Southern Tomato Gravy is a staple in our home! This tomato based mostly gravy is great over biscuits, rice, or mashed potatoes.

If you’re a fan of biscuits and gravy, you may additionally wish to do this scrumptious Chocolate Gravy. It’s a traditional for a cause and great to take pleasure in on Christmas morning.
❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS RECIPE
Southern Tomato Gravy is a staple in our home and it’s such a flexible recipe. It’s great over biscuits, rice, noodles or mashed potatoes. It’s also possible to use tomato gravy in hamburger dishes and it’s a good way to make use of these scrumptious backyard tomatoes.
🍴KEY INGREDIENTS
- Recent tomatoes, peeled and chopped (can use a 14.5 ounce can of tomatoes)
- Bacon drippings
- All-purpose flour
- Water (some want to make use of milk as a substitute of water)
- Sugar
- Salt
- Pepper
- Garlic powder
SWAPS
You’ll be able to add completely different seasonings to this dish to offer it a special taste. You might add basil, oregano, Italian seasonings, and so on. Or you’ll be able to add some dillweed, it’s tremendous versatile however we like it simply this manner.
🍽️HOW TO MAKE
It is a quite simple dish to make and you’ll throw it collectively rapidly for breakfast or dinner. We love easy recipe and really feel they’re the very best for a cause!
COOKING STEPS
Step 1
Lower up tomatoes in bowl. Add the salt, pepper, sugar and garlic powder and blend with a spoon. Put bacon drippings in a scorching skillet on range high.
Step 2
Add flour and make a roux or prepare dinner till thick. Pour in tomatoes and water and prepare dinner till the consistency of gravy. Serve over biscuits, rice, noodles or mashed potatoes.

⭐TIP
We really feel the bacon grease actually takes this gravy to the following stage. You’ll be able to at all times use vegetable oil, but it surely gained’t be practically nearly as good as will probably be with the bacon grease. It’s also possible to sprinkle cooked bacon on high of the gravy…. so good! That is additionally actually good over meatloaf!
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STORING, REHEATING & SERVING SIZE
We retailer this within the fridge, it should preserve for a number of days, reheat within the microwave and its about 6 servings.

Tomato Gravy
Tomato Gravy is such a Southern dish served over biscuits for breakfast, rice for supper or mashed potatoes. Great means to make use of recent tomatoes from the backyard however can use canned tomatoes.
- 2 cups recent tomatoes peeled and chopped (can use a 14.5 ounce can of tomatoes)
- 5 tablespoons bacon drippings
- 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 cups water some want to make use of milk as a substitute of water
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
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Lower up tomatoes in bowl. Add the salt, pepper, sugar and garlic powder and blend with a spoon.
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Put bacon drippings in a scorching skillet on range high. Add flour and make a roux or prepare dinner till thick. Pour in tomatoes and water and prepare dinner till the consistency of gravy. Serve over biscuits.
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