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I have an idea! Spoiler alert: it’s about biscuits.
Actually, I’ll just keep this short and sweet. Let’s make biscuits! Extra savory, baked with greens and stinky cheese, served with generous amounts of soft butter.
Our biscuit game just got tangy and spicy, aaand spinach is definitely a vegetable so these biscuits are dang-near healthy.
It’s time.
Helllllo, ’bout to be biscuits!
We’ve done this about a zillion times before, my favorite time being those dang Caramelized Mushroom and Onion Biscuits. We’re at it again.
Flour with lots of butter for flavor and flakiness. Salt and sugar for flavor and balance.
These biscuits are packed with savory flavor: sautéed spinach, green onions, and garlic.
Let’s go!
Cold butter is worked into the flour mixture. Bits of butter. Some big, some small.
The egg is beaten with cold buttermilkfortangy flavor and tender texture. ‘Bout it ’bout it.
Shaggy dough. A little sticky and that’s just right!
Scallions, garlic and spinach are quick sautéed and cooled.
First with the spinach to combine lightly. A few sweeps of the wooden spoon should incorporate it just so.
Next with the blue cheese (or feta is super nice, too). A few more sweeps with the wooden spoon. I’m careful not to over-mix.
No need to knead or roll.
I just pat the dough out on a well-floured surface.
Round biscuits or make ’em square.
If the dough has warmed too much… say, it’s almost summer in New Orleans or something… just shuffle the biscuits into the refrigerator before baking them. It’s best to have the butter chilled before the biscuits hit the oven.
These are not subtle biscuits. Not coy. Not apologetic. They’re light and tender but packed with zing from the blue cheese, onions, and spinach.
These would be a fantastic savory breakfast bite with black coffee, and would also be great as a dinner roll with roasted chicken. In other words, eat em when you want em. These are those biscuits.
Spinach and Blue Cheese Biscuits
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- Author: Joy the Baker
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 18
- Total Time: 33 minutes
- Yield: 10 1x
Ingredients
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For the spinach mixture
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 6 ounces frozen chopped spinach, thawed and pressed
- 1/3 cup chopped scallions
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- salt and pepper to taste
- pinch of freshly ground nutmeg
- 1/3 cup crumbled blue cheese (or feta would be a lovely substitute!)
For the biscuits
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup cold unsalted butter, but into small cubes
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 3/4 cup cold buttermilk
- 1 large egg, beaten for egg wash
Instructions
- To make the spinach mixture, in a small skillet over medium heat, warm the olive oil. Add the scallions and garlic and cook until translucent and just barely browned, about 3 to 4 minutes. Add the well-drained chopped spinach and stir to combine. Add salt and pepper to taste as well as a pinch of nutmeg. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
- Place a rack in the upper third of the oven and preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a mixing bowl, sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Cut in butter (using your fingers or a pastry cutter) until mixture resembles a coarse meal. Work the butter into the dry ingredients until some of the butter flakes are the size of peas and some are the size of oat flakes.
- In a small bowl combine egg and buttermilk and beat lightly with a fork.
- Create a well in the center of the flour mixture and add the egg mixture all at once. Stir into a shaggy mixture.
- Add the cooled spinach mixture and blue cheese. Stir to combine being sure not to over mix the biscuit dough.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured board and pat into a 3/4-inch thick circle. Use a 2 1/2-inch round biscuit cutter to cut biscuits. Press any dough scraps together to make a few more biscuits out of the remaining dough.
- Place 1-inch apart on the prepared baking sheet and brush lightly with egg wash. Sprinkle with fresh cracked black pepper if you’d like. Bake for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown on top. Serve warm. Biscuits are best the day they’re made, and though they can be frozen and lightly reheated in the oven if you need a future treat.
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I just made these with kale, Vidalia onions, and smoked blue cheese. I didn’t use biscuit cutters- just patted them into a round and cut them like scones. They are incredible! They’ve been out of the oven about 30 minutes and 4 of them are gone.
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Yifat
Hi, what can use instead of buttermilk? i don’t have any…
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joythebaker
Here’s a link for my best buttermilk substitutes.
https://joythebaker.com/2013/11/baking-101-the-best-buttermilk-substitutes/Reply
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HealthHappy2
Yes! I. Need. These. Now!
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They look amazing, especially for visitors who are not that fond of sweets….Love your images and descriptions so much!
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Linda Shirar | A La Place Clichy
Ahh this looks so utterly delicious! You’ve done it again Joy! Oh and I made your Brownie Cupcakes from Homemade Decadence with the Salted Caramel Frosting for my boss’s going away party. Was an absolute hit at work! Thank you!
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Yum! I love savory biscuits like these. We usually do a bacon biscuit…we’ll have to try these out too.
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This is awesome! Must try this recipe some day!
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These would go well with brunch!
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Natalie
I just made these and they’re delicious!!! I subbed white cheddar for the blue cheese (because of what I had in my fridge) and would definitely make them again! Already had one request for the recipe!
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Blue cheese in a biscuit. Now there is a winning combination if I ever heard one.
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These look so delicious and they’re not dissimilar to cheese scones, which are one of my favourite things!
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These look amazing! And its such a easy recipe, Im totally saving this and promise to try it out soon.
Jules.- https://thekiwidiaries.com
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look at these pretty little babies! this will definitely be the preferred method at my house for getting spinach into my kids.
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I don’t love blue cheese, but these would be a big hit with my office.
Kari
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Love this combination! Made some with Shakerag blue cheese and raw spinach a few weeks ago for Velo Coffee Roasters in Chattanooga, TN. Yours are perfectly golden and craggy I will have to try adding onions and garlic!
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These look gorgeous and delicious!! Loving savory biscuits lately!
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Oh my god…”a dinner roll with chicken.” Sounds like perfection.
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I’m going to make these for breakfast tomorrow, they look absolutely DELICIOUS!! Going all out on my breakfast haha.
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These biscuits look so beautiful! I’ve always made sweet biscuits, so this is definitely my next recipe to try!
Juju Sprinkles
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Kristina
I think I have made every biscuit recipe on you site. But I love stinky cheese beyond all sense and reason so I think I have more biscuits in my future. This is a flavor combo that speaks to my soul! Thanks Joy.
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Karen @ On the Banks of Salt Creek
Mmmm. I love spinach and I love blue cheese and I love biscuits. So I guess I love these even though I haven’t made them yet.
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Oh my goodness, these look incredible! I love the idea of savory biscuits!
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Oh yes please! Heaven. Biscuits make all things better.
Next time you’re in Nashville, you should check out Biscuit Love down in the Gulch. Some of the best biscuits ever (and I’m not just saying that because the owners are dear friends who I miss tons since moving away). Also, get the bonuts: biscuit donuts with lemon mascarpone and blueberry compote. Drooling.
So glad that the podcast is back up too! Totally caught my husband singing the theme song yesterday.Reply
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Yes please!
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Looks amazing! You are definitely thinking outside the box!
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You’re making my little southern fare/French food/vegetable-loving heart very happy this morning. Merci, et tres bien! I would totally slice this open and just layer on some butter and thinly sliced ham and call it brunch.
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Yum! Totally my kind of biscuit! I LOVE anything with blue cheese. And having healthy veggies in them are a plus. ;)
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These looks so delicious I need to make *drooling*
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They look delicious cant wait to make them!
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Another gorgeous recipe Joy! Love adding stinky cheese :)
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Loving the strong punchy flavours in this Joy! That spinach sauté siynds super good as a side dish too!
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Heather (Delicious Not Gorgeous)
These look so good! I love the little frico’d cheesy bits on your biscuits. And the spinach means I can have more than one, right?
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