gravy – A cook named Rebecca

These Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Gravy are a staple in every Southern household. We may not eat this everyday but most of us grew up eating biscuits and gravy! The cream or white gravy alone is a must for Southern Fried Chicken or Southern Chicken Fried Steak!

I used a hot breakfast sausage because we like a little heat. Use your favorite breakfast sausage in the recipe. I always use whole milk when making gravy. 2% would likely work, but I kind of think the whole milk works a little better.

Here’s the link for the southern Fried Chicken: https://the2spoons.com/?s=Southern+fried+chicken+#wprm-recipe-container-6743. You’ll love this fried chicken recipe! A must try!

The Best Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Gravy

The biscuits I made were are on the blog and they are delicious! Here’s the link for them: https://the2spoons.com/my-easy-homemade-buttermilk-biscuits/.

These biscuits are delicious and so tender. Be sure and complete the fold process and use a cutter that you can cut the biscuits without twisting. This is the cutter I use: https://amzn.to/2vdk0sf.

See all the layers in the biscuits? That’s because of the folding.

The Best Flaky Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Gravy

Here’s the recipe for the biscuits and gravy! Make them this weekend while everyone is home!! You’ll love them.

Buttermilk Biscuits With Sausage Gravy

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Course: Bread, Breakfast, dinner, Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

2 tbsp Bacon drippings or vegetable oil You can use vegetable oil or butter
1/4 Lb Breakfast sausage
2 tbsp all purpose flour
2 green onions, diced (optional)
2-3 cups whole milk
salt and pepper to tasste
cayenne pepper (optional) optional

For the Biscuits

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour (spoon and leveled)
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
pinch of baking soda
1/2 cup butter, cold and grated or shortening
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons cold buttermilk
2 tsp honey (optional)
melted butter for brushing when out of the oven

Method

Add the oil to a skillet, then add your sausage, breaking up with a spoon or spatula. Cook until sausage as lightly browned. Add the diced green onions and cook another minute or two.
Add the flour and cook about 2 minutes. Then add the milk and whisk to prevent lumping. Cook until thickened adding more milk if needed. Season with salt and black pepper. Cayenne pepper optional.

For the Biscuits

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Add the flour, salt, and baking powder to a large bowl. Grate the cold butter into the dry ingredients and with a pastry cutter, two forks or my favorite, your hands, cut the butter into the flour until coarse crumbs form. Make a well in the center of the mixture and add the buttermilk and the honey. Stir just to combine. Do not overwork.Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and gently mold it into a rough looking rectangle using your hands. Fold one side into the center, then the other side. Turn the dough so it’s long horizontally. Gently flatten. Repeat the folding again. Turn the dough so it’s long horizontally once more. Gently flatten. Repeat the folding one more time.Gently roll the dough out with a rolling pin until it’s 1 inch thick. Cut into 3-inch circles. Re-roll any scraps until you have 9-12 biscuits. Arrange in a 10-inch cast iron skillet or close together on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. (Make sure they’re touching.)Brush the tops with a little buttermilk. Bake for 15 minutes or until biscuits are golden brown on top.Brush the tops with butter. Enjoy warm! Place the leftover biscuits in a zip lock back or air tight container and store in the refrigerator for 4 or 5 days.

Giblet Gravy is another of those recipes that is a family tradition. Most of us in Texas not only put giblets in the gravy buy we add sliced boiled eggs. Of course you can leave these two things out and have a delicious gravy, just omit the part about cooking the giblets and the final adding the hard boiled eggs!! You will love it and you have to have gravy for the dressing, mashed potatoes, turkey?

This recipe is based on 6-8 servings but it is easily doubled. The prep time is after you have your giblets cooked, so I'll add the instructions on cooking your giblets and boiled eggs first.

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 5

Total Time 15

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

For the Giblets

1 package giblets (hearts and gizzards) plus the neck and heart and gizzard from your turkey
1 stalk celery
1/2 onion, quartered
1 carrot
6-8 cups water
1-2 cubes bullion (I like Knorr)
1 bay leaf

Hard boiled gs

4 eggs
water to cover

For the Gravy

Giblets that have been sliced, with the cartlidged removed
4-6 cups chicken stock left from the giblets or store bought is fine
1/4 cup pan drippings or vegetable oil
4 1/2 tbsp all purpose flour
2 tbsp dressing
4 eggs cooled and sliced

Method

For the Giblets

Add the giblets to a stock pan and add 6-8 cups water. Add a stalk of celery, the onions, carrot, the bullion cubes and bay leaf. An alternative to the bullion cubes would be to cook the giblets in stock, but if you are like me I always seems to run out of stock for my gravy and dressing, so I like to make this additional stock that you can strain and use in your gravy.
Bring to a boil, reduce to simmer to medium heat and cook until the giblets are tender. An Alternative is to do this in your Instant Pot and set it for 30 minutes.
Once your giblets are tender, strain the broth and pick out your cooked giblets from the vegetables, discarding your vegetables. Slice the gizzards removing the cartridge part...just keep the meat part, shred the meat off the neck, slice the heart and set aside. Save the broth to be used in making your gravy.

Boiled eggs

I know we can all boil eggs, but I'll go ahead and give you the instructions of how I do them. Place the eggs in a pan and cover with water. Bring to a boil and reduce the heat just a little. Once they start to boil, start timing 10 minutes. Remove from the heat at this time and submerge in ice water to stop the cooking and to insure you have a lovely yellow yolk. Tap the ends on the counter and roll your egg for easy pealing. An alternative given to me by a friend is to put your eggs in an Instant Pot with one cup water and set the timer for 4 minutes. When the timer goes off...release the steam and remove to the ice water....follow above instructons from here.

For the Gravy

Add the 1/4 cup pan drippinngs from your turkey or vegetable oil to a pan and heat to medium heat. Add the flour, using a whisk stir and cook for about a minute. Still whisking, add your stock, bring back to a boil, then reduce the heat and cook until thickened. Be careful as the gravy will easily boil over, so reduce the heat as soon as it starts to boil. (At this point your gravy is ready to serve if you do not want to add the giblets and eggs)
Go ahead and add your giblets and keep the gravy warm until ready to serve. When ready to serve add your dressing and lightly stir to combine, then add your boiled eggs, just stir to combine.