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Sausage gravy

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 lb breakfast sausage (I prefer spicy)
  • 2 tbsp all purpose flour
  • 2 cups whole milk
  • 1 tbsp Creole seasoning like Tony Chachere's
  • 1 tbsp freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 tsp salt (to taste)

Instructions
 

  • Cook sausage on medium high in medium sauce pan or large skillet until broken up and cooked through. Pour off excess grease but leave sausage in pan.
  • Sprinkle flour on sausage and cook for one minute more until flour is absorbed into sausage. Sausage will become pasty textured.
  • Slowly pour in milk and stir or whisk continuously until gravy comes to a boil. Remove from heat.
  • Gravy should thicken after it reaches a boil. If it is not thick enough for your liking, remove a cup of gravy to a separate bowl and whisk in another tablespoon of flour to form a slurry. When there are no clumps remaining, stir the slurry into the gravy which will thicken it. Repeat if necessary.
  • Season gravy with Creole seasoning, freshly ground black pepper and salt to taste. I measure Creole seasoning and pepper primarily by sight. I like the gravy to take on a spicy-orange hue and have distinct flecks of pepper. Be careful with the salt as Creole seasoning has a lot already.