Parmesan Shortbread Biscuit (3 ingredients) Recipe

PARMESAN BISCUITS

My mother makes these unbelievable parmesan biscuits that I steadily beg her to make. Until not too way back, I had no idea they’ve been made with merely 3 elements: butter, flour and parmesan. Nor that they took all of two minutes to make the dough.

“Why didn’t you inform me sooner than?!” I exclaimed. “If I’d acknowledged they’ve been that easy, I might need been making them myself!”

“I don’t know,” she acknowledged calmly. “I merely on no account thought-about it. They aren’t that individual.”

“Aren’t that individual?” I gasped, flabbergasted. “These are my favourite biscuits.”

“That’s so typical of you,” she acknowledged. “Just because it’s purchased cheese in it.”

OK, correctly that’s true. I couldn’t argue with that. And naturally, having discovered they’ve been made with solely 3 elements, I declared them to be so fabulous that I wanted to share them on my weblog.

These biscuits are savoury shortbread biscuits, which suggests they’re buttery and crumbly, an identical to the sweet ones.

Moreover these are cheesy. Parmesan cheesy.

You barely need the recipe for this. Butter, flour and parmesan, whizz until crumbs sort, sort a log, wrap in cling wrap, refrigerate, slice, bake for 12 minutes.

3 ingredient magic. That’s what that’s. Really, these precise biscuits are provided in a certain up market grocery retailer in Sydney (which shall keep unnamed!) for close to $10. And in addition you get decrease than one batch of this!

I’ve 2 phrases of warning about these:

1. Making as a current: While you make these with the intention of gifting them, please merely make a double batch. Don’t youngster your self into believing that you just gained’t “type check out” so many who you end up with a dismal scant pile in your pal, so small which you possibly can’t most likely give that as a gift so you end up doing an emergency present run énroute to the birthday lunch; and

2. To nibble with wine: These are good to have as nibbles. Nonetheless they go just a bit too correctly with wine. What happens is that that the cheesy buttery biscuits make you thirsty, so that you just drink further, and the additional you drink the additional you nibble. An infinite viscous cycle. So as with #1, merely make a double batch. 🙂

OK, so #1 might have occurred to me ultimate weekend. And can be found to consider it, #2 as correctly. Oops.

Happy weekend!

Parmesan Shortbread Biscuit (3 ingredients) Recipe

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Serves: 25 Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 15 minutes 15 minutes

Nutrition facts: 46 calories 20 grams fat

Rating: 5.0/5

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Ingredients

• 3.5 oz / 100g salted butter , chopped (Note 1)
• 3.5 oz / 100g parmesan cheese , grated (Note 2)
• 3.3 oz / 95g plain flour
• 1 tbsp rosemary leaves , roughly chopped (or 2 1/2 tsp dried rosemary)

Instructions

1. Process the butter, flour and parmesan in a food processor until a wet crumbly dough; OR
2. Alternative method: Place the flour and butter into a bowl and use your fingers to rub the butter into the flour until a crumble dough forms. Then add the parmesan cheese and use your fingers to rub it into the mixture.
3. If you are making rosemary biscuits, add the rosemary at the same time as the parmesan cheese.
4. Lightly flour a surface and turn the dough out onto it. Knead to bring together, then shape into two logs with a diameter of around 3 cm / 1.2" and about 15cm/6" in length.
5. Wrap with cling wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour or until firm. (Note 2)
6. Preheat oven to 180°C/350F. Line 1 large baking tray or 2 ordinary baking trays with baking paper (parchment paper).
7. Remove the log from the fridge and use a sharp knife to cut the log into 7mm/ 1/3" thick rounds.
8. Place the biscuits onto the baking tray at least 2cm / 1" apart.
9. Bake biscuits for 12 minutes or until light golden.
10. Stand on trays for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Notes

1. If you don't use SALTED butter, please add 1/2 tsp salt.
2. To make this super easy, I use store bought grated parmesan cheese. The fresh kind from the refrigerator section (I get mine from Harris Farm Markets), not the fake parmesan in the pasta aisle!
100g/3.5oz parmesan cheese is approximately 3/4 cup BUT it is important to weight it rather than measure it by cup because the weight by volume of grated parmesan cheese varies greatly between brands, freshly grated vs store bought grated.
3. Sometimes, you will end up with a small ridge around the rim of the biscuit. You can see it a bit in the photos but sometimes they are even more prominent. If you want a perfect, evenly golden surface with no ridge, use a flat bottom glass and lightly press on the surface of each biscuit on the baking tray.
4. Adapted from this recipe from Taste.com.au.
5. Nutrition per biscuit assuming 30 biscuits.