Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, grits, smoked sausage, and tomato gravy. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Towards the end of the cooking time for the grits, in a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat. This is my version of the southern comfort food staple, to be served over stone ground grits. Most of the time here is spent building flavors for the rich, creamy tomato based gravy studded with bacon and chives.
Grits, Smoked Sausage, and Tomato Gravy is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Grits, Smoked Sausage, and Tomato Gravy is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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 it.
The ingredients needed to make Grits, Smoked Sausage, and Tomato Gravy:
- Make ready Grits————————
- Make ready 3/4 pound smoked sausage fried
- Make ready 2 cup grits
- Take 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Prepare 8 cups water
- Take 1/2 stick butter
- Get 1/2 stick butter
- Get Gravy——————-
- Take 16 ounce can of diced tomatoes
- Prepare 1 cup water
- Prepare 2 tablespoons dehydrated onions
- Get 3 cups Monterey-Colby jack cheese
- Prepare 1 tablespoon bacon drippings
- Get 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- Get 2 tablespoons heaping all purpose flour
- Take 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Get 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
We love to top them with fried or scrambled eggs along with bacon or ham, sausage gravy, crawfish, grillades or shrimp just to name a few. 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. Easy baked grits with sausage gravy fancies up a breakfast favorite, without a lot of effort. Add water as needed and cover; stirring to brown both sides of the sausage.
Instructions to make Grits, Smoked Sausage, and Tomato Gravy:
- Dice the smoked sausage.
- Bring the water with the salt to boiling add the diced smoked sausage and 1/2 stick butter.
- Add the grits to the water and sausage. Stir leaving no lumps.
- Shred the cheese.
- Add the cheese to the grits.
- Now add the half stick of butter. Cover and let it melt when it has melted stir well. Then cover again.
- Heat the oil for the tomatoes. Add the tomatoes, bacon drippings, and salt and pepper.
- Bring to a simmer. Add the dehydrated onions.
- Simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add the flour
- Stir adding in the water. Simmer a bit till your desired thickness. Taste adjust salt and pepper to taste
- Add the grits to a bowl or plate
- Top with tomato gravy and serve. I hope you enjoy!!
Remove sausage from pot and place on paper towels to absorb the excess oil (grease). In the large pot with the green onion sausage gravy add the onions, garlic and butter. See great recipes for Grits, Smoked Sausage, and Tomato Gravy too! 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.
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