Sea Salt, Black Pepper, and Scallion Biscuits
Total preparation time: 30 min.
Serves: 10Ingredients:
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 bunch scallions, trimmed and chopped into small pieces (include both white and green)
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, frozen, plus a little extra for brushing
- 3/4 cup cold buttermilk
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 450F.
- Whisk flours in large mixing bowl. Grate frozen butter into flours and mix with hands until well distributed. Whisk in baking powder, soda, sugar, salt and pepper.
- Add chopped scallions to buttermilk and then to flour mixture. Gently incorporate wet into dry ingredients.
- When a dough has been achieved, turn out onto floured board and gently form into a rough square about 1 inch thick and cut into 8-10 squares (this is an estimate – you can make them whatever size you want to).
- Place on cookie sheet and brush with melted butter; sprinkle with coarse sea salt and black pepper and bake for 10-12 minutes, or until lightly brown on the top.