How to Make Sausage Gravy Homemade Recipe

Homemade country sausage gravy with flaky buttermilk biscuits is the ultimate hearty breakfast recipe made from scratch. One of the easiest country-style recipes you can make at home, it is sure to become a family favorite!

With simple step by steps instructions, you can learn how to make this quick and easy creamy sausage gravy with heavy cream in a cast-iron skillet. Made with a few simple ingredients, you will have the best homemade creamy gravy!

Why you Will Love This Recipe

Favorite Comfort Foods: A simple family breakfast served with good biscuits or an easy dinner recipe, homemade gravy is always a comfort food!

Simple Ingredients: Cooked ground sausage, flour, and heavy cream are the main ingredients in this simple recipe. Add a little salt and pepper and you have made easy sausage gravy!

Quick and Simple: With just a little time, this homemade country sausage will be ready to serve! Don’t be surprised if this becomes your husband’s favorite breakfast recipe!

From Scratch Homemade Country Sausage Gravy

Flaky buttermilk biscuits smothered in homemade country sausage gravy is a delicious breakfast recipe. When I was a child, my mother made biscuits and gravy every week. It was the best breakfast comfort food!

When I shared my buttermilk biscuit recipe, I knew I had to share how to make country sausage gravy. However, I have always made mine from scratch without ever having a recipe card. So, when I made the recipe for our family breakfast, I jotted down all the measurements to share.

Easy Homemade Country Sausage Gravy

Have you ever ordered sausage gravy from a restaurant? If you have, you may already realize that not all of them are the same. Some are thick, others are thin, and sometimes it just doesn’t have a great flavor. You can learn how to make the best sausage gravy recipe with just a few simple ingredients.

This recipe is straightforward and quick to make. It takes very few ingredients, but I always suggest using the highest quality ingredients you can afford. I use pork sausage, all-purpose flour, heavy cream, salt, and black pepper for this recipe.

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• Large Cast Iron Skillet

Ingredients You Need

• Ground Pork Sausage: For the best sausage, I recommend purchasing from a local farmer or an organic brand made with all natural ingredients.
• All Purpose Flour: This is what binds to the sausage thickens the gravy.
• Heavy Cream or Whole Milk: For the best rich and creamy texture, I suggest using heavy cream. Whole milk can be substitued for the heavy cream.
• Salt and Pepper: How much you add will depend upon your preferred taste. I suggest sampling the gravy and then adding more salt and pepper as needed.

How to Make homemade Sausage Gravy Recipe

For the first step, make my favorite flaky biscuits recipe. While the homemade biscuits are baking, start making the breakfast sausage gravy.

Step 1: Cook the Sausage

In a large skillet over medium-high heat, cook sausage until it is brown. Use a spatula to break up the sausage until it is crumbled. Do not discard the grease.

Step 2: Add Flour

On low heat, sprinkle flour over the top of the sausage. Stir and allow the flour to cook for a few minutes while absorbing the sausage grease and pan drippings.

Step 3: Add Heavy Cream or Milk

Add the heavy cream or milk to the sausage/flour mixture. As the milk or cream heats up, the sausage will thicken. Add salt and pepper to your desired taste. Then, continue to stir, over low heat, until the gravy thickens.

How much cream or whole milk you add will determine if your gravy is thick or thin. The less cream or milk, the thicker the gravy. If you want the gravy thinner, add a little more cream or milk at a time until you achieve your perfect style of gravy.

Step 4: Serve

Split hot biscuits in half or crumble onto a plate, then top generously with sausage gravy. Add more salt and pepper, if needed.

Tips for Making the Best Country Sausage Gravy

• You can use heavy cream, milk, or a combination of both for this recipe. I personally love using heavy cream.
• Start with the smallest recommendation for cream/milk to add to the gravy. If you like thick gravy you will use less, if you want thinner gravy, you will add more cream or milk.
• Keep the gravy warm. This is one advantage to using a cast iron skillet as it holds heat longer than a regular skillet. Gravy is creamed based, so the longer it is allowed to cool, the thicker it will become.

What to Serve with Homemade Sausage Gravy

• Old Fashioned Buttermilk Biscuits: biscuits that are just barely golden brown on the top, soft on the bottom, yet flaky and fluffy.
• Sourdough Biscuits: if you have a sourdough starter, these biscuits are delicious, with perfect pull apart layers.

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More Delicious Breakfast Recipes

• Old Fashioned Buttermilk Biscuits Recipe: Learn how to make these homemade old fashioned buttermilk biscuits. With this easy recipe, biscuits are baked in a cast iron skillet, resulting in large, flaky, fluffy layers.
• How to Cook Bacon in a Cast Iron Skillet: Simple steps for cooking bacon in a cast-iron skillet, perfectly. This recipe is for all of the bacon lovers! I’ve been cooking bacon for years in a heavy cast-iron skillet, resulting in perfectly cooked bacon every time.
• Country Farmers Breakfast Skillet: Wake up to this hearty country farmers’ breakfast skillet! This farmer’s breakfast cast iron skillet recipe is filled with bacon, peppers, onions, and sausage. When you need a large hearty meal for a big day like a country farmer, start with a meal like this!
• Over Easy Eggs in a Cast Iron Skillet: Step by step, learn how to fry the perfect over easy eggs in a cast iron skillet. Fried in a hot skillet with a layer of butter, this is the best way to eat a fried egg.

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