Sausage & Cheese Breakfast Casserole -Gluten & Egg Free -Real Southern Grits – The Hillbilly Kitchen

How to Cook Real Southern Grits Bonus: Grit Breakfast Casserole – Gluten Free and Egg Free Grits are, and always have been a staple of the southern diet. They have seen countless generations through hard times and made the struggles bearable. A simple bowl of plain grits with a little butter is a wonderfully satisfying hot breakfast that will warm up the coldest day.

Almont everything goes with grits and can be added to change the flavor and add variety to your diet, including fruit, cheese, sausage and bacon. Grits are gluten free and make the perfect base for a filling breakfast casserole which is ideal for folks with food allergies and sensitives.

You simply add a little bacon or sausage, cheese and milk to your cooked grits and it will thicken instantly into a delicious southern comfort breakfast casserole that will delight your taste buds, fill your belly and surround you with the heavenly aroma of a country breakfast.

With the endless possibilities and long shelf life grits are a pantry must during hard times and food shortages. They are a true quarantine cooking must have! They saw our grandmothers through the depression, and they will see us through this winter and the year to come. God Bless America!

Remember to put God first! 🙂

Ingredients:

1cup Grits
2 to 2 ½ cups Water (filtered if possible)
1 teaspoon Salt

For Casserole:

½ pound Sausage or Bacon
1 cup Shredded Cheese
2 tablespoons Butter
½ cup Milk

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Howdy folks and welcome to the hillbilly kitchen today we’re cooking up some old-fashioned grits and then we’re going to make a delicious breakfast casserole with them okay now we’re going to start with the grits and what you need to make grits are grits boiling water which i’ve got over on the stove

And a little bit of salt and most folks have to have at least butter in them but we’ll get to that in a minute now when you’re making grits you want about two parts water one part grits which would mean one cup of grits and two cups of water and you can keep

Multiplying it like that or you can reduce it like that i like a little bit of extra water in them because i think they get a little too dry if they don’t have a little extra so i do about two and a half cups of water

Per cup of grits but you can adjust them and play with it and get it to the consistency that you like it and you don’t have to do that you can actually adjust the consistency of your grits after they’re cooked you can add a little bit of milk to them which i like

To do or you can add a little bit of water to them so let’s take our grits and our salt over to the stove where our water’s boiling and we’re going to start this and then we’ll talk about what’s in the casserole now when you’re making grits you want to

Make sure your water comes to a full rolling boil before you add your grits like this you want great big bubbles in it and go ahead and put your salt in the water and the other thing you have to do when you’re making grits to keep them from

Sticking together and turning them into a lump besides getting this water to a full boil is as you add your grits add them slow and stir them and that keeps the grits separate in the boiling water so that they don’t stick together and you have a big old lump of grits

Similar to the way you cook cream of wheat i know not everybody grew up on grits a lot of you grew up on cream of wheat but they cook very similar also the way you cook long grain rice you add it to full to water that’s at a full boil and you

Stir it as you’re pouring it in now once you get your grits in there and your water comes back to a boil you want to turn them all the way down on low and put a lid on them and just let them sit there and simmer for 20 minutes you might

Want to stir them once or twice if your stove doesn’t turn down real low to keep them from sticking to the bottom and it’s a good idea somewhere around 10 minutes just to give them a quick stir anyway okay now for our casserole what i have

Is i have a half a pound of sausage here and a cup of cheddar cheese you can use any kind of cheese in this you want and you can change the flavor of the casserole dramatically by changing the flavor of the sausage or the cheese you can use a hot sausage

And use a hot cheese something like pepper jack or even habanero cheese or something and make a really spicy casserole or you can use mild sausage and a milder cheese you can use a white cheese to make it creamier something like a monterey jack you can do you could even use mozzarella

In this you could use american in it you could even use a processed cheese in this if that’s what you have because i know that times are kind of tough and you got to use what you can get and especially if you’re making this in the

Winter time a lot of times you use shelf stable items when you’re cooking and the processed cheese is more self shelf stable and some of us have it you know and it was available when nothing else was available this year when you couldn’t get groceries so any cheese whatsoever will work in it

And i also have a half a cup of milk now the milk is gonna make almost like a gravy in the casserole you don’t necessarily have to have it but it really makes the casserole richer and creamier and i just like the way it comes out better you can add a little

Bit of water to it if you want to but you’re going to have to add a little bit of some kind of liquid to it because just the liquid and the grits is not going to be enough to make your casserole and you want about two or three tablespoons of butter in it

If your sausage is really greasy which this is really lean you might want to keep your sausage grease and not use as much butter but that’s up to you and the other thing i got here is a little bit of sugar now i like a little

Sugar and butter just on my plain grits brett actually likes a little sugar in his casserole but i’m going to take this over to the stove because i want to get my sausage cooking while my grits are cooking when you cook your sausage for this casserole you just want to crumble it up

You could even if you wanted to use some of those pre-cooked sausage crumbles that they sell you know all ready to go but if you’re cooking real old-fashioned grits i’d fry me up some fresh sausage and having the fresh sausage fried up gives you a lot of flavor in your pan that you

