Sausage Biscuits With Cheese & Chiles
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Bursting with flavorful sausage, cheese, and diced green chiles, this sausage biscuits recipe is a modern take on the old-fashioned Southern biscuit.
Today I’m thrilled to share with you a family favorite recipe. These sausage cheddar biscuits, made Southern-style, are a modern take on an old-fashioned Southern biscuit, loaded with flavorful breakfast sausage, cheese, and diced green chiles. They are bursting with flavor, but not what I would consider spicy at all, and have an unexpected hint of sweetness (even though there is no sugar). They taste a little like a sausage ball, but without all of the work.
Since this is an easy, no-knead biscuit recipe, this is a perfect one to get your helpers in on. Have kids gather ingredients, measure out, stir, and spoon them into the muffin pans. Using a muffin tin makes life so much easier (trust me). Don’t just cook for your family and friends, teach them how to cook for themselves!
This sausage biscuit recipe also gets bonus points as it’s very versatile. Enjoy them for breakfast when you need something on the go. Otherwise, serve them as an appetizer. The choice is all yours.
Recipe Ingredients
- Self-rising flour
- Whole milk or buttermilk
- Vegetable shortening
- Sausage
- Chopped green chiles
- Shredded cheddar cheese
How to Make Sausage Biscuits with Cheese, Southern-Style
Place flour and shortening in a medium bowl.
Mix in with a long-tined fork or a pastry cutter.
I generally stay in the long tined fork camp but I opened the drawer and saw this so went for the easy way out.
Brown your sausage in a large skillet over medium heat. Chop it up a bit as you cook it like you do ground beef, until no longer pink in the center.
Let it cool slightly so it won’t melt your shredded cheese. If you don’t have time to let it cool, place it in a colander and run cold water over it for a minute or so.
Place sausage, chiles, and cheddar cheese in the mixing bowl, along with the flour mixture.
Stir well to combine.
Add milk.
Stir it up until it is well mixed.
It will be kind of like a soupy biscuit dough or muffin batter.
Divide dough among muffin cups in a tin that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
This makes 15 so you’ll need more than one tin.
Bake at 400 for 15 to 20 minutes, or until lightly brown on the top.
Enjoy your sausage biscuits!
Storage
- Usually, when I make a batch of these we polish them off pretty quickly. But if there are a few left, I just toss them in a zipper seal bag or airtight container in the fridge and wrap them in a paper towel to reheat in the microwave the next day. Store in the fridge for up to 3 days. You can also reheat in the oven or air fryer.
- Wrap completely cooled sausage cheese biscuits in aluminum foil and freeze for up to 3 months. Thaw in the fridge before reheating.
Recipe Notes
- The self-rising flour is key here because it simplifies the whole process by cutting out a few steps and ingredients.
- Feel free to make this biscuit recipe your own. Substitute the sausage for ham or bacon. You can also substitute the cheddar cheese for Monterey Jack, , gruyere, or Swiss cheese. Another option is to substitute the green chiles for green onion or diced jalapeno instead.
- Here are some different serving suggestions:
- Some people love to serve their breakfast biscuits with a drizzle of honey. YUM.
- Otherwise, cut in half and spread on some butter.
- Cut in half and top with a fried egg or scrambled eggs for a delicious breakfast.
Here are more delectable biscuit recipes:
Southern Biscuit Recipe (3 Ingredients Only)
Easy Chicken and Dumplings With Biscuits
Featherlight Chocolate Biscuits
Easy Homemade Biscuit Recipe With Pioneer
Ingredients
- 2 cups self-rising flour
- 1/4 cup vegetable shortening
- 3/4 to 1 cup whole milk or buttermilk
- 1 pound mild pork sausage browned and cooled
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 4 ounces diced green chilies drained
Instructions
- Cut shortening into the flour using a long-tined fork or pastry cutter, until well blended.2 cups self-rising flour, 1/4 cup vegetable shortening
- To the flour mixture, add the cooked sausage, shredded cheese, and chiles. Stir until combined.1 pound mild pork sausage, 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese, 4 ounces diced green chilies
- Add in 3/4 cup of milk and stir well. Add in an additional 1/4 cup if needed to make a batter the consistency of muffin batter.3/4 to 1 cup whole milk
- Divide batter among 15 muffin cups that have been sprayed with cooking spray. Bake at 400 for 15-20 minutes, or until lightly brown on top.
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Christy, I love your recipes and in a pinch I use Jimmy Dean Sausage Scrambles..no need to cook the sausage as they are cooked…and Im always in a pinch. Thank you for such fun recipes that bring back memories.
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Sounds like a perfect family vacation, count me in !!
Christy, I can’t wait to make these. We love sausage balls and these sound similar –
even though I’ve never used the green chilis in them. They’ll be on our menu very
soon. You keep me so inspired to cook delicious meals for my family. Thanks for
all your good work!
I’m thinking that these would be fabulous with a salad in the summertime and with a bowl of soup next fall! Such a quick, easy supper! They sort of sound like an “amped-up” version of the Cheddar Bay Biscuits from Red Lobster. Love you, love your stories, and LOVE your recipes!
PS: I have browned up Neese’s Sausage (big in North and South Carolina and probably the best sausage in the world) and frozen it, just like you do hamburger. So great to keep on hand for making quiches, sausage gravy and biscuits, and now these yummy sounding “Biscuit Bombs!”
Will have to try these. Sounds wonderful.
These sound so yummy!! Will try this weekend. Thank you!
I always enjoy your wonderful recipes and wonderful words of inspiration! You remind me of the words to “this little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine!” Your light is always shining. You are a blessing!
Pam
Thank you Pam, that just made my day!!!