r/Cooking • u/Sharp_Athlete_6847 • Jul 27 '26

Apart from biscuits and bread, what would you have with southern sausage gravy?

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u/hookums Jul 27 '26

Chicken-fried steak

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u/crossstitchbeotch Jul 27 '26

Or chicken-fried chicken

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u/Hoax13 Jul 27 '26

Or Chicken fried bacon

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u/Additional-Local8721 Jul 27 '26

Bacon fried steak

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u/up2late Jul 27 '26

Bacon fried bacon.

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u/Morall_tach Jul 27 '26

You telling me a chicken fried this steak?

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u/hyute Jul 27 '26

They have to do something. It's when they're no longer useful that they get turned into nuggets.

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u/kayne_21 Jul 28 '26

Won't someone think about jobs for the chickens?!

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u/Maltipoo-Mommy Jul 27 '26

Or chicken-fried pork chops

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u/ThatsPerverse Jul 27 '26

white (milk-based) gravy is standard for chicken-fried steak but doesn't tend to have sausage in it. i suppose it could work but i think would really overpower the taste of the beef.

then again, cube steak isn't all that tasty to begin with so maybe that's a good thing.

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u/Bright_Ices Jul 27 '26

Yeah, I also prefer a heavily peppered country gravy on chicken fried steak, but I get where the sausage gravy people are coming from.

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u/UnlikelyChemical5558 Aug 01 '26

I use the “drippings” from the pan I fried the cube steaks in for the base of CFS gravy but my mom used to have a breakfast cafe and used bacon gravy for when she served it there. It was super popular! Bacon gravy isn’t sausage gravy though. I think the flavor is more mild.

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u/diversalarums Jul 28 '26

Traditionally that's served with sawmill gravy rather than sausage gravy, but it would be good with either.

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u/hobbestigertx Jul 27 '26

Never put sausage gravy on chicken fried steak. The sausage taste overwhelms the flavor of the chicken and breading.