Recipe Details

Sweet Potato Biscuits

Seafood
Ingredients

  • Cooking spray

  • 2 3/4 c. 

    all-purpose flour

  • 1 tbsp. 

    baking powder

  • 1 tbsp. 

    packed brown sugar

  • 2 tsp. 

    kosher salt

  • 1/2 c. 

    (1 stick) butter, cold, cut into 1/2" cubes

  • 1 c. 

    mashed sweet potato puree (from about 2 medium sweet potatoes)

  • 1/3 c. 

    cold buttermilk

  • Melted butter, for brushing

Description

  1. Step 1Preheat oven to 425° and grease a baking sheet with cooking spray. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Add butter and use your hands to cut butter into flour until about pea-sized. Add mashed sweet potato and buttermilk and stir until a rough dough starts to come together. Use your hands to help knead flour into biscuits until it just holds together. 
  2. Step 2Dump dough onto a clean surface and bring dough together, using your hands to help incorporate any dry flour bits. 
  3. Step 3Pat dough into a ½” thick square. Fold dough in half from left to right, then fold in half again from top to bottom. Pat dough back out into a ¾” thick square. 
  4. Step 4Use a 2 ½” round cutter to cut biscuits out and place on prepared baking sheet. Gather scraps together and pat back down into ¾” thick square one more time to cut a few biscuits out. 
  5. Step 5Brush tops of biscuits with melted butter and bake until tops and bottoms are golden, about 20 minutes.