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Illustration of Air Fryer Drippings Gravy

Quick and Easy Gravies

Air Fryer Drippings Gravy

The sticky brown residue in the bottom of an air fryer drawer is worth having, and this shows you how to get it out…

9 min Serves 2 Easy

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 Anchovy and Rosemary Gravy

Flavour Twists

Anchovy and Rosemary Gravy

Four anchovy fillets melted into the fat with rosemary and garlic, which disappear entirely and leave a lamb gravy…

25 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Australian Meat Pie Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Australian Meat Pie Gravy

The thick pouring gravy served over a meat pie at an Australian bakery, seasoned with Vegemite and tomato sauce and…

25 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Bacon Grease Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Bacon Jam Gravy

Flavour Twists

Bacon Jam Gravy

Streaky bacon cooked down with onion, brown sugar and vinegar into a rough jam, then loosened with stock into a…

40 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Balsamic Onion Gravy

Onion Gravies

Balsamic Onion Gravy

Onions browned hard in olive oil, balsamic vinegar reduced right down to a syrup before the stock goes in, and no…

50 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Beef Demi-Glace Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Dripping Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Beef Dripping Gravy

Old fashioned gravy made from a spoon of proper beef dripping, onions and stock, for when there is no joint but you…

35 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Beef Shin Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Beer Braised Onion Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Beer Braised Onion Gravy

Onions cooked slowly in beer rather than fat until they collapse, giving a thick, sweet, deeply savoury gravy with…

55 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Beetroot Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Beetroot Gravy

Roasted beetroot blended into a deep crimson gravy, balanced with red wine vinegar and yeast extract so it tastes…

1 hr 15 min Serves 5 Medium

Illustration of Best Vegan Onion Gravy

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

Illustration of Big Batch Sunday Gravy for a Crowd

Sunday Roast Gravies

Big Batch Sunday Gravy for a Crowd

Three litres of gravy made in a stockpot the day before, held hot in a slow cooker and finished with the roasting…

1 hr 20 min Serves 20 Medium

Illustration of Biscuits and Gravy for a Crowd

American Style Gravies

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 Black Country Faggots and Peas Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Black Country Faggots and Peas Gravy

The dark, offal rich gravy that faggots bake in, thick with onion and finished with a little of the faggot itself…

1 hr Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Black Garlic Gravy

Flavour Twists

Black Garlic Gravy

Four cloves of black garlic mashed to a paste and whisked into a red wine beef gravy, giving a sweet balsamic depth…

35 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Black Pudding Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Black Pudding Gravy

An onion gravy with black pudding crumbled into it so it melts down, giving a dark, iron rich, faintly spiced sauce…

40 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Blackberry Gravy for Game

Flavour Twists

Blackberry Gravy for Game

A handful of blackberries burst into a red wine and game stock reduction, sieved smooth, giving a dark purple gravy…

40 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Blue Cheese Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Blue Cheese Gravy

A butter and flour base loosened with beef stock and cream, with crumbled blue cheese melted in off the heat so it…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Bone Marrow Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Bonfire Night Sausage Gravy

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…

55 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Bourbon Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Bourbon Gravy

Sweet corn based bourbon cooked down with onion and a little maple, giving a smoky, vanilla edged gravy for pork,…

30 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Boxing Day Leftovers Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Boxing Day Leftovers Gravy

Yesterday's gravy rebuilt with the picked turkey carcass, leftover bacon and a spoon of cranberry, stretched to feed…

55 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Boxing Day Turkey Gravy

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…

2 hrs Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Bramley Apple Gravy

Flavour Twists

Bramley Apple Gravy

One cooking apple collapsed into onions and cider, then blended smooth, so you get the sharpness of apple sauce with…

35 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Brandy Cream Peppercorn Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Brandy Cream Peppercorn Gravy

A roasting tin gravy thickened with flour, spiked with pink and black peppercorns, deglazed with brandy and softened…

28 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Brandy Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Brandy Gravy

A festive gravy for turkey and goose where a small measure of brandy is cooked out hard, leaving warmth and dried…

30 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Bread Sauce Gravy

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…

40 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Brown Sauce Gravy

Flavour Twists

Brown Sauce Gravy

Two tablespoons of brown sauce whisked into an onion gravy, bringing tamarind, dates and malt vinegar in one go for…

25 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Burns Night Whisky Gravy for Haggis

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…

30 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Buttered Sage Cream Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Buttered Sage Cream Gravy

Butter browned until nutty with crisped sage leaves, then loosened with vegetable stock and double cream and…

20 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Buttermilk Gravy

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

Illustration of Cajun Roux Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Camping Stove Gravy

Quick and Easy Gravies

Camping Stove Gravy

One pot, one burner, all shelf stable ingredients you can carry, and a method that works with the fierce uneven heat…

8 min Serves 2 Easy

Illustration of Canadian Maple and Bacon Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Canadian Maple and Bacon Gravy

A smoky bacon fat roux gravy sweetened with real maple syrup and cut with cider vinegar, thick with black pepper and…

30 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Caramelised Carrot Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Caramelised Carrot Gravy

Carrots roasted until the edges blacken and the sugars turn, blended with white miso into a sweet orange gravy with…

1 hr 5 min Serves 5 Easy

Illustration of Caramelised Red Onion Gravy

Onion Gravies

Caramelised Red Onion Gravy

Red onions taken dark and jammy with a pinch of bicarbonate of soda to speed things along, sharpened with red wine…

50 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Caribbean Brown Stew Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Caribbean Brown Stew Gravy

The dark, sweet, scotch bonnet warmed gravy from brown stew chicken, coloured the traditional way by caramelising…

40 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Cashew Cream Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Cashew Cream Gravy

Soaked cashews blended with stock and white miso into a rich, silky gravy that needs no flour and no dairy at all.

