Breakfast is my absolute favorite meal of the day. On the weekdays I usually eat oatmeal (make it with milk and put a banana and a couple dark chocolate chips in there, y'all, life will never be the same), but I love to make big brunches on the weekend and experiment with new recipes. Both of my parents are Yankees, therefore, I was sadly deprived of the glorious southern magic that is sausage gravy for 26 years of my life. Something about a gravy that isn't brown and doesn't have some kind of beef underneath has never really appealed to me. I have seen the light y'all and Hallelujah praise the Lord this sh*t is SO GOOD. This recipe is from the "Skinny Girl Standard" blog - it is to die for and SO easy you can't mess it up. Enjoy!!
Serves: 4
Cook time: 15 minutes
Ingredients
- 1lb ground chicken or turkey sausage (pork sausage works too but will up the fat content)*
- 3 C milk (I use 1%)
- 1/3 C white whole wheat flour (or regular flour if you prefer)
Instructions:
- Brown your sausage in a large pan with a little olive oil over med-high heat and break up into small pieces as it cooks
- When sausage is cooked through, sprinkle on half the flour and let cook into the sausage for about 1 minute before adding the rest of the flour, cook for another minute once the rest of the flour is added
- Turn your heat down to medium, add the milk and stir gently
- Let your gravy simmer and thicken for about 10 minutes, stirring occasionally so it doesn't stick to the pan
- Season with salt and pepper to taste (I like 1/2 tsp salt and about 1&1/2 tsp black pepper)
- Serve over hot biscuits**
* My favorite sausage is the ground chicken breakfast sausage made fresh at Sprouts in the fresh meat section. I've also used the hot italian ground chicken sausage from Sprouts and it's delicious.
**For the biscuits, I have used canned, bisquick, and homemade. See below for my favorite homemade recipe!
Ingredients:
- 3&1/2C white whole wheat flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp paprika
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 C buttermilk
- 1/2 C butter or margarine, cut into 1 inch pieces
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 400
- Add all dry ingredients to a food processor and pulse a few times to combine
- Add butter pieces to the dry ingredients in the food processor and pulse until pea-sized butter pieces remain in the mixture
- Add buttermilk and pulse a few more times until dough forms
- Sprinkle some flour on your work space and roll the dough out into a 2 inch sheet
- Use a biscuit cutter or a glass to cut biscuits and place on an un-greased cookie sheet
- Bake for 8-10 minutes until cooked through
Serve hot with gravy on top! Makes about 8 biscuits.
Here's what mine looked like:
No comments:
Post a Comment