Ham & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuits

Ham & Cheese Buttermilk Biscuits

Course: Appetizer, Bread, Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Keyword: biscuits, buttermilk biscuits, ham and cheese biscuits

Prep Time: 10

Cook Time: 10

Total Time: 20

Servings: servings

Calories: 146kcal

Author: Colleen Kennedy

Easy to make Ham and Cheese Buttermilk Biscuits. A perfect recip to use up leftover ham but good enough to get ham just to make!

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Ingredients

2 cups flour
1 TBS baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon kosher salt more or less to taste
½ teaspoon black pepper more or less to taste
7 individual TBS COLD butter
¾ cup shredded cheese cheddar, Pepper jack or blend
¾ cup diced ham
½ cup scallions sliced thin or chives more or less to taste
drizzle of honey optional
1 cup buttermilk

Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
In a bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and pepper and whisk to blend.
Cut in cold butter with a pastry cutter or fork intil crumbly (you could also do just this stage in your food processor).
Add cheese, ham and scallions and toss to combine.
Make a well in the center of the mixture, add buttermilk and honey if using and gently stir it together with a fork or spatula until combined. Don't over-mix.
You can then scatter flour on your counter or parchment paper and form dough into a square and cut into biscuits with a biscuit cutter or simply scoop 2-3 TBS (or a cookie scoop) at a time and drop on your baking sheet (lined with parchment paper or lightly greased). Or form into a rectangle and cut into square or rectangle biscuits.
Bake for 10-11 minutes or until done to your liking. Making traditional sized biscuits will yield about a 10 biscuits.

Notes

Play around with what you add to these easy drop biscuits. Switch up the cheese(s), swap scallions for jalapenos. Swap ham for bacon or leave out all-together. This recipe is very easy to work with.

The large the biscuits, the longer the bake time.

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