I've long been searching for a healthy* biscuit that strikes the right balance between fluffy and flakey, is still pull apart tender, and delivers all of the old fashioned flavor I love. Here I give you the the product of years of tasty (and some not so tasty) experiments. The search is over at last!
Yield: 8 Biscuits
Ingredients
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda (scant)
- 1 tsp salt
- 4 TB cold unsalted butter (cut into slices)
- 7/8 cup plain nonfat yogurt
- 2 tsp honey
- Milk
- Combine first 5 ingredients in a medium sized bowl. Cut in the butter with a pastry blender until it is the size of small peas.
- Mix the honey with yogurt, then stir into the dry mixture. If the dough does not hold together, stir in milk 1 teaspoon at a time until a single ball of dough forms (be careful not to make it sticky!)
- Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface until about an inch in thickness (don't knead the dough if you can help it.) Cut out biscuits (use a biscuit cutter or a small, round cup) and space 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake @ 425' for 10-15 minutes, until the tops and bottoms are nicely golden brown. Be careful not to let the bottoms burn, (it's easy to do!) you can always use the broiler setting for a minute to make the tops golden if you need to.
*These biscuits are much healthier than most for several reasons. #1 is that they have half whole wheat flour, instead of %100 white. #2 is they have half the butter of regular biscuits, and #3 is, because they have nonfat yogurt in place of buttermilk/whole milk, they're much lower in fat overall. And of course, they're all natural. Finally, I don't feel bad about serving biscuits on a regular basis!
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