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    Home / Meal Type / Savory / Asiago Seed and Cheese Crisps

    Asiago Seed and Cheese Crisps

    December 30, 2016 by Sarah Menanix · Modified: Apr 8, 2019

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    Asiago Seed & Cheese Crisps

    My girl Carla and I have fallen into a standing weekly boba & pupusas lunch date. We didn't set out to turn it into a habit, but last month, the waiter at the pupuseria came up to our table and grinned, "the regular?" That's when we realized what we'd become. In all fairness, we also bring along (in my very biased opinion) the cutest baby ever who doles out smiles like she's made of them, so we're probably not that hard to forget. Also, you should see this cheese baby take down a pupusa.

    If you've never had a pupusa before, it's basically a thick handmade corn tortilla dough filled with cheese, beans, meat, or veggies, and cooked on a griddle. The more cheese that has seeped out of the pupusa to get extra crispy on the edges, the better. We can all agree that there's not much better than burnt crispy cheese, right?

    Occasionally (like once in a blue moon), we veer from our weekly routine in favor of a new adventure, but somehow it still leads us back to burnt cheese. On our latest detour, we discovered The Pasta Shop's seeds + cheese crisps and immediately knew we needed to make a riff on them. Imagine thin lacy parmesan crisps, but then taken to a whole new level of insanity. I'm a candy fiend and I could certainly win an ice cream eating contest, but there's not much more addicting that these crispy bits of burnt cheese tangled up with toasted seeds.

    Toasted Super Seeds

    Asiago Seed & Cheese Crisps

    Asiago Seed & Cheese Crisps

    Carla and I made two different versions here to serve up as the most tempting snack on your New Year's Eve table - my seed and cheese crisps layer up asiago and gruyère with toasted quinoa, pepitas, flax seeds, and black sesame seeds. It's nutty, it's crunchy, it's crispy, it's BURNT CHEESE YOU GUYS. It's the best part of a pupusa in one cheesy cracker.

    Carla's za'atar crisps recipe isn't up yet (previewed on the left in the first and last photos in this post), but I'll let you know where to find it when it is!

    Asiago Seed & Cheese Crisps

    Asiago Seed & Cheese Crisps

    Also, since these asiago seed and cheese crisps are filled with superfood seeds and since you bake the oil off, it's basically health food, OBVS. If you're not convinced of my health food argument, I recommend breaking the crisps into smaller pieces to enjoy in moderation while turning any salad into an addicting crunchy affair. Boom - health food.

    Just when you thought cheese couldn't get any better.

    Happy New Year!

    Asiago Seed & Cheese Crisps

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    Asiago Seed & Cheese Crisps

    Asiago Seed and Cheese Crisps

    Yield: 16 cheese crisps

    Ingredients

    • ½ cup pepitas (pumpkin seeds)
    • ¼ cup + 1 tablespoon uncooked quinoa (I used tri-color quinoa because it's pretty)
    • 1½ tablespoon black sesame seeds
    • 1½ tablespoon flax seeds
    • ¼ teaspoon olive oil
    • 12 ounces shredded asiago cheese (1½ cups, packed)
    • 4 ounces packed gruyere cheese (½ cup, packed)

    Instructions

    1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
    2. Toss pepitas, quinoa, black sesame seeds, and flax seeds with olive oil and spread out on a baking sheet. Roast for about 15 minutes, tossing every 5 minutes, until seeds a lightly toasted. Remove from heat and set aside.
    3. Increase oven to 400°F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
    4. Prepare your cheese nests. Drop 1 packed tablespoon asiago cheese on parchment paper and slightly shape and flatten into a 2-inch round. Repeat until you've created 8 rounds on a baking sheet, placing them 2 inches apart. Top with 1 teaspoon toasted seeds, 1½ packed teaspoons gruyere, 1 more teaspoon toasted seeds, 1½ packed teaspoons asiago and 1 final teaspoon toasted seeds. shape and pack into a 2-inch round.
    5. Bake for 15-20 minutes, until the rounds are almost all the way golden with only a few light spots (ie. you don't want them to be dark brown or they'll taste burnt), flipping halfway through with a metal spatula.
    6. Remove from heat and let cool on a wire rack while you prepare and bake the second half of the crisps. The rounds will crisp up as they cool.
    7. Return the cooled cheese crisps to the oven for 3-5 minutes until they look uniformly cooked through but not dark brown - this step will ensure that your crisps get crispy without burning. Remove from heat and let cool completely on a wire rack. Repeat with second batch of crisps.
    8. Serve once completely cooled as a snack or crushed up on top of a salad.
    © Sarah Menanix

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    11 Comments

    1. Sheri -

      December 31, 2016 at 8:17 am

      And why on earth did we not make these on Christmas?? :) Next year!

      Reply
    2. Marissa -

      December 31, 2016 at 12:22 pm

      Yes, please! And those pupusas sound amazing, plus 'pupusa' is fun to say because I have a 9 year-old's sense of humor. :) Love cheese crisps and adding in the seeds makes them that much better!

      Reply
    3. Alanna -

      January 02, 2017 at 11:12 am

      These are TOO beautiful - and super addictive, too! I can't wait to see Carla's. :D

      Reply
    4. Allyson (Considering The Radish) -

      January 02, 2017 at 12:45 pm

      I love your health food philosophy. These look absolutely incredible- cheese and crackers in one convenient food.

      Reply
    5. Aysegul Sanford -

      January 02, 2017 at 7:01 pm

      I used to make a similar version of this with Parmesan cheese. But Asiago and all those seeds are just such a great alternative. Looks so yum!

      Reply
    6. Lynn Bass -

      January 10, 2017 at 11:47 am

      Would love to have Carla's version,also. Yum, Yum ,Yum

      Reply
      • Sarah Menanix -

        January 10, 2017 at 4:09 pm

        I'll be sure to share the link when it's up!!

        Reply
    7. Karin -

      July 28, 2017 at 4:20 pm

      The pasta shop is all things amaze-balls! Thanks for the recipe! Any idea how much protein and fiber / serving?

      I want to make some of these and then use them to top my salad.

      Reply
      • Sarah Menanix -

        July 28, 2017 at 6:21 pm

        I don't know the protein/fiber, but if you put the specific cheese you want to use into an online nutrition calculator, it should be easy to find! Sounds good to put it on salads!

        Reply
    8. Tracy -

      December 21, 2017 at 12:28 pm

      I live blocks away from The Pasta Shops and I'm addicted to their "cheese & seeds". I have wanted to try to make them at home for a long time and excited to see if I can pull it off!

      Reply
      • Sharon -

        July 03, 2018 at 1:58 pm

        Tracy, is that you? I've made these just as the recipe. I let them sit on paper towel lined baking sheet overnight in the cool oven, then crisped in the 400 oven for a few minutes. Today I'm trying fontina instead of gruyere.

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