Best Easy Healthy Bacon Cheddar Drop Biscuits

Best Easy Healthy Bacon Cheddar Drop Biscuits! You won’t find a healthy bacon cheddar biscuit quite like this one! It is full of bacon, freshly shredded cheddar cheese and chopped onion, all baked to tasty golden brown perfection.

This is a very simple and delicious bacon cheddar drop biscuit. You can make them ahead and bake them the next day so that they are hot and fresh out of the oven when you are ready to serve them to your people.

We like to serve the best easy healthy bacon cheddar drop biscuits with a side of eggs and fruit and they just seem to pair SO well!

Don’t have time to make fresh bread? This makes a great alternative and is the perfect addition to an evening meal.

Now let’s talk ingredient details…

Butter or Oil

Most biscuits call for butter however, since they are drop biscuits these ones call for oil. So no need for the biscuit cutter or pastry blender!

The batter texture is similar to muffins but a little bit thicker so it won’t be like working with regular biscuit dough.

Let me say this, we all love buttery biscuits but, I promise you, you are not missing out on taste at all, with the best easy healthy bacon cheddar drop biscuit!

Oil To Use

If you are into health at all, you have probably heard it said, to stay away from unhealthy processed oils… like all of them!

For these homemade bacon cheddar biscuits, I have tried two oils. I have tried Olive Oil and Avocado Oil. And here is my personal opinion… While I LOVE the taste of olive oil, I felt like it was too powerful for this biscuit.

That being said, we went with Avocado Oil. It is just a lighter oil and went really well with these bacon cheddar cheese biscuits.

Cheese To Use In The “Best Easy Healthy Bacon Cheddar Drop Biscuits”

For these homemade drop biscuits, my favorite kind of cheese to use is sharp cheddar cheese. You can use regular cheddar, but the sharp cheddar cheese just brings a little more bolt of happiness to it. 

We like to use our box grater and shred our cheese fresh… It just has SO much more fresh flavor. Besides that, it is more budget-friendly!

That being said, you can totally use pre-shredded cheese, we definitely do that if we are in a pinch for time.

Cooking The Bacon

We personally use turkey or beef bacon. The key to making the bacon for these delicious biscuits is making it on the stovetop and cooking it to crispy bacon perfection. 

You then want to let the bacon cool down, and then chop it super small. Not like bacon bit small, but small enough that you don’t have giant 4-inch pieces in your drop biscuit.

Think of it this way, if you were going to cut up an apple for an apple muffin, you would chop them into small pieces… That is about the size you want the bacon for these drop biscuits.

Regular Milk Or Buttermilk?

Personally, skim milk has never cut it, for me, it just doesn’t seem to bring the same rich flavor that whole milk or buttermilk brings.

That being said, this recipe calls for whole milk, however, if you have cold buttermilk on hand USE IT! 

You almost can’t go wrong using buttermilk. I would use half whole milk and half buttermilk as it brings a great balance to the recipe.

Type Of Onions To Use

I am not going to say not to use green onions because I am sure you could use them… I have down on my recipe card to use 1 cup of yellow onion finely chopped. 

However, I have never actually dried green onion but, I am sure it could be amazing! Who knows, I may try this recipe with green onions next time!

If you do try the green onions, chop them small and do about 3/4 of a cup instead.

Type Of Flour To Use

I am sure this recipe could be modified for all-purpose flour, almond flour, or any sort of gluten-free flour. 

However, this is a 100% whole grain traditional drop biscuits recipe. 

My personal favorite flour to use is soft white wheat but, as always, you could totally use what you have on hand, and it will work great!

Ingredients For The “Best Easy Healthy Bacon Cheddar Drop Biscuits”

2 c. Soft White Wheat

1 tsp. Baking Powder

3/4 tsp. Salt

1/2 c. Avocado oil 

1/2 c. + 2 Tbs. milk (whole milk is best but, you can also use buttermilk, just do half and half)

1 whole Egg

10 slices turkey or beef bacon fried and chopped into small pieces

1 c. Finely Diced Onion

1 c. Grated Sharp Cheddar Cheese

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375Fº
2. Start by preparing your bacon, as the bacon is complete, lay each slice on a paper towel to catch any bacon grease. 
3. As soon as the bacon is cooled chop it finely and set aside.
4. In a large bowl mix the egg, oil, and milk and whisk the crazies out of it.
5. For dry ingredients, mix in a small bowl, your 3/4 teaspoon salt, flour, and baking powder and stir until fully mixed.
6. Dump your flour mixture into the wet ingredients and mix well.
7. Fold in your bacon, shredded cheddar cheese, and onions with a spatula.
8. Place into prepared muffin tins (I use a cast iron muffin tin that I love) just oil whatever muffin tin you have or use paper muffin cup holders.
9. Drop in biscuits to about 2/3 of the way full
10. Bake for about 22 minutes, until fully done.

One thing I LOVE about using the cast iron muffin pan is how the edges of the biscuits come out SO perfectly. You won’t regret trying this recipe out, especially when those warm biscuits come out of the hot oven, I can almost gurentee that!

Storing Your Biscuits 

You should store them in an airtight container or a ziplock bag and keep them refrigerated. 

Our preference is to never have leftover though… Haha!

That’s It! If you enjoyed this recipe, you may also enjoy checking my other recipe favorites out below.

Best Healthy Cheese And Herb Savory Muffins

Super Easy Healthier German Pancakes

Only one life to offer,

Andrea