Breakfast · Savory breakfast plates

Biscuits and gravy

Name: Biscuits and gravy
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 tbsp baking powder; 1 tsp salt; 1/2 cup butter, frozen, grated; 1 cup low-fat buttermilk, cold; 3/4 lb sausage; 1/4 cup all-purpose flour; 2 1/2 cups whole milk; 1 1/4 tsp black pepper; 1/4 tsp salt

The South's Sunday heavyweight: tall buttermilk biscuits split under peppery sausage cream gravy. Unapologetic, and now unambiguous about what it costs.

Time: 45 min (20 prep + 25 cook)
Servings: 6
Per serving: 598 kcal
Protein: 23 g

Ingredients

Biscuits

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour300 g
1 tbsp baking powder12 g
1 tsp salt5 g
1/2 cup butter, frozen, grated115 g
1 cup low-fat buttermilk, cold240 g

Gravy

3/4 lb sausage340 g
1/4 cup all-purpose flour30 g
2 1/2 cups whole milk600 g
1 1/4 tsp black pepper3 g
1/4 tsp salt2 g

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Steps

Grate the frozen butter into the dry ingredients, toss, then stir in the cold buttermilk until shaggy. Cold fat + hot oven = the steam that lifts biscuits.
Pat to 2.5 cm (1 inch), fold in thirds twice (that's the layers), cut 6 rounds pressing straight down — twisting seals the edges shut.
Bake at 220°C for 12–14 minutes to golden.
Gravy: brown the sausage, leave the fat, stir in the flour for a minute, then whisk in the milk until thick. Pepper hard. Split, smother, surrender.

Alternative

Turkey sausage biscuits and gravyturkey sausage and yogurt biscuits36

Why this score

easy to overeat

Dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

15% of kcal

47% water

3 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 3587 kcal goes into the pot, 1647 g of ingredients comes out as ~1250 g of food → 287 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water, and energy density is the score's biggest lever — so we show the math. Full formula here.

Per

Calories: 287
Protein: (15%); 11 g
Fat: (53%); 17 g
Carbohydrates: (32%); 23 g
of which sugar: 3 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 611 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

Computed from the ingredients' USDA data — nothing typed by hand. Every number is traceable, every score recomputable.

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Photo: AI-generated. Nutrition and score are computed from the ingredients with the published formula — this recipe hasn't been kitchen-tested by us yet.