These cheddar and chive biscuits are easy to make and make a great savory breakfast, snack, or side dish to a lunch or dinner menu.
Chives are super easy to grow in the garden and they come back year after year. One way to use them is to add them to dough, in this case, biscuits. Perfect for breakfast, a snack, or as a side dish.
How to Make Cheddar & Chive Biscuits
Step 1: Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl.
Step 2: Cut up cold butter into small pieces.
Step 3: Use a pastry cutter or 2 forks to cut in the butter. It should have the texture of oatmeal.
Step 4: Add the shredded cheddar cheese and chives and mix together.
Step 5: Add the buttermilk and stir until just combined. Then gather the dough and turn it out onto a floured surface.
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Step 6: Prepare the dough by folding it in half and pressing it together. Then turn it and fold it again. Fold and press one more time.
Note:
Keep a little pile of flour handy at the side to add to the dough, the rolling pin, or the biscuit cutter as needed.
Step 7: Roll out the dough and cut out as many biscuits as possible. Make sure the biscuit cutter is dipped into flour and press it into the dough, then pull it out. Do not rotate or twist it.
Step 8: Place the cut out biscuits onto a parchment lined baking sheet or a greased baking sheet.
Step 9: Gather the remaining dough scraps together and roll them out. Then cut out more biscuits. Continue until you use up all the dough.
Step 10: Bake the biscuits for 15 minutes or until they are golden brown.
Step 11: Remove the biscuits from the oven and garnish by brushing on a little melted butter and a sprinkle of chives.
Then enjoy these light and flaky savory buttermilk biscuits as you wish.
More Easy Bread Recipes
Cheddar Cheese and Chive Biscuit Recipe
Equipment
- biscuit cutter
- pastry cutter or pastry blender
- Parchment paper optional
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- .5 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 2 tablespoons fresh chopped chives extra for garnish
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons melted butter for garnish - optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees
- Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large mixing bowl.
- Cut up butter into small cubes.
- Add the butter cubes to the flour mixture and blend with a pastry cutter until it resembles the texture of oatmeal.
- Add cheddar cheese and chives to the flour and butter mixture. Mix well.
- Pour buttermilk in and stir until just mixed.
- Gather the dough from the mixing bowl and place it on a lightly floured surface.
- Press out the dough and then fold it in half.
- Turn the dough, press it out a little again, and fold it in half again.
- Turn, press and fold a third time.
- Roll the dough into a rectangle about 1 inch thick, and cut out as many biscuits as you can with a 3 inch biscuit cutter.
- Place each biscuit on a parchment lined or greased baking sheet.
- Gather the remaining dough scraps together and roll it out. Then cut out more biscuits. Repeat until all the dough is used.
- Bake the biscuits for 15 minutes or until the tops are golden brown.
- Remove from the oven, brush with melted butter and sprinkle a few chopped chives on top.
Nutrition
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although attempts have been made to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
Marie Dillon
Yum. Looks and sounds great. I'll try it this weekend.
Patti Estep
Hope you love it Marie.