This homemade sausage gravy is a spot on copycat of Cracker Barrel’s rich gravy. Spoon it over flaky biscuits for the ultimate breakfast comfort food!

There’s nothing better than hitting Cracker Barrel for breakfast.

Except for having the flavors of Cracker Barrel right at home.

And that’s what this Copycat Cracker Barrel sausage gravy and biscuits recipe does!

It’ll satisfy all your Cracker Barrel cravings at home.

Ingredients

To make this, let’s break it down into two sets of ingredients: one for the biscuits and one for the sausage gravy.

For the biscuits you’ll need:

Flour– All purpose
Baking powder– For lift
Sugar– Granulated
Salt
Butter– Unsalted, cold butter. Biscuits are one time when you don’t want the butter to come to room temperature since the cold butter helps create flaky layers in your biscuits.
Buttermilk– If you don’t have any make your own by stirring together a teaspoon of white vinegar or lemon juice with milk

And for the sausage gravy, you’ll need:

Breakfast sausage– The kind you crumble
Flour– To thicken the gravy
Milk– Whole milk if possible
Salt and pepper– To taste but heavier on the pepper

How to Make

Let’s break this down into two parts:

making the biscuits
cooking the sausage gravy

How to Make Biscuits

To make the biscuits combine the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt in a large bowl.

Use a grater, or microplane, to grate in the cold butter.

Quickly work the butter into the flour with a fork or a butter cutter until coarse crumbs form.

Once coarse crumbs form, stir in the buttermilk until you have a loose dough.

Then flour a clean work surface.

Turn the dough out onto the surface and gently work it together using your hands.

As soon as the dough comes together, shape it into a rectangle about 1 ½ inch thick.

Use a round biscuit cutter and cut out 4 biscuits.

Rework the dough scraps into a smaller 1 ½ inch thick rectangle and cut out 2 more biscuits.

Put the biscuits on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

Brush the tops with melted butter if desired.

Bake in a 425 degree oven for 12-15 minutes until golden brown.

How to Make Homemade Sausage Gravy

While the biscuits bake, make the sausage gravy.

Start by cooking and crumbling the sausage in a large skillet over medium heat, cooking it until brown.

Do not drain off any grease!

Stir the flour into the pan with the sausage.

Then stir in the milk and let the mixture come up to a bubble to thicken.

Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Serve the gravy over the biscuits.

Enjoy!

Storing

Store leftovers in separate airtight containers in the fridge for up to 3 days.

The gravy may thicken as it sits so you may need to stir in some extra milk as you reheat it.

If you store them in one container, the biscuits will get sort of soggy as they sit.

Tips and Tricks

Use any kind of breakfast sausage you like but avoid turkey sausage. The gravy needs the fat from the sausage to work and turkey sausage is too lean.
Do not drain any of the grease from the sausage before working the flour in.
When you make the biscuit dough, you just want to work it until it comes together. If you overwork it, the biscuits will be too dense.
Don’t feel like making biscuits? Serve the gravy over toast, grits, or hashbrowns instead!

Other Copycat Cracker Barrel Recipes

This copycat Cracker Barrel sausage gravy and biscuits recipe is perfect for starting your day on a satisfying, savory note.

Make it and enjoy!

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