Cheesy Sausage Biscuits

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 lb sausage - cooked and leave rendered fat in with cooked sausage (if good quality sausage shouldn’t be more than a tablespoon fat)
1 tablespoon butter
2 cups shredded cheese
⅔ - ¾ cup milk (depending on texture)


Instructions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Brown sausage in a pan when cooked add 1 tablespoon of butter.
Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in large bowl.
Mix in shredded cheese.
Mix in warm sausage with fat.
Add milk and combine into a dough.
Place parchment paper on baking sheet. Drop dough by rounded tablespoons onto baking sheet leave 1-2 inches between. Bake 10 - 13 minutes.


Optional Gravy:
1 pkg sausage (good quality)
2 heaping tablespoons all purpose flour
2 cups milk (best at room temp)
Salt and pepper to taste
Brown sausage - leave grease. Add flour to sausage and grease over medium heat. Stir until flour is absorbed and cook for 1- 2 minutes. Add milk and stir until thickened, stirring constantly. Let thicken until gravy coats a spoon. Gravy will continue to thicken as it cools. Salt and pepper to taste (needs a decent amount of salt).