Healthier Sausage Gravy and Biscuits

Cooking time: 20

This healthy version of Biscuits and Gravy uses healthy low-fat sausage gravy with low-fat biscuits, so you can enjoy your favorite breakfast without bypass surgery.

One biscuit (two halves) plus sausage gravy goes from 540 calories with 34 grams of fat to 213 (60% lower) with 3 grams of fat (over 90% lower)—amazing and with only a minor decrease in taste and texture.

Ingredients

Biscuit ingredients—all-purpose flour, non-fat yogurt, baking powder, baking soda, salt

Gravy ingredients—Turkey breakfast sausage, non-fat milk, seasoning salt and black pepper

biscuit and sausage gravy on a white plate.

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Ingredients
👨‍🍳How to make Healthier Biscuits and Gravy
Low Fat Recipes
🖊️Notes About the Healthy Biscuits
🖊️Notes About the Healthy Sausage Gravy
📋Nutrition Notes
Storage of leftovers
❓FAQs
Step-by-Step Photo Instructions
📖 Recipe

Featured Comment from Karen:
"This is an awesome recipe! My overweight husband loves biscuits and gravy, and when I make this for him, he doesn't even realize that it's a low-fat, lower-calorie recipe."

A breakfast of sausage gravy and biscuits is classic American comfort food. It is an obsession with many people and one of the most missed foods for many dieters. Well, we can fix that.

You can replace a very unhealthy, calorie-dense classic with an easy-to-make healthier alternative at home.

This recipe uses turkey breakfast sausage and non-fat milk for the healthy gravy and non-fat yogurt for the almost-zero-fat biscuits, along with common pantry ingredients. It fits a healthy diet like a low-calorie or low-fat diet.

This recipe is based on my Low-fat biscuits recipe and How to Make Gravy from Scratch. I used a Pioneer Woman recipe as the model for spicing, but otherwise, her recipe is unrecognizable here.

👨‍🍳How to make Healthier Biscuits and Gravy

Make Low-Fat Biscuits

Combine AP flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt–mix well. Add non-fat yogurt to the flour mixture by folding it in until all dry is incorporated.
Make 8 drop biscuits on a PAM-sprayed baking pan.
Bake until golden brown—about 12 minutes.

Make Healthy Gravy

While baking the biscuits, brown turkey breakfast sausage in a large nonstick skillet.
Whisk together flour and skim milk and slowly add the milk-flour mixture to the cooked sausage over medium heat while whisking continuously.
Continue to mix, and the gravy will start thickening in a few minutes. Add seasoning salt and black pepper. Simmer another 5-10 minutes.
Server over biscuits cut in half.

This is a summary of the steps and ingredients. See the recipe card or the step-by-step photo instructions below for complete instructions.

Low Fat Recipes

Some of my other favorite low-fat recipes are Healthier Carrot Cake, Healthy Chicken Enchilada Casserole, Healthy Blueberry Scones, and Healthy White Chicken Chili.

🖊️Notes About the Healthy Biscuits

As I said in my Healthy Biscuits post, the texture and taste are slightly different, but not much with the biscuits. If you pay close attention, there is a slight yogurt taste, but you won't taste that through the gravy spices. And the texture is more fluffy than flakey.

I suggest standard non-fat yogurt, but you can use non-fat Greek yogurt. Greek yogurt will give a bit more yogurt twang and may need a splash of milk since it is dryer.

While I did call these biscuits "zero fat," they have little under 0.4 grams per biscuit, so they are "almost zero fat" or healthy biscuits, AKA low-fat biscuits.

🖊️Notes About the Healthy Sausage Gravy

The gravy is a touch less cream due to the less fat. But it is still very acceptable, and you will live longer with this version.

All the fat that could be eliminated was cut out. I used the lowest-fat ingredients and a slurry gravy method to make the gravy that does not require the fat needed for a roux gravy method. See How To Make Gravy at Home for more information on this method.

📋Nutrition Notes

A serving of 2 half biscuits with gravy ⅓ cup of gravy will be 216 calories, 3 grams of fat, and 477 mg of sodium. Increasing the gravy to a more generous ½ cup will add 45 calories and about 1 gram of fat.

The exact nutrition values depend entirely on the ingredients you choose. Different brands may have different nutritional values. And they may change their products over time.

I have decreased the salt in the biscuits from the original recipe. This reflects my current practice and reduces the sodium by 120 mg per serving from the original recipe.

Storage of leftovers

Store the gravy sealed in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. The biscuits can be stored at room temperature in a baggie with the air squeezed out.

To Freeze: The biscuits and the gravy should be frozen separately. Both should be sealed airtight for up to 3 months.

❓FAQs

Can I use different meat in the gravy?

Sure. Nutrition is calculated on the lowest fat version of turkey breakfast sausage. But other ground meat may be used but will change the nutrition calculations.

Can I leave the meat out of the gravy?

Yes. The meat is not required.

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Step-by-Step Photo Instructions

Turkey sausage with biscuits and gravy ingredients.

Preheat the oven to 400° convection or 425° conventional oven.

adding yogurt to biscuit ingredients in white bowl.

Combine 2 cups AP flour, 1 tablespoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon baking soda, and ½ teaspoon salt–mix well. Add 1 ¼ cups of non-fat yogurt. Fold in until all dry is incorporated.

Make 8 drop biscuits on a PAM-sprayed baking pan.

browned low fat biscuits on white plate.

Bake until golden brown—about 12 minutes.

raw turkey sausage in black cast iron skillet.

While the biscuits are baking, brown ½ pound of turkey breakfast sausage.

adding flour slurry to browned meat in skillet.

Whisk together ¼ cup flour with 2 cups skim milk. I used a Tupperware shaker. Slowly add the milk-flour mixture to the sausage over medium heat while whisking or mixing continuously.

Continue to mix, and this will start thickening in a few minutes. Add 1 teaspoon of seasoning salt and ½ teaspoon of pepper (or to taste). Simmer another 5-10 minutes.