Quick& Easy Skinny Hotbread soup dippers/baps: dairy-free, higher fibre, frugal

Wonderful hotbreads take minutes from bowl to table; they're perfect soup dippers or Baps...(posted 2018 as Skinny Almost Instant Biscuits/Baps)

1st posted 2018; updated 4/24

Wholemeal flour & yoghurt make these a healthier gorgeously tender Instant Breakfast Biscuits and easily morph into soup dippers or Baps (photo below)

These, like the originals are simple in the the extreme,quickly mxed, dropped by spoon or handsful onto a tray and baked in under 15 minutes.  

The originals are relatively high in butter but this skinnier version replaces some of the butter with yoghurt and some white flour with wholemel, making it a better optoin for dieters and the cholesterol-phobic. 

The hotbreads still have the crunchy outside and wonderfully tender inside but with a nutty lighter taste.

Serve warm with soup, turn into Baps for fresh sandwiches or serve warm with boiled eggs for breakfast.  

Cost: £2.25'ish (1/25), nore for dairy-free
Makes: 12-15 biscuits or 4 good-sized sandwich baps

Ingreds: 
     
    170g/6oz white flour
     85g/3oz wholemeal  flour       
      2 tsp baking powder       
      1/2 tsp baking soda       
      1/2 tsp salt
      1 tsp sugar (opt)
      
     1 cup dairy buttermilk, stirred OR dairy or plant milk that's gone off or has had a tablespoon of vinegar stirred in OR 75% dairy or plant yoghurt, 25% water  

       85gm/scant 3oz unsalted dairy or plant butter, melted & slightly cooled

       30g/1 generous oz dairy or plant yoghurt 

Method:

1. Preheat oven or air fryer to 220C non fan or 425F 
2. Line baking tray with greaseproof paper
3. Mix buttermilk, melted butter & yoghurt
4. Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt & sugar 
5. Add liquid to dry; stir just until completely blended
6. Rest for a few minutes to thicken 
7. Using an ice cream scoop, dessert spoons or clean hands drop the dough onto baking trays; aim for rustic/shaggy   
8. Bake in the centre of the oven 12-15 mins or until golden
9. Cool on a baking rack

Comments: 'I so love these; they're so quick and tasty.' Retired writer

Tips:

Sandwich baps from Breakfast biscuit dough:

utterly wonderful 

• The dough makes lovely sandwich baps: scrape the dough onto the lined baking tray in a rough square; roughly smooth it out and even the edges until it is about 1.5 inches /3.8 cm high; divide equally into 4; separate slightly and bake as normal 
• Vegan option: dairy-free milk, yoghurt & plant butter

          yeast-free breads, go toNav Bar Recipes II/ bottom page

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This recipe has been developed by B M Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises.  It may not be reproduced without the author's written permission