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Homemade Biscuits & Country Style Sausage Gravy is the perfect breakfast comfort food! A simple recipe that once you have "nailed it" you will be making over and over again!
This meal is simple and comes together quick. I use my Easy Drop Biscuits recipe for the biscuits. They are buttery, flaky and so tender. They are perfect to smother gravy on. I have been making this same sausage gravy recipe for years! I first learned how to make this gravy when I was in middle school, and my sister and I would spend a lot of time at my Auntie Lois's house. Back then, we used refrigerated biscuits and made homemade gravy. Then we sat around the kitchen table, ate breakfast with Lois and Dean, and spent hours making crafts or playing games! Memories I will cherish forever!
Eventually, when I really started to grasp the homemade concept and realized I wanted to control what ingredients went in my food, I made the switch to homemade biscuits and haven't looked back. I made my Easy Drop Biscuits for my Auntie before she went to heaven and she approved of them! The sausage gravy has not needed any change, it is made from scratch already. The only thing I have changed about this good ole recipe is the sausage I use. I now use the sausage we get from our own pigs. You can use any type of ground pork sausage you like. I have used Jimmie Dean more times than I can remember, it works great. You can even spicen things up and use one original tube and one hot tube of sausage in your gravy. Done that as well! It's delish!
How to Make Biscuits and Country Style Sausage Gravy
First, you need to make the biscuits! You can click here for the printable biscuit recipe or just keep reading! I'll go over the recipe again!
For the Biscuits
You will need:
- 4 cups unbleached all purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup salted butter, cold and diced
- 2-½ cups cold milk, any type works, I normally use 2% cows milk
To make the biscuits:
- Preheat oven to 400° and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add the diced butter and using a pastry cutter, blend together until you get course crumbs.
- Stir in the milk and stir until well incorporated.
- Let the dough sit for about 2 minutes, but not much longer.
- Scoop the biscuits on prepared baking sheets using a large scoop.
- Bake for 15 minutes until tops are starting to turn golden brown.
While the biscuits are baking, make the gravy!
For the Sausage Gravy
You will need:
- 1 pound ground pork sausage
- ½ cup unbleached all purpose flour
- 3 cups milk, I use 2% cow's milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cracked black pepper
To make the Sausage Gravy:
- In a large skillet with deep sides (cast iron works too!), cook and crumble the sausage over medium heat until it is cooked all the way through and broken down into small pieces.
- Do NOT drain the sausage.
- Add the flour and stir together and let cook for a minute.
- Slowly pour in milk while whisking it in at the same time. Keep whisking until all the lumps of flour are blended.
- Stir in salt and pepper.
- Simmer for 2-3 minutes stirring the whole time until thickened.
- Once thickened remove from heat.
- Taste. You might like a little more salt and pepper. If the gravy is to thick for your liking, you can always add a touch more milk to thin it out a bit. I would add it ¼ cup at a time.
- Smother your warm biscuits in delicious gravy.
It really is an easy, comforting meal for breakfast! We have it often in our house!
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Biscuits and Country Style Sausage Gravy
Ingredients
Biscuits
- 4 cups unbleached all purpose flour
- 2 Tablespoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup salted butter, cold and diced
- 2-½ cups milk, cold, any type, I use 2% cow's milk
Sausage Gravy
- 1 pound ground pork sausage, (Jimmie Dean)
- ½ cup unbleached all purpose flour
- 3 cups milk, I use 2% cow's milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cracked black pepper
Instructions
Biscuits
- Preheat oven to 400° and line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt.
- Cut in butter, using a pastry blender or your hands until it looks like course crumbs.
- Stir in milk until well incorporated. Let sit for no more than 2 minutes.
- Scoop dough onto prepared baking sheets 2 inches apart.
- Bake 15 minutes until tops are just starting to turn golden brown.
Sausage Gravy
- In a large skillet with deep sides, brown and crumble sausage over medium heat until fully cooked.
- Do NOT drain grease.
- Sprinkle flour over sausage and stir to mix together, cooking for a minute.
- Slowly pour in milk while whisking at the same time. Whisk until the flour is completely blended.
- Stir in salt and pepper.
- Let simmer for 2-3 minutes until thickened.
- Once thickened, remove from heat and smother your warm biscuits with gravy!
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