Apple Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Cider Gravy
Satisfy your apple craving with this sweet and savory Apple Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Cider Gravy Recipe. When you get your apple fix first thing in the morning, it’s bound to be a good day.
These Apple Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Cider Gravy offer such a great combo and is the perfect Fall breakfast.
How to Make Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Cider Gravy
THE APPLE BUTTERMILK BISCUITS (full printable recipe below)
High and fluffy, these apple buttermilk biscuits have chopped apples and a touch of cinnamon. Giving them the perfect balance between sweet and savory.
INGREDIENTS
- flour
- sugar
- baking powder
- salt
- ground cinnamon
- butter
- shortening
- chopped apple
- buttermilk
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 450°.
- Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
- Use a pastry blender to cut butter and shortening into flour mixture until crumbly.
- Stir in chopped apples.
- Add buttermilk, use a fork to stir until just moistened.
- Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Knead gently 10 to 12 times until nearly smooth.
- Pat into an 8½ inch circle (¾ inch thick)
- Cut with a floured 2½ inch round cutter. Reroll scrapes and continue cutting until all the dough has been used.
- Bake 12-14 minutes.
SAUSAGE CIDER GRAVY (full printable recipe below)
A delicious sausage gravy base with a touch of sweetness from apple cider and chopped apples.
INGREDIENTS
- sausage (I used Jimmy Dean Sage Sausage)
- chopped apples
- chopped onion
- milk
- apple cider
- black pepper
- Optional: fresh sage as a garnish
INSTRUCTIONS
- In a 12 inch skillet cook sausage, apples, and onion until brown.
- Stir in flour, milk, cider, and salt.
- Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly.
What Apples Should I use to Make Apple Butter Biscuits with Sausage Cider Gravy?
BEST APPLES FOR BAKING AND COOKING
- BRAEBURN
- CAMEO
- CORTLAND
- CRISPIN
- EMPIRE
- FUJI
- GALA
- GOLDEN DELICIOUS
- IDARED
- JAZZ
- JONAGOLD
- JONATHAN
- LUCY
- PINK LADY
- SUNRISE MAGIC
Mix Your Apples
Have you ever thought to mix your apples? I love splitting them into half sweet and half tart. If baking with one variety is good, two (or more) varieties make it even better!
| TASTY TART | SWEET | SWEET + TART | CRISP | JUICY |
| Granny Smith, Idared, Cameo, Cortland | Empire, Fuji, Gala, Golden Delicious, Honeycrisp, Pink Lady | Jonathan, Jonagold | Braeburn, Empire, Gala, Honeycrisp, Pink Lady | Cameo, Granny Smith, Fuji, Sunrise, Magic |
Apple Cider Substitute
If you think using apple cider in your gravy will be too sweet then you can use milk instead. For something different I encourage you to try it at least once.
SAUSAGE GRAVY AND BISCUIT FAQ’s
The main difference is that country gravy does not use sausage. Country gravy uses butter to make its roux, while sausage gravy uses the rendered fat from the meat, cooked with flour, to thicken the gravy.
Yes, follow this link to find out how→Canning Sausage Gravy
Usually adding a little more salt and pepper will adjust the flavor of your sausage gravy enough to be delicious.
1. Breakfast Potatoes or hash browns
2. Biscuits
3. English Muffins
4. Mashed Potatoes
5. Hearty Toast
Cold butter is key to making you biscuits fluffy. Warm butter will be absorbed into the flour and prevent them from becoming fluffy.
Butter yields better results in baking and has qualities that give it a greater depth of flavor.
MORE BISCUITS AND GRAVY RECIPES
CHIVE BISCUITS 2. 7UP BISCUITS 3. BUTTERMILK BISCUITS
OLD FASHIONED COUNTRY BACON GRAVY 2. FRIED CHICKEN COUNTRY GRAVY
Apple Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Cider Gravy
Add a touch of sweetness to your morning with these light a fluffy apple buttermilk biscuits and a spoonful of sausage cider gravy.
Ingredients
For the Biscuits
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ cup cold unsalted butter, cut up
- ¼ cup vegetable shortening
- ½ cup apples, cored and finely chopped
- 1¼ cups buttermilk
For the Gravy:
- 1 pound bulk pork sausage (I used Jimmy Dean Sage)
- 2 cups apples, cored and chopped
- ½ cup onion , chopped
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 2½ cups milk
- ½ cup apple cider
- ¼ teaspoons salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- Optional: fresh sage, chopped
Instructions
For the Apple Buttermilk Biscuits:
- Preheat oven to 450°.
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and the cinnamon.
- Use a pastry blender to cut butter and shortening into flour mixture until crumbly.
- Stir in the apple.
- Add buttermilk, use a for to stir until just moistened.
- Tur dough out onto a floured surface.
- Knead gently 10 to 12 times until nearly smooth.
- Pat or gently roll to ¾-inch thickness (about 8½ inch circle)
- Cut with floured 2½ inch round cutter.
- Reroll or pat scrapes—second pass (5 inch round), third pass (3½ inch round), fourth pass (enough for last biscuit)
- Arrange biscuits 1 inch apart on an ungreased baking sheet.
- Bake 12 to 14 minutes or until golden.
For the Sausage Cider Gravy:
- In a 12-inch skillet cook sausage, apples, and onion over medium high until sausage is browned.
- Stir in flour, add milk, cider, salt, and pepper.
- Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly.
- Cook and stir 2 minutes more.
- Split biscuits while warm, spoon gravy over biscuits, sprinkle with sage (if using).
- Makes 12 servings (1 biscuit and ½ cup gravy)
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