35 min Serves 5 Easy

Illustration of Cheddar Gravy for Chips

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Cheddar Gravy for Chips

A loose, pourable cheese gravy built on a light roux with stock and evaporated milk, with mature Cheddar melted in…

17 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Cherry Beer Gravy for Duck

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Cherry Beer Gravy for Duck

Belgian kriek reduced with duck fat and shallots into a sharp, fruity gravy that cuts through fatty duck better than…

35 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Chestnut and Sage Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Chestnut and Sage Gravy

Cooked chestnuts browned in butter with sage until the leaves crisp, then blended into a sweet, nutty gravy with…

40 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Chestnut Stuffing Gravy

Christmas and Festive Gravies

Chestnut Stuffing Gravy

A gravy thickened with cooked chestnuts blitzed into the stock instead of flour, so it is naturally velvety and…

40 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Chicken and Bacon Bone Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Fried Steak Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Chicken Thigh Tray Bake Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Chicken Thigh Tray Bake Gravy

A quick gravy made in the tray bake tin among the roasted vegetables, thickened by mashing the softened veg rather…

17 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Chicken Wing Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Chilli and Chocolate Gravy

Flavour Twists

Chilli and Chocolate Gravy

A dark beef gravy with chipotle and 15g of 70 per cent chocolate melted in off the heat, giving warmth and a bitter…

30 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Chinese Brown Sauce Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Chinese Brown Sauce Gravy

The glossy soy and oyster sauce gravy from Cantonese cooking, built in minutes and thickened with a cornflour slurry…

15 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Chip Shop Curry Gravy

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

Illustration of Chip Shop Style Gravy at Home

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Chip Shop Style Gravy at Home

A ten minute cheat that takes gravy granules and pushes them into proper chip shop territory with onion water,…

15 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Chocolate Gravy

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

Illustration of Christmas Dinner Vegetarian Gravy

Christmas and Festive Gravies

Christmas Dinner Vegetarian Gravy

A dark, deeply savoury gravy from hard roasted roots, mushrooms and Marmite, made in its own tin so the vegetarians…

1 hr 35 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Christmas Eve Slow Cooker Gravy

Christmas and Festive Gravies

Christmas Eve Slow Cooker Gravy

Turkey wings and aromatics left in the slow cooker overnight on Christmas Eve, strained in the morning and thickened…

8 hr 20 min Serves 10 Easy

Illustration of Christmas Goose Gravy

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…

2 hr 30 min Serves 8 Medium

Illustration of Christmas Gravy for Twenty People

Christmas and Festive Gravies

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…

4 hr 40 min Serves 20 Medium

Illustration of Christmas Gravy with Sherry and Sage

Christmas and Festive Gravies

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.

35 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Christmas Ham Gravy

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.

35 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Cider and Sage Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Cider and Sage Gravy

Dry cider cooked down with softened onion and plenty of sage, made for roast pork and the sort of gravy that gets…

30 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Classic Beef Roast Gravy

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

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

Illustration of Classic Brown Stock Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Classic Peppercorn Sauce

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

Illustration of Classic Red Wine Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Classic Red Wine Gravy

Roasting tin gravy built on half a bottle of red wine, boiled down hard until it is thick and glossy before the…

30 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Clear Meat Jus without Flour

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Coffee and Cocoa Beef Gravy

Flavour Twists

Coffee and Cocoa Beef Gravy

A beef roasting tin gravy with a teaspoon of instant espresso and a teaspoon of cocoa stirred in, which reads as…

25 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Cognac Peppercorn Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Cognac Peppercorn Gravy

The steakhouse classic done as a pourable gravy, with cognac cooked out hard, plenty of crushed peppercorns and just…

23 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Concentrated Gravy Base to Freeze

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Cornflour Gravy in Five Minutes

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

Illustration of Cornish Pasty Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Cornish Pasty Gravy

A peppery beef and swede gravy for dipping a pasty into, heavy on the white pepper the way the filling itself is.

40 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Country Ham Gravy

American Style Gravies

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

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

Illustration of Cranberry and Orange Christmas Gravy

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…

30 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Cranberry and Star Anise Gravy

Flavour Twists

Cranberry and Star Anise Gravy

Turkey gravy with two tablespoons of cranberry sauce and a single star anise, simmered and then removed, so the…

30 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Cream and Cider Pork Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Cream and Cider Pork Gravy

Dry cider cooked down with apple and sage in the pork pan, lengthened with stock and softened with double cream for…

32 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Cream of Mushroom Soup Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Cream of Mushroom Soup Gravy

A tin of condensed cream of mushroom soup taken seriously, thinned with stock and built up with real fried…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Creamy Chicken Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Creamy Chicken Gravy

Roast chicken tin juices turned into a smooth roux gravy with proper chicken stock, brightened with a little lemon…

25 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Creamy Dill Gravy for Fish

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Creamy Dill Gravy for Fish

White wine and fish stock reduced with shallot, finished with double cream, capers, lemon and a lot of fresh dill…

23 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Creamy Leek Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Creamy Leek Gravy

Leeks sweated slowly in butter until they melt, loosened with vegetable stock and finished with cream, white pepper…

35 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Creamy Mushroom Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Creamy Mushroom Gravy

Chestnut mushrooms browned hard in batches, backed up with dried porcini and their soaking liquor, then loosened…

35 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Creamy Onion and Bacon Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Creamy Onion and Bacon Gravy

Smoked bacon lardons rendered slowly, onions softened in the fat until sweet, then a stock and cream gravy built…

45 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Creamy Turkey Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Creamy Turkey Gravy

Giblet stock and roasting tin juices built into a proper roux gravy, finished with a modest amount of double cream…

40 min Serves 8 Medium

Illustration of Creamy Wholegrain Mustard Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Creamy Wholegrain Mustard Gravy

Chicken stock sharpened with cider vinegar and honey, softened with double cream, and stirred through with a…

23 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Creme Fraiche Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Creme Fraiche Gravy

A quick chicken pan gravy finished with full fat creme fraiche and chives, sharper and lighter than a double cream…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Crispy Onion Gravy

Onion Gravies

Crispy Onion Gravy

Half the onions go into the gravy soft and dark, half are floured and shallow fried until crisp, then scattered on…

1 hr Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Crispy Roast Potato Pan Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Crispy Roast Potato Pan Gravy

Gravy made in the potato tin rather than the meat tin, using the goose fat and the crusty potato bits stuck to the…

25 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Cumberland Sausage Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Cumberland Sausage Gravy

A peppery pan gravy made in the fat from a coiled Cumberland sausage, with sage, mace and a spoon of apple to match…

35 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Curry Leaf and Mustard Seed Gravy