Wouldn’t have if you use those and we’re going to use that flavor we’re going to add our milk right to the sausage and that’s going to almost make like a gravy in it and all that flavor that’s in the pan where the sausage cooked is going to be in our casserole so it

Does have a little more flavor if you fry up some fresh sausage for sure i said this is super lean stuff if your sausage has more fat in it you might not you want might want to drain it or you might want to keep the fat in it

And not use quite as much butter in your casserole this actually came from samantha and david they raised the meat and had it processed now how fine you crumble your sausage up when you fry it to go in this casserole really is a matter of personal preference and it’s also kind

Of a matter of how many people you’re going to have to feed if you’ve got to feed a great big crowd and you’re on a budget you can actually double your grits in this crumble your sausage up a little bit finer instead of using one cup

Of grits you would use two cups of grits and four cups of water or five cups even to make it a little more moist and just use a half a pound of sausage and feed a whole lot of people with very little money because grits are a very inexpensive food

They’re a very basic food and there’s something that you can add a lot of flavors to i mean you can make a ton of different meals with grits just like you can with rice or oh gosh cream of wheat oatmeal you know how all those have different flavors and if you’re

Serving them for breakfast you can do different fruit flavors like you do with oatmeal you could add a little jam of some sort to it or some kind of preserves to give you a fruit flavor but you can do and you know you’d have a

Bowl of hot cereal like a bowl of hot oatmeal only it’s corn instead of oats and but what you can do with grits that you can’t do with oatmeal is you can add bacon and sausage and stuff like that and you know those flavors don’t really go in a bowl of oatmeal

So you have a lot more options with grits and grits are kind of the corn version of cream of wheat rice or oatmeal they have their own flavor and i like the flavor of grits but it’s not an overpowering flavor so you can put other flavors in it

And you can it’s a basic food that you can stretch your dollar with you know you can put just a little bit of sausage in it or a little bit of bacon in it if you’re not a sausage fan make this casserole with bacon just crumble up a little bacon in it

You know it’s the options are really kind of endless with this because you can combine almost any flavor with the grits and it’s gonna it’s gonna take on the taste of what you add to it grits are one of those foods that saved folks from starvation for centuries

They’re a very basic staple they have a long shelf life if you have never tried grits or you haven’t had them in a long time it’s a good thing to get and add your pantry because they’re certainly going to stay good all winter and they’re going to be good even next

Winter because of the extended shelf life it’s something that you can buy in bulk and save a lot of money because we all know the bigger the bag you buy the cheaper it is per pound and you know it’ll really help you stretch your budget

And you can have it grits just be the meal just have a bowl of hot cereal and put a little butter and maybe a little bit of sugar in it i love them like that and i’ll have just a meal of grits or you can make grits and fix bacon and eggs and

Biscuits and stuff with it and you know have a big country breakfast and make that part of your country breakfast but because you have the grits with it people aren’t going to eat as much of the bacon and the eggs and it’s going to make that expensive stuff go farther

Or you can make a casserole with it like this you can have just a bowl of cheese grits or a bowl of some kind of fruit flavored grits it really is a very versatile basic food while this finish is cooking i got a couple folks that i need to say thank you to

Donna sent me these two little uh panhandle cozies that are quilted and they have cute little hooks on them so i can hang them up by the stove she didn’t know i had any she had seen me grab the skillet um i’ve been cooking for a long time folks

I promise i’m not burning my hand but these are very nice and i’m gonna use this one all through christmas because it’s red and i’ll save that one for later and it was so considerate i mean when somebody sees something that when somebody watches and they see something that they think would make

My life better and then they send it to me that’s just so sweet and so considerate so thank you very much donna these are nice and i love them and i also want to thank vanessa um if you have been watching you know that vanessa sent me a calendar last

Year and i used it all year and i’ve talked about the calendar a couple of times she did another one this year and sent it to me and vanessa does these calendars herself she takes all the pictures and she puts the verses with them and they’re just gorgeous calendars and

I keep trying to talk her into to um uploading them onto amazon and selling them on amazon so other folks can have them because they are very inspirational and uplifting i mean when you’ve got this on your refrigerator and every time you go get something out of the refrigerator

There’s a little message there from god you know because each picture has a verse on it and then each month is different so there’s always kind of something to look forward to i really like these and i know they would bless a lot of people if she could get those where other folks

Could buy them and if she ever does get them online so you can buy them i will definitely let you all know because she takes gorgeous pictures and they are really nice calendars so thank you very much vanessa this one’s going on my refrigerator and i’ll be using it all year

And i also want to tell y’all about these grits that i’m using these grits come from a local meal in dandridge tennessee and if y’all are going to be in gatlinburg sevierville pigeon forge that area over christmas time or anytime soon you might want to run over to dandridge

To this meal and say hi to these folks it’s valentine meal and they have a little country store there it’s a mom and pop operation it’s uh clive and shelly valentine and shelly’s got it all decorated for christmas and stuff she does some of her own jams and

