Southern

Country Ham with Red-Eye Gravy

Name: Country Ham with Red-Eye Gravy
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 1 lb country ham, sliced; 3/4 cup brewed black coffee; 1/4 cup water; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Tamika @tamika_clt

Country Ham with Red-Eye Gravy is Southern home cooking, eaten at breakfast and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

15 min Easy Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb country ham, sliced
3/4 cup brewed black coffee
1/4 cup water
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Fry the country ham slices in a dry skillet over medium-high heat until browned and the edges curl slightly, about 3 minutes per side, then remove to a plate.
Pour the coffee and water into the hot skillet, scraping up the browned bits from the ham.
Simmer until slightly reduced, about 2 minutes, and season with a little black pepper.
Spoon the gravy over the ham and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Country Ham with Red-Eye Gravy

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Country Ham with Red-Eye Gravy, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Fried Okra
  
  25 min
What it is eaten with
- Buttermilk Biscuits
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Country Ham with Red-Eye Gravy carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Country Ham with Red-Eye Gravy
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 180 kcal
Protein: 25 g
Carbs: 1 g
Fat: 8 g
Fiber: 0 g
Sugar: 0 g
Sodium: 1400 mg
Saturated fat: 3 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Country Ham with Red-Eye Gravy takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.