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I have to finally share my family's newest favorite dinner option: Biscuits and Gravy Casserole! We have been known to highly enjoy breakfast for dinner, but that usually consisted of pancakes and eggs. With our crazy work/school schedules having breakfast at "Breakfast Time" is pretty much impossible. We often times enjoy it in the evening instead.

I found this recipe on lemon_sugar.com.  At first I was a little nervous about making any sort of gravy from scratch let alone sausage breakfast gravy. My mom has set the bar quite high with her "famous" gravy! After "sucking it up" and trying my hand at it, it ended up being not so bad! Good enough that the boys ask for it almost every week!

Ingredients list:

(I make a double batch as a single just isn't enough at my house!  This is the amount for a single batch.)

• 1 can flaky, large biscuits

• 1/2 lb. ground breakfast gravy

• 3 tablespoons flour

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 1/2 teaspoon pepper

• 2 1/2 cups milk

 

While warming up your pan for the gravy, preheat your oven to 400 degrees, spray your pan (I use a 9x13 pan), and cut your biscuits into quarters.

Once your oven is preheated, place half of your biscuits in the bottom of your pan.  I bake mine for 5 minutes as the 10 minutes the recipe calls for seems to be too long in my oven.

 

On to the gravy! 

Brown your breakfast sausage as you usually would. Once it is browned, sprinkle with your flour - this will help avoid clumps in your gravy is says! Stir for a few minutes to avoid burning.

Start adding the milk and stir until combined. Add in the salt* and pepper and stir frequently until slightly boiling and starting to thicken (*I choose not to add the salt in my gravy due to the amount of salt in the sausage and my boys added it in as needed while they are eating).

It's now time to pour the gravy into your pan with your pre-cooked biscuits! Top with remaining biscuit quarters and pop it all back into the oven.

The recipe says to bake for 25 minutes, but I found that is way too long for my oven so I only bake mine for 10-15 minutes, or until browned.

Once the biscuits are browned, pull it out and let it cool off just a bit.

It's now ready to enjoy!!

I hope everyone enjoys this super yummy, cozy meal as much as we do!  It is a great meal to enjoy when it's cool outside like it's starting to turn in our neck of the woods, gets you warm inside and out (especially when paired with yummy hashbrowns)!

P.S. It even makes good leftovers if you are lucky enough to have any left anyways!


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