Flavour Twists

Curry Leaf and Mustard Seed Gravy

Black mustard seeds popped in hot oil with curry leaves, then built into a chicken gravy with a squeeze of lime,…

20 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Dairy Free Creamy Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Dairy Free Creamy Gravy

A vegan gravy with real body, built on browned shallots and miso, thickened with cornflour and finished with an oat…

28 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Dark Rum and Molasses Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Dark Rum and Molasses Gravy

Caribbean leaning gravy with dark rum cooked out hard, molasses for depth, thyme and allspice, made for gammon and…

40 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Devon Roast Pork and Cider Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Devon Roast Pork and Cider Gravy

Roasting tin pork gravy loosened with dry Devon cider and finished with a spoon of cream, sharp enough to cut…

25 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Diane Sauce

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Diane Sauce

The full steak Diane set of components: shallot, garlic, mushrooms, brandy, Worcestershire sauce, Dijon, beef stock…

30 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Dorset Lamb and Rosemary Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Dorset Lamb and Rosemary Gravy

A clean roast lamb gravy sharpened with redcurrant and rosemary, made in the tin and reduced rather than heavily…

30 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Duck Bone Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Dutch Jus for Roast Beef

Gravies from Around the World

Dutch Jus for Roast Beef

Braadjus, the thin buttery roasting juices Dutch cooks serve with rosbief, deliberately unthickened and poured…

17 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Easter Lamb Gravy with Mint

Christmas and Festive Gravies

Easter Lamb Gravy with Mint

Roast lamb pan gravy deglazed with white wine, rounded with redcurrant jelly and finished with fresh mint stirred in…

30 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Emergency Gravy with No Stock

Quick and Easy Gravies

Emergency Gravy with No Stock

No stock, no cubes, no granules, nothing but water and the savoury bottles at the back of the cupboard, built up in…

13 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Espagnole Sauce, the Mother Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Filipino Chicken Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Filipino Chicken Gravy

The smooth, faintly sweet chicken gravy served with fried chicken across the Philippines, made from the frying fat…

25 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Fish Bone Gravy for Roast Fish

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Five Ingredient Gravy

Quick and Easy Gravies

Five Ingredient Gravy

Butter, flour, stock, onion and a spoon of jelly. Five things, nothing else, and every one of them earning its place.

17 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Freezer Christmas Gravy Made in November

Christmas and Festive Gravies

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…

5 hrs Serves 12 Medium

Illustration of Freezer to Table Gravy

Quick and Easy Gravies

Freezer to Table Gravy

How to take a block of frozen gravy and get it back to something you would be happy to pour, including the three…

11 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of French Onion Style Gravy

Onion Gravies

French Onion Style Gravy

A kilo of onions taken to the far end of caramelisation over 45 minutes, deglazed with sherry, and turned into a…

1 hr 30 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Fried Chicken Pan Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Game Bird Carcass Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Garlic Cream Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Garlic Cream Gravy

A whole head of garlic simmered soft in stock until sweet and mellow, mashed to a puree and finished with double…

40 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Geordie Mince and Dumpling Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Geordie Mince and Dumpling Gravy

Beef mince cooked down into its own thick gravy with carrot and onion, ready for suet dumplings to sit on top and…

1 hr 20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of German Rouladen Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

German Rouladen Gravy

The dark braising gravy from beef rouladen, built on bacon, mustard and gherkin brine, thickened with a roux and…

55 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Giblet Free Thanksgiving Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Gluten Free Christmas Gravy

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…

35 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Gravy for a Full English

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Gravy for a Full English

A quick, dark breakfast gravy made in the fry pan with mushroom and tomato juices, for pouring over sausages, bacon…

15 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Gravy for a Sausage Sandwich

Quick and Easy Gravies

Gravy for a Sausage Sandwich

Made deliberately thick and strongly seasoned so it clings to the sausages and does not turn the bottom slice of…

10 min Serves 2 Easy

Illustration of Gravy for Instant Mash

Quick and Easy Gravies

Gravy for Instant Mash

Instant mash is bland and slightly sweet, so this gravy is made saltier, sharper and thinner than usual to…

10 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Gravy for Pigs in Blankets

Christmas and Festive Gravies

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.

20 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Gravy for Rag Pudding

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Gravy for Rag Pudding

A rich beef and onion gravy for a steamed Oldham rag pudding, thick enough to sit round the suet crust without…

50 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Gravy from a Roast Chicken Tray

Quick and Easy Gravies

Gravy from a Roast Chicken Tray

Everything left in the tray after a roast chicken, shop bought or home cooked, turned into gravy in about ten minutes.

11 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Gravy from a Stock Cube, Done Properly

Quick and Easy Gravies

Gravy from a Stock Cube, Done Properly

A stock cube treated as an ingredient rather than an apology, with the salt dialled back, a bit of fat added and a…

13 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Gravy from Bouillon Powder

Quick and Easy Gravies

Gravy from Bouillon Powder

Bouillon powder lets you dial the strength up and down by the spoonful, which makes it the most controllable…

12 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Gravy from Leftover Roast Bones

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Gravy with Bisto and Fresh Herbs

Quick and Easy Gravies

Gravy with Bisto and Fresh Herbs

Bisto made up as normal, then infused off the heat with a fistful of soft herbs and strained, which gives it a fresh…

10 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Greek Lemon and Herb Roast Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Greek Lemon and Herb Roast Gravy

The lemony, oregano heavy pan juices from a Greek roast, loosened with stock and thickened only by reduction and a…

20 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Green Chile Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Grey Peas and Bacon Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Grey Peas and Bacon Gravy

A Black Country plate of soaked grey peas cooked slowly with bacon, the pot liquor thickened by the peas themselves…

2 hrs Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Guinea Fowl Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Guinea Fowl Gravy

A delicate gravy for guinea fowl made with vermouth and tarragon, barely thickened and finished with a spoon of…

25 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Guinness Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Guinness Gravy

Dark, malty and just bitter enough, with a spoon of brown sugar to keep the stout in check. Made for beef, bangers…

35 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Ham Hock Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Hamburger Steak Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Hayashi Demi-Glace Sauce

Gravies from Around the World

Hayashi Demi-Glace Sauce

The tomato and red wine beef sauce behind hayashi rice, a Japanese take on a French demi-glace with mushrooms,…

1 hr Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Highland Venison Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Highland Venison Gravy

A dark, glossy venison gravy with juniper, thyme and a splash of whisky, reduced hard and finished with cold butter.

