Creamy Biscuits and Gravy

This biscuits and gravy recipe is a perfectly rich, great-tasting breakfast option for that occasional Sunday morning when you don't care about calories!

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 30 mins
• Total Time: 50 mins
• Calories: 431 Calories

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• ½ cup shortening
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon white sugar
• ¼ cup butter
• 1 ½ cups water
• 1 egg, beaten
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• ¼ cup all-purpose flour
• 1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• ⅔ cup milk
• salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1 (16 ounce) package bulk pork breakfast sausage (such as Jimmy Dean®)

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet.

Step 2

Whisk 2 cups flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt together in a bowl; cut shortening into flour mixture with a pastry cutter until mixture is crumbly. Mix in egg and milk until incorporated. Turn dough out onto a well-floured work surface and knead for 1 minute.

Step 3

Roll dough out to a thickness of 3/4- to 1-inch thick, cut with a biscuit cutter, and place biscuits onto the prepared baking sheet. Brush tops of biscuits melted butter.

Step 4

Bake in the preheated oven until biscuits are golden brown, 8 to 10 minutes.

Step 5

Cook and stir sausage in a large skillet over medium heat until browned and crumbly, about 10 minutes. Drain excess grease. Stir 1/4 cup butter into sausage until butter has melted and mix in 1/4 cup flour until thoroughly combined. Pour evaporated milk and water into sausage mixture, bring gravy to a simmer, and reduce heat to low; simmer gravy until thickened, about 5 minutes. Season gravy with salt and black pepper to taste.

Step 6

Serve biscuits with sausage gravy.