American
Sausage Gravy Bowls
Breakfast sausage crumbles in a skillet, then milk and flour turn the drippings into peppery gravy for split biscuits. It is a bowl, not a diner plate you have to assemble standing up.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Cook
- 18 min
- Total
- 23 min
- Servings
- 4
- Difficulty
- Easy
Why you’ll love it
- The gravy is sausage fat, flour, and milk, not a packet.
- Black pepper is the seasoning that makes it taste like the diner version.
- Biscuits catch the sauce.
- It is done in one skillet after the biscuits.
Ingredients
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Instructions
- 1
Cook the sausage in a skillet over medium heat, breaking it up, until no pink remains and the sausage reaches 160°F, about 6 to 8 minutes. Leave the drippings in the pan.
- 2
Sprinkle the flour over the sausage and stir for 1 minute so the flour cooks and smells lightly toasted.
- 3
Pour in the milk a little at a time, stirring, and simmer until the gravy coats a spoon, about 4 to 5 minutes.
- 4
Season with the salt and pepper. Taste. Sausage brands vary in salt.
- 5
Split the biscuits into bowls and spoon the gravy over them.
Pro tips
- If the gravy is thin, simmer another minute. If it is thick, splash in more milk.
- Do not drain the sausage. The fat is the start of the roux.
- Pepper should be obvious. This gravy is supposed to be peppery.
Easy substitutions
- Biscuits
- Toast or roasted potato chunks
- Breakfast sausage
- Ground turkey and 1 tbsp butter if the pan looks dry
- Whole milk
- 2 percent milk, and expect a slightly thinner gravy
Storage and reheating
Storage
Refrigerate the gravy up to 3 days. Keep biscuits separate so they do not turn to mush.
Reheating
Warm the gravy in a saucepan over low heat with a splash of milk. Toast the biscuits.
Nutrition
Estimates per serving, using standard ingredient averages and rounded to the nearest gram. This is not a lab analysis, and it shifts if you change brands or add sides.
- Calories
- 480
- Protein
- 18 g
- Carbs
- 32 g
- Fat
- 30 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
Budget friendly · Stovetop
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