Bacon Gravy Recipe

  Add a photo 6 recipe photos for Bacon Gravy   Back to full recipe Swirling F. Linajjac 1 mommyluvs2cook Swirling F. Advertisement PREV PREVIOUS RECIPE NEXT NEXT RECIPE

1. Recipes
2. Sauces

Bacon Gravy 35 Community Pick Submitted by Panhandle Sam "One day DH wanted biscuits and gravy, but I didn't have sausage, only bacon. So, I found a recipe online and went for it. Thus, bacon gravy was born!"   icons / ellipsis / ellipsis-horizontal save Download Print Share I Made This photo by Swirling F. Ready In: 20mins Ingredients: 5 Yields: 2 cups Serves: 4 Nutrition information

ingredients

Units: US

• 6 slices bacon
• 2 tablespoons bacon grease
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 2 cups milk
• salt and pepper

Advertisement

directions

• Preheat a large skillet to medium-hi. Place 6 slices of bacon in the skillet and cook until just under crispy.
• Remove bacon from skillet and drain; set aside. Discard all but 2 tablespoons of the bacon grease.
• Add flour to grease, and whisk together. Cook for about a minute without burning the flour.
• Add milk; whisk together.
• Heat until bubbling. Simmer for 5-10 minutes, until sauce starts to thicken.
• Meanwhile, crumble bacon. Add salt and pepper (to taste), and bacon to gravy. Allow to simmer until desired consistency.
• Serve over biscuits.

icons / social / pinterest icons / email

Questions & Replies

Sign In to Ask a Question

1. Can the gravy be frozen   icons / ellipsis / ellipsis-horizontal Rita P. Reply

Advertisement Want a Second Helping? Sign up for our newsletter to get recipes, easy dinner ideas, tasty treats and more delivered straight to your inbox. By entering your email address, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the Privacy Policy. Food.com and its affiliates may use your email address to provide updates, ads, and offers. Sign Up To withdraw your consent or to learn more about your rights, see the Privacy Policy.

Reviews

MOST POPULARMOST RECENT Write A Review

1. This is a really good recipe. We were raised on bacon gravy over toast or biscuits or mashed potatoes... My only problem is with the instruction, "Discard all but 2 tablespoons of the bacon grease." Nooooooooooo! You save the extrq bacon grease in a sealed container in the fridge for other uses. You might as well throw away money because you have enough. ;-) This is a really good recipe. I urge you to try it. It's better than sausage gravy.   icons / ellipsis / ellipsis-horizontal Wheres_the_Beef Reply 10
2. A nice, simple milk gravy with bacon subbed in for breakfast sausage. Haven't made this one yet, but 5 stars already because I didn't have to scroll through a 6-page essay encompassing the past 20 years of your spiritual cooking journey to read the recipe. Thank you for that.   icons / ellipsis / ellipsis-horizontal Brandon C. Reply 9 See 1 Reply
3. I grew up with bacon gravy, but its seems that the only kind you ever find anywhere is sausage gravy. My mother always cut the raw bacon into bits then fried it up til it was extremely crispy. Then proceeded from there. Oh...its sooooo good!!!   icons / ellipsis / ellipsis-horizontal JeannieDee Reply 7
4. This is simply bechamel using bacon fat for the roux instead of butter. . The typical issue with bechamel is that it doesn't have a ton of flavor on its own, and that doesn't change here. Simmering the sauce with some aromatics, like shallots, will help give it some flavor as well as a generous helping of crumbled bacon to help get the flavor through. I also toss in a pinch of grated nutmeg and some cayenne pepper. and make sure to salt and pepper it generously throughout the process. I like to make mine more of like a Mornay (essentially Bechamel with gruyere although no reason to be a purist), by throwing in some grated sharper cheeses and whisking it to combine when I take the sauce off heat. Cheddar, parmesan, gruyere, comte, all work well, but no reason to limit yourself. I'll also note, if it tastes like flour, the flour has been cooked out long enough. The sauce will continue to thicken even after it's taken off the heat, so unless you're using all of it right away, don't wait until the very last moment to pull it off the heat.   icons / ellipsis / ellipsis-horizontal john.jonnyrich.richa Reply 4
5. We grew up on Bacon gravy, and there's no better summer breakfast to be had than Bacon Gravy, Biscuits, and fresh from the garden Tomatos. Yum-Yum   icons / ellipsis / ellipsis-horizontal Memortree Reply 4

see 29 more reviews Advertisement

Tweaks

MOST POPULARMOST RECENT

1. To those of you complaining that it tastes like flour: that means you're not cooking it enough, likely both before and after you add the milk. Before you add the milk, cook it until it gets to be at least a light brown color, if not darker. After you add the milk, make sure that it gets nice and hot and simmer for the full 10 minutes. Stir constantly with a wood spoon so it doesn't burn on the bottom.   icons / ellipsis / ellipsis-horizontal Jeff J. Reply 4 See 2 Replies
2. I just made bacon gravy, but instead of milk I use chicken stock. It is good and I'm sure it could be frozen because it doesn't have milk.   icons / ellipsis / ellipsis-horizontal Pat P. Reply 1

RECIPE SUBMITTED BY

Panhandle Sam icons / following Follow Me

• 5 Followers
• 16 Recipes

I am a 21 year old homemaker (and soon to be mommy!) from the Florida Panhandle. I love to cook and try new things. I never got all the cooking wisdom from my mother that many other people have, so I've had to teach myself over the last couple years. I have to admit, though, it's been lots of fun with it's good share of hard work. Thank goodness my husband is so forgiving! DH and I have been married for almost two years now, and I just love him to pieces. We are having our first baby in March, so then I can cook for him, too! Well, as soon as he's ready. :) I am pretty young, and I am just now experiencing being invited to events and being asked to bring a dish. It's very exciting to me, and makes cooking all the more fun. Also, I am always hearing from DH, "These mashed potatoes are good," or whatever it is I am making, "but they aren't quite like my mom's." So, I am hoping that one day he will be saying to other people, "These mashed potatoes aren't as good as my wife's!" ha ha. Here's hoping! <img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/permanent%20collection/IWasAdoptedfall08.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket">   View Full Profile Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement

YOU'LL ALSO LOVE

29 Breakfast-for-Dinner Ideas 29 photos Chicken Fried Bacon W/Cream Gravy by GeeWhiz 5 Low Carb Bacon Gravy by Likkel 1 Sage and Bacon Turkey Gravy by tiffin 0 View All Recipes

Related Pages

• Old Time Chicken and Biscuits "no Sausage?!?" Gravy for Biscuits and Gravy The Best Belgian Waffles Real, "down Home" Southern Country Biscuits and Gravy: Paula Deen's Sausage Gravy Biscuits and Sausage Gravy II Low Carb Bacon Gravy Gravy With Sausage or Hamburger Southern Rice With Bacon Flavored Gravy

Find More Recipes

Search