Blueberry Breakfast Biscuits

These blueberry breakfast biscuits are loaded with blueberries. "I'm talking jammed packed full of blueberries. The dough is basically just holding the blueberries together. These biscuits are less sweet than most biscuits because as a cookbook author I wanted the flavour of the blueberries to sing out, not the sugar. Think of these as an ode to blueberries," says Mairlyn Smith, author of Peace Love and Fibre."Using one of my favourite fibre-rich flours, barley flour, these blueberry babies have 4.4 gm of fibre in each one. I'm just letting you know before you jump in and eat all 12....And as a sidebar these are perfect for a weekend brunch."

Ingredients
  

  • 3 cups fresh local blueberries (I use cultivated not wild, but this is your call)
  • 2 cups whole grain barley flour
  • 3 Tbsp granulated sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 cup cold unsalted butter cut into 1-inch cubes
  • 1 Tbsp orange zest or lemon zest
  • 1/2 cup milk skim preferable
  • 1 omega-3 egg
  • 2 Tbsp canola oil
  • 2 tsp sanding or coarse white sugar

Instructions
 

  • Rinse blueberries, place on paper towels or a clean tea towel and let air dry. You don't want to use wet berries for this recipe. Don't even preheat the oven until you know the berries are dry. You can speed up this step by gently patting them dry.
  • When the blueberries pass the dry test, make sure the oven rack is in the middle of the oven. Preheat to 350 F (175 C) Line a rimless baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
  • In a large bowl: whisk together flour, sugar and baking powder.
  • Using a pastry blender or 2 knives cut in the butter so it's the same size as teeny tiny green peas. Using a fork, stir in orange zest until it is well distributed. You don't want just one of these biscuits to have all the zest.
  • Add dry blueberries (did I emphasize that too much??) and gently toss until well coated with flour.
  • In a small bowl or a 1 cup glass measuring cup (using the measuring cup will save you on dishes, you do all the measuring and stirring in the same vessel) whisk together the milk, egg and oil. Pour into the dry ingredients and using a rubber spatula gently stir until the mixture doesn't have any dry flour visible.
  • Using two tablespoons, the ones in your cutlery drawer, spoon out 12 equal portions, approximately about a 1/2 cup each, onto the prepared pan. Sprinkle each one with a bit of the sanding sugar. This adds a crunch and the pretty factor
  • Bake for 34-36 minutes, they will be a rich golden brown with blueberry juice oozing out; basically, it's blueberry porn. Cool on wire rack until warm and serve. And you will probably want two. Because of all those blueberries, these are best eaten the day of or slightly warmed up the next day.

Notes

NUTRITONAL INFORMATION
One serving = 1 biscuit
Per serving = 178 Calories, 6.9 g Total Fat, 2.8 g Sat Fat, 0 Trans Fat, 27 mg Cholesterol, 75 mg Sodium, 26 g Carbs, 4.4 g Fibre, 8.6 g Sugars, 4.2 g Added Sugars, 3.2 g Protein, 133 mg Potassium
Carbohydrate Choice = 1.5 choices
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SOURCE: Mairlyn Smith, Peace Love and Fibre
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Photo credit: Mike McColl, Copyright © 2019 All rights reserved
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