Buttermilk Goat Cheese Biscuits
Tender and flaky, these Buttermilk Goat Cheese Biscuits will tickle your fancy after just one nibble!
Bill and I enjoyed these tender, Homemade Biscuits on a trip to Chicago. Thank goodness I found a way to recreate these gems at home!
Why You Must Make
- This recipe was inspired by Art Smith owner of the Chicago restaurant, Table 52, and Oprah’s personal chef.
- They were so tender, flaky, and delicious that we practically inhaled them
- Even if you’re not a huge goat cheese fan, don’t worry. The cheese provides moisture, making the biscuits soft without adding an overt goat cheese flavor.
Ingredient Notes
- Kitchen Staples – All-purpose flour, salt
- Baking Powder – Unlike baking soda, baking powder has a short shelf life. Check the expiration date and replace it if needed before making this recipe.
- Butter – Must be cold for flaky biscuits. Salted butter is fine.
- Buttermilk – If you don’t have any on hand, a quick substitute is for each cup needed, add 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice or light-colored vinegar to a 1 cup liquid measuring cup. Fill to the 1 cup mark with whole milk or 2% milk. Let rest a minute or two until it starts to curdle. Stir and use as directed.
- Grated Parmesan – Don’t use the green can. Look for real Parmesano Reggiano.
- Goat Cheese – Look for firm goat cheese without a lot of water in the packaging. Examine for discoloration which is undesirable.
Expert Tips
The butter, buttermilk, and goat cheese worked their magic and produced a biscuit with a very subtle tang and all the characteristics of a perfect biscuit. See the layers? See how moist the interior is?
- PRO-Tip: Cutting in COLD butter creates little pockets of fat that will produce steam as they heat. This is crucial for creating layers.
- Since goat cheese is the ingredient that provides the flavor to these biscuits, make sure to buy a quality product.
- PRO-Tip: Preheat your oven so the biscuit dough gets a blast of heat when it enters the oven.
- Preheating your skillet, too, allows the sides and the bottom of the biscuits to get a blast of heat, too.
- Line your pan with parchment paper to prevent sticking and to help with easy cleanup.
Frequently Asked Questions
There are just a few steps to make homemade biscuits. First, mix together the dry ingredients. Next mix in the cold butter (and goat cheese if using this recipe) with a pastry blender, two knives, your fingers or even pulse in a food processor. Then mix in the buttermilk or other liquid to make a dough.
It’s best to wrap them in plastic wrap or foil as air exposure will dry them out more quickly. They can keep 1-2 days at room temperature, up to a week in the refrigerator, and up to 3 months in the freezer. But they’re always best on the day they’re baked.
Yes, biscuits keep well in the freezer if they’re wrapped well individually. This will minimize freezer burn and any moisture loss.
Crumbly biscuits are caused by an improper ratio of dry ingredients to fat. Excess dry ingredients will create crumbly biscuits.
Hard biscuits result when the butter or fat is not incorporated evenly. The flour and fat mixture should look like coarse cornmeal when the fat is cut in properly.
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Buttermilk Goat Cheese Biscuits
Tender buttermilk biscuits with the tang of goat cheese.
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons cold butter, cut into small pieces
- 4 tablespoons (2 ounces) good quality goat cheese, cut into small pieces
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 tablespoons butter, divided, to grease the pan and top the biscuits
- 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425º. Place 10-inch cast iron skillet into the oven to heat.
- Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a medium bowl. Add butter and goat cheese and with fingers, pinch and break apart pieces till the mixture has the consistency of coarse cornmeal.
- Add buttermilk and gently mix to form the dough. You may add an extra tablespoon of buttermilk if needed.
- Remove the hot skillet from the oven. Add 1 tablespoon of butter and swirl to coat the bottom of the pan.
- Remove dough from the bowl onto a floured surface. Knead a few times till the dough comes together, then pat into a rectangle about 1-1/2 inch in height.
- Using a 2 1/2-inch biscuit cutter, press straight down to cut out rounds. Place into skillet. Brush with additional melted butter.
- Bake 14-16 minutes, till lightly browned. Sprinkle hot muffins with Parmesan and serve warm.
Notes
Buttermilk Goat Cheese Biscuits - Tender, flaky biscuits with an extra richness from goat cheese
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
8Serving Size:
1 biscuitAmount Per Serving: Calories: 280Total Fat: 14gSaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 34mgSodium: 775mgCarbohydrates: 30gFiber: 1gSugar: 2gProtein: 8g
33 Comments on “Buttermilk Goat Cheese Biscuits”
These are incredible! The goat cheese adds such an earthy deliciousness.
I appreciate your honesty in telling about your two unsatisfactory attempts at a #TwelveLoaves cheese recipe. I’m glad to know that you make baking mistakes too, Liz. LOL. You did a wonderful job with your take of Art Smith’s biscuits. They look amazing and I’ll bet they’re just a light and delicious as they look! I can’t wait to try these!
Lizzy,
Such delicious looking biscuits. I love goat cheese and biscuits. My hubby probably would have eaten double the amount Bill did. Yum!
Annamaria
I love goat cheese and biscuits and how flaky and perfect these are!!
Oh, my, goodness….I sooooo want – no – need one of those buttermilk biscuits with goat cheese in my life =) Sorry I missed this challenge…Time just slipped by…Anyway, bravo for replicating an Art Smith recipe, Liz!
I love biscuits. I mean, I REALLY LOVE biscuits. This is a must make!
I adore American biscuits! We don’t really have them here so I love to order them when I visit USA but for now, I will have to make these at home!!!
Your biscuits look perfect, Liz. Wow!
These look really nice. I am not a big biscuit fan but the guys are and I try to make them now and again for them…this looks like a wonderful recipe and one they would love with the goat cheese and buttermilk. Thanks, will give them a go!
I have a hard time resisting a homemade biscuit – and these are definitely no exception. They sound magnificent!
I love your Twelve Loaves posts, Liz 🙂 I guess I’m even more enamored because I’m obsessed with all things goat cheese. I’d never even thought of incorporating it straight into my biscuits. A recipe for me to save, for sure! Thanks for sharing this!!
Liz, oh my gawd, I LOVE these biscuits!!!
Liz, oh my gawd, I LOVE these biscuits!!!