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Biscuits and Gravy

Name: Biscuits and Gravy
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: USA
Ingredients: 250g (for biscuits) All-purpose flour; 1 tbsp Baking powder; 1/2 tsp Salt; 60g (chilled) Butter; 180ml (for biscuits) Milk; 250g (casings removed, crumbled) Sausage; 3 tbsp (for gravy) All-purpose flour; 500ml (for gravy) Milk; 1/2 tsp Pepper

Main Dish

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Flaky baked biscuits smothered in white sausage gravy — a Southern American breakfast.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Biscuits and gravy is a breakfast staple of the American South. Flaky biscuits made with cut-in butter are covered with a white sausage gravy of browned pork sausage thickened with flour and milk. Handed down in Southern homes as a filling dish made from everyday ingredients, it now appears on breakfast menus at diners across the country.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a morning at a diner in the American South, biscuits covered in steaming gravy arrive at the table to be eaten with coffee.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

All-purpose flour 250g (for biscuits)
Baking powder 1 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Butter 60g (chilled)
Milk 180ml (for biscuits)
Sausage 250g (casings removed, crumbled)
All-purpose flour 3 tbsp (for gravy)
Milk 500ml (for gravy)
Pepper 1/2 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Mix 250g flour, baking powder, and salt, add the chilled butter, and rub in with your fingers until crumbly.
Add 180ml milk and bring together lightly, roll out 2cm thick, cut into rounds, and bake at 220°C for 12–15 minutes.
Fry the sausage meat in a frying pan, breaking it up, until browned.
Sprinkle in 3 tbsp flour and cook 1 minute, then gradually add 500ml milk and simmer, stirring, until thickened.
Season with salt and pepper and pour generously over the split biscuits.

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