Gravy

Name: Gravy
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon Marsala; 4 peppercorns; 1 bouquet garni; giblets from the turkey; 1 tablespoon butter; 1 tablespoon plain flour, preferably Italian 00 flour; 1 onion, peeled and halved; 1 carrot, peeled and quartered; bacon rinds left over from chestnut stuffing; 1 stick of celery, roughly chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How To Eat

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

Now for the gravy. I am not one of life’s gravy-makers – I make disgusting coffee, too: obviously brown liquids are not my thing. This one works, though.

Make the giblet stock well in advance. Keep the liver covered with milk in a dish in the fridge till you need it.

Ingredients

giblets from the turkey
1 bouquet garni
4 peppercorns
1 onion

Main course

Method

Put all the giblets except for the liver in a pan (that’s to say the heart, neck and gizzard), add the bouquet garni, the peppercorns, onion, carrot and celery and bacon rind, and cover with 1 litre water, sprinkling over 1 teaspoon salt. Bring to the boil, cover, lower the heat and simmer for a coup