HOMEMADE SAUSAGE GRAVY is always the answer to ‘What’s for breakfast?’ Biscuits and gravy are my husband’s favorite breakfast and I love how easy it is to whip this sausage gravy recipe up in no time. I’ll share the step-by-step + video below, but you can scroll on down to the recipe card for the full recipe if you prefer.
Raise your hand if you like gravy.
Uh huh. Lots of raised hands.
Now, raise your hand if you’re good at making gravy.
Strange…not nearly so many hands in the air.
Gravy is a bit scary when you’re first starting out in the kitchen, but sausage gravy is basically the easiest type of gravy you could ever make. I can just about guarantee you won’t mess this recipe up and you won’t end up with a bunch of lumps in your gravy!
Serve this sausage gravy over my homemade biscuits for a weekend breakfast that will literally rock your world! These low carb biscuits are delicious too.
How to make Biscuits and Gravy:
Pop your biscuits in the oven while you prepare your gravy. The gravy takes about 15 minutes to make, so plan accordingly on the biscuits.
To start, you’ll want to add a pound of breakfast sausage to a large skillet. I always prefer cast iron (affiliate link) but whatever you have is fine.
Brown your sausage, breaking it up as it cooks.
When the sausage is completely cooked through, you’ll sprinkle flour over the sausage.
Do NOT drain the grease from the sausage. You need that fat to make the gravy.
Stir the sausage well until it starts to look a little dry from the flour.
Pour half your milk right over the sausage and start stirring over medium heat.
It’ll seem like too much milk at first, but just trust me. As the milk heats up, the gravy will thicken.
Once the gravy has thickened a bit, add in the rest of the milk.
Add in a pinch or two of salt and plenty of freshly cracked black pepper. We like ours really pepper-y!
Now, you don’t HAVE to stir 100% of the time, but you definitely don’t want it to sit for too long without stirring. This goes quick, but it does take some attention.
If you let your gravy get thicker than you’d like, just add in more milk until it hits the consistency you’d like.
If you want a thicker gravy, just keep stirring over medium heat. Eventually, it will get to a point that it will no longer thicken, but I can’t imagine anyone would want the gravy any thicker than it will get following this recipe. If you do, next time just add in a couple extra tablespoons of flour with your sausage.
Once your gravy is as thick as you’d like, you’re ready to dig in!
Split a biscuit in half, spoon the sausage gravy over the top, and dig in!
If you’d like a crazy easy biscuit recipe, try my 7 Up biscuits – they’re not quite as good as my dad’s biscuits that I linked above but they’re very very close and they are easier!
This sausage gravy recipe is also completely divine over hashbrowns and omelets.
More breakfast recipes to try:
Breakfast food is a favorite in my house and my kids usually go for the baked goods like blueberry streusel muffins, chocolate banana bread, or cinnamon roll casserole.
My pumpkin donuts and Belgian waffle recipe are a personal favorite.
If you want something more savory, try these frittata muffins loaded with bacon and broccoli or my keto breakfast casserole. Both are naturally low carb, which is a nice way to start the day.
Sausage Gravy
Ingredients
- 1 pound pork sausage
- 1/3 cup flour
- 2 cups milk plus more, as needed
- salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Brown the sausage over medium heat in a large skillet, breaking it into small chunks as it cooks.
- When the sausage is cooked through, pour the flour over the meat and stir it to coat all of the meat.
- Cook for a couple of minutes until the flour is soaked into the meat.
- Pour in half of the milk and stir until the gravy thickens.
- Pour in the remaining milk and stir until it comes to the consistency you like. If it gets to thick, add more milk as needed.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve over biscuits, hashbrowns, or eggs.
Nutrition Information:
This recipe was originally published October 2011. It was updated with new photos and a video August 2019. Original photo below.
mrsblocko says
Great minds think alike. I just made this gravy from scratch for the first time last night. It was wonderful and I can’t figure out why I hadn’t tried it out sooner.
DiannaS says
I love this recipe, I have always struggled to make sub par gravy and now, I make awesome gravy thanks to yiu! Thank you. The only extra I add in is Penzeys Shallot Pepper and it gives it a like kick up.
Tee says
Well, this looks delicious!! Breakfast for dinner might be in the cards this week!
Thanks!
Carla says
This is delicious, but since my husband is gluten intolerant I used cornstarch added to the milk. If it is too thick add a bit more milk. If too thin take a little bit of milk and add some more of the cornstarch. It thickened as it should and was great. He cannot eat biscuits made from wheat flour, so I made some using the gluten-free Bisquick. Hey, when there is a will there is a way.
Stephanie says
These look so good!! My beloved Great Grandma was the only person who ever made these for me, and I miss them so much! I might have to make some, they look incredibly easy. She didn’t measure anything either 🙂
Amy's Cooking Adventures says
This looks wonderful – I love that it uses milk instead of cream!
