Rosemary Biscuits & Italian Sausage Gravy
 
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Ingredients
  • Biscuits:
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 Tbsp + 1 tsp baking powder
  • 2 Tbsp sugar
  • ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
  • ¼ cup butter, very cold
  • 1 cup cold milk
  • 3 Tbsp fresh rosemary, finely chopped
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  • Gravy:
  • 200g Italian sausage meat (roughly 2 large links)
  • ⅓ cup flour
  • 3 cups milk
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  • Chives (garnish)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar and black pepper. Using a cheese grater, grate cold butter into flour mixture. Using your hands, quickly rub flour and butter together until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs. Add rosemary and stir to combine. Add milk and mix together with a fork until a dough forms. Turn dough out onto a well-floured surface and roll out until it is roughly 1 inch thick.
  3. Using a biscuit cutter,* cut out as many biscuits as possible and place on the lined baking sheet. Take care to press the biscuit cutter down, but do not twist it as you form the biscuits- this will stop them from rising as much as they should. Re-roll the dough scraps and cut out further biscuits until most, if not all, the dough has been used up. Bake for 18-20 minutes, until golden brown.
  4. While the biscuits are cooking, you can prep the gravy. Crumble sausage meat in a medium saucepan and cook on medium-high heat until browned. Reduce heat to medium-low and start to sprinkle in the flour, a little at a time, stirring until incorporated each time. The excess fat from the sausages will form a roux with the flour, which will in turn thicken your gravy.
  5. Slowly pour in the milk, stirring constantly, until the gravy thickens. The gravy will continue to thicken after it is removed from the heat so if it gets too thick at any point, loosen it up with another splash or two of milk.
  6. Serve biscuits hot out of the oven topped with a big scoop of sausage gravy. Garnish with chives.
Notes
* If you don't have a biscuit cutter, don't worry! An old tuna tin works just as well. No clean tuna tins sitting in your recycling bin? What about a mason jar lid? In a pinch, the ring from the lid of a large mason jar will also work to cut out your biscuits.
Recipe by Port and Fin at https://portandfin.com/rosemary-biscuits-italian-sausage-gravy/