Stock and Bone Gravies

The long way round. Roasted bones, proper stock and reductions with real depth.

26 recipes in this collection

Illustration of Beef Demi-Glace Gravy

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Beef Demi-Glace Gravy

Equal parts espagnole and brown stock, reduced by half, until you have the thick glossy sauce that classical cooking…

5 hr 20 min Serves 10 Hard

Illustration of Beef Shin Gravy

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Beef Shin Gravy

Bone in shin braised for four hours, so the sauce gets both the meat flavour and all the gelatine from the marrow…

4 hr 55 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Bone Marrow Gravy

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Bone Marrow Gravy

Roasted marrow bones give the stock, then the soft marrow itself is whisked in at the end for a gravy with an almost…

4 hr 50 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Chicken and Bacon Bone Gravy

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Chicken and Bacon Bone Gravy

Chicken bones and a smoked bacon hock in the same pot, so the gravy comes out savoury and lightly smoky without…

3 hr 30 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Chicken Wing Gravy

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Chicken Wing Gravy

A kilo of cheap chicken wings roasted hard and simmered for two hours gives a stock with more gelatine than any…

2 hr 55 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Classic Brown Stock Gravy

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Classic Brown Stock Gravy

The textbook brown stock, mirepoix at the proper ratio and all, turned into a clean, deeply savoury gravy with a…

7 hr 25 min Serves 8 Hard

Illustration of Clear Meat Jus without Flour

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Clear Meat Jus without Flour

No roux, no cornflour, nothing but roasted bones, patient reduction and a knob of cold butter whisked in at the end.

7 hr 25 min Serves 6 Hard

Illustration of Concentrated Gravy Base to Freeze

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Concentrated Gravy Base to Freeze

Brown stock reduced right down to a syrupy glace, frozen in cubes, so a proper gravy is ten minutes away any night…

10 hr 20 min Serves 24 Hard

Illustration of Duck Bone Gravy

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Duck Bone Gravy

Duck carcasses roasted and simmered with thyme and a splash of red wine vinegar, defatted hard because duck throws…

4 hr 20 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Espagnole Sauce, the Mother Gravy

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Espagnole Sauce, the Mother Gravy

The classical brown mother sauce: a slow cooked brown roux, brown stock, mirepoix and tomato, simmered and skimmed…

3 hr 20 min Serves 8 Hard

Illustration of Fish Bone Gravy for Roast Fish

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Fish Bone Gravy for Roast Fish

A twenty minute fumet from flat fish bones, reduced with white wine and shallots then mounted with butter into a…

1 hr 5 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Game Bird Carcass Gravy

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Game Bird Carcass Gravy

Pheasant, partridge or grouse carcasses simmered for a short, sharp two hours with juniper and bay so the stock…

2 hr 45 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Gravy from Leftover Roast Bones

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Gravy from Leftover Roast Bones

The bones off Sunday's plates, re-roasted to bring the colour back, simmered short and turned into Monday's gravy…

3 hr 35 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Ham Hock Gravy

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Ham Hock Gravy

A smoked hock simmered until it falls apart, the liquor soaked to control the salt, then thickened lightly and shot…

3 hr 45 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Lamb Bone Gravy

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Lamb Bone Gravy

Roasted lamb bones with rosemary and garlic, simmered down and finished with a spoon of redcurrant jelly to balance…

5 hr 20 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Overnight Stock Gravy

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Overnight Stock Gravy

Bones and water into a low oven at bedtime, out at breakfast, with a clean set stock and no risk of it ever boiling.

11 hr 25 min Serves 8 Medium

Illustration of Oxtail Gravy

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Oxtail Gravy

Oxtail braised until it falls apart, the liquor strained and reduced into the stickiest, most unctuous gravy in the…

5 hr 20 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Pork Bone Gravy

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Pork Bone Gravy

Pork ribs and a trotter for body, simmered with fennel seed and a splash of cider vinegar, for a gravy with real…

5 hr 50 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Pressure Cooker Bone Gravy

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Pressure Cooker Bone Gravy

Ninety minutes under pressure gets you most of the way to an eight hour bone stock, then a short reduction finishes…

2 hr 35 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Proper Beef Bone Gravy from Scratch

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Proper Beef Bone Gravy from Scratch

Beef bones roasted dark, simmered gently for the best part of a day, then reduced into a gravy with the sort of body…

8 hr 30 min Serves 8 Hard

Illustration of Rabbit Gravy

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Rabbit Gravy

Rabbit carcass and bones browned in butter, simmered with cider and thyme, then finished with a spoon of mustard to…

3 hr 35 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Rich Veal Jus

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Rich Veal Jus

Roasted veal bones reduced to a spoon coating jus with no flour anywhere near it, thickened purely by its own…

9 hr 25 min Serves 8 Hard

Illustration of Roast Chicken Carcass Gravy

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Roast Chicken Carcass Gravy

The gravy you make on Monday from Sunday's chicken bones, browned again in the oven and simmered into something far…

3 hr 45 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Roasted Vegetable and Beef Bone Gravy

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Roasted Vegetable and Beef Bone Gravy

Twice as much roasted vegetable as usual alongside the beef bones, giving a sweeter, rounder gravy that leans on…

5 hr 25 min Serves 8 Medium

Illustration of Slow Cooker Beef Bone Gravy

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Slow Cooker Beef Bone Gravy

Twelve hours on low in the slow cooker, no watching and no risk of boiling, then reduced on the hob into a proper…

12 hr 50 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Turkey Giblet Gravy

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Turkey Giblet Gravy

The neck browned hard, the giblets simmered slow, and the heart and gizzard chopped back into the gravy the way your…

2 hr 50 min Serves 10 Medium