updated 1/2025; original 2015
The recipe halves or doubles nicely. The remainder can be frozen. The gravy can be made ahead of time on the day and re-heated.
Cost: £1.00, if that (Jan 25)
Makes: 2 cups/half a litre
Ingred:
3 tbsp sunflower oil
1/2 med onion grated or minced (medium or coarse on box)
3 tbsp flour (67 used spelt but wheat is fine)
2 cups/400ml vegetable stock; you need good stock for this so if not home-made then good granules (see tips below)
1/4 tsp rosemary
1/4 tsp thyme
small bay leaf
garlic clove
slice raw ginger
1-2 tbsp reduced-(not low)-salt soy (depending on blood pressure and taste. 67 uses Amoy or Pearl River Bridge)
1/4 tsp pepper
4-6 dashes Worcestershire Sauce
Method:
- Heat oil in a saucepan on med high
- Add onions, stir for a few minutes
- Add flour, stir; turn heat up a bit, continue stirring until it turns brown and starts smelling toasty (a few mins)
- Take pan off heat; gradually add stock, whisking continuously.
- Return pan to stove; turn heat to high bring to a boil; add rosemary, thyme, ginger & garlic .
- Simmer on a low heat for 10 mins. The gravy should be the thickness of double cream. If too thick, add a little more stock or water. If too thin, add 1 tsp cornflour mixed with one tbsp cold water and stir till thickened. Discard ginger and garlic.
- Add soy sauce and pepper. Keep warm.
- Freeze leftovers in individual packs for midweek meals
Tips:
- If you have no available stock or granules, use water but add a further whole clove of garlic and slice of peeled ginger after step 5. Remove the garlic & ginger before serving.
- Mushroom Gravy is a little more intense in flavour: fry a handful of thinly sliced mushrooms until no more liquid is released. Stir in 1/8 tsp dried thyme. Add to the gravy.
- Cooks who aren't ideologically vegetarian/vegan sometimes add several drops of Worcestershire Sauce
- 67 often uses this gravy as a base for meat gravy, having removed however much is needed for a vegan dish. The juices of a roast, with most of the fat removed, are added to the veggie gravy, heated through and thickened or thinned accordingly
- Also try: vegetarian red wine gravy
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This recipe was adapted by B M Lee Bright Sun Enterprises. It may not be reproduced without the author's written permission.
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