Description
This is a beautiful example of classic, very old-school American country cooking. There are a lot of variations, and this is my favorite. This goes on fried chicken, country-fried steak, and biscuits.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 8 ounces breakfast sausage links, casings removed and meat broken up
- 4 strips bacon, sliced crosswise
- ½ cup chopped green onions (light parts only)
- ⅓ cup packed all-purpose flour
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 2 ½ cups cold milk
- 1 tablespoon chopped green onion
- 1 pinch cayenne pepper for garnish
Instructions
- Melt butter in a large skillet or saucepan over medium heat; cook sausage and bacon in the hot butter
- stirring to break the sausage up into small pieces
- until sausage is browned and bacon is almost crisp
- about 10 minutes. Mix 1/2 cup green onion into sausage mixture and saute until onions are soft
- about 3 more minutes.
- Stir flour into meat mixture
- 1 to 2 tablespoons at a time
- until thoroughly combined and mixture is pasty. Cook
- stirring often
- 2 to 3 minutes to remove raw taste of flour.
- Whisk milk into meat mixture
- about 1 cup at a time
- until combined. Continue to whisk until gravy begins to thicken
- about 5 minutes. Turn heat to medium-high
- bring gravy to a simmer
- and season with a pinch of cayenne pepper
- salt
- and black pepper. Reduce heat to medium-low.
- Continue to simmer gravy until flavors have blended and gravy is thick
- 10 to 15 minutes
- stirring occasionally. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon green onion and a pinch of cayenne pepper for garnish.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 35 mins
Total Time: 50 mins
Servings: 4