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Southern Biscuits and Gravy

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Breakfast
Cuisine American, South American
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

Gravy

  • 380 grams maple flavoured breakfast sausage removed from casings
  • 3 tablespoons butter
  • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 3 cups whole milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon - 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
  • salt and pepper to taste

Biscuits

  • 2 cups 250 grams all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
  • 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 6 tablespoons 85 grams unsalted frozen butter
  • 3/4 cups buttermilk + 2 tablespoons for topping
  • 2 tablespoon of melted butter to finish off biscuits

Serving

  • 4-6 eggs
  • chopped parsley

Instructions
 

Biscuits

  • Preheat oven for 425 degree farenehit.
  • Mix your dry ingredients together; flour, sugar, salt, baking powder.
  • Grate frozen butter into flour mixture. (You can place all ingredients in food processor and pulse instead).
  • Add buttermilk and mix using a fork until you get a crumbly dough.
  • Pour dough out onto a lightly floured counter and bring together forming a rectangle. Roll out dough slightly using a rolling pin, using extra flour if necessary to prevent sticking. Roll out dough to about 1 inch thick.
  • Using a pastry scraper to help you, fold your rectangular dough in half.
  • Pat down and roll out dough until it is an inch thick and fold in half again.
  • Repeat 2 more times, for a total of 4 folds and roll your dough out until it is about 1/2 and inch thick and use pastry cutter to cut out 6 rounds. I great substitute for a pastry cutter, or round cookie cutter if a drinking gland or if you have one, the top of a cocktail shaker.
  • Keep bringing together scraps of dough, rolling it out until you get 6 rounds. If you have less than 6 rounds, your biscuits will probably be on the thicker side which is not an issue but you may have to increase cook time by a minute. If you have more than 6 rounds with that amount of dough, you biscuits may be too thin.
  • Brush the top of your biscuits with buttermilk and bake in the over at 425 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes until nicely browned.
  • Brush with melted butter while they are still hot and set aside while you make your gravy.

Gravy

  • In a skillet or pan, place your sausage removed from casings, and brown breaking up sausage into bits as you cook. Can take anywhere from 5-10 minutes to fully cook sausage depending on size of pan. Take out sausage and set aside.
  • Add butter into a shall frying pan and allow to melt (you can use the same pan you made sausage in).
  • Add flour and whisk for at least a 1-2 minutes until flour and butter mixture starts to brown but does not burn.
  • Add your milk and continue whisking until gravy starts to thicken.
  • Season with salt, poultry seasoning and black pepper.
  • Add your sausage to gravy and set aside until ready to serve.
  • You can make your gravy as thick or as thin as you like by adjusting milk. Remember the gravy will thicken as it sits so I tend to make it on the thinner side so by the time I serve it thicken up a bit more.

To serve

  • Open up biscuits or leave whole, top with a healthy portion of your sausage gravy and top with a fried egg. Finish with more pepper and chopped parsley if you like.
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