One of the recipes I tried out today was scones with fresh herbs. It's a quick, painless - and eggless - recipe and believe me, the scones are LOVELY! I'm sure you could add some chopped green chillies to give your tastebuds a kick-start, but I didnt because of the rather gentler palates around me!
The scones are gorgeous served warm, split and spread with garlic butter, as an accompaniment for soup. (Mine was courgette-mint soup - recipe coming). I also tried some with celery chutney as a dip - yummy!
Recipe for: Five-herb eggless scones
Ingredients:
1 cup plain flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp butter
1/3 cup milk (or as required)
2 tbsp fresh finely chopped herbs (thyme, rosemary, parsley, oregano, basil)
Centre: Oregano; Clockwise from top right: Rosemary, thyme, Thai basil, curled parsley
Method:
1. Preheat the oven to 220C and lightly flour a baking sheet
2. Sift the flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder into a bowl.
3. Rub in the butter till the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.
4. Mix in the herbs.
5. Gradually add enough milk to make a light, spongy dough.
6. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead till smooth.
7. Roll it to 1” thick. Cut into rounds with a floured 2” cutter, if desired. (I just cut them through with a pizza cutter, so I got four triangles and two square shapes!).
8. Place the scones on the prepared baking sheet and bake for 10-15 minutes or till well risen and golden brown.
9. Serve warm, split and buttered if you like, along with soup.
15 comments:
Your recipes are very nice. I am always bookmarking them. Scones are looking excellent :)
Shammi,
Lovely recipe - I'm bookmarking this. Love the idea of eating it with chutney!
Mamatha
those scones must have been so heavenly with all those herbs. lovely combination of herbs. looks wonderful.
Lovely recipe Shammi - I'm bookmarking this. Love the idea of eating the scones with chutney.
Herb scones and soup sounds like a terrific idea for a simple dinner. Thanks Shami.
I made these tonight. Added the chillies - the scones came out nice. Oh, I substituted buttermilk for the milk too.
and, I ate the scones with some chevre. the creaminess of the goat cheese was a nice complement to the spicy herb scones.
thats a wonderful recipe...i am bookmarking it:)
we will be trying these with wholewheat pastry flour sometime this week. they look just perfect.
Ah a scone recipe thats not sweet in taste and eggless too... Shammi how do you find the time do so many things... u rock girl:)
Hi Shyamala,
I made these scones yesterday but I used wholewheat flour instead of plain flour and it came out very well.
I am kind of liking your recipes!
Rashmi
can i use dried italian seasoning in here instead of herbs?
Rashmi: Only "kind of" liking? Not yet decided? :) Glad that the scones came out well, though.
Anon: Yes, you can use Italian seasoning, should taste fine even if not the same as mine.
I made these with cilantro green chillies and a lil red onions...amazing combination
Thats a lovely eggless recipe..gotta try it..
wats the baking temperature..350 F ???
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