50 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Honey and Soy Gravy

Flavour Twists

Honey and Soy Gravy

Soy sauce, honey and rice vinegar reduced with chicken stock and thickened with cornflour, giving a shiny sticky…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Horseradish and Beetroot Gravy

Flavour Twists

Horseradish and Beetroot Gravy

Grated cooked beetroot simmered into a beef gravy for earthy sweetness and colour, with hot horseradish stirred in…

35 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Horseradish Cream Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Horseradish Cream Gravy

A rich beef gravy reduced hard and then finished off the heat with double cream and fresh grated horseradish, so the…

26 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Indian Roast Chicken Masala Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Indian Roast Chicken Masala Gravy

A roasting tin gravy built on onions cooked to a paste with ginger, garlic and ground spices, thickened by the…

55 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Instant Gravy with Pan Scrapings

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

Illustration of Irish Guinness and Beef Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Irish Guinness and Beef Gravy

A dark, faintly bitter beef gravy built on Guinness and softened with brown sugar and thyme, for beef stew, sausages…

55 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Italian Sunday Sugo

Gravies from Around the World

Italian Sunday Sugo

A long simmered tomato and meat sauce with pork ribs, beef and sausage, cooked for three hours until the meat falls…

3 hr 20 min Serves 8 Medium

Illustration of Jamaican Jerk Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Jamaican Jerk Gravy

A jerk seasoned gravy heavy on pimento, thyme and scotch bonnet, with spring onion and a splash of dark rum, made…

35 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Japanese Curry Sauce

Gravies from Around the World

Japanese Curry Sauce

Kare, the mild sweet brown curry sauce of Japanese home cooking, built from a slowly browned butter and curry powder…

55 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Juniper and Gin Gravy

Flavour Twists

Juniper and Gin Gravy

Crushed juniper berries and a shot of gin cooked into a beef stock gravy, giving a piney, resinous edge that suits…

30 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Kettle Gravy

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

Illustration of Korean Gochujang Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Korean Gochujang Gravy

A sweet, savoury and gently fiery gravy built on gochujang and grated pear, with soy, sesame and garlic behind it.

25 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Lamb Bone Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Lancashire Hotpot Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Lancashire Hotpot Gravy

The lamb and onion gravy from under a hotpot lid, thin and clean rather than heavy, seasoned with bay and…

55 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Leek and Onion Gravy

Onion Gravies

Leek and Onion Gravy

Softened leeks and one brown onion in butter, no browning, finished with a splash of cream and a little wholegrain…

50 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Leftover Christmas Dinner Gravy

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…

35 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Lentil Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Lentil Gravy

Red lentils cooked down until they collapse, blended smooth and seasoned with tamari so they thicken the gravy…

50 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Lighter Creamy Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Lighter Creamy Gravy

Half the fat of a standard cream gravy, using light evaporated milk thickened with cornflour and lifted at the end…

17 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of London Pie and Mash Liquor

Regional British and Irish Gravies

London Pie and Mash Liquor

The pale green parsley sauce that goes over pie and mash in the East End, thin, sharp with vinegar and absolutely…

25 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Madeira Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Madeira Gravy

A glossy, savoury gravy built on Madeira, which brings a burnt caramel and dried fruit note nothing else quite…

30 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Make Ahead Christmas Gravy

Christmas and Festive Gravies

Make Ahead Christmas Gravy

A complete turkey gravy built from roasted wings weeks or days before the big day, cooled and stored safely, then…

3 hr 20 min Serves 10 Medium

Illustration of Marmalade and Ginger Gravy

Flavour Twists

Marmalade and Ginger Gravy

A quick pan gravy with two tablespoons of bitter Seville marmalade and grated fresh ginger, sharpened with soy,…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Marmite Gravy

Flavour Twists

Marmite Gravy

A plain onion and flour gravy with two teaspoons of Marmite whisked in at the end, which turns a stock cube into…

25 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Marsala Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Marsala Gravy

Sicilian fortified wine reduced with garlic and thyme into a nutty, faintly sweet gravy that suits chicken, veal and…

27 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Merlot and Mushroom Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Merlot and Mushroom Gravy

Soft, plummy Merlot reduced with two kinds of mushroom into a thick, earthy gravy that works for beef and just as…

45 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Mexican Mole Style Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Mexican Mole Style Gravy

A simplified mole style sauce with toasted dried chillies, nuts, seeds, spices and a little dark chocolate, blended…

2 hrs Serves 8 Hard

Illustration of Microwave Gravy

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

Illustration of Mint Sauce Gravy for Lamb

Flavour Twists

Mint Sauce Gravy for Lamb

A proper lamb gravy with a tablespoon of sharp mint sauce stirred in off the heat, so you get the mint and the…

23 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Miso and Mushroom Vegan Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Miso and Mushroom Vegan Gravy

Brown rice miso whisked in off the heat over hard browned mushrooms, giving a gravy that is salty, deep and faintly…

35 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Miso Butter Gravy

Flavour Twists

Miso Butter Gravy

Chicken stock reduced hard, thickened with cornflour and finished with cold butter beaten together with white miso,…

25 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Moroccan Ras el Hanout Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Moroccan Ras el Hanout Gravy

A fragrant tagine style gravy with ras el hanout, saffron and preserved lemon, thickened with ground almonds and…

45 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Mulled Cider Festive Gravy

Christmas and Festive Gravies

Mulled Cider Festive Gravy

Cider reduced hard with cinnamon, clove and orange, then turned into a fragrant pork or turkey gravy that smells…

45 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Mulled Wine Christmas Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Mulled Wine Christmas Gravy

Red wine reduced with orange, cinnamon and cloves, then turned into a proper savoury gravy for goose, turkey or a…

45 min Serves 8 Medium

Illustration of Mushroom Gravy for Meatloaf

American Style Gravies

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 Mustard Cream Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Mustard Cream Gravy

White wine reduced with shallot, built up with chicken stock and double cream, then finished off the heat with Dijon…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of New Year Beef Wellington Gravy

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…

2 hr 50 min Serves 6 Hard

Illustration of Non-Alcoholic Red Wine Style Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Non-Alcoholic Red Wine Style Gravy

Grape juice, tea and vinegar built into a gravy that genuinely tastes like a red wine reduction, without a drop of…

30 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Norfolk Turkey Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Norfolk Turkey Gravy

A giblet stock turkey gravy with sage and onion, made ahead and finished with the roasting juices on the day.

