This recipe came about by happenstance. The kids and I love meat gravy for breakfast. Our normal gravy is turkey sausage cream gravy over biscuits. It’s usually a weekend breakfast “treat”.
The Lucky Wife’s dad loves cream gravy made with bacon grease left over from frying bacon. I don’t care for it particularly, but every time we are at their house and bacon is made he asks me to make some.
His normal recipe consists of a little flour and milk and of course the bacon grease. To me, it needed more flavor. I improvised the last time we were there and snuck two pieces of cooked bacon off the platter, crumbled them, added some butter and onion powder and a little black pepper, and it was a hit.
This particular version with the beef bacon came about one Sunday morning when the kids wanted something different and I had about a half a pound of beef bacon left over from a previous recipe that I needed to use up. I made it and we ate it over Texas Toast, also from another previous recipe. As a whole, we prefer this now over traditional sausage cream gravy. Enjoy.
- ½ pound of beef bacon diced
- 1 stick of butter
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- 2 tablespoons flour
- Approximately 3 cups of whole milk
- Brown crumbled bacon slowly over medium low heat in non-stick skillet until golden brown, extracting fat.
- Add stick of butter and melt slowly. Once butter has melted add flour and stir in, absorbing as much liquid as possible.
- Slowly add milk, stirring constantly. Simmer on low to medium heat until gravy thickens. Add more milk if needed. Warm through.
- Serve over open faced buttermilk biscuits or toast of your choosing.
About the Author
Raised in eastern North Carolina, The Chef has always most loved southern cuisine. While working for a top resort just after finishing Culinary School at Johnson and Wales University, when they still had a campus located in Charleston, South Carolina, he began learning about Gullah cuisine and enjoys it as well. He's a family man and country boy at heart, loves hunting and is a big fan of the John Boy and Billy Big Show and the Carolina Panthers.
I’d try the bacon gravy version! Everything taste better with bacon lol
marielle altenor recently posted…Bed time stories: The Secret to Happiness
This really looks like a delicious breakfast. It would be great to enjoy with the family on the weekend.
Tough Cookie Mommy recently posted…Weather The Storm With Blizzard Essential Technology! @PanasonicUSA #Ad
Never thought about trying this! It looks yummy!
THank you so much for sharing this recipe, I have been wondering how to make a gravy. I will try this for sure.
Chubskulit Rose recently posted…Easy Ways to De-Clutter Your Child’s Bedroom
I don’t eat beef, but I know a few people who would just LOVE this recipe! I’ll pass it on to them!
Nikki recently posted…Beat the Dull Winter Months With Dependable Family Fun
Thank you Nikki! We hope they enjoy it!
Biscuits and gravy are my all time favorite breakfast food. I’ve never had it with bacon mixed in though. Def. have to try that!
Theresa recently posted…SunRidge Farms Organic Nuts Review
Ooo, love that you snuck in a little more flavor and upped the recipe! Sounds super yummy!
Liz @ A Nut in a Nutshell recently posted…Fun Facts About Soup for National Soup Month + Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup Recipe
This looks DELICIOUS!!! My husband would love for me to make this for him this weekend.. Thanks for the idea!
Ashley Gill recently posted…Enjoying the Gourmet — Gourmet Nut Review
Never tried this but thank you for sharing i will give it a go
Hubby would love this! According to him everything tastes better with bacon so he would thoroughly enjoy it.
now that is a unique gravy I’ve never seen before. How can I not have thought about a bacon gravy? My mom used to make gravy from left over hamburger grease all the time growing up as a kid. But it was never anything like this. I think I might actually like this gravy.
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I will have to make this for my boys, I bet they would love it as they eat anything with Bacon. I think I am the only one out there that does not like bacon - my husband always says it is not normal not to like bacon but he does not mind as he gets more.
Jennifer Williams recently posted…Bringing Back Memories with Digimon Fusion
Its been a long while since we had bacon gravy. I will have to try your recipe over biscuits this weekend and see how the family likes it. Thanks for sharing I am book marking this page.
Grandma Bonnie recently posted…Cinnamon Spiced Muffins
Thanks! The beef bacon alternative really makes it different. The same ole routine with food gets dull. Just remember a little goes a long way with the beef.
This sounds like the gravy my mom used to make growing up. I now want breakfast for dinner tonight.
Ashley Wintters recently posted…The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
This would be so yummy served over hasbrowns for breakfast.
I never herd of beef bacon-what is it exactly and where do you find it? I am not much of a gravy person but think that I might like to try beef bacon!
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I did some research and found that beef bacon is made from the belly meat of a cow just as pork bacon is made from the belly meat of a pig. I have found at a high end grocery store. To be specific Gwaltney offers a commercially produced bacon. Our son is sensitive to pork and we grow tired at times of turkey bacon. I stumbled across this in the store and decided to try it. The flavor is great, but can overpower your gravy if you use too much. The research I found said that it is popular in health food stores.
That looks amazing! I love sausage gravy - bacon would just make it that much better!
I am gluten free, wheat free and grain free so the flour wouldn’t work however I could sub coconut flour and it might just work
Wendy Bottrell recently posted…Should you eat oats if you have problems with gluten?
Sure … try that! You never know and the flavor from the beef bacon I loved even more than pork.