If your recipe arsenal lacks a biscuit recipe, you’re in luck. Carla Hall just shared her easy Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits recipe and there’s no reason why you can’t (or shouldn’t) have these biscuits at every meal.
“There’s so many different things we can do with biscuit dough,” Hall says in the below clip posted to Food Network’s website. “You can have just sweet biscuits, you can have savory biscuits, [or] dumplings.”
First, you mix your dry ingredients — flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt — together in a large bowl. In a smaller bowl, mix your whole-fat buttermilk and a bit of shortening with an immersion blender.
“The secret to making really great biscuits is to grate this [frozen] butter into the flour,” Hall said. This gives you shards of butter that can be easily distributed throughout the dry ingredients without you having to overwork the dough.
After adding your buttermilk and shortening mixture to the dry ingredients, plop your dough onto a floured surface and press it down until it’s about a half-inch thick. Then fold it into thirds twice to create those flaky layers.
Finally, cut your biscuits out using a biscuit cutter or a drinking glass and then place them on a baking tray. Bake them for about 15 minutes and then you’re ready to eat.
Hall kept her biscuit toppings simple with just a bit of butter and some honey, but you can basically eat your biscuits with anything from jam to gravy. “What’s better than a fresh biscuit?” Hall asks. Well, really nothing!
“Best biscuit recipe ever!! The only recipe I’ll ever use for biscuits,” one commenter wrote on the Food Network post. Another person added, “Your biscuits are amazing! No other biscuit recipe will do!”
Grab Hall’s recipe here and start making biscuits to go with every meal.
Before you go, check out Ina Garten’s easy weeknight dinner recipes below:
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