How to Make Country Gravy

Name: How to Make Country Gravy
Total time: 50
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons butter; 8 ounces breakfast sausage links, casings removed and meat broken up; 4 strips bacon, sliced crosswise; ½ cup chopped green onions (light parts only); ⅓ cup packed all-purpose flour; 1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste; salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste; 2 ½ cups cold milk; 1 tablespoon chopped green onion; 1 pinch cayenne pepper for garnish

Recipe by John Mitzewich from allrecipes.com

50 Mins.

Ingredients

4 servings

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2 tablespoons butter
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8 ounces breakfast sausage links, casings removed and meat broken up
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4 strips bacon, sliced crosswise
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½ cup chopped green onions (light parts only)
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⅓ cup packed all-purpose flour

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1 pinch cayenne pepper, or to taste
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salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
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2 ½ cups cold milk
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1 tablespoon chopped green onion
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1 pinch cayenne pepper for garnish

Instructions

Melt butter in a large skillet or saucepan over medium heat; cook sausage and bacon in the hot butter, stirring to break the sausage up into small pieces, until sausage is browned and bacon is almost crisp, about 10 minutes. Mix 1/2 cup green onion into sausage mixture and saute until onions are soft, about 3 more minutes.
Stir flour into meat mixture, 1 to 2 tablespoons at a time, until thoroughly combined and mixture is pasty. Cook, stirring often, 2 to 3 minutes to remove raw taste of flour.
Whisk milk into meat mixture, about 1 cup at a time, until combined. Continue to whisk until gravy begins to thicken, about 5 minutes. Turn heat to medium-high, bring gravy to a simmer, and season with a pinch of cayenne pepper, salt, and black pepper. Reduce heat to medium-low.
Continue to simmer gravy until flavors have blended and gravy is thick, 10 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon green onion and a pinch of cayenne pepper for garnish.