sausage gravy & buttermilk biscuit breakfast pie

How To Make sausage gravy & buttermilk biscuit breakfast pie

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  PREP/PREPARE
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  THE SAUSAGE GRAVY
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  Gather your ingredients.
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  Add the sausage to a skillet over medium heat.
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  Cook, breaking the sausage apart with a wooden spoon until no longer pink, about 5 to 8 minutes.
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  Reduce the heat to medium low, and then add the flour.
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  Stir, using the wooden spoon, until the flour is completely incorporated into the sausage, about 2 minutes.
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  Pour 1.5 cups of the milk into the pan.
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  Stir until the mixture begins to thicken.
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  Chef’s Note: If the mixture is too thick use the remaining milk, a bit at a time, until the desired consistency is achieved.
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  Season with a generous amount of pepper, and a bit of salt, to taste.
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  Keep warm, and reserve.
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  THE BISCUITS
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  Gather your ingredients.
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  Add the sugar to the warm water and mix.
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  Add the yeast and allow it to proof for 5 minutes.
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  Chef’s Note: After 5 minutes the top of the water should be nice and foamy. If it isn’t then your yeast is dead. Give it a proper burial, and buy more yeast.
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  Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt to a food processor fitted with an S-blade.
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  Give the mixture a few one-second pulses until fully incorporated.
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  Add the cold butter and the lard to the flour mixture, and give it a few one-second pulses, until you have small pea-size bits of butter.
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  Add the flour mixture to a large bowl.
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  Combine the yeast/water mixture with the buttermilk.
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  Add the liquid to the flour and gently mix until all the flour is moistened.
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  Place the dough on a lightly floured board.
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  Kneed until just incorporated, about 1 minute. Gently pat the dough out to about a 1/2-inch thickness, and cut out the biscuits to the size of the container.
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  Place a rack in the middle position, and preheat the oven to 400f (205c).
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  Add some of the sausage gravy to a small ovenproof serving dish.
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  Add a slice of Provolone to the top of the sausage gravy.
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  Cut a biscuit to size, and place on top.
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  Chef’s Note: Repeat for additional servings.
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  Place in the preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes, or until the biscuit is golden brown.
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  PLATE/PRESENT
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  Serve by itself, or with a couple of eggs, over easy. Enjoy.
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  Keep the faith, and keep cooking.
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