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Faux Red Lobster Biscuits
A little while ago I received an email, from Tracey, with a cookbook attached to it—for which I’ll be eternally grateful. It’s a special copycat cookbook! I think I shrieked when I saw it! She mailed it to me because of the Lawry’s seasoned salt recipe in it. Obviously—with my severe Lawry’s addiction—she thought I might like. And I sure did!
Now I’d already found the Lawry’s recipe online, but when perusing the rest of the copycat goodies my eye fell on a recipe for Red Lobster Cheese Biscuits! Hey now, wait just a minute, I know those biscuits! They are divine. I drooled at the thought of sinking my teeth in one of those fabulous savoury biscuits, then I wiped my mouth and got to work. Whipped up a big batch of these faux Red Lobster Cheese Biscuits and gave them a slight Kayotic twist.
Ingredients:
2 cups Bisquick
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp Lawry’s garlic salt
1/2 tsp onion powder
1 1/2 cup grated cheese
2/3 cup (butter) milk
3 tbsp butter
2 tsp oregano
Optional: 4 sun-dried tomatoes (on oil)
Directions:
I started by grating about 1 1/2 cup of cheese. The original recipe calls for sharp cheddar, but well, that would make it pretty expensive biscuits for me so I opted for sharp Gouda in stead. Go with your cheese of choice.
Bisquick, one time only item because I’ll never buy from that web store again. For the Dutchies; think twice and perhaps even three, four or five times before heading over to the Americangoodies.nl store. Worst customer service ever. I’ll check out Kelly’s Expat store in The Hague soon!
Next, dump 2 cups of Bisquick into a big bowl, add 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 1/2 a tsp onion powder and the grated cheese and stir to combine.
Tip: No Bisquick? Simply cut 1/3 cup Crisco (or 1/2 a cup butter) in with 2 cups of flour and add 1tsp baking powder, 1 tsp sugar and 1/2 tsp salt.
Here’s my own addition. The biscuits are great with just cheese, but oh boy, this raises them to a whole new level. I’ve finely chopped 4 sun-dried tomatoes and added them to the mix.
Pour in 2/3 cup of butter milk or regular milk; I prefer butter milk. Mix until you end up with a firm dough, but don’t over-mix.
Drop spoonsful of dough on a baking sheet you’ve lined with grease-proof baking paper. Shape them up with your fingers a bit. My dough was enough for 12 large biscuits.
Melt about 2 oz of butter and whisk in 1/2 to 1 tsp garlic salt (I like a salty outer layer) and 2 tsp oregano.
Lightly brush the biscuits with 50% of the butter mix.
Bake them in a preheated oven at 400F (200C) for 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the size of your biscuits. Until they’re golden brown.
Remove the biscuits from the oven and brush them with the remaining butter.
I’m in heaven. Seventh Biscuit Heaven.
Kay’s Recipe Card
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I LOVE these! This is the same recipe I use. I’ve made them with sharp cheddar, gouda, parmesan, mozzarella, jack, and some others. I loved all of them! Thanks for posting this one!
Thanks for posting the Bisquick alternative, too. I know I’ve seen it mentioned once before, but what is buttermilk in Dutch? Biscuits just aren’t biscuits without buttermilk!
@Alison:
Buttermilk is called Karnemelk here! What I’ll often do is add Crisco, + a tsp or two regular coffee milk powder. It really works and is even tastier than Bisquick!
Thanks, Kay! I think we’ll need some biscuits with tonight’s dinner. I don’t know what tonight’s dinner will be, but we’re definitely going to need biscuits!
Wow, these look so good! When we go to Red Lobster I always eat so many biscuits that I then have no appetite left for the meal! I could go there and just order biscuits and be perfectly happy.
When I make these, I add plain garlic powder to the butter, brushing before baking and after – then I lightly sprinkle fine popcorn salt on top… gives them the best salty crust..
@Heather:
I add garlic powder to the batter as well, along with a touch of onion powder. Gives them a great flavor inside and out!
All I can say is WOW!!!!!!! I am off to look for that cookbook………after I make these biscuits to go with my salad we are having for dinner.
Oh boy do these look good… cracked me up that you said you used “cheaper” gouda because cheddar is expensive… cheddar is the cheap cheese here, and gouda is one of the more expensive ones!!
You can make a buttermilk substitute by adding vinegar or lemon juice to regular milk and letting it sit for a few minutes. Works every time!
@naomig:
It’s precisely the other way around here :)
I use the vinegar trick when I don’t have access to buttermilk, but not for this recipe. The thickness of the buttermilk really helps the texture of the bicuits.
forgot to ask K would you be willing to share the name of the cookbook? Love to have that in my collection………………thanks
@doodles:
It think it’s just called Copycat Cookbook!
I love these Red lobster biscuits. And I don’t even like biscuits in general. :)Thanks for the recipe!
The best thing at RL are their biscuits – thanks for sharing the secret recipe, they look great!
You are an evil, evil woman (but in a good way)
We have made something similar to this (intentionally copying Red Lobster’s Biscuits). They were very VERY good.
Thanks for the Bisquick substitute. I really hate to use the stuff. ;D
Sounds like I received the same cookbook via email… lots of great ideas!!
Delicious looking biscuits! I have to say the biscuits at Red Lobster are better than the main foods they offer there at times!
Kay I would LOVE if you could forward that e-mail with a cookbook attached! I know you must get a million requests for e-mails and replies. i was just wondering if you remember me sending you a super easy biscuit recipe and what you thought of it?
How come there is no lobster in the recipe? Pardon me if this is a silly question.
@Che-Cheh:
No silly question at all, but these aren’t lobster biscuits.. they’re the biscuits that are served at a seafood restaurant called Red Lobster!
That’s so funny you made this recipe… I just ate there the other day and told myself that I just have to make them. Plus I also know what copycat book your talking about, its crazy.
Great job!
I’ve heard nothing but bad things from americangoodies.nl I went into amsterdam to the american store there and loved it. You still pay a pretty penny(cake mixes are 9 dollars a piece!) but atlest you can buy the items right there. I have a homemade version of bisquick that I need to try out. It’s a pain having to go into the city center to a Toko to buy a super small can of Crisco for ALOT of money..lol It’s amazing what you learn how to make your own when you cant get those things anymore.
Red lobster cheddar biscuits are awesome and I’ve had this similar version before and it was equally as good. Also if you go to copycat recipes on the web you can get alot of free ones aswell. They used to be all free but only certain ones are now.
@Sonya:
Don’t get me started on americangoodies.nl! Overpriced and the worst customer service ever. First time I ordered there, about a year ago, they shipped items that were only 2 weeks away from their expiration date. C’mon, they charge $12 + $8 shipping fee for a stupid box of fruit loops, you just don’t do that!
This time around they didn’t ship until 10 days after payment. There was zero communication, so I had no idea when the package would be delivered. When I finally did receive it there was an item in there I didn’t order. She simply sent me a replacement item without even contacting me first. When I told her I wouldn’t accept this, she mailed me and told me she wasn’t legally obligated to refund the shipping costs if I returned the item. I was baffled, this item was totally different than the item I ordered. I’ll never buy there again!
What store is that? Plan on an A’dam trip (with camera:) soon!
So far, I haven’t been tempted to try that website. After reading all of this, I definitely won’t! Fortunately, we had a British/American food store here in the center of Utrecht on Steenweg. It’s incredibly expensive (€5 for a can of pumpkin puré!), but at least there are no shipping costs and no unpleasant surprises. Although I was happy to find my baking soda and Crisco at a Toko for literally half the price of the B/A food store. ;)