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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> South American >> Brazilian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 500 degrees F. | 2. In a mixing bowl, cut the shortening into the Self-Rising Flour with a pastry blender or fork or your fingertips until it resembles coarse crumbs. | 3. Blend in buttermilk with fork just until the dough comes together. The dough will be sticky. | 4. Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface. Knead gently by folding the dough 8 to 10 times. | 5. Press into a circle that's 1 inch thick. | 6. Cut out biscuits with a 2-inch cutter, being sure to push straight down through the dough. Do not twist the cutter until the dough has been cut all the way through (twisting the cutter will cause the biscuits not to rise straight up. | 7. Place the biscuits on baking sheet so that they barely touch. Gather up the scrap dough, press it into a circle, working it as little as possible and continue cutting until all dough has been used. | 8. Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until golden brown. | 9. In a large heavy skillet (preferably cast iron), brown the sausage breaking it up with a spatula over medium high heat. Do not drain. | 10. Add the shortening, flour, salt and pepper. | 11. Cook stirring constantly until flour begins to brown. | 12. Slowly add milk while continuing to stir. | 13. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer and cook for one minute stirring occasionally. As the gravy cools it will thicken so if you want thinner gravy, add a little more milk. | 14. Cut the biscuits in half and pour the gravy over the biscuits. | 15. If you want just a plain milk gravy recipe, form the sausage into patties and brown. Remove them from the skillet to use to make sausage biscuits and continue the recipe the same way. | 16. I hope you enjoy this southern biscuits and gravy recipe! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
biscuit				-	-	-	-
self rising flour	2	cups		-	-	-	-
shortening	1/4	cup		339.45599999999996	0.0	0.0	38.4
buttermilk	1	cup		-	-	-	-
sausage gravy				-	-	-	-
sausage	1	lb		1569.4315	2.9484	64.637	142.1107
shortening	3	tablespoons		339.45599999999996	0.0	0.0	38.4
purpose flour	1/4	cup		-	-	-	-
milk	3	cups		446.52	34.9896	23.058000000000003	23.9364
salt	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
black pepper	1/4	teaspoon	ground	1.4432	0.3677	0.0597	0.0187

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.