot Butterscotch Muffins— because carrots should always be served with butterscotch.
In the end I chose to make this Roasted Beet & Sage Crackers recipe. I’ve dabbled in making my own crackers before and they are always worth the effort– so much better than store bought, and of course, a whole lot better for you! I love the color of these crackers. In a world of gross chemical food dyes, I don’t know why we forget about the beautiful colors found in nature! The beet flavor in these crackers is pretty mild, but they give the crackers great color.
- 2 tsp extra virgin olive oil
- ½ cup diced beets
- ⅓ cup chopped walnuts
- 6 medium fresh sage leaves
- ½ cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 tbsp flaxseed
- Water, as required (about ¼ cup)
- Salt
- Preheat over to 375 degrees. Toss beets with olive oil and spread on a baking sheet. Bake until tender, about 25-30 minutes. Let cool slightly.
- In a food processor, combine beets, walnuts and sage leave. Pulse until finely ground. Add flour, Parmesan and flaxseed, and pulse to combine. Turn food processor on and slowly add water just until a dough ball forms.
- Roll out dough to about ⅛-in thick. Cut with small cookie cutters or cut into squares with a sharp knife. Arrange on parchment-lined baking sheets. Poke each cracker with fork prongs to prevent from puffing up. Sprinkle with salt. Bake at 375 until edges are just beginning to brown, about 20-30 minutes.
These crackers were so cheesy and delicious! (Isn’t it interesting how much bright color cooked out of them!?) I loved the sage flavor in them, and the wheat and flax made for a really hearty snack. A perfect combination! I love how impressive these crackers look, even though they are pretty easy to make. They’d be great for a holiday get together.
If you love making homemade crackers, also check out my Rosemary Olive Oil Wheat Crackers and Parmesan Thyme Crackers.
Crackers from your own garden! Way to raise the bar!
These crackers look so cute!!! The flavors sound so amazing, and beets are so colorful! Great choice!
Thanks!! The original recipe called for cutting the dough into strips, but with the pink color I couldn’t resist cutting them into cute shapes!
I’m always impressed by people who make there own crackers, and bonus points for using garden fresh produce!
Glad you tried these! They look fantastic. Thank you for going through my blog!
These are such fun posts, Jess! I’m in awe of these crackers! I’ve never heard of roasted beet ones before. They look so flavorful and delicious!
Love the ingredients in these – they sound brilliant! What a perfect pick 🙂
Agree, you really raised the bar this month…. I am in awe of how creative these crackers are, with the roasted beets and sage, perfect combination, loved their shape too
awesome post!
have a happy Reveal Day!
And they are beautiful too!
Homemade crackers are always worth the effort…and with garden fresh ingredients I bet these were out of this world! Great SRC pick!
Pinning these right away to make!! GREAT pick this month, and what a wonderful way to use beets!!!
Great flavors and a great snack idea!!
These crackers sound great. It is crazy how the color changed after baking. Happy Reveal Day!!
These are so cute!
Oh, these are just beautiful! What a delicious, lovely little cracker. Yum!
These are such beautiful crackers! I have beets from our garden that need to be used up. Now I know what I’m going to make!
These crackers are gorgeous and sound amazing. I love making my own crackers and these just might be next on my list!
I’ve never made crackers before, but I may have to start with this recipe. They look amazing and I love the flavor combinations. Nice pick for this month!
I have to say the thought of making crackers has never even crossed my mind! These look so tasty and sure beats the boring Ritz crackers I have in my pantry!
Beets really do make everything so beautiful! Great choice this month.
Wow! This is such a creative way to use fresh sage leaves! Think I might just have to ‘borrow’ some from my mom’s indoor herb garden :p
The color of these crackers are fantastic. They sound delicious! Great pick this month 🙂
These crackers look awesome! I would never have though to mix beets and sage, but I bet they are so great together! I just bought a small sage plant and I guess I forgot to water it because I looked at it yesterday and it is all wilted and dry
🙁 I need to go out and buy another one so I can make these crackers!
Oh no!! How sad. I’m terrible with indoor plants, though, so I understand!! I can barely keep cactuses alive inside!
These sound delicious! I just love crackers. And how cool that the beets and sage is from your garden?!
Oh wow! What a flavor combo! These look like the perfect healthy snack!
These crackers look so delicious, and they’re beyond adorable! What a lovely holiday appetizer they would make!
These are so cute! I’ve never made homemade crackers and now I’m inspired.
Beets are my favorite! Love that you put them in crackers—these look SO perfect, Jess! I could go for a few handfuls right about now. 😉
They’re so good!! They remind me of fancy cheez-its… and I can’t stop eating them!
These crackers look and sound super delicious! Love the sage, one of my favourite herbs!
Wow, what an interesting recipe. I love beets and I love crackers. Home made crackers are even better and healthier. Great recipe.