Jellies they sell almost jams and jellies and stuff like that there they have some crafts but um they grind all of their meal they have grits and cornmeal and flour and stuff right there at the meal at the store and they do heirloom grains which means if you’ve been looking for

That taste that you’re missing from when you were younger if you’re my age or older it’s probably because it’s a different variety of corn or a different variety of wheat that you’re getting in flour and they have those older varieties there so you might want to check that out

Maybe if you’re in the area you can get some unique christmas gifts and they do ship so i’m going to put a link to their facebook page and an email address for y’all so you can contact them if you want to get some of these heirloom

Grains or maybe some of the other stuff that they have they’ll ship it you can contact shelly on facebook or through email okay our grants have just about four minutes left and they have soaked up all of the water but they’re not completely done yet you do want to cook

Them for the full 20 minutes so that all of the grain in there gets tender if you don’t cook it long enough you’re gonna have little crunchy bits of grits in your grits and that’s not really what you want but while that’s finishing i’m going to go ahead and add my milk

To my sausage crumbles because they are done and kind of let you see what this does now normally when you’re making gravy of course you would add a little flour to this but we’re not going to do that because of the thickening properties of these grits they’re going to thicken this up

And it’ll actually be quite a bit thicker than gravy even you know cornstarch can be used to thicken just like flour can and because the grits are made out of corn they’re going to thicken it up and it you won’t even really know the milk is in there except for the fact

That it will all be creamy and you can see how dark my milk turned that’s because of all of the stuff where i cook the sausage in the pan and that’s a lot of flavor so you do want that in your casserole i want to encourage you all not to be

Worried or nervous or stressed about what’s going on right now just keep praying and know that god has this um keep praying for our country keep praying for our leaders and keep praying for the truth and you know pray for god’s will to be done in this

Because you see god has this way of waiting until the last minute to give a miracle when everything seems hopeless that’s when god works miracles i mean it’s not really a miracle unless it could only be done by god so keep praying and god still has this don’t worry about it

It’s all going to be okay he’s going to take care of it and he’s going to take care of you okay our grits have been cooking about 20 minutes now so they should be all good and done and i’m going to scoop a little bit out

Here because i made a little bit extra because i wanted to show you just a bowl of plain grits and you can see they’re very thick that’s why i like to add a little bit of milk to mine to adjust the um texture of it but put a little butter on there

And sprinkle you a little bit of sugar on no not too much and that’s how i like my grits right there just butter and a tiny bit of sugar but because we’re making a casserole out of these we are going to add our grits to and i didn’t have my little

Pan cozy we’re gonna add our grits to our sausage we’re also going to go ahead and put our butter in there now that sausage was super lean so i definitely want some butter in mine or it’s going to be dry but if you have a lot of fat in your

Sausage you can just use your sausage fat if you want to or you can drain it and use butter and i’m going to go ahead and add almost all my cheese i’m going to leave about a quarter of a cup to put on the top of it

And i’m going to stir this up until it melts now if you’re making this at home you can add the grits to the sausage or you can add the sausage to the grits if you’ve got leftover sausage where you did like a big sunday breakfast or something

You can certainly just make this with a little leftover sausage just crumble the sausage up in your grits and have some sausage and cheese grits for breakfast the next day and not really have to cook again i mean if you just all you’re doing is boiling a pot of grits

And you can use leftover bacon in it if you did a big meal and you’ve got leftover bacon okay that’s all stirred up pretty even and you can see the cheese is all completely melted and you can also see that that milk we put in there is just kind of all soaked

Up in those grits because they do have incredible thickening properties and if you wanted it even a little bit runnier a little bit more gravy like you could add more milk to it you could do a whole cup of milk in this if you wanted to

And that would also make it go a little bit farther and feed a few more people just kind of you know play with it and make it your own now you do want to serve this hot because the longer it sits here the thicker those grits are going to make your gravy

In it or your whatever kind of moisture you added to it and it’s just going to get thicker and thicker and thicker and thicker and even if you’re just doing plain grits you really want to serve those hot too almost as soon as you take them out of the pan

Because grits are better hot and the hotter they are the better they are so now you know how to make real old-fashioned grits the way folks have eaten them for several hundred years and you also know how to make a delicious easy breakfast casserole if you wanted to you could stick this in

The oven under the broiler for just maybe two or three minutes but have your oven broiler already heated up and stick it in there because you don’t want to let this sit and you can brown that cheese in the broiler for just a couple of minutes before you serve it

This casserole is a really good one to make when you’ve got all those people coming over on christmas and you have people who have allergies and stuff it is gluten-free because grits are made out of corn there’s no gluten and it’s also egg free and there aren’t a lot of egg

Free breakfasts that you can even make almost everything you make for breakfast has egg in it whether it’s muffins or a casserole or whatever even pancakes and stuff have eggs in them so this is something you can make if you’ve got a big crowd and maybe a lot of people with allergies

And it’s easy if you’ve got a big crowd you’re not going to have to spend all day in the kitchen cooking so thank you all very much for joining us in the hillbilly kitchen if you haven’t already don’t forget to click like and subscribe before you leave

Give these grits a try until next time remember to put god first you