Darshana Thacker Wendel
Darshana Thacker Wendel is a vegan chef specializing in whole-food, plant-based cuisine. A graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute, she is the author of the Forks Over Knives: Flavor! cookbook, recipe author for the book Forks Over Knives Family, and recipe contributor to The New York Times best-selling book The Forks Over Knives Plan. Her recipes have been published in The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook, Forks Over Knives magazine, and LA Yoga magazine online. Visit darshanaskitchen.com for more.



Comments (18)
I make these with just chickpea and oat flour. They are pretty good. I just wish I knew what they might pair well with. Hummus seems like that would make it too much chickpea flavor in one bite.
Where does the cheesy flavor come from, the various flours? Thanks Bri for the substitutions for the almond and rice flours.
I’m not sure I’d call them cheesy… They do have a nice flavor though! You could add nutritional yeast and that might make them taste a little nutty/cheesy.
A great hiking snack! I didn’t have brown rice flour & almond flour doesn’t work for me. I subbed homemade oat flour and it worked great. Instead of tahini I added a Tablespoon of sesame seeds to the blender with the oats. Watch these in the oven and aim to bake them lightly – just golden brown was perfect. They got crunchier as they cooled.
Really nice . I used gluten free white flour instead of gram . Also fresh garlic. No onion powder and plenty of nutritional yeast flakes., which made them very cheesy.
They just didn’t have enough flavor for me
Can I leave out the tahini?
Disappointing bland taste eaten alone I thought they’d be more interesting with the spices in the recipe. Good with butter or PB. Will try with hummus.
Just finished two batches of these and really do like them. I did follow the recipe but finished the crackers by brushing them with vegetable broth and shaking some Trader Joe’s “Everything But The Bagel” seed mix (it’s the same mix you find on an everything bagel) on top plus a very (very) light sprinkle of Real Salt. I know, but it really sparks the flavor and just a bit goes a long way.
Hello Darshana! I’m from Mumbai, India & I don’t think we get Miso paste here. Can you please suggest a substitute?
It’s a salty, savory fermented paste… I’ve seen folks recommend using soy sauce or similar? as a substitute but admittedly that will take a bit of adjusting since it’s a liquid not a paste. Shouldn’t be bad though. I wouldn’t say it’s 1:1 substitute, to me soy sauce is often quite salty. Depends what you have available.
Can you please also use metric measures makes life so much easier for the rest of us
I only have oat flour and chickpea flour so is the almond flour necessary as it’s high in fat. I don’t mind using the brown rice flour but will need to buy some.
Generally speaking, I have used ground almonds with good results as a substitute for almond flour.
I am wondering about flour alternatives as well please. I don’t have brown rice flour in the house…I don’t recall seeing many recipes w/it listed…
Thank you Darshan, I can always rely on your recipes being delish!
I make brown rice flour by whizzing brown rice in my Vitamix blender. Most blenders aren’t strong enough to make good flour, but it’s extremely easy in a Vitamix. Sorry I don’t know about any other blenders strong enough; but getting the really strong blender was money well spent. I also make oat flour in my Vitamix; have never tried to make almond or chickpea flour, but may one of these days–it’s so much easier not to have to keep extra bags of specialty flour on hand.
Sorry Darshana for typo in your name
Will this work with just one type of flour? I have wheat and tapioca.