Country Gravy With Sausage And Bacon

This is a copycat of Cracker Barrel’s sawmill gravy. You’ll learn how to make this delicious gravy with bacon and sausage from scratch. Perfect for chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes, or over biscuits in the morning, this thick and creamy Cracker Barrel copycat gravy is flavorful and tasty. In other words, amazing.

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What You’ll Need

Bacon, a sausage patty, flour, milk, the fat left in the pan after frying the meat, and salt and pepper. That’s the whole list, and most of it is probably in your fridge already. Country gravy is a quick job: plan on about 20 minutes, most of it frying the bacon.

What Makes Sawmill Gravy Different

Sawmill gravy is the Southern breakfast gravy: a white, peppery milk gravy made in the same pan the meat was fried in. Using bacon and sausage together gives it a smoky, salty flavor that a plain sausage gravy doesn’t have. The name is said to come from the logging camps, where it was cheap, filling food for long working days.

Tips for Smooth Country Gravy

• Don’t pour off the drippings. The fat and browned bits are where the flavor is. The flour cooks in them before the milk goes in.
• Cook the flour for a minute. That takes away the raw, pasty taste.
• Add the milk slowly and keep whisking. Lumps form when cold milk hits hot flour all at once.
• Use lots of black pepper. A good country gravy is peppery. Add salt at the end, because bacon and sausage are already salty.
• Too thick? Whisk in a splash of milk. Too thin? Let it simmer a few more minutes. It thickens more as it cools.
• Leftovers keep in the fridge for 3 to 4 days. Reheat gently with a little milk, stirring, because it sets firm when cold.

Out of Milk or Want It Richer?

Some cooks swap part of the milk for cream or evaporated milk for a richer gravy. If you don’t have either, see what to use instead of heavy cream and evaporated milk substitutes. Making buttermilk biscuits to go with it? Here is how to make a buttermilk substitute when you have none.

What to Serve It With

• Over biscuits. Or go one better with sausage gravy stuffed biscuits.
• Over creamy mashed potatoes
• With chicken-fried steak or fried chicken
• For another take, try this easy country sausage gravy

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