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Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits-Reviewed |
Last week, Fran and I made delicious beef stew. This hearty beef stew was perfect for a cold day. I love having something to dip into my beef stew so, I decided to make some homemade buttermilk biscuits.
By the way, you can find our beef stew recipe here: Instant Pot Beef Stew Recipe.
The beef stew is fast and easy to make in the Instant Pot. It is the perfect comfort food on a cold winter day.
These buttermilk biscuits were a perfect addition to the beef stew, but are also great with butter or jam.
Ingredients:
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) of butter (I used salted butter) cold. If you use unsalted butter add a teaspoon of salt to dry ingredients.
- 1/2 cup Crisco vegetable shortening cold
- 1 1/4 cups buttermilk cold
Instructions:
- Combine the flour and baking powder in a large mixing bowl.
- Add the cold butter and Crisco and cut in using a pastry cutter until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Add the cold buttermilk and mix it with a spatula until the dough comes together.
- Now, work the dough with your hands on a lightly floured surface. The dough will be a bit sticky.
- I rolled the dough out on a floured surface to about 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch thick. You can make them thicker if you like or get nice flakey layers by rolling them out thin and folding them over.
- I don't have a 3-inch biscuit cutter, so I used a 3-inch drinking glass to cut them out.
- Place them on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Or a greased cookie sheet.
- Bake on the center rack at 475 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes until the biscuits are golden brown.
Here are my buttermilk biscuits, ready for the oven. They were so easy to make and perfect for our beef stew.
This is a great kitchen tool for cutting cold ingredients into dry ingredients, it makes to work so much easier.