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Pimento Cheese Biscuits
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Pimento Cheese Biscuits are the best of southern flavors in one easy-to-make biscuit. They're perfect for brunch, lunch or charcuterie boards.
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Ingredients
2½
cups
self-rising flour
chilled
1
cup
buttermilk
½
cup
butter
frozen & grated
1
cup
pimento cheese
¾
teaspoon
cayenne pepper
Instructions
Stir cayenne pepper into flour.
Freeze butter and chill flour mixture. Measure buttermilk and place measuring cup in fridge until very cold.
Grate butter with large holes of box grater adding to cold flour a bit at a time, tossing after each addition.
Add pimento cheese to flour mixture a heaping teaspoon at a time, tossing in flour as you go.
Add buttermilk stirring just until all ingredients are blended. Do not overblend.
Turn dough onto floured surface. Pat out until about ½inch thick and then fold over and pat out again. Repeat this 4 times.
Use rolling pin or pat with hands until dough is about ½ inch thick.
Cut with biscuit cutter using straight down and up motion.
Place close together on parchment lined sheet and bake at 450 degrees for 12-13 minutes or until lightly browned.
Brush with butter if desired immediately after removing from oven.
Notes
Using a 2 and ½ inch biscuit cutter will yield approximately 12 biscuits. Re-roll dough and cut 3-4 more biscuits for a total of approximately 15-16.
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