Split pea crackers or chips, made from scratch with whole real ingredients. These pea crackers are gluten free, dairy free and egg free, made with green split peas, flax seeds, sesame seeds and millet flour. A healthy snack full of fibre and protein that can make a great addition to your salad or soup.
Split Pea Crackers Recipe: Healthy And Allergy Friendly
These split pea crackers are a nice snack for those that have food sensitivities and allergies.
Most of people don’t understand that the gluten-free snack aisle contains some of the most heavily processed food items in the grocery store. They are usually filled additives, added sugar, nutrient-empty filling ingredients, cheap inflammatory oil and starchy substitute flours like tapioca starch, potato, corn that are most probably GMO.
So if you are one of those with multiple food sensitivities the chance that you will react those additives is really high. To avoid that, make your own chips / crackers – gluten, dairy, nut and egg free.
Also you will save money, packaged food usually has a bigger price for the portion.
How To Make Pea Chips / Crackers
Why green split peas? these are full of starch when cooked and will serve as a good base binding everything together.
1. To make these pea chips, first you will need to soak the split peas overnight.
This not only will improve their nutritional value but also will decrease phytate, protease inhibitors, lectins, tannins and calcium oxalate. These are all anti-nutrients that can damage an already affected digestive system.
2. Then in a large pot, cover the peas with 4 cups of water for each cup of peas. Bring to boil and simmer for 1 to 2 hours until fully cooked. Puree them.
3. Then add everything you need in a food processor and mix until you get the consistency of a soft dough. Roll on a parchment paper, cut and bake!
The best part about making your own pea crackers is that you can get creative with flavors and add seeds, nuts, spices and herbs. You are in control of the outcome!
How To Enjoy These Split Pea Crackers?
You can enjoy them with guacamole, humus, or any other dip of your preference, nut, fruit or seed butters. Usually I like to spread some pumpkin seed butter or sunflower seed butter on crackers, as I have a problem with nuts.
Amazon also offers an alternative: Splitz Split Pea Crisp Snacks also made from split peas.
More Healthy Vegan Gluten Free Crackers Recipes
Enjoy this split pea chips/ crackers recipe and leave me a comment if you make it.
I would love to hear your thoughts! Your feedback is super helpful for me and readers. Thank you!
Split Pea Chips, Crackers – Gluten, Dairy and Egg Free
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups cooked and pureed green split peas - or yellow split peas
- 1/2 cup millet flour - cassava, oat or sorghum flour would work as well
- 2 tbsp avocado oil - or coconut oil
- 2 tbsp sesame seeds - (ground)
- 4 tbsp flax seeds - ground (use golden flax seeds for a lighter color)
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
Instructions
Prepare and cook the peas
- First soak split peas in water overnight with 1/4 teaspoon apple cider vinegar. Drain before cooking. Boil in fresh water until fully cooked, about 2 hours. Make a puree.
Form the dough
- Then blend the cooked peas plus all ingredients in a food processor. The consistency should be similar to a dough.
Make the pea crackers
- Place the dough between two pieces of parchment and using a rolling pin, roll until very thin, about 1/8 inch thick. Remove the top piece of parchment paper. Using a knife, cut the dough into 2 inch squares, but do not separate the crackers.
Bake
- Bake the pea crackers at 350 F for 30-40 minutes or until lightly brown.
- Let the pea crackers to cool fully on the cookie sheet, then break apart. Store in an airtight container.
Video
Healthy Green Pea Chips, Crackers – Gluten, Dairy and Egg Free
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Tips For Making The Slip Pea Crackers / Chips
- I used whole flax seeds, but you will get even better results if you use ground flax seeds. When ground they make a great egg substitution.
- Note that these split pea crackers are easy breakable (because there is no additives and gums or store bought gluten free flour mixes).
Nutrition
The information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator.
The information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator.
marla
Sunday 12th of April 2020
Can you use another flour? I am allergic to millet.
HealthyTasteOfLife
Monday 13th of April 2020
Yes, look for something similar in texture like buckwheat, oat or cassava flour.
Dani
Saturday 21st of March 2020
Can I substitute green split peas with green lentil?
HealthyTasteOfLife
Saturday 21st of March 2020
You can try, the starch in the peas seems similar to that in lentils, but I can't tell for sure if it's going to work.
Starr Jeffers
Thursday 27th of February 2020
i cant wait to try this! I wonder if I use my very thick split pea soup pureed and add coconut flour instead of the millet flour?
Fedaa
Sunday 5th of April 2020
Have you tried it with coconut flour yet? If so, can you share your experience?
HealthyTasteOfLife
Friday 28th of February 2020
As I mentioned on YouTube this sounds like an interesting experiment. Now I'm curious if this will work ? The only thing that concerns me is that the texture of coconut flour is more gritty than the millet (and so the result might me), but otherwise it would be perfect for more liquid absorption!