Joanne says
Hmm I think my inabilities might have something to do with the fact that my mom always made it from a packet. Which is really just gross.
I need to pass this along to her and prove to her that she can actually make it from scratch!
Jules says
I love sausage & gravy!!!! I lived in the south for a while and this was how I was taught to make also!! Leave in ALL the fat!! Love it over homemade baking powder biscuits. Made this for our camping group for breakfast…all i heard was mmmmmmm…more please?
cherylK says
Sausage gravy is one of my favorites…I do love it on hot biscuits. Haven’t made this for ages but you’ve got me in the mood, again! I just know you’re going to have everyone putting this on their “must make” lists!
Tiffany VR says
Pretty sure I’ll be making this tonight. Breakfast makes a perfect supper, right?
As for omelettes, if you can boil water you can make an omelette. (Mix eggs and desired omelette toppings in a cup. Pour contents into a small sandwich size Ziploc bag. Place bag in pan of boiling water for about 10 minutes per egg. Dump contents of baggie into bowl.) Super easy, next to no clean up, and delicious.
brandi says
I love gravy.
Have you ever made bacon gravy? holy moly, that is good. my in-laws are breakfast lovers, so learning all the breakfast basics was first on my list when i started cooking after we got married.
biscuits + gravy = one happy Brandi.
Sandy says
Bacon fat gravy or sausage gravy pretty much the same taste.. been making this myself since I was a young girl of 16..practiced until I hot it right. First batch could of been used to caulk….lol
brandi says
ps: my husband is an omelet Master. Bring your gravy over, plus something with Nutella, and we’ll trade.
Cookbook Queen says
Living in Arkansas, it’s basically a rule of life that I know how to make good gravy. They’d probably drag me through the streets and throw Busch Light cans at me if I couldn’t 😉
Also, you made me super self conscious when you said to serve over hashbrowns, biscuits, OR eggs….because I serve mine over hashbrowns, biscuits, AND eggs…
Melanie says
I always fail at making gravy. I might just have to give this a try. My mom has some fancy mason jar shake shake thing she does. Mine always taste like paste.
I am thinking breakfast for dinner tmrw. Yummy!
Sandy says
I think you may need more salt and pepper. The more pepper the better aND if you’re using just bacon or sausage fat from fat you save in your refrigerator in a cup.(Use it for pinto beans and white beans.for flavor) Add your flour and season well brown the flour slow stirring and scraping skillet. After flour browns nice slowly pour your milk in and stir, scraping bottom and sides of pan until thickens to desired consistency.
Carla says
Hi Melanie,
Try cooking the gravy longer, taste it, and when it no longer tastes like flour or paste, you are good to go. I did use flour occasionally, prior to my husband becoming gluten intolerant, but I found that corn starch lost its paste/flour taste quicker than flour.
Patti says
Use cornstarch to eliminate the flour/chalky taste. I never use flour for that reason, I have been making sausage gravy for to many years to count.
B.J. says
My husband loves biscuits & gravy, sausage & gravy so much I have nicknamed him “Biscuit”!!!!
sylvia says
just finished making this and very yummie especially since it only has a handful of ingrediants! i have a couple go to sausage gravy recipes and this is the simplest and one of the best!
Kristy @ Sweet Treats and More says
I love sausage gravy…especially over biscuits. But also over mashed potatoes, or a thick piece of toast. Yumm-0!
Katie Stieg says
I am SO glad I found your blog- I was going to make this for dinner tonight (I’m a “breakfast for dinner” type of girl every once in awhile!), but opted for hash browns and eggs instead. I will definitely be using this recipe though, because I am seriously bad at making gravy! It looks great, too!
Jessica Davis says
The trick to making a good omelet is to add a little water to your eggs (not milk as you would in scrambled eggs)-about 1 Tab per egg. Use a good, non-stick pan and add a little butter to make it slide even better-and taste good too ;0) Heat pan on medium until it’s sizzlin hot. Pour egg mixture in pan. As egg sets push the edges toward the middle and tilt pan so that the raw egg slides under and toward the edge of pan. Continue doing this until almost set. Add your yummy stuffing to one side and gently flip up one side. Hoila!
April Snider says
I just made some this morning and followed all the directions to a T, while it looked great, it still was very bland and didn’t taste at all what I was expecting it too. Help please!!
Karly says
Sorry to hear that! You definitely have to add a good bit of salt and pepper. It’s a cream gravy so it’s not going to have a ton of flavor and will definitely need salted. You can certainly add in some fresh or dried herbs if you’d like as well.
Maggie Martin says
Ooooh yeah, I always add a good helping of dried Basil about 5 minutes before the gravy is done, stir it in and yes, salt! Add a couple fried eggs and then Dig In!
