Sour Cream Biscuits and Gravy

By: Krolls Korner

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Updated: 12/22/2020

These Sour Cream Biscuits turn out tall with layers of flaky goodness and are actually quite easy to prepare. 

If you’ve never made biscuits before, don’t worry! I’ll give you my tips and tricks to make them perfect every time. 

This post has been sponsored by FAGE. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting the brands that keep Kroll’s Korner running!

After making this recipe you’ll never want to buy biscuits from the store again! They have a light, flaky tender texture and are best warm from the oven with a little butter and flaky sea salt on top. 

This is a small batch sour cream biscuit recipe that makes 4-6 biscuits, depending on how thick and tall you cut them. I like mine at least 1 inch tall. 

These Sour Cream Biscuits are:

• Tender and flaky
• Easy to make
• A small batch recipe
• Buttery and soft
• More delicious than store bought 
• Best served warm!

Ingredients you will need:

This recipe uses simple ingredients you probably already have on hand. 

• All Purpose Flour: I use an unbleached all purpose flour
• Salt: You only need a little, and I love using kosher salt. 
• Baking powder and baking soda: always be sure to make sure your leavening agents are fresh. This helps the biscuits rise nice and tall. (Baking soda is used since sour cream is an acid)
• Sugar: The sugar added doesn’t make these biscuits sweet but it adds a little color to the biscuits and balances out the flavor. 
• Cold, unsalted butter: biscuits get their tender crumb and layers from the suspension of fat in flour so the butter needs to be at a cold, solid state for ultra flaky biscuits.
• Sour Cream: My recipe uses FAGE Sour Cream instead of buttermilk. Sour cream in biscuits helps them turn out even more tender and flavorful.
• Milk: I use a little whole milk to thin out the sour cream to provide liquid to the biscuits. 

I love using FAGE Sour Cream because it’s so creamy and delicious. It’s a staple in our fridge and great to have on hand. It’s all natural, has simple ingredients and is gluten free too! 

FAGE Sour Cream comes in 8 oz. and 16 oz. containers. Be sure to visit FAGE’s website to find it in a store near you!

Step by Step Directions

1. Preheat oven to 425°F. Set out a baking sheet.
2. Whisk together the dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl. 
3. Cut butter into the flour mixture
4. Transfer the flour mixture back into the medium sized bowl.
5. Whisk together the FAGE Sour Cream and milk until smooth.
6. Drizzle the milk mixture into the dry ingredients, tossing with a fork to incorporate. 
7. Turn out the mixture onto a clean, lightly floured surface. Gently turn and press the dough to bring it together into a 1 inch rectangle. 
8. Cut the dough into 4 sections. Stack the dough on top of one another and press down to flatten. Using a rolling pin, gently roll dough out into a 1 inch thick rectangle.
9. Cut into rounds using a biscuit butter. 
10. Place biscuits on a baking sheet touching each other. Place in freezer for 10-15 minutes.
11. Brush melted butter over the tops of the biscuit and bake until golden brown!

Expert Tips

• Keep ingredients cold: Keeping the sour cream, milk and butter cold is critical in getting a good rise in the biscuits and creating a delicious, tender, flaky biscuit. 
• Place biscuits next to each other on the baking sheet: when the biscuits are touching, as opposed to being a few inches apart from each other, it helps them bake up nice and tall. It also prevents lopsided biscuits. 
• Try not to re roll the dough too many times: Since this is a small batch recipe, you should only have to re-form the dough twice to get 4 thick biscuits. Depending on how thick you roll out the dough, you can try to get more biscuits out of this recipe.  Overworking the dough will result in dense, tough biscuits. We want fluffy biscuits so work gently. 

• Press the biscuit cutter straight down: try to avoid twisting or jiggling the biscuit cutter down into the dough. Pressing straight down helps to create sky-high biscuits! Press and lift, that’s it! (Pro tip: flour the biscuit cutter so the dough doesn’t stick to it)
  • If you don’t have a biscuit cutter you can use a knife to cut the biscuits into squares. This is great because you won’t have any scraps leftover!
• Don’t over bake: Check your biscuits around 18 minutes. If you bake for too long they will begin to dry out.

