Grits, Smoked Sausage, and Tomato Gravy
Grits, Smoked Sausage, and Tomato Gravy

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, grits, smoked sausage, and tomato gravy. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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Grits, Smoked Sausage, and Tomato Gravy Just another recipe I used to eat growing up. Smoked sausage was one of the rare ingredients we had growing up. See recipes for Grits, Smoked Sausage, and Tomato Gravy too.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook grits, smoked sausage, and tomato gravy using 17 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Grits, Smoked Sausage, and Tomato Gravy:
  1. Make ready Grits————————
  2. Take 3/4 pound smoked sausage fried
  3. Take 2 cup grits
  4. Make ready 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  5. Make ready 8 cups water
  6. Prepare 1/2 stick butter
  7. Make ready 1/2 stick butter
  8. Get Gravy——————-
  9. Prepare 16 ounce can of diced tomatoes
  10. Get 1 cup water
  11. Prepare 2 tablespoons dehydrated onions
  12. Get 3 cups Monterey-Colby jack cheese
  13. Get 1 tablespoon bacon drippings
  14. Get 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  15. Get 2 tablespoons heaping all purpose flour
  16. Get 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  17. Make ready 1 teaspoon ground black pepper

From Huntsville, Alabama, though I learned to make and fell in love with tomato gravy over grits, especially for dinner while living & going to school in Mobile; however, I chop & brown the pork sausage like ground beef then add tomatoes & sausage back once roux is ready. Add the sausage and enough water to cover the sausage at the half-way mark. Cook over medium heat until the water boils down and the sausage browns. Turn over and repeat the browning process.

Steps to make Grits, Smoked Sausage, and Tomato Gravy:
  1. Dice the smoked sausage.
  2. Bring the water with the salt to boiling add the diced smoked sausage and 1/2 stick butter.
  3. Add the grits to the water and sausage. Stir leaving no lumps.
  4. Shred the cheese.
  5. Add the cheese to the grits.
  6. Now add the half stick of butter. Cover and let it melt when it has melted stir well. Then cover again.
  7. Heat the oil for the tomatoes. Add the tomatoes, bacon drippings, and salt and pepper.
  8. Bring to a simmer. Add the dehydrated onions.
  9. Simmer for 10 minutes.
  10. Add the flour
  11. Stir adding in the water. Simmer a bit till your desired thickness. Taste adjust salt and pepper to taste
  12. Add the grits to a bowl or plate
  13. Top with tomato gravy and serve. I hope you enjoy!!

Once the sausage has browned on both sides, add the onions and pepper and sauté with the sausage (if you are using the tomato sauce add now). Easy baked grits with sausage gravy fancies up a breakfast favorite, without a lot of effort. Tomato gravy is one of those old time Southern favorites that likely originated as a frugal flourish to turn basic, inexpensive ingredients into something satisfying. In leaner times, leftover bacon or sausage drippings were used to make a roux, and home canned tomatoes made the gravy. Tomato gravy is a home kitchen specialty rarely seen in restaurants.

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