How to make basic biscuits - Easy Awesome Homemade Biscuit Recipe
Hello and welcome back to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am your host, Matt Taylor.
Today I am going to show you how to make biscuits, mmm yummy, this is an all-purpose biscuit,
it can be used for biscuits and gravy, you can just put some butter and honey on it,
you could do like a breakfast biscuit, where you put bacon and eggs in the middle, whatever
you want to do, it is a really easy recipe to do, if I can do it, you can do it, let's
get baking.
First let's start by sifting our dry ingredients together.
So I got a nice little sifter here, we are going to add two cups of flour, and it is
okay if it falls off the sides, I am not too worried about it, two tablespoons of baking
powder, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of white granulated sugar, let's go ahead and
sift this together.
All right once we have our dry ingredients sifted let's go ahead and move over to our
food processor, if you don't have a food processor you can use a pastry blender or a fork, to
do this next step.
All right so let's go ahead and add our flour to our food processor, and now I have 5 tablespoons
of cold butter and I just cut them up into little chunks like this, go ahead and add
that.
Put the top down, if you don't have a food processor and you want to pick one up, I will
put a link down below where you can get one, I use mine all the time, I love it.
And we are just going to go ahead and pulse it.
All right that should be good enough.
It is nice and damp it is all mixed together.
Let's go ahead and add that mixture back to this bowl.
And as you can see I got flour everywhere on the table, and I am not every concerned
about that, because this is where I am going to shape my dough as well, and I need flour
for that, so there we go.
Take one cup of cold milk, you can use whatever kind of milk you want, whole milk, 1%, 2%,
let's just go ahead that together.
We just come in with a fork or spoon and we just come in and mix this together, until
it forms a nice dough for us.
All right now your dough can be a little bit sticky, and if that happens, just take a little
bit of extra flour, we are just going to add it in there, this is our flour that I would
use for dusting, there we go, so I just wound up adding about 2 or 3 more tablespoons of
flour.
And so you don't want it to be sticky to the touch, so like that, it is absolutely perfect.
And now I am doing to take some a little bit of my flour here, and let's add the dough,
and I am going to push it together in my hands a little bit.
And I am just going to kinda push it down so it makes a rectangle like that, and I am
going to fold it over on itself, and it will be really nice soft dough, really cool, and
then I am going to, add a little bit more flour, I am just going to kinda shape it into
a rectangle, and it will be something about maybe 10 inches wide by an inch thick.
Something like that, then I am just going to cover this loosely with plastic wrap.
And let's just let this dough rest for 20 to 30 minutes.
Once our dough has relaxed I am going to go ahead and turn on the oven, to 425 degrees
F. And now um, you can use a biscuit cutter to this, or, you can just do what I am going
to do, is I have a glass, and I just put some flour all over it, let's go ahead and cut
out our biscuits, just push down, try not to turn it too much, go ahead and put it on
an ungreased baking sheet, and if it is a little bit too sticky you can just dust it
with flour, and then with the rest of this just kind of, put it all together, and just
pat it down again, use more flour as needed, and then you cut out some more.
And then maybe with this last one I am just going to shape it myself into one.
All right and then we are going to bake these in the oven, at 425 degrees F, for 10 to 15
minutes, until they will puff up and get nice and golden brown, on to that step.
When they come out of the oven they will look like this, nice and golden brown on top, awesome,
they smell really good, so I am going to go ahead and cut into one, look at that, awesome.
And then, I am going to take some butter, yummy butter, some honey, boom, and that is
one of my favorite ways to eat biscuits.
All right our basic biscuits are done, they turned out amazing, they were really easy
to do, simple ingredients, if I can do it you can do it.
I am Matt Taylor this has been another episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, thank you for
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Take care, time for me to dive into one of these, ooh yeah, grab this guy, mmm, mmm,
mmm.