Friday, October 9, 2009

Southern Homestyle Tomato Gravy

A roux based gravy made with tomatoes is traditional served over biscuits, but can be served with meatloaf, over rice, or spooned on grits, alongside fish and with some hushpuppies.
A roux based gravy made with tomatoes is traditional served over biscuits, but can be served with meatloaf, over rice, or spooned on grits, alongside fish and with some hushpuppies.

Southern Homestyle Tomato Gravy

Southern Tomato Gravy is another one of our classic southern recipes, that goes great with those Sour Cream Biscuits I just posted a little earlier.  Totally different from what our Northeastern Italian neighbors call Sunday Tomato Gravy {what we Down South call Tomato Sauce, or Creole Gravy, or more often, just Spaghetti Sauce} meant for pasta.  This tomato gravy is the kind of gravy that us Southerners most traditionally love to eat over hot, and preferably homemade, southern buttermilk biscuits, like we do with our sausage gravy.

There are dozens of ways to make tomato gravy - this is just one of them - and, as with most southern gravy, this one starts off with a roux. Now don't freak out about the tomatoes and cast iron thing. I cook everything, including tomato, in my cast iron... with just a couple of very basic "rules." Here, we just need a nice light roux, but you'll still need to keep a close watch over it and stir constantly, making sure to also take in from around the outside edges of the skillet so it doesn't burn. You're going for a nice beige coloring.


From there it's just adding in the veggies, then the tomatoes, and if your tomatoes are nice and juicy, or if you're using home canned diced tomatoes, you may not need any additional liquid, though if I do need to add some, I often like using a little milk. Make some biscuits, or serve this over meatloaf, grits, mashed potatoes and even rice. So good!


Dig in!


If you love tomatoes, you will love tomato gravy spooned over hot biscuits too!  Give it a try and while you're at it, grab my recipe for homemade buttermilk biscuits, or mix it up and try these sour cream biscuits instead.

For more of my favorite ways to use fresh, garden tomatoes, visit my page on Pinterest!



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