Sausage and Gravy Recipe

[DebMcDonald]

We're from up North, but my husband has spent alot of time down south and loves Biscuits with sausage and gravy (white gravy) - I think I am wording that correctly. Would anyone be kind enough to pass along a great recipe because up North, except for Cracker Barrel you can find it anywhere.

Thanks!
Debbie

 

[Maiya]

My son loves biscuits and gravy, so I make this fairly often. I don't really use a recipe- it's fairly simple to make. Cook the sasauge and crumble it, sage sausage is our favorite but any kind should work. If there is a ton of grease drain some off, but you need a little or the gravy doesn't turn out right. Next add some flour, 1/4 -1/3 cup I think (I just dump some in until it soaks up all the grease), depending on how much you are making and how thick you want it. Then add milk, salt and black pepper. Stir almost constantly until this simmers- allow to simmer longer if it needs to thicken more. That's pretty much it- just don't forget to bake the biscuits. I did that once- had to keep the gravy warm while we waited on the biscuits.

 

[Disneyliscious]

I just use a very basic method but it comes out tasting fabulous.....

Fry sausage (or bacon, pork chops, or chicken) and set aside....

Add 1/2 cup of flour to the hot grease and stir. Sprinkle in some black pepper and salt while stirring. Once mixed well, add in about 8oz of water. If the gravy isnt the consistency you want....add in more water/flour depending on if you want it thicker or thinner. When you add the water, lower the heat to meadium/low on the stove.

Salt to taste (you will need quite a bit of salt after adding the water. It brings out the flavor).

If I want brown gravy, I just cook the mixture longer before adding in the water. The longer you cook it, the darker it will get.

Of course, you can always just buy the pre-mixed packs at Walmart for $.33 a pack. They taste great!

 

[HunnyPots]

Maiya, that's exactly how I do it! We love sausage gravy and biscuits for dinner on cold nights. I like to split the biscuit and top it with scrambled eggs then cover it with the gravy... yum!

 

[laurafergie]

Easy - Easy

1lb Mild bulk pork sausage, like Jimmy Deans or whatever - I tend to get the least expensive for biscuits and gravy.

Break up and brown the sausage in a large frying pan. Leave at least 3-4 TBSP of the grease in the pan, or if you're feeding a crowd like I do, I leave all of it in. Sprinkle flour over the sausage and grease left in the pan and stir in enough to form a paste. Cook a bit to get the raw flour taste out. This is like a "roux".

Add milk (this will a few cups, add more if it looks too thick) to sausage and flour mixture and whisk constantly at Med-Hi heat. Salt and pepper to taste. There's the gravy!

I have to admit I haven't made biscuits from scratch in awhile, but my DH like Pilsbury Grands Biscuits just fine with gravy.

Or if you really want to cheat - you can buy white gravy mix and add the browned pork sausage. But it won't taste the same, because it won't have the grease in it.

 

[Belle0101]

Here's one that's real close to mine (below). The one I use has you put in a pinch of nutmeg and also a splash of tobasco sauce. And with mine I don't take the sausage out of the pan, leave it all in.

Biscuits and Sausage Gravy Recipe

Ingredients
* Salt and pepper to taste
* Milk (about 2 cups)
* 1 teaspoon - flour
* Sausage
* Homemade biscuits

Directions
This is my favorite breakfast.
Bake some biscuits, Tammy Wynette's buttermilk biscuits are best but packaged will do.

Then fry up some sausage in an iron skillet, I like HOT Sausage but mild is good, too. Remove the sausage and put on a paper towel. Leave about 2 tablespoons of sausage grease in the skillet and add flour to the hot grease and sausage bits and grulies, brown flour in grease and the add milk slowly, stir a lot.

The flour will thicken the gravy. Salt and pepper to taste (I like freshly coarse ground pepper). Break-up the sausage patties into the gravy and pour over hot, opened biscuits.

 

[Maiya]

Sometimes I fry hash browns, not the shredded ones but the cubed ones, and we pour the gravy over those too...
I'll have to try it with scrambled eggs that sounds really good.

 

[keltic]

All of the above sound good. Just remember to make sure to mix the flour in with the grease until smooth before adding your milk (you will have creamier and whiter gravy with milk than water). Add cold milk to the hot mixture and keep stirring to prevent lumps in your gravy. Make sure to bring it to a strong simmer before turning down the heat (still stirring). A smooth gravy requires constant stirring like a good risotto. Add the meat (sausage or bacon) after it has finished cooking and is smooth. That way the meat is the only thing lumpy in your gravy.

And, of course, a good cast iron skillet will give you the best results.

 

[thepwa]

I had to find this thread right after starting on a diet. Now I want gravy and biscuits!!!

 

[DebMcDonald]

Thank you guys so much!!

 

[tink2dw]

Bisquick makes the best drop biscuits!!! the recipe is just under the complicated biscuit recipe. They are great with sausage gravy

 

[WDWorBUST]

This is one of our favorites but it's one of those things I was taught growing us so I don't have a "recipe" for it....actually I hardly ever use a recipe. But I pretty much do exactly as everyone else does. Cook sausage crumbled - I think that 2 Tablespoons of flour to every cup of milk works out to a good consistency (of course I don't measure accurately either...but that's close ) The one thing I didn't see mentioned is it helps if you add your milk in a little at a time and get the consistency smooth before adding more...helps avoid the lumps. This is one of our winter favorites and we eat it over biscuits and "southern style" hashbrowns.

 

[richmond282]

I feel sorry for Northerners! Life is just not complete without gravy for your biscuits.

 

[ferrytale]

OMG this is a little strange! I was just thinking about surprising DH with this for breakfast tomorrow, but I didn't have the packets I normally get so I was gonna google for a recipe after I checked out the boards - now I won't have too! Thank you all for sharing!
Happy Fathers Day to all the dad's out there!

 

[ah1126]

McDonald's had the best Biscuts and Gravy!!!!

 

[MoniqueU]

We call it country gravy here, they have it at Dennys and Cracker barrel when we are in AZ. I don't like it on biscuits butt love it on hashbrowns with cheese or dip my french fries in it. They have it at a ton of independent restaurants in CA as well. When I was at the diners in NY and NJ and they didn't have that or guacamole for your quesadillas I was confused LOL

 

[Blondiex46]

love it my mother was from the south and get it at Denny's and the Walmart one also, love the receipes will have to do it. Thanks.

 

[DebMcDonald]

I want to thank everyone for their help, my husband said it was GREAT biscuits and gravy for Father's Day!

 

[drgreene1096]

It's not exactly biscuits and gravy, but it's really, really good . . .

I call them Sausage Puffs.

1 pound of Bob Evans Sausage (I like this brand best and any flavor will do.)
1 8 oz. block of cream cheese
4 cans of Pillsbury biscuits (the ones that come packaged as a 4 pack - the small biscuits - will give you 40 biscuits)

Fry your sausage, mix together with the cream cheese. Flatten out each biscuit and fill with a tablespoon of the sausage mix. Seal the edges to make a little ball. Put in a muffin tin and bake according to the biscuit package directions. This makes 40 Sausage puffs and my family loves them. If you'd like you can make some white gravy to go over the top with the grease from your sausage, but I like them just as they are.