2.Add in the Butter to this, let the butter be chilled one. Rub it with the fingers and mix well along with the dry ingredients. Mix well along until everything is completely mixed. The flour mixture resembles crumbled now. Put it in the freezer for 10 mins. Now add the chilled buttermilk to the flour mixture, mix together and knead the dough.
4. Knead the flour back and forth and then flatten it with a rolling pin with ½ inch thickness.
5.Using a cookie cutter cut the biscuits.
6. Place it in a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Brush the top of the biscuits with milk or buttermilk
7.Preheat the oven at 180 Deg C for 10 mins and then bake the at 180 Deg for about 20 mins or until the cookies slightly golden. Allow the cookies to cool completely and then store in airtight containers.
Buttermilk Biscuits | Eggless Buttermilk Biscuits
Standard 1 cup measures 240 ml
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- All-purpose Flour / Maida – 1 cup
- Salt – ½ tsp
- Baking powder – 1 tsp
- Baking Soda - ⅛ tsp
- Un Salted Butter – 4 tbsp
- Chilled Buttermilk – ⅓ cup
- Milk for brushing the biscuits
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl add All-purpose Flour, Salt, Baking powder, and Baking Soda.
- Add in the Butter to this, let the butter be chilled one. Rub it with the fingers and mix well along with the dry ingredients. Mix well along until everything is completely mixed. The flour mixture resembles crumbled now.
- Put it in the freezer for 10 mins.
- Now add the chilled buttermilk to the flour mixture, mix together, and knead the dough. Knead the flour back and forth and then flatten it with a rolling pin with ½ inch thickness.
- Using a cookie cutter cut the biscuits and place them in a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Brush the top of the biscuits with milk or buttermilk
- Preheat the oven at 180 Deg C for 10 mins and then bake at 180 Deg for about 20 mins or until the cookies slightly golden.
- Allow the cookies to cool completely and then store in airtight containers.
Notes
The flaky layer is because of the chilled butter and its reaction with the other ingredients, so don’t change the recipe measurements.
Serve with Chocolate sauce or any Jam.
Amara’s cooking
Those biscuits look nice and flaky Sharmila. They are perfect as a side dish for any meal.
Rafeeda AR
Oh they look super flaky! I remember having them along with Texas chicken I suppose and they were so good... thank you for sharing the recipe...
Saraswathi Ganeshan
Easy Peasy!breakfast recipe! Love to bake in batches and freeze them when ever needed!
Srivalli
These look so flaky Sharmila, very nicely baked!..I love salt biscuits batter than sweet ones and I would surely want to make these sometime..
Sravanthi
I baked these few years back 🙂 These biscuits look so light and flaky and must have been very tasty..