Name: Sticky Port gravy
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: neck and giblets from your turkey; 4 chicken wings chopped into pieces (or 8 chicken wings if you don’t have the turkey neck and giblets); 2 onions unpeeled and quartered; 1 carrot unpeeled and roughly chopped; 2 celery sticks roughly chopped; 1 garlic bulb halved; 1 tbsp sunflower oil; 1 tbsp clear honey; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tbsp tomato purée; 50g plain flour; small handful dried mushrooms (optional – but nice); 1 tbsp red wine vinegar or Sherry vinegar; 150ml port Sherry or red wine; 1.2l chicken stock; 3 bay leaves; small bunch thyme

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Sticky Port gravy

Sticky Port gravy

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Serves 8

Easy

Prep: 25 mins

Cook: 1 hr and 30 mins

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This full-flavoured, festive gravy can be made in advance - our secret ingredients of soy sauce and dried mushrooms add a deep hit of 'umami', or savouriness, to complement a roast

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Ingredients

Nutrition

Units:

MetricUS

neck and giblets

from your turkey
4 chicken wings

chopped into pieces (or 8 chicken wings if you don’t have the turkey neck and giblets)
2 onions

unpeeled and quartered
1 carrot

unpeeled and roughly chopped
2 celery sticks

roughly chopped
1 garlic bulb

halved
1 tbsp sunflower oil
1 tbsp clear honey
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp tomato purée
50g plain flour
small handful dried mushrooms

(optional – but nice)
1 tbsp red wine vinegar

or Sherry vinegar
150ml port

Sherry or red wine
1.2l chicken stock
3 bay leaves
small bunch thyme

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal144
fat3g

low
saturates1g
carbs12g
sugars6g
fibre1g
protein9g
salt1.1g

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. Tip the turkey bits and/or chicken wings into a sturdy roasting tin with the onions, carrot, celery and garlic. Toss in the oil and spread out into a single layer. Place in the oven for 40 mins undisturbed – you want them the right side of just burnt, as this will give you lots of flavour.
step 2

Remove the tin from the oven and mix in the honey, soy sauce and tomato purée. Toss everything together until all the bits are completely coated, then return to the oven for 10 mins until sticky and caramelised. Remove the tin from the oven again, sprinkle over the flour and dried mushrooms (if using) and return to the oven for a final 10 mins.
step 3

If your roasting tin is flameproof, put it on a low flame, add the vinegar and sizzle for a moment. Pour in the Port and cook until you have a thick, glutinous paste mixed in with all the ingredients – it will look quite messy! Add the stock and herbs, bring to the boil and cook for 10 mins. (If your tin isn’t flameproof, add the vinegar, stir to loosen all the burnt bits from the tin, then tip into a saucepan to continue.)
step 4

Turn off the heat and use a potato masher to mash everything to extract as much flavour out of it as you can. Carefully pass the contents through a sieve over another saucepan, pushing down on the contents of the sieve. Simmer the gravy until thick and glossy, then leave to cool. Can be chilled for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 2 months. Reheat the gravy and serve as it is, or add to the turkey roasting juices for even more flavour.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2015

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