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Sour Cream Biscuits and Gravy

Prep: 15 minutes mins

Cook: 30 minutes mins

Total: 45 minutes mins

Servings: 4 large biscuits

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These Sour Cream Biscuits are buttery, soft, flaky and made completely from scratch! This recipe requires simple ingredients and nothing beats a homemade biscuit! Serve warm as is or with sausage gravy on top!

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Ingredients

For the biscuits

• ▢ 1 3/4 cup All Purpose Flour
• ▢ 1 1/4 tsp. baking powder
• ▢ 1 tsp. sugar
• ▢ 3/4 tsp. kosher salt
• ▢ 1/4 tsp. baking soda
• ▢ 8 Tbsp. unsalted butter, cold
• ▢ 1/3 cup FAGE Sour Cream, cold
• ▢ 1/2 cup whole milk, cold

For the sausage gravy

• ▢ 16 oz. ground pork sausage
• ▢ 1/4 cup All Purpose flour
• ▢ 3 cups whole milk
• ▢ kosher salt
• ▢ freshly ground black pepper
• ▢ pinch of cayenne pepper

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Instructions 

For the biscuits:

• Preheat oven to 425°F. Set out a baking sheet.
• Whisk together the dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl. 
• Cut butter into the flour mixture: I find it easiest to do this in a food processor. Pulse the butter ~10 times until small clumps of butter are formed/size of peas. Or, you can use a pastry cutter if you have one.
• Transfer the flour mixture back into the medium sized bowl.
• Whisk together the FAGE Sour Cream and milk until smooth.
• Drizzle the milk mixture into the dry ingredients, tossing with a fork to incorporate. Dough will be shaggy and look a little dry, that’s OK.
• Turn out the mixture onto a clean, lightly floured surface. Gently turn and press the dough to bring it together into a 1 inch rectangle. 
• Using a knife or bench scraper, cut the dough into 4 sections. Stack the dough on top of one another and press down to flatten. Using a rolling pin, gently roll dough out into a 1 inch thick rectangle.
• Cut into rounds using a biscuit butter. Press straight down and avoid twisting or jiggling the cutter. Press dough back together and cut out 2-3 more biscuits. (recipe is small batch, you will have 4-6 biscuits total.) Try not to re-roll scraps too much, biscuit dough should be handled gently. 
• Place biscuits on a baking sheet touching each other. Place in freezer for 10-15 minutes.
• Brush melted butter over the tops of the biscuits. Lower oven temperature to 400°F and bake for 20 minutes or until tops are golden brown.
• Remove from oven and brush with more melted butter and flaky sea salt, if desired. Serve with sausage gravy.

For the sausage gravy

• Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add the sausage to the pan. Using a wooden spoon, break up the sausage and cook until well browned and no more pink remains. (leave the grease in the pan)
• Reduce heat to low. Sprinkle flour over sausage and stir for 1-2 minutes so sausage soaks up flour.
• Gradually pour milk into pan, about 1 cup at a time, stirring frequently. Turn heat up so gravy can begin to bubble and thicken. Continue adding in the milk and allow the gravy to cook until it thickens, can take 8-10 minutes.
• Season with salt, pepper and cayenne. Split the biscuits in half and top sausage gravy on each biscuit

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Notes

If you don’t have a biscuit cutter, you can cut the biscuits into squares using a knife. This is also a nice option because you won’t have any scraps. 

This small batch recipe makes 4-6 biscuits, depending on how thick you make the biscuits. It’s the perfect amount to enjoy with the sausage gravy! 

Nutrition Information

Serving: 1biscuit (no gravy), Calories: 315kcal (16%), Carbohydrates: 30g (10%), Protein: 5g (10%), Fat: 20g (31%), Saturated Fat: 12g (75%), Cholesterol: 51mg (17%), Sodium: 564mg (25%), Potassium: 84mg (2%), Fiber: 1g (4%), Sugar: 2g (2%), Vitamin A: 605IU (12%), Calcium: 108mg (11%), Iron: 2mg (11%)

© Author: Tawnie Graham of Kroll’s Korner