Sweet Potato Biscuit Ham Sandwiches
You can certainly eat these sweet potato biscuits with just a little bit of butter, but I prefer them turned into sweet potato ham sandwiches with Swiss cheese, dijon mustard, and a honey drizzle.
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Makes: 12 sandwiches
Ingredients
- 1-2 sweet potatoes (should weigh about ¾ lb), peeled and cut into ½" cubes
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp packed dark brown sugar
- 2 ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp cayenne
- ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, chilled and cut into ½" cubes, plus 2 Tbsp melted butter
- ⅓ cup chilled buttermilk
- Dijon mustard
- Thinly sliced deli ham
- Swiss cheese, optional
- Honey
Instructions
- Add sweet potato cubes into a medium pot of boiling salted water until tender, about 8-10 minutes. Drain and let potatoes cool a bit before mashing.
- Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees and lightly grease a 9-inch cake pan or pie plate.
- In a large bowl, mix together flour, brown sugar, baking powder, salt, baking soda, and cayenne.
- Add butter to the flour mixture and toss to coat. Using a pastry blender, fork, or your fingers, blend together until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- In a separate medium bowl, mix together ¾ cup of mashed sweet potato and buttermilk until mixture is smooth.
- Add sweet potato mixture to bowl with flour mixture and toss together using a fork. Then, using your hands, gently knead in bowl until mixture comes together.
- Place dough on a floured work surface and pat into a 1-inch thick round. Using a 1 ½-inch biscuit cutter, cut out biscuits. If you don’t have a biscuit cutter, you can use the top of a drinking glass or simply roughly shape the dough by hand. Flour biscuit cutter before each cut to avoid sticking.
- Gather scraps once to cut out more biscuits. You should get about 12 biscuits.
- Arrange biscuits in prepared pan and brush them with melted butter.
- Bake biscuits for about 22 minutes, until they're puffed and golden on top. Let them cool for about 10 minutes before removing from pan and slicing in half.
- Spread mustard on a biscuit half and layer with ham and cheese (if desired). I like to cut pieces of ham and cheese with my biscuit cutter so they fit perfectly on the biscuits. Top with second biscuit to make a sandwich and drizzle with a little bit of honey.
Notes
- Biscuit recipe lightly adapted from Bon Appetit
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