Believe it or not sausage gravy on keto is doable! It's creamy and peppery just like you remember. Super hearty and filled with delicious sausage that goes great with any meat. Maybe even pair it with the classic keto biscuit for a tasty breakfast!
Best Sausage Gravy For Keto
- Thick and creamy like real gravy should be
- Perfect with pork chops, chicken or biscuits
- Super quick recipe that's ready in 15 minutes
How To Make Keto Sausage Gravy
- First, you want to start with a pan on medium high heat. Pan should be hot enough to render the fat but not so hot it begins to burn the sausage. Have ingredients on the side.
- Notice, while sausage is cooking you don't want to cook all the way through. The main objective is to render fat down to use for the keto gravy.
- Next, toss in onions. If there isn't much fat in pan add a little oil.
- Pour in chicken broth and lower heat to simmer. Then, immediately add in heavy cream.
- Continue cooking everything together. At this point toss in your salt and pepper.
- Normally, this takes about 5-10 minutes for onions to cook down and the sausage cooks through. Turn the heat off and proceed.
- Next, make sure that the sausage gravy isn't bubbling hot or boiling. Pour in arrowroot and water mixture then follow behind with xanthan gum.
- Continue stirring to give everything time to for through and thicken the sauce. Serve!
Helpful Recipe Tip
- Do you have to use arrowroot starch/flour? No, but I recommend it. You can solely use the xanthan gum but the consistency will be different. I found mixing the two produced a better final result.
- Beef broth can be used but chicken broth will give the most authentic flavor. I prefer chicken bone broth because the collagen helps with thickening.
Macros
Below is a full nutritional label via Cronometer. Facts show only 5g net carbs per serving but that will vary considering what sausage you choose to use.
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Keto Sausage Gravy
Believe it or not sausage gravy on keto is doable! It's creamy and peppery just like you remember. Super hearty and filled with delicious sausage that goes great with any meat. Maybe even pair it with the classic keto biscuit for a tasty breakfast!
Ingredients
- 4 ounces sausage
- 1/4 cup chopped onion
- 3/4 cup chicken broth
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 teaspoon arrowroot starch/flour mix in 2TB water
- 1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum
Instructions
- Chop onion, mix water into arrowroot starch and break apart sausage
- begin cooking sausge on medium to high heat. Brown each side don't cook through. If fat isn't rendering add in olive oil.
- Toss in onion after sausage has browned
- Pour in bone broth, reduce to simmer then pour in heavy cream
- Add in salt and pepper
- Continue cooking until sausage is done and onions have softened. Turn off heat.
- Make sure gravy isn't boiling over and pour in arrowroot water mix
- Mix around then sprinkle xanthan gum across the top. Continue mixing until sauce is thick. Sauce should thicken pretty quickly but give it 30 seconds to 1 minute before adding anything else in.
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Notes
Helpful Recipe Tip
- Do you have to use arrowroot starch/flour? No, but I recommend it. You can solely use the xanthan gum but the consistency will be different. I found mixing the two produced a better final result.
- Beef broth can be used but chicken broth will give the most authentic flavor. I prefer chicken bone broth because the collagen helps with thickening.