2 hr 15 min Serves 8 Medium

Illustration of Northern Chip Shop Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Northern Chip Shop Gravy

Dark, glossy, properly thick chip shop gravy made from scratch, with the deep savoury hit that comes from onion,…

55 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Nut Roast Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Nut Roast Gravy

A savoury vegetarian gravy built on roasted onion, mushroom and a little tomato puree, thick enough to sit against a…

40 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Nutritional Yeast Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Nutritional Yeast Gravy

Nutritional yeast toasted in the roux until it smells like cheese on toast, then loosened with stock for a savoury…

25 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Oat Milk Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Oat Milk Gravy

A softer, paler gravy made with half stock and half oat milk, given savoury weight by browned onions and nutritional…

30 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of One Pan Sausage Gravy

Quick and Easy Gravies

One Pan Sausage Gravy

Sausages fried, sausages out, gravy built in the same pan on the sticky brown bits they leave behind, and nothing…

14 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Onion and Ale Gravy

Onion Gravies

Onion and Ale Gravy

Dark onions and a bottle of English bitter reduced hard to take the edge off, thickened with a little flour and…

1 hr Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Onion Gravy for Bangers and Mash

Onion Gravies

Onion Gravy for Bangers and Mash

Built in the sausage pan so nothing is wasted, with thick cut onions, three separate deglazes and a cornflour finish…

55 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Onion Gravy for Faggots

Onion Gravies

Onion Gravy for Faggots

A thinner, darker Black Country style gravy with finely chopped onions, made to be baked around faggots so it takes…

1 hr 5 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Onion Gravy for Liver and Bacon

Onion Gravies

Onion Gravy for Liver and Bacon

Built straight in the pan the bacon and liver came out of, with onions cooked in bacon fat and a sherry vinegar…

45 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Onion Gravy for Steak Pie

Onion Gravies

Onion Gravy for Steak Pie

A deliberately thick, heavily reduced onion gravy made to fill a pie without turning the pastry to mush, cooled…

1 hr 15 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Onion Gravy with Beef Stock Cubes

Onion Gravies

Onion Gravy with Beef Stock Cubes

A store cupboard gravy built around stock cubes, with the salt controlled by using fewer cubes than the packet says…

50 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Onion Gravy with Cornflour, No Roux

Onion Gravies

Onion Gravy with Cornflour, No Roux

A gluten free onion gravy thickened at the very end with a cornflour slurry, which gives a clear, glossy finish…

55 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Onion Gravy with Marmite

Onion Gravies

Onion Gravy with Marmite

A deeply savoury onion gravy that uses Marmite instead of stock, so it is made with nothing but water, onions, flour…

50 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Onion Gravy with Port

Onion Gravies

Onion Gravy with Port

Shallots and onions cooked together, ruby port reduced to a syrup, a spoon of redcurrant jelly, and the whole thing…

1 hr 10 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Onion Gravy with Sage

Onion Gravies

Onion Gravy with Sage

Sage leaves crisped in butter first and used two ways, half chopped into the gravy and half kept whole on top, over…

55 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Onion Gravy with Wholegrain Mustard

Onion Gravies

Onion Gravy with Wholegrain Mustard

Medium browned onions, a cider deglaze and two tablespoons of wholegrain mustard stirred in off the heat so the…

50 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Orange and Star Anise Duck Gravy

Flavour Twists

Orange and Star Anise Duck Gravy

Fresh orange juice and zest reduced hard with duck stock and one star anise, thickened with arrowroot so it stays…

35 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Overnight Stock Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Pale Ale and Mustard Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Pale Ale and Mustard Gravy

A lighter, brighter beer gravy where citrusy pale ale is kept in check by honey and a good spoonful of wholegrain…

27 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Parmesan Cream Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Parmesan Cream Gravy

Chicken stock simmered with a Parmesan rind for depth, reduced with cream and garlic, then finished off the heat…

35 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Party Buffet Gravy

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…

1 hr 50 min Serves 30 Medium

Illustration of Pasta Water Gravy

Quick and Easy Gravies

Pasta Water Gravy

The cloudy, salty, starchy water you were about to tip down the sink makes a gravy with real body and needs less…

10 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Perry Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Perry Gravy

Pear cider reduced with leek and thyme into a delicate, faintly floral gravy that suits chicken, guinea fowl and…

30 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Philly Roast Pork Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Pickle Brine Gravy

Flavour Twists

Pickle Brine Gravy

The vinegar from the bottom of a gherkin jar used in place of some of the stock, giving a sharp, dilly gravy that…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Pickled Onion Gravy

Onion Gravies

Pickled Onion Gravy

Fresh onions cooked down as usual, then a handful of chopped pickled onions and a splash of their vinegar stirred in…

45 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Polish Mushroom Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Polish Mushroom Gravy

Sos grzybowy, a dried wild mushroom gravy loosened with soured cream and seasoned with marjoram and dill, dark and…

45 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Pork Belly Gravy with Apple

Sunday Roast Gravies

Pork Belly Gravy with Apple

A gravy for slow roast pork belly, made from a heavily skimmed tin with Bramley apple cooked in until it collapses…

35 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Pork Bone Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Port and Redcurrant Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Port and Redcurrant Gravy

A dark, sweet edged gravy for lamb, venison and Christmas beef, using a small amount of port added late so its fruit…

30 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Portuguese Piri Piri Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Portuguese Piri Piri Gravy

A sharp, garlicky chilli gravy in the Portuguese style, built on piri piri chillies, smoked paprika, vinegar and…

30 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Poutine Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Pressure Cooker Bone Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Prosecco Gravy for Chicken

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Prosecco Gravy for Chicken

A light, faintly floral gravy that makes good use of the flat end of a bottle, reduced hard with shallots and…

