Sausage Gravy and Biscuits is the most southern style breakfast I can think of. This biscuits and gravy recipe is made with the best sausage gravy recipe and homemade southern style biscuits.
While you enjoy this homemade biscuits and gravy for breakfast, no matter where you are living, you are bringing the amazing flavors of southern cooking right into your kitchen. I can tell you, no one is going to complain if you are making biscuits with sausage gravy for breakfast! This southern comfort recipe makes a great breakfast for dinner recipe too!
Biscuits and Gravy Recipe
For many years I was what you would call a true Yankee. I lived up north and enjoyed the “northern foods”. You know things like baked macaroni and cheese, meatloaf, scrapple, pork roll, Boston Cream Pie, cheesesteaks, New York Style Pizza and sloppy joe to name a few.
Then we moved to New Jersey when Tom was active duty and I met lots of great people who opened up my eyes to amazing food from where they were from. Most of the people I befriended were from the south. That made my tastebuds happy when were went to their houses’s for dinner.
After trying so many amazing southern recipes I practically begged my friends to teach me how to make them. Our menu at home started to expand greatly and my cooking skills got so much better. Although I have to admit it did take a while for my mom to stop throwing out my container of bacon grease anytime she came to visit.
Things like fried chicken, goulash, corn bread, Mississippi Mid Pie, Chicken Fried steak and Southern Style Biscuits and gravy were making their way into my meal planning. Our meal expanded and our tastebuds were happy.
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The Best Sausage Gravy
A few different friends of mine shared their sausage gravy recipes with me and all of them were just a little bit different then the other. It took us a little bit to figure out which was the best sausage gravy recipe for our house and when we did it became a staple. You are going to LOVE this homemade sausage gravy recipe!
If you are a northerner like myself, who is not used to cooking traditionally southern dishes and you are trying to learn you are going to love how easy this sausage gravy recipe is.
How to Make Southern Style Biscuits and Gravy
Making biscuits and gravy is really easy. If you are nervous about making it because it is your first time I am going to tell you do not stress. It is not as scary as it sounds to make this amazing southern comfort food.
Before making your sausage gravy you will want to make homemade buttermilk biscuits. I find it easier to make the biscuit dough before starting the gravy. Then when I start cooking the gravy I preheat the oven, and put them in the oven while finishing up the homemade gravy. This way the gravy and the biscuits are done at the same time.
Homemade or store bought biscuits?
When I am short on time I do sometimes cheat and use store bought biscuits. It is not exactly the same as making fresh, from scratch biscuits but it still tastes amazing! However I will tell you that sausage and gravy with homemade biscuits tastes even better than using store bought biscuits.
Once both the sausage gravy and the biscuits are done, place two biscuits on a plate and spoon the sausage gravy on top of the biscuits and enjoy!
This sausage gravy will make enough to cover 10 homemade buttermilk biscuits. When we serve sausage gravy and biscuits for breakfast, we do two biscuits per person.
Buttermilk Biscuits Ingredients
- All purpose flour
- Granulated white sugar
- baking powder
- salt
- butter
- buttermilk
- butter
Buttermilk Biscuits Directions
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together in a medium mixing bowl.
Slice your butter into 1/8 inch piece. Using a pastry cutter, cut the butter into the flour mixture until you have pea size piece of butter.
Pour in all of the buttermilk and stir just until combined.
Lightly flour the work surface and rolling pin.
Place your dough onto the counter and roll it into a 6 by 9-inch rectangle.
With a 2-inch circle cutter cut out ten biscuits. Gently form the scraps of dough together and cut out another circle. Place the biscuits onto a parchment lined baking pan.
Bake your biscuits for 10-12 minutes until they are golden brown on the top.
Sausage Gravy Ingredients
- ground sausage. Be sure to use breakfast sausage.
- flour
- milk
- Butter
- Salt
- pepper
How to Make Sausage Gravy
Pour 3 cups of milk in a liquid measuring cup and set aside.
