Homemade Biscuits and Gravy
There’s nothing better than hearty, cozy, biscuits and gravy to compliment a cool fall or winter weekend morning, when the only thing on the to do list is to enjoy a slow morning with your family and friends. This is the recipe for that kind of day.
What You’ll Need
For the Biscuits
3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
1 tbs baking powder
2 tsp kosher salt
1 ½ teaspoons sugar
¼ teaspoon baking soda
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces, chilled
1 ¼ cups buttermilk, plus more for brushing
Flaky sea salt, for sprinkling
For the Gravy
1 lb breakfast sausage
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
3 1/2 cups whole milk
1 tsp dried sage or thyme
Pinch of Lawry’s Seasoning Salt
Salt and black pepper, to taste
How to Make
Preheat the oven to 425°F.
First, let’s prep our biscuits.
First, whisk the flour, baking powder, kosher salt, sugar, and baking soda in a large bowl. Using your hands, smash the butter into the flour mixture, you want to preserve little bits of butter in the dry mix, just no large chunks.
Then, drizzle half the buttermilk all over the dry mixture and, using your hands, mix everything until combined. Add the remaining half of buttermilk and mix again until combined and shaped into a rough ball. Knead the ball a few times in the bowl, making sure to get any of those dry bits at the bottom up into the mix.
Next, move dough ball to a floured working surface. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead another two or three times. Pat into a 1 ½-inch-thick rectangle about 9 inches long and 5 inches wide. Cut into ~8 square biscuits.
Finally, get those biscuits in the oven: Place biscuits on the parchment-lined baking sheet and brush the tops with buttermilk, letting some drip down the sides. Sprinkle the tops with flaky sea salt. Bake, rotating once, until the biscuits are golden brown, and the sides have puffed up like an accordion, ~20 to 25 minutes.
While your biscuits bake, let’s get our gravy going.
First, in a skillet over medium heat, cook sausage, breaking up with a wooden spoon, ~5 mins.
Next, sprinkle sausage with flour and continue to cook, tossing, until coated, ~1 min.
Finally, add milk, and increase heat to medium-high, bringing mixture to a boil. Then, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until thickened, ~5 mins; season with salt, black pepper, and Lawry’s, to taste.
Plate biscuits and gravy together and enjoy the delishness!
Enjoy!