27 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Quick Fifteen Minute Onion Gravy

Onion Gravies

Quick Fifteen Minute Onion Gravy

An honest shortcut gravy using very thinly sliced onions, a hot pan, sugar and a pinch of bicarbonate of soda, ready…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Quick Vegan Gravy in Ten Minutes

Quick and Easy Gravies

Quick Vegan Gravy in Ten Minutes

Olive oil and flour, vegetable stock, and three savoury bits that between them cover the depth that meat juices…

10 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Rabbit Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Real Ale Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Real Ale Gravy

A malty, faintly hoppy gravy made with a bottle of decent bitter, softened with onions and a spoon of marmalade to…

35 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Red Eye Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Redcurrant Jelly Gravy

Flavour Twists

Redcurrant Jelly Gravy

Lamb pan juices deglazed with wine, reduced, and finished with two tablespoons of redcurrant jelly for a sweet sharp…

25 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Rib of Beef Red Wine Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Rib of Beef Red Wine Gravy

A restrained, glossy red wine gravy for a rib of beef, reduced hard on shallots and finished with butter rather than…

40 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Rich Veal Jus

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Rioja Gravy for Lamb

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Rioja Gravy for Lamb

Spanish red reduced with garlic, smoked paprika and rosemary into a warm, savoury gravy made specifically for roast…

40 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Roast Beef Gravy without Meat Juices

Sunday Roast Gravies

Roast Beef Gravy without Meat Juices

A convincing beef gravy made entirely in a saucepan, with browned butter, tomato puree, mushroom and Marmite doing…

40 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Roast Chicken Carcass Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Roast Chicken Pan Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Roast Chicken Pan Gravy

A light, golden gravy made in the tin under a roast chicken, thickened just enough and lifted with lemon and thyme.

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Roast Duck Gravy with Orange

Sunday Roast Gravies

Roast Duck Gravy with Orange

A sharp, glossy duck gravy made from the tin juices with orange, a little sugar caramel and red wine vinegar, poured…

35 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Roast Gammon Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Roast Gammon Gravy

A gravy for roast gammon made with unsalted stock, cider and a little wholegrain mustard, built around the fact the…

25 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Roast Garlic Vegan Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Roast Garlic Vegan Gravy

Two whole bulbs of garlic roasted until soft and sweet, squeezed out and blended into a mellow gravy with…

1 hr 15 min Serves 5 Easy

Illustration of Roast Lamb Gravy with Rosemary

Sunday Roast Gravies

Roast Lamb Gravy with Rosemary

A dark, savoury lamb gravy made in the tin with rosemary, garlic and a spoon of redcurrant jelly to soften the edge.

25 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Roast Pheasant Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Roast Pheasant Gravy

A light game gravy made with the pheasant legs and bones, bacon fat from the barding and a splash of Madeira.

50 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Roast Pork Gravy with Cider

Sunday Roast Gravies

Roast Pork Gravy with Cider

Pork tin juices deglazed with dry cider and mustard, cooked down until the sweetness of the apple sits behind the…

25 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Roast Turkey Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Roast Turkey Gravy

A big volume turkey gravy built on the tin juices and a stock made from the neck and giblets, enough for a crowded…

35 min Serves 8 Medium

Illustration of Roast Venison Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Roast Venison Gravy

A dark, sharp gravy for venison built on juniper, redcurrant and red wine, with almost no fat to work with and a…

40 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Roasted Garlic and Onion Gravy

Onion Gravies

Roasted Garlic and Onion Gravy

A whole bulb of garlic roasted until it is sweet and spreadable, squeezed into softened onions and blitzed smooth…

1 hr 15 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Roasted Vegetable and Beef Bone Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Roasted Vegetable Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Roasted Vegetable Gravy

Everything roasted hard until the edges blacken slightly, then simmered and blended so the vegetables themselves…

1 hr 20 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Rolled Turkey Breast Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Rolled Turkey Breast Gravy

A smaller scale turkey gravy for a boned and rolled breast, thickened at the end with beurre manie so you can judge…

35 min Serves 5 Medium

Illustration of Salisbury Steak Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Sauce Bordelaise

Gravies from Around the World

Sauce Bordelaise

The classic Bordeaux red wine sauce, shallots and peppercorns reduced almost dry before a rich veal or beef stock…

45 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Sauce Chasseur

Gravies from Around the World

Sauce Chasseur

Hunter's sauce: mushrooms and shallots in white wine and tomato with a beef stock base, finished with tarragon and…

40 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Sawmill Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Scottish Steak Pie Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Scottish Steak Pie Gravy

The deep, almost sticky beef gravy from a Hogmanay steak pie, built by braising shin slowly and reducing the liquor…

3 hr 5 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Scouse Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Scouse Gravy

The thin, potato thickened liquor from a pan of scouse, made from lamb and beef with nothing added but time and a…

2 hr 50 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Scrumpy Cider Pork Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Scrumpy Cider Pork Gravy

Proper farmhouse scrumpy, all funk and tannin, reduced hard with pork fat and a spoon of honey to make a rougher,…

35 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Seaweed and Mushroom Umami Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Seaweed and Mushroom Umami Gravy

Kombu and dried shiitake steeped into a savoury broth, then built into a gravy that tastes of the sea without…

55 min Serves 5 Medium

Illustration of Shake and Pour Jar Gravy

Quick and Easy Gravies

Shake and Pour Jar Gravy

Flour and cold liquid shaken to a smooth slurry in a screw top jar, then poured into simmering stock. No roux, no…

10 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Shallot and Thyme Gravy

Onion Gravies

Shallot and Thyme Gravy

Banana shallots cooked gently in butter to a soft gold, white wine reduced down hard, and a chicken stock gravy…

50 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Sherry Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Sherry Gravy

Dry amontillado reduced into a savoury, faintly nutty gravy that lifts turkey, chicken and gammon without shouting…

27 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Silverside Beef Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Silverside Beef Gravy

A gravy for a lean pot roasted silverside, made from the braising liquor rather than fat, with mustard and a splash…

30 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Single Portion Gravy

Quick and Easy Gravies

Single Portion Gravy

Scaled properly for one, made in the smallest pan you own, with the timings adjusted because small amounts of gravy…

