MAKE-AHEAD MADEIRA GRAVY

Make-ahead madeira gravy image

Serve this vegetarian gravy as is, or use it as a base for a turkey gravy. If you don't have any madeira, swap it out for the same quantity of dry sherry

Provided by Good Food team

Time 50m

Yield Serves 6-8

Number Of Ingredients 13

Ingredients

large knob of butter
1 onion , chopped
2 carrots , finely chopped
2 bay leaves
1 large thyme sprig
1 tbsp caster sugar
3 tbsp plain flour
1 tsp Marmite
1 tsp tomato purée
1 tsp balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp dark soy sauce
150ml madeira
1l vegetable stock (or chicken or beef stock, if you're not cooking for vegetarians)

Steps:

Heat the butter in a wide saucepan over a medium heat. Sizzle the onion, carrots, bay leaves and thyme in the pan for 15 mins until the veg starts to brown. Scatter over the sugar and continue to cook for a further few minutes until sticky and caramelised. Stir in the flour until sandy. Cook for 1 min, then add the Marmite, tomato purée, vinegar and soy sauce to make a sticky paste. Pour over the madeira and bubble for 1 min.
Add the stock, then crush the veg with a potato masher. Bubble everything together for 10 mins until you have a thickened sauce that just coats the back of a spoon. Sieve and use straightaway as a veggie gravy or as the base to a turkey gravy. Can be cooled, then frozen for up to three months.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 94 calories, Fat 1 grams fat, SaturatedFat 1 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 13 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 6 grams sugar, Fiber 1 grams fiber, Protein 2 grams protein, Sodium 0.7 milligram of sodium