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Illustration of Classic British Onion Gravy

Onion Gravies

Classic British Onion Gravy

Three brown onions cooked down slowly in butter and oil, built into a flour thickened beef gravy that stays glossy…

1 hr Serves 6 Easy

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Sunday Roast Gravies

Classic Beef Roast Gravy

A proper beef gravy built straight in the roasting tin, thickened with a little flour and loosened with hot beef…

20 min Serves 6 Easy

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Regional British and Irish Gravies

Chip Shop Curry Gravy

The thick, mild, faintly sweet curry sauce that sits on top of chips without running off, built from onion, mild…

40 min Serves 6 Easy

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Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Best Vegan Onion Gravy

Three big onions taken slowly to a deep mahogany brown, then built into a glossy gravy with yeast extract and…

1 hr 5 min Serves 6 Easy

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Christmas and Festive Gravies

Ultimate Christmas Turkey Gravy

Giblet stock made the day before, a roux built in the roasting tin while the bird rests, and every drop of resting…

2 hr 45 min Serves 10 Medium

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Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Classic Peppercorn Sauce

Green and black peppercorns crushed by hand, softened in butter with shallot, deglazed with brandy and finished with…

30 min Serves 4 Medium

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Gravy in under twenty minutes

Weeknight jobs. Nothing here needs a stock pot on the go since breakfast.

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Quick and Easy Gravies

Instant Gravy with Pan Scrapings

Whatever you just fried leaves a fortune stuck to the pan. Deglaze it, whisk in granules, and you have real gravy in…

4 min Serves 2 Easy

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Quick and Easy Gravies

Cornflour Gravy in Five Minutes

No roux, no waiting, just hot stock brought to the boil and thickened with a cold cornflour slurry. Naturally gluten…

5 min Serves 4 Easy

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Quick and Easy Gravies

Kettle Gravy

Built entirely in a heatproof jug with nothing but a kettle and a whisk, for hotel rooms, offices, halls and…

5 min Serves 2 Easy

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Quick and Easy Gravies

Microwave Gravy

Made entirely in a jug in the microwave with a cornflour slurry, whisked between bursts, no hob and one thing to…

8 min Serves 2 Easy

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No meat, still proper gravy

Depth from mushrooms, miso, roasted veg and long cooked onions rather than a meat tin.

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American Style Gravies

Country White Gravy

The plainest of the milk gravies, a pale butter roux loosened with milk and seasoned with white and black pepper,…

12 min Serves 4 Easy

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American Style Gravies

Buttermilk Gravy

A butter roux let down with milk and then finished off the heat with cold buttermilk, which gives a gentle sourness…

15 min Serves 4 Medium

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American Style Gravies

Chocolate Gravy

A sweet Appalachian breakfast gravy of cocoa, sugar, flour and milk, cooked to a loose pudding and poured hot over…

15 min Serves 6 Easy

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American Style Gravies

Vegan Southern Sausage Gravy

Crumbled plant based sausage browned in oil, built into an oat milk gravy with nutritional yeast and a hit of sage…

25 min Serves 6 Easy

All vegan and vegetarian gravies

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Roux or cornflour, why gravy splits, how to fix grey gravy, how to make stock worth using. The guides explain the bits every recipe assumes you already know.

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