Sausage gravy is a popular breakfast dish in the Southern and Midwestern United States, made by cooking ground sausage and adding flour, butter, milk, salt, and pepper. It is traditionally served over split biscuits and can be made with mild or spicy sausage.
Sausage gravy is a savory flour-based gravy that is enhanced with cooked ground sausage as part of the concoction. Often served on biscuits as part of a hearty breakfast alongside bacon and eggs, this gravy combines different textures in every bite. The fluffy interior of the split biscuit is paired with the sturdy biscuit crust, while the smooth body of the flour gravy is accompanied by the presence of small pieces of ground sausage.
Making sausage gravy always starts with mashing ground sausage in a pan and slowly browning the sausage until all the crumbs are completely done. Depending on personal taste, the gravy can be made with light sausage or spicy sausage. Traditionally, sausage and gravy is made using mild sausage.
Once the sausage is fully cooked, the heat under the pan is reduced. Regular flour and butter are added to the pan and mixed well with the ground sausage. This combination is allowed to simmer for a couple of minutes before adding milk to the mixture. The amount of milk depends on the desired thickness of the gravy. For the most part, sausage gravy recipes produce a gravy that is relatively thick.
After the milk blends into the flour, butter and sausage, the gravy will slowly begin to turn a whitish color as the mixture begins to thicken. Salt and pepper are added as the gravy simmers. In just a few minutes, the gravy is finished and ready to serve.
The traditional presentation of sausage gravy is pouring the gravy over a biscuit that has been split and open-faced in a dish. In restaurants that serve sausage biscuits and gravy, the biscuit is usually split and the gravy is poured over the biscuit halves before the dish is brought to the table. However, restaurants that offer a breakfast buffet tend to place gravy in one container while biscuits are placed nearby. This allows the diner to make their own sausage gravy and biscuit combination at the table, which tends to keep the biscuit bread from becoming oversaturated by the hot gravy.
Sausage gravy is a relatively common breakfast item in many parts of the Southern and Midwestern United States. However, in recent years sausage gravy has gained popularity in other parts of the country and is usually available in family-style restaurants that are open for breakfast.
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