Apple-Sausage Gravy Boats
Step outside the box and style up your sausage gravy with a bit of sweet apple flavor and serve in a crusty French bread boat. But if you still prefer biscuits with sausage gravy, just try a new gravy flavor.
- Serves: 6 persons
Ingredients
- 1(16 ounce) loaf French bread
- 1(16 ounce) package bulk pork breakfast sausage (such as Jimmy Dean®)
- 1small apple - peeled, cored, and finely chopped
- ⅓cup all-purpose flour
- 2cups whole milk, or more to taste
- 1cup apple juice
- 1teaspoon Dijon mustard
- salt and ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
Step 1
Cut bread into six 4-inch pieces. Hollow out an oval shape in the top of each piece; scoop out some of the bread inside with your fingers or a spoon and discard. Set bread "boats" aside.Step 2
Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add sausage and apple. Cook, breaking up sausage with a spoon, until crumbly and no longer pink, about 8 minutes. Sprinkle flour over the sausage mixture and cook, stirring constantly, until it has been absorbed by the fat, about 3 minutes.Step 3
Reduce heat to medium-low and gradually pour in 2 cups milk and apple juice; bring to a simmer. Stir and simmer until gravy thickens, 5 to 7 minutes. If gravy is too thick, add more milk to thin it out to your desired consistency. Stir in Dijon and season with salt and pepper.Step 4
Ladle the sausage gravy into the bread boats, allowing some to spill over the sides.