These are going to go faster than the free biscuits at Red Lobster…my favorite childhood restaurant. I wanted to leave them as a blank canvas so you could experiment with additions, but if you want to make them cheesy (like the ones from said restaurant), just add 2 tablespoons each of nutritional yeast and freshly chopped chives, then add as much vegan cheddar shreds as you can handle. Hollaaaa! And if you’re going for a fancy dinner roll, then fold in fresh herbs like rosemary or thyme, some ground pepper, and call it a night.
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsweetened soy or almond milk
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon sea salt, or 1½ teaspoons sea salt if using coconut oil
- 5 tablespoons cold vegan butter or cold solid coconut oil
- Jam and vegan butter, for serving
How to Make It
- Preheat the oven to 450°F.
- Combine the milk with the vinegar and lemon juice in a small bowl. Set aside for 10 minutes to curdle.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt with a whisk or fork. (If you’re making cheesy biscuits, add the nutritional yeast here.)
- Cut the cold butter or oil into the flour mixture using a pastry blender until you have a crumblike texture.
- Create a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and pour the liquid mixture into it. (If you’re adding any other extras, do it now.) Then gently fold the batter a few times until just combined. Do not overmix!
- Lightly grease a baking sheet or line with parchment paper.
- Place the dough on a floured work surface. Lightly flour your hands and gently flatten the dough until it’s approximately 8 to 10 inches wide and 1½ inches thick.
- Lightly flour a 2 to 2½-inch round cookie cutter and cut out as many biscuits as you can. Place the biscuits on the baking sheet.
- Try not to handle the dough too much, but create another, smaller round of dough with the same thickness as before and cut out more biscuits until only a scrap of dough remains.
- To get extra lift in your biscuits, lightly poke a fork a few times across the top of each biscuit. Bake for 10 minutes and serve slightly warm with jam or more vegan butter.
