Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Gravy
Git yerself a taste of good wholesome Southern food with this simple yet delicious recipe for buttermilk biscuits and sausage gravy.
Ingredients For the biscuits
For the sausage gravy
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Instructions
Prepare the biscuits
- Preheat the oven to 210°C/410°F fan oven, 230°C/450°F normal oven.
- Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a bowl. Add the suet and rub together until the mixture has the texture of a coarse meal.
- Make a well in the centre and add the buttermilk. Mix briskly, adding extra buttermilk if necessary to give a soft dough.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly-floured surface and, with floured hands, press the dough out to about 12mm (½") thick.
- Use a 5cm (2") cookie cutter to cut out the biscuits. Gather the leftover dough together and press out again to cut more biscuits. You should be able to make 6 biscuits in total.
- Place the biscuits on a lightly-greased baking tray, brush the tops with butter then bake for 12 minutes.
Prepare the sausage gravy
- Remove the skin from the sausages.
- Break up the sausage meat into a pan over a medium heat. Stir for 5 minutes or so to cook the sausage meat.
- Add the flour, mix and cook for about 1 minute.
- Add the milk a bit at a time, stirring well between each addition.
- Season well with salt and pepper and bring gently to the boil.
- Once the gravy has thickened up serve with warm biscuits.
Titli's Tips
For the biscuits you'll find that cake flour gives you the softest, flakiest biscuits. Don't over-mix or over-handle the dough; more handling means tougher biscuits. When cutting the biscuits use a straight-down action. If you twist the cutter as you press you make it more difficult for the biscuits to rise.
The nutritional information is for a serving of two biscuits with one third of the gravy.
The nutritional information is for a serving of two biscuits with one third of the gravy.
Nutrition Facts
Amount Per Serving
% Daily Value
Calories 688
34%
Calories from Fat 347
Total Fat 38.6g
59%
Saturated Fat 16.2g
81%
Unsaturated Fat 15.9g
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Amount Per Serving
% Daily Value
Total Carbohydrate 56.0g
18%
Dietary Fibre 1.4g
5%
Sugars 9.4g
Protein 27.9g
55%
Cholesterol 84.6mgs
28%
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