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Roux, a French name for a cooked mixture of fat (usually butter) and an equal amount of flour.
Let's say, for example, you want to make a sausage gravy to top off your biscuits.
This is actually quite simple.
2 TBLSP butter
2 TBLSP flour
2cups whole milk
4-5 ounces of cooked breakfast sausage, chopped
1/4 tsp black pepper (like a hotter sausage gravy ? Just add more pepper.)
1/8 tsp sage
1/8 tsp thyme
I bay leaf
salt to taste.
Over the LOWEST heat, melt butter in a small pan
Add flour and using a wire whip, stir until it becomes a light tan. (you have just made a roux)
Add milk, keep using wire whip
Add remaining ingredients. Continue to whip.
As the sauce/gravy heats up, it will thicken up. Keep heating and whipping until sauce/gravy is completely thickened.
Turn off heat, cover and let the ingredients marinate.
Fish out bay leaf and throw away.
Taste and add more salt if you like
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Pour sausage gravy on top of hot biscuits.
If there are any Brits reading this, when I say biscuits, I do NOT mean sweet cookies.
Backing up to the 1st step, making the roux. Once made, you can go in many different directions. You can easily make chicken gravy, beef gravy, pork gravy, or a white sauce known as a Béchamel. But those are for a different day.
Let's say, for example, you want to make a sausage gravy to top off your biscuits.
This is actually quite simple.
2 TBLSP butter
2 TBLSP flour
2cups whole milk
4-5 ounces of cooked breakfast sausage, chopped
1/4 tsp black pepper (like a hotter sausage gravy ? Just add more pepper.)
1/8 tsp sage
1/8 tsp thyme
I bay leaf
salt to taste.
Over the LOWEST heat, melt butter in a small pan
Add flour and using a wire whip, stir until it becomes a light tan. (you have just made a roux)
Add milk, keep using wire whip
Add remaining ingredients. Continue to whip.
As the sauce/gravy heats up, it will thicken up. Keep heating and whipping until sauce/gravy is completely thickened.
Turn off heat, cover and let the ingredients marinate.
Fish out bay leaf and throw away.
Taste and add more salt if you like
**********************************
Pour sausage gravy on top of hot biscuits.
If there are any Brits reading this, when I say biscuits, I do NOT mean sweet cookies.
Backing up to the 1st step, making the roux. Once made, you can go in many different directions. You can easily make chicken gravy, beef gravy, pork gravy, or a white sauce known as a Béchamel. But those are for a different day.