Heart Healthy Biscuits
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I was out of shortening so I looked for a recipe that uses oil and I'm so glad I found this! For a treat, add a little sugar and chocolate chips. Yum!
Ingredients
| 2 | cups |
all-purpose flour
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| 3 | teaspoons |
baking powder
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| ⅓ | cup |
vegetable oil
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| ¼ | teaspoon |
salt
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| ⅔ | cup |
milk, skim
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Directions
Preheat oven to 475 degrees F.
Sift flour, baking powder and salt.
Measure oil and milk into cup but don't stir.
Add all at once to flour mixture.
Stir with fork until mixture leaves side of bowl and forms ball.
Knead 10 times.
Roll out (¼ inch thick) and cut with floured glass or biscuit cutter.
Bake 10 to 12 minutes.
Make 1½ dozens.
NY
about 10 years ago
Wonderful biscuits! I changed the recipe by using some whole wheat flour instead of all white flour (1 1/2 cups white and 1/2 cup whole wheat). I also added some lemon zest, orange zest, a few tablespoons of sugar, and some raisins. Delicious!
about 1 year ago
My biscuits didn’t rise at all. Any ideas. Made for my father who has to watch salt intake
11 months ago
You DO realize baking powder has a boatload of SALT?
5 months ago
These do not really qualify as "Heart Healthy" considering every teaspoon of baking powder can range from 75 mg of sodium, to 300 mg or more. Plus there is an added 1/4 tsp. of actual salt, misleading title!
about 2 months ago
I would use canola oil it has less saturated fat.
about 2 months ago
Makes GREAT biscuits. As for the sodium content, I'm a heart patient as well, WIDOW MAKER SURVIVOR. You can purchase/use sodium free baking powder "HAIN" - it works fine. You can find it online. The only sodium you're getting in this recipe is from the 1/4 tsp which is 500 mg BUT REMEMBER you're making 12 or more biscuits. That's roughly 41 mg per biscuit.