Sweet Potato-Bacon Biscuits

Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, 2003

Show: Emeril LiveEpisode: Emeril's Thanksgiving with Our Troops

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (18)

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Cook Time:
18 min
Level:
Intermediate
Yield:
10 servings

Times:

Prep: 20 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 18 min
Total:: 38 min

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Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 stick cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1 cup mashed cooked sweet potatoes, cooled
2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
5 slices cooked bacon, drained and crumbled
3/4 to 1 cup buttermilk

Directions

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Lightly grease a large baking sheet and set aside.

In a bowl, stir together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add the butter and work in with a pastry blender or your fingers until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

In a bowl, whip the sweet potatoes with the brown sugar until very smooth. Add to the flour mixture and mix in lightly but thoroughly with your fingers. Add 3/4 cup of the buttermilk and the bacon and gently work to make a smooth dough, slightly sticky, being careful not to overwork and adding more liquid as needed 1 teaspoon at a time.

Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and pat out into a large rectangle about 1/2-inch thick. Cut into 10 large biscuits and place on the prepared baking sheet. Bake until golden brown and risen, 15 to 18 minutes.

Remove from the oven and serve hot with butter.

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recipe Sweet Potato-Bacon Biscuits
Maureen Rapid City, SD 11-14-2009
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OMG, FABULOUS
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I just made these tonight and these sounded pretty good. Boy was I wrong, they were ABSOLUTLEY FABULOUS. It made 12... GOOD size biscuits that disappeared before they cooled. Will HAVE TO double this recipe to make sure they make it to the dinner table. These would also be great on the breakfast table. It was a very sticky and delicate dough, but soooo worth it. YUM YUM YUM Read more
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Anonymous 12-26-2007
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Delicious with some technique
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

These biscuits can be flaky, not too heavy with 2 techniques I learned from a Julia Child program. Barely work the dough,... treat it like a fragile baby, and make your own "buttermilk" by adding 1 Tbsp + 1 tsp vinegar (balsamic works) to whole milk. Refrigerate 10 minutes. Vinegar lightens texture of dough. Add 1/4 of "buttermilk" to potato mash. Leave butter in pea-sized lumps, add sugar to flour mixture, stir only until flour barely mixed, quite sticky. Pour out onto floured board. Dimple in handful of Yam-mash (more flavor) with fingertips only. Fold dough once, dimple in next handful. It's not well mixed, just incorporated. Let rest in fridge in floured bowl with plastic at least 1 hour. Press out dough with fingertips to cut biscuits, don't roll, until 3/4 inch thick, cut, and bake at 475. I left out the bacon, I don't trust the grease to help the flakiness.Read more
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Steve Sacramento, CA 11-25-2007
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Perfect!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

Came out great! yum!
recipe Sweet Potato-Bacon Biscuits
Tammy Waterville, ME 08-14-2007
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A Thanksgiving Favorite
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I made these for Thanksgiving after seeing Emeril's show with the troops. It has been a staple every year since then! The... dough is very sticky and we cut them square as Emeril did. Very tasty!Read more
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MICHELE Deerfield Beach, FL 12-18-2006
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Too much work for no flavor
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

I was soooo disappointed in all the work I put into these for no flavor and a weird, dense consistency. My mom and husband... liked them but I will never make them again. I make homemade biscuits maybe once a year and I won't waste my time on these again. They sound like they would be so good with the sweet potato and bacon, what a huge letdown. I thought maybe I did something wrong but I see by other reviews that other people had the same problem with the "denseness". I like my biscuits to be light and fluffy and these definitely were not it.Read more
recipe Sweet Potato-Bacon Biscuits
Cynthia Charlotte, NC 12-02-2006
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Bam to the tenth power!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I tested this recipe for a party Im giving, so I cut them down as bite sized biscuits and served them with honey butter - - -... my guinea pigs are begging for more!Read more