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These beautiful and easy to make Sweet Potato, Parmesan and Rosemary Biscuits are tender, moist and just loaded with delicious flavour.
These past couple of weeks have been crazy busy with work and life. I spent the past two Saturdays in class, a food photography class! It was amazing! The class was composed of a wonderful group of people and the instructor, Adrien Duey, a well-known food photographer, is not only incredibly talented but is a great teacher as well. It’s an amazing feeling to be learning about something from someone who is so passionate about what they do. I only wish I had more time to practice and experiment with all that I’m learning. What’s great is that as I practice my photography at home, I’m seeing my eldest (6 years old) take an interest in food styling and photography. She will often come and peek at what I’m doing and ask if she could help me. In fact, she styled the photo above. And as I write this post she is planning our next food photography project: Lemonade, her favourite beverage. So do keep an eye out for that post!
Ok, time to talk about these Sweet Potato, Parmesan and Rosemary Biscuits. First of all, these are some good-looking biscuits. Just look at the colour on them, beautiful! Second, they are loaded with flavour, combining the sweet potatoes with the savoury rosemary and Parmesan makes for some really delicious biscuits. Finally, they’re tender and moist, just the way they should be.
These Sweet Potato, Parmesan and Rosemary Biscuits come together pretty easily and quickly. I think the most important thing to remember when making them is to not overwork the dough, or you will end up with tough biscuits. They make a perfect side dish, I think they would be excellent with a roasted chicken dinner. Though they seem like typical fall food, I think sweet potatoes are good any time of the year!
If you make this recipe make sure to take a picture and share it with me on Instagram by tagging #sweetandsavourypursuits, I’d love to see your photos!
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 3/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. pepper
- 1/4 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 tbsp. fresh rosemary finely chopped
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan
- 5 tbsp. cold unsalted butter cubed
- 1 cup sweet potato cooked and mashed
- 2/3 cup buttermilk
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 tbsp. heavy cream or milk
Instructions
- Position a rack in the center of the oven and pre-heat the oven to 400°F.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Add the Parmesan and rosemary and whisk again to incorporate the ingredients.
- Add in the cubed butter and using a pastry blender or your fingers blend the butter into the flour until the mixture looks like coarse meal.
- In a small bowl combine the buttermilk and sweet potato, whisk to blend and then add it to the flour mixture.
- Mix the ingredients until it all comes together, do not over-mix or your biscuits will be tough.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface, knead a few times just until the dough comes together and then pat into a circle about 1 1/2 inch high.
- Using a round, 2 inch wide cutter, (edge dipped in flour before cutting into dough) cut as many biscuits as you can, then take the scraps, reshape into a disk and cut again.
- Place the biscuits on the baking sheet.
- Once all the biscuits have been cut and placed onto the baking sheet, whisk the egg yolk and cream together in a small bowl and brush the tops (only the tops) of the biscuits.
- Bake in the oven for 16 to 18 minutes or until biscuits are golden brown. Let cool for a few minutes and then serve while still warm with butter.
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Elena says
April 17, 2017 at 2:37 PMSweet potato and parmesan biscuits looks so delicious and easy to make! If I don’t have time this weekend, my mom sure does 🙂
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
April 28, 2017 at 11:18 AMThank you Elena, hope you enjoy them!
Beata says
January 13, 2016 at 8:23 PMThese look fantastic, i can only imagine how well all of these flavors come together.
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
January 13, 2016 at 10:16 PMThank you! The flavours are really amazing together.
The Hungry Mum says
October 9, 2015 at 1:57 AMI could eat 45 of these. Rosemary anything floats my boat.
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
October 14, 2015 at 11:19 AMWow, you really love rosemary 🙂 Seriously though rosemary adds so much flavour to food and it really doesn’t take much of it. I’m hoping to bring my little rosemary bush indoors for the winter, I hope it will survive. I really love having fresh herbs available at home.
sprinklesandsprouts says
September 29, 2015 at 10:58 AMThese look delicious! And they are packed with some of my favourite flavours. Yum! Pinning 🙂
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
September 29, 2015 at 11:23 AMThank you Claire. I love these flavours as well. By the way, these freeze really well, so you can freeze any leftover and take them out another time, just warm them in the oven and it’s as if you just baked them. Thanks for visiting my blog!
Lili says
April 1, 2015 at 8:41 PMThese look delicious! Love sweet potato and rosemary – got to make some 🙂 And the photographs are beautiful! I’d love to do a food photography course like yours. Sounds great! 🙂
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
April 2, 2015 at 12:53 PMThank you Lili! The workshops are wonderful, it’s a great learning experience.
cookingwithauntjuju.com says
March 31, 2015 at 11:50 AMGreat combination of flavors for biscuits – 3 favorite ingredients!
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
March 31, 2015 at 8:59 PMThank you, they do go so well together!
Selma's Table says
March 31, 2015 at 11:44 AMHow lovely that your daughter helped you style the photos! She did a great job though I have to say that she had a rather gorgeous looking subject matter – those biscuits sound like a brilliant combination!!
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
March 31, 2015 at 8:58 PMYes, we had lots of fun. Thanks so much Selma! And thanks for co-hosting FF this week 🙂
Patty Nguyen says
March 30, 2015 at 11:02 PMThese look utterly scrumptious!!
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
March 31, 2015 at 10:57 AMThank you so much Patty, they were very delish!
milkandbun says
March 30, 2015 at 2:16 PMToday I was going to make cookies with rosemary, bought some stuff and only at home realized that rosemary is finished, I used it for fish! 😀
Yours look incredible delicious! I almost can eat the photo! 😀
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
March 30, 2015 at 9:58 PMIt drives me crazy when that happens, especially when you have your mind set on something. Well maybe you will still get a chance to make them. I look forward to seeing a rosemary cookie post in the future!
http://www.lapetitecasserole.com says
March 30, 2015 at 11:28 AMI can smell these biscuits form here! Amazing recipe! Thanks for being at FF!
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
March 30, 2015 at 9:50 PMThanks for co-hosting FF!
Jhuls says
March 30, 2015 at 11:08 AMDelicious savoury biscuits. Happy FF! 🙂
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
March 30, 2015 at 9:21 PMThanks, hope you are enjoying FF as well!
nancyc says
March 30, 2015 at 9:52 AMWhat a wonderful combination of flavors!
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
March 30, 2015 at 2:52 PMThanks Nancy!
Jennifer Wayboda says
March 30, 2015 at 7:35 AMAmazing pictures and AMAZING recipe! I can do this!
THanks for posting and I am so glad you loved your classes….
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
March 30, 2015 at 1:36 PMHi Jen, thank you, I’m sure you can do this!! Thanks for leaving a comment.
Ginger says
March 30, 2015 at 2:10 AMYou pictures look amazing! That class is clearly paying off! And the recipe .. mhhhhhh…
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
March 30, 2015 at 1:35 PMThank you so much! I only wish the classes were longer…
Moya says
March 30, 2015 at 1:50 AMHow sweet that your daughter is taking an interest in food styling. Your Sweet Potato Biscuits look delicious, rosemary is such a wonderful herb 🙂
Sweet and Savoury Pursuits says
March 30, 2015 at 1:34 PMYes, I think so to. It’s really wonderful to see her do her thing. Thank you!