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Ingredients
- for the gravy-
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 cup pureed onion {1 whole small}
- 12 oz. package breakfast sausages {use your favorite kind!!}
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 3/4 cup half & half
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4 cup real maple syrup
- salt & pepper, to taste
Details
Servings 1
Adapted from laurenslatest.com
Preparation
Step 1
For the biscuits–Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with a silicone mat or parchment paper and set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together all dry ingredients. In a liquid measuring cup stir together all the wet ingredients. Set aside. Grate 6 tablespoons of the frozen butter using a cheese grater. Place the remaining 2 tablespoons of butter into a small bowl. Pour grated butter into dry ingredients and stir to coat. Pour in wet ingredients all at once and stir 3 or 4 strokes, just to start incorporating everything together. Pour biscuit dough onto well floured board and start moving dough around so it doesn’t stick and folding the dough in half over itself to create layers of dough. Do this 4 or 5 times, sprinkling more flour where needed. Roll dough out to be 1 inch thick and cut into 2-3 inch biscuits. You should get approximately 8 biscuits. Place on prepared baking sheet and bake 12 minutes. While biscuits are baking, melt remaining 2 tablespoons of butter. After the 12 minutes are up, remove biscuits from oven, brush the tops with melted butter and finish baking another 3-5 minutes, or until the tops are golden.
For the gravy–Saute pureed onion and breakfast sausage in large skillet over medium heat with olive oil until meat has browned completely. As the meat cooks, be sure to break apart into smaller pieces. Sprinkle in flour and cayenne pepper. Stir to moisten flour and cook 1 minute. Pour in milk and half & half. After a minute or two, gravy should start to thicken. Once it has thickened remove from heat, stir in maple syrup and salt & pepper to taste.
To serve, split open warm biscuit and top with hot gravy.
Recipe Notes: Be sure to use a breakfast sausage you love! That is mostly what the gravy will taste like, so be sure to find a good brand. Also, this gravy is meant to be sweet. If you don’t think you’d like the maple syrup addition, feel free to reduce the amount by half or omit it completely from this recipe.
{ 21 comments… read them below or add one }
Pretty good for a true Northern girl! I love the use of maple in the gravy — a nod to your homeland, I’m guessing? Those biscuits look great, too!
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Oh, and p.s…. thanks for the shout-out!
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Southern or not, this is a dish to embrace. I love the maple gravy. It all sounds amazing!
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Beautiful biscuits and way to put that Chobani to use!
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Oh, Lauren this looks insane!!
And if there aren’t biscuits in heaven – I want a refund.
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ahhh! everything about this looks absolutely amazing!
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looks amazing!! Want
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I want this for breakfast tomorrow morning. Does FedEx ship leftovers overnight??
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Those are some mighty beautiful biscuits! Perfect rise.
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i don’t even like sausage and i want to make this right this instant.
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I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a proper biscuit so these look completely authentic to me
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Yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! I have never had sausage gravy, but every time I hear someone mention it I want to try it sooooo bad! This is going to be bookmarked in my must make list! Thanks!
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We made some tonight for dinner, since the kids have been sick and we’ve been having chicken noodle soup all weekend. But we made ours without the cheese and added some honey on top. Yum!
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Comfort food at its finest…this looks delicious!
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Well, I am a Southern gal, and these looks absolutely perfectly delicious to me.
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Southern or not, this gravy looks to-die-for. To. Die. For.
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Homemade biscuits are the best!
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You’re from Canada?? I had no idea These look delicious – although I also have no idea how the southern cooks would do it!
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I’m not the least bit southern either, but I’m just like you… It wouldn’t stop me from baking this delicious dish! Especially the biscuits
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Grating the butter looks like such a great trick! I’ve never seen that before!
And the biscuits look delicious!
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these look so fantastic! I adore biscuits and gravy and they are such a rare, decadent pleasure!
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