Meat with Vegan Problems: Biscuits and Gravy

You know how I said that I hadn’t had a lot of stroganoff and had no idea if my recipe was authentic or not? Well, that is not the case with biscuits and gravy. This is the food of my people! Best breakfast in the world. Don’t come here with your English muffin nonsense. Biscuits or bust!

There was a biscuits and gravy recipe in Go Dairy Free that I had been wanting to try. I mean, I love biscuits and gravy. But I was a little scared off by the ingredient list. Cauliflower isn't my first though when I think of gravy. But, I also had this extra dairy free “buttermilk” and I thought there was no better time for:

Cauliflower Gravy and Dairy Free "Buttermilk" Gravy

The Ultimate Showdown

Gravy vs Gravy Taste Test

Would anything taste like the real dairy thing?

A package of breakfast sausage (garlic free!) later and I was ready to go. I made the cauliflower gravy first. The gravy is essentially steamed cauliflower pureed with water, cooked down with some nutritional yeast and salt. Was it good? Yes! It wasn’t quite as creamy as the real thing, but the sausage seasoning more than covered the cauliflower taste. The best part of it? Left overs were good! Usually, gravy does not save well. No matter how you try to rewarm it, even stirring in some extra liquid never gets the texture back from congealed to pourable, delicious gravy. The consistency was a little strange- if you looked really closely you could tell it was a little grainy. Overall? It’s a great way to hide vegetables in your food, if that’s something you are into.

Zoom in on that bad boy and you can see the grainy cauliflower. But eat it without your glasses and you are good to go!

Next up, making it the old fashioned way with new fashioned left over “buttermilk”. Brown the sausage, sprinkle some flour, make the roux, add your milk. Salt and pepper (heavy on the pepper) to taste. Consistency? Perfect. It was a little sour (from the yogurt bacteria), but overall worked just like any dairy buttermilk. Left overs, not great. But that's to be expected. Overall? What could be better than smothering your biscuit in a creamy, sausage sauce? Nothing. That’s what.

I mean, if it has that much breakfast sausage in it, what could go wrong?

Either way, you are going to have some yummy biscuits. If I had to choose I might go for the cauliflower- it's cheap, it saves better, and if you aren't having the real thing you might as well eat a vegetable!