Simple White Country Gravy Recipe

Simple to make Homemade White Country Gravy comes together in minutes so it’s perfect for a busy weeknight. Creamy and comforting over mashed potatoes, chicken fried steak, biscuits or whatever you want to pour it over!  You are sure to love this easy white gravy recipe!

Making this creamy white peppered simple country gravy is so easy! This Country Gravy recipe uses only butter, flour, milk, and salt & pepper and comes together in minutes! The perfect white gravy to top your mashed potatoes, country fried steak, or to make into sausage gravy for biscuits!

HOW TO MAKE HOMEMADE SIMPLE COUNTRY GRAVY

Homemade simple country gravy turns the simple biscuit into a work of art, a masterpiece of breakfast foods. Learning how to make it is easy, but you can get endlessly creative too. As long as you get the main ingredients and technique dialed, then adding variations is endless. The most important part of how to make country-style gravy? Getting the roux base just right, but it’s easy!

WHAT IS WHITE GRAVY CALLED?

White gravy is also called “béchamel” Every sauce needs to have a fancy French cooking term name too… Right? By any name though, this easy gravy style sauce makes anything it touches hearty and warm. It basically is the essence of “feel good” food. 

It goes by other names as well, white peppered gravy, country gravy, white sauce, and when you make it with either sausage or bacon grease, it is sometimes referred to as sawmill gravy.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHITE GRAVY AND BROWN GRAVY?

The main difference between white gravy and brown gravy comes from using broth instead of milk. Most prefer using chicken broth for country brown gravy, but you can use vegetable broth or beef, or any other broth as well. 

 

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COUNTRY GRAVY AND WHITE GRAVY?

This depends on where you live. Country gravy and white gravy can mean exactly the same thing. But for some, “country gravy” means the roux uses bacon or sausage grease as well as butter. So, what country style is made of all depends on where you grew up and who was doing the cooking!

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INGREDIENTS YOU NEED FOR SIMPLE COUNTRY GRAVY

For complete measurements and instructions, scroll down to the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post.

• Flour – I use all-purpose flour
• Butter – salted or unsalted butter
• Salt – sea salt or table salt is fine.
• Black Pepper – this classic country gravy recipe is nothing without the pepper!
• Milk – can substitute heavy cream if you’d like

 

HOW TO MAKE WHITE GRAVY

This quick and easy recipe will be ready in minutes – and is perfect for busy weeknights!

Get the pan medium hot, then add your butter. 

Let the butter melt a bit, but make sure to stir it. Don’t let the butter scald before adding the flour to make your roux.

 

Stir the butter and flour together. A whisk helps combine the ingredients and makes everything smooth out. Getting that smooth pasty consistency is key.

 

Reduce the heat a little to about medium-low, then let the butter and flour mixture, the heart and soul of your roux, gain a bit of color. A nice creamy-looking tan color is great. Keep stirring so nothing scalds. Once it turns to that nice beige then you can start adding the milk. 

 

Adding the milk in a slow steady stream helps make it easier to whisk in. Keep a little back for getting the consistency just right after adding the seasonings.

 

When you whisk in the pepper and salt, then keep whisking them in. The sauce thickens a bit more quickly again, so make sure to add a bit of milk or broth to thin it to the desired consistency. 

 

Ready to serve! Take it off the heat so it slows down the thickening. Re-heating and adding more milk or broth later is easy. 

 

Pour it over whatever your heart desires! Like this comforting meal of chicken fried steak, smashed potatoes, corn casserole, and baked beans.

 

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BISCUITS AND GRAVY

All you need to turn this into the best gravy for biscuits is ground pork sausage. Just brown the sausage then add it to the white gravy. You can either brown or add it after draining it. Or use the meat drippings from the pork sausage as part of your delicious gravy. It also works instead of using only butter to brown your roux.

Serve over Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits.

VARIATIONS ON WHITE COUNTRY GRAVY

The really cool about béchamel sauce is how creative you can get with it. It is like the base canvas on which to create your own gravy masterwork. Chop in some mushrooms for a mushroom sauce. Use ground sausage or bacon bits to make it a super country-style meat gravy. You can add herbal flavors like parsley and sage, which make it great for putting on turkey or breaded pork cutlets or country-fried steaks too.

CAN I MAKE VEGAN COUNTRY WHITE GRAVY?

Yes! You don’t have to give up white gravy just because you are vegan. There are easy vegan alternatives for white country gravy. First of all, you substitute the butter with vegan butter, typically made with hydrated vegetable oil or coconut oil. Then, instead of milk, use a suitable milk alternative. Oat milk, almond milk, hemp milk, cashew milk. Each imparts certain flavors, so it comes down to personal preference whatever you like best. 

Also, you can make it a brown gravy by using vegetable broth instead of plant-based milk. Mushroom broth makes an awesome brown vegan gravy!

STORING WHITE GRAVY

You can store white gravy to use later on. It will keep in the fridge for a week, or in the freezer for up to three months. Just make sure to seal it in an airtight container.

When you use it, then heat on low heat and add your milk or stock as needed to bring it back to the smooth and pourable gravy. 

GREAT COUNTRY BRUNCH RECIPES

• Air Fryer Chicken Fried Steak
• Pork Chops with Mushroom Gravy
• Dutch Oven Brunch Bake {Sausage Egg Casserole}
• Southwestern Sausage Brunch Roll-Ups
• Delightful Brunch Recipes
• Brunch Enchiladas with Ham

MORE GRAVY RECIPES

• Canadian Poutine Recipe
• Baked Pork Chops with Stuffing
• Braised Beef Short Ribs with Red Eye Gravy
• How to Prepare Turkey; Turkey Gravy like a Pro
• Beef Tips and Gravy

 

Ready to make some homemade white country gravy? Let’s do it!