Southern style Sweet Potato Biscuits

Today's recipe is Sweet potato biscuits.  But usually if we say 'biscuits' in India, it is a sweetened cookie or cracker. That too Brittannia  or Good day.. I never knew there are other kinds of Biscuits. Here in North America, Biscuits are small soft leavened bread, similar to a scone. Wow!! Am learning a lot of new things these days. This is Paula Deen's Recipe. It is made of sweet potato and is Thanksgiving special. We are months away from Thanks giving, but still I had lots of sweet potatoes, so thought to give it a try. My husband liked it though.. But not my daughter. She says if its not sweet, its not biscuit. 

It was super duper easy to make and was very quick- thats what I liked about it. But there is a debate whether to have this biscuits for breakfast or dinner , for us it is snack.. :) How do you like to have your biscuit??

Original recipe from here

Ingredients

Flour, 1 1/4 cup

Sugar, 2 Tbs

Baking powder, 4 Tsp

Salt, 1/4 Tsp

Sweet potato(cooked and Mashed), 3/4 cup

Butter, 1/4 cup (room temperature)

Milk, 2- 4 Tbs (depending on the moisture in the sweet potato)

Directions 

1. Preheat the oven to 425 F.
2. Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
3. In a seperate bowl, mix sweet potatoes and butter together. To this mixture, add flour and knead to make a soft dough.
4. If the dough is not soft enough, add milk little by little, to get the desired consistency.
5. Then roll out the dough, in a floured surface about 1/2 - 3/4 " thickness and use a biscuit cutter to cut it out and place it on a greased baking tray and bake for 15- 20 minutes.
6. Ready to serve.

Notes

I did roll out the dough to cut it with the cutter but then as the remaining dough was there, I just rolled it out using hands and pressed it with fingers, that saved a lot of time. The one did with hand was rustic and very flaky.

As I was trying to take pictures of the biscuit, my son grabbed one.. captured candid..

This what happens most of the time when I try to click pictures.. Theeraatha Vizhayattu pillai..