Christmas and Festive Gravies
Bonfire Night Sausage Gravy
A thick, sticky onion and ale gravy for sausages, built to sit in a flask for an hour and still pour properly at the…
Christmas and Festive Gravies
Big day gravy. Made ahead where possible, scaled up, and built to survive a busy kitchen.
26 recipes in this collection
Christmas and Festive Gravies
Boxing Day Turkey Gravy
A fast, dark gravy built from the stripped turkey carcass in ninety minutes, seasoned with whatever leftovers are…
Christmas and Festive Gravies
Bread Sauce Gravy
The two great turkey sauces folded into one: clove and bay infused milk enriching a proper pan gravy, thickened by…
Christmas and Festive Gravies
Burns Night Whisky Gravy for Haggis
A creamy whisky and mustard sauce built on a reduced beef stock, poured over haggis, neeps and tatties on the twenty…
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Chestnut Stuffing Gravy
A gravy thickened with cooked chestnuts blitzed into the stock instead of flour, so it is naturally velvety and…
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Christmas Dinner Vegetarian Gravy
A dark, deeply savoury gravy from hard roasted roots, mushrooms and Marmite, made in its own tin so the vegetarians…
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Christmas Eve Slow Cooker Gravy
Turkey wings and aromatics left in the slow cooker overnight on Christmas Eve, strained in the morning and thickened…
Christmas and Festive Gravies
Christmas Goose Gravy
A dark, apple sharpened gravy built from goose giblets and Madeira, made after you have poured off a jar and a half…
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Christmas Gravy for Twenty People
Four litres of proper turkey gravy with the real quantities worked out, reduced before thickening so it does not end…
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Christmas Gravy with Sherry and Sage
Dry oloroso sherry reduced into a turkey pan gravy and finished with sage fried in brown butter until crisp.
Christmas and Festive Gravies
Christmas Ham Gravy
A cider and mustard gravy made from a glazed gammon, using the sticky roasting tin but not the salty cooking liquor.
Christmas and Festive Gravies
Cranberry and Orange Christmas Gravy
Turkey pan gravy sharpened with cranberry sauce, orange zest and a splash of port, so the cranberry lives in the jug…
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Easter Lamb Gravy with Mint
Roast lamb pan gravy deglazed with white wine, rounded with redcurrant jelly and finished with fresh mint stirred in…
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Freezer Christmas Gravy Made in November
A concentrated gravy base made weeks early and frozen in flat bags and ice cube trays, ready to be let down with…
Christmas and Festive Gravies
Gluten Free Christmas Gravy
A turkey pan gravy thickened with cornflour at the end rather than a flour roux, so it stays glossy and nobody has…
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Gravy for Pigs in Blankets
A sticky, glossy gravy made in the pigs in blankets tray itself, with maple, sage and a good hit of black pepper.
Christmas and Festive Gravies
Leftover Christmas Dinner Gravy
A thrifty gravy built from the odds and ends of the twenty fifth: stuffing scraps, a spoonful of bread sauce, cold…
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Make Ahead Christmas Gravy
A complete turkey gravy built from roasted wings weeks or days before the big day, cooled and stored safely, then…
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Mulled Cider Festive Gravy
Cider reduced hard with cinnamon, clove and orange, then turned into a fragrant pork or turkey gravy that smells…
Christmas and Festive Gravies
New Year Beef Wellington Gravy
A clear, glossy Madeira jus made entirely apart from the Wellington, because pastry means there is no roasting tin…
Christmas and Festive Gravies
Party Buffet Gravy
A thin, glossy gravy designed to sit in a slow cooker for two hours of buffet service without skinning, splitting or…
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Spiced Christmas Gravy with Star Anise
A dark, aromatic turkey gravy with star anise, soy and a little five spice, reduced rather than heavily thickened so…
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Thanksgiving Style Turkey Gravy
A thicker, sage heavy American style gravy with the chopped giblets left in, made to be ladled generously over…
Christmas and Festive Gravies
Turkey Crown Gravy
A full flavoured gravy for a crown, which gives almost no pan juices, solved by roasting wings underneath it as an…
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…
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Vegan Christmas Gravy
A dark, glossy gravy from caramelised onions, dried porcini and miso, rich enough that nobody at the table asks what…