Biscuits and gravy are one of my kids favorite breakfasts! Adding cheddar and a few savory spices sends them over the top! Making the gravy the day before makes my mornings so much easier too!
Crumble and brown some bulk sausage. It’s good to have a little grease in the sausage. If there’s lots of grease, drain some of it. Sprinkle some flour on top and stir until the flour coats the sausage. You really won’t even be able to see the flour after a minute.
Pour milk in with the sausage. If you really like creamy and aren’t worried about the size of your thighs…add some 1/2 and 1/2 or cream too! I’m worried about my thighs so I used 2% milk.
Add salt and pepper to taste. And now for the important part, add some sage. I LOVE sage! It’s so darn good!
And for the extra important part, add grated cheese. I used cheddar, I’m sure other kinds would be good too. Of course it would be good, you can’t go wrong with cheese.
This is where I put the gravy in the fridge until the morning. Because I really value my sleep I set the time bake on my oven so it’s already preheated when I wake up. Who wants to wake up ten minutes early to preheat the oven. All I have to do when I wake up is bake the biscuits and warm the gravy. And yes, I use a can of biscuits most of the time. Don’t think less of me.
My boys eat this stuff until it is all gone! Especially my picky meat loving middle child. The melted cheese makes it so rich, and the sage gives it such a savory flavor.
Cheesy Biscuits & Gravy
Ingredients
- 1 pound bulk ground sausage
- 4 T flour
- 4 c. milk
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 t. sage I always add more because I love sage
- 1 c. grated cheddar cheese
Instructions
- Fry and crumble sausage. It's good to have a little grease in with the sausage. If there's too much grease drain some of it.
- Sprinkle flour over sausage.Stir to until sausage is coated. Use less flour if you like thinner gravy.
- Pour milk into sausage. Stir over medium heat until the gravy is thickened.
- Add sage, salt and pepper. Add cheese. Stir until cheese is melted.
- Refrigerate until ready to serve. Or serve immediately.
- Serve over hot biscuits, split in half.
I loved the idea of using the time bake to preheat the oven, I love my sleep too.
You can tell you are a dairy family, because biscuits and gravy will fill you up and stay with you all morning. Lucky little men folk to have a Mom who cares about them so much.
I am going to make this for dinner tonight! What a great idea. Nathan served his mission in alabama and absolutely loves this, but I’ve never had a good biscuit and gravy recipe to go to. it looks like I have a good one now! thanks for sharing.
Hope you love it! It’s Branson’s favorite!
These were officially yummy! Nathan ate several of them. I love the sage flavor!! Thanks for a new great recipe.
Glad you liked them! Thanks for the feed back!
Grr, I wished I had seen this last night . . . It’s what we had for dinner, but the pepper accidentally FELL in the gravy, and let’s just say it was a little (a lot!) hot! This is why I should follow a recipe:) I don’t really like the canned biscuits, so we tried the new Rhoades biscuit dough–it was pretty good, very fluffy, and didn’t have that “fake” taste. Just in case you feel the same way about your biscuits . . . .
Whenever we have food that is a tiny bit spicy, Justin rubs ice cubes on his lips to cool them down. Sounds like you needed that trick last night! Lol!! I didn’t even know about Rhoades biscuits. I’m going to try them for sure. I really like homemade biscuits…but lets keep it real here!
Making these again as we speak!!! My mouth is watering 🙂
I’m so glad you love these Denise! I should surprise my boys with them. The carnivores love anything with sausage!
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