In a medium sized skillet over high heat, cook the sausage. While cooking, break apart the sausage as it cooks into crumbs with a wooden spoon.
Once the sausage is cooked drain all but 1 tablespoon of grease the grease from pan. Set it aside in a bowl and then set aside the cooked sausage in another bowl.
Over medium high heat, add the butter and the bacon grease and melt the butter.
Once the butter and grease is completely melted add the flour and stir with a whisk. This mixture should be fairly solid. Cook for a minute to brown the flour, butter and grease mixture.
Lower the heat to Medium heat. Then add the room temperature milk, small amounts at a time. Be sure to whisk until smooth after each addition of milk.
It is important to get the milk to room temperature before adding it to your pan, adding cold milk or adding milk too quickly will cause the white gravy to have lumps. Lower to Med heat and add milk small amounts at a time, being sure to whisk until smooth after each addition; add the colder than pan temperature milk to quickly and you will get lumps.
Once all the milk is added and it is completely whisked, add salt and pepper to taste. I add approximately 1 teaspoon but you want to start out with just a pinch and add the salt little by little otherwise you will end up with a to salty white gravy.
Heat the white gravy until it is boiling, stirring occasionally.
Once the gravy is boiling, add the sausage and lower the stove temperature to low and continue stirring the gravy. Continuing to stir for 3-5 minute until the gravy has thickened. If you find the gravy is too thick, then add more milk. You will want to only add the milk little by little and slowly if you are thinning out the gravy.
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Biscuits with Southern Style Sausage Gravy
Ingredients
Sausage Gravy
Biscuits Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon granulated white sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- .5 cup butter cold
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
Instructions
Buttermilk Biscuits
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees.
- Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together in a medium mixing bowl.
- Slice your butter into 1/8 inch piece. Using a pastry cutter, cut the butter into the flour mixture until you have pea size piece of butter.
- Pour in all of the buttermilk and stir just until combined.
- Lightly flour the work surface and rolling pin.Place your dough onto the counter and roll it into a 6 by 9-inch rectangle.
- With a 2-inch circle cutter cut out ten biscuits. Gently form the scraps of dough together and cut out another circle. Place the biscuits onto a parchment lined baking pan.
- Bake your biscuits for 10-12 minutes until they are golden brown on the top.
How to Make sausage gravy
- Pour 3 cups of milk in a liquid measuring cup and set aside.
- In a medium sized skillet over high heat, brown the sausage. While cooking, break apart the sausage as it cooks into crumbs with a wooden spoon.
- Once the sausage is cooked drain the grease from pan except for 1 tablespoon worth. Set that tablespoon of sausage grease aside in a bowl, set the cooked sausage in another bowl to the side.
- Melt the butter in a large pan over medium high heat with the reserved sausage grease.
- Once the butter and grease is completely melted add the flour and stir with a whisk. This mixture should be fairly solid. Cook for a minute to brown the flour, butter and grease mixture.
- Lower the heat to Medium heat. Then add the room temperature milk, small amounts at a time. Be sure to whisk until smooth after each addition of milk.
- Once all the milk is added and it is completely whisked, add salt and pepper to taste. I add approximately 1 teaspoon but you want to start out with just a pinch and add the salt little by little otherwise you will end up with a to salty white gravy.
- Heat the white gravy until it is boiling, stirring occasionally.
- Once the gravy is boiling, add the sausage and lower the stove temperature to low and continue stirring the gravy. Continuing to stir for 3-5 minute until the gravy has thickened. If you find the gravy is too thick, then add more milk. You will want to only add the milk little by little and slowly if you are thinning out the gravy.
How to Assemble Biscuits and Gravy
- Bake the biscuits and while the biscuits are baking make the sausage gravy.
- Remove biscuits from the oven and place on a plate, we do 2 biscuits as a serving. The pour the sausage gravy on top of the biscuits.
7 Weight Watchers SmartPoints not including the biscuit
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Comments & Reviews
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