Monday, August 28, 2006

Sweet Potato Biscuits


Ingredients
All purpose flour - 1¼ cup
Sugar - 4 tspn
Baking powder - 4 TSPN
Sweet potato - 1 ,cooked and mashed
Butter - ¼ cup (½ stick)
Milk - 3 to 4 tspn ,chill
No - stick Cooking Spary for greasing - Pam Brand

Method

1.Boil Sweet Potato in Pressure Cooker by putting lid.Once it is cool ,pare the skin and mash until smooth.Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.

2.In a large bowl Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder.Take another bowl and melt the butter in microwave oven.Leave it to cool.

3.Mix the mashed Sweet potatoes into the butter.

4.Add the flour mixture to the Sweet Potato mixture and knead gently to make a soft dough by adding milk spoon by spoon.Place the dough onto a floured board and Roll the dough out to 1/2-inch thick and cut with a biscuit cutter.

5.Gather the edges of the dough and re-roll to make rest of the biscuits.

6.Place the biscuits on a greased pan and Bake them to golden brown color about 12 to 15 minutes, turning upside down once .

7.Check the biscuits in the middle to avoid browning.Serve warm Sweet Potato Biscuits with a cup of Coffee or Milk.

Recipe Source:Paula Deen from Food Network

26 comments:

archana said...

Thank you for the recipe, i will try this one out for sure.

Menu Today said...

Hi Vineela,
Sweet potato Biscuit looks sooo nice.Thanks for sharing.

Anonymous said...

Look delicious Vineela ! dint know that there are so many recipes with sweet potatoes.

Anonymous said...

Hi
Vineela I didn't know you could make biscuits with sweet potato..Thanks for sharing they look yummmy.

Anonymous said...

Sweet Potatoe biscuit ! Someting new. I have bookmarked to try.They look delicious Vineela.

Krithika said...

This is a great recipe. Also the recipe book is a great idea.

indianadoc said...

Hmm...wonderful cookies from sweet potato...something really new to me...thanx for sharing..

FH said...

Biscuits not only looks delicious, I love the flipping book too!WOW!

A Good cook and tech savvy too..Grrrrrrrr.. :D Thanks!

Neelu said...

Yummy....Why DOnt u send few of those here ... I love biscuits and recently baked nankhatai which i have fallen for totally ! I liked ur flipbook tooo nice idea hm !

Sudha said...

The biscuits looks great vineela..thanks for sharing..

Manasi said...

Wow, real nice! Thanx for sharing... I had no idea that sweet potato could be used to make biscuits!

indosungod said...

Vineela Sweet potato Biscuits look delicious, well this is certainly new had no idea could make bisuits out of sweet potato.

Meena Kandlakuti said...

hi vineela,

good recipe.i will try it soon.And also photo album is an excellent idea.Thanks for the link

Mandira said...

the recipe with sweet potato looks great, and I also enjoyed flipping the page of the book. It's a great idea :)

Vaishali said...

Vineela,
I love sweet potatos. I can even live on them. :) Your biscuits too look worth living on really. :)
Btw, is it a 'Sweet Potato Festival' that you and Ashwini are celebrating? ;-)

Anonymous said...

Wow! stunningly delicious....

sudha said...

Never knew before that biscuits can be done with potato. Very nice.

P.S: Was late in checking your blog, little bit busy with my kid.

Prema Sundar said...

I dont know many recipes with sweet potatoes. Ur recipe is different and interesting. thanks for the recipe...
BTW , The flip over recipe book is a nice idea..

Anonymous said...

Vineela, you are giving me courage to get back and try some more baking. The biscuits look delicious. Is that your handwriting in the book? Very nice idea :)

sra said...

Hi Vineela,
Hope your Vinayaka Chavithi was full of happiness and undrallu and kudumulu and payasam and all the other good things in life.

indosungod said...

Vineela love the way Paula Deen talks, this is really a wonderful snack, they look delicious.

Priya Bhaskaran said...

Vineela, Looks easy to make-- I like Paula's recipes-- I have written few of her recipes but never tried anything:)

Anupama said...

Vineela this is the best recipe I have read in a very long time. I love sweet potatoes and couldn't have imagined making biscuits from it. Beautiful photos and I love your picture flip book.

Anonymous said...

These look really good. Neat recipe book too. Must try!

starry said...

Will have to try this out. will be nice for thanksgiving day also, being that sweet potatoes are in at that time. I love your recipe book. cool.

Shah cooks said...

really interesting recipe. thanks vineela