Just before the Pandemic hit, my friends and I paid a visit to new Orleans for some Mardi Gras celebrations. We ate our way through the city, sampling many local and southern specialties, including biscuits.
The American South is loaded with delicious dishes, many of which have become so mainstream that many don’t know the origins of the recipe.
Made with flour, milk, butter, leavening and seasoning, biscuits are easy to assemble and bake. There are many recipes out there, some good and some not so good. I’ve made this recipe a few times and they consistently turn out.
Biscuits are great in the morning or part of your brunch, sometimes you can make a breakfast sandwich out of them or serve them with a southern BBQ menu.
Homemade Biscuits
Course: Appetizer12
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minutesIngredients
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 Tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. sea salt
1 1/2 sticks cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
1 1/2 cups cold buttermilk*
(optional) 1/2 cup melted butter
Directions
- pre-heated 400F oven
- Place a piece of parchment paper on baking sheet.
- For the biscuit dough, add your flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, salt and stir with a fork to combine.
- Add the butter and blend with a pastry cutter. Add the buttermilk while mixing with a fork until just blended.
- Sprinkle some flour on your work surface and empty your dough on top. Gather with your hands and knead until the dough just comes together as a ball.
- Using your rolling pin, roll out the dough to a about 1 inch thick. Use a 2 3/4″ biscuit cutter (or similar sized cup), flour it and cut out your biscuits and place on your baking sheet a half-inch apart.
- Gather up your dough, roll out again and cut out more biscuits. Repeat until you’ve made biscuits out of all your dough.
- Place your tray of biscuits on the upper middle rack and bake for 10-12 minutes.
- Brush tops with melted butter, serve warm.
Notes
- *Make your own buttermilk by adding 1 Tbsp. of white vinegar with milk in a bowl, let stand for 15 minutes.
- **Make them cheese biscuits by adding 1 1/2 cups grated cheddar after cutting the butter into the dough
