This seeded crisp bread recipe is the easiest you ever make. Healthy, packed with seeds and so tasty. Perfect with a cheese board, topped with smoked fish or cold meats.
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Sunflower seed crackers (Swedish crisp bread)

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Sunflower seed crackers are crunchy and slightly salty with an excellent mix of flavors and textures from the seeds.

This seeded crispbread recipe is the easiest you ever make. Healthy, packed with seeds and so tasty. Perfect with a cheese board or topped with smoked fish or cold meats.

Swedish crisp bread cut into squares
Square pieces of Swedish crisp bread

These easy thin and crispy Swedish crispbreads are great with any savory spread or topping. Try them with your favorite cheese and this green tomato chilli chutney for a simple but very satisfying snack.

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What is Swedish crisp bread?

Swedish crisp bread is a flat, thin and light weight savory cracker called "knackebrod".

Crispbread or knackebrod is a staple food in Scandinavia and eaten alongside most meals. Swedes see it as a type of bread and serve it for breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as a snack in between meals.

There are many different variations of crisp bread. Plain rye cracker is the most traditional one but different variants of seeds, herbs and spices are very common as well.

Growing up in Sweden I have eaten and baked many different flavors of knackebrod. This seed crispbread is my favorite. The recipe is very simple and therefor I make them regularly at home and often have some on hand for an easy and healthy snack.

Sunflower seed crisp bread squares in a compostable tray with a plastic lid covering half the product
Cooked sunflower seed crackers

Check out some other great Swedish recipes on this site:

kåldolmar – Swedish stuffed cabbage rolls

Raggmunkar, swedish potato pancakes

Ingredients for this recipe

  • plain flour
  • sunflower seeds
  • flax seeds
  • sunflower oil
  • hot water
  • flaky sea salt

See recipe card for quantities.

This knacke brod recipe is the ultimate seed cracker. Full of crunchy sunflower and flax seeds.

How to make Sunflower seed crackers

Sunflower seed crisp bread dough in a stainless steel bowl
Sunflower seed cracker dough

These crispbread crackers are easy to make.

  • Simply mix all the dry ingredients together.
  • Add oil and water.
  • Mix to a dough.
  • Spread out and roll thin on a baking tray.
  • Bake in the oven until crisp and golden.

Variations

  • Mix it up with different seeds (pumpkin seeds and sesame seeds works well)
  • Add herbs and spices if you like (smoked paprika, italian herbs and cayenne are great)

Eqipment

  • Mixing bowl
  • Rolling pin
  • sheet pan

Storage

They keep well in an air tight container in room temperature. Good for up to 2 weeks.

Top Tips making crispy seed crackers

  • use parchment paper both over and under the dough to roll it out evenly. This prevents the dough from sticking to your rolling pin
Sunflower seed crisp bread dough on an oven tray topped with parchment paper and a rolling pin on top.
Sunflower seed crisp bread dough topped with parchment paper and a rolling pin on top.
  • Score the dough before baking.
  • No need to cut right through, scoring keeps them flat and still able to cut or break them to the same shape once cooked.
Uncooked Sunflower seed crisp bread, cut into squares, in an oven tray ready to go in the oven.
Scored uncooked dough

This Swedish cracker bread has a lovely crunch and salty hint.

Crisp bread are popular across Scandinavia and in other European countries.

Freshly baked sunflower seeds crackers on a baking tray cut in to squares
Freshly baked knackebrod

Sweden have long traditions in crispbread consumption and I have memories eating them with most meals growing up.

What to serve with sunflower seed crackers

  • excellent with any of your favorite dips
  • ultimate accompaniment to a charcuterie or cheese board
  • great with any savory spread or topping
  • serve them as a side dish to compliment your soup or salad

I especially love these crunchy seed crackers served with my grandmas nettle soup and my roast garlic cream soup. A delicious, healthy and satisfying lunch

Why you love this recipe

  • Quick and easy to make
  • healthy and nutritious
  • excellent combination of flavors and textures
  • ultimate simple nutritious snack

Try making these simply seed crackers at home. I'm sure you love them!

Looking for other easy bread recipes? Try these:

fluffy focaccia recipe

Cheese and onion rolls

Pairing

These are my favorite dishes to serve with sunflower seed crackers:

nettle soup

roast garlic cream soup

Salad Prawn, mango and avocado

FAQ

Are seed crackers good for you?

Sunflower seed crackers are a nutritious and delicious snack that can be enjoyed by vegetarians. With their high nutritional value they're an excellent addition to a balanced diet.

How do Swedes eat crispbread?

In Sweden crispbread is treated as any other type of bread. It can be topped with almost anything. Super versatile, you can have crispbread at every meal.

Did you make these sunflower seed crackers? Please leave a rating and comment below. I love to hear from you!

11 Square pieces of Sunflower seed crisp bread piled up on a plate

Sunflower seed crackers (Swedish crisp bread)

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These Swedish seed crackers (knacke brod) are light and crisp, full of nutritious seeds, super easy to make and taste delicious!
This recipe uses lots of seeds, which makes them tasty and nutritious.
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Course Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine european
Servings 8

Ingredients
  

  • flour plain
  • sunflower seeds
  • flax seeds
  • sunflower oil
  • hot water
  • flaky sea salt

Instructions
 

  • Oven 150 C
  • Mix all the dry ingredients together.
  • Add oil and water.
  • Mix to a dough.
  • Roll out the dough on a baking sheet with another baking sheet on top. It needs to be an even layer.
  • Put on an oven tray and mark squares with a knife. It doesn’t have to be cut all the way through.
  • Sprinkle with flaky sea salt.
  • Bake in the oven for 1 hour.
  • Once cool brake pieces where the marks are.
  • Enjoy!
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Growing up in Sweden I have eaten and baked many different flavors of knackebrod. This seed crispbread is my favorite kind. The recipe is very simple, therefor I make them regularly at home and often have some on hand for an easy and healthy snack. They are crunchy and slightly salty with an excellent mix of flavors and textures from the seeds.