Best Sourdough Pecan Drop Biscuits Recipes

SOURDOUGH BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and baking soda. Grate butter using the large holes of a box grater. Stir into the flour mixture. In a medium bowl, whisk together sourdough starter and buttermilk. Add to the flour mixture and stir using a rubber spatula until a soft dough forms. Working on a lightly floured surface, knead the dough 2-3 times until it comes together. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough into a 1 1/2-inch thick rectangle. Cut out 8-10 rounds using a 2-inch biscuit or cookie cutter. Place biscuits onto the prepared baking sheet. Place into oven and bake for 14-18 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve warm.

SOURDOUGH DROP BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 475F and adjust the oven rack to the middle position. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, and salt to a medium bowl and whisk well to combine.
• Add the melted butter to a separate medium bowl and add the buttermilk. Stir until the butter forms small clumps. These clumps are caused by the warm liquid butter interacting with the cold buttermilk. This mimics the "cutting in" process of typical biscuits, since the result is large clumps of butter.
• Add the sourdough discard to the butter and buttermilk mixture. Whisk gently to combine.
• Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients.
• Add the sourdough, butter, and buttermilk mixture to the well of the dry ingredients. Stir gently with a silicone spatula, just until combined and all the flour is moistened. The dough will be pulling away from the sides of the bowl. Use your hands to form a rough mass.
• Grease the inside of a 1/4 cup sized dry measuring cup, or a #20 size cookie scoop (large size; about 3 1/2 tbsp). Scoop up a heaping portion of dough and drop directly onto the prepared baking sheet. Repeat this until all your dough is used up, spacing each biscuit 1 1/2-2" apart. If using a large cookie scoop, you will yield approximately 12 biscuits.
• Brush the biscuits with 2 tablespoons of the melted butter. Bake in the preheated oven for 13-17 minutes, or until the tops are golden brown and crisp.
• Remove the drop biscuits from the oven and brush the tops with the remaining melted butter.
• Serve immediately, or allow to cool on a wire rack before transferring to storage.

SOURDOUGH BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°. Stir together baking powder, baking soda, kosher salt, sugar, and 1½ cups flour with a fork in a large bowl. Add ½ cup chilled butter and toss with your hands or fork just to coat. Using your fingers, smash butter into flat disks (if you miss a few, it will be fine). Using a pastry cutter or fork, work butter into dry ingredients until shaggy crumbles form (you should have some large pieces, some small pieces, some flat pieces, and some sandy flour).
• Add sourdough starter and mix gently with fork to incorporate, then fold with your hands just until dough comes together with just a few crumbly pieces in the bottom of the bowl.
• Transfer dough to a well-floured surface and pat out with your hands until about ½" thick (the shape doesn't matter too much at this point). Fold into thirds as you would a letter to create a rough rectangle. Working from short sides, fold in thirds like a letter again. Pat dough out to a ½"-thick square. Repeat folding process. Pat out dough for a third time to a 1"-thick square-it should feel airy, like a pillow at this point. Using a floured 2½"-diameter biscuit cutter or glass, punch out as many biscuits as you can (do not twist cutter). Transfer biscuits to a parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet, spacing at least 1" apart.
• Using your hands, gently press scraps into a rectangle, then fold in half. Pat out to a 1"-thick rectangle and cut out more biscuits. Gather remaining scraps together to form 1 final biscuit (you should have 10 total). Transfer to baking sheet. Brush biscuit tops with 2 Tbsp. melted butter and sprinkle with sea salt if desired
• Bake biscuits until tall and golden and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the side of a biscuit registers 205°F), 12-15 minutes.

EASY SOURDOUGH BISCUITS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Butter a cast iron pan.
• Mix flour, sourdough starter, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl. Grate in cold butter and mix until well combined. Add 1 cup milk and stir until just mixed. Add more milk if necessary until dough is sticky but not wet.
• Knead dough 3 to 4 times on a floured surface and flatten to a 1- to 2-inch thickness. Cut out 10 biscuits and put in the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 15 minutes.

SOURDOUGH PECAN DROP BISCUITS

Steps:

• Mix together flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda and 1 1/2 Tbsp sugar.
• Using a pastry blender or fork, cut in shortening until mixture remsembles coarse crumbs.
• Stir in pecans.
• Add beaten egg to sourdough starter and add all at once to dry mixture, stirring with a fork just until mixed.
• Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto greased baking sheet.
• Bake at 425 degrees F for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.
• Immediately upon removing from oven, brush with melted butter and sprinkle with with a mixture of the remaining sugar and cinnamon.
• You could drizzle with a powdered sugar glaze instead of the cinnamon-sugar topping, if desired.