Spicy Caraway and Spring Onion Cheese Scones

This is an incredibly full of flavour savoury scone and is excellent for in between snacks or as accompaniment to a soup.

Ingredients make 15

500 g self raising flour

10 g salt

100 g butter

330 ml milk

80 g finely chopped spring onion

100 g shredded cheddar cheese

50 g parmesan flakes

½ tsp ground white pepper

¼ tsp ground nutmeg

1 tbls caraway seeds

Method

Preheat the oven to (fan forced) 200°C. Combine flour, pepper, nutmeg and salt in a large bowl. Shred the cold butter and use your hands to rub the butter into the flour until it resembles bread crumbs. Place milk, onion, cheese and caraway seeds in another bowl and combine. Add liquid mix to dry mix and combined to dough. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and pat the dough into a 3 cm thickness. Cut out the scones with a 5cm scone cutter and transfer to a lightly floured tray. Space approx. a centimetre apart and bake for approx 12 min. until golden brown on top and cooked through.

Note: Try other delicious cheeses such as Pecorino Romano in or with the scones.