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

If you’re a fan of biscuits and gravy, you may additionally need to do that scrumptious Chocolate Gravy. It’s a traditional for a cause and fantastic to get pleasure from 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 fantastic over biscuits, rice, noodles or mashed potatoes. You may also use tomato gravy in hamburger dishes and it’s an effective way to make use of these scrumptious backyard tomatoes.
🍴KEY INGREDIENTS
- Contemporary tomatoes, peeled and chopped (can use a 14.5 ounce can of tomatoes)
- Bacon drippings
- All-purpose flour
- Water (some favor to make use of milk as a substitute of water)
- Sugar
- Salt
- Pepper
- Garlic powder
SWAPS
You’ll be able to add totally different seasonings to this dish to provide it a special taste. You can add basil, oregano, Italian seasonings, and so forth. Or you may add some dillweed, it’s tremendous versatile however we find it irresistible simply this manner.
🍽️HOW TO MAKE
It is a quite simple dish to make and you’ll throw it collectively shortly for breakfast or dinner. We love easy recipe and really feel they’re the very best for a cause!
COOKING STEPS
Step 1
Reduce 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 cook dinner till thick. Pour in tomatoes and water and cook 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 subsequent degree. You’ll be able to all the time use vegetable oil, but it surely gained’t be almost pretty much as good as it is going to be with the bacon grease. You may also sprinkle cooked bacon on high of the gravy…. so good! That is additionally actually good over meatloaf!
OTHER TOMATO RECIPES
GRAVY & OTHER RECIPES
STORING, REHEATING & SERVING SIZE
We retailer this within the fridge, it should hold 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. Fantastic approach to make use of contemporary tomatoes from the backyard however can use canned tomatoes.
- 2 cups contemporary 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 favor 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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Reduce 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 cook dinner till thick. Pour in tomatoes and water and cook dinner till the consistency of gravy. Serve over biscuits.
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