Best Sausage Gravy is the most simple and flavorful country gravy from scratch! This mouthwatering gravy is perfect with your favorite biscuits and ready super fast!
What is Sausage Gravy?
Biscuits and Sausage gravy is a classic staple breakfast dish in the Midwest and South. It's one dish that I particularly look forward to having on a chilly fall or winter morning. While we all know that sausage gravy isn't the healthiest dish in the world it is some of the best stick to your ribs comfort food out there! I highly recommend serving this gravy with my Easy Homemade Drop Biscuits, they are so simple to make!
Can I Make Sausage Gravy the Night Before?
Yes, you can! Make the gravy as directed in the recipe card below. Allow the gravy to cool completely, then, store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 24 hours. To reheat the gravy, pour it into a medium saucepan and warm over medium-low heat while stirring occasionally until heated through.
How do you Make Sausage Gravy?
- The first step to making this gravy is to cook one pound of pork breakfast sausage. You can use mild, hot, maple, or any type of pork sausage that you prefer.
- Once the sausage is browned through with no pink remaining you will add two tablespoons of butter directly to the cooked sausage and allow it to melt.
- Next, sprinkle your flour over the sausage. You will stir the flour into the sausage for 1-2 minutes until that "raw flour" smell is gone. The flour and fat mixture is what will allow your gravy to thicken.
- Pour in the milk slowly while whisking. Your gravy will continue to thicken and bubble as your pour in the milk.
- Once the milk has all been added to the skillet, you will add your seasonings. Allow the gravy to simmer for 2-3 minutes until thickened, then serve right away.
- This gravy can be made in advance and stored in the refrigerator for up to 4 days for best results.
What to Eat Sausage Gravy With:
As I mentioned above, we like this gravy best with my homemade drop biscuits. Any kind of biscuits your family likes will work just fine though. Sausage gravy is also great over fried breakfast potatoes, hashbrowns, grits, and toast.
Enjoy!
~Nichole
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Best Sausage Gravy
Ingredients
- 1 Pound Ground Pork Sausage
- 2 Tablespoons Butter
- ⅓ Cup Flour
- 3 Cups Milk
- ¼ teaspoon Garlic Powder
- ¼ teaspoon Seasoned Salt
- ¼ teaspoon Salt, More to taste
- 1 teaspoon Black Pepper, More to taste
Instructions
- Brown the sausage in a large skillet over medium-high heat until no longer pink.
- Add the butter to the pan and stir it around until melted.
- Sprinkle the flour over the sausage and stir for 2 minutes.
- Pour the milk into the sausage and flour mixture slowly, whisking constantly until smooth.
- Whisk in the seasonings. Taste the gravy and adjust seasoning if necessary.
- Serve immediately with your favorite biscuits.
Great recipe- have made several times. I cant-wait to try it with cheddar biscuits
Added sage and nutmeg
Easy to make and great flavor!!
This is truly THE BEST sausage gravy I have ever tasted! I made it for the first time this morning and my family thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing this recipe. This will be my go-to recipe for sausage gravy.
Made this morning and it's just right and delicious! Served over biscuits with side of coffee, perfect for an icy winter morning. Thank you for this recipe!
Amazing recipe, awesome job!!! My family lives for this gravy.
Great recipe. I also left out the seasoned salt and the salt. The sausage has enough salt for me. But, I added some white pepper and a dash of cayenne. Excellent. A little heavy cream in place of the milk also ups the game.
This is the most amazing recipe and received rave reviews from everyone I've made it for. I only use 1/4 tsp garlic powder, 1/4 tsp garlic salt and 1/4 tsp pepper otherwise the spices tend to overwhelm my husband. This is truly the BEST EVER!
Thank you for the recipe tweak. I also found the seasonings to be a bit overwhelming and this was perfect. Happy new year
absolutely amazing! I used the spicy (Bob Evans Farm) brand raw sausage and added a little bit of red pepper flakes and followed the rest of the recipe as is ... So yummy
Absolutely the easiest and the best sausage gravy I've ever made. I tripled your recipe and it was perfect for my crowd! Thank you so much. Everyone loved it. I did not have one spoonful left.
The best I have ever made! Perfect for our family's Christmas brunch!
wee doggies , this sausage gravy is some kinda good !!!
I made this recipe this morning for breakfast with homemade biscuits. However, I tweaked it just a little and added a half teaspoon of dehydrated minced onions before adding milk and I used a ham seasoning packet instead of seasoning salt. Then I let it simmer for 15 minutes and it was delicious
This Sausage gravy is excellent served with Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuits!
Thank you!! That's exactly what I'm making right now.
Spot on Geri. We’ve used the Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuits for this for a couple of years. A perfect combination.
Ha! And here I thought I was the only one being clever and using the cheddar biscuits ?
This is hubby's favorite meal, Im surprising him with it tonight. I've made this several times with homemade biscuits and its Excellent!
Easiest sausage gravy ever! Very good and fail proof. My 5 year old makes this with my assistance of course
Smells like gravy, Tastes like gravy. Must be gravy
Husband absolutely loves this. I make it the way the recipe states with the exception of the season salt I use some bacon grease instead. We very rarely use season salt and it always goes bad so I don’t buy it
Made this for my son, he said it was awesome. Minus the seasoned salt,but it had great flavor for biscuits and gravy!
Just made this and home made biscuits... served it for brunch... I am no chef but I was told it was the best gravy ever!!!
Saved! Definitely a favorite in our house, along with the biscuit recipe that’s recommended!
I made this for dinner tonight and my husband loved it. I personally think I used too much season salt because I eyeballed it instead of measuring, but it was really good