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Total time: 30 minutes minutes
Servings: 3
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It’s getting close! Just one week left to finalise your vegetarian Christmas dinner menu. It’s strange, I wouldn’t put so much thought into one meal on any of the other 364 days of the year, but somehow Christmas dinner takes weeks of thought and preparation.
Hopefully some of the Christmas recipes I’ve posted over the past couple of weeks will have helped you out a little! Here’s one more: the best homemade vegetarian gravy.
This is a really simple gravy recipe, but it’s super tasty, and helps to pull together all the different dishes on your plate into a proper Christmas dinner. It starts just like a lot of other recipes, with sautéed onions and garlic. I added some mushrooms too, for extra flavour. Make sure you chop everything really, really small – I personally do like my gravy to have a little texture, but you don’t want it to betoo lumpy. Alternatively, if you want a really smooth gravy, you could blend the whole lot at the end.
The gravy is thickened up with a roux of butter and flour. Then, it’s time for the secret ingredient that adds that all-important richness: Marmite!With no meat juices allowed in our vegetarian gravy, it’s important to think outside the box, and Marmite adds a deepsaltiness (not to mention that lovely dark brown colour!).
If you’ve ever tried Marmite, you’ll know that this stuff isstrong – so you only need a small spoonful to add heaps of flavour. If you can’t find Marmite in the shops where you live, I’d definitely recommend buying some online – it’s so versatile (I’m forever adding itto stews and casseroles), and one jar will last you a really long time. It’s also a really goodsource of vitamin B12, which is great for vegans, as it’s otherwise mostly found in animal products.
Once you’ve added your Marmite, it’s just a case of adding some liquid and simmeringyour homemade gravy until it reachesyour desired consistency (I like mine quite thick!), then serving it up with a great roast dinner. FYI, it went very, very well with the cheesy carrot nut roast I posted the other day…
The best homemade vegetarian gravy
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4.58 from 7 votes
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes minutes
Servings: 3
Calories:
Author: Becca Heyes
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 red onion, finely diced
- ~ 6 mushrooms, finely diced
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp butter or dairy-free spread
- 1 tbsp plain flour
- 1/3 tbsp Marmite or Vegemite
- 750 ml hot water (~ 3 cups) – or veggie cooking water
- 1 tsp honey or agave nectar
- 1/4 tsp dried sage
- Black pepper
Instructions
Heat the oil in a frying pan, and add the finely diced onion, mushrooms and garlic. Cook over a medium-low heat for at least 5 minutes, until soft and fragrant.
Push the vegetables to the outside of the pan, and add the butter to the middle. Allow it to melt, then add the flour, and mix to combine. Add the Marmite, and mix well, incorporating the vegetables back into the mixture.
Add the hot water (or any leftover water you might have from cooking vegetables – as long as it’s unsalted), honey, sage, and plenty of black pepper. Mix well, and bring to a simmer. Cook for at least 5 minutes, or however long it takes to reach your desired consistency (I like mine fairly thick).
Nutritional information is approximate, and will depend on your exact ingredients. Please calculate your own nutritional values if you require accuracy for health reasons.
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Becca Heyes has been a vegetarian food blogger, recipe developer and cheese eater extraordinaire since 2011. She's been a vegetarian for significantly longer, after having stopped eating meat out of pure stubbornness at the tender age of 9. She spends her life testing recipes, sharing them with fellow veggie-lovers, and trying to think of new ways to say 'cheesy'.
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Can I freeze this gravy?
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I haven’t tried but I don’t see why not :)
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