Southern

Buttermilk Biscuits

Name: Buttermilk Biscuits
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 2.5 cups all-purpose flour; 1 tbsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 3/4 tsp salt; 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cold and cubed; 1 cup buttermilk, cold

Arlene @arlene_memphis

Buttermilk Biscuits is Southern home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Easy Vegetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2.5 cups all-purpose flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup unsalted butter, cold and cubed
1 cup buttermilk, cold

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 425F and line a baking sheet with parchment.
Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together.
Cut the cold butter into the flour with a pastry cutter or your fingers until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs.
Pour in the buttermilk and stir just until a shaggy dough comes together.
Turn onto a floured surface, pat into a 1-inch-thick rectangle, and cut into rounds, pressing straight down without twisting.
Arrange close together on the baking sheet and bake until tall and golden on top, about 15 minutes.

Watch how to cook Buttermilk Biscuits

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Buttermilk Biscuits, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
  
  40 min
The cooked vegetable
- Fried Okra
  
  25 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Buttermilk Biscuits carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Buttermilk Biscuits
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Vegetarian Baked Beans
Gluten	Yes	Cheese Grits
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 400 kcal
Protein: 8 g
Carbs: 47 g
Fat: 20 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 450 mg
Saturated fat: 11 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Buttermilk Biscuits takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.