Brown gravy from scratch recipe: 60 photos
Brown Gravy Recipe
How to make brown gravy from scratch (Part 1)
One Pot Homemade Brown Gravy Recipe
FAQ
Making gravy from scratch is a straightforward four-step process.
- Deglaze the Pan. While meat is being roasted, drippings get stuck to the pan. ...
- Make the Roux. Add your choice of thickener and stir to combine. ...
- Add Stock. Slowly whisk in your stock. ...
- Strain and Serve.
Brown gravy is a delicious sauce made from beef stock and thickened with roux, a flour and butter mixture. It's easier than you think to make gravy from scratch and tastes so much better than the packaged gravy powder!
In classical French cuisine, a brown sauce is generally a sauce with a meat stock base, thickened by reduction, and sometimes the addition of a browned roux, similar in some ways to, but more involved than, a gravy.
Brown gravy is the name for a gravy made from the drippings from roasted meat or fowl. The drippings are cooked on the stovetop at high heat with onions or other vegetables, and then thickened with a thin mixture of water and either wheat flour or cornstarch.
Browning adds more flavor to the gravy and gets rid of the raw flour taste. You're basically making a roux. We find that a flour-based gravy holds up better and reheats better later, which is why we tend to prefer using flour over cornstarch to make gravy unless we have a guest who is eating gluten-free.