Elevate your gravy with sautéed mushrooms and onions.
Yield: about 3 cups
Ingredients
- ½ medium onion, diced
- 2 cups (140 g/5 oz) mushrooms, chopped
- 2 cups water, divided
- 3 Tbsp wheat flour (see notes for gluten free options)
- 2 Tbsp soy sauce or tamari
- 1 Tbsp nutritional yeast
- ¼ tsp sage
- ½ tsp dried thyme
- 1 tsp Kitchen Bouquet*, optional
- 2 Tbsp tahini*, optional
Instructions
- In a medium pan, cook the onions and mushrooms until tender.
- Set aside about ¼ cup of the water to mix with the flour to make a slurry then add the remainder of the water, soy sauce, nutritional yeast, sage, thyme . Mix well and bring mixture to boil.
- Making a slurry with flour and water. Add enough water to the flour so the mixture is pourable. Mix well to remove all lumps.
- Add flour slurry to simmering mushroom. Stir constantly while mixture comes to boil and thickens.
Notes
Kitchen Bouquet will add a rich brown color to the gravy.
Tahini will add richness.
For gluten free:
- Substitute wheat flour with equal amount of rice flour.
- Substitute with mashed potatoes. As a guideline use 1/3 cup (3oz) mashed potatoes for every cup of broth. For a smooth gravy, add potatoes and broth to blender then pour gravy into a pan. Bring gravy to boil.