These savory sweet potato sage biscuits with a touch of honey are buttery, flaky, and dramatically layered.
Ingredients
- sweet potato: 1 piece (8 ounce)
- 1/4 cups all-purpose flour: 2 piece
- fresh sage: 2 Tbsp (minced)
- baking powder: 1 Tbsp
- baking soda: 1 tsp
- fine sea salt: 1 tsp
- stick (8 tablespoons) very cold butter: 1 piece
- full-fat Greek-style yogurt: 0.5 cup
- whole milk: 0.25 cup (cold)
- honey: 0.25 cup
- butter: 2 Tbsp (melted)
- flaky sea salt: 0.5 tsp
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
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Pierce sweet potato several times with a fork, place on a microwave-safe plate, and microwave on High until tender when pierced with a fork, about 5 minutes. When cool enough to handle, scoop out flesh and mash. Measure 1 cup mashed sweet potato; reserve remaining potato for another use.
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Whisk together flour, sage, baking powder, baking soda, and fine sea salt in a large bowl.
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Coat whole stick of butter in flour mixture. Grate butter on the large holes of a box grater into bowl. (If butter starts to melt, coat butter in flour mixture again and continue grating.) Use your fingers to toss butter in flour mixture until all butter pieces are separated and coated in flour. (Mixture should resemble coarse crumbs.)
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Whisk together yogurt, milk, and honey in a bowl, and stir in 1 cup cooled mashed sweet potato; add to flour mixture. Gently fold to bring dough together. Dough should be moistened but still crumbly. If dough is too dry, add more cold water, 1 tablespoon at a time, until fully moistened.
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Turn dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. Lightly knead three or four times until dough comes together. Sprinkle with flour; pat to 3/4-inch thickness. Cut dough into four equal portions. Stack portions, press down, and pat again to form a 3/4-inch-thick rectangle. Repeat process three times, adding flour as needed.
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Press a 2 1/2- to 3-inch biscuit cutter straight down into dough to cut out biscuits. Gently knead scraps together, pat to 3/4-inch thickness, and repeat cutting. Arrange on prepared baking sheet (biscuits should be barely touching).
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Bake in the preheated oven until tops are crisp and golden brown, 16 to 18 minutes. Let cool on baking sheet 5 minutes. Brush tops of baked biscuits with melted butter and sprinkle with flaky salt. (Store in an airtight container up to 3 days; chill up to 1 week. To reheat, bake about 10 minutes at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
