Once you have your ingredients ready to go for the biscuits, I would start the chili first as the biscuits are really easy to make and don’t take much time. This is my chili from scratch; a really simple recipe. If there is interest, I can post the recipe.
Combine the dry ingredients first….cornmeal, flour, baking soda, salt, etc. Then, cut in the butter with a pastry cutter. If you don’t have one, you can use two knives or this alternate method here. The one key to cutting butter into dry ingredients is that the butter is chilled. The buter does not need to be fully blended. Small pea size chunks of butter are okay. They make the biscuits even better once cooked.
Add in the milk to the dry ingredients and butter. Mix until just combined. It will be chunky because of the butter…that is OKAY!
Use two spoons to drop 1/3 cup size biscuits onto a cookie sheet. This takes a little bit of coordination and the dough is a little sticky. Take your time and be patient with yourself.
The biscuits dropped onto the cookie sheets look like they will fall apart. Resist the urge to make them perfect little balls. They will ruin the consistency of the biscuits once they good and will not allow the butter chunks to melt throughout.
Do not overcook…pull them out when you see a tinge of golden brown start to show up around the base. The one thing that I would have done differently was to place parchment paper or a baking liner on the baking sheet. it would have made it easier to pull the biscuits off with out scraping off the good crunchy bottom. Here they are all done and ready to eat.
This is such a quick and easy recipe. I think it would be really good as a topping to a baked chili dish even. Maybe place your chili in an 8×8 glass dish, top with this cornmeal biscuit dough and cook for 20 minutes….it would be so good!!!
I would rate this an EASY recipe great for the beginner baker or even kids.
I would rate the taste a 9 out of 10.
The one thing I liked about this recipe is that the biscuits were not really dry like other cornmeal breads or muffins. Instead, they were very moist and had a great taste.
Happy Baking!
