Easy breakfast casserole

My dear brother-in-law has been staying with us over the last week.  It’s awesome because of course I love it when he’s home, and I get excited every year because he’s someone new to cook for – another person to eat the holiday goodies that I’m inevitably churning out.

But the truth of the matter is that he really doesn’t eat much.  He’s not a breakfast person.  I know these things.  But I still, every single year, force new breakfast dishes upon him like he’s going to change his mind and decide that he absolutely wants a big breakfast instead of his coffee.

I think he had one little bite of this.

One little bite.

He must have some serious self-control or something, ’cause there is no way that I was going to walk away from this one.  I mean, biscuits and gravy are fantastic on their own, but baking the biscuits IN THE GRAVY takes them up to an entirely different level.

Ingredients

• 1 can large, flaky biscuits (such as Grands)
• ½ pound ground breakfast sausage
• 3 Tablespoons flour
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon black pepper
• 2 and ½ cups milk

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees (F).
2. Prepare a small casserole dish (approximately 7×10) with cooking spray. Set aside.
3. Open biscuits, and cut biscuits into quarters.
4. Layer half of the quarters in prepared pan.
5. Bake for 10 minutes.
6. Meanwhile, prepare gravy.
7. In a heavy skillet, brown the ground breakfast sausage over medium high heat until fully cooked.
8. Sprinkle the cooked sausage with 3 Tablespoons of flour.
9. Use a wooden spoon to stir flour into sausage until completely absorbed.
10. Lower heat to medium, and cook flour/sausage mixture for 3-5 minutes, stirring frequently.
11. Add milk, and stir to combine.
12. Add salt and black pepper.
13. Stir frequently until mixture comes to a slight boil.
14. Taste, and adjust seasonings as desired. (I usually add more black pepper)
15. If the gravy is too thick, add a bit more milk. You want the gravy to be thickened but not too thick, not “globby,” it should still be slightly runny.
16. Pour gravy over the cooked biscuits.
17. Layer the remaining uncooked, quartered biscuits over the gravy.
18. Place casserole dish on a baking sheet, and bake for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown. If they start to over-brown, you can cover with foil for the last 10 minutes or so.
19. Serve immediately.
20. Enjoy!