Roast turkey Pan gravy

"Here is a basic, easy to make gravy to go along with roasted chicken or turkey"
 
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Ready In:
25mins
Ingredients:
9
Yields:
5 Cups of gravy, apprx
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ingredients

  • 1 12 cups dry white wine (or increase stock and omit the wine)
  • 12 cup onion, chopped
  • 12 cup shallot, chopped
  • 12 cup mushroom, chopped
  • 7 cups vegetable stock (or use chicken stock)
  • chopped chicken giblets (optional)
  • 8 tablespoons water
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch (more or less depending on how thick you want it)
  • salt and pepper
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directions

  • Spoon off all but about 4 tbsp of the fat in the roasting pan.
  • Make sure you leave all the brown bits.
  • Add wine (or some stock if not using wine) the onions, shallots and mushrooms.
  • Turn heat to high, stirring and scraping until most of the wine has evaporated, the onion is soft and the bottom of the pan is clean.
  • Add the stock and continue to cook for about 10 minutes.
  • If you are using giblets put them in for this cooking time.
  • Mix cornstarch with the water.
  • Turn heat to low and stir in the mixed cornstarch.
  • The gravy will start to thicken almost immediately.
  • Cook stirring until the gravy has thickened, if you want it thicker mix a bit more cornstarch with water and add stirring and cook for 5 minutes more.
  • Season to taste with salt& pepper.

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Reviews

  1. very tasty but I too had to triple the cornstarch to get it to thicken.
     
  2. I used this recipe as the base for the turkey gravy this Christmas. I added additional onion and left off the shallots and mushrooms due to availability of ingredients as well as personal preference. The stock was chicken stock. I did not have a problem with the gravy thickening with the 3 tablespoons of cornstarch. Thanks Bergy.
     
  3. This was selected out of all the Zaar turkey gravy recipes posted because my Mother should not have flour. The only problem I had was getting it to thicken up using the cornstarch. I had to add at least 3 times the amount to get it thick. I made as posted so not sure what I did wrong. But the flavor was great! I will be making this again next year. Thanks Bergy for posting.
     
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