Seasoned Whole Wheat Buttermilk Biscuits Food

THE BEST WHOLE WHEAT BISCUITS

Steps:

• In a medium sized bowl combine the dry ingredients. Mix well with whisk or fork.
• Cut the ½ stick butter into little pea sized pieces and then mix the pieces into the flour mixture.
• Using a fork or pastry blender, try to mash the butter pieces as you mix it together with the flour until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. It is okay if the outcome just looks like the same pea sized pieces of butter covered with flour.
• Then pour in the milk and mix it all together. Knead the dough with your hands 8 to 10 times (for best results do not over-knead the dough) and then turn out onto a floured surface (like a counter or cutting board).
• Pat it out flat with your hands until the dough is a somewhat even ¾-inch thickness (sprinkle with a little flour if necessary).
• Turn a drinking glass upside down and cut out biscuit rounds. I have also used shaped cookie cutters (like a heart or star) if you have little ones helping you!
• Then place biscuits on an ungreased baking sheet or in a cast iron skillet and bake at 450 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Enjoy!

FLUFFY WHOLE WHEAT BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Combine all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt in bowl. Cut in butter with a knife or pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs; stir in buttermilk until just moistened.
• Turn dough out on a lightly floured surface; knead gently 8 to 10 times. Roll to about 3/4-inch thickness; cut with a 2 1/2-inch biscuit cutter. Place biscuits on an ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake in preheated oven until biscuits are lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes.

BUTTERMILK BISCUITS (WHITE WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR)

Steps:

• Heat oven to 450°F. In medium bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Cut in butter, using pastry blender (or pulling 2 table knives through ingredients in opposite directions), until mixture looks like fine crumbs. Stir in buttermilk until dough leaves side of bowl (dough will be soft and sticky).
• Place dough on lightly floured surface. Knead lightly 10 times. Roll or pat 1/2 inch thick. Cut with floured 2- to 2 1/4-inch round cutter. On ungreased cookie sheet, place biscuits about 1 inch apart for crusty sides, touching for soft sides.
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Serve warm.

SEASONED WHOLE WHEAT BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°F.
• Mix together dry ingredients. Cut in butter and mayonnaise until pebbly.
• Slowly mix milk until everything follows, as you stir.
• Flour board, dump out carefully, and knead the dough until you have folded three to five times. Keep it minimal. Do not overwork the dough, or it will be tough. Do not under work the dough, or it will not rise well. Cut into any shape you desire. You're not limited to round biscuit cutters! There are thousands of cookie cutters which make nice novelty biscuits!
• Place cut biscuits on parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden on top. I roll mine thin on purpose. The photo above is not an indication of a weak rise. ;).

FOOD PROCESSOR WHOLE WHEAT BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
• In the food processor, put the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Pulse the food processor to thoroughly mix the dry ingredients.
• While pulsing the food processor, drizzle in the canola oil. Keep on pulsing until the oil appears to be evenly distributed. You may have to stop and scrap down the sides a couple of times to ensure it is thoroughly worked into the flour mixture.
• After the oil is worked in, add the buttermilk. Keep on rapidly pulsing until the dough becomes a lump.
• Remove the dough from the food processor and form it into a flatten ball on a floured surface. Roll out the dough until it is approximately 1/2 inch thick. Using a biscuit cutter cut out the biscuits and put them on an ungreased baking sheet. Space the biscuits about an inch apart. Pull together the scraps and re-roll for more biscuits.
• Bake for approximately 15 minutes or until nicely browned.

WHOLE WHEAT BISCUITS

Steps:

• Combine flours, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
• Cut in margarine with a pastry blender or 2 knives.
• Add milk, mix quickly.
• Turn out onto a floured board.
• Knead 6 to 8 times.
• Roll 1/4 inch thick.
• Cut into 12, 2 inch round biscuits or into wedges or squares.
• Place on a lightly greased baking sheet.
• Bake in a 425°F oven 12 to 15 minutes until lightly browned.
• For herb biscuits, add basil, thyme and parsley to dry ingredients.
• (These make great dumplings).

WHOLE WHEAT BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• Mill the wheat berries with the mill set at Pastry setting or as fine as your mill will mill the berries. The flour needs to be fine, not course. You will have about 2 + cups Whole Wheat Flour. (I've never had any luck with this recipe with the WW flour purchased in the store.).
• Mix together the dry ingredients.
• You can cut the butter into the dry mixture in the old fashion way or here's a trick I learned from AB. Melt the butter in the microwave in a 2 cup glass measuring cup (about 45 seconds). Pour the COLD buttermilk in the cup with the melted butter. The butter will coagulate into beautiful little clumps just like you want. Mix in with the dry ingredients until it begins to pull away from the bowl (I use a fork). Do not overmix. Dump out onto a floured or oiled surface and pat out about 1/2 to 3/4 " thick. At this stage you can fold and pat but don't overdo the folding and patting. We're dealing with WW high gluten.
• Cut into circles. I use a Baby Gerber Apple Juice can from our first child who is now 46 years old (that can's cut out a bunch of biscuits!). I like soft sided biscuits so I put them in the pan sides touching.
• Bake at 425°F till lightly browned 10-12 minutes. If you've done everything right when you try to pick one up to butter it the top will come off. Yep, they're that tender and fluffy.

WHOLE WHEAT BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425F.
• In a large bowl, combine flour and baking powder; stir in oil.
• Add buttermilk and stir to form a soft dough.
• Lightly flour your hands and knead dough in bowl 1 minute.
• Lightly flour a work surface and rolling pin.
• Roll out dough to 1/2 inch thick; cut into 20 squares.
• Transfer to a nonstick baking sheet.
• Bake until lightly browned, about 15 minutes.
• Serve hot.