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Sweet Potato Biscuit Recipe

Healthy Sweet Potato Biscuit Recipe

These Sweet Potato Biscuits are so yummy! This sweet potato biscuit recipe is another great recipe from our great friend Dawn Brockett.

Serving Suggestions:

  • Serve with honey butter alongside soft scrambled eggs cooked with compound butter.
  • Make into breakfast sandwiches with a fried egg and veggie sausage patty.
  • Serve as a side dish with our Healthy Potato Salad.
  • My favorite winter brunch? Sweet potato biscuits and vegetarian sausage gravy. Make your tongue slap your brains out!–as we would say in Mississippi.
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Sweet Potato Biscuits

Course Bread
Cuisine American
Keyword biscuits

Equipment

  • Cast Iron Pan

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour
  • 1/2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
  • 1 Tbsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 3/4 cup mashed cooked sweet potato (peeled, if using fresh)
  • 3/4 cup buttermilk best, milk or alternative milk
  • 2 Tbsp canola or olive oil

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 450. Lightly oil a cast-iron pan. (If you do not have a cast-iron pan, a baking sheet will do fine.) In a large bowl, mix flours, baking powder and salt. Whisk to combine. Create a ‘well’ or deep divot in the dry ingredients.
  • In a separate bowl, combine sweet potatoes, buttermilk and oil. Mix well to combine. Pour into the ‘well’ in the bowl of dry ingredients. (This helps the wet and dry ingredients combine while reducing the potential of over-stirring.) Stir just enough to combine but no more.
  • Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and work with it just until it holds together into a ball. The less you work the dough, the more tender the biscuits will be. At this point, you have a choice. If you prefer perfectly shaped biscuits, pat the dough into a one-inch thick circle and cut with a biscuit cutter (or the bottom of a glass). I prefer to simply pull off tennis ball sized chunks of dough, roll into something resembling a sphere and place it into the pan. Start with one in the middle, then fill in the others around it. The biscuits may touch. On a baking sheet, simply place biscuits close to one another in a circle. Bake for 10-12 minutes, until the bottoms are lightly browned. Serve warm.

Notes

Canned, pureed sweet potatoes allow for an easy shortcut to save time. However, canned, sweetened “yams” would not be a good substitute.

We would love to know what you think about our Sweet Potato Biscuit Recipe.

Photos by Lisa Marie

Blair Sutherland

I am a website developer, musician, massage therapist and recording engineer. I am always striving to be healthy and happy.

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