Homemade Sausage Gravy Recipe (2024)

This is my classic, old-fashioned homemadesausage gravyrecipe (also often known as “sawmill gravy”)! Just 4 ingredients and 15 minutes and you can have this classic breakfast staple on your table. Pairs perfectly with my 5-star foolproof homemade biscuits!

The Best Sausage Gravy Recipe

When the chilly weather starts to roll around, the first thing I do around here is break out my sausage gravy recipe.

That’s not entirely true, I have it more-than memorized by now, but the skillet comes out, the biscuits go in the oven, and we start getting serious about comfort food. Sweater weather means homemade sausage gravy and biscuits and buttermilk pancakes for breakfast and my best chili recipe and potato soup on weekly dinner rotation.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe:

• Super simple to make — beginners & experts will enjoy this recipe, and find equal success with it!
• Ready in under 15 minutes
• It’s a satisfying, filling, and hearty breakfast gravy
• Full of authentic flavor; you won’t find a sausage gravy this tasty on any shelf or even your favorite breakfast spot.

🧂 Ingredients You’ll Need 🧂

Simple ingredients, spectacular results. Here’s what you need for my homemade sausage gravy recipe:

• Sausage. Search for pork breakfast sausage, which is typically sold in a log as shown above. If you can find a sage variety, grab it, it will make your gravy even more flavorful.
• Flour. Use all-purpose flour for this recipe, it serves as the thickener that keeps the gravy from becoming too loose/watery. Some readers have reported success using a 1:1 gluten free flour in place of wheat flour, but I have not personally tried this myself yet.
• Milk. Whole milk is best for the proper consistency. Using a lower-fat milk will result in a thinner sausage gravy.
• Seasoning. Add salt and pepper to taste, and, if you’d like, just a pinch of crushed red pepper. If the flavor of the gravy tastes anything less than amazing once it’s finished cooking, you most likely just need a few more shakes of salt!

This is just an overview of the ingredients we’re using today. For the full list of amounts and all recipe details, please scroll down to the printable recipe.

How to Make It

1. Cook the sausage in a skillet over medium/high heat, crumbling with a spoon or spatula as you cook.
2. Cook until the sausage is thoroughly browned and well broken up. No need to drain the meat!
3. Sprinkle flour over the sausage and stir until the flour is absorbed, then cook a few seconds longer!
4. While stirring, slowly drizzle in the milk and cook until it’s absorbed. Add crushed red pepper, if using. Let the mixture thicken (stir occasionally) and add salt and pepper to taste!

SAM’S TIP: Use your spoon, spatula or even a whisk to break up any flour clumps after adding to your sausage but before you add the milk. This will keep you from having any flour lumps in your breakfast gravy!

The technique is simple and I have no doubt you’ll find success with this sausage gravy recipe (hundreds already have!), but if you’re more of a visual learner, be sure to check out my how-to video tutorial in the recipe card!

Frequently Asked Questions

Warm, hearty, and just simply delicious, I hope this homemade sausage gravy recipe will be a new staple in your household cold-weather breakfast rotation. If you try it, please leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

Enjoy!

Let’s cook together!I’ll be walking you through all the steps in my written recipe andvideobelow! If you try this recipe, be sure to tag me onInstagram, and you can also find me onYouTube!

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I originally published my sausage gravy recipe in October of 2018. The recipe remains unchanged, but I’ve since updated the post to be more informative and helpful.