Your holiday dinner table isn’t complete without a batch of flaky, buttery biscuits, especially when you’re baking up a batch of biscuits with Lifeway Kefir! Our kefir is the ultimate replacement for buttermilk in biscuits, and it’s a lighter, more gut-friendly option for the holidays.
Lifeway Kefir is fermented with 12 different live and active cultures, so it’s easy to digest, and it’s excellent to use in baked goods as the live cultures help tenderize baked recipes of all kinds. It’s also packed with complete protein containing essential amino acids your body needs to thrive. Our kefir is easy to digest due to the fermentation process, making it ideal to use in place of regular milk or buttermilk in recipes like this that are typically heavier and hard on digestion.
These Flaky, Buttery Kefir Biscuits come out soft and fluffy, and they’re terrific when served with our kefir butter. Finish them off with jam and honey for a touch of sweetness if desired, and then enjoy the best biscuits you’ve ever had in your life!
The Benefits of Cultured Dairy for Better Health:
Research continues to show the importance of eating healthy foods, including cultured dairy such as kefir, for optimal digestion and gut health, a strong immune system, and to support the microbiome. Fermented foods like kefir hold important value in this line of research due to the link between the gut-brain axis and overall health. Specifically, kefir has been shown to help diversify the microbiome, improve digestion, reduce inflammation, support healthier blood sugar levels, and improve satiety since the bioavailable protein it contains triggers the release of GLP-1.
Lifeway Kefir is packed with a variety of vital nutrients important for overall health, including bone and muscle health; these include vitamin D3, K, calcium, and vitamin B12. Along with our probiotic-rich kefir, Lifeway also offers artisan-made Farmer Cheese, a creamy, high-protein cheese made with live and active cultures to support healthy muscles and a healthy microbiome. Lifeway Farmer Cheese is easy to spread, free of gums and thickeners, and contains no added salt or sugar for optimal health benefits.
Prep Time: 35 minutes Servings: 8-10Ingredients
- 3⅔ cup all-purpose flour (spooned & leveled)
- 2 tbsp. baking powder
- 1/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tbsp. cane sugar
- 1 cup Lifeway Kefir Butter*
- 1 cup cold Organic Whole Milk Plain Kefir
- or any of our whole milk plain kefir varieties
- optional toppings: jam or fruit butter, raw honey, extra kefir butter
Directions
- Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
- In a large bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and sugar together. Toss with a fork or spoon to combine thoroughly.
- Add in pieces of the cold kefir butter a little at a time, then work with clean hands to form a dough until you have coarse crumbs.
- Slowly pour in the Lifeway Kefir, then use a spatula to stir everything together, just until comcbined. Do not overmix to prevent the dough from becoming tough.
- Lightly flour a clean surface, then place the dough on the floured surface and work with your hands and knead it, then flatten out until it's a 1" thick in height.
- Using a bench scraper or large knife, cut the dough in half, then stack the halves on top of one another.
- Gather any loose bits, patting them inside the dough, flatten the dough with your hands, then repeat the cutting process again, stack the halves on one another, and repeat once more.
- Roll out the dough into a rectangle about 3/4" thick, and evenly cut 8-10 biscuits.
- Place the biscuits on your parchment lined baking pan, and pop them in the freezer for 20 minutes to firm up.
- Brush the tops with extra Lifeway Kefir, then bake for 20-25 minutes until the tops are just golden brown and the biscuits have puffed up.
- Remove, let cool for 5 minutes, then serve with extra kefir butter, jam or fruit preserves, or raw honey if using. Enjoy!
