Southern Tomato Gravy is a staple in our home! This tomato based mostly gravy is great over biscuits, rice, or mashed potatoes.
In case you are a fan of biscuits and gravy, you might also wish to do this scrumptious Chocolate Gravy. It’s a traditional for a motive and great 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 great 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 favor to make use of milk as an alternative of water)
- Sugar
- Salt
- Pepper
- Garlic powder
SWAPS
You possibly can add totally different seasonings to this dish to offer it a special taste. You might add basil, oregano, Italian seasonings, and so forth. Or you may add some dillweed, it’s tremendous versatile however we find it irresistible simply this fashion.
🍽️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 very best for a motive!
COOKING STEPS
Step 1
Minimize 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 prime.
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 following degree. You possibly can at all times use vegetable oil, however it gained’t be almost nearly as good as it will likely be with the bacon grease. You can even sprinkle cooked bacon on prime 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 hold for a couple of 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 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 favor 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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Minimize 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 prime. 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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