Simple Cooking: Goat Cheese Biscuits

By Molly Durham in Food on Nov 21, 2011 5:00PM

What is more comforting than cheese combined with carbs? It goes along with wintertime just as much as the excitement of busting out the sweaters and holiday cheer. And nothing says Thanksgiving like a good biscuit. Whether you prefer to buy the puffy Hawaiian rolls at the grocery store, make sweet potato biscuits or invent your own recipe, there's gotta be a bread course. We suggest this take on biscuits, combined with one of the softest, most delectable cheeses of them all. To make them as good as they can be, use Prairie Fruits Farm goat cheese from Champaign, Illinois if you can find it. It's sold at both Green City Market and Whole Foods Lincoln Park. Whatever they do to this stuff, it far surpasses any other goat cheese we've ever had.

Goat Cheese Biscuits

Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
5 tablespoons goat cheese, crumbled
1 cup low fat buttermilk
4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted to top the biscuits

Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder and salt. With your fingers, incorporate the butter and goat cheese until the flour resembles a coarse, pebbly mixture and there aren't any big chunks of butter left. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in the buttermilk. Mix the buttermilk in with a fork until all of the dry flour disappears.

Melt the extra butter and set aside.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Drop the dough by 1/4-cup onto the pan, spacing biscuits somewhat evenly. Brush with melted butter.

Bake for 13-14 minutes or until they start to turn golden. Let rest for 5 minutes.