How To Make Sausage Gravy
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Learn how to make sausage gravy with 3 simple ingredients: milk, flour, and sausage. It’s so creamy and flavorful and best served over a fluffy homemade biscuit.
Today, we’re going to make a real Southern staple. This sausage gravy recipe is going to separate the men from the mice, as they say. Nothing beats fluffy homemade buttermilk biscuits smothered in homemade sausage gravy for breakfast on a special occasion (or just because). It’s Southern comfort food at its finest. The ingredients might be simple, but the flavor is anything but. The combination of milk, flour, sausage, and salt and pepper is deliciously creamy.
Don’t you just love simple recipes? That is one of the best things about Southern cooking. It’s just plain simple and just plain good. Always unnerves me when I see a recipe for sausage gravy with an ingredient list that reads like a scientific classification. I think Southerners are just trying to show off to folks of the northern persuasion when they do that. There’s no need.
Milk, flour, and sausage = sausage gravy. That’s all there is to it!
Now, who’s ready to learn how to make sausage gravy?
Recipe Ingredients
- Milk
- Flour (self-rising flour, plain flour, almond flour, or coconut flour)
- Sausage
- Salt and pepper
- Biscuits for serving
How to Make Sausage Gravy
Slice your sausage in whatever thickness you prefer. I usually go for about half an inch but some people like it thinner.
Place sausage in a pan or skillet over medium heat.
Cook until browned.
It will look something like this.
Remove the cooked sausage from the pan and place it on a paper towel-lined plate to drain.
You will have a good bit of grease left in your skillet. You need about two tablespoons, so if you have more drain it off to leave about that much.
Sprinkle three to four tablespoons of flour in your skillet.
Cook this over medium-low heat until the flour is brown.
Scrape the bottom of the skillet to stir the sausage bits into your gravy, then salt and pepper to taste.
Add milk. I added about a cup and a half here.
Stir well until smooth and creamy.
Take a piece of sausage or two and crumble it up in your gravy.
I made a small amount of gravy so I just used one sausage.
There you have it: you now know how to make sausage gravy It’s that easy.
Now, most folks will take a biscuit, set it on their plate, and spoon gravy onto it.
They might cut it in half first and spoon gravy on both halves.
That’s not how we really like it though. We REALLY like to tear our biscuit up in our bowl, because that’s what our mamas did when we were little! Spoon the creamy sausage gravy all over it. At this point, you can use a fork or get a spoon and really pretend your mama is there.
Storage
- Store homemade gravy leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days. Reheat in the microwave or on the stovetop.
- You can also freeze leftovers for up to 3 months. Thaw in the fridge before reheating as above.
Recipe Notes
- You can use either ground pork breakfast sausage, spicy pork sausage, or Italian sausage.
- For heat, add a pinch of cayenne or crushed red pepper flakes.
- For added flavor, add 1/2 teaspoon each of garlic powder and onion powder.
Recipe FAQs
What do you serve with sausage gravy?
Besides some homemade drop biscuits, Southern sausage gravy also tastes great with fried potatoes, hashbrowns, grits, and even just toast.
Can I make this easy sausage gravy recipe ahead of time?
If you like, you can make sausage gravy the night before, store it in the fridge overnight, and quickly reheat it on the stovetop before serving it for breakfast.
How do I make gluten-free sausage gravy?
Simply use your favorite gluten-free flour alternative and you have yourself gluten-free sausage gravy.
Check out these other gourmet gravy recipes:
Chicken Fried Steak Recipe With Gravy
Recipe For Turkey Gravy (Easy and Delicious)
Southern Cubed Steak and Milk Gravy
Crispy Breaded Pork Chops with Milk Gravy (and MeMe’s Mashed Potatoes)
Garlic Cream Biscuits with Bacon Gravy
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups milk
- 3 tbsp flour
- sausage
- salt and pepper to taste
- biscuits for serving
Instructions
- Slice your sausage in whatever thickness you prefer. I usually go for about half an inch but some people like it thinner. Place sausage in a pan or skillet over medium heat and cook until brown. Remove the cooked sausage from the pan and place it on a paper towel-lined plate to drain.sausage
- You will have a good bit of grease left in your skillet. You need about two tablespoons, so if you have more drain it off to leave about that much.
- Sprinkle three to four tablespoons of flour in your skillet. Cook this over medium-low heat until the flour is brown. Scrape the bottom of the skillet to stir the sausage bits into your gravy, then salt and pepper to taste. Add milk and stir well until smooth and creamy.3 tbsp flour, salt and pepper to taste, 1.5 cups milk
- Take a piece of sausage or two and crumble it up in your gravy. Serve over a warm biscuit.biscuits for serving
I love biscuits and gravy but always had trouble making it the right consistency – until I found this recipe (on another site)
crumble 1 lb sausage in skillet – fry till browned/done.
Sprinkle approximately 3 tbls of flour over the sausage to coat it (the flour is soaking up the grease and will look kinda like floured raisins – or maybe not!!)
then Stir in 2 cans of evaporated milk – stirring often. It won’t take long for it to thicken – serve when it gets to the consistency you like. If it gets too thick just add a little water.
Enjoy
I so enjoy this site and have taken several recipes from it already. They are all delicious!
I’ve been making sausage gravy for a long time and would like to share a variation of the above.
I prefer to use some type of Jimmy Dean’s sausage (preferably sage) because it yields very little fat/grease. I don’t make patties, but rather break it up as if for spaghetti sauce…then I sprinkle 2 or 3 tablespoons of flour over the meat after it’s cooked and stir it up to coat the meat well. Then add milk a cup or so at a time and stir until thickened, adding more milk until you reach the consistency you prefer. I like to add a bit of extra milk and let it simmer and reduce to the desired thickness and let the flavors develop a bit more. Of course, salt and pepper to taste as the gravy cooks.
I find one pkg of Jimmy Dean’s (12 oz size) will provide plenty of gravy for about 8 nice biscuits. I normally make bisquik drop biscuits, but can’t wait to try this with your hoe cake recipe!
By the way, I lived in Huntsville back in 86/87. I managed the local ComputerLand store there. I really liked Huntsville and have many fond memories!
Действительно молодец! Полностью поддерживаю! 🙂
I am at 3700 ft. in Idaho .. and can not get my Mom’s biscuit recipe to work. I’m using Rumford baking powder because of the “no Aluminum” thing .. and I have seen the east coast high rise powder at King Arthur but have not tried it. Any comments?
I’m on the Oregon Trail and I wonder how many people starved to death trying to figure out to add water and then subtract water etc. as they went/cooked over the “hump” .. from almost sea level to a mile high .. and then back to normal in Oregon or California .. on the “trail.” I’ve read a lot of their letters and no one mentioned these “thangs.” They did say they made their own yeast before starting by letting a mix set in flour and dry and then broke that up.
Yum, it has been so long since I have had biscuits and gravy. I think I will have some for dinner tonight. It always amazes me how many people/restaurants can screw up such and easy thing. As for your friend not liking you telling all our recipes, shoot, tell him they more they are out there the easier it will be to find good food.
I made this last night Christy and it was wonderful. I’ve never had a gravy so good before and the kitchen smelled wonderful. Thanks so much!
Ooooooo, that was so good! I’m in pure Southerner bliss right now. I think we’re gonna have to start doing this every weekend. Possibly a couple times a week. My 2 year old is licking his bowl. I wish I had done that!