Cheese Scones

          

Cheese Scones

Ingredients:-

All purpose flour – Slightly less than 1 cup
Baking powder – 3/4 tsp
Red chilly powder – a pinch
Salt – 1/4 tsp / to taste
Butter – 25 grams, coarsely chopped ( frozen)
Red Cheddar cheese, grated - 1/4 cup + for topping
Buttermilk – as needed

Method:-
Preheat the oven to 220C. Grease a 10″ round cake pan.

Sift together the flour, salt, red chilly powder & baking powder 2-3 times. Rub in the coarsely chopped butter with your hands till the whole flour resembles bread crumbs / wetted rice flour for Puttu.

Stir in the grated cheddar cheese & add the buttermilk little by little & knead till you get a very smooth & soft dough. Flatten the dough into a circle with 2 cm. thickness evenly. Using a 5 cm cookie cutter cut out a round from the dough & place it on the prepared cake tin. Gather the remaining dough scratches & repeat the cutting process till you have finished of the entire dough.
Sprinkle little cheddar cheese on top of each scone.

Bake the scones at 220C for 20 minutes. This tastes great when served hot.