Cheese, butter, garlic, herbs, chilies bursting with flavour, plus that extra pinch of sea salt on top… ooh la la! When I got my hands on this delicious churned butter with tons of fresh green herbs and garlic from Shweta of Sowhyte fame – I instantly felt a biscuit was in order. This is a simple recipe of butter, flour, salt, herbs and cheese! This biscuit is not a cracker, but a softer one similar to that of an English scone, albeit a slimmer one! I’ve used them as croutons on top of soup, placed on a cheese platter, served alongside this Spicy Onion Relish….
Easy, instant, and if the cookie cutter is laborious to you, simple use a pizza cutter and cut into squares! Also, if you wish to make this into thicker scones, add a pinch of baking powder and cream of tartar into the dry mixture and then add to the dough.
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The Recipe
Serves Yields: 24-36 biscuits
Ingredients
- 100g Garlic + Herb Butter from Sowhyte
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 125g flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp red chili flakes
- ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
- pinch of nutmeg
- 50g grated cheese (2 cubes of Amul processed cheese)
- 1 tbsp parmesan powder cheese
- 1-2 tsp red chilli flakes
- 1 tbsp milk (for brushing)
- sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 150C
- In a big mixing bowl, whisk the flavoured butter and oil until creamed
- Add the grated cheese, salt, chilli flakes and nutmeg and whisk
- Then add the flour and combine to a dough
- Place the dough between two sheets of parchment paper and roll out to a 1-2 cm thickness
- Then sprinkle red chilli flakes and parmesan cheese and gently roll over once to set
- Cut out with your desired shape of cookie cutter and carefully transfer to a prepared baking tray with parchment paper
- Brush the biscuits with milk and sprinkle sea salt on top
- Bake for 15 minutes
- Then remove from the oven and place on a cooling rack to cool down completely before eating
- NOTE:
- If the dough is too soft to work with, place in the fridge for 30 minutes or so
- Adjust salt level as per the cheese you are using
- If you are unable to get your hands on Sowhyte, you can replace with the following:
- 100g butter (room temperature) + 2 tbsp dried Italian herbs + 2 tsp minced garlic
