In today's video I'm going to show you how to make a simple
shortbread using some whole meal flour to make it an even a little more healthy.
I'm Fiona. Welcome to Fiona's food for life
Sometimes it's nice to have biscuits as a treat,
but if you look at the ingredients on the biscuits you buy in the supermarket
It's a huge big long list of ingredients and probably you don't recognize half of the things
So today I'm gonna show you how to make a really simple
Shortbread and I'm gonna put a little bit of wholemeal flour in it to make it better the bit healthier
It's great to make with the kids. They love cutting out different shapes. I'm going to put in the lunchbox
So first of all, I'm going to add in 170 grams of flour. I have mixed white and brown flour
Then I'm going to add in 110 grams of butter
And I'm going to add in 55 grams of sugar they're the only ingredients that go in and we'll blitz it up together
What you're looking for is that you be able to gather it all together in a bowl
If it doesn't come together on a ball naturally
You can just put your hand in and if you squeeze a bit and it comes together like that. We're good to go.
So you want to turn it out onto a lightly floured surface
Now if you don't have a food processor you can make this. No problem
You just do it with your fingers rubbing the butter into the flour and the sugar and then keep going
Until it comes together for you
Now flour the top lightly and we're just going to roll it out
Shortbread is naturally crumbly. You just want to work gently with it
So I'm going to roll that out to about maybe half a centimetre and then I'm going to cut it into shapes
When you use butter you don't need to grease the tray. It's not going to stick.
So first of all, I could do some classic
rounds or maybe some heart-shaped for Valentine's Day
or some stars
When you're cutting out you want to cut out as close as you can together so that you're not wasting any of the mixture
Because what happens is when you put it back together again, it gets a little bit drier and more crumbly
So you want to handle it as little as possible
Scoop them up and onto your tray
So to get the rest of this mixture back together pull it away from the flour
Work it in with the heat of your hands to try and get it into a dough
And then sprinkle a little flour and roll it out again
Now to see any cracks in it like this you literally just
push it together
And with the heat your hands will all come together
Pop that in the oven about 180 degrees Celcius for 10 to 15 minutes depends on how thick the shortbread is
So these have been in the oven for 13 minutes at this stage, they're starting to go golden
They're done. Leave them to cool while you will be able to move them on the tray
leave them to go completely cold on the tray before then putting them on a wire rack
and enjoy
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Have you checked out my other videos like granola bars?
Or how to make omelette three different ways?
A really nice quick meal
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