Southern Tomato Gravy is a staple in our home! This tomato based mostly gravy is fantastic over biscuits, rice, or mashed potatoes.
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If you’re a fan of biscuits and gravy, you may additionally wish to do that scrumptious Chocolate Gravy. It’s a basic for a cause and fantastic to get pleasure from on Christmas morning.
❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
Southern Tomato Gravy is a staple in our home and it’s such a flexible recipe. It’s fantastic over biscuits, rice, noodles or mashed potatoes. You can even use tomato gravy in hamburger dishes and it’s a good way to make use of these scrumptious backyard tomatoes.
🍴KEY INGREDIENTS
- Recent tomatoes, peeled and chopped (can use a 14.5 ounce can of tomatoes)
- Bacon drippings
- All-purpose flour
- Water (some choose to make use of milk as an alternative of water)
- Sugar
- Salt
- Pepper
- Garlic powder
SWAPS
You may add completely different seasonings to this dish to offer it a unique taste. You may add basil, oregano, Italian seasonings, and so on. Or you possibly can add some dillweed, it’s tremendous versatile however we find it irresistible simply this manner.
🍽️HOW TO MAKE
This can be a quite simple dish to make and you may throw it collectively shortly for breakfast or dinner. We love easy recipe and really feel they’re the most effective for a cause!
COOKING STEPS
Step 1
Lower up tomatoes in bowl. Add the salt, pepper, sugar and garlic powder and blend with a spoon. Put bacon drippings in a scorching skillet on range high.
Step 2
Add flour and make a roux or prepare dinner till thick. Pour in tomatoes and water and prepare dinner till the consistency of gravy. Serve over biscuits, rice, noodles or mashed potatoes.
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⭐TIP
We really feel the bacon grease actually takes this gravy to the subsequent stage. You may all the time use vegetable oil, nevertheless it gained’t be practically nearly as good as it is going to be with the bacon grease. You can even sprinkle cooked bacon on high of the gravy…. so good! That is additionally actually good over meatloaf!
OTHER TOMATO RECIPES
GRAVY & OTHER RECIPES
STORING, REHEATING & SERVING SIZE
We retailer this within the fridge, it should maintain for just a few days, reheat within the microwave and its about 6 servings.
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Tomato Gravy
Tomato Gravy is such a Southern dish served over biscuits for breakfast, rice for supper or mashed potatoes. Great method to make use of contemporary tomatoes from the backyard however can use canned tomatoes.
- 2 cups contemporary tomatoes peeled and chopped (can use a 14.5 ounce can of tomatoes)
- 5 tablespoons bacon drippings
- 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 cups water some choose to make use of milk as an alternative of water
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
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Lower up tomatoes in bowl. Add the salt, pepper, sugar and garlic powder and blend with a spoon.
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Put bacon drippings in a scorching skillet on range high. Add flour and make a roux or prepare dinner till thick. Pour in tomatoes and water and prepare dinner till the consistency of gravy. Serve over biscuits.
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