Apple-Sausage Gravy Boats

Step outside the box and style up your sausage gravy with a bit of sweet apple flavor and serve in a crusty French bread boat. But if you still prefer biscuits with sausage gravy, just try a new gravy flavor.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 20 mins
• Total Time: 35 mins
• Calories: 322 Calories

Ingredients

• ⅓ cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup apple juice
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
• 1 (16 ounce) loaf French bread
• 1 (16 ounce) package bulk pork breakfast sausage (such as Jimmy Dean®)
• 1 small apple - peeled, cored, and finely chopped
• 2 cups whole milk, or more to taste

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Cut bread into six 4-inch pieces. Hollow out an oval shape in the top of each piece; scoop out some of the bread inside with your fingers or a spoon and discard. Set bread "boats" aside.

Step 2

Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add sausage and apple. Cook, breaking up sausage with a spoon, until crumbly and no longer pink, about 8 minutes. Sprinkle flour over the sausage mixture and cook, stirring constantly, until it has been absorbed by the fat, about 3 minutes.

Step 3

Reduce heat to medium-low and gradually pour in 2 cups milk and apple juice; bring to a simmer. Stir and simmer until gravy thickens, 5 to 7 minutes. If gravy is too thick, add more milk to thin it out to your desired consistency. Stir in Dijon and season with salt and pepper.

Step 4

Ladle the sausage gravy into the bread boats, allowing some to spill over the sides.