Garlic & Cheese Biscuits | Weight Watchers
These Weight Watcher friendly Garlic & Cheese biscuits are simple to make. They work out as 3 SmartPoints on the Blue, Purple and old Freestyle plans and 4 SmartPoints on the Green plan.
Servings 4 biscuits
Calories 145kcal
Ingredients
- 1 scant cup self raising flour (120g) *{see tips below if using All Purpose Flour}
- ¾ cup fat free natural yogurt (I usually use 0% fat FAGE) (185g)
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 3 tbsp reduced fat cheddar cheese (shredded) (20g)
Instructions
- PLEASE read the notes / tips below about 2 ingredient dough & yogurt before you start!
- Preheat the oven to 400°F / 200°C / 180°C fan
- Place the flour in a bowl and add the salt and the garlic powder and mix to combine.
- Add about half of the yogurt & mix to combine using a fork.
- Add the rest of the yogurt spoonful by spoonful until the dough is sticky but not so sticky it sticks to the edges of the bowl.
- You may not use all of the yogurt or you may need some extra - the success of two ingredient dough is getting the dough into a consistency that it is wet but not too wet that it sticks to everything & is unworkable.
- Lightly flour your work surface and tip out the dough.
- Using lightly floured hands, pat the dough out into a circle.
- Use a 3 inch cookie cutter to cut out 4 biscuits. You may find it easier to lightly flour this too!
- Carefully place the biscuits on a non stick cookie sheet.
- Divide the grated cheese equally between the tops of the four biscuits.
- Bake in the centre of the oven for 15 minutes or until the biscuits have risen, turned golden brown and the cheese has melted and turned golden brown.
- Enjoy & remember to track!
Notes
* A scant cup of flour is a cup of flour that is just a little under 1 cups worth and that is not packed!
* If you don't have self raising flour you can use all purpose flour - just add 1 ½ tsps of baking powder and ¼ tsp of salt to the cup of all purpose flour.
* I suggest using the strongest flavoured cheddar cheese that you can find - I use WW grated mature cheese or reduced fat mature cheese in this recipe.
* If you are using FAGE or another thickish yogurt you might find there is a little watery liquid on the top. I would suggest draining this off the yogurt first rather than mixing it in. I don't know why this works but it seems to!
* I have found that different yogurts give different 'stickiness' results with 2 ingredient dough. That is why I have suggested that you add about half of the yogurt, mix then add the rest spoonful by spoonful.
* If you do have to use more than ¾ cup of yogurt then don't worry - it won't affect the overall SmartPoint value of the biscuits - even on Green!
Nutrition
Serving: 1biscuit | Calories: 145kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 2mg | Sodium: 213mg | Potassium: 160mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g