Buttermilk Biscuits

Mile high buttermilk biscuits with caramelized onions and cheese are easier to make than you think. They’re the best for breakfast or brunch, all by themselves but even better with bacon! Check out my tips for PERFECT buttermilk biscuits every time.

While light and fluffy dinner rolls might be my favorite food, they take some time and planning.  A good buttermilk biscuit can be ready to bake before your oven preheats and no advanced notice required. You’ll need buttermilk but otherwise you probably have the ingredients for biscuits.

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What can you substitute for buttermilk

Is your don’t have buttermilk, add 1 tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice to a measuring cup and fill it with milk. Let it sit for about 5 minutes to thicken.

While these buttermilk biscuits are fantastic without any additions, sometimes you need something over the top. Adding caramelized onions and gruyére is a heavenly combination. However, you can leave them out completely if you don’t have 30 minutes to caramelize your onions and substitute green onions and whatever cheese you like.

What I’ve been doing lately is to make a large batch of caramelized onions and refrigerate them. Then they’re ready to add to a quiche or biscuits as needed. If you need to read up on how to caramelize onions, check out my technique for French Onion Rounds.

Of course you can leave them plain and just serve them with butter and you can’t go wrong or try making blueberry muffins for a breakfast treat.

How to make buttermilk biscuits:

You only need to keep a couple of things in mind to make perfect biscuits.  First start with cold butter and buttermilk. The colder the better.  Next try to use a good quality flour. I discovered that Bob’s Red Mill not only makes almond flour, which I use all the time, but they make an All Purpose Flour. Their flour is as light as air, whole grain and unbleached with no Bromates. When you start with quality products, it really makes a difference in something like biscuits.

Step 1: Add the dry ingredients to a food processor and add COLD chunks of butter, processing until the butter is pea size.   You want the butter to still be in little chunks when you add the buttermilk.  If adding cheese and onions, add it now.

Step 2: Add buttermilk and process just until the dough starts to come together.  It should look pretty messy. If you don’t have a food processor handy, you can use a pastry cutter, try to avoid using  your hands which will melt the butter.  If that happens, you don’t get the nice pockets of air that make a biscuit tall and flaky.

Step 3: Next turn the dough out onto the counter and roughly form it into a rectangle trying to handle it as little as possible.  I cut the dough into three or four rectangles.

Step 4: Stack them on top of each other gently rolling the stack into a rectangle.  Repeat this process three to four times. So first I tell you not to handle the dough and now I’m telling you to roll and cut it four times.  The reason this works is that you’re creating lots of layers by stacking and re-stacking your dough. The goal is to keep your butter cold while doing this.  So start with really cold butter and buttermilk and try to keep your warm hands off the dough as much as possible. 

Step 5: Finally roll it into a rectangle and using a biscuit cutter, cut straight down, don’t twist it, this keeps the layers nice and tall. 

Step 6: Place in the freezer for 10 minutes. Remove and top with an egg wash and bake.

If you’re in the mood for a drop biscuit, it’s hard to beat a cheddar bay biscuit.

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Buttermilk Biscuits

Author: Barbara Curry

Mile high buttermilk biscuits with caramelized onions and cheese are easier to make than you think. They’re the best for breakfast or brunch, all by themselves but even better with bacon! Check out my tips for PERFECT buttermilk biscuits every time.

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PREP: 45 minutes

COOK: 15 minutes

Servings: 15

Ingredients

 

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• ▢ 3 ½ cups flour
• ▢ 2 teaspoons baking powder
• ▢ 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ▢ 1 tablespoon sugar
• ▢ ½ teaspoon salt
• ▢ 16 tablespoons butter cut into ½ inch pieces
• ▢ 4 ounces gruyere
• ▢ ½ cup caramelized onions 1-2 onions
• ▢ 1 ¼ cups buttermilk
• ▢ 1 egg
• ▢ 2 tablespoon cream

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Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 425º. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper
• In a food processor, add flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar. Process until combined. Add cold butter and press until it resembles coarse meal. Transfer to a large bowl. Add cheese and onions and stir to combine.
• Add buttermilk and mix lightly just until dough comes together. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and pat into a rectangle. Cut into 4ths and stack each fourth on top of each other. Pat into a rectangle and repeat 3 more times.
• Pat or roll dough to 1 inch thickness. Using a 21/2 inch round cutter, cut dough without twisting. Place on prepared pan and freeze for 10 minutes.
• Remove from freezer. Beat egg and cream together in a small bowl. Brush with egg wash and sprinkle with pepper.
• Bake for 12-15 minutes until golden brown.

Nutrition

Calories: 275kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 56mg | Sodium: 310mg | Potassium: 137mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 523IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 135mg | Iron: 1mg

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