In our home, there are only a couple of things that truly say breakfast comfort food, biscuits and gravy and fried biscuits and apple butter. We find there are a lot of people who haven't had the wonderful luck to experience fried biscuits and apple butter. If you are one of these people, you should correct that situation, immediately!
The best thing about this, besides the warm & fuzzy childhood memories, is that it is quick and easy and the kids absolutely love it!
Usually, I make homemade biscuits for everything except fried biscuits and monkey bread. They both seem to have a better end result if you use the canned biscuits. And usually, the cheaper the can of biscuits, the better.
I generally get whatever is cheapest, I had a coupon so I started with these biscuits today.
That is apple butter that I make, you certainly can use store-bought apple butter but, honestly, if you can get your hands on homemade apple butter (even if it's not Gram's Jams), please do so! You'll thank me.
Other than oil, that IS the ingredient list. Biscuits, Apple Butter and Oil. You don't even have to measure. You do have to cut the biscuits into little pieces. Well, you don't have to, but there is more crispy surface to the biscuits if you do.
You can use a deep fryer and I do if I have mine out but a skillet will do the same job. As always, I highly endorse cast iron, but any skillet will do. Place about 1/2"-3/4" oil in the pan. Be careful doing this, if you have a shallower skillet, go with the smaller amount of oil.
Before you start frying, get a plate or I use a pie pan, with a paper towel in it to drain them on. You can use a sheet pan with a cooling rack on it to drain the oil if you like. I do both, depending on the mood.
Start heating the oil in the skillet, get your tongs, spider, slotted spoon, whatever you want to use to pull them out of the oil when they're done. Get all this together before you start frying as it will move quickly once you start.
Once the oil is hot, I cook just one just like when you make pancakes and make that one little one first. This is just to make sure the oil is hot enough but not too hot.
Once this is done and your oil is good to go, carefully put the biscuits in the oil. Be careful to not overload the pan. They'll cook quick enough without having to put too much in the skillet.
They will cook quickly
While they cook, put the apple butter in dishes that let you dip in them. You can heat the apple butter a bit in the microwave.
Let the first batch drain while you cook the second.
Then just plate and serve.
The amount of pictures make this seem time consuming, but it really isn't. I made these for breakfast in about 10-15 minutes.
They are sooooo yummy!
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