pumpkin beer biscuits

I often base what I am going to cook on what I have "left over" in my fridge. I couldn't decide what side dish to make until I remembered that I have left over pepitas from the pumpkin soup and left over pumpkin beer (Wolaver's Organic Pumpkin Ale - YUM) from my pumpkin carving party. So, I whipped up a batch of beer biscuits (pumpkin beer, that is) with roasted pepitas/pumpkin seeds mixed in. They turned out quite delicious and had a nice nutty crunch from the pepitas!





Total Recipe cost: $3.03
Servings Per Recipe: 10 (2 biscuits/serving)
Cost per serving: $0.30
Prep time: 10 min. Cook time: 10 min. Total: 20 min.

INGREDIENTS		COST
3 cups	buttermilk biscuit mix	$1.10
1 cup	pumpkin flavored beer	$1.33
1/4 cup	pepitas	$0.60
TOTAL		$3.03

STEP 1: Preheat oven according to biscuit mix package (mine was 425 degrees). Prepare biscuit dough according to the directions on the biscuit mix package except replace the liquid portion with beer. The brand I bought called for 3 cups of biscuit mix and one cup of milk so I subbed the beer for the milk and followed the rest of the directions as written.

STEP 2: After the dough is mixed, knead in 1/4 cup of pepitas. Roll out the dough on a floured surface and cut biscuits. I do not have a cookie or biscuit cutter so I used a small plastic cup (the plastic cups tend to have sharper edges than glass cups). When you have cut as many biscuits as you can out of the rolled piece of dough, simply ball it up and roll out again. Keep doing this until there is not enough dough left to make one more biscuit.

STEP 3: Place the cut biscuits on a greased (or spray oiled) sheet pan and bake according to the package directions. My package said to bake for 11-13 minutes but I kept a watchful eye and they were golden brown at about 8 minutes! If you have an older oven, as I do, just beware that the internal oven temp may be way off from what you set it to and you will need to keep a close eye on everything.

STEP 4: Remove the biscuits from the oven and serve!