Butter, flour and parmesan. That’s all you need to make buttery parmesan shortbread biscuits. And you’ll be amazed how fast these are to make – no cookie cutter required! Watch the 15 second video here to see how easy these are to make!
PARMESAN BISCUITS
My mother makes these incredible parmesan biscuits that I frequently beg her to make. Until recently, I had no idea they were made with just 3 ingredients: butter, flour and parmesan. Nor that they took all of 2 minutes to make the dough.
“Why didn’t you tell me before?!” I exclaimed. “If I’d known they were that easy, I would have been making them myself!”
“I don’t know,” she said calmly. “I just never thought of it. They aren’t that special.”
“Aren’t that special?” I gasped, flabbergasted. “These are my favourite biscuits.”
“That’s so typical of you,” she said. “Just because it’s got cheese in it.”
OK, well that’s true. I couldn’t argue with that. And of course, having discovered they were made with only 3 ingredients, I declared them to be so fabulous that I had to share them on my blog.
These biscuits are savoury shortbread biscuits, which means they are buttery and crumbly, just like the sweet ones.
Except these are cheesy. Parmesan cheesy.
You barely need the recipe for this. Butter, flour and parmesan, whizz until crumbs form, form a log, wrap in cling wrap, refrigerate, slice, bake for 12 minutes.
3 ingredient magic. That’s what this is. Honestly, these exact biscuits are sold in a certain up market grocery store in Sydney (which shall remain unnamed!) for close to $10. And you get less than one batch of this!
I have 2 words of caution about these:
1. Making as a gift: If you make these with the intention of gifting them, please just make a double batch. Don’t kid yourself into believing that you won’t “taste test” so many that you end up with a dismal scant pile for your friend, so small that you can’t possibly give that as a gift so you end up doing an emergency present run énroute to the birthday lunch; and
2. To nibble with wine: These are brilliant to have as nibbles. But they go a little too well with wine. What happens is that that the cheesy buttery biscuits make you thirsty, so you drink more, and the more you drink the more you nibble. An endless viscous cycle. So as with #1, just make a double batch. 🙂
OK, so #1 may have happened to me last weekend. And come to think of it, #2 as well. Oops.
Happy weekend! – Nagi x
PS Please do not count the biscuits in the photos below. I can tell you now, there are 5 missing!!!
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Parmesan Shortbread Biscuits
Ingredients
- 3.5 oz / 100g salted butter , chopped (Note 1)
- 3.5 oz / 100g parmesan cheese , grated (Note 2)
- 3.3 oz / 95g plain flour
For rosemary flavoured biscuits
- 1 tbsp rosemary leaves , roughly chopped (or 2 1/2 tsp dried rosemary)
Instructions
Two Ways To Make The Dough
- Process the butter, flour and parmesan in a food processor until a wet crumbly dough; OR
- Alternative method: Place the flour and butter into a bowl and use your fingers to rub the butter into the flour until a crumble dough forms. Then add the parmesan cheese and use your fingers to rub it into the mixture.
- If you are making rosemary biscuits, add the rosemary at the same time as the parmesan cheese.
Make the biscuits
- Lightly flour a surface and turn the dough out onto it. Knead to bring together, then shape into two logs with a diameter of around 3 cm / 1.2" and about 15cm/6" in length.
- Wrap with cling wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour or until firm. (Note 2)
- Preheat oven to 180°C/350F. Line 1 large baking tray or 2 ordinary baking trays with baking paper (parchment paper).
- Remove the log from the fridge and use a sharp knife to cut the log into 7mm/ 1/3" thick rounds.
- Place the biscuits onto the baking tray at least 2cm / 1" apart.
- Bake biscuits for 12 minutes or until light golden.
- Stand on trays for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Recipe Notes:
Nutrition Information:
Hillary @ 918 Plate says
NAGI, STOP! These look so good. I have so much to make this month but I actually just want to drop everything and make these instead.
Nagi says
BA HA HA!!! These babies are pretty amazing! Can’t believe it took me so long to blog them – I’ve been meaning to share this since December!!!! Happy weekend Hillary!
SueD says
If adding salt, try (dark) smoked salt. It’s one of my fav spices to add because it doesn’t dissolve readily. I sprinkle it on top of cornbread batter, on top of frittatas, quiches, and it mostly stays as surprising salty little dark specks.
Nagi says
OOOH!!! That would be AMAZING!!!!
Victoria of Flavors of the Sun says
Three ingredients? Now we are talking. These look great!
Nagi says
Magic…????
Dorothy Dunton says
Hi Nagi! Wine and cheese biscuits YES PLEASE! These sound delicious! Shortbread cookies are my favorite and I am sure that these biscuits will be a new favorite! Hug your Mom for me!! 🙂
Nagi says
They really are amazing Dorothy!! The same soft crumble that sweet shortbread has – in cheesy form!!! 🙂 Mum says HI! And say hi to Gary for me please – trust you are spoiling each other with great FOOD this weekend. What’s on the menu?? ❤️
Dorothy Dunton says
Hi Nagi! Gary says HI back! Tonight we are having corned beef, Swiss cheese and sauerkraut paninis on rye bread. Tomorrow I’m making wings from you wonderful book, just have to decide what flavor! 🙂
Nagi says
Oooooh. Corned beef. It has such a bad reputation in Australia, memories of the days when people used to just boil it – ew! Bet your corned beef is a killer. Do you make it from scratch?
Dorothy Dunton says
Hi Nagi! Yes I do corn my own briskets. I have NEVER boiled it! I bake it covered with potatoes, onions and carrots at 350 and in the last half hour I add cabbage wedges. It is good! No it is better than good! I did two so we would have leftovers for sandwiches and hash! 🙂
Nagi says
I bet it is!!! You have amazing taste! I really need to share a corned beef recipe one of these days, show people how to make it PROPERLY like you do!!! <3 N x
Mariana says
I am the same, cheese is the way to my heart. I love recipes like, this, simple, you can make it in a few minutes and it’s 100% delicious
Nagi says
BA HA HA! Isn’t cheese the best invention ever???