Biscuits & Gravy Breakfast Casserole

I own a lot of kitchen utensils and gadgets.

I’ve got a KitchenAid mixer. A food processor. A sushi bazooka. A griddle. An immersion blender, hand mixer, pizelle maker, egg roll maker, and breakfast sandwich maker.

But you know one thing that I don’t have? A whisk.

Yep. Something as simplistic and necessary as a whisk and yet I don’t have one. I’ve been using the whisk attachment to my hand mixer the last few times I’ve needed a whisk.

How does this happen? The one whisk that I did used to own broke about a year ago. It was a wire whisk with a kind of rubber covering over the wire, and the dishwasher just mangled it all up. I threw it away and have been scraping by ever since.

Making gravy without a true whisk is kind of an embarassing sight. The little hand mixer one I used yesterday morning got the job done, but not without sausge clumps getting inside. I also had to use a whole lot of hand power to get that thing cranking! Like I said, embarassing. My husband even texted my parents asking them to please get me a whisk. Oops.

Rob & I had to have our Christmas yesterday since we have a busy next few weeks. I wasn’t mad about having Christmas a week early! Nope. Rob did incredible for me. He got me a Nintendo Switch (score!) and I promptly destroyed him in Super Smash Brothers (the key here: use Kirby. Always.) and we played the new Super Mario Odyssey game and were in awe at it. It could be the best Mario game ever—but I still love Super Mario 64.

He also got me this highlightet I’ve been dreaming of (ABH Amrezy 2.0), a couple of bomb cook books (Snoop Dogg!), a Louise hat, and much more. We had a few gifts to open from his parents and mine, and they were all lovely, too.

For breakfast this year I went with the casserole that is Rob’s favorite: Biscuits and gravy. I had made this once before a few years ago and he fell in love. I usually make my family’s sausage, egg and bread casserole, but I decided to go a new route this year. It didn’t disappoint.

This is all the best things about biscuits and gravy combined and magnified. You could easily eat a whole pan of this stuff. It’s that good. I highly recommend it for your Christmas morning festivities. It’s a little more work than a regular dump-and-go breakfast casserole, but it’s well worth it in the end. Everyone will be coming back for seconds.

Enjoy!

Step-By-Step Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 13×9 inch baking dish. Cut each biscuit into six pieces and lay on the bottom of prepared baking dish.

Sprinkle cheese on top. Make the gravy: heat a pan over medium high heat. Add sausage and cook, breaking up with a spoon, until browned; about 5 minutes. Stir in flour and heat for 1-2 minutes. Slowly whisk in 2 cups of milk. Whisk constantly over medium-high heat until gravy thickens, about 4-5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

In a large bowl, whisk together eggs with remaining 1/3 cup milk, salt and pepper.

Pour egg mixture over biscuits and cheese, and then pour sauasage gravy on top.

Bake, uncovered, for 30 minutes or until eggs are set and casserole is bubbly.