American Style Gravies

White sausage gravy, roux the colour of an old penny, and biscuits underneath.

26 recipes in this collection

Illustration of American Diner Brown Gravy

American Style Gravies

American Diner Brown Gravy

A dry roasted flour and butter roux taken to the colour of an old penny, let down with beef stock and seasoned with…

23 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Bacon Grease Gravy

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Bacon Grease Gravy

A milk gravy built entirely in rendered streaky bacon fat, kept deliberately lean on flour so the smoke comes…

18 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Biscuits and Gravy for a Crowd

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Biscuits and Gravy for a Crowd

A big batch sausage gravy scaled for twelve, built in a large casserole and held in a low oven, with the timings and…

1 hr Serves 12 Medium

Illustration of Buttermilk Gravy

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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

Illustration of Cajun Roux Gravy

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Cajun Roux Gravy

Flour and oil stirred over a low heat for the better part of an hour until it reaches the colour of dark chocolate,…

1 hr 30 min Serves 8 Hard

Illustration of Chicken Fried Steak Gravy

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Chicken Fried Steak Gravy

A thick peppery cream gravy built in the frying oil straight after the steaks come out, using the seasoned dredge…

17 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Chocolate Gravy

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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

Illustration of Country Ham Gravy

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Country Ham Gravy

A milk gravy built in the salty fat left from frying dry cured ham, thickened lightly and given a pinch of sugar to…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Country White Gravy

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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

Illustration of Fried Chicken Pan Gravy

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Fried Chicken Pan Gravy

A cream enriched pan gravy made in the fat left from frying chicken, thick with crisp coating fragments and finished…

17 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Giblet Free Thanksgiving Gravy

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Giblet Free Thanksgiving Gravy

A make ahead holiday gravy built on roasted turkey wings rather than offal, so there is nothing in it anyone can…

2 hr 45 min Serves 10 Medium

Illustration of Green Chile Gravy

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Green Chile Gravy

A New Mexican gravy of roasted green chillies and chicken stock, thickened with a light oil roux and warmed through…

50 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Hamburger Steak Gravy

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Hamburger Steak Gravy

A deeply onion heavy brown gravy, no mushrooms, built on slowly caramelised onions and beef stock and finished with…

45 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Mushroom Gravy for Meatloaf

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Mushroom Gravy for Meatloaf

Chestnut mushrooms fried hard until they squeak and brown, then built into a beef stock gravy with a spoon of…

35 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Philly Roast Pork Gravy

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Philly Roast Pork Gravy

A thin garlic and oregano pork jus from a slow roasted shoulder, barely thickened, meant to be soaked straight into…

4 hr 15 min Serves 8 Medium

Illustration of Poutine Gravy

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Poutine Gravy

A Québécois chip shop gravy made from half beef and half chicken stock, thickened with a browned roux and a…

30 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Red Eye Gravy

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Red Eye Gravy

Salty ham drippings deglazed with strong black coffee, thin as broth and sharp as anything, with no flour in sight.

10 min Serves 2 Easy

Illustration of Salisbury Steak Gravy

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Salisbury Steak Gravy

An onion and mushroom brown gravy made in the pan the beef patties came out of, deglazed properly and finished with…

33 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Sawmill Gravy

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Sawmill Gravy

The older, rougher milk gravy, thickened with a mix of flour and coarse cornmeal so it has a slight grit, kept thin…

23 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Slow Cooker Pot Roast Gravy

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Slow Cooker Pot Roast Gravy

The braising liquid from a slow cooked beef joint, defatted, reduced hard in a pan and finished with a cornflour…

35 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Smothered Pork Chop Gravy

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Smothered Pork Chop Gravy

Dredged pork chops browned and then braised low and slow under a thick onion and stock gravy until the meat gives…

1 hr 30 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Southern Sausage Gravy for Biscuits

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Southern Sausage Gravy for Biscuits

Crumbled pork sausage browned hard, then a flour roux built in its own fat and let down with milk until it coats a…

25 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Southern Tomato Gravy

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Southern Tomato Gravy

Bacon fat, flour and tinned tomatoes cooked down into a thick rust coloured gravy, softened with a splash of milk…

30 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Thanksgiving Turkey Giblet Gravy

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Thanksgiving Turkey Giblet Gravy

A deep turkey gravy built on a giblet stock made hours ahead, finished in the roasting tin and studded with the…

2 hr 15 min Serves 10 Medium

Illustration of Turkey Neck Gravy

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Turkey Neck Gravy

Turkey necks roasted hard until dark, then simmered into a strong stock and thickened into a gravy with real…

3 hr 10 min Serves 10 Medium

Illustration of Vegan Southern Sausage Gravy

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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