Thanks Karly
Maggie
April Snider says
Thank you very much for the quick repsonse and the ideas:)
Keith Harvey says
Here in the UK we reserve the word ‘gravy’ for a meaty sauce served either with a traditional ‘Sunday roast’, or poured over a meat pie, fried or baked sausages, etc. It comes light or dark brown, thin or thick. Instant mixes are sold, but it’s much better made from the meat juices, roast onion, flour, salt, the water any accompanying greens were cooked in (to conserve flavour/vitamins), and possibly a Knorr or Oxo stock cube.
The idea of a whitish gravy made with milk/cream piques my interest! Is it basically a variation on a classic Béchamel white sauce, such as the French serve over flageolet beans and garlic-spiked roast lamb? I’ll be back with my thoughts as soon as I’ve tried your recipe out.
Concha Coll says
In cuisine, an omelette or omelet is a dish made from beaten eggs quickly cooked with butter or oil in a frying pan, sometimes folded around a filling such as cheese, vegetables, meat (often ham), or some combination of the above. To obtain a fluffy texture, whole eggs or sometimes egg whites only are beaten with a small amount of milk or cream, or even water, the idea being to have “bubbles” of water vapor trapped within the rapidly cooked egg. Some home cooks add baking powder to produce a fluffier omelette; however, this ingredient is sometimes viewed unfavorably by traditionalists.
Tracy says
First time I had biscuits and gravy my friend made it and it was SO delicious! Next time I had them was at a diner in CO and they were terrible! Super dry biscuits, and way too much super salty gravy. Just made this gravy recipe myself and it turned out SO GOOD! This will be my go to breakfast recipe for sure!!!
Bill says
We always called it ” sawmill ” gravy for covering our cathead biscuits
Karly says
Yes, I’ve heard it called that! 🙂
Sally says
Wondering if you can freeze this gravy? I am only cooking for 1 and would love to have some on hand when my children come home.
Becky T says
Personally I have karmic issues with pie crust. I am good to go with most any gravy . I solved the omelet issue I’m my kitchen by making really incredibly good, loaded scrambled eggs.
Karly says
Karmic issues with pie crust…hahaha! Thanks for the laugh!
Rich says
This was super easy and super delicious! It was a treat reading the directions which Had me hearing a southern accent co-pilot. I ended up teaching this to Chinese family visiting us. They liked it so much I just had to show them how easy it was to do.
Malissa says
This is a great recipe. Super easy to follow. I make it a lot but always come back to make sure how much milk as i often forget. The seasoning is perfection.
Karly says
Nothing better than biscuits and gravy! Glad you like the recipe – in the future, you can totally just dump in some milk and keep adding until it’s the right consistency. I never measure any of this and it always turns out. 🙂
Gina Young says
I always dice a medium onion and saute it with the sausage. Never measure the flour . Just coat the meat. And add milk and stir. The onion gives it a sweetness that goes well with the savory of the sausage. I totally agree with you on the ground pepper. It’s a must. I make this gravy in a large gallon container for camping with my family and my sister’s family. We use toasted English muffins because it seems easier to prepare in a campfire. We tear the muffins before we pour the gravy on them so the kids don’t have to cut them up with our plastic ware.
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Ed says
My parents were from the South and we had this every Sunday. 1st time I tried making it it was bad, no one would eat it. I remember someone saying to patch the driveway with it. Such a loving family. LOL
Karly says
Haha!! Family is always the nicest. 😉
Julie says
Hi Karly
Can I freeze this?
Karly says
Hmm, I’ve never tried freezing sausage gravy, but Google says it’ll freeze well in an airtight container for up 3 months. 🙂
Paula Waters says
Made this along with homemade biscuits for the first time this morning. Awesome! Never been a huge biscuit and gravy fan but I sure liked these. Hubby said, “was this hard, because we could do this again.” High praise indeed. ?
Karly says
Yay! Love to hear that! 🙂
Tammy W says
First time making biscuits and gravy. So easy. Family enjoyed it!
Karly says
Glad you gave them a try!
Priscilla Kweis says
My favorite is biscuits & sausage gravy !& I always add alittle sage & or poultry seasoning to mine w/S&P !Don’t know about freezing it because I never have enough left even ‘tho I make a double batch ! SO YUMMY !! Think I’ll go make some more NOW !!!
Kris in Eastern OR says
This is my husband’s favorite meal. It never fails to make him happy. It freezes well. It travels well. When I pack it for our lunches to take to work he always says,” Score!”
Thanks Carly 🙂
Karly says
Ooh, I’ve never tried freezing this one, but now I must. It’s my husband’s favorite too! So glad you and your guy love it! 🙂
Karen Begeot says
Best Fathers Day Recipe Ever!!
Karly says
Thanks, Karen!
Corey says
So good and so easy to make! This will be a staple for special weekend breakfasts. Thanks for sharing!
Karly says
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wiggle says
This is disgusting looking. Who would eat this?
Erin Mizzell says
This is my grandmother’s recipe for sausage gravy to a T. She also added a teaspoon of cayenne for a kick because she’s a Texan.
Karly says
Cayenne sounds like a great addition! 🙂