8 min Serves 1 Easy

Illustration of Slow Cooker Beef Bone Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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 Slow Cooker Onion Gravy

Onion Gravies

Slow Cooker Onion Gravy

A kilo of onions left in the slow cooker for six hours until they collapse into jam, then finished on the hob with…

6 hr 30 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Slow Cooker Pot Roast Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Slow Roast Shoulder of Lamb Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Slow Roast Shoulder of Lamb Gravy

A gravy made from the enormous amount of liquor a shoulder of lamb releases over six hours, skimmed properly and…

40 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Smoked Paprika Gravy

Flavour Twists

Smoked Paprika Gravy

Sweet smoked paprika bloomed in hot fat before the flour goes in, which gives a rust coloured gravy that tastes like…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Smoky Paprika Vegan Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Smoky Paprika Vegan Gravy

Smoked paprika bloomed in hot oil with tomato puree and molasses, for a dark gravy that tastes like something was…

35 min Serves 5 Easy

Illustration of Smothered Pork Chop Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Somerset Cheddar Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Somerset Cheddar Gravy

A savoury gravy with mature Cheddar melted through it and a hit of English mustard, thick enough for chips or a…

40 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Soured Cream Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Soured Cream Gravy

A paprika and caraway pan gravy finished with soured cream that has been stabilised with flour and tempered, so it…

28 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of South African Monkey Gland Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

South African Monkey Gland Gravy

The sweet and sour steakhouse sauce of South Africa, built on fruit chutney, Worcestershire sauce, tomato and…

35 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Southern Sausage Gravy for Biscuits

American Style Gravies

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

American Style Gravies

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 Spanish Sherry and Almond Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Spanish Sherry and Almond Gravy

A gravy thickened the old Spanish way with a picada of fried bread, almonds and garlic, built on oloroso sherry and…

45 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Spiced Christmas Gravy with Star Anise

Christmas and Festive Gravies

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…

50 min Serves 8 Medium

Illustration of Spring Onion Gravy

Onion Gravies

Spring Onion Gravy

A quick, light gravy using two bunches of spring onions, whites softened in butter and greens stirred in at the very…

30 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Staffordshire Oatcake Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Staffordshire Oatcake Gravy

A bacon and onion gravy for pouring over a folded Staffordshire oatcake, thin enough to soak in without turning it…

30 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Sticky Balsamic and Fig Gravy

Flavour Twists

Sticky Balsamic and Fig Gravy

Dried figs simmered soft in stock and balsamic, then blended and let down, giving a thick, dark, faintly sweet gravy…

40 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Sticky Onion and Honey Gravy

Onion Gravies

Sticky Onion and Honey Gravy

Onions taken dark, honey added late so it does not scorch, and the gravy reduced until it clings to a spoon rather…

55 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Stilton and Port Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Stilton and Port Gravy

Port reduced to a syrup with thyme and shallot, built with beef stock and a little cream, then finished off the heat…

33 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Store Cupboard Gravy

Quick and Easy Gravies

Store Cupboard Gravy

Built entirely from things that live in a cupboard, no fresh onion, no fresh stock, no meat juices, and it still…

10 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Stout and Treacle Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Stout and Treacle Gravy

A near black gravy for slow cooked beef, where black treacle answers the roasted bitterness of the stout and turns…

50 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Student Budget Gravy

Quick and Easy Gravies

Student Budget Gravy

Made from the cheapest shelf in the supermarket, works out at a few pence a portion, and does not taste like a…

16 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Sunday Gravy Made Saturday Night

Quick and Easy Gravies

Sunday Gravy Made Saturday Night

The whole gravy made the night before while you have time, so on Sunday all you do is stir in the roasting tin…

35 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Sunday Roast Gravy from Frozen Stock

Sunday Roast Gravies

Sunday Roast Gravy from Frozen Stock

A gravy made from a block of homemade stock straight out of the freezer, melted down, reduced and finished in the…

30 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Sussex Roast Beef Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Sussex Roast Beef Gravy

A dark roast beef gravy deepened with local ale and mushroom ketchup, strained smooth and served with the pudding…

30 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Swedish Meatball Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Swedish Meatball Gravy

Gräddsås, the pale creamy beef gravy for köttbullar, made with a blonde roux, stock and plenty of double cream,…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Sweet White Onion Gravy

Onion Gravies

Sweet White Onion Gravy

White onions sweated under a lid with no colour at all, built into a blond roux gravy that stays pale, sweet and…

50 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Tamarind and Date Gravy

Flavour Twists

Tamarind and Date Gravy

Soft dates blitzed into a stock with a spoon of tamarind paste, giving a thick sweet and sour gravy with no flour…

35 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Tarragon Cream Gravy

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Tarragon Cream Gravy

Vermouth and shallot reduced right down, built with chicken stock and double cream, and finished with a generous…

26 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Ten Minute Weeknight Gravy

Quick and Easy Gravies

Ten Minute Weeknight Gravy

A small butter and flour roux loosened with hot stock and sharpened with soy and a spoon of jelly, ready in the time…

10 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Thai Peanut Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Thai Peanut Gravy

A coconut and peanut sauce in the style of Thai satay sauce, loosened into a pourable gravy with red curry paste,…

30 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Thanksgiving Style Turkey Gravy

Christmas and Festive Gravies

Thanksgiving Style Turkey Gravy

A thicker, sage heavy American style gravy with the chopped giblets left in, made to be ladled generously over…

2 hr 15 min Serves 10 Medium

Illustration of Thanksgiving Turkey Giblet Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Tinned Consomme Gravy

Quick and Easy Gravies

Tinned Consomme Gravy

A tin of beef consomme is already a clarified, gelatine rich stock, which makes it the closest thing on a…

10 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Toad in the Hole Onion Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Toad in the Hole Onion Gravy

A thick, dark onion gravy made in the sausage fat, designed to be spooned over batter without making it collapse.

