Cheddar and Jalapeño Biscuits
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Category
Breakfast and Brunch
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Cusine
Mexican and Tex Mex
What do you need?
How to make?
Ingredients
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 cup polenta or fine milled corn meal
3 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
Pinch cayenne pepper
6 ounces
2 tablespoons diced fresh jalapeños
3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons heavy cream , plus extra for brushing
Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F .
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, polenta, salt, sugar, cayenne, and baking powder.
Stir in 1 1/4 cups of the grated cheddar cheese and the diced jalapeños.
Make a well in the center of the flour mixture. Pour the cream into the center of the well and your hands to gently bring together the ingredients.
If you need to add a bit more cream then do so a tiny trickle at a time. You just want everything to get wet enough so that the dough will be sticky and clumpy.
Turn the dough out onto a surface lightly dusted with flour. Knead the dough just a few times - maybe only three or four pushes. You just want it to just come together. to cut round biscuit shapes out of the disk. Combine the leftover dough and keep forming small round biscuit shapes until the dough is used up.
Place on a silicone-lined or parchment lined baking sheet, with at least an inch or two between the biscuits. Brush the tops of the biscuits with a little more cream. Top the biscuits with a sprinkle of the remaining cheese.
Bake at 425 degrees F for 11-12 minutes or until golden and the cheese is nicely melted.