The Bread Baker’s Monthly challenge is here again. I have started taking part in this group challenge from last month. Every month, a host decides on a theme and all the members bake a bread according to that theme. This month’s host is Pavani of Cook’s Hide Out, and she chose the theme Breads Made With Summer Bounty. Any fresh vegetable or herbs are included. For us herbs are one of the ingredients which is available any time of the year. So I decide to use fresh coriander leaves in my bread. As the bread can be yeast based or chemically leavened, my choice for this month’s theme was biscuits. Biscuits are like quick breads which use baking powder and baking soda for leavening and uses generous amounts of butter. For the cheese part, I used up my home made feta cheese (recipe coming soon on blog) which turned out far better than the store bought cheese. The biscuits had a nice crispy crust and soft buttery crumb and as there were herbs and cheese they were tasty with out any spread or side dishes.
At first I selected a recipe from a popular website. I didn’t even think twice as the biscuits were beautiful. When the biscuits came out of oven, they were flat and they tasted bitter. I was confused and rechecked my recipe. For 2 cups of flour, the recipe suggested 1 tbs of baking powder and 1 tsp of baking soda. That was too much leavening and so the flat biscuits and bitter taste. So I tried it again making changes to the recipe and this tme it turned out perfect. I was so happy with the result. If you are making this, you can go for feta and coriander or you can choose any herb and cheese. Mozarella and cheddar makes a nice alternative to the feta and for the herb, use mint or parsley or any other herb you have in the pantry. This recipe is so versatile.
Makes 10 Biscuits
Ingredients:
All Purpose Flour/ Maida-2 cups
Salt-1 tsp
Baking Powder-2 tsp
Baking Soda-1/2 tsp
Cold Butter-100 gm/ 1/2 cup
Crumbled Feta Cheese-1/2 cup
Chopped Fresh Coriander Leaves-1/2 cup
Curd/ Yoghurt – 1/2 cup
Procedure:
Preheat oven to 200°C.
In a bowl mix together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
Chop cold butter into tiny pieces and add it to the flour.
Rub until the flour resembles coarse bread crumbs.
Add in crumbled feta cheese and chopped coriander leaves.
Add curd and mix until just combined. Do not knead.
Dust counter with flour and pat the dough into a rough rectangle which is 1/2″ thick.
With the help of a cookie cutter, cut out rounds.
Gather left over dough tightly and cut again. You might need to shape the last biscuit by hand.
Arrange them on a greased baking tray.
Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the top is golden.
Remove from oven and serve hot.

Herb and Cheese Biscuit Recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients
- All Purpose Flour/ Maida-2 cups
- Salt-1 tsp
- Baking Powder-2 tsp
- Baking Soda-1/2 tsp
- Cold Butter-100 gm/ 1/2 cup
- Crumbled Feta Cheese-1/2 cup
- Chopped Fresh Coriander Leaves-1/2 cup
- Curd/ Yoghurt - 1/2 cup
Instructions
Procedure
- Preheat oven to 200°C.
- In a bowl mix together flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
- Chop cold butter into tiny pieces and add it to the flour.
- Rub until the flour resembles coarse bread crumbs.
- Add in crumbled feta cheese and chopped coriander leaves.
- Add curd and mix until just combined. Do not knead.
- Dust counter with flour and pat the dough into a rough rectangle which is 1/2" thick.
- With the help of a cookie cutter, cut out rounds.
- Gather left over dough tightly and cut again. You might need to shape the last biscuit by hand.
- Arrange them on a greased baking tray.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or until the top is golden.
- Remove from oven and serve hot.
These biscuits look delicious! I love herbs in anything, and your addition of feta makes these biscuits sound delicious!
We LOVE cheese biscuits here! Yum!
These biscuits look just so perfect.
I like the addition of feta to your biscuits, great idea.
I stumbled upon your website recently. Very good recipes for eggless bakes. Tried out your buttermilk dry fruit cake . It was excellent. Also tried your eggless sugar icing on some cookies that I had already baked. They looked lovely and tasted great. I think it would be helpful if you mention the approximate yield of the recipe.
Biscuits with cilantro look so flaky and delicious. Perfect choice for the theme.
I am so impressed by these biscuits, Gayathri, and the fact that you made your own feta first. Well done!
Herb and cheese biscuits looks delicious…
This sounds different and interesting gayathri…………sooo yummy feta,herbs and coriender…………