40 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Tomato and Herb Vegan Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Tomato and Herb Vegan Gravy

Tomato puree fried until it turns brick red and sweet, built out with passata, oregano and balsamic into a bright,…

35 min Serves 5 Easy

Illustration of Tomato Ketchup Gravy

Flavour Twists

Tomato Ketchup Gravy

A caff style gravy with two tablespoons of ketchup for sweetness, acid and body, the kind that goes over sausages,…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Truffle Gravy

Flavour Twists

Truffle Gravy

A pale chicken gravy with mushrooms, finished with half a teaspoon of truffle oil stirred in at the very last second…

30 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Turkey Crown Gravy

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…

1 hr 55 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Turkey Giblet Gravy

Stock and Bone Gravies

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

Illustration of Turkey Neck Gravy

American Style Gravies

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 Turkish Spiced Lamb Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Turkish Spiced Lamb Gravy

A lamb gravy built on biber salçası, Turkish red pepper paste, with cumin, dried mint and pul biber, finished with a…

40 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Two Meat Sunday Roast Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Two Meat Sunday Roast Gravy

One neutral base gravy split into two jugs and finished differently, so beef and chicken on the same table each get…

40 min Serves 8 Medium

Illustration of Ulster Fry Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Ulster Fry Gravy

A quick pan gravy made in the fat left from an Ulster fry, dark and salty, for pouring over soda bread and potato…

13 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Ultimate Christmas Turkey Gravy

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

Illustration of Upgraded Gravy Granules

Quick and Easy Gravies

Upgraded Gravy Granules

Granules made up short, then finished with fried onion, butter and a splash of something acidic so it tastes like it…

13 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Vegan Bisto Style Gravy from Scratch

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Vegan Bisto Style Gravy from Scratch

A homemade take on the granule flavour everyone grew up with, built from darkly toasted flour, onion powder and…

25 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Vegan Christmas Gravy

Christmas and Festive Gravies

Vegan Christmas Gravy

A dark, glossy gravy from caramelised onions, dried porcini and miso, rich enough that nobody at the table asks what…

1 hr 10 min Serves 8 Easy

Illustration of Vegan Gluten Free Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Vegan Gluten Free Gravy

No flour, no soy sauce, no yeast extract. Browned onions, mushrooms and tamari carry the savouriness and cornflour…

40 min Serves 5 Easy

Illustration of Vegan Gravy for Nut Roast

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Vegan Gravy for Nut Roast

Onion and sage gravy built partly in the nut roast tin, with cranberry and yeast extract to cut through a rich,…

45 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Vegan Gravy with Balsamic and Thyme

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Vegan Gravy with Balsamic and Thyme

Balsamic vinegar boiled down to a sticky syrup with shallots and thyme, then stretched into a dark, sweet and sour…

40 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Vegan Gravy with Marmite and Soy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Vegan Gravy with Marmite and Soy

A fast, unapologetically savoury gravy where Marmite and dark soy sauce do all the heavy lifting and cornflour…

25 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Vegan Mushroom Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Vegan Mushroom Gravy

Chestnut mushrooms seared hard until they squeak and brown, then lifted with dried porcini soaking liquor for a…

40 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Vegan Onion Gravy

Onion Gravies

Vegan Onion Gravy

Onions caramelised in olive oil with a splash of soy sauce and a spoon of yeast extract for savoury weight,…

1 hr Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Vegan Peppercorn Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Vegan Peppercorn Gravy

Cracked black and green peppercorns toasted in vegan butter, deglazed with brandy and finished with oat cream for a…

30 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Vegan Red Wine Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Vegan Red Wine Gravy

Half a bottle of red reduced down to a syrup with shallots, then built out with stock and finished with redcurrant…

55 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Vegan Sausage and Mash Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Vegan Sausage and Mash Gravy

Built straight in the pan the vegan sausages were fried in, scraping up the browned crust they leave behind, with…

25 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Vegan Southern Sausage Gravy

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

Illustration of Vegan White Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Vegan White Gravy

A pale, peppery bechamel style gravy built on soya milk and vegan butter, with white miso and nutritional yeast…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Vegetarian Christmas Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Vegetarian Christmas Gravy

A big batch festive gravy with roasted onions and parsnips, port, cranberry and a proper butter roux, made a day or…

1 hr 40 min Serves 10 Medium

Illustration of Vegetarian Roast Dinner Gravy

Vegetarian and Vegan Gravies

Vegetarian Roast Dinner Gravy

Roasted root veg, butter, tomato puree cooked out until it darkens and a slug of Henderson's Relish, built for a…

1 hr 15 min Serves 6 Medium

Illustration of Vermouth Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Vermouth Gravy

Dry white vermouth reduced with shallots into a herbal, aromatic gravy for chicken and fish, using a bottle that…

25 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Vietnamese Star Anise Gravy

Gravies from Around the World

Vietnamese Star Anise Gravy

A clear, aromatic beef gravy built on charred onion and ginger with the pho spice set, seasoned with fish sauce and…

50 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Welsh Cawl Gravy

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Welsh Cawl Gravy

Lamb and leek gravy built from the broth of a cawl, lightly thickened so it becomes a sauce for the meat and root…

55 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Whisky and Cream Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

Whisky and Cream Gravy

Scotch cooked out with shallots and peppercorns, then softened with cream. Built for steak and very good on haggis.

20 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of Whisky Cream Gravy for Steak

Creamy Gravies and Sauces

Whisky Cream Gravy for Steak

Shallots and cracked pepper deglazed with Scotch whisky, reduced with beef stock and a spoon of marmalade, then…

28 min Serves 4 Medium

Illustration of White Wine and Tarragon Gravy

Wine, Beer and Cider Gravies

White Wine and Tarragon Gravy

A lighter, brighter gravy for chicken, built on dry white wine reduced almost to nothing and finished with fresh…

25 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Worcestershire Sauce Gravy

Flavour Twists

Worcestershire Sauce Gravy

A straightforward beef gravy carried by a tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce, which brings tamarind, anchovy and…

20 min Serves 4 Easy

Illustration of Yorkshire Gravy for Pudding First

Regional British and Irish Gravies

Yorkshire Gravy for Pudding First

A thin, savoury onion gravy meant to be poured into a Yorkshire pudding and eaten before the meat, in the old…

45 min Serves 6 Easy

Illustration of Yorkshire Pudding Gravy

Sunday Roast Gravies

Yorkshire Pudding Gravy

A deliberately thinner, darker gravy made to be poured into a Yorkshire pudding and soaked up rather than sit on the…

30 min Serves 6 Easy