Jamie Deen’s How-To: Making a Simple Roux/Country Sausage Gravy

Jamie shows you how to make a Simple Roux and Country Sausage Gravy.

y’all look at what I have cooking today whoo hey I’m Jamie Dean and we’re cooking up sawmill gravy sausage white gravy off my biscuits I’m going to show you how easy it is but we browned off some sausage here now all you need to make a good root that’s what we’re going to start with today is a roux equal parts fat to flour now this is our drippings from the sausage this is probably two tablespoons so to this I’m going to add two tablespoons of flour I’m going to give this a good mix now you want to get the crunchies off the bottom of the pan crunches are also known as flavor y all around we want this to be nice and brown this is a traditional root Bobby and I learned how to make one from misty even down in New Orleans and this is the base to a lot of delicious wet recipes it’s a simple root it’s flour and fat equal parts give us a couple of minutes to brown up you really want this to thicken up this is going to give us the body of our sauce that we’re making can’t really talking on the mouth of Warren white gravy with sausage on business I’ve let this go this is looking pretty good to this I’m going to add back my sausage you can add your milk now but I like to add my sausage just to get all that flavor in there for as long as I can I’m going to get this covered up how many days in my life did my mama have a banner that’s going in the kitchen when I was growing up enough to keep my pants tight I’ll tell you that I’m going to add a little bit of milk to this this is going to cook down now I’m going to add the roux is really going to thicken this milk up as it cooks this is going to take a few minutes and I just made another adjustment over here on our finish sauce this really tightens up so if you step away for a minute and you come back when it’s time to eat and you find it’s a little thick you can just go straight milk a little bit know what I’m gonna add just to touch in here don’t be intimidated by a rue y’all I can’t spell it but I can make it and if I can do it you can too that’s what starts this beautiful dish one of my favorites the only thing missing it’s a plate full of biscuits oh look oh boy honey I’ll tell you what this is country come to town thanks for checking back in y’all for more tips and recipes go to Paula Deen calm mmm