Breakfast · Savory breakfast plates

Turkey sausage biscuits and gravy

Name: Turkey sausage biscuits and gravy
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 cup nonfat Greek yogurt; 1 tbsp baking powder; 3/4 tsp salt; 3 tbsp butter, frozen, grated; 3/4 lb cooked turkey sausage, crumbled; 1/4 cup all-purpose flour; 2 1/2 cups whole milk; 1 tbsp canola oil; 1 1/2 tsp black pepper; 1/4 tsp salt

The Southern plate rebuilt: turkey sausage in a milk gravy over yogurt biscuits. Still peppery, still smothered — with a fraction of the butter and pork fat.

Time: 45 min (20 prep + 25 cook)
Servings: 6
Per serving: 442 kcal
Protein: 27 g

Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.

Ingredients

Biscuits

2 cups all-purpose flour250 g
1 cup nonfat Greek yogurt250 g
1 tbsp baking powder12 g
3/4 tsp salt4 g
3 tbsp butter, frozen, grated45 g

Gravy

3/4 lb cooked turkey sausage, crumbled340 g
1/4 cup all-purpose flour30 g
2 1/2 cups whole milk600 g
1 tbsp canola oil15 g
1 1/2 tsp black pepper4 g
1/4 tsp salt2 g

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Steps

Rub the frozen grated butter into the flour, baking powder and salt, then stir in the yogurt to a shaggy dough. Yogurt does what buttermilk does here, with more protein.
Pat to 2.5 cm (1 inch), cut 6 rounds, bake at 220°C for 12–14 minutes.
Brown the turkey sausage in the oil — lean sausage renders little fat, so the oil is doing the roux's job.
Stir in the flour, cook a minute, whisk in the milk and simmer to gravy. Pepper hard: this gravy needs more than a pork one does.

Alternative

Biscuits and gravythe pork-and-butter original23

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

25% of kcal

57% water

3 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

How scores work

Computed on the finished dish, not an average of the parts: 2653 kcal goes into the pot, 1552 g of ingredients comes out as ~1250 g of food → 212 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: 212
Protein: (25%); 13 g
Fat: (38%); 9 g
Carbohydrates: (37%); 20 g
of which sugar: 3 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sodium: 492 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.