Roasted Red Pepper & Parmesan Biscuits with Fresh Basil Recipe

A Savory Breakfast Option

This morning is Memorial Day which means a rare and delightful Monday to sleep in and relax. So, we decided to make a breakfast we had recently discovered from one of our local bakeries, Camino Bakery, with our own spins on it. Having recently tasted a scone with these flavors at our local farmer's market, we were inspired to try this ourselves in our little home kitchen on this sunny, start-of-summer morning!

Trader Joe's Made it Easy

As always, our friends at Trader Joe's have an answer for how to make our ideas just a little more attainable. This time it came in the way of a plan to make pancakes and reading the back of the box discovered their Buttermilk Pancake mix can also be used to make biscuits! So, off we went into recreating this farmer's market delight!

So, we started by mixing up the biscuits just as the box suggests and then used their added ingredient suggestions for our ratio of red pepper and parmesan cheese. We did have a batch since there are only two of us, just under 2 cups of pancake mix with 1/4 cup melted butter and 3/4 cup cold milk.

Adding in the Savory Peppers and Parmesan Cheese (and don't forget the basil!)

Then, we added in 1/4 cup of grilled red pepper that we recently bought at Harris Teeter and have kept in the fridge for moments just like this! Then 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese was grated right into the batter and everything mixed up. For the final touch, we picked 4 leaves from our fresh basil plant on the deck and sliced it up and mixed it in.

Into the Oven

Then we dropped the batter onto a stone cookie sheet by the tablespoon, making 8 decadent biscuits (well, I hope they will be... are still cooling as I type!), and then pop them into the pre-heated 400 degree oven. Baked for 12 minutes and are lightly browned. While they cool, we are uploading the photos and the recipe so you can enjoy with us!

Recipe:

Serves 2-4 people, about 8 biscuits

• 2 cups of pancake mix
• 1/4 cup melted butter
• 3/4 cup cold milk
• 1/4 cup of grilled red pepper, sliced (found in jars on the canned vegetable aisle in most grocery stores)
• 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese, grated
• 4 fresh basil leaves, thinly sliced

Directions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees fahrenheit.
2. In medium size bowl, mix pancake mix with 1/4 cup melted butter and 3/4 cup cold milk.
3. Add the sliced grilled red pepper and grated parmesan cheese to the dough batter until thoroughly combined.
4. Lightly mix in the sliced, fresh basil leaves to complete the batter.
5. Drop the batter by the tablespoon onto a stone (or metal) cookie sheet, spaced about am 3/4" from one another.
6. Place in the oven and bake for 12 minutes, until lightly browned. Serve warm.

Let us know what you think!