These tender, low fat biscuits are a perfect way to use up extra sweet potatoes (or yams). I sometimes bake an extra sweet potato for dinner and use it to prepare these slightly sweet and spicy biscuits within a couple of days. They come together quickly and contain more fiber and vitamins than traditional biscuits. Serve hot from the oven or warm with butter, jam, honey, cream cheese or sharp cheese or serve on the side with a bowl of soup, beans or stew.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups whole-wheat pastry flour or white whole-wheat flour (all purpose flour works too)
- 1 Tablespoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 Tablespoon sugar
- 1/8 – ¼ teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger OR nutmeg
- ¾ cup cooked, peeled, mashed sweet potato or yam (canned works too)
- 2 Tablespoons melted butter or margarine OR refined coconut oil
- ½ cup milk (any kind, unsweetened and unflavored)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 425 F. Line a metal baking pan with parchment or foil.
- Combine dry ingredients in medium large bowl. Whisk well.
- In a smaller bowl, combine the mashed sweet potato, melted butter and milk, stirring well.
- Stir the wet mixture into the dry mixture.
- Knead the dough 5 or 6 times, turning the dough over itself to create layers.
- Flatten dough to ¾ inch thickness.
- Cut with a 2-½ inch biscuit cutter.
- If you want biscuits with lightly crisp browned outsides, evenly space biscuits in prepared pan so they aren’t touching. If you want them all over soft, place them closer together.
- Bake the biscuits in the preheated oven for 12-15 minutes, or until bottoms are golden.
Yields about 12 biscuits.
Recipe Source: Judith Berman-Yamada, Kitchen Maven
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