DELICIOUS easy to make Jalapeno Buttermilk Biscuits recipe! Recipe includes step by step pictures! These Southern style homemade biscuits are made from scratch with diced up jalapeno peppers. They are best served with a warm comfort food casserole!
Want to know a true story? I made these buttermilk biscuits twice. In one week. I nearly ate them all. I’m thinking about making them again. Right now.
The Best Buttermilk Biscuits!
These buttermilk biscuits are what magical bread dreams (we all have them, right?) are about. They’re flaky, they’re moist, they’re full of flavor and you just can’t get enough of them. More specifically these are buttermilk biscuits which makes them ultra deluxe and ultra moist. Like my gif shows, buttermilk makes everything better, don’t you agree?
These biscuits also have jalapeno peppers in it for a slight bite of heat. The jalapenos are a great balance for that buttermilk giving it a little something special. I chop the jalapenos up pretty fine so they’re evenly distributed and not overwhelming. Between these biscuits and candied jalapenos I’m eating quite a bunch of jalapenos this Summer!
The Secret to Good Biscuits: Chilled Butter!
The key to biscuits is to freeze the butter before hand. This will allow it to more easily be cut into the flour. The butter will be so easy to cut, shred and chop when it’s frozen!
Look at how crumbly this butter gets after freezing and a swirl in the food processor. Isn’t it gorgeous? If you can’t use a food processor use a grater, you’ll get similar results!
And look at how it all crumbles up together. Freezing butter everyone – it’s life changing! It will get your biscuits flaky and moist! Isn’t that what life is about?
Knead your dough for just 2 minutes gently. Every time I hear the phrase kneading dough I think of my cat FiFi Bofinkles who is a master at this.
Then spread it out. I don’t use a rolling pin for this, just my hands.
Then start to cut the dough into biscuits. You can use a biscuit cutter for this, a circular cookie cutter (what I used) or the top of a drinking glass.
Then just keep cutting your biscuits…
If you run out of spots to cut then keep respreading and keep cutting.
Onto the cookie sheet they go…
Out of the oven they come!
Let’s just take a minute and admire this beautiful biscuit.
All of you.. you’re all beautiful biscuits!
Enjoy!
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Jalapeno Buttermilk Biscuits
PrintIngredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 cups flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 jalapeno - seeded and finely diced
Instructions
- Freeze butter before hand, for about an hour. This will allow it to more easily be cut into the flour.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Take butter and cut it up into small cubes. In a small bowl add a handful of flour and then add butter, mix around so butter is coated in flour. Add butter to food processor and pulse a few times to finely chop it up.
- In a bowl mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar. Add in cut up butter and mix with hand mixer until the dough is very crumbly.
- Add in buttermilk and chopped jalapeno, continue to mix until dough mixture forms. Knead dough with your fingers for 2 minutes.
- On a lightly floured surface, spread out dough to 1/2 inch thick. You can use your hands to roll and pat it. Using biscuit cutters or circle cookie cutters, cut biscuits.
- Keep repeating until all dough is used, sometimes respreading the dough if needed. You will get 18-20 biscuits.
- Put biscuits on greased baking sheet. Bake for 13-15 minutes or until the bottoms turn slightly brown.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Connie manuel says
Can you use a grater to cut butter into small pieces?
Pamela says
Yes, you totally can use a grater!
Alka Talwar says
Mmmmmm…..yum. This looks totally amazing. I’m just starring at the screen looking at how delicious they look.
Bonnie B Tolle says
where is the recipe????
Pamela says
Hi Bonnie, the recipe is in a blue box – can you scroll up and see if you can find it? Thanks!
Rachel @ Bakerita says
Those really are some beautiful biscuits!! Love the jalapeño in there too – yum!
Carol at Wild Goose Tea says
Biscuits are a life saver in my life. Quick and easy to expand a meal if more people than food happen. Biscuits like this can be dinner or lunch bread too. Because they are hot out of the oven, people dig in—and thus get full.
PassTheKnife says
These look so good!! Would be great with a warm bowl of chili!
cheri says
Hi Pam, thanks for sharing the frozen butter trick, will definitely be making these soon.
Chris @ Shared Appetite says
Yes yes yes! These look amazing Pamela! Love biscuits and love jalapenos… match made in heaven right here! Pinning 🙂
Karen (Back Road Journal) says
There is nothing like a warm biscuit with butter. I’ll have to try your tip about freezing the butter, thanks.
marcie says
I’d make these biscuits twice in one week, too — they look amazing! 🙂
Joanne says
I love the sound of buttery biscuits with a bit of heat and spice in them!
Kelly @ hidden fruits and veggies says
My cats are experts at making biscuits, too 😉 These sound seriously amazing. Not sure there’s anything better than a flaky, buttery biscuit with a touch of heat
Koko says
Hooooly crap! These look so so so good! And your nails are the cutest!!
Anna @ shenANNAgans says
Pamela… Your recipes are so interesting and creative, I just wouldn’t think to add Jalapeno to a buttermilk bikkie. Guess I better have a crack at it now. 🙂
PS: Totes digging the different coloured nails, very pretty!
Ashley @ Wishes and Dishes says
Your nails are so fun!! And I need about 5 of these biscuits right now! Why do I always look at your page when I’m STARVING?!
Juliana says
These biscuits look great, especially with the jalapeño…I love the “heat” of jalapeño…
Thanks for the recipe Pamela…hope you are having a great week 😀
Sues says
These look SO light and fluffy! Nothing better than jalapenos in a biscuit 🙂
Jessica @ Sweet Menu says
Oooh your sweet pics have made me so hungry for biscuits! These look fantastic! We don’t eat biscuits much in Australia but I love them, will have try this recipe!
Nicole ~ Cooking for Keeps says
Great minds! Just posted a jalapeño cheddar biscuit today!! I have to say, yours look much fluffier than mine! YUMMMM!!!
Kelly says
Haha, I totally have magical bread dreams and these would definitely be the star! The jalapeno pieces look amazing! I love how pretty and pillowy these biscuits are and would want to make them every day:)
[email protected] Riffs says
We often make homemade butter just to get the buttermilk — much better than store bought buttermilk (and the butter is wonderful!). Love jalapeno and love biscuits — so you know I’d love these. Good stuff — thanks.
Meghan @ Spoonful of Flour says
Oh my, these biscuits look melt-in-your-mouth delicious!!
Eileen says
Yay, biscuits! I also use the frozen butter trick — it’s the best. This may be one way I eat up our backyard jalapeno harvest!
Monica says
Buttermilk does make everything better! These biscuits look wonderful. I would like to have it here, there, and everywhere – with anything or all by themselves. : ) I like the sound of a little heat, too. Yum!
Shashi @ RunninSrilankan says
Ahhh – those pieces of jalapeno peeking through…that;s a vision for bread starved eyes! 🙂