It’s kind of a Southern Thing: Biscuits & Gravy
For our first recipe here, we are going with one of the easiest meals in the world to prepare: the iconic Southern Biscuits and Gravy! Biscuits and gravy has rightfully earned its place as a staple of the American South for its ease of preparation, comfort foodiness, and its absolute knockout taste. It only requires six main ingredients, four of which are already present in pretty much every American home (salt, pepper, milk, and white flour.)
Ingredients List:
One roll of sausage (pork sausage seems to work best but it’s up to you)
One large can of prepackaged biscuits (flaky, buttery, buttermilk, doesn’t really matter)
Whole Milk
1/3 cup White Flour
Salt
Pepper
In a decent-sized frying pan, start the sausage cooking at medium heat, making sure to break it up so that it cooks evenly.
While the sausage is cooking, preheat your oven to 325 degrees or whatever the can of biscuits dictates. Once the sausage has cooked down from its raw color to a gray or brown, add 1/3 cup of white flour directly into the pan and stir it in before it becomes lumpy. The flour should quickly form a bready coating on the sausage.
At this stage the biscuits should go into the oven so that they are ready when the gravy is done. Arrange the biscuits on the pan so they do not stick together. They will take between 13-17 minutes to bake to a golden brown. Keep a close eye, burnt biscuits are no fun!
Once the flour has been distributed evenly in the sausage mixture, turn the heat to high. Add milk directly into the pan on the sausage, enough so that the milk level is close to the top of the pan. This step requires a bit of eyeballing, there is no exact measurement.
Stir occasionally, waiting for the mixture to come to a bubbling simmer. The top of the milk should become frothy as it heats up. Once the mixture reaches that bubbling simmer, turn heat down to low, stirring constantly at that stage so that the milk does not burn to the bottom of the pan. At this point, salt and pepper can be added to taste. Once the mixture has become a decent gravy-like consistency, remove pan from heat.
Remove biscuits from the oven when they have reached a golden-brown color, split a biscuit onto a plate with the fluffy insides pointed up, and ladle a generous portion of gravy over both biscuits. Enjoy!
