PALEO ROASTED SWEET POTATOES WITH SAUSAGE GRAVY

Remember biscuits'n gravy!  Yum! 

Okay well being Canadian....I only remember having biscuits'n gravy as a child on our long drive to Florida.   We used to stop at the Cracker Barrel in every State from Buffalo, NY to Jacksonville, FL for biscuits'n gravy:)

I have been desperately trying to coax my husband and kids over to the dark side lol The paleo side!  They are meat lovers, gravy lovers and biscuit lovers.  So I tried to win them over with a paleo version of traditional biscuits'n gravy!

I succeeded! Yep thats right, the big man himself ate a full helping of my paleo "biscuits" n gravy!

INGREDIENTS:

3 Sweet Potatoes washed but not peeled

3 cups natural almond milk

2 cups breakfast pasture pork sausage casings removed

2 tbsp dried sage

2 garlic cloves minced

1/2 sweet onion diced

1 tbsp bacon fat

1tsp EVOO or coconut oil

1 cup chopped shitake mushrooms (discard stems)

1 cup organic beef broth

2 tbsp arrowroot pwd 

INSTRUCTIONS :

Wash 3 sweet potatoes and cut lengthwise

Brush sweet potatoes in olive oil (or coconut oil) and sprinkle with sea salt

Place potatoes flesh side down on cookie sheet and roast at 375 degrees for 40 minutes or until potatoes can be poked cleanly with a toothpick

While potatoes are cooking.....

Melt bacon fat in saucepan

Add onions, saute on low until onions are carmelized

Add garlic, crumbled pasture pork sausage and simmer until pork os cooked thoroughly (about 10mins)

Add sea salt, sage, mushrooms, almond milk and beef broth and simmer about 15 minutes then reduce to minimum heat.  Stir occasionaly.

When potatoes are finished cooking, mix the 2 tbsp of arrowroot powder with 2 tbsp of hot water and add to the sausage gravy and stir well.  It will thicken nicely! 

Serve the sausage gravy over the roasted sweet potatoes! 

You could also serve this gravy over paleo biscuits or regular potatoes or even spagetti squash!