Best Whole Wheat Buttermilk Biscuits Recipes

WHOLE WHEAT BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°F Combine 1 3/4 cups flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl; whisk together. Add butter, toss with your fingers to coat with flour, and rapidly pinch and fluff butter into flour with your fingertips to make small flakes. Work quickly to keep butter firm.
• Add buttermilk; stir well with a fork until the dough gathers into one large lump. Drizzle in additional droplets of buttermilk if necessary.
• Scrape dough onto a flat surface sprinkled with remaining 1/4 cup flour. Roll dough to coat with flour, then pat out into a rough rectangle about 1/2-inch-thick and fold it in thirds. Repeat the patting and folding. Pat dough into a thickness of 1 inch. Dip a 2-inch round cutter into flour and stamp out biscuits, coating the cutter with flour before each stamping. Place biscuits, top sides up, on a heavy ungreased baking sheet about 1 inch apart.
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes, until biscuits are golden brown. Makes 12 biscuits.
• Note: These are really good with honey butter. To make honey butter, put approximately equal amounts of honey and soft butter into a small bowl and whip with a fork until smooth.

BUTTERMILK BISCUITS (WHITE WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR)

Steps:

• Heat oven to 450°F. In medium bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Cut in butter, using pastry blender (or pulling 2 table knives through ingredients in opposite directions), until mixture looks like fine crumbs. Stir in buttermilk until dough leaves side of bowl (dough will be soft and sticky).
• Place dough on lightly floured surface. Knead lightly 10 times. Roll or pat 1/2 inch thick. Cut with floured 2- to 2 1/4-inch round cutter. On ungreased cookie sheet, place biscuits about 1 inch apart for crusty sides, touching for soft sides.
• Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Serve warm.

WHOLE WHEAT BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425F.
• In a large bowl, combine flour and baking powder; stir in oil.
• Add buttermilk and stir to form a soft dough.
• Lightly flour your hands and knead dough in bowl 1 minute.
• Lightly flour a work surface and rolling pin.
• Roll out dough to 1/2 inch thick; cut into 20 squares.
• Transfer to a nonstick baking sheet.
• Bake until lightly browned, about 15 minutes.
• Serve hot.

WHOLE WHEAT BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. In a large bowl whisk flours, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add buttermilk to dry ingredients, stirring (with a wooden spoon or your hands) until dry ingredients are moistened. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead lightly 4 to 5 times and shape into a ball. Roll or pat dough out to about 1-inch thickness. Cut with a biscuit cutter and place on an ungreased baking sheet. Combine the remaining scraps of dough together, roll and cut a few more biscuits and transfer to baking sheet. Stop here. Any extra dough you have discard, as they will probably yield tough biscuits. Bake for about 12 to 14 minutes or until a light golden brown.

SEASONED WHOLE WHEAT BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°F.
• Mix together dry ingredients. Cut in butter and mayonnaise until pebbly.
• Slowly mix milk until everything follows, as you stir.
• Flour board, dump out carefully, and knead the dough until you have folded three to five times. Keep it minimal. Do not overwork the dough, or it will be tough. Do not under work the dough, or it will not rise well. Cut into any shape you desire. You're not limited to round biscuit cutters! There are thousands of cookie cutters which make nice novelty biscuits!
• Place cut biscuits on parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden on top. I roll mine thin on purpose. The photo above is not an indication of a weak rise. ;).

WHOLE WHEAT BUTTERMILK BISCUITS

Steps:

• Mill the wheat berries with the mill set at Pastry setting or as fine as your mill will mill the berries. The flour needs to be fine, not course. You will have about 2 + cups Whole Wheat Flour. (I've never had any luck with this recipe with the WW flour purchased in the store.).
• Mix together the dry ingredients.
• You can cut the butter into the dry mixture in the old fashion way or here's a trick I learned from AB. Melt the butter in the microwave in a 2 cup glass measuring cup (about 45 seconds). Pour the COLD buttermilk in the cup with the melted butter. The butter will coagulate into beautiful little clumps just like you want. Mix in with the dry ingredients until it begins to pull away from the bowl (I use a fork). Do not overmix. Dump out onto a floured or oiled surface and pat out about 1/2 to 3/4 " thick. At this stage you can fold and pat but don't overdo the folding and patting. We're dealing with WW high gluten.
• Cut into circles. I use a Baby Gerber Apple Juice can from our first child who is now 46 years old (that can's cut out a bunch of biscuits!). I like soft sided biscuits so I put them in the pan sides touching.
• Bake at 425°F till lightly browned 10-12 minutes. If you've done everything right when you try to pick one up to butter it the top will come off. Yep, they're that tender and fluffy.