Southern Biscuits and Gravy. Biscuits and gravy is a popular breakfast dish in the United States, especially in the South. The dish consists of soft dough biscuits covered in either sawmill or meat gravy, made from the drippings of cooked pork sausage, white flour, milk, and often (but not always) bits of sausage, bacon, ground beef. Biscuits and Gravy - a classic breakfast dish from the Southern US.
It is RARE that I make this because it's artery clogging as HECK so if you're steadfastly. You'll find biscuits and gravy on any good Southern breakfast menu. This breakfast combo melds together an American adaptation on a French roux-based white sauce with a quick-bread that has been a staple in American kitchens since those kitchens were open-air fire pits. To cook Southern Biscuits and Gravy you need 4 ingredients and just 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients
- You need of sausage.
- You need of flour.
- It's of evaporated milk.
- It's of water.
Proper Southern-style biscuits and gravy begin with homemade buttermilk biscuits. If you are planning to make this dish with grocery store biscuit dough in a pressurized cardboard tube, you will be sacrificing flavor and texture (not to mention authenticity) for convenience. Biscuits and gravy in the South is basically the equivalent of pasta in Italy. Here's a little Southern pro-tip for you: Instead of just dividing your biscuits in two and then dousing the gravy on them, I was always taught to tear my biscuit up into bite size pieces and then load your plate up with tons of gravy.
Southern Biscuits and Gravy step by step
- In a big skillet or pot fry sausage. Break into pieces as if you are frying hamburger. When done remove 3/4 of the sausage. set aside in bowl..
- Add 3 huge tablespoons of flour to sausage and grease in skillet over medium high heat. Wisk until all the flour is wet with the mixture.
- Add 1 can evaporated milk. Should start to thicken.
- As it begins to thicken add water slowly. You will add between 3 to 4 cups..
- Put the rest of the sausage back into the gravey put heat to medium low. Gravey will be thin but will thicken as it heats up. You want to keep it at a slow boil..
- Bake biscuits. Put gravey over biscuits..
Sausage gravy (or "country gravy") is basically made after cooking sausage in a pan by adding flour to the residual grease/drippings (to make a roux) then From what I understand, "biscuits and gravy" is kind of its own unique southern American thing, and I've heard that foreign visitors don't "get it" and. Tender, flaky southern buttermilk biscuits are smothered in a rich homemade chocolate sauce for a wonderfully unique start to the day that is truly Southern! And while I was aware of the fondness for southern biscuits and gravy in general, that always meant a white sausage gravy. Who doesn't just love biscuits and gravy? This page is operated by Hailey Green, the winner of the Lay's Do Us A Flavor Tastes of America competition in.