Thanksgiving Sweet Potato Biscuits with Bacon & Sharp Cheddar
November 23, 2009
Delight your Thanksgiving guests with this charming recipe,
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SWEET POTATO BISCUITS WITH BACON & SHARP CHEDDAR
I originally posted this recipe in last year’s Thanksgiving blog, but it was so popular I decided to rerun it this year for all my new readers. These mini sandwiches make great Thanksgiving dinner appetizers. Or, serve the biscuits on the day after stuffed with turkey and cranberry sauce. Of course, you don’t have to cut the biscuits into turkey shapes. These beauties will taste just as good if you simply pat out the dough and cut it into squares with a knife.
(Makes 14 – 16 two-inch biscuits)
INGREDIENTS
2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon each cinnamon and freshly grated nutmeg
¼ cup cold butter, cut into ¼-inch dice
1 cup baked and mashed sweet potato (about 1 medium sweet potato)
2 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons maple syrup
16 slices crisp fried bacon
Sliced sharp cheddar
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Combine flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg in a large bowl. Add the chilled butter pieces and cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Stir together the mashed sweet potato, milk and maple syrup. With a wooden spoon, stir the potato mixture into the flour mixture until dough starts to form in clumps. Add a tablespoon or so of milk if the mixture is too dry, or a little flour if it is too sticky. Do not overmix.
- Turn the clumps out onto a lightly floured work surface and gently knead once or twice until the dough comes together. Roll or pat the dough out into a 1/2 –inch thickness. Cut out shapes with a 2-inch cutter dipped in flour. Gently pat the scraps together and repeat with the remaining dough. Place biscuits on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake 10 – 12 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack. While still slightly warm, split biscuits and fill each with a strip of crisp bacon (broken into thirds to fit on biscuit) and a slice of sharp cheddar. Serve immediately.
Turkey Tip:
This old southern, artery-clogging, but delicious trick is sure to make your Thanksgiving turkey moist, flavorful and delicious. Slather the bird with bacon grease before roasting!
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