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A serving of biscuits and gravy, accompanied by homefries

Biscuits and gravy is a popular breakfast dish amongst people of the American South, Midwest, and Northwest. It consists of biscuits covered in thick "country" or "white" gravy made from the drippings of cooked pork sausage, white flour, milk, and often bits of real sausage, bacon, ground beef, or other meat. The gravy is often flavored with black pepper. In some parts of the southern United States this is also called sawmill gravy.

Biscuits and gravy may typically be ordered as an side item ("half order", usually a single biscuit) or the main course ("full order", usually two biscuits).

While biscuits and gravy generally refers to sausage gravy (as described above) there are regional variations on this gravy. Egg gravy is popular in some areas. This is made in one of two ways: by scrambling eggs in bacon grease, then adding flour and milk to make gravy, and adding crumbled bacon back to the mixture or by making a basic roux, creating a brown gravy base, then whisking beaten eggs into the boiling gravy. Tomato gravy is white gravy mixed with crushed or diced tomatoes.

[edit] See also

• Chipped beef on toast

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