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Hungarian Sweet Potato Biscuits


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  • Total Time: 2 hours 50 mins
  • Yield: 40 biscuits 1x

Ingredients

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For the biscuits

  • 350 g/12 oz potatoes (I used regular and sweet potatoes)
  • 1/2 cup of plant milk
  • 1,5 tsp dry yeast
  • 350 g/12 oz whole-wheat flour
  • 2,5 tbsp thick tahini
  • 2 tbsp nutritional yeast (optional)
  • salt, pepper

For the olive spread

  • 1 cup of green olives
  • 1 cup of fresh parsley
  • 1 cup of fresh cilantro
  • 1 small red onion
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • 1 lemon, juice
  • 1 lime, juice
  • salt, pepper

Instructions

  1. Peel and dice potatoes and steam or cook them. Once soft, let them cool to room temperature, then mash them with a potato masher.
  2. Combine milk, mashed potatoes, yeast, tahini, flour, nutritional yeast, salt and pepper in a large bowl and work into a soft dough ball. Kneed until uniform in consistency. Cover and let rest for about an hour.
  3. Roll the dough out on a floured surface evenly to 2,5 cm/1 inch thickness. Fold the dough in half, then in half again. Cover it with a cloth and let rest for 30 minutes. Repeat this step 1-3 more times. You can also omit this process, if you are inpatient, but that’s what makes the dough especially soft.
  4. Roll out the dough once again to 1,5 cm/0.6 inch thickness and score the top crisscross with a knife. Cut out biscuits with a round shape (I used a 4 cm/1.5 inch cookie cuter). Gather the scraps, and roll the dough again. Repeat the scoring and the cutting.
  5. Place the biscuits on a baking tray and let them rest for another 15-20 minutes.
  6. Brush the top of the biscuits with milk. Bake them at 200°C/400°F in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. Enjoy!

Olive spread

  1. Combine all the ingredients in a food processor and pulse until well chopped, but not pureed. Serve with the warm or cold potato biscuits.

Notes

You can sprinkle vegan cheese or sesame seeds on top of the biscuits too.

Gluten-free version
Instead of whole-wheat flour, here I used a mixture of oat (20 g/0.7 oz), corn (100 g/3.5 oz), quinoa (80 g/2.8 oz), chickpea (15 g/0.5 oz) and rice (140 g/4.9 oz) flour. I added only 1/4 cup of oat milk, plus 4-5 tablespoons of soy yogurt. Then followed the exact same steps as above. This version tastes a bit more corn bread-y, than the not GF version, but still very delicious!

  • Prep Time: 2 hours 30 mins
  • Cook Time: 20 mins
  • Category: Snack