Whole30 Venison Sausage Gravy

Originally published May 17, 2017. Updated April 8, 2020.

In these days of sequester, there is plenty of time to eat a good breakfast. We eat eggs pretty much everyday. It’s really just a matter of how we will eat our eggs. As I was preparing next week’s post, I realized I needed to update this Venison Sausage Gravy Breakfast Bowl Recipe. We don’t get prepared venison sausage from our deer processor anymore. It seemed we would always run out of plain ground venison but have tons of venison sausage left. But just because you don’t have venison sausage doesn’t mean you can’t make Whole30 Venison Sausage Gravy.

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Sausage Gravy

Every Sunday, we got to the little diner in our town after church. Even now, we are continuing to give them our business, just in the form of take-out. If you have the ability to do that, you should definitely continue to patronize your local restaurants, they are struggling. Last Sunday when it was my turn to pick up, I was the only order waiting and one was on the grill. This is a diner that seats about 50 and most tables are full all morning on the weekends. But I digress.

The reason I brought up the diner is because of their sausage gravy. I am not crazy about traditional sausage gravy and biscuits (the biscuits don’t do anything for me), but I do love a breakfast bowl with the sausage gravy over potatoes. That’s how we serve it here and part of how we make this Whole30 Venison Sausage Gravy breakfast bowl.

It is fairly easy to make venison breakfast sausage. Simply brown the meat in a cast iron skillet (We love our 12 inch Lodge skillet) and add some sausage-y spices. We use caraway seed, salt, white pepper and ground sage. We add butter or ghee (for Whole30) to the pan because venison is such a lean meat.

To make the venison gravy, add arrow root to the cooked meat and seasoning. Allow it to be absorbed into the meat. Slowly add beef broth allowing that to absorb into the arrow root first making a paste and then continuing until all the broth is in the pan. Bring the gravy to a simmer and continue cooking until it has thickened.

Whole30 Venison Sausage Gravy Breakfast Bowls

Breakfast bowls are a great alternative to biscuits and great because there are so many options. We love to use tater puffs cooked in the air fryer, along with yolky fried eggs. If you are looking for Whole30 options, you can use hash brown potatoes (be sure to read the ingredients, many commercially produced frozen potatoes add sugar. We like Alexia.) or homemade roasted potatoes like Everything Roasted Potatoes.

However you decide to make your potatoes, just build your bowl in layers. Potatoes on the bottom, some Whole30 Venison Sausage Gravy, eggs prepared your way and then topped with a little more sausage gravy. It’s making me hungry just thinking about it.

If you are looking for a more traditional sausage gravy, you can check out the original recipe here. You can always combine the two using the seasoning from this recipe and the flour from the original Go ahead. Make it yours.