Southern Tomato Gravy is a staple in our home! This tomato based mostly gravy is fantastic over biscuits, rice, or mashed potatoes.
If you’re a fan of biscuits and gravy, you might also wish to do this scrumptious Chocolate Gravy. It’s a basic for a cause and fantastic to take pleasure in 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 may as well use tomato gravy in hamburger dishes and it’s an effective 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 favor to make use of milk as a substitute of water)
- Sugar
- Salt
- Pepper
- Garlic powder
SWAPS
You possibly can add totally different seasonings to this dish to offer it a distinct taste. You possibly can add basil, oregano, Italian seasonings, and so forth. Or you’ll be able to add some dillweed, it’s tremendous versatile however we adore it simply this manner.
🍽️HOW TO MAKE
This can be a quite simple dish to make and you’ll throw it collectively rapidly 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 sizzling skillet on range high.
Step 2
Add flour and make a roux or cook dinner till thick. Pour in tomatoes and water and cook dinner till the consistency of gravy. Serve over biscuits, rice, noodles or mashed potatoes.
⭐TIP
We really feel the bacon grease actually takes this gravy to the subsequent stage. You possibly can all the time use vegetable oil, but it surely received’t be almost nearly as good as it will likely be with the bacon grease. You may as well 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’s going to maintain for just a few days, reheat within the microwave and its about 6 servings.
Tomato Gravy
Tomato Gravy is such a Southern dish served over biscuits for breakfast, rice for supper or mashed potatoes. Great means to make use of recent tomatoes from the backyard however can use canned tomatoes.
- 2 cups recent 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 favor to make use of milk as a substitute 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 sizzling skillet on range high. Add flour and make a roux or cook dinner till thick. Pour in tomatoes and water and cook dinner till the consistency of gravy. Serve over biscuits.
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