Easy Freshly Milled Parmesan Chive Drop Biscuits

Drop biscuits are what happens when you want homemade bread but refuse to deal with rolling pins, flour-covered counters, and the anxiety of cold butter. Made with simple ingredients, these aren't your standard buttermilk biscuits. They're made with freshly milled flour and grated parmesan, plus enough chives to make every bite taste like it belongs next to a bowl of soup or a roasted chicken. The texture is shaggy and rough on the outside, tender and steamy inside. They bake up tall with crispy golden crowns that practically beg to be torn apart while still warm. Drop biscuits are the easiest path into this world because they skip all the fussy cutting and folding. You literally stir, scoop, and bake. The texture stays tender and cloud-like inside with crispy, golden edges that shatter when you pull them apart. Every bite tastes alive, almost nutty from the flour, deeply savory from the cheese, and bright from the chives. If you've been milling flour and wondering what recipe will make everyone understand why you bought that countertop mill, this is it.

Course Breads

Cuisine American

Keyword parmesan chive drop biscuits

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 25

Total Time 35

Servings biscuits

Calories 150kcal

Ingredients

1 ¼ cups freshly milled soft white wheat flour finely milled (144 grams)
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
½ teaspoon garlic powder
2 ½ tablespoons fresh chopped chives
⅔ cup shredded parmesan cheese 30 grams
⅓ cup sour cream 80 grams
⅓ cup whole milk 82 grams
2 tablespoons melted butter

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, pepper, garlic powder, chives, and cheese.
Add the sour cream to the flour mixture and mix together until coarse crumbs start to form.
Add the milk and mix until a thick dough comes together.
Use a cookie scoop and scoop the biscuit dough onto the pan.
Bake for 12 minutes, remove from the oven, and brush with the melted butter.
Bake for another 6-8 minutes, until the bottoms start to turn golden brown.

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