Sour Cream Biscuits With Sausage Gravy
Flaky, buttery homemade biscuits topped with creamy sausage gravy. These tender sour cream biscuits are paired with a rich white gravy loaded with breakfast sausage for a classic Southern comfort meal.
Ingredients
- •2 teaspoons baking powder
- •1 teaspoon kosher salt
- •2 cups all-purpose flour
- •½ cup unsalted butter
- •2 tablespoons butter
- •½ cup sour cream
- •½ cup whole milk
- •8 ounces breakfast sausage
- •2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- •¼ cup all-purpose flour
- •2½ cups whole milk
- •to taste kosher salt and pepper
- •1 piece biscuit cutter
Cooking Instructions
- 1.
Preheat oven to 425°F. Whisk baking powder, salt, and 2 cups flour in a large bowl to combine. Using a pastry cutter or your fingers, work chilled butter into dry ingredients until mixture resembles coarse meal. Using a wooden spoon or fork, mix in sour cream and milk until a shaggy dough forms.
10 min
- 2.
Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead a few times just to bring together. Roll out until 1/4" thick, then fold in half. Roll dough out again until 1/4" thick, then fold in half again. Repeat once more, rolling out to a 3/4"-thick round.
10 min
- 3.
Punch out biscuits as close together as possible with cutter. Pat scraps together and punch out more biscuits; repeat until you can't cut out any more (you should have 12 total). Transfer biscuits to a parchment-lined baking sheet, spacing 1" apart, and bake, rotating sheet once, until golden brown and baked through, 10-12 minutes. Brush biscuits with melted butter.
12 min
- 4.
Dough can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill, or freeze up to 1 week.
- 5.
While biscuits are baking, cook sausage in a medium saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until cooked through and starting to brown, 5-8 minutes. Transfer to a small bowl with a slotted spoon.
8 min
- 6.
Add butter to drippings in pan and melt over medium. Whisk flour into butter mixture and cook, whisking constantly, until roux is very smooth and starting to bubble, about 2 minutes (don't let it color; this is a white gravy).
2 min
- 7.
Gradually add milk, whisking until incorporated. Reduce heat to mediumlow and cook gravy, still whisking, until thickened, 8-10 minutes. Stir in sausage; season with salt and pepper.
10 min
- 8.
Serve hot biscuits with gravy alongside for spooning over top.
2 min