Cornmeal Biscuits
Cornmeal biscuits have the crunchy, nutty sweet flavor of cornbread, and the light fluffiness of a biscuit (their golden color is gorgeous.) Pair them with all your soups, stews, and chilis this season!
Servings: 10 biscuits
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Ingredients
biscuits
- 1 cup yellow cornmeal (you can also use white cornmeal)
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 Tbsp honey
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 12 Tbsp cold unsalted butter cut in pieces
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 450F
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Whisk the cornmeal, buttermilk and honey together in a bowl and set aside.
- Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt to the bowl of a processor and pulse to combine.
- Add in the cold butter pieces and pulse about 10 times until the mixture resembles a coarse meal.
- Add the buttermilk/cornmeal mixture to the machine.
- Pulse/process the mixture just enough to bring the dough together into large clumps. Add a little more buttermilk if the dough seems too dry.
- Turn out onto a floured surface and bring together into one lump. Add in a little extra flour if it’s too wet. Note: if the dough is a bit dry or crumbly at this point I will wrap it in plastic and let it sit on the counter for about 15 minutes to allow it to hydrate.
- Pat or roll dough into a 9" round, about an inch thick. Cut out biscuits with a 2 1/2 inch biscuit cutter. Reforming the dough as necessary.
- Bake for 5 minutes, until they just start to rise, and then turn down the heat to 400F, and bake for another 8 to 10 minutes, until golden.
- Cool on a rack.
Notes
- If you can't find or don't want to buy buttermilk you can make an acceptable substitute from milk and lemon juice or vinegar. Add a tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice to a measuring cup, then fill the rest with whole milk. Set aside on the counter for 15 minutes, then use as you would buttermilk.
Nutrition
Calories: 295 kcal · Carbohydrates: 34 g · Protein: 5 g · Fat: 16 g · Saturated Fat: 9 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 4 g · Trans Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 39 mg · Sodium: 317 mg · Potassium: 237 mg · Fiber: 2 g · Sugar: 3 g · Vitamin A: 459 IU · Vitamin C: 0.01 mg · Calcium: 89 mg · Iron: 2 mg
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although